One of the earliest was Paul Prudhomme, who in 1984 began the introduction of his influential cookbook, Paul Prodhomme's Louisiana Kitchen, by describing the over 200 year history of Creole and Cajun cooking ; he aims to " preserve and expand the Louisiana tradition.

In May 1984 Sakharov's wife, Yelena Bonner, was detained and Sakharov began a hunger strike, demanding permission for his wife to travel to the United States for heart surgery.

The archipelago is subject to cyclical droughts ; a devastating drought began in 1968 and was broken only briefly in 1975, 1978, 1984, and 1986.

In 1984, when the first women began to be ordained to the office of evangelist – patriarch, the RLDS Church changed the title of the local Evangelist – Patriarchs to simply " evangelist ".

Software development for the GNU operating system began in January 1984, and the Free Software Foundation ( FSF ) was founded in October 1985.

Lineker began his football career at Leicester City and became known as a prolific goalscorer ; despite failing to score in his first ten games, he finished as the First Division's joint top goalscorer in 1984 – 85 and earned his first England cap.

The thermoregulatory hypothesis ( first proposed by Darwin in 1871 and later developed by Dr. Peter Wheeler, 1984, 1985 ) suggests that a need for decreased body hair originated as a response to climate change that began approximately 3 million years ago.

* AM General Hummer H1 Assembly Plant, Mishawaka, Indiana – opened 1984 to build HMMWV ( HUMVEE ) and began production of the Hummer / H1 in 1992.

Later in 1984, while filming Breakin ', Marrow met Darlene Ortiz, who had been at the club in which the film was being shot, and the two began a relationship ; Ortiz was featured on the covers of Rhyme Pays and Power.

He made the organization's first public announcement in 1984, and began the membership sign-up at the first WinterStar Symposium in 1984.

The Police Academy movies that began in 1984 are frequently considered a modern day version of the Keystone Kops.

After graduation he began work on the very stylized crime drama, The Element of Crime ( Forbrydelsens element 1984 ), which won a technical award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Aeroplan began in 1984 as Air Canada ’ s frequent flier program, but since 2008 has been owned by Groupe Aeroplan Inc. and operates as a more widely based coalition program.

This began to change in 1983 ; in 1984 Mozambique joined the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

Trudeau began the night of his famous ' walk in the snow ' before announcing his retirement in 1984 by going to Judo with his sons.

Work on the CD-i began in 1984 and it was first publicly announced in 1986.

His talk show began in 1984 at Sacramento radio station KFBK, featuring his ongoing format of political commentary and listener calls.

Neil Peart began incorporating Simmons Drums | Simmons Electronic Drums beginning with Grace Under Pressure ( 1984 )

The Prince Andrew began his relationship with St Helena in 1984 with a visit to the island as a member of the armed forces.

The 1984 season began with a shock: its owner, Ray Kroc, died of heart disease on January 14.

Shooting began on 28 March 1984 and ended in May of that year.

After the Baht devaluation in 1984 and the Plaza Accord in 1985, although the Government sector continued to be in trouble in the first stage due to several fiscal constraints, the Thai private sector began to soar.

The political movement that began in 1984 as the decentralized Committees of Correspondence ( GCoC ) evolved into a more centralized structure by 1990, opening a national clearinghouse, and forming governing bodies, bylaws, and a platform under the name The Green Committees of Correspondence ( GCoC ) and by 1990, simply, The Greens.

The prototypical multiuser environment along these lines, Unix, began to support fully graphical X terminals, i. e., devices running X server software, from about 1984.

Enya recorded two solo instrumental pieces called " An Ghaoth Ón Ghrian " ( Irish for " The Solar Wind ") and " Miss Clare Remembers " that were released on the 1984 album Touch Travel.

