Astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a Manned Maneuvering Unit outside the United States Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Challenger | Challenger in 1984.

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.

Brunei joined the United Nations in September 1984.

The U. S. welcomed Brunei Darussalam's full independence from the United Kingdom on January 1, 1984, and opened an embassy in Bandar Seri Begawan on that date.

* Bell System, the organization that provided telephone service in the United States until 1984

* In 2002, Edwina Currie revealed that she had had an affair, beginning in 1984, with John Major before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

In an attempt to address this, the Government entered into the Narcotics Agreement of 1984 and the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty of 1986 with the United States, in order to reduce the use of their facilities associated with these activities.

In 1984, Ronald Reagan hosted the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher.

In 1984, the Sandinista government filed a suit in the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) against the United States ( Nicaragua v. United States ), which resulted in a 1986 judgment against the United States.

" Earlier, in December 1984, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs had issued a report condemning the Contras and the United States government as being among the worst human rights violators in Latin America: " The CIA directed forces are among the worst human rights violators in Latin America, responsible for systematic brutality against a civilian population.

The Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, retaliating for the United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Fighting in Afghanistan also intensified, but in the late autumn of 1984 the United States and the Soviet Union did agree to resume arms control talks in early 1985.

In the 1970s and 1980s, agricultural use was banned in most developed countries, beginning with Hungary in 1968 then in Norway and Sweden in 1970, Germany and the United States in 1972, but not in the United Kingdom until 1984.

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.

An example of a Court's treatment of frivolous arguments is found in the case of Crain v. Commissioner, 737 F. 2d 1417 ( 1984 ), from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit:

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.

In 1984, he was appointed as a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour ( CH ) by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom on the advice of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for his " services to the study of economics.

After the invasion, United States gave $ 48. 4 million in economic assistance to Grenada in 1984.

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.

IKEA further expanded in the 1980s, opening stores in France & Spain ( 1981 ), Belgium ( 1984 ), the United States ( 1985 ), the United Kingdom ( 1987 ) and Italy ( 1989 ) among other areas.

In 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the case of Dirks v. SEC that tippees ( receivers of second-hand information ) are liable if they had reason to believe that the tipper had breached a fiduciary duty in disclosing confidential information and the tipper received any personal benefit from the disclosure.

* 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.

* 1984 – The United States and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.

Remaining in Washington, his next assignment was as the Marine Corps liaison officer to the United States Senate, where he served until July 1984.

On 8 May 1984, under Chernenko's leadership, the USSR announced its intention not to participate, citing security concerns and " chauvinistic sentiments and an anti-Soviet hysteria being whipped up in the United States ",.

* 1984, United States, Ace Books ISBN 0-441-35854-3, Pub date 1984, paperback

British sociologist Eileen Barker titled her 1984 book, which was based on seven years of first-person study of members of the Unification Church in the United States and Great Britain and has been influential in the field of the sociology of religion, The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing ?.

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.

The Kidderminster & District League has operated since 1984 and draws teams from Worcestershire and South Staffordshire.

Much of the central section of Oakland is part of the Oakland Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Mujahideen with two captured artillery field guns in Jaji District | Jaji, 1984.

Cambios success hinged largely on the success of its candidate for the presidency, Alberto Fujimori, an agricultural engineer and rector of the Universidad Nacional Agraria ( National Agrarian University ) in Lima's La Molina District from 1984 to 1989.

File: Railroad Avenue Historic District Opelika Alabama. JPG | The Railroad Avenue Historic Distric was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

File: Northside Historic District Opelika Alabama. JPG | The Northside Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

The Main Street Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 12, 1984.

Some public services in the Community of Pajaro are provided by the Pajaro-Sunny Mesa Community Services District ( PSMCSD ) which was organized by the Monterey County Board of Supervisors in 1984.

Many historic homes are preserved in Ocala's large residential Historic District, established in 1984.

* Joseph D. Helton Jr Monroe, Georgia, 1st Lieutenant, Officer, Killed in action, Iraq, ( b. September 30, 1984, d. September 8, 2009 ), 732d Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Detachment 2 flight commander ( police officer ) Police Transition Mission, 6th Security Forces Squadron, MacDill Air Force Base Florida ( Tampa ) action: ( IED detonation ; near FOB FALCON, Mahmudiyah District of Baghdad, on September 8th )

In 1984, the settled areas of the city were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district, the " Placerville Historic District.

* Ernest Wooton, District 105 state representative ( 1999 – 2012 ), Plaquemines Parish sheriff ( 1984 – 1992 )

* Betterton Historic District, Kent County, including photo dated 1984, at Maryland Historical Trust

Michael Bray was co-pastor at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Bowie when he conspired to bomb 10 clinics and offices of abortion supporters in three states and the District of Columbia from January 1984 through January 1985.

The Cincinnatus Historic District, consisting of 14 properties, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

The Boiling Springs Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

The Goldsboro Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

The Railroad Borough Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

The Shrewsbury Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

The Spring Grove Borough Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

* John Hall Buchanan, Jr. — Representative of Alabama's 6th Congressional District, U. S. House of Representatives 1965-1981, Member of the United States delegation to the United Nations 1973 and 1984, Member of the United States delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Committee 1978-1980

The Grafton Downtown Commercial Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and the Grafton National Cemetery was listed in 1982.

The Mount Airy Historic District that includes the railroad station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.