1984 Israeli legislative election
Legislative elections were held in Israel on 23 July 1984 to elect the eleventh Knesset. Voter turnout was 78.8%. The results saw the Alignment return to being the largest party in the Knesset, a status it had lost in 1977. However, the party could not form a government with any of the smaller parties, resulting in a national unity government with Likud, with both party leaders, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir, holding the post of Prime Minister for two years each.


1984 Israeli legislative election, Parliamentary factions
The table below lists the parliamentary factions represented in the 10th Knesset.


1984 Israeli legislative election, The Eleventh Knesset
Due to the stalemate produced by the elections, it was decided to form a national unity government, with the Alignment and Likud holding the leadership for two years each. The Alignment's Shimon Peres formed the twenty-first government on 13 September 1984. Alongside the Alignment and Likud, the coalition government included the National Religious Party, Agudat Yisrael, Shas, Morasha, Shinui and Ometz. Outside national unity governments formed during wartime (notably the government formed during the Six-Day War in the term of the sixth Knesset, which had 111 MKs), it was the largest-ever coalition in Israeli political history, with 97 MKs.


1984 Israeli legislative election, The Eleventh Knesset
In accordance with the rotation agreement, Peres resigned in 1986 and Likud's Yitzhak Shamir formed the twenty-second government on 20 October 1986. Shinui left the coalition on 26 May 1987.


1984 Israeli legislative election, The Eleventh Knesset
The eleventh Knesset also contained two controversial parties, Kach and the Progressive List for Peace (PLFP). Kach was a far-right party that advocated the expulsion of most Israeli Arabs, and although it had run in previous elections, it had not passed the electoral threshold. Ultimately the party was banned after a law was passed barring parties that incited racism. The attempts made to stop Kach from competing in the next elections also affected the PLFP, as the addition of section 7a to the Basic Law dealing with the Knesset ("Prevention of Participation of Candidates List") included the banning of parties that denied Israel's existence as a Jewish state:


1984 Israeli legislative election, The Eleventh Knesset
On this basis, the Central Elections Committee initially banned the PLFP from running for the 1988 elections, arguing that its policies promoted the scrapping of Israel as a Jewish state. However, the decision was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court of Israel, and the party was able to compete in the elections, winning one seat.


1984 Israeli legislative election, The Eleventh Knesset
Nevertheless, the law was not overturned, the Supreme Court merely deciding it was impossible to determine if "the real, central and active purpose [of the PFLP] is to bring about the elimination of the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people", and attempts were made to ban the Israeli Arab parties Balad and Ta'al using the same law prior to the 2003 elections.


1984 Israeli legislative election, The Eleventh Knesset
During the Knesset term eight MKs left the Alignment; five to establish Mapam (one of which, Muhammed Wattad, later defected from Mapam to Hadash), Abdulwahab Darawshe to establish the Arab Democratic Party, Yossi Sarid defected to Ratz and Yitzhak Artzi to Shinui. The Alignment also gained three MKs when Yahad merged into it.


1984 Israeli legislative election, The Eleventh Knesset
Ometz and Tami merged into Likud. Mordechai Virshubski defected from Shinui to Ratz. Rafi Etain broke away from Tehiya to establish Tzomet. Haim Drukman defected from Morasha to the National Religious Party. Shimon Ben-Shlomo broke away from Shas to sit as an independent.


1984 Italian Athletics Championships
The 1984 Italian Athletics Championships was the 74th edition of the Italian Athletics Championships and were held in Rome (track & field events).


1984 Italian Formula Three Championship
The 1984 Italian Formula Three Championship was the 21st Italian Formula Three Championship. It began on 25 March at Vallelunga and ended on 28 October at Misano after twelve races. The championship was won by the Alessandro Santin from Coloni, who drove a Ralt RT3/83-Alfa Romeo and a RT3/84-Alfa Romeo.


1984 Italian Grand Prix
The 1984 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 9 September 1984. It was the fourteenth race of the 1984 Formula One World Championship.


1984 Italian Grand Prix
The 51-lap race was won by Austrian Niki Lauda, driving a McLaren-TAG, with local drivers Michele Alboreto and Riccardo Patrese second and third in a Ferrari and an Alfa Romeo respectively. With teammate Alain Prost retiring, Lauda opened up a 10.5-point lead over the Frenchman in the Drivers' Championship with two races remaining.


1984 Italian Grand Prix, Pre-race
In the fortnight between the Dutch and Italian Grands Prix, the FIA Court of Appeal upheld the exclusion of the Tyrrell team from the championship for alleged technical infringements, and the team were duly banned from the final three races of the season. The Italian Grand Prix would thus be the first all-turbo Formula One race in history.


1984 Italian Grand Prix, Pre-race
Meanwhile, the Toleman team had suspended Ayrton Senna for not informing them of his signing for Lotus for 1985 before the deal was announced at Zandvoort. Stefan Johansson, out of a drive as a result of Tyrrell's ban, was drafted in to replace the Brazilian at Monza; he would be joined by newcomer Pierluigi Martini.


1984 Italian Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying report
Nelson Piquet took his seventh pole position of the season in his Brabham, with Alain Prost alongside him on the front row in his McLaren. The second row was made up of Elio de Angelis in the Lotus and Niki Lauda in the second McLaren, while the third row consisted of Teo Fabi in the second Brabham and Keke Rosberg in the Williams. The second Lotus of Nigel Mansell, the Renault of Patrick Tambay and the two Alfa Romeos of Riccardo Patrese and Eddie Cheever completed the top ten. Johansson was 17th in the Toleman while Martini, unfamiliar with the car, came 27th and last and thus failed to qualify.


1984 Italian Grand Prix, Race, Race report
Manfred Winkelhock, who had qualified 21st in his ATS, suffered a gearbox failure on the formation lap for the second time in three races. Frustrated, he subsequently quit the team.


1984 Italian Grand Prix, Race, Race report
At the start, de Angelis passed Prost and Piquet, though the Brabham driver retook the lead into the first chicane. Tambay also made a fast start to run fourth, while Lauda fell to seventh behind Mansell and Fabi. While Piquet set about building a lead, Prost and Tambay overtook de Angelis, only for Prost's engine to fail on the fourth lap. In the meantime, Fabi and Lauda passed both Lotuses, and were thus up to third and fourth.


1984 Italian Grand Prix, Race, Race report
On lap 8, Fabi spun at the Roggia chicane, dropping to eighth; a charge put him back up to fourth by lap 12. By this point, Michele Alboreto in the Ferrari had also passed both Lotuses and was now fifth. While this was going on, a high attrition rate was building: the second Ferrari of René Arnoux suffered a gearbox failure on lap 6, while the two Ligiers of Andrea de Cesaris and François Hesnault dropped out on lap 8, followed shortly afterwards by the two Williams of Rosberg and Jacques Laffite. By lap 15 the two Lotuses had also retired, Mansell spinning off and de Angelis' gearbox failing.


1984 Italian Grand Prix, Race, Race report
Piquet continued to lead from Tambay, both clear of Lauda. On lap 16, Piquet's engine failed; at around the same time Fabi, continuing his charge, overtook Lauda to run second. Fabi then started to catch up to Tambay and by half-distance was on the Renault's tail, with Lauda keeping close behind; all three were clear of Alboreto, with Derek Warwick in the second Renault up to fifth and Cheever sixth. On lap 32, Warwick suffered an oil pressure problem, moving Johansson into the top six.


1984 Italian Grand Prix, Race, Race report
On lap 40, Lauda overtook Fabi at the Parabolica, before passing Tambay for the lead at the Roggia three laps later. Then, on lap 44, Fabi and Tambay suffered engine and throttle failures respectively. This left Lauda with a lead of 20 seconds over Alboreto, with Cheever up to third followed by Johansson, Patrese and the Osella of Piercarlo Ghinzani. On lap 46 Cheever ran out of fuel, followed three laps later by Ghinzani; meanwhile, Patrese passed Johansson for third.


1984 Italian Grand Prix, Race, Race report
At the chequered flag, only Lauda and Alboreto were on the lead lap, with Patrese one lap behind Lauda and Johansson a further lap back. Completing the top six were Jo Gartner in the second Osella and Gerhard Berger in the second ATS, though neither driver would receive points as both their teams had officially entered only one car for the championship.


1984 Italian Grand Prix, Race, Race report
The win, Lauda's fifth of the season, put him 10.5 points clear of Prost at the top of the Drivers' Championship with two races remaining. In the Constructors' Championship, Alboreto's result enabled Ferrari to move ahead of Lotus into second behind McLaren.


1984 Italian Grand Prix, Race, Race classification
* Neither Gartner nor Berger were eligible for points, as they were driving the respective "second entries" of Osella and ATS and both teams had officially entered only one car for the entire championship.


