This marked the first in a series of collaborations between Waits and Coppola, with Waits appearing in cameos in Coppola's movies The Outsiders ( 1983 ), Rumble Fish ( 1983 ), and The Cotton Club ( 1984 ), and a major role in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

* In 1984 crack cocaine reached American cities and the marked the start of the crack epidemic.

1984 also marked Psion ’ s first foray into hardware ; the Psion Organiser, the world ’ s first handheld computer, in appearance resembling early gaming machines.

One visible sign of this community is Eden Center, a Vietnamese-American shopping plaza constructed in 1984 in the southeast corner of Falls Church City, at Seven Corners, and marked by a traditional gateway, guardian lions, and a clock tower modeled on one in Saigon.

The 1984 film Cannonball Run II marked the final time members of the Rat Pack shared theatrical screen time together.

His 1984 centenary was marked in the New York area only by a modest exhibit at Nassau County's suburban art museum.

1984 marked the first time that all of the nominees were from outside of the United States ( Culture Club, Eurythmics, and Musical Youth were from England, Big Country was from Scotland, and Men Without Hats were from Canada ).

Moreover, starting from 1984, the separation between newcomers and established artists was marked introducing two different competitions with separate winners.

During the first half of 1984, this period of transition and the storyline developments with the new cast were complemented by return appearances from departed characters such as Wally Wallace ( Alan Hopgood ), Helen Smart, Erica Davidson, Doreen Burns, Margo Gaffney, Tracy Morris ( albeit played by a new actress ) and Marie Winter ( though this also marked the final appearance of all these characters ).

The then-named-Motor City Bowl marked the first bowl game held in the Detroit area since the Cherry Bowl in 1984 – 85.

1984 marked the 50 year anniversary of Northwest.

This marked the first time since 1984 that open wheel cars have taken to the track at Daytona.

Thel was seen playing tennis with a racket marked " Scottsdale Racket ", and Bil mentioned moving up to B class at Scottsdale Racket Club in a 1984 strip.

Clark's running to the center marked the start of a split within the Libertarian Party between a moderate faction led by Ed Crane and a radical faction led by Rothbard that eventually came to a head in 1983, with the moderate faction walking out of the party convention after the nomination for the 1984 presidential race went to David Bergland.

Meyers and Shyer's next project, Irreconcilable Differences ( 1984 ), marked Shyer's directorial debut.

During that time, he wrote the infamous RFC 748, the only document specifically marked in the RFC index with note date of issue ; and a series of Telnet implementations for the Incompatible Timesharing System, WAITS, and TOPS-20 operating systems whose escape behavior was playfully immortalized by Guy Steele in the April 1984 Communications of the ACM as The Telnet Song.

Operations with SAFER marked the first untethered EVA since STS 51-A in 1984, and also last such EVA of the program. SAFER went on to become a mainstay of US and joint spacewalks during the assembly of the International Space Station and beyond.

1983 also marked the end of the LJ series, as the LE model would be added in 1984.

Some minor changes and revisions marked the 1984 Grand Prix, including a new octangular Pontiac hood ornament, gauges with orange needles and red markings ( previous 1978 – 1983 Grand Prix gauges had white needles ), a T-shaped console shifter, an updated bucket seat design, as well as a woodgrain plate above the glove box ( previous 1978 – 1983 Grand Prixs used a black plate ).

These Planet singles marked the end of their run of Top 10 hits in the US, with their subsequent RCA releases " Dare Me " in 1984 ( the Sisters ' last Australian Top 10 hit ), and " Goldmine " in 1986, reaching numbers 11 and 33 respectively.

Mark Hughes marked his debut for Wales by scoring the only goal of the game as England were defeated once again in 1984.

Shortly after returning to spacedock at the beginning of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ( 1984 ), the Enterprise is marked for decommissioning.

His presidency was marked by Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Indira Gandhi, and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

He was determined to end the civil war by " dialogue without arms ", and on October 15, 1984, in La Palma, Chalatenango, he met FMLN leaders face to face, which marked the beginning of the end of the civil war.

* It was marked in the KLOV Top 100 and was the best game in 1984.

* In 2002, Edwina Currie revealed that she had had an affair, beginning in 1984, with John Major before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

By the beginning of 1984, quarterly sales of the ColecoVision had dramatically decreased.

