* 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.

With President Ronald Reagan | Reagan, 1984

A 1984 series of strips showing then Vice President George H. W.

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.

From November 1980 to May 1984, power was held by a provisional government responsible to a Revolutionary Council headed by President João Bernardo Vieira.

After the perpetrator of President Reagan's assassination attempt was found not guilty by reason of insanity, Congress passed the Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1984.

President Ronald Reagan posthumously awarded Robinson the Presidential Medal of Freedom on March 26, 1984, and on March 2, 2005, President George W. Bush gave Robinson's widow the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award bestowed by Congress ; Robinson was only the second baseball player to receive the award, after Roberto Clemente.

At the 1984 Republican National Convention, Kemp, along with allies such as Gingrich and Lott, added a plank to the party platform that put President Reagan on record as ruling out tax increases.

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.

He then was a top executive, Vice President, at Degussa from 1984 to 1989 prior to joining ADM.

William P. Tavoulareas was President of Mobil Corporation until succeeded by Allen E. Murray in 1984.

Ortega was overwhelmingly elected President in 1984, but the long years of war had decimated Nicaragua's economy and widespread poverty ensued.

* 1984 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.

Vice President George H. Bush visited Oman in 1984 and 1986, and President Bill Clinton visited briefly in March 2000.

Although initially willing to stand in the 1984 elections, the UNO, headed by Arturo Cruz ( a former Sandinista ) declined participation in the elections based on their own objections to the restrictions placed on the electoral process by the State of Emergency and the official advisement of President Ronald Reagan's State Department, who feared that their participation would legitimize the election process.

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.

Former Vice Presidents also ran, in 1984 ( Walter Mondale ), and in 1968 ( Richard Nixon, against the incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey ).

The automaker's President, William Luneburg, did not expect dramatic development through 1980, but Gerald C. Meyers, AMC's Vice-President of the Product ( Engineering ) Group, suggested that AMC would be buying the engines from Curtis-Wright before developing its own Wankel engines and predicted a total transition to rotary power by 1984.

* July 22 – Adam Malik, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia ( d. 1984 )

* January 20 – Mohammed Naguib, 1st President of Egypt ( died 1984 )

** Richard von Weizsäcker, German politician, President of Germany from 1984 until 1994

* Joseph M. Tucci, MBA 1984, President and CEO of EMC Corporation

On April 3, 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed Executive Order ( E. O.

In 1984, Ronald Reagan hosted the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher.

These include the 1979 energy crisis, the election of Ronald Reagan, the 1984 Summer Olympics, the Chernobyl disaster, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the Baby Jessica rescue, Black Monday, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the election of George H. W.

In 1984, Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

* Binns, Ronald, The Loch Ness Mystery Solved, Great Britain, Open Books, 1983, ISBN 0-7291-0139-8 and Star Books, 1984, ISBN 0-352-31487-7

* November 6 – United States presidential election, 1984: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59 % of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61 % victory in 1972.

( Richard Lester, 1965 ) and played leads in All The Way Up ( James MacTaggart, 1970 ), The Chain ( Jack Gold, 1984 ), The Dunera Boys ( Ben Lewin, 1985 ) and Foreign Body ( Ronald Neame, 1986 ).

Roosevelt also won the largest number of electoral votes ever recorded at that time, so far only surpassed by Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election, when 7 more electoral votes were available.

It was quoted by President Ronald Reagan in a speech to Congress, and used during the 1984 presidential elections.

On October 30, 1984, United States President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Commercial Space Launch Act.

* Luns was awarded many high-ranking awards during his lifetime, among them the Grand Cross of the Légion d ’ Honneur in 1954, Member of Order of Companions of Honour of the British Queen in 1971 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Disney Channel received a special citation from President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Two books focusing on the final flight, Flight 777 ( Ian Colvin, 1957 ), and In Search of My Father: A Portrait of Leslie Howard ( Ronald Howard, 1984 ), concluded that the Germans shot down Howard's DC-3 for the specific purpose of killing him.

Howard ’ s son and daughter each published memoirs of their father: In Search of My Father: A Portrait of Leslie Howard ( 1984 ) by Ronald Howard, and A Quite Remarkable Father: A Biography of Leslie Howard ( 1959 ) by Leslie Ruth Howard.

1984 Walter Mondale 79, 906 ( 52. 4 %) Ronald Reagan 71, 377 ( 46. 8 %)

In that same period Republican presidential candidates polled more than 90 percent of the county's vote on two occasions, Ronald Reagan in 1984 and George W. Bush in 2004.

The younger Christo had come from a more anarcho-punk background – he was also a member of Green CND, and had been involved in the blockade of Ronald Reagan's car at the 1984 Lancaster House summit meeting.

President Ronald Reagan announced plans to build Space Station Freedom in 1984.

Weston supported Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984, as well as George H. W.