1984 Italian Open (tennis)
The 1984 Italian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Italy that was part of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix and the 1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. The men's tournament was held in Rome while the women's tournament was held in Perugia from 21 May through 27 May 1984.


1984 Italian Open (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles
Ken Flach /  Robert Seguso defeated  John Alexander /  Mike Leach 3–6, 6–3, 6–4


1984 Italian Open (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles
Iva Budařová /  Helena Suková defeated  Kathleen Horvath /  Virginia Ruzici 7–6(7–5), 1–6, 6–4


1984 JSL Cup, Overview
It was contested by 20 teams, and Yanmar Diesel won the championship.


1984 JSL Cup Final
1984 JSL Cup Final was the 9th final of the JSL Cup competition. The final was played at Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium in Tokyo on April 15, 1984. Yanmar Diesel won the championship.


1984 JSL Cup Final, Overview
Defending champion Yanmar Diesel won their 3rd title, by defeating Toshiba 3–0. Yanmar Diesel won the title for 2 years in a row.


1984 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation
The 1984 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation (Chinese: 1984年度十大勁歌金曲頒獎典禮) was held on January 1985. It is part of the Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation series held in Hong Kong.


1984 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation, Top 10 song awards
The top 10 songs (十大勁歌金曲) of 1984 are as follows.


1984 James Hardie 1000
The 1984 James Hardie 1000 was the 25th running of the Bathurst 1000 touring car race. It was held on 30 September 1984 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia and was Round 4 of the 1984 Australian Endurance Championship. This race was celebrated as 'The Last of the Big Bangers', in reference to the Group C touring cars, which were competing at Bathurst for the last time.


1984 James Hardie 1000
The race was won by Peter Brock and Larry Perkins driving a Holden VK Commodore for the Holden Dealer Team, the third consecutive victory for Brock, Perkins and the HDT. It was the most dominant team performance for the HDT in the history of the race as the team claimed a 1-2 finish with John Harvey and David Parsons backing up their team leaders by finishing second. Third place was taken by the Mazda RX-7 of Allan Moffat and Gregg Hansford. Moffat privately disputed the Harvey/Parsons Commodore finishing second as it had spent almost 3 laps in the pits mid-race with a gearbox problem, but saw little value in protesting as it would not win him the race so decided to settle for third.


1984 James Hardie 1000
The race also saw the first appearance of the international Group A cars at Bathurst (the category had made its Australian debut in the Castrol 500 at Sandown 3 weeks earlier). The Group A class was won by the TWR Mobil Rover Vitesse V8 of race rookies Jeff Allam from England and Armin Hahne from West Germany who finished 12th outright. Second in class and 15th outright was the JPS Team BMW 635 CSi of 1967 Formula One World Champion Denny Hulme and Bavarian Prince Leopold von Bayern.


1984 James Hardie 1000
Third in Group A and 20th outright was the Barry Seton / Don Smith V8 Ford Mustang. For Seton, who had won the race outright in 1965, it would be his final start at Bathurst as he quietly retired from race driving at the end of 1984.


1984 James Hardie 1000
Dick Johnson Racing, who started 4th on the grid with their Group C Ford XE Falcon, also entered a Mustang in the Group A category and although 1984 Australian Touring Car Champion Dick Johnson qualified the underpowered car in 48th, it was only there as insurance should there be a repeat of 1983 where he destroyed his Falcon in a famous Hardies Heroes crash and the Mustang, which Johnson had purchased from the German Zakspeed team, was officially withdrawn the day before the race.


1984 James Hardie 1000, Class structure, Group C
This was the last Bathurst 1000 to include Group C Touring Cars, which had first contested the Bathurst 1000 in 1973. While a production based category, continual parity adjustments to keep the leading vehicles roughly at the same pace had seen the cars become wildly over-specified. That led to a decision by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) in mid-1983 that Australian touring car racing would abandon its locally developed Group C rules and would be run under regulations based on the FIA's international Group A rules from 1 January 1985.


1984 James Hardie 1000, Class structure, Group C
The major contenders in Group C were the V8-engined Ford Falcons and Holden Commodores, the lone V12 Jaguar XJ-S and 6 cylinder BMW 635 CSi, the rotary Mazda RX-7's, and the Nissan Bluebird turbos. Also running in Group C were the now outdated Chevrolet Camaro Z28s.


1984 James Hardie 1000, Class structure, Group C
It would be the final Bathurst appearance for the Bluebird turbo which would be replaced in Group A in 1986 by the Nissan Skyline DR30 RS. After the car made its debut in the inaugural 500-mile race at Phillip Island in 1960, it would be the final Bathurst 1000 for the Ford Falcon until 1992. The Commodore (in various models), Jaguar, BMW and Mazda all saw action during the Group A years in Australia (1985–1992).


1984 James Hardie 1000, Class structure, Group A
The international Group A formula was allowed to enter for the first time as a prelude to their adoption for Bathurst and the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1985.


1984 James Hardie 1000, Class structure, Group A
The Group A cars were closer to pure bred racing cars in concept (notably the allowing of the cars interior to be removed, as well as the cars having a lower ride height), but without the extensive performance modifications allowed for Group C. Without the performance upgrades, aerodynamic aids and larger tyres of the Group C cars, the Group A cars were much slower (the lead 3.5L V8 Rover Vitesse of Jeff Allam and Armin Hahne qualified 10 seconds slower than the pole time set by George Fury in the Nissan Bluebird turbo), and thus formed their own class.


1984 James Hardie 1000, Class structure, Group A
The low slung V8 Rovers did prove to be sensationally quick in a straight line though, with both cars being regularly recorded at over 240 km/h (149 mph) on Conrod Straight, putting them on par with many of the lower ranked privateer Commodore's, Falcons and RX-7's. The Rover's main Group A challenger would be the BMW 635 CSi run by JPS Team BMW.


1984 James Hardie 1000, Class structure, Group A
The other contenders in the Group A class included the Ford Mustang, Ford Capri Mk.III, Alfa Romeo GTV6, Toyota Sprinter AE86, Mitsubishi Starion, Audi 5+5, and Toyota Celica Supra.


1984 James Hardie 1000, Hardies Heroes
Conditions on Mount Panorama were bitterly cold for the 1984 edition of Hardies Heroes with snow having fallen at the top of the circuit early in the morning. This saw a number of cars, notably the lighter (980 kg (2,160 lb)) Mazda RX-7's struggle to get sufficient heat into their tyres.


1984 James Hardie 1000, Hardies Heroes
* Nissan scored the first ever Bathurst 1000 Pole Position by a car fitted with a turbocharger when George Fury recorded a time of 2:13.85 in his Nissan Bluebird Turbo. Fury's time in the runoff would not be beaten until 1991, ironically by another Nissan, the R32 GT-R. As it was the last year of Group C, Fury's time remains the fastest ever at Mt Panorama by a Group C touring car. Early morning snow on the mountain and the cold conditions were thought to favour the turbo over the V8 powered cars.


1984 James Hardie 1000, Hardies Heroes
Almost 20 years later Fred Gibson, who was by 1986 the Nissan team manager, confirmed that the Bluebirds had a turbo boost adjuster on the dashboard, used to tune boost pressure once track conditions were better understood in order to preserve the turbocharger. * It was the first time in the seven-year history of Hardies Heroes that a V8 powered car did not claim Pole Position at Bathurst, and the first time since qualifying first counted for grid positions in 1967 that a V8 had not been on pole.


1984 James Hardie 1000, Hardies Heroes
It would be the start of a run of 8 pole positions in 9 years for turbo powered cars at Bathurst and a V8 powered car would not sit on pole again at Bathurst until 1993. * The 1984 Hardies Heroes holds the Top 10 shootout record for the most number of marques competing with six with (in order) Nissan, Holden, Ford, Mazda, BMW and Jaguar represented. The record was equaled in both Super Touring races in 1997 and 1998.


1984 James Hardie 1000, Hardies Heroes
* Jaguar became the 7th marque to represent in Hardies Heroes, making the first of only two appearances in the top ten runoff with Bathurst rookie driver Tom Walkinshaw (a Bathurst rookie despite having already won the 1984 European Touring Car Championship) qualifying John Goss' V12 Jaguar XJ-S in 10th place. During qualifying the Jaguar (using one of TWR's more highly developed Group A engines) had been recorded at 290 km/h (180 mph) on Conrod Straight, the fastest ever by a Touring Car before the addition of Caltex Chase in 1987.


1984 James Hardie 1000, Hardies Heroes
The next fastest cars were Dick Johnson's V8 Ford XE Falcon at 285 km/h (177 mph) and Peter Brock's V8 Holden VK Commodore at 280 km/h (174 mph). * With three Mazda RX-7's in Hardies Heroes, 1984 was the only time Mazda had the greatest representation of cars in the Top Ten runoff. Not surprisingly the factory backed Peter Stuyvesant RX-7 of Allan Moffat was the quickest of the trio ending up 5th on the grid.


