* Jennings Michael Burch-Spent his childhood going through multiple foster homes and wrote the 1984 best selling novel They Cage the Animals at Night which is a memoir of that period of his life.

In 1984, four Berkeley students — Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle, and Songnian Zhou — wrote the first Unix implementation, called The Berkeley Internet Name Domain ( BIND ) Server.

The novelist Compton Mackenzie lived on Barra and George Orwell wrote 1984 whilst living on Jura.

In 1984, Mark Peterson wrote The Realm of Angmar, beginning as a clone of Scepter of Goth.

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.

In the autumn of 1984, Twain's talents were noticed by Toronto DJ Stan Campbell who wrote about her in a Country Music News article: " Eilleen possesses a powerful voice with an impressive range.

In 1984, Joseph Ben-David wrote:

Simon Reynolds wrote in his book Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978 – 1984 that " The Residents and their ' representatives ' were one and the same ", elaborating on one of his blogs that " this was something that anybody who had any direct dealings with Ralph figured out sooner rather than later.

* 1984: British Pop impresario Malcolm McLaren wrote and performed a UK hit single, " Madame Butterfly ( Un bel dì vedremo )", produced by Stephen Hague, based on the opera and featuring the famous aria.

Sister and brother wrote very different memoirs about Bloomsbury, Angelica ’ s being Deceived by Kindness ( 1984 ) and Quentin ’ s Elders and Betters ( 1995 ).

He wrote a spec script in 1984 and sent it directly to Filmation.

Coincidentally Ernst wrote a Happy New Year-message for Popfoto-magazine in which he expressed hope for a better outcome of 1984 than predicted in the book he once read.

Aykroyd originally wrote the role of Dr. Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters ( 1984 ) with Belushi in mind, but rewrote the part for Bill Murray after Belushi died.

Pertwee wrote two autobiographies: Moon Boots and Dinner Suits ( published in 1984 ), which primarily covers his life and career prior to Doctor Who, and the posthumously published Doctor Who: I Am the Doctor – Jon Pertwee ’ s Final Memoir ( published in 1996 by Virgin Publishing Ltd and co-written with David J. Howe ), which covered his life during and after the series.

Warren M. Bodie, journalist, historian, and Skunk Works engineer from 1977 to 1984, wrote that engineering independence, elitism and secrecy of the Skunk Works variety was demonstrated earlier when Lockheed was asked by Lieutenant Benjamin S. Kelsey ( later Brigadier General, USAF ) to build for the United States Army Air Corps a high speed, high altitude fighter to compete with German aircraft.

" These pseudonyms include: Jamie Starr and The Starr Company ( for the songs he wrote for The Time and many other artists from 1981 – 1984 ), Joey Coco ( for many unreleased Prince songs in the late 1980s, as well as songs written for Sheena Easton & Kenny Rogers ), Paisley Park ( occasionally used in the early 1990s for his production credits on songs, including those written for Martika and Kid Creole ), Alexander Nevermind ( for writing the 1984 song " Sugar Walls " by Sheena Easton ), and Christopher ( used for his song writing credit of " Manic Monday " for The Bangles ).

Stockdale wrote in his 1984 book Love and War: " had the best seat in the house to watch that event, and our destroyers were just shooting at phantom targets — there were no PT boats there ...

Attwood also wrote an original novel called Afterlife, which is set after the final episode and was published by Target in 1984.

The German company StarDivision in Lüneburg ( founded by 16-year-old Marco Börries in 1984 ) wrote the original components of StarOffice.

Kelly wrote the book Fighting for Hope in 1984, published by South End Press.

Maggin wrote Superman # 400 ( Oct. 1984 ) which featured work by several popular comics artists including the only major DC work by Jim Steranko as well as an introduction by noted science-fiction author Ray Bradbury.

Upon the release of the 2010 remake, Dana Stevens wrote, " The 1984 original ... may have seemed like a standard-issue inspirational sports picture at the time, but ( as with another box-office hit of the same year, The Terminator ) a generation of remove reveals what a well-crafted movie it actually was.

In his 1984 High Court judgment, which considered many aspects of Scientology, Justice Latey wrote that " many examples disconnection have been given and proved in evidence.

His Esquisse d ' un programme ( 1984 ) is a proposal for a position at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, which he held from 1984 to his retirement in 1988.

In 1984, a proposal for a $ 150 million domed stadium was defeated in a referendum 2 – 1.

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

The Tribunal Constitucional of Spain rejected the Leonese proposal in 1984, and León was joined with Castile to create the " Castile and León Autonomous Community ", supported by only 4 % of the Leonese municipalities.

In July 1984 the City Council voted down the proposal citing financial concerns.

At a 1990 meeting, " the Committee welcomed the Canadian proposal to include, in the Rocky Mountains Parks site, Mount Robson, Hamber and Assiniboine Provincial Parks, following its request at its Eighth Session in 1984.

In November 1984, voters in West Hollywood passed a proposal on the ballot to incorporate and the area became an independent city.

When disagreement became increasingly a matter of public knowledge, and the 1984 general election drew closer, the party ’ s deputy leader Geoffrey Palmer drafted a compromise proposal that combined elements of both sides of the argument.

After the national government voiced its displeasure with the Kobe proposal, Kobe officially switched its support to the Kansai Airport proposal in 1984, but in 1985 decided to independently fund the construction of another airport.

In 1984 the government of Premier William Davis extended full funding to include the last three ( Grades 11 – 13 ( OAC )) years of Roman Catholic secondary schools after having rejected that proposal fifteen years earlier.

Shortly before he became Agong in April 1984, Sultan Iskandar issued a proposal for the Orang Aslis to be referred to as the " Bumiputera Asli " ( literally, Original Sons of the Soil ).

On 12 September 1984, answering a Question without Notice in the House of Representatives, he described the proposal as grandiose, likening it to another proposal to build a canal through the centre of Australia.

In 1984, Lazaridis responded to a request for proposal from General Motors to develop a network computer control display system.

By 1984 he had contests running in over 20 cities and after submitting a show proposal went to work for Dick Clark Productions as consulting producer for the TV series Puttin ' on the Hits.

He worked with Altiero Spinelli MEP on the latter's proposal for a draft treaty establishing a European Union, adopted by the European Parliament in 1984.

The proposal was abandoned in 1984 due to environmentalist opposition.

In 1984, when a delegate of the Republican platform committee asked unanimous consent to change a platform amendment to read the Democrat Party instead of Democratic Party, Representative Jack Kemp objected, saying that would be " an insult to our Democratic friends " and the committee dropped the proposal.

The proposal was put to a referendum in the Australian referendum, 1984.

Constitution Alteration ( Interchange of Powers ) 1984 proposal would have removed these barriers, such that the states and the federal government could freely interchange powers at will.

The proposal was put to a referendum in the Australian referendum, 1984.

After opposition to her proposal developed among legislators during the 1984 biennial legislative session, Collins revised the tax package, retaining the corporate licensing tax increase, but replacing the sales tax and income tax modifications with a flat five percent personal income tax and phasing out the deductions for depreciation that corporations could claim on their state taxes.