* 1984 – The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.

American Motors set up the first automobile-manufacturing joint venture in the People's Republic of China on January 15, 1984.

Although no longer a member of the OAU ( Organisation of African Unity ) since November 12, 1984 — following the admission of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as the government of Western Sahara — Morocco remains involved in developing the regional economy, as the city of Casablanca contains North Africa's busiest port and serves as the country's economic center.

In 1984, the OAU seated a delegation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ( SADR ), the shadow government of the Polisario ; Morocco, consequently, withdrew from the OAU.

The Republic of Nicaragua v. The United States of America was a 1984 case of the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) in which the ICJ ruled in favor of Nicaragua and against the United States and awarded reparations to Nicaragua.

# Decides that in adjudicating the dispute brought before it by the Application filed by the Republic of Nicaragua on 9 April 1984, the Court is required to apply the " multilateral treaty reservation " contained in proviso ( c ) to the declaration of acceptance of jurisdiction made under Article 36, paragraph 2, of the Statute of the Court by the Government of the United States of America deposited on 26 August 1946 ;

# Decides that the United States of America, by certain attacks on Nicaraguan territory in 1983-1984, namely attacks on Puerto Sandino on 13 September and 14 October 1983, an attack on Corinto on 10 October 1983 ; an attack on Potosi Naval Base on 4 / 5 January 1984, an attack on San Juan del Sur on 7 March 1984 ; attacks on patrol boats at Puerto Sandino on 28 and 30 March 1984 ; and an attack on San Juan del Norte on 9 April 1984 ; and further by those acts of intervention referred to in subparagraph ( 3 ) hereof which involve the use of force, has acted, against the Republic of Nicaragua, in breach of its obligation under customary international law not to use force against another State ;

# Decides that, by laying mines in the internal or territorial waters of the Republic of Nicaragua during the first months of 1984, the United States of America has acted, against the Republic of Nicaragua, in breach of its obligations under customary international law not to use force against another State, not to intervene in its affairs, not to violate its sovereignty and not to interrupt peaceful maritime commerce ;

Four test launches were conducted in 1983 and 1984 at Kwajalein Missile Range in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic was seated as a member of the Organisation of African Unity in 1984, and was a founding member of the African Union.

Mauritania recognized the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic on February 27, 1984.

* The Union of South Africa between 1910 and 1961, and the Republic of South Africa between 1961 and 1984.

The river gave its name to French Upper Volta and then the Republic of Upper Volta before that country was renamed Burkina Faso in 1984.

In the People's Republic of China, judges wore regular street clothes until 1984, when they began to wear military-style uniforms, which were intended to demonstrate authority.

At the time of the OAU's disbanding, 53 out of the 54 African states were members ; Morocco left on 12 November 1984 following the admission of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as the government of Western Sahara in 1982.

Poets Laureate of Dominican Republic include: Pedro Mir ( 1984 ).

* Republic Plaza ( Denver ), Denver, Colorado, 1984

In 1984, the governments of the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) concluded the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong, under which the sovereignty of the leased territories, together with Hong Kong Island and Kowloon ( south of Boundary Street ) ceded under the Convention of Peking ( 1860 ), was transferred to the PRC on 1 July 1997.

* Dún Laoghaire, Republic of Ireland ( 1984 )

In an effort of bringing more Taiwan-born citizens into government services, Chiang Ching-kuo " exiled " his over-ambitious chief of General Political Warfare Department, General Wang Sheng, to Paraguay as an ambassador ( November 1983 ), and hand-picked Lee Teng-hui as vice-president of the Republic of China ( formally elected May 1984 ), first-in-the-line of succession to the presidency.

In 1984, when Beijing recognized the twelfth anniversary of Japan's diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic, Hu invited 3, 000 Japanese youth to Beijing, and arranged for them to tour Shanghai.

It was founded in 1984 when the neighboring towns of Pinetop and Lakeside merged.

The company was formed in 1995 when Silicon Graphics bought Alias Research, which was founded in 1983, and Wavefront Technologies, founded in 1984, then merged the two companies.

Hence, in 1984 Swarthmore High School merged with adjacent Nether Providence High School to form Strath Haven High School.

In 1974, the two districts were merged, and in 1984 the name Siegen-Wittgenstein was adopted.

As it neared financial collapse again in September 1984, Bush Exploration merged with Spectrum 7 Energy Corp., a company owned by William DeWitt and Mercer Reynolds.

Though merged into larger organisations, the Morris name remained in use until 1984 when British Leyland's Austin Rover Group decided to concentrate on the more popular Austin brand.

The Proletarian Unity Party merged into the PCI in 1984.

Meyers Konversations-Lexikon or Meyers Lexikon was a major encyclopedia in the German language that existed in various editions, and by several titles, from 1839 to 1984, when it merged with the Brockhaus encyclopedia.

Standard Oil of California and Gulf Oil merged in 1984, which was the largest merger in history at that time.

In 1984 the High School of Music & Art was merged with the School of Performing Arts ( founded in 1948 by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia ) to become LaGuardia High.

In 1984, McMahon bought NWA member Georgia Championship Wrestling ( GCW ) and merged it into the WWF, with the WWF taking over GCW's long-time TV slot on TBS.

Liebig merged with Brooke Bond in 1968, which was in turn acquired by Unilever in 1984.

The Socialist Group represented the continuity of the old Workers Socialist League which was expelled from Gerry Healy's Socialist Labour League in 1974 and merged with the International-Communist League as the new WSL in 1981 before being expelled in 1984.

Chern was also granted numerous honorary professorships, including at Peking University ( Beijing, 1978 ), his alma mater Nankai ( Tianjin, 1978 ), Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Systems Science ( Beijing, 1980 ), Jinan University ( Guangzhou, 1980 ), Chinese Academy of Sciences Graduate School ( 1984 ), Nanjing University ( Nanjing, 1985 ), East China Normal University ( Shanghai, 1985 ), USTC ( Hefei, 1985 ), Beijing Normal University ( 1985 ), Zhejiang University ( Hangzhou, 1985 ), Hangzhou University ( 1986, the university was merged into Zhejiang University in 1998 ), Fudan University ( Shanghai, 1986 ), Shanghai University of Technology ( 1986, the university was merged to establish Shanghai University in 1994 ), Tianjin University ( 1987 ), Tohoku University ( Sendai, Japan, 1987 ), etc.

By 1984, Stiff Records was ailing, and it merged with Island Records ; in July 1985 it was liquidated and bought by ZTT, the label owned by the husband and wife team of producer Trevor Horn and Jill Sinclair.

He went to the Minchenden School ( became comprehensive in 1967, and was merged into the Broomfield School in 1984 ) in Southgate, London.

In 1984, Takara ( Later merged with Tomy to form Takara Tomy ) released a line of My Little Pony toys, which were released in two types: and.

The China trade museum was merged with the Peabody Essex Museum in 1984 leaving the house in the management of the Forbes House Charitable Trust which operates it now as the Captain Forbes House Museum.

In addition, they won the NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship in Division II in 1980, 1981, and 1982, before the two divisions were merged in 1984.

The three operating companies continued to operate separately until 1984, when they were merged into one operating company, called TU Electric (" TU " meaning " Texas Utilities "), in 1984.

These merged to form the North American Soccer League in 1968, which survived until 1984.

In 1976 it merged with the National List and the Independent Centre ( a breakaway from the Free Centre ) to form La ' am, which remained a faction within Likud until its merger into the Herut faction in 1984.

School Fun was a British comic book that ran from the issues dated 15 October 1983 to 26 May 1984, when it merged with Buster.