1984 James Madison Dukes football team
The 1984 James Madison Dukes football team was an American football team that represented James Madison University during the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season as an independent. In their thirteenth year under head coach Challace McMillin, the team compiled an 6–5 record.


1984 Japan Open Tennis Championships
The 1984 Japan Open Tennis Championships  was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Tokyo, Japan that was part of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix and the 1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. The tournament was held from 8 October through 14 October 1984. David Pate and Lilian Drescher won the singles titles.


1984 Japan Open Tennis Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles
David Dowlen /  Nduka Odizor defeated  Mark Dickson /  Steve Meister 6–7, 6–4, 6–3


1984 Japan Open Tennis Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles
Betsy Nagelsen /  Candy Reynolds defeated  Emilse Raponi-Longo /  Adriana Villagrán-Reami 6–3, 6–2


1984 Japan Series
The 1984 Japan Series was the 35th edition of Nippon Professional Baseball's postseason championship series. It matched the Central League champion Hiroshima Toyo Carp against the Pacific League champion Hankyu Braves. This was the fourth Japan Series appearance for the Carp, and the tenth appearance for the Braves. The Carp defeated the Braves in seven games to claim their third Japan Series championship.


1984 Japan Soccer League
Statistics of Japan Soccer League for the 1984 season. No promotion/relegation series for both division were held due to expansion of both divisions in the following season.


1984 Japan Soccer League, First Division
No relegation took place due to expansion to 12 clubs.


1984 Japan Soccer League, Second Division
No relegation took place due to expansion to 12 clubs.


1984 Japan national football team
This page records the details of the Japan national football team in 1984.


1984 Japan women's national football team
This page records the details of the Japan women's national football team in 1984.


1984 Japanese Super Cup
1984 Japanese Super Cup was the Japanese Super Cup competition. The match was played at National Stadium in Tokyo on March 25, 1984. Yomiuri won the championship.


1984 Japanese Super Cup
This was the last Super Cup contested as the Japan Soccer League switched to a fall-spring season, which ultimately culminated in the creation of the J.League as a professional league. A Super Cup was not contested until 1994, after the first J.League season was completed and a spring-fall Japanese champion was again declared.


1984 Jingili by-election
A by-election for the seat of Jingili in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly was held on 15 December 1984. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of CLP Chief Minister Paul Everingham to seek election to the Federal House of Representatives. The seat of Jingili had been held by Everingham since its creation in 1974.


1984 Jochen Rindt Memorial Trophy
The 28th B.A.R.C. "200" meeting, saw the 13th running of the P&O Ferries sponsored Jochen Rindt Memorial Trophy. This was the third round of the 1984 European Championship for F2 Drivers, and held at Thruxton Circuit, in Hampshire, on 23 April.


1984 Jochen Rindt Memorial Trophy, Report, Entry
A total of 20 F2 cars were entered for the event, but come qualifying two of these did not arrive in Hampshire.


1984 Jochen Rindt Memorial Trophy, Report, Qualifying
Mike Thackwell took pole position for Ralt Racing Ltd, in their Ralt-Honda RH6, averaging a speed of 129.148 mph (207.844 km/h).


1984 Jochen Rindt Memorial Trophy, Report, Race
The race was held over 55 laps of the Thruxton circuit. Mike Thackwell took the winner spoils for works Ralt team, driving their Ralt-Honda RH6. The Kiwi won in a time of 1hr 03:11.78mins., averaging a speed of 123.038 mph (198.010 km/h). Just over 21 seconds behind was the Cheylesmore/BS Automotive March of Christian Danner. The third different car in the top three was the AGS-BMW JH19C of Philippe Streiff.


1984 John Player Special League
The 1984 John Player Special League was the sixteenth competing of what was generally known as the Sunday League. The competition was won for the second time by Essex County Cricket Club.


1984 Jordan League
The 1984 Jordan League season saw 12 teams in competition. Amman SC won the championship.


1984 Junior League World Series
The 1984 Junior League World Series took place from August 14–18 in Taylor, Michigan, United States. Pearl City, Hawaii defeated Yabucoa, Puerto Rico in the championship game.


1984 K League
The 1984 Korean Super League was the second season of top football league in South Korea. A total of eight teams participated in the league. Six of them were professional teams (Hallelujah FC, Yukong Elephants, Daewoo Royals, Pohang Steelworks, Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso, Hyundai Horang-i), and the other teams were semi-professional teams (Hanil Bank and Kookmin Bank). It began on 31 March and ended on 11 November. It divided into two stages, and winners of each stage qualified for the championship playoffs. It gave 3 points for a win, 2 points for a draw, and 1 point for a draw without a goal.


1984 K League Championship
The 1984 K League Championship was the first competition of the K League Championship, and was held to decide the second champions of the K League. It was contested between winners of two stages of the regular season, and was played over two legs.


1984 KFK competitions (Ukraine)
The 1984 KFK competitions in Ukraine were part of the 1984 Soviet KFK competitions that were conducted in the Soviet Union. It was 21st season of the KFK in Ukraine since its introduction in 1964.


1984 Kansas City Chiefs season
The 1984 Kansas City Chiefs season was the franchise's 15th season in the National Football League, the 22nd as the Kansas City Chiefs, and the 25th overall.


1984 Kansas City Chiefs season
Pro Bowl safety Gary Barbaro became the most notable Chiefs player to defect to the rival United States Football League, signing with the New Jersey Generals on February 2 after sitting out the entire 1983 campaign due to a contract dispute. Barbaro's departure and the trade of cornerback Gary Green began a youth movement that produced the most vaunted secondary in team history. Cornerbacks Kevin Ross and Albert Lewis, and safeties Deron Cherry and Lloyd Burruss accounted for a combined 13 Pro Bowl appearances for the Chiefs in the years to come.


1984 Kansas City Chiefs season
All-America defensive tackle Bill Maas and offensive tackle John Alt were both selected in the first round of the 1984 NFL Draft. Maas was named NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year, while Alt eventually became the cornerstone of the club's offensive line later in the decade. Kansas City's defense registered a team-record 11 sacks in a 10–6 win against Cleveland on September 30, coming one sack shy of the NFL single-game record.


1984 Kansas City Chiefs season
Quarterback Bill Kenney suffered a broken thumb during the preseason and was sidelined until the season's seventh week. Second-year backup Quarterback Todd Blackledge opened the first six contests of the season and had the club at 3–3. Kenney returned to the starting lineup against the New York Jets on October 21, but inconsistency marked the rest of the season as the club dropped four of first five contests after his return. However, the team rattled off three consecutive wins to conclude the year at 8–8.


1984 Kansas City Chiefs season
The Chiefs were also involved in infamy during the Week 10 game against the Seattle Seahawks, in which the Chiefs quarterbacks threw six interceptions, four of which were returned for touchdowns in a 45–0 loss.


1984 Kansas City Royals season
The 1984 Kansas City Royals season  was their 16th in Major League Baseball. The Royals won the American League West with a record of 84-78, but lost to the eventual World Series champion Detroit Tigers 3-0 in the 1984 American League Championship Series. Dan Quisenberry's 44 saves paced the American League.


1984 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1984 Kansas Jayhawks football team
The 1984 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Big Eight Conference during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second season under head coach Mike Gottfried, the Jayhawks compiled a 5–6 record (4–3 against conference opponents), finished in fourth place in the conference, and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 298 to 218. They played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas.


1984 Kansas Jayhawks football team
The Jayhawks defeated in-state opponent Wichita State 31–7 in what was the final game the two schools played before Wichita State eliminated their football program following the 1986 season.


1984 Kansas Jayhawks football team
The team's statistical leaders included Mike Norseth with 1,682 passing yards, Lynn Williams with 776 rushing yards, and Richard Estell with 500 receiving yards. Sylvester Byrd, Willie Pless, and Bennie Simecka were the team captains.


1984 Kansas State Wildcats football team
The 1984 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head football coach was Jim Dickey. The Wildcats played their home games in KSU Stadium. 1984 saw the Wildcats finish with a record of 3–7–1, and a 2–4–1 record in Big Eight Conference play.


1984 Kent State Golden Flashes football team
The 1984 Kent State Golden Flashes football team was an American football team that represented Kent State University  in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second season under head coach Dick Scesniak, the Golden Flashes compiled a 4–7 record (3–6 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for eighth place in the MAC, and were outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 199 to 135.


1984 Kent State Golden Flashes football team
The team's statistical leaders included Derrick Nix with 720 rushing yards, Stu Rayburn with 1,381 passing yards, and Ken Hughes with 621 receiving yards. Defensive back Derrick Samuels was selected as a first-team All-MAC player.