Some major works composed during this period include Wavemaker ( 1977 ), Phrygian Gates for solo piano ( 1977 ), Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), Common Tones in Simple Time ( 1979 ), Harmonium ( 1980 – 81 ), Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ), Light Over Water ( 1983 ), Harmonielehre ( 1984 – 85 ), The Chairman Dances ( 1985 ), Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), and Nixon in China ( 1985 – 87 ).

Medley also had solo success: In 1984, he scored country hits with " Till Your Memory's Gone " and " I Still Do " ( which crossed over to the adult contemporary charts and later became a " cult " hit with the Carolina Beach / Shag dance club circuit ); and in late 1987, his duet with Jennifer Warnes — "( I've Had ) The Time of My Life ", which appeared on the soundtrack for Dirty Dancing — topped the Billboard Hot 100 and won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for a Motion Picture ( for the three songwriters, which did not include Medley ) as well as a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals ( which, of course, did ).

From 1984 through 1992, the Summer Olympic Games featured solo and duet competitions, but they both were dropped in 1996 in favor of team competition.

* 1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.

In 1984, Christine decided to record another solo album.

After the Synchronicity tour ended in March 1984, the band went on hiatus while Sting recorded and toured in support of his successful solo debut LP, the jazz-influenced The Dream of the Blue Turtles, released in June 1985, Copeland recorded and filmed The Rhythmatist ( 1985 ) and Summers recorded another album with Robert Fripp ( Bewitched, 1984 ) and the theme song for the film 2010.

Chayanne became a solo artist and released his first album in 1984.

Dennis DeYoung, former lead singer of the popular 1970s rock group Styx, filmed the music video for Desert Moon, also the title of his first solo album, at the Santa Paula train depot in 1984.

Worrell also co-produced Fred Schneider's 1984 solo album Fred Schneider & the Shake Society, and played keyboards and synthesizers on some of the album's tracks.

Swedish virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen made a name for himself in 1984 by playing in the popular band Alcatrazz, and then by releasing his debut solo album Rising Force later that year, which made it to # 60 on the Billboard Charts.

Hamm played bass on Vai's debut solo album, Flex-Able, which was released in 1984.

In 1984 he published a major collection of organ pieces, Livre du Saint Sacrement ; other works include birdsong pieces for solo piano, and works for piano with orchestra.

Dan Peek emerged from several years of musical obscurity during May 1984, releasing his second solo Christian album, Doer of the Word, on Home Sweet Home Records.

In 1984, he released his fourth solo album Secret Agent ( reached # 97 in the US, # 31 in Germany and # 20 in Switzerland ) The album's lead single " Boys Do Fall in Love " did reach the Billboard Magazine top 40 list of hits, the song reached # 70 in the UK, # 7 in South Africa and # 10 in Italy.

Dennis DeYoung and Tommy Shaw released a string of solo albums, beginning with DeYoung's Desert Moon and Shaw's Girls with Guns in 1984.

Cope recorded three solo albums during his Tamworth years, World Shut Your Mouth ( 1984 ), Fried ( 1984 ) and Saint Julian ( 1987 ), and all three used various locations around Tamworth for their sleeve art and several videos.

The first release was officially a Danny Elfman solo record in 1984 ( titled So-Lo ); it was actually a group effort released under Elfman's name.

In 1984, Pettis released his first independent solo album, Moments.

The band recorded Moving in 1984 and began work on solo projects shortly after the release of this album.

After his collaborations with Sakamoto, Sylvian's first solo album Brilliant Trees would reach the UK Top 5 in 1984 ( higher than any of Japan's albums had reached ).

In August 1983, Irving Azoff signed Barry to the MCA Records for North America, Gibb was signed for a few million dollars to a multi-album deal, but in the end the MCA released only one album called Now Voyager, released in 1984 ( His third solo album Moonlight Madness was rejected by MCA ) The first single released on the album " Shine, Shine " it reached No. 34 in the US and reached No. 10 in the US Adult Contemporary Charts, the second single " Fine Line " did not chart in US or UK.

His solo performance, " I Should Have Known Better ", was a United Kingdom number one in 1984.