Tutu awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1984 · Event
Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu honoured for nonviolent opposition to apartheid.
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More from Sub-Saharan Africa
- Mali Empire (1235)
- Mali Empire begins (1235)
- Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca (1324)
- Ghana Empire (700)
- Great Zimbabwe flourishes (1100)
- Kingdom of Aksum (100)
- Songhai Empire (1464)
- Zulu Kingdom under Shaka (1816)
Around 1984
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Reunification of Germany (1990)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)