1984 Kentucky Derby
The 1984 Kentucky Derby was the 110th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 5, 1984, with 126,453 people in attendance. The race was won by Swale, who went on to finish out of the money in the Preakness, then won the Belmont.


1984 Kentucky Wildcats football team
The 1984 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Wildcats scored 293 points while allowing 221 points. Kentucky won the 1984 Hall of Fame Classic Bowl.


1984 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Season
Kentucky opened with a 42–0 win over Kent State, followed by a 48–14 win at Indiana. A 30–26 win at Tulane was followed by a 27–14 win over Rutgers, which put Kentucky into the AP poll at #19. The Wildcats then won their conference opener at Mississippi State, 17–13, to improve to 5–0 for the first time since 1950. Kentucky was then ranked #16 in the AP poll.


1984 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Season
Kentucky then dropped two conference games against ranked opponents, to #10 LSU 36–10 and to #13 Georgia 37–7. The Wildcats clinched a winning season with a 31–7 win against North Texas and then defeated Vanderbilt 27–18. A 25–17 loss to #5 Florida followed. Kentucky then closed out the regular season with a 17–12 victory at Tennessee.


1984 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Season
Kentucky closed its season with a 20–19 victory over #19 Wisconsin in the 1984 Hall of Fame Classic Bowl. As a result, Kentucky finished the season ranked #19 in the final AP poll, with a record of 9–3.


1984 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
The 1984 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 90th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.


1984 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
St. Martin's won the championship after a 1-14 to 1-07 defeat of Ballyhale Shamrocks in the final. It was their first ever championship title. It remains their only championship triumph.


1984 King Cup
The 1984 King Cup was the 26th season of the knockout competition since its establishment in 1956. Al-Ahli were the defending champions but they finished as runners-up.


1984 King Cup
Al-Hilal won the competition for the fifth time, beating the defending champions Al-Ahli 4–0 in the final at the Youth Welfare Stadium in Riyadh.


1984 King Cup, Round of 32
The matches of the Round of 32 were played on 21, 22, 23 and 25 March 1984.


1984 King Cup, Round of 16
The Round of 16 matches were held on 29 and 30 March 1984.


1984 King Cup, Quarter-finals
The Quarter-final matches were held on 5 and 6 April 1984.


1984 King Cup, Semi-finals
The four winners of the quarter-finals progressed to the semi-finals. The semi-finals were played on 12 and 13 April 1984. All times are local, AST (UTC+3).


1984 King Cup, Final
The final was played between Al-Hilal and Al-Ahli in the Youth Welfare Stadium in Riyadh. Al-Ahli were appearing in their 13th final while Al-Hilal reached the final for the 9th time.


1984 Kokkilai massacre (LTTE)
The Kokkilai massacre was carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.


1984 Kokkilai massacre (LTTE), Incident
The Kokkilai village massacre is an incident on December 1, 1984, in which LTTE cadres massacred 11 Sinhalese civilians. This attack occurred on the day after the  Kent and Dollar Farm massacres. Most of the victims were Sinhalese fishermen, were shot to death by LTTE cadres.


1984 Kokkilai massacres (army)
1984 Kokkilai massacres refers to a series of massacres of Sri Lankan Tamil civilians when the Sri Lankan military attacked the village of Kokkilai and several neighboring villages in Mullaitivu District, Northern Province, Sri Lanka. The attack left several civilians including women and children dead and their property destroyed. The attacks resulted in widespread displacement of native residents and subsequently their lands were colonized by Sinhala settlers.


1984 Kokkilai massacres (army), Incident
On 15 December 1984, a large number of Sri Lankan military troops entered the coastal villages of Kokkilai, Kokkuthoduvai, Alampil, Nayaru and Kumulamunai in Mullaitivu District. The Sri Lankan Army arrived and announced that severalvillages were to vacate within 24 hours. Entire villages in the region such as Kokkilai, Kokkuthuduvai, Karnaddu kerni and Koddai Keri amongst others were ordered to vacate within a day’s time. The military then began killing people and destroying property. 131 civilians were killed including 31 women and 21 children. More than 2,000 families were forced to relocate following the attacks and subsequent colonisation attempts of their lands by the Sinhala population. They remain displaced to this date.


1984 Kokkilai massacres (army), State colonization of Tamil areas
The Kokkilai massacres has come to be viewed as a part of the greater Sri Lankan state sponsored colonization of Sinhalese in Tamil areas.


1984 Kokkilai massacres (army), State colonization of Tamil areas
The Mullaitivu District had historically been a Tamil area, and the population was almost entirely Tamil in the district. The villages situated at the southernmost part of the district, serving as the vital link between the North and the East became favorite targets for colonies of the Government. The fishing villages in the district including Kokkilai were colonized by Sinhala fishermen from Negombo and Chilaw.


1984 Kokkilai massacres (army), State colonization of Tamil areas
In December 1984, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam reprised these colonization attempts by attacking these newly established colonies in North-East which were heavily protected by Sri Lankan military and Sri Lankan Home Guards who had earlier ethnically cleansed the native Tamil population from these villages.


1984 Kokkilai massacres (army), State colonization of Tamil areas
Following the recapture of the North and East by Government forces, the land border between Mullaitivu District and Trincomalee District were once again colonized with Sinhalese settlers in what were traditionally Tamil lands. Sinhalese were settled in traditionally Tamil land, given land, money to build homes and security provided by the Special Task Force. As a result, the demographics of the region had been significantly altered and a new division called the Weli Oya Divisional Secretariat (a Sinhalese corruption of the Tamil term ""Manal Aru") was carved in the southern parts of the Mullaitivu district. Today the majority of the population in the area is Sinhalese while Tamils have been systematically denied any claim to their lands.


1984 Korfball World Championship
The 1984 Korfball World Championship was the second edition of the major international korfball competition. It was held in Belgium on April 24–27, in the cities of Antwerp, Louvain la Neuve, Hasselt and Ghent. The Netherlands defeated Belgium at the final by 11–9.


1984 Korfball World Championship, Pool matches
Pts = Points P = Played games W = Win (2p)L = Lost


1984 Korfball World Championship, Pool matches
F = Korfs favourA = Korfs againstD = Difference korfs (KF-KA)


1984 Kvalserien
The 1984 Kvalserien was the 10th edition of the Kvalserien. It determined which team of the participating ones would play in the 1984–85 Elitserien season and which three teams would play in the 1984–85 Swedish Division 1 season.


1984 LFF Lyga
The 1984 LFF Lyga was the 63rd season of the LFF Lyga football competition in Lithuania. It was contested by 18 teams, and Granitas Klaipėda won the championship.


1984 LPGA Championship
The 1984 LPGA Championship was the 30th LPGA Championship, played May 31 to June 3 at Jack Nicklaus Golf Center at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, a suburb northeast of Cincinnati.


1984 LPGA Championship
Defending champion Patty Sheehan shot 131 (−13) on the weekend to win the second of her three LPGA Championships, ten strokes ahead of runners-up Pat Bradley and Beth Daniel.


1984 LPGA Tour
The 1984 LPGA Tour was the 35th season since the LPGA Tour officially began in 1950. The season ran from January 26 to November 4. The season consisted of 36 official money events. Amy Alcott and Patty Sheehan won the most tournaments, four each. Betsy King led the money list with earnings of $266,771.


1984 LPGA Tour
There were eight first-time winners in 1984: Sharon Barrett, Barb Bunkowsky, Cindy Hill, Christa Johnson, Betsy King, Sally Quinlan, Laurie Rinker, and Nayoko Yoshikawa.


1984 LPGA Tour, Tournament results
The following table shows all the official money events for the 1984 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.


1984 LSU Tigers football team
The 1984 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was led by Bill Arnsparger in his first season and finished with an overall record of 8–3–1.


1984 LSU Tigers football team
During the season, Florida was placed on a postseason ban for violations, and despite finishing first, the SEC punished the program with an immediate postseason ban in addition to the two-year ban imposed for the 1985 and 1986 seasons by the NCAA. The SEC also awarded LSU, as the highest placed eligible team, the automatic bid to the Sugar Bowl reserved for the conference champion. Under modern rules, a team ineligible for postseason is also ineligible for postseason awards.


1984 La Flèche Wallonne
The 1984 La Flèche Wallonne was the 48th edition of La Flèche Wallonne cycle race and was held on 12 April 1984. The race started in Charleroi and finished in Huy. The race was won by Kim Andersen of the COOP–Hoonved team.


1984 Labatt Brier
The 1984 Labatt Brier was held from March 4 to 11 at the Victoria Memorial Arena  in Victoria, British Columbia.