In the 1970s and 1980s, agricultural use was banned in most developed countries, beginning with Hungary in 1968 then in Norway and Sweden in 1970, Germany and the United States in 1972, but not in the United Kingdom until 1984.

In 1976 the IAU resolved that the theoretical basis for its current ( 1952 ) standard of Ephemeris Time was non-relativistic, and that therefore, beginning in 1984, Ephemeris Time would be replaced by two relativistic timescales intended to constitute dynamical timescales: Terrestrial Dynamical Time ( TDT ) and Barycentric Dynamical Time ( TDB ).

Among the commercial successes for German films of the 1980s were the Otto film series beginning in 1985 starring comedian Otto Waalkes, Wolfgang Petersen's adaptation of The NeverEnding Story ( 1984 ), and the internationally successful Das Boot ( 1981 ), which still holds the record for most Academy Award nominations for a German film ( six ).

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.

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 company formally adopted the Mazda name in 1984, though every automobile sold from the beginning bore that name.

In 1984, Mark Peterson wrote The Realm of Angmar, beginning as a clone of Scepter of Goth.

Trudeau's approval ratings slipped after the bounce from the 1982 patriation, and by the beginning of 1984, opinion polls showed the Liberals were headed for certain defeat if Trudeau remained in office.

Neil Peart began incorporating Simmons Drums | Simmons Electronic Drums beginning with Grace Under Pressure ( 1984 )

Other examples are the Peter Marlow series, beginning with The Private Sector ( 1971 ) by Joseph Hone, which is set during Israel's Six Day War ( 1967 ) against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and William Garner's secret agents, the fantastic Michael Jagger, in Overkill ( 1966 ), The Deep, Deep Freeze ( 1968 ), The Us or Them War ( 1969 ) and A Big Enough Wreath ( 1974 ) and the realistic John Morpurgo in Think Big, Think Dirty ( 1983 ), Rats ' Alley ( 1984 ), and Zones of Silence ( 1986 ).

Bogdanovich turned back to writing as his directorial career sagged, beginning with The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten ( 1960 – 1980 ), a memoir published in 1984.

:: Brunei Darussalam Archeology and History Exhibition Gallery: It exhibits the history of the country beginning from the prehistoric period up to independence in 1984.

The first vertebrate Hox gene was isolated in Xenopus by Eddy De Robertis and colleagues in 1984, marking the beginning of the young science of Evo-devo.

In October 2009 the Foundation For the Future announced that Pääbo had been awarded the 2009 Kistler Prize for his work isolating and sequencing ancient DNA, beginning in 1984 with a 2, 400-year-old mummy.

To mark the exact date of its original start-up, Wonderful Radio London International ( WRLI ) was planning its own return as a full time radio station broadcasting from off the coast of England beginning in December 1984.

Bathory's 1984 first album, Bathory, and the subsequent releases The Return ( 1985 ) and Under the Sign of the Black Mark ( 1987 ), are now regarded as major influences on the Norwegian bands which extended black metal's musical progression and popularity in the beginning of the 1990s.

Dennis DeYoung and Tommy Shaw released a string of solo albums, beginning with DeYoung's Desert Moon and Shaw's Girls with Guns in 1984.

A TR-808 was also David Byrne's sole accompaniment ( apart from his acoustic guitar ) at the beginning of Stop Making Sense ( 1984 ), prior to the gradual appearance of the rest of Talking Heads, although Byrne created the illusion that the sound came from, he said, " A tape I want to play ," on a boombox he brought onstage.

His resignation from the board in 1984, which occurred in the midst of a corporate takeover battle, was the beginning of a series of developments that led to the replacement of company president and CEO Ronald William Miller ( married to Walt's daughter Diane Marie Disney ) by Michael Eisner and Frank Wells.

1984 was a momentous year for the ferries and can be seen as the beginning of the ferries rise from the slumps of the 1970s.

Having influenced the development of power pop from the beginning, British rock group The Kinks made several well-received songs in the style in their 1984 album Word of Mouth, such as " Do It Again ".

It was adopted on all Corvette Coupes beginning in 1984, with the fourth generation models.

As a result of the court's decision, Hillsdale withdrew from all federal assistance beginning with the 1984 – 85 academic year ; Grove City College, the defendant in that case, followed Hillsdale's lead four years later.