* 1984 – " We begin bombing in five minutes "-United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.

In August 1984 Yelena Bonner was sentenced by a court to five years of exile in Gorky.

In 1984, most high-performance CPUs required four to five years to develop.

The PC / AT, introduced in 1984, had three 8-bit slots and five 16-bit slots, all running at the system clock speed of 6 MHz in the earlier models and 8 MHz in the last version of the computer.

The concept is more than twenty five years old — PathMinder was released in 1984, and Norton Commander version 1. 0 was released in 1986.

He won five Stanley Cup rings with Edmonton as a scout ( 1984 – 85 – 87 – 88 – 90 ).

A test of a syndicated talk show for Metromedia in 1984 was not continued beyond the scheduled five shows.

Weissmuller had five wives: band and club singer Bobbe Arnst ( married 1931 – divorced 1933 ); actress Lupe Vélez ( married 1933 – divorced 1938 ); Beryl Scott ( married 1939 – divorced 1948 ); Allene Gates ( married 1948 – divorced 1962 ); and Maria Baumann ( married 1963 – his death 1984 ).

After The Edge of Nights 1984 cancellation, reruns of the show's final five years were shown on the USA Network's latenight schedule from 1985 to 1989.

* Diane Duane's mini-series Rihannsu, consisting to-date of five books written between 1984 and 2006, is regarded as one of deepest works focusing on the Romulans.

The plot follows five students at fictional Shermer High School in the fictitious Chicago suburb of Shermer, Illinois as they report for Saturday detention on March 24, 1984.

") Scott Cook, Intuit co-founder, said, "... we did usability testing in 1984, five years before anyone else ... there's a very big difference between doing it and having marketing people doing it as part of their ... design ... a very big difference between doing it and having it be the core of what engineers focus on.

The March of Dimes sponsored five international conferences in June 1974, November 1977, May 1981, June 1984, and June 1989 and published articles from the conferences in book form in 1979, 1982, 1986, and 1991 from seven longitudinal prospective cohort studies on the development of over 300 children and young adults with sex chromosome abnormalities identified in the screening of almost 200, 000 consecutive births in hospitals in Denver, Edinburgh, New Haven, Toronto, Aarhus, Winnipeg, and Boston from 1964 to 1975.

Niki Lauda has written five books: The Art and Science of Grand Prix Driving ( titled Formula 1: The Art and Technicalities of Grand Prix Driving in some markets ) ( 1975 ); My Years With Ferrari ( 1978 ); The New Formula One: A Turbo Age ( 1984 ); Meine Story ( titled To Hell and Back in some markets ) ( 1986 ); Das dritte Leben ( 1996 ).

Bruce London and J. John Palen ( 1984 ) compiled a list of five explanations: ( 1 ) demographic-ecological, ( 2 ) sociocultural, ( 3 ) political-economical, ( 4 ) community networks, and ( 5 ) social movements.

From 1983 – 1985, the only notable supplement for the Greyhawk world was a five part article by Len Lakofka in the June – October and December 1984 issues of Dragon that detailed the Suel gods who had been briefly mentioned in the boxed set.

The terrace was divided into five pens when the club was promoted to the First Division in 1984 and a crush barrier near the access tunnel was removed in 1986 to improve the flow of fans entering and exiting the central enclosure.

The Kilmers had five children: Kenton Sinclair Kilmer ( 1909 – 1995 ), Michael Barry Kilmer ( 1916 – 1927 ), Deborah (" Sister Michael ") Clanton Kilmer ( 1914 – 1999 ) who was a Catholic nun at the Saint Benedict ’ s Monastery, Rose Kilburn Kilmer ( 1912 – 1917 ), and Christopher Kilmer ( 1917 – 1984 ).

In December 1984, Henderson was traded to the New York Yankees along with Bert Bradley for five players: Tim Birtsas, Jay Howell, Stan Javier, Eric Plunk, and José Rijo.

After joining the NHL, the Oilers went on to win the Stanley Cup on five occasions: 1983 – 84, 1984 – 85, 1986 – 87, 1987 – 88 and 1989 – 90.

In 1984, Manual became a magnet school, allowing students from throughout the district to apply to five specialized programs of study, or magnets.

" Advice, How-To, and Miscellaneous " debuted as a list of five on January 1, 1984.

Baseball has won five state championships in 1982 ( AA ), 1988 ( A ), 1991 ( A ), 1992 ( A ), 1993 ( A ) and the state runner-up six times 1981, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1995, 1996, 2004 and 2007.

Principal photography on The Goonies began on October 22, 1984 and lasted five months.