1984 Labatt Brier
Michael Riley of Manitoba defeated Ed Werenich of Ontario to win his first and only Brier title.


1984 Labatt Brier, Teams
Skip : Bernie SparkesThird: Jim ArmstrongSecond: Ron ThompsonLead: Jim HeintzAlternate: Brent Giles


1984 Labatt Brier, Teams
Skip : Michael RileyThird: Brian ToewsSecond: John HelstonLead: Russ WookeyAlternate: Clare DeBlonde


1984 Labatt Brier, Teams
Skip : Arnie DobsonThird: Richard BelyeaSecond: Michael DobsonLead: Claude MooreAlternate: Brian Dobson


1984 Labatt Brier, Teams
Skip : Wayne MathesonThird: Ken MacDonaldSecond: Allan LedgerwoodLead: Mark VictorAlternate: Keith MacEachern


1984 Labatt Brier, Playoffs, Final
In the final, Riley bucked conventional wisdom in terms of strategy, by opting to come around corner guards that were played by Ontario, rather than peeling them. Manitoba stole two in the third when Werenich missed a takeout to take a 3-1 lead. The team then played "flawlessly" en route to a 7-4 win. Riley curled 86% in the game compared to Werenich's 76%. 4,569 people were on hand to watch the final.


1984 Labatt Brier, Statistics
Curling Canada does not keep a public record of shooting percentages before 1985, but percentages were reported at the time. Alberta's Ed Lukowich had the highest shooting percentage among the skips at 76%, followed by Ontario's Ed Werenich and Manitoba's Michael Riley at 75% and Saskatchewan's Gary Bryden at 74%. Saskatchewan's Dale Graham was the top third at 79%, and second Wilf Foss was the best at his position, curling 82%. Among the leads, there was a three-way tie at 81% with Saskatchewan's Jerry Zimmer, Ontario's Neil Harrison and Alberta's Brent Syme.


1984 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election
The results of elections to the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet (more formally, its "Parliamentary Committee") were announced on 26 October 1984. In addition to the 15 members elected, the Leader (Neil Kinnock), Deputy Leader (Roy Hattersley), Labour Chief Whip (Michael Cocks), Labour Leader in the House of Lords (Cledwyn Hughes), and Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party (Jack Dormand) were automatically members.


1984 Ladies European Tour
The 1984 Ladies European Tour  was the fifth season of golf tournaments administered by the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) on behalf of the Women's Professional Golfers' Association (WPGA), which later became the Ladies European Tour (LET).


1984 Ladies European Tour
In the second season of PGA administration, the tour saw the addition of several new tournaments with the format of most being changed to 72-holes stroke play, having been mostly 54 and 36-hole events previously. In total, there were 21 tournaments on the schedule, including the return of the Women's British Open, organised by the Ladies' Golf Union and one of two tournaments co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour, along with the Ladies Irish Open.


1984 Ladies European Tour
The Order of Merit was won by Dale Reid, who dominated the season with two tournament victories and five runner-up finishes. In second place was Kitrina Douglas, who won twice during her debut season.


1984 Ladies European Tour, Tournaments
The table below shows the 1984 schedule. The numbers in brackets after the winners' names show the number of career wins they had on the Ladies European Tour up to and including that event. This is only shown for members of the tour.


1984 Ladies European Tour, Order of Merit
The Order of Merit was sponsored by Ring and Brymer and based on prize money won throughout the season.


1984 Lafayette Leopards football team
The 1984 Lafayette Leopards football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season.


1984 Lafayette Leopards football team
In their fourth year under head coach Bill Russo, the Leopards compiled a 5–5 record. Frank Corbo was the team captain.


1984 Lafayette Leopards football team
Lafayette played its home games at Fisher Field on College Hill in Easton, Pennsylvania.


1984 Lamar Cardinals football team
The 1984 Lamar Cardinals football team represented Lamar University in the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season as a member of the Southland Conference. The Cardinals played their home games at Cardinal Stadium now named Provost Umphrey Stadium in Beaumont, Texas. Lamar finished the 1984 season with a 2–9 overall record and a 1–5 conference record.


1984 Las Vegas AT&T Challenge of Champions
The 1984 Las Vegas AT&T Challenge of Champions was a tennis tournament held in 1984 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Paradise, Nevada. It was won by John McEnroe, 7–5, 6–0 against Guillermo Vilas.


1984 Las Vegas AT&T Challenge of Champions, Draw, Group B
Standings were determined by: 1) A points system, with players receiving 1 point for each set won, and a further 1 point for each match won; and 2) In two-player ties, head-to-head records. The players finishing in 1st place in each group reach the final, while the players finishing in 2nd place progressed into a 3rd place match.


1984 Latvian SSR Higher League, Overview
It was contested by 12 teams, and Torpedo won the championship.


1984 Laurence Olivier Awards
The 1984 Laurence Olivier Awards were held in 1984 in London celebrating excellence in West End theatre by the Society of London Theatre. These were the first awards to be held after Laurence Olivier consented to the awards being renamed in his honour.


1984 Laurence Olivier Awards, Productions with multiple nominations and awards
The following 18 productions, including one opera, received multiple nominations:


1984 Leeds City Council election
The Leeds City Council elections were held on Thursday, 3 May 1984, with one third of the council to be elected. In the interim there had been a by-election in Armley to replace the incumbent councillor Michael Meadowcroft after he was elected the Leeds West MP, resulting in an Alliance hold.


1984 Leeds City Council election
The Conservative's downward trend continued after the previous year's respite to a new party low, resulting in a 3% swing to Labour. In contrast, the Alliance support stabilised after the prior year's fall to retain a healthy proportion of their initial 1982 surge. Despite the swing towards them, Labour finished the night with a net loss, as the Alliance won the only remaining Burmantofts seat they did not hold from them. The Alliance also gained in Moortown, winning their first seat in the ward from the Conservatives - who lost another in Pudsey South to their former incumbent turn Independent, achieving the feat of first elected Independent onto the council.


1984 Leeds City Council election, Election result
This result has the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:


1984 Lehigh Engineers football team
The 1984 Lehigh Engineers football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season.


1984 Lehigh Engineers football team
In their ninth year under head coach John Whitehead, the Engineers compiled a 5–6 record. Mike Ellow, Doug Ertz, Tony Semler and Blair Talmadge were the team captains.


1984 Lehigh Engineers football team
Lehigh was briefly ranked in the national Division I-AA top 20, at No. 15 in the poll released September 18, but quickly dropped out of the rankings and remained unranked through season's end.


1984 Lehigh Engineers football team
Lehigh played its home games at Taylor Stadium on the university's main campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.


1984 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election
The 1984 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election was called for June 16, 1984, to replace retiring Liberal leader and sitting Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. The convention elected former Finance Minister John Turner, who at the time was not sitting in the House of Commons, as its leader on the second ballot, defeating another former finance minister, Jean Chrétien.


1984 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates, Jean Chrétien
Chrétien, 50, MP for Saint-Maurice since 1963, was Minister of Energy and had been Minister Responsible for constitutional negotiations, playing a significant role in the patriation of the Constitution of Canada,. First appointed to Cabinet by Lester Pearson in 1967, he had served in several senior portfolios under Trudeau, including Minister of Finance and Justice Minister.


1984 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates, Don Johnston
Johnston, 47, MP for Saint-Henri—Westmount in Montreal since 1978, was President of the Treasury Board, and had served in several other economic portfolios.


1984 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates, Mark MacGuigan
MacGuigan, 53, MP from Windsor-Walkerville since 1968 and a former dean of law, was the Minister of Justice and a former Minister of External Affairs.


1984 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates, John Munro
Munro, 53, an MP for Hamilton East since 1962, was Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.


1984 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates, John Roberts
Roberts, 48, MP for St. Paul's, was Minister of Employment and Immigration.


1984 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates, John Turner
Turner, 55, former MP for Ottawa-Orleans (1968-1976) and previously for St. Lawrence—St. George, Quebec (1962-1968), had served in Cabinet under Lester Pearson and Trudeau and had been Minister of Justice and Minister of Finance until resigning from cabinet in 1975 over a policy dispute over wage and price freezes. Since then, he had been a corporate lawyer on Bay Street until his return to politics in 1984. Turner had run for the leadership previously in 1968, placing third on the final ballot.


1984 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates, Eugene Whelan
Whelan, 59, MP for Essex-Windsor since 1962, has been Minister of Agriculture from 1972 to 1979, when the Liberals lost power, and again since 1980.


1984 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, Results
First ballotTURNER, John Napier 1,593 (46%) CHRÉTIEN, Joseph Jacques Jean 1,067 (31%) JOHNSTON, Donald James 278 (8%) ROBERTS, John (Moody) 185MACGUIGAN, Mark R. 135MUNRO, John Carr 93WHELAN, Eugene Francis 84Spoiled ballots 2Total votes cast 3,437


1984 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, Results
Whelan eliminated, supports Chrétien. MacGuigan withdraws and supports Turner. Munro and Roberts withdraw and support Chrétien.


