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.

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.

A prototype of the full computer was shown to the public for the first time at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in 1984.

Created by the Scottish-born composer, Peter Dodds McCormick, the song was first performed in 1878, but did not gain its status as the official anthem until 1984.

In 1984, the first official representative matches of International Rules were played, and these were played annually each October between the AFL and the Gaelic Athletic Association, also known as the GAA, between 1998 and 2006.

In 1984, she released another pop-oriented Christian hit, Straight Ahead, earning Grant her first appearance at the Grammy Awards show in 1985.

It first became an official MLB statistic in 1984.

At one point in 1984 Winston Smith, the protagonist of Orwell's novel, tries " to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.

The band played in this style on their first four albums: Bathory ( 1984 ), The Return of the Darkness and Evil ( 1985 ), Under the Sign of the Black Mark ( 1987 ) and Blood Fire Death ( 1988 ).

The game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals in particular was cited for putting Ryne Sandberg ( as well as the 1984 Cubs in general, who would go on to make their first postseason appearance since 1945 ) " on the map.

While Capcom's first product was the coin-operated Little League from July 1983, its first real video game, the arcade title Vulgus, was released in May 1984.

The Bengals first used the " no-huddle " in 1984.

However, in the use section of the entry it states that the more common plural is mice, and that the first recorded use of the term in the plural is mice as well ( though it cites a 1984 use of mice when there were actually several earlier ones ).

1984 — The country's first coalition government, between Sir Thomas and Geoffrey Henry, is signed in the lead up to hosting regional Mini Games in 1985.

Guest's biggest role of the first two decades of his career is likely that of Nigel Tufnel in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap.

The first new television channels launched for carriage on cable systems ( going live in March 1984 ) were Sky Channel, Screensport, Music Box and TEN-The Movie Channel.

He started up Compaq's first overseas office in Munich in 1984.

In David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of the first novel, De Vries was played by Brad Dourif.

Various executives, first at Tymshare and later at McDonnell Douglas ( which acquired Tymshare in 1984 ), expressed interest in his ideas, but never committed the funds or the people to further develop them.

In 1984, four Berkeley students — Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle, and Songnian Zhou — wrote the first Unix implementation, called The Berkeley Internet Name Domain ( BIND ) Server.

She was first credited as Enya ( as opposed to Eithne ) for writing some of the music for the 1984 movie The Frog Prince, which was released on a soundtrack album of the same title.

* 1984: Gateshead SIS / Tesco is first B2C online shopping and Mrs Snowball, 72, is the first online home shopper

* The ESS was first used in the social sciences by Robert Axelrod in his 1984 book The Evolution of Cooperation.

In 1984, when the first women began to be ordained to the office of evangelist – patriarch, the RLDS Church changed the title of the local Evangelist – Patriarchs to simply " evangelist ".

The first EVA by a woman was performed by the soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya on July 25, 1984.