Although there is strong disagreement on the actual number of disappeared ,< ref >< quote > While the initial report from the 1984 investigative commission cited a dirty war death toll of 9, 000, officials subsequently updated the figure to 13, 000, but most human rights groups in Argentina today say the actual number is closer to 30, 000 .</ quote > " Argentines Argue Over How Many Were Killed by Junta " it is commonly accepted today that between 9, 000 and 30, 000 people, depending on the source, had been killed or disappeared.

In a 2009 interview with the Buenos Aires daily newspaper Clarín, Graciela Fernández Meijide, who formed part of the 1984 truth commission, claimed that the documented number of Argentines killed or disappeared was closer to 9, 000.

Other references to Le Pétomane include Mel Brooks's 1974 film Blazing Saddles, Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming of the True, the 1984 college romp film Up the Creek, directed by Robert Butler, in which the four protagonists represent Lepetomane University in an inter-collegiate river raft race, Kinky Friedman's 1999 novel Spanking Watson, and John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise.

Eleven days before On the Fastrack made its syndicated debut ( March 19, 1984 ), Holbrook met Teri Peitso on a blind date.

Pressure from the U. S. government and critical sectors of Colombian society was met with further violence, as the Medellín Cartel and its hitmen, bribed or murdered numerous public officials, politicians and others who stood in its way by supporting the implementation of extradition of Colombian nationals to the U. S. Victims of cartel violence included Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara, assassinated in 1984, an event which made the Betancur administration begin to directly oppose the drug lords.

Elwes made his acting debut in 1984 with Marek Kanievska's film Another Country.

He received accolades for his portrayal of Sydney Carton in a made for television version of A Tale of Two Cities ( 1980 ), co-starred with Dennis Hopper in The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ), which was based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name, and co-starred with Goldie Hawn in Protocol ( 1984 ).

He made a cameo appearance in the 1984 film Gremlins and directed the Bugs Bunny / Daffy Duck animated sequences that bookend Gremlins 2: The New Batch ( 1990 ).

* The first untethered spacewalk was made by American Bruce McCandless II on February 7, 1984, during Challenger mission STS-41-B, utilizing the Manned Maneuvering Unit.

Lineker made his England debut in 1984 and over the following eight years earned 80 caps and scored 48 goals, finishing as England's all-time second highest scorer behind Bobby Charlton.

Although the 1984 – 1985 squad was made up of a healthy mix of emerging players and mature stars, at the beginning of the season no one would have regarded the team as having the necessary ingredients to make it to the end.

The team made its first European appearance in 1983 – 1984 in the UEFA Cup and were knocked out in the second round of the tournament by Sturm Graz.

In 1984, Helen Keller's life story was made into a TV movie called The Miracle Continues.

The perceived threat to Iraq in the summer of 1982 thus was serious enough to force Saddam Hussein to request the Nonaligned Movement to change the venue of its scheduled September meeting from Baghdad to India ; nevertheless, since the fall of 1982, the ground conflict has generally been a stalemated war of attrition — although Iran made small but demoralizing territorial advances as a result of its massive offensives in the reed marshes north of Basra in 1984 and in 1985, in Al Faw Peninsula in early 1986, and in the outskirts of Basra during January and February 1987.

Direct funding of the Contras insurgency had been made illegal through the Boland Amendment, the name given to three U. S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984 aimed at limiting US government assistance to the Contras militants.

He made the organization's first public announcement in 1984, and began the membership sign-up at the first WinterStar Symposium in 1984.

Cagney made a rare TV appearance in the lead role of the movie Terrible Joe Moran in 1984, his last work.

* Family Secrets ( 1984 ) ( made for TV )

Between 1980 and 1984, 3756 Saab 99 Petros and 2385 Talbot Horizons ( a version of the Chrysler Horizon that integrated many Saab components ) were made.

In 1984, he made a motivational video called Be Somebody ... or Be Somebody's Fool !.

President Taya, who won elections in 1992 and 1997, first became chief of state through a December 12, 1984 bloodless coup which made him chairman of the committee of military officers that governed Mauritania from July 1978 to April 1992.

Often cited as the best actress in the history of Indian film cinema, Dixit made her film debut in Abodh ( 1984 ) and received wider public recognition with Tezaab ( 1988 ).

Dixit made her acting debut in Rajshri Productions ' movie Abodh in 1984.

That same year in 1984, North Korea again drifted towards the Soviet Union after Kim visited Moscow during a grand tour of the USSR ( his first trip to Moscow since 1966 ) as well as Eastern Europe ( he made public visits to East Germany, Czechlosvakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia ).

This measure was so named after Kim Jong Il made an inspection tour of an exhibition of light industrial products held in Pyongyang on August 3, 1984.

However, neither Guatemala nor Costa Rica had made any request for US intervention ; El Salvador did in 1984, well after the US had intervened unilaterally.