1984 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, Results
Second ballotTURNER, John Napier 1,862 (54%)CHRÉTIEN, Joseph Jacques Jean 1,398 (40%)JOHNSTON, Donald James 192 (6%)Spoiled ballots	1Total votes cast 3,453


1984 Liberian Premier League, Overview
It was contested by 8 teams, and Invincible Eleven won the championship.


1984 Liberian constitutional referendum
A referendum on a new constitution was held in Liberia on 3 July 1984. It was approved by 98.6% of voters, with a turnout of 82.2%. The new constitution came into force on 6 January 1986, following the 1985 general elections.


1984 Liberty Bowl
The 1984 Liberty Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game played on December 27, 1984, at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee. The 26th edition of the Liberty Bowl pitted the Arkansas Razorbacks and the Auburn Tigers.


1984 Liberty Bowl, Background
The Razorbacks were in their first season under head coach Ken Hatfield, who had taken over after Lou Holtz was fired the previous year following a 6–5 season and a fourth place finish in the Southwest Conference. Hatfield's team won seven games while finishing tied for 2nd in the conference with TCU. They went 0-2 against ranked opponents, losing 24-18 to #3 Texas in the middle of the season and losing 31-28 to #11 SMU to close out the regular season. This was the 7th bowl game for Arkansas in eight seasons and first Liberty Bowl appearance since 1971.


1984 Liberty Bowl, Background
Auburn, off the heels of an 11–1 season, a Southeastern Conference championship and a win in the Sugar Bowl, were ranked #1 to begin the 1984 season. However, they were beaten by #14 Miami 20–18 in the Kickoff Classic, and a loss to #4 Texas the following game meant that the Tigers dropped all the way to #19 in the polls. However, the team won six straight from that point on, including a victory over #9 Florida State to rise to #11. But a loss to #13 Florida dashed their conference title hopes, and they finished the regular season with a 17–15 loss to Alabama in the Iron Bowl. This was Auburn's third straight bowl game appearance, along with their first Liberty Bowl appearance since 1965.


1984 Liberty Bowl, Background
This also served as the first meeting of the two teams.


1984 Liberty Bowl, Game summary
Arkansas got on the board first on a 31-yard field goal from Greg Horne to make it 3–0 with 7:27 left in the first quarter. Auburn scored four minutes later on a Bo Jackson touchdown plunge that finished off an 80 yard drive, although the extra point was no good, making it 6–3. Auburn struck again after cornerback Kevin Porter intercepted a pass from Brad Taylor and returned it 35 yards for a touchdown.


1984 Liberty Bowl, Game summary
Auburn went for two and on the ensuing possession, quarterback Pat Washington ran in for the 2 point score to make it 14–3, which proved to be the end of scoring for the rest of the first half. The game heated back up in the fourth quarter, with Arkansas taking advantage of a Brent Fullwood fumble that Arkansas recovered on the Auburn 6, responding with a touchdown from fullback Marshall Foreman from two yards out. The two point conversion was no good, keeping it at 14–9.


1984 Liberty Bowl, Game summary
With 5:38 remaining in the game, Jackson took a pass from his left and ran 39 yards for a touchdown, making the score 21–9. Arkansas responded with 3:10 remaining on a 25 yard touchdown pass from Taylor to James Shibest, but the extra point was no good, making it 21–15. Auburn held on in the final minutes to clinch the victory. Jackson finished with 88 yards on 18 carries, with two touchdowns while also having one reception for 25 yards in an MVP effort. Foreman finished with 62 yards on 15 carries with one touchdown. Bobby Joe Edmonds caught 10 passes for 68 yards.


1984 Liberty Bowl, Aftermath
Auburn went on to play in four more bowl games in the decade, although they have not returned to the Liberty Bowl since this game. Arkansas went to five more bowl games in the decade, returning to the Liberty Bowl three years later. After Arkansas joined the SEC in 1992, the two teams began meeting regularly with each other. It was not until 1995 that Arkansas managed to beat Auburn.


1984 Libyan hostage incident
The Libyan hostage situation began on the morning of the murder of WPC Fletcher, 17 April 1984 and lasted until 5 February 1985 (294 days). In accordance with the hostage release agreement, reporting on the incident was restricted until the fall of Gadaffi in 2011.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, March 1984
Four Libyan nationals were arrested on charges following explosions at Manchester and London Heathrow in the UK and were remanded in custody.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 17 April 1984
During a protest organised by the NFSL, a Libyan opposition group, WPC Yvonne Fletcher was hit by a bullet from a burst of machine-gun fire from within the Libyan People's Bureau (Libyan Embassy) in St James's Square, London. She died shortly afterwards.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 17 April 1984
That evening, Doug Ledingham, the airport manager for British Caledonian Airways at Tripoli Universal Airport, Libya, was arrested by soldiers.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 17 to 27 April
There was a standoff between the Libyan and British governments over the pursuit of who shot WPC Fletcher. The standoff resulted in the breaking of diplomatic relations by Britain with Libya, and the return to Libya under diplomatic immunity of the occupants of the Libyan Peoples' Bureau in London. Rumours abounded at the time as to the fate of the person who is alleged to have fired the fatal shots from the Libyan People's Bureau. In 1986, a British businessman who had worked for Colonel Gaddafi's regime reported WPC Fletcher's killer had been hanged as soon as he returned to Libya.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 17 to 27 April
Following the breaking of diplomatic relations with Libya, the British Embassy in Tripoli was evacuated by the British and ransacked by the Libyans. A skeleton staff of British diplomats took up office in the Italian Embassy.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 8 May 1984
Militants from the NFSL  attempted to assassinate Gaddafi at Bab Al-Aziza barracks in Tripoli. The attempt lead to several deaths in the fighting. Some 2,000 Libyans were arrested following the attack, and eight were hanged publicly.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 14-16 May 1984
Four further British men in Libya were rounded up and detained as hostages against the four arrested Libyan nationals in Britain by those claiming to be officials of the Gaddafi regime. The men in order of capture were: Michael Berdinner, Alan Russell, Malcolm Anderson and Robin Plummer. At first, Allen Russell and Malcolm Anderson were held at a separate location where they were questioned and beaten. Ledingham, Berdinner and Plummer (Plummer in solitary confinement) were in the same facility, the Italian Mansion, a building approximately 400 yards distant from the Italian Embassy.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 12 June 1984
A month after being taken hostage, the five men were allowed a meeting with the British Second Consul, George Anderson, who was able to offer only pastoral care and contact with home, but no suggestion of release. It was clear by this time, however, that the men were being held as hostages by one of Col Gaddafi's Revolutionary Committees, in defiance of international law. Return to their respective prisons was followed by little or no improvement in the hostages' circumstances.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 19 July 1984
A second meeting with George Anderson resulted in all the hostages being put into one location, the Italian Mansion, and being fed an improved diet and given medical attention. This improvement in circumstances was accompanied by a slow but inexorable descent into gloom of the hostages isolated from all news of the outside world.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 19 July 1984
Meanwhile, in Britain, unbeknownst to the hostages, their families, notably Pat Plummer and Carole Russell, were working tirelessly with Kate Adie of the BBC and Brent Sadler of ITN to keep the hostages' plight in the media to keep the situation in the news and the profile high on the government's agenda. By now, the families were being kept up to date on a daily basis by contacts within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London as to the stalemate between Libya and Britain, with a continual decline in international relations between Libya and most of the rest of the world.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, Summer 1984
In London, a committee in parliament was held to determine whether or not what the British government had done over the Libyan hostage situation was reasonable. The committee concluded that in the circumstances, the British government had done all it reasonably could in the light of what little was known at the time.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 7 August 1984
The Libyans allowed family members to visit the hostages. These visits brought unofficial news of the, as yet, publicly undisclosed involvement of Terry Waite, the Special Envoy to the Archbishop of Canterbury, of the Church of England.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 1 September 1984
Doug Ledingham and George Bush, another prisoner, arrested and detained on bona fide charges unrelated to the Libyan hostage situation, were freed and allowed home. On the day of their release, British television news was granted access to and showed the world for the first time, detail of the hostage situation.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 17 October 1984
Two of the wives of the hostages, Pat Plummer and Carole Russell, attended a meeting with the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The two wives petitioned for a representative of the British Government to go to Libya and start negotiations for the release of the hostages. This meeting was soon followed by the arrival in Libya of Terry Waite.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 21 October 1984
Alan Russell and Malcolm Anderson were removed from the Italian Mansion and taken to the Libyan courts, where they were charged with transporting state secrets.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 10–18 November 1984
Terry Waite was in Libya. The hostage situation showed no signs of thawing, in spite of national and international efforts to secure the release of the hostages and the intervention at a pastoral level of Waite.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 13–14 December 1984
Allen Russell was placed on trial and charged with sharing state secrets with British journalists. Robin Plummer seized the opportunity to speak to the press, stated his innocence and made a plea for warm clothing.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 24 December 1984
The four men were confirmed as political hostages by Gaddafi. Waite held a Christmas carol service with the hostages.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 6 January 1985
Col Gaddafi himself placed the matter of the remaining hostages before the members of the Basic and General People's Congresses, the system of democracy prevalent in Libya at the time, for a decision on the release of the hostages.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 1 February 1985
Then WPC Fletcher's memorial was unveiled temporarily disrupting negotiations and sent a very clear message to the Libyans.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 5 February 1985
The Congresses voted by an overwhelming majority to release the hostages. But there were conditions to the release. The release was however subject to a few days' delay, for undisclosed reasons.


