P122 BEEBFAX 122 Thu 31 Dec --:--/--                                             * 2 May - The Liverpool International  Garden Festival opens in Liverpool.  * 5 May - The Herreys win the  Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden,  with the song "Diggi-Loo, Diggi-Ley".  * 8 May - The Soviet Union announces  that it will boycott the 1984 Summer  Olympics in Los Angeles.  * 8 May - Denis Lortie kills three  government employees in the National  Assembly of Quebec building.  * 8 May - The Thames Barrier, designed  to protect London from floods, is  opened by The Queen.     100-Contents 101-Headlines   Next       Prev       Home        End