The game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals in particular was cited for putting Ryne Sandberg ( as well as the 1984 Cubs in general, who would go on to make their first postseason appearance since 1945 ) " on the map.

However, although Gorbachev acted as a deputy to the general secretary throughout Andropov's illness, Gorbachev's time had not yet arrived when his patron died early in 1984.

* 1892 – Maximilian Fretter-Pico, German general ( d. 1984 )

* 1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

This method ( and the general idea of an FFT ) was popularized by a publication of J. W. Cooley and J. W. Tukey in 1965, but it was later discovered ( Heideman & Burrus, 1984 ) that those two authors had independently re-invented an algorithm known to Carl Friedrich Gauss around 1805 ( and subsequently rediscovered several times in limited forms ).

At the Central Committee plenary session on 13 February 1984, four days after Andropov's death, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Premier, and Politburo member Nikolai Tikhonov moved that Chernenko be elected general secretary, and the Committee duly voted him in.

As a result, Labour had moved ahead of the Tories in the opinion polls, and in the aftermath of Foot's election as leader opinion polls showed a double-digit lead for Labour, boosting his hopes of becoming prime minister by the time of the next general election, which had to be held by May 1984.

* Nicaraguan general election, 1984 ( US media coverage of these is the subject of Chapter 3 )

Paul Atreides is a Mentat duke ( and later emperor ) in Dune, and in Heretics of Dune ( 1984 ) and Chapterhouse: Dune ( 1985 ), Miles Teg is a Mentat bashar ( or general ) and the most formidable military commander in the known universe.

Despite acquiring an increasing percentage of the popular vote — 34 % overall in 2006 — opposition parties gained small numbers of seats in the general elections of 1984 ( 2 seats of 79 ), 1988 ( 1 seat of 81 ), 1991 ( 4 seats of 81 ), 1997 ( 2 seats of 83 ) and 2001 ( 2 seats of 84 ).

* May 1 – Mark W. Clark, American general ( d. 1984 )

The ALP won renewed mandates in the general elections in 1984 and 1989.

" While frequently left undefined ( Pollitt, 2005 ), decentralization has also been assigned many different meanings ( Reichard & Borgonovi, 2007 ), varying across countries ( Steffensen & Trollegaard, 2000 ; Pollitt, 2005 ), languages ( Ouedraogo, 2003 ), general contexts ( Conyers, 1984 ), fields of research, and specific scholars and studies.

In 1984 Jorge Vargas, the secretary general of the Union Nacionalista de Chile ( UNACH, Nationalist Union of Chile, a short-lived National Socialist party ) and a former member of the Movimiento Revolucionario Nacional Sindicalista ( National-Syndicalist Revolutionary Movement ), declared to La Tercera de la Hora that Gelli was then in Chile.

* 1984: " Look to us for good things " ( general ) / " Good to Know " ( news and public affairs )

She was in 1984 appointed as governor general by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, to replace Edward Richard Schreyer as vicereine, and she occupied the post until succeeded by Ray Hnatyshyn in 1990.

Sauvé was on May 14, 1984, sworn in as governor general in a ceremony in the Senate chamber, during which Trudeau said: " It is right and proper that Her Majesty should finally have a woman representative here ," though stressing that the Queen had not appointed Sauvé simply because she was a woman.

From 1984 to 1986, USA began moving away from sports programming and began focusing on general entertainment programming not found on broadcast stations including some less common network drama shows and cartoons.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs ( SICP ) is a textbook published in 1984 about general computer programming concepts from MIT Press written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) professors Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, with Julie Sussman.

In 1984, for example, he received 84 % of the general vote in his candidacy for Senator.

A five song pop-rock EP entitled simply Stonehill was also recorded in 1984 with producer Kaye, with the intent of promoting Stonehill to the general music market, but very few copies were released.

Narayanan entered politics at the request of Indira Gandhi and won three successive general elections to the Lok Sabha in 1984, 1989, and 1991, as a representative of the Ottapalam constituency in Palakkad, Kerala, on an Congress ticket.

The communities of Edgemont, Sunnymead, and Moreno were incorporated on December 3, 1984 to form the general law city of Moreno Valley.

In the 1984 expose entitled, " Behind the Death Squads: An exclusive report on the U. S. role in El Salvador's official terror ", award winning investigative journalist, Allan Nairn reported that the CIA routinely supplied ANSESAL, the security forces ( National Guard, National Police, Treasury Police ), and the general staff with electronic, photographic, and personal surveillance of suspected dissidents and Salvadorans abroad who were later assassinated by death squads ; and trained Salvadoran intelligence operatives in the use of investigative techniques which included, according to a former Treasury Police agent, " instruction in methods of physical and psychological torture.

During the tenure of Mayor Steven Randall ( 1984 – 90 ) major projects were initiated and completed including rebuilding the Kensington pool ; new street lighting, storm drainage ; road resurfacing and a general facelift.

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

; 1984-USA-Rajneeshee bioterror attack: In Oregon in 1984, followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh attempted to control a local election by incapacitating the local population.

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.

These include the 1979 energy crisis, the election of Ronald Reagan, the 1984 Summer Olympics, the Chernobyl disaster, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the Baby Jessica rescue, Black Monday, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the election of George H. W.

General Mejía allowed a managed return to democracy in Guatemala, starting with a July 1, 1984 election for a Constituent Assembly to draft a democratic constitution.

The Sandinistas were victorious in the national election of November 4, 1984, gathering 67 % of the vote.

During the 1984 election campaign, Hawke had promised a policy paper on taxation reform to be discussed with all stakeholders at a tax summit.

In 1984 another common Socialist election manifesto was approved at a congress in Luxembourg.

Similarly, John Turner replaced Pierre Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party in 1984 and subsequently was appointed prime minister even though he did not hold a seat in the lower chamber of parliament ; Turner won a riding in the next election but the Liberal Party was swept from power.

He would hold this seat until his retirement from politics in 1984, winning each election with large majorities.

Rajiv Gandhi led the Congress to a major election victory in 1984 soon after, amassing the largest majority ever seen in the Indian Parliament, the Congress party winning 411 seats out of 542.

Since the 1984 election, politics in St. Vincent have been dominated by the NDP.

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.

* November 6 – United States presidential election, 1984: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59 % of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61 % victory in 1972.

Roosevelt also won the largest number of electoral votes ever recorded at that time, so far only surpassed by Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election, when 7 more electoral votes were available.

* Campaign commercials from the 1984 election

* How close was the 1984 election?

simple: United States presidential election, 1984

He was the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in the United States presidential election of 1984.

Hollings unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the presidential election of 1984.

However, the Liberals went on to win several subsequent by-elections during the life of the resulting Parliament, until the Liberals had held the majority of Quebec's seats in the Commons for the first time since the 1984 federal election.