1984 Libyan hostage incident, Timeline, 7 February 1985
After almost nine months (294 days), the hostages arrived back in England.


1984 Liechtenstein women's suffrage referendum
A referendum on the introduction of women's suffrage in national elections was held in Liechtenstein on 1 July 1984. Following the introduction of female suffrage in neighbouring Switzerland at the federal level after a referendum in 1971 (although women had had the right to vote in many cantons and municipalities before this), Liechtenstein had been the only remaining European country to deny women the right to vote.


1984 Liechtenstein women's suffrage referendum
Referendums had been held in 1968, 1971 and 1973 (the latter two limited to men), but on each occasion voters had rejected its introduction, despite the support of newspapers and both major political parties. Nevertheless, some municipalities had since introduced female suffrage at a local level, starting with Vaduz in 1976, and women had been elected to the local councils of Vaduz and Gamprin in 1983.


1984 Liechtenstein women's suffrage referendum
This referendum was also limited to male voters, and again both main parties had argued for its introduction. This time the referendum produced a vote in favour of the change, although only by the narrow margin of 119 votes, with 2,370 in favour and 2,251 against. Support was greater in Unterland than in Oberland. Voter turnout was 86.19%.


1984 Liechtenstein women's suffrage referendum
Following the referendum, amendments were made to the constitution to grant women the right to vote in national elections, although they did not gain the right to vote in local elections in three municipalities until 1986. The first national elections in which women could vote took place in 1986, and saw Emma Eigenmann elected to the Landtag on the Progressive Citizens' Party (FBP) list, becoming the first female member of the Landtag. In 1993 Cornelia Gassner of the FBP became the country's first female cabinet member.


1984 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season
Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito's 1984 season was the club's 54th year of existence, the 31st year in professional football and the 24th in the top level of professional football in Ecuador.


1984 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
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1984 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
The 1984 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 90th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board.


1984 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
On 14 October 1984, Patrickswell won the championship after a 4-13 to 3-05 defeat of Cappamore in the final. It was their ninth championship title overall and their third title in succession.


1984 Lion's Cup
The 1984 Lion's Cup was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Tokyo, Japan that was part of the 1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. The tournament was held from November 12 through November 18, 1984.


1984 Little League World Series
The 1984 Little League World Series took place between August 21 and August 25 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The National Little League of Seoul, South Korea, defeated the National Little League of Altamonte Springs, Florida, in the championship game of the 38th Little League World Series.


1984 Liverpool City Council election
Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 3 May 1984. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party retained overall control of the council.


1984 Livingston Open
The 1984 Livingston Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts that was part of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix. It was played at Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey in the United States from July 30 through August 6, 1984. First-seeded Johan Kriek won the singles title.


1984 Livingston Open, Finals, Doubles
Scott Davis /  Ben Testerman defeated  Paul Annacone /  Glenn Michibata 6–4, 6–4


1984 Livingston Open – Doubles
Scott Davis and Ben Testerman won the title, defeating Paul Annacone and Glenn Michibata 6–4, 6–4 in the final.


1984 Livingston Open – Singles
Johan Kriek won the title, defeating Michael Westphal 6–2, 6–4 in the final.


1984 Liège–Bastogne–Liège
The 1984 Liège–Bastogne–Liège was the 70th edition of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège cycle race and was held on 15 April 1984. The race started and finished in Liège. The race was won by Sean Kelly of the Skil team.


1984 Lliga Catalana de Bàsquet
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1984 Lliga Catalana de Bàsquet
The 1984 Lliga Catalana de Bàsquet was the 5th edition of the Catalan Basketball League.


1984 Lliga Catalana de Bàsquet, Group stage, Group B
*Cacaolat Granollers was not present at the first game against Ron Negrita Joventut.


1984 Llŷn Peninsula earthquake
The 1984 Llŷn Peninsula earthquake struck the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, northwest Wales on Thursday 19 July 1984 at 06:56 UTC (07:56 BST). Measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale, it is the largest onshore earthquake to occur in the UK since instrumental measurements began.


1984 Llŷn Peninsula earthquake
The effects were felt throughout Wales, most of England, and parts of Ireland and Scotland. There were many reports of minor damage to chimneys and masonry throughout Wales and England, the biggest concentration of damage being in Liverpool, which is located around 65 miles northeast of the epicentre. Minor injuries were also reported in the areas surrounding the epicentral area, and rockslides occurred at Tremadog in Gwynedd.


1984 Llŷn Peninsula earthquake
The 19 July earthquake was followed by many aftershocks in the following months, the largest measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale, which itself was felt as far away as Dublin, in Ireland.


1984 London Marathon
The 1984 London Marathon was the fourth running of the annual marathon race in London, United Kingdom, which took place on Sunday, 13 May. The elite men's race was won by home athlete Charlie Spedding in a time of 2:09:57 hours and the women's race was won by Norway's Ingrid Kristiansen in 2:24:26.


1984 London Marathon
In the wheelchair races, Irish athletes Kevin Breen (2:38:40) and Kay McShane (3:10:04) set course records in the men's and women's divisions, respectively.


1984 London Marathon
Around 70,000 people applied to enter the race, of which 21,142 had their applications accepted and 16,992 started the race. A total of 15,675 runners finished the race.


1984 Long Beach State 49ers football team
The 1984 Long Beach State 49ers football team represented California State University, Long Beach during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1984 Long Beach State 49ers football team
Cal State Long Beach competed in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by first-year head coach Mike Sheppard, and played home games at Veterans Stadium adjacent to the campus of Long Beach City College in Long Beach, California. On the field, they finished the season with a record of four wins and seven losses (4–7, 3–4 PCAA).


1984 Long Beach State 49ers football team
After the season was over, it was discovered that the UNLV Rebels had used multiple ineligible players during both the 1983 and 1984 season. As a result, Long Beach's loss to UNLV turns into a forfeit win and their record is adjusted to 5–6, 4–3 PCAA.


1984 Long Beach State 49ers football team, Team players in the NFL
The following finished their Cal State Long Beach career in 1984, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.


1984 Lorraine Open
The 1984 Lorraine Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. The event was part of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix. It was the sixth edition of the tournament and was played in Metz in France from 12 March through 18 March 1984. Unseeded Ramesh Krishnan won the singles title.


1984 Lorraine Open, Finals, Doubles
Eddie Edwards /  Danie Visser defeated  Wayne Hampson /  Wally Masur 3–6, 6–4, 7–2


1984 Los Angeles Dodgers season
The 1984 Los Angeles Dodgers finished in fourth place in the National League West.


1984 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1984 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1984 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1984 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1984 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1984 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Major League Baseball Draft
The Dodgers drafted 28 players in the June draft and 13 in the January draft. Of those, six players would eventually play in the Major Leagues.


1984 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Major League Baseball Draft
The Dodgers first round pick in the June draft was pitcher Dennis Livingston from Oklahoma State University. He remained with the Dodgers organization until 1987 before moving to the Montreal Expos system. In six seasons in the minors he accumulated a record of 24-36 and a 5.13 ERA in 165 games (59 as a starter). This draft did produce three Major League relief pitchers in Tim Scott (round 2), Darren Holmes (round 16) and Jeff Nelson (round 22) as well as utility player Tracy Woodson (round 3).


1984 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
The 10th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards were announced on 5 December 1984 and given on 24 January 1985.


