A 1984 graduate of UMass Boston, Jovita Fontanez was the first Hispanic woman to serve as head of the Boston Election Commission and the first Hispanic woman to be a member of the Electoral College of Massachusetts.

It was moved from its previous location at Jovita Blvd and Meridian ( SR-161 ), in the 1970s, with major efforts of a long time Edgewood resident, Edward ( Bud ) Barth and many other volunteers from the Edgewood Volunteer Fire Department, where he was a founding member.

In 1984 financial matters came to a head and the club went into administration, to be reformed as Charlton Athletic ( 1984 ) Ltd.

On 3 April 1984, following Toure's death, Lansana Conté, assistant chief of staff of the army, led a military coup which toppled the interim head of government.

The 1984 season started off badly when shortstop Dickie Thon was hit in the head by a pitch and was lost for the season.

Rudolf Simek notes that these horse heads gables can " still be seen today " ( from a 2007 edition of a work first published in 1984 ) and says that the horse head gables confirm that Hengist and Horsa were originally considered mythological, horse-shaped beings.

Meanwhile, on the political front, Prime Minister Rashid Karami, head of a government of national unity set up after the failed peace efforts of 1984, was assassinated on June 1, 1987.

In 1984, Fayed and his brothers purchased a 30 percent stake in House of Fraser, a group that included the famous London store Harrods, from Roland ' Tiny ' Rowland, the head of Lonrho.

On January 27, 1984, Bud Grant retired as head coach of the Vikings.

Steckel, who came to the Vikings in 1979 after working as an assistant with the 49ers, was the youngest head coach in the NFL in 1984 at age 38.

After the season Steckel was fired, and on December 18, 1984, Bud Grant was rehired as the head coach of the Vikings.

The Vikings continued to wear black shoes until Les Steckel became head coach in 1984.

* 1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.

In 1984, Apple founder Steve Jobs was the head of Apple's SuperMicro division, which was responsible for the development of the Macintosh and Lisa personal computers.

Rafael Hernández Colón became the head of government for the second time in 1984, was reelected in 1988 and remained in power until 1992.

From 1978 through 1983, the Chargers wore their white jerseys at home, coinciding with the hiring of coach Don Coryell – when Joe Gibbs, a Coryell assistant in 1979 – 80, became head coach of the Washington Redskins in 1981, he did the same, and white at home became a Redskins staple through 2007 – but Coryell switched the Chargers to their blue jerseys at home starting in 1984.

Mbeki was appointed head of the ANC's information department in 1984 and then became head of the international department in 1989, reporting directly to Oliver Tambo, then President of the ANC.

The company had its head office redomiciled to Bermuda in 1984 under the tenure of Simon Keswick to maintain control after nearly being taken over by Chinese tycoon Li Ka-shing of Cheung Kong after a hostile raid in 1980.

* May 17, 1984: Des Moines, Iowa While students in a French class at Southeast Polk High School were taking a test in the hallway, a 17 year old boy shot and killed a 16 year old female student before firing a single shot into his own head, killing himself.

Notable cases include the 26-minute film PETA produced in 1984, Unnecessary Fuss, based on 60 hours of researchers ' footage obtained by the ALF during a raid on the University of Pennsylvania's head injury clinic.

In 1984, Sinclair Vehicles Ltd set up head office at the University of Warwick Science Park.

Sony released the wmR15 in 1984 a recording walkman with specialized headphones capable of Binaural recording by way of using the user's own pinnae to reflect sounds into the tiny microphones located on the left and right at the stem / ear level portion of the headphone head band.

The crash of Flight 90, coupled with Air Florida's high financial leverage and reliance on foreign currency trading for profits, led the company to declare bankruptcy and cease operations on July 3, 1984, despite an effort by new head Donald Lloyd-Jones ( an alumnus of American Airlines ) to save the company.

From 1983 to 1984 Mengistu served as head of the Organization of African Unity.

When pitcher Roger Clemens arrived in Boston for the first time in 1984, he took a taxi from Logan Airport and was sure the driver had misunderstood his directions when he announced their arrival at the park.

It was initially popularized circa 1984 in discothèques catering to gay and mixed, primarily African-American and Latino audiences in Chicago, but beginning in 1985, fanned out to other major cities such as Detroit, Toronto, New York City, Boston, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manchester, Miami, London, and Paris.

In 1984, scientists at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston x-rayed Millet's 1870 painting The Young Sherpherdess looking for minor changes, and discovered that it was painted over Captivity.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1984.

Boston: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1984.

Clemens debuted in the major leagues in 1984 with the Boston Red Sox, whose pitching staff he anchored for 12 years.

In 1996, under new owner John Moores ( a software tycoon who purchased controlling ownership in the team in 1994 from Tom Werner, who subsequently formed a syndicate that purchased the Boston Red Sox ) and team president Larry Lucchino, and with a team managed by former Padres catcher Bruce Bochy ( a member of the 1984 NL championship squad ), the team won the NL West in an exciting race, sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in the final series of the regular season.

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.

In 1978, after teaching at McGill, Ben Gurion, and Yale universities, Safdie moved his main office to Boston and became director of the Urban Design Program at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, until 1984.

In 1995 A & M released Live !, a double live album produced by Andy Summers featuring two complete concerts – one recorded on November 27, 1979 at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston during the Regatta de Blanc tour, and one recorded on November 2, 1983 at the Omni in Atlanta, Georgia during the Synchronicity Tour ( the latter one was also documented in the VHS " Synchronicity Concert " in 1984 ).

Boston: Twayne, 1984.

The only playoff appearance earned during this stretch was during the 1984 – 85 season under George Karl losing to the Boston Celtics in the first round in four games ( 3 – 1 ).

In 1984, the Rockets drafted Hakeem Olajuwon who, paired with Ralph Sampson and both collectively known as the " Twin Towers ", led them to the 1986 Finals in their second and third year respectively, where in another brave effort they lost again to the Boston Celtics.

* Most opponents ' fumbles recovered for touchdowns, season: 4 ; Detroit Lions, 1937 ; Chicago Bears, 1942 ; Boston ( AAFC ), 1948 ; Los Angeles Rams, 1952 ; San Francisco 49ers, 1965 ; Denver Broncos, 1984 ; St. Louis Cardinals, 1987 ; Minnesota Vikings, 1989 ; Atlanta Falcons, 1991 and 1998 ; Philadelphia Eagles, 1995 ; New Orleans Saints, 1998 ; Kansas City Chiefs, 1999.

* Geoff Smith, Boston Marathon winner, 1984 – 85

* Andrew Bailey ( born 1984 ), All-Star closer for the Boston Red Sox.

* Matt Poskay ( born 1984 ), professional lacrosse player for the Boston Cannons.

Commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, its European premiere at the 1984 Proms was relayed on BBC television.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1984

On January 11, 1984, Cardinal Law was appointed Archbishop of Boston, by Pope John Paul II.

New Kids on the Block ( also initialized as NKOTB ) are an American boy band from Boston, Massachusetts, assembled in 1984 by producer Maurice Starr.

Apart from his years with the Reds ( 1964 – 76, 1984 – 86 ), he also played for the Montreal Expos ( 1977 – 79 ), Boston Red Sox ( 1980 – 82 ) and Philadelphia Phillies ( 1983 ).

On March 13, 1984 after the Business Process Improvement was under way at IBM, John Akers stated at the American Electronics Association seminar on Quality in Boston, Our studies show that more than 50 percent of the total cost of billing relates to preventing, catching, or fixing errors.

He first rose to prominence during his career at Boston College, where he received the prestigious Heisman Trophy and the Davey O ' Brien National Quarterback Award in 1984.