* St. Abbs and Eyemouth Voluntary Marine Reserve, Britain's first Voluntary Marine Reserve opened by David Bellamy in August 1984.

After leaving Parliament in 2005 Muriel Newman established a political think tank organisation, the New Zealand Centre for Political Debate ( since renamed the New Zealand Centre for Political Research ) which has had many prominent New Zealand and overseas guests write columns including: Sir Roger Douglas ( Finance minister of the New Zealand Labour party from 1984 to 1988 and ACT New Zealand co-founder ), Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Prof. David Bellamy, Dr Don Brash, Alan Duff, Richard Epstein, Lord Nigel Lawson, Owen McShane, Johan Norberg, Professor Peter Saunders, and others.

Bellamy began working in the building industry of Devon in 1984.

The Marine Reserve was established on 18 August 1984 by David Bellamy.

Nikki Ann Sanderson ( born 28 March 1984 in Blackpool, is an English actress and glamour model who is best known for playing Candice Stowe in the television soap opera Coronation Street and Dawn Bellamy in ITV's Heartbeat.

* " Atmosphere ", a song which became a hit for Russ Abbot in 1984

In 1984, Titan the main shipping company of the Papanicolaou ’ s was in trouble, so Livanos's father George bought out the Papanicolaou's shares in ALL, while Gauntlett again became a shareholder with a 25 % holding in AML.

It first became an official MLB statistic in 1984.

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

He next accepted a post as a director with Wigan Athletic, then became a member of Manchester United's board of directors in 1984 and remains one as of June 2011.

* 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.

It did so by buying a small startup company called Amiga Corporation in August 1984, for $ 25 million ($ 12. 8 million in cash & 550, 000 in common shares ) which became a subsidiary of Commodore, called Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Commodore brought this new 32-bit computer design ( initially codenamed " Lorraine ", later dubbed the Amiga 1000 ) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $ 1295.

Some of their films faced legal challenges in the United Kingdom ; after the Video Recordings Act of 1984, it became a legal offense to sell a copy of such films as Cannibal Holocaust and SS Experiment Camp.

In 1984 it became the official Hamburg branch of The Greens.

This was mainly due to the song " I Am What I Am ", which became a hit at dance clubs, and then on the Club Play chart in late 1983 / early 1984.

Lineker began his football career at Leicester City and became known as a prolific goalscorer ; despite failing to score in his first ten games, he finished as the First Division's joint top goalscorer in 1984 – 85 and earned his first England cap.

FUTH also became affiliated with a number of leftist popular organizations in a group known as the Coordinating Committee of Popular Organizations ( Comité Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Populares — CCOP ) that was formed in 1984.

It was awarded the Camera d ' Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival as well as the 1985 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film, and became a landmark work in modern independent film.

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.

The National Stadium, which was used by Wales national rugby union team, was officially opened on 7 April 1984, however in 1997 it was demolished to make way for the Millennium Stadium in 1999, which hosted the 1999 Rugby World Cup and became the national stadium of Wales.

" He participated in a lively television debate on August 31, 1984 with socialist intellectuals, including Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, who later became the president of Iceland.

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

In 1984 he became a member of the Knesset when Kach gained one seat in parliamentary elections.

During Yuri Andropov's tenure as General Secretary ( 1982 – 1984 ), Gorbachev became one of the Politburo's most visible and active members.

Upon Andropov's death in 1984, the aged Konstantin Chernenko took power ; after his death the following year, it became clear to the party hierarchy that younger leadership was needed.

Rex became the first Niuean to receive a knighthood, in 1984.

Then in 1968 he became Professor of Informatics at ETH Zürich, taking two one-year sabbaticals at Xerox PARC in California ( 1976 – 1977 and 1984 – 1985 ).

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

On June 29, 1984, the Unitarian Universalists became the first major church " to approve religious blessings on homosexual unions.

Medley also had solo success: In 1984, he scored country hits with " Till Your Memory's Gone " and " I Still Do " ( which crossed over to the adult contemporary charts and later became a " cult " hit with the Carolina Beach / Shag dance club circuit ); and in late 1987, his duet with Jennifer Warnes — "( I've Had ) The Time of My Life ", which appeared on the soundtrack for Dirty Dancing — topped the Billboard Hot 100 and won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for a Motion Picture ( for the three songwriters, which did not include Medley ) as well as a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals ( which, of course, did ).

William Gibson with his novel Neuromancer ( 1984 ) is likely the most famous writer connected with the term cyberpunk.

The two most famous in recent history are the changing of the Hollywood Sign to read " Caltech ", by judiciously covering up certain parts of the letters, and the changing of the scoreboard to read Caltech 38, MIT 9 during the 1984 Rose Bowl Game.

* 1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous " 1984 " television commercial.

One of the most famous and complete hominid skeletons ever discovered was the 1. 6 million year old Homo erectus known as the Turkana Boy which was found by Kamoya Kimeu in 1984 on an excavation led by Richard Leakey.

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.

Trudeau began the night of his famous ' walk in the snow ' before announcing his retirement in 1984 by going to Judo with his sons.

The broadcast was notable for airing the famous " 1984 " television commercial, introducing the Apple Macintosh.

Apple's famous " 1984 " television commercial, introducing the Apple Macintosh computer and directed by Ridley Scott, ran during a timeout in the third quarter.

These UCLA ’ s would “ sabotage ports, refineries, boats and bridges, and try to make it look like the contras had done it .” In January 1984, these UCLA ’ s performed their most famous, or infamous, operation, the last straw that led to the ratifying of the Boland Amendment, the mining of several Nicaraguan harbors

Abdullah, by Donauwind, is particularly famous for his show jumping team gold and individual silver medals at the 1984 Olympics and 1985 World Cup win.

* The 1984 – 1985 famine in Ethiopia occurred, resulting in international efforts to help the Ethiopian people, including the famous Live Aid concert in July 1985.

* 1984: British Pop impresario Malcolm McLaren wrote and performed a UK hit single, " Madame Butterfly ( Un bel dì vedremo )", produced by Stephen Hague, based on the opera and featuring the famous aria.

Their case was ultimately dismissed on May 30, 1984, by which time the owners had already established the Tampa Bay Bandits in the next professional league, the United States Football League ( which incidentally filed their own, more famous antitrust suit against the NFL in 1986 ).

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

Marcel Moyse ( May 17, 1889 in St. Amour, France – November 1, 1984 in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States ) was a famous French flutist.

An earlier design by Starck, now world famous, was for the Café Costes in Paris ( 1984 ).

One of film director Ridley Scott's most famous cinematic moments was a television advertisement he directed for the Apple Macintosh computer, that was broadcast in 1984.

“ First they came …” is a famous statement attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller ( 1892 – 1984 ) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.

In 1984, after his death, the area was expanded and renamed in honor of Ansel Adams, well-known environmentalist and nature photographer who is famous for his black and white landscape photographs of the Sierra Nevada.

Gino is also famous for being the color commentator of the Boston College Eagles during the 1984 game between

* Cult author George Orwell wrote his most famous novel ' cult classic ' 1984 whilst a patient at Hairmyers Hospital in East Kilbride in late 1947 and much of 1948. Orwell was suffering from Tuberculosis whilst convalescing at Hairmyers.

Brazil's Bozo won five Troféu Imprensa, a famous Brazilian award given to personalities and productions in the media ( in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1989 ), as well as three Gold Albums.

The high point of the reunion was the new CD Clifton Hill, produced by Tom Treumuth ( who produced the self-titled Honeymoon Suite debut album in 1984 ), and named after the famous landmark in the centre of the tourist activity in Niagara Falls.