* 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.

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

After the death of his second wife in 1984, he married a third time, in 1985 to Iris Hilda Waters ( d. 1994 ) and moved to the Isle of Man.

" Two Tribes " is the second single by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in the UK by ZTT Records in May 1984 ( see 1984 in music ).

Lineker made his England debut in 1984 and over the following eight years earned 80 caps and scored 48 goals, finishing as England's all-time second highest scorer behind Bobby Charlton.

The team made its first European appearance in 1983 – 1984 in the UEFA Cup and were knocked out in the second round of the tournament by Sturm Graz.

* 1984 – Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.

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.

* The second scene in the 1984 film Ghostbusters has Dr. Venkman shocking a human test subject during an Extrasensory perception experiment.

The second revision of the ANSI standard for MUMPS ( X11. 1-1984 ) was approved on November 15, 1984.

It was only at the second round of the competition in August 1984, when full-scale clay models were presented, that the Duo 101 won the competition and was selected as the basis for Mazda's new lightweight sports car.

The Itaipú Dam, completed in 1984, has the world ’ s second largest power-generating capacity: 13. 3 gigawatts.

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

Redstockings co-founder Ellen Willis wrote in 1984 that radical feminism " got sexual politics recognized as a public issue ", " created the vocabulary … with which the second wave of feminism entered popular culture ", " sparked the drive to legalize abortion ", " were the first to demand total equality in the so-called private sphere " (" housework and child care ,… emotional and sexual needs "), and " created the atmosphere of urgency " that almost led to the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

The first stage was between 1972 and 1973 ; the second stage was P ' yongyang's delivery of relief goods to South Korea after a typhoon caused devastating floods in 1984 ; and the third stage was the exchange of home visits and performing artists in 1985.

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

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra November 4, 1984 ' won getting the 67. 20 % of the valid votes cast 735. 067 votes equivalent to well above the second party of the Democratic Conservative Party ( PCD ) who just won 154. 127 corresponding to a 14. 00 % of the valid votes.

* Canadian hockey player Wayne Gretzky's rise to fame in the NHL would coincide with the Edmonton Oilers ' first 4 Stanley Cup championships ( 1984, 1985, 1987, & 1988 ) and becoming the second NHL dynasty team of the 1980s.

The second World Championships were played in 1984, and since then have been held biennially in August.

In 1984, the company published Ring's second book, Heading Toward Omega.

" In 1984, she had a second operation for cancer, when a lump was removed from her breast, and a second gastric obstruction in 1986 cleared without the need for an operation, but she was hospitalised overnight.

Both were published in 1984, the year of Foucault's death, with the second volume being translated in 1985, and the third in 1986.

The program began as the Advanced Operational Studies Fellowship ( AOSF ) in 1984 as an AMSP " companion program " by diverting lieutenant colonel War College selectees to Fort Leavenworth for an equivalent education program — then remaining for a second year to help instruct AMSP students.

His second marriage, from 1983 to 1984, was to actress and author Carrie Fisher to whom he proposed after a New York Yankees game.