* In 1984, five Argentines sail in a 10-meter-long raft made from tree trunks named Atlantis from Canary Islands and after 52 days journey arrived to Venezuela in an attempt to prove travelers from Africa may have crossed the Atlantic before Christopher Columbus.

On May 21, 1984, during a press conference at which the Atari 7800 was introduced, company executives revealed that the 5200 had been discontinued after just two years on the market.

The 7800 had originally been designed to replace Atari Inc .' s Atari 5200 in 1984, but was temporarily shelved due to the sale of the company after the video game crash.

Brunei joined ASEAN on January 7, 1984, one week after resuming full independence, and gives its ASEAN membership the highest priority in its foreign relations.

Bronski Beat signed a recording contract with London Records in 1984 after doing only nine live gigs.

Citizen exhaustion due to the conflict's newfound intensity led to the election of president Belisario Betancur ( 1982 – 1986 ), a Conservative who won 47 % of the popular vote, directed peace feelers at all the insurgents, and negotiated a 1984 cease-fire with the FARC and M-19 after a 1982 release of many guerrillas imprisoned during the previous effort to overpower them.

By May 1984, Ken Barlow stood as the only original cast member, after the departures of Ena Sharples ( in 1980 ), Annie Walker ( in 1983 ), Elsie Tanner ( in 1984 ) and Albert Tatlock ( also 1984 ).

Four days after Andropov's death, on 9 February 1984, Chernenko was elected as the party's General Secretary.

He confined himself to operate in the southern part of Nicaragua ; after a press conference he was holding on 30 May 1984 was bombed, he " voluntarily withdrew " from the contra struggle.

He died in February 1984 of kidney failure after disappearing from public view for several months.

The original vertical-lift span of the Dumbarton Bridge, shown in 1984 shortly before it was demolishedThe bridge has never been officially named, but its commonly used name comes from Dumbarton Point, named in 1876 after Dumbarton, Scotland.

The strip underwent a significant change after Trudeau returned to it from a 22-month hiatus ( from January 1983 to October 1984 ).

In July 1984, after a hearing panel of the State Bar Court, after 80 days of testimony and consideration of documentary evidence, the panel accused Rosenthal of 13 separate acts of misconduct and urged his disbarment in a 34-page unsigned opinion.

Between 1984 and 1992, service members went regularly to the United States on the International Military Education Training program, after which funding for this program for Equatorial Guinea ceased.

It was taken off the market after the 1984 printing.

) The ephemerides continued on this basis through 1983 ( with some changes due to adoption of improved values of astronomical constants ), after which, for 1984 onwards, they adopted the JPL ephemerides.

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.

Sékou Touré died on March 26, 1984 after a heart operation in the United States, and was replaced in an interim role by Prime Minister Louis Lansana Beavogui.

A military dictatorship, led by then-Lt. Col. Lansana Conté and styling itself the Military Committee of National Recovery ( CMRN ), took control of Guinea in April 1984, shortly after the death of independent Guinea's first president, Sékou Touré.

*" Red Dawn ", a 1984 American war film about a group of high school students become engaged in guerrilla warfare after their country is invaded by Cubans and Russians.

Uses of the word in the decades after the 1960s are more concentrated in computer culture, such as a 1984 appearance in InfoWorld: " There isn't any software!

According to the Sino-British Joint Declaration ( 1984 ) and the Basic Law, Hong Kong will retain its political, economic, and judicial systems and unique way of life and continue to participate in international agreements and organisations as a dependent territory for at least 50 years after retrocession.

Following a thorough restoration in 1984, the Palace became Queen Beatrix ’ s workplace and office for all political and stately affairs that she needs to work on.

Derek Bell, a 5-time Le Mans winner, drove the 962 to 21 victories between 1984 and 1987, remarked that it was " a fabulous car, but considering how thorough ( Norbert ) Singer ( the designer of the 962 and head of Porsche's motorsport division at the time ) and the team were, it was really quite easy to drive.

* 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.