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* 1984 – Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet.
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* Saltini A. Storia delle scienze agrarie, 4 vols, Bologna 1984 – 89, ISBN 978-88-206-2412-5, ISBN 978-88-206-2413-2, ISBN 978-88-206-2414-9, ISBN 978-88-206-2414-9
* 1984 – Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
* 1984 – Max Bemis, American singer, musician, and songwriter ( Say Anything, Two Tongues, and Max Bemis and the Painful Splits )
Bodyline, a fictionalised television miniseries based on the " Bodyline " Ashes series of 1932 – 33, screened in Australia in 1984, to significant public interest and critical acclaim.
1984 and Brighton
In 1984, he was injured in the Provisional Irish Republican Army's bombing of the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton, and his wife Margaret was left permanently disabled.
Until his death in the Brighton bombing in 1984, the constituency was represented by Sir Anthony Berry.
On 12 October 1984, Berry was killed in the Brighton hotel bombing, when a bomb was planted in the Grand Hotel in Brighton during the Conservative Party's conference.
Portillo returned to advisory work for the government and in December 1984 he stood for and won the Enfield Southgate by-election following the murder of the incumbent, Sir Anthony Berry, in the bombing by the IRA of the Grand Hotel in Brighton.
However, some electronic delays developed by PIRA technicians could be set to accurately detonate a bomb weeks after it was hidden, which is what happened in the Brighton hotel bomb attack of 1984.
His first wife, Roberta, was killed in the Brighton hotel bombing in October 1984 and he was trapped in rubble for seven hours, suffering serious crush injuries to his legs.
In 1984, she made her theatrical debut on Broadway in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and afterward, worked in a number of ensemble companies, including The New York Shakespeare Festival and the Steppenwolf Theater.
Following his return to the House in the 1979 election, he held various government posts and was Conservative Party Chairman from 1983 to 1985-an office he held at the time of the Brighton hotel bombing during the 1984 Conservative Party conference.
Joseph was one of the Tory ministers to survive the blast at the Grand Hotel while attending the Conservative Party Conference at Brighton in 1984.
The house, in addition to being the home ( albeit a temporary one ) to serving officers, has played host to a number of VIP guests, including Norman Tebbit, who stayed in the Mess while his wife Margaret was being treated for her spinal injuries at the nearby and world-famous Stoke Mandeville Hospital, following the PIRA Brighton Bombing of 1984.
In October 2011, Swire, and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Owen Paterson, boycotted a meeting of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly held at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, as the hotel had been the scene of the 1984 IRA attack on the Conservative party leadership.
In 1984, Patrick Magee made a serious attempt on the life of Margaret Thatcher in the Brighton Bombing.
The cost-cutting was brought sharply into focus in the Brighton hotel bombing on the British Cabinet in 1984.
* A two day rock concert entitled New Brighton Rock was staged in the seaside resort of New Brighton, Merseyside in May 1984, and later broadcast by Granada Television.
* Patrick Magee ( Irish republican ) ( born 1951 ), member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, convicted of planting a bomb in the Grand Hotel, Brighton in 1984
The residential area came to national attention in 1984 when Patrick Magee, the Brighton Bomber was arrested along with other members of an IRA Active Service Unit.
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