* 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

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.

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.

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.

* 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

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.

* 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.

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

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.

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan announced the Teacher in Space Project, and McAuliffe learned about NASA's efforts to find the first civilian, an educator, to fly into space.

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.

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.

The primary opposition candidate was the U. S .- backed Arturo Cruz, who succumbed to pressure from the United States government not to take part in the 1984 elections ; later US officials were quoted as saying, " the ( Reagan ) Administration never contemplated letting Cruz stay in the race, because then the Sandinistas could justifiably claim that the elections were legitimate.

In 1983, Democrats Bill Bradley and Dick Gephardt had offered a proposal ; in 1984 Reagan had the Treasury Department produce its own plan.

During a November 1984 visit to the White House, Kohl appealed to Reagan to join him in symbolizing the reconciliation of their two countries at a German military cemetery.

In 1984, the Reagan Administration reversed its course, though in the meantime the original deadline had been extended ; Elizabeth Dole, then Transportation Secretary, proposed that the two passive safety restraints be phased into vehicles gradually, from vehicle model year 1987 to vehicle model year 1990, when all vehicles would be required to have either automatic seat belts or driver side air bags.

at: 07 / 01 / 1984 text :" July 1984, BMDO became a part of Strategic Defense Initiative Organization ( SDIO ) which was created 3 months earlier by Reagan administration.

Reagan continued his efforts after being elected President in 1980 and the area was eventually designated wilderness by the California Wilderness Act of 1984.

" In 1984 the U. S. Congress ordered this intervention to be stopped ; however, it was later shown that the Reagan administration illegally continued ( See Iran-Contra affair ).

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.

In 1984, the Giants hosted the All-Star Game at Candlestick Park.

This was the second time that Tampa hosted the game ; the city previously hosted Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, 1984.

* France hosted and won the UEFA football championship in 1984.

Additionally, the Research Science Institute ( formerly the Rickover Science Institute ), founded by Admiral Rickover in 1984, is a highly respected summer science program hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for aspiring high school seniors from around the world.

The city has hosted the Reims Marathon since 1984.

) There have been two television appearances since then ; the 1984 tournament semi-finals and finals aired on NBC, hosted by Pat Sajak ( of Wheel of Fortune fame ), and the entire 1987 tournament on Disney Channel, hosted by Dick Cavett.

It is an internationally renowned winter sports centre, and hosted the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics as well as the 1984 and 1988 Winter Paralympics.

From October 31, 1983 to July 27, 1984, Jon " Bowzer " Bauman of Sha Na Na hosted the Hollywood Squares segment of Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour, a joint production of Mark Goodson Productions ( owners of the Match Game format ) and Orion Television, which obtained the rights to Hollywood Squares upon acquiring the Filmways production company.

Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, over the bids of Moscow and Los Angeles, which later hosted the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympic Games respectively.

One factor favoring Montreal was that the IOC did not want the Summer games hosted in a superpower for fears of political backlash, which proved well-founded with the Olympic boycotts of 1980 and 1984.

Since 1984, he has hosted an annual women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA tour, the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic, presented by Kroger, Owens Corning and O-I in Sylvania, Ohio ( a Toledo suburb ).

During the 1984 and 1985 pledge-drive seasons, Rukeyser hosted two " Investment Primer " specials, introducing viewers to the stock market and how it worked.

It hosted the Formula 1 French Grand Prix on five occasions from 1974 to 1984.

It also hosted the semifinals and finals of the 2009 World Baseball Classic as well as exhibition baseball during the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Since 1984, the city has hosted the Lexington Barbecue Festival, one of the largest street festivals in North Carolina.

The annual Creation Festival is hosted locally ( since 1984 ), drawing thousands of visitors in late June.

Smith pursued her role as a media celebrity when in 1984, she hosted a children's special for the Disney Channel entitled Samantha Smith Goes To Washington ... Campaign ' 84.

By this time, the station's dance party tradition had evolved into a large video dance party, hosted by Martin Streek, who joined the station as a DJ and on-air personality in 1984.

* February 18 – Tattletales, hosted by Bert Convy, premieres on CBS daytime ( 1974 – 1978, 1982 – 1984 ).

The stadium hosted two MLB All-Star Games ( 1961 and 1984 ), one National League Division Series ( 1997 ), three National League Championship Series ( 1971, 1987 and 1989 ), two World Series ( 1962 and 1989 ), and eight NFC Championship games, the most notable being in January 1982 when Dwight Clark caught a game-winning touchdown pass from Joe Montana to lead the 49ers to their first Super Bowl ( see " The Catch ").

Since 1984, he has hosted the syndicated TV hit game Jeopardy!