1984 Los Angeles Raiders season
The 1984 Los Angeles Raiders season was the franchise's 25th season overall, and the franchise's 15th season in the National Football League. The Raiders entered the season as defending Super Bowl champions. However, they failed to improve upon their previous season's output of 12–4, winning only eleven games. Despite finishing third in their division, the team qualified for the playoffs for the third consecutive season. However, their season would quickly end, as they lost in the wild card game 7–13 to division rival Seattle Seahawks.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season
The 1984 Los Angeles Rams season was the franchise's 47th season in the National Football League, their 48th overall, and their 39th in the Greater Los Angeles Area. The Rams looked to improve on their 9–7 record from 1983 and make the playoffs for the second consecutive season and 10th in the last 12. They improved on their record by one game, going 10–6, good enough for second place in the NFC West behind the 15–1 San Francisco 49ers. In the playoffs, the Rams lost a low-scoring game to the New York Giants at home, 16–13. During this season, second-year running back Eric Dickerson set the NFL record for most rushing yards in a season, with 2,105 yards.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Eric Dickerson
In his second season, Dickerson continued his onslaught of the NFL record book. As a rookie, Dickerson established rookie records for most rushing attempts (390), most rushing yards gained (1,808) and most touchdowns rushing (18), including another two receiving touchdowns. His efforts earned him All-Pro, Pro Bowl, Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year honors.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Eric Dickerson
Eleven times during the 1984 season, he gained more than 100 yards rushing, breaking the record of 100-yard games in a season held by O. J. Simpson. His 2,105 total yards rushing in the 1984 NFL season beat Simpson’s 1973 NFL season record of 2,003 yards rushing in a single season. To date, no one has rushed for more yards in a single NFL season. However, Simpson’s career high rushing total came in a 14-game season, whereas Dickerson’s mark was set during a 16-game season. Dickerson broke OJ’s record with a 215-yard performance in a 27–16 Rams win over the Houston Oilers in Week 15.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Week 1
In this Monday Night opener, Rams got off to a 13–0 first-quarter lead with Eric Dickerson running for a touchdown, but the Cowboys stormed back behind 343 passing yards by new QB Gary Hogeboom and a defense that held Vince Ferragamo to 11 pass completions in 33 attempts and just 84 yards, and intercepted 5 passes.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Week 2
Mike Lansford kicked a late FG to win it. Dickerson had 102 yards rushing and CB Leroy Irvin returned a pickoff 81 yards for a touchdown.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Week 3
Steelers defense held Dickerson to 49 yards and got 2 passing touchdowns from David Woodley. Ferragamo threw 2 more INT's, giving him eight in three games. He was injured in this game & replaced by Jeff Kemp, who would be the starter for the rest of the season.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Week 3
Starting QBs:  Los Angeles Rams: Vince Ferragamo vs Pittsburgh Steelers: David Woodley.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Week 4
Dickerson ran for a touchdown and Kemp passed for another. Bengals scored late on a touchdown pass from Ken Anderson to Cris Collinsworth and tried an onside kick, but Mike Guman scooped it up and ran for the final touchdown.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Week 5
Rams’ defense tied an NFL-record by scoring three safeties. They also held the Giants to 8 yards rushing. Henry Ellard returned a punt 83 yards for a touchdown, and Kemp continued to play mistake-free football, passing for another touchdown. The Rams also became the most recent NFL team (the last one prior was before 1940) to score three safeties in one game as they easily defeat Phil Simms and the Giants.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Week 6
The game lead changed six times in the second half. The Falcons won on three rushing touchdowns by Lynn Cain and a late FG by Mick Luckhurst.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Week 7
Dickerson ran for 175 yards. Kemp completed only 8 passes, but three were for touchdowns. Nolan Cromwell had an interception return touchdown.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Week 8
Rams got revenge on the road against the Falcons as Dickerson ran for 145 yards and a touchdown and Ellard caught a pass and returned another punt for touchdowns.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Week 9
The 49ers got 376 yards passing and 3 touchdowns from Joe Montana. Dickerson was held to 38 rushing yards.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Week 10
Kemp only completed 5 of 14 passes with one touchdown to Ron Brown and Dickerson rushed for 208 yards; Dickerson accounted for almost all of the Rams' 261 yards of offense. Lansford kicked a FG late to win the game as the Rams defense sacked Neil Lomax six times, three by veteran Jack Youngblood


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Week 11
Rams continued their playoff push by overcoming a 10–0 deficit behind 149 yards and 2 touchdowns by Dickerson.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Week 12
Eddie Lee Ivery ran for 3 touchdowns and Tim Lewis returned an interception 99 yards for another.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Week 13
In a wild affair at Tampa, the Rams overcame 322 yards passing by Steve DeBerg and scored 17 4th quarter points. The Rams rushed for 299 yards, 191 by Dickerson along with 3 touchdowns.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Week 14
Rams built a 24–7 halftime lead and cruised behind 2 Kemp touchdown passes and 149 yards and a touchdown from Dickerson.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Week 15
The Rams clinched a wild-card playoff berth and Dickerson surpassed O. J. Simpson's NFL single-season rushing record by rushing for a season-high 215 yards.


1984 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Week 16
The 49ers got two early touchdown passes from Montana and held off a late Ram charge for the win, culminating in a sack for a safety by Gary "Big Hands" Johnson. With this win, the 49ers became the first team in NFL history to win 15 games in an NFL regular season.


1984 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team
The 1984 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Louisiana Tech University as a member of the Southland Conference during the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their second year under head coach A. L. Williams, the team compiled a 10–5 record and finished as Southland Conference champion and NCAA Division I-AA Runner-Up.


1984 Louisiana World Exposition
The 1984 Louisiana World Exposition was a World's Fair held in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It was held 100 years after the city's earlier World's Fair, the World Cotton Centennial in 1884. It opened on Saturday, May 12, 1984, and ended on Sunday, November 11, 1984. Its theme was "The World of Rivers—Fresh Waters as a Source of Life".


1984 Louisiana World Exposition
Plagued with attendance problems, the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition was the only exposition to declare bankruptcy during its run. Many blamed the low attendance on the fact that it was staged just two years and two states from Knoxville's 1982 World's Fair, and because it coincided with the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Others believe that the 1982 opening of Walt Disney World's EPCOT Center may have also drawn more people to Orlando, Florida. There has not been a World's Fair in the United States since the exposition in New Orleans as of 2021.


1984 Louisiana World Exposition
This expo also had the distinction of being the first World Exposition in the history of expos to have an official fair mascot. Seymore D. Fair, a large white costume pelican, became one of the most recognizable figures of any modern day World Exposition.


1984 Louisiana World Exposition
U.S. Navy's host ship for the 1984 World's Fair was USS Stump.


1984 Louisiana World Exposition, The Fair
The government of Louisiana spent $5 million on the fair; that amount was overseen by Ralph Perlman, the state budget director, who tried to obtain maximum use of the funds. An 84-acre (340,000 m2) site along the Mississippi River was cleared of rundown warehouses, replaced by the structures of the Fair. This was to be a "Class B" exposition as defined by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), the international body governing world's fairs.


1984 Louisiana World Exposition, The Fair
There were no major exhibits such as had been seen at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, which started predictions that the fair could be a flop. Although 7 million guests toured the fair, it was not enough to recoup the $350 million spent to host the event. Paychecks started bouncing, and it was only through government intervention that the gates remained open through the scheduled run. The fair drew 30,000 fewer people in the first month than was predicted. One of the fair's more famous attractions was the Mississippi Aerial River Transit (MART).


1984 Louisiana World Exposition, The Fair
This was a gondola lift that took visitors across the Mississippi River from the fair site in the Warehouse District to Algiers on the West Bank. Also on display was the space shuttle Enterprise; in contrast, the US Coast Guard sail training barque USCGC Eagle was open for tours adjacent to the shuttle for the week immediately before the official opening and the week after.


1984 Louisiana World Exposition, The Fair
The Fair was held along the Mississippi River front near the New Orleans Central Business District, on a site that was formerly a railroad yard. While the Fair itself was a financial failure, several old warehouses were renovated for the fair, which helped to revitalize the adjacent Old Warehouse District. The fair suffered from poor attendance, but many New Orleanians have fond memories of their fair experiences. Highlights included a monorail, a gondola across the Mississippi River, an aquacade, an amphitheater for concerts, the Wonderwall, and the mascot Seymore D. Fair (also commonly spelled Seymour D' Fair). There also were many dining choices, including the Italian Village, the Japanese Pavilion and Pete Fountain's Reunion Hall.


1984 Louisiana World Exposition, The Fair
USS Lexington visited the fair and was open for tourist visits while much of the crew enjoyed liberty.


1984 Louisiana World Exposition, Legacy
Some traces of the fair remain today. In the Warehouse District, many of the streets were improved and many old buildings were renovated for businesses that hoped to cater to fair guests. These buildings later were converted to commercial and residential uses. These improvements paved the way for the city's arts district seen today.


1984 Louisiana World Exposition, Legacy
The Riverwalk Marketplace and the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center is perhaps the fair's greatest legacy. The exhibition hall of the convention center was the fair's Louisiana Pavilion, it later reopened as a convention center in 1985. Next to the convention center on the corner of Tchoupitoulas and Henderson streets is a steel and fiberglass bust of Neptune and the head of one of his alligators. At the fair, the statues of Neptune, a mermaid and some alligators surrounding them made up Bridge Gate, one of the entrances to the fair.


1984 Louisiana World Exposition, Legacy
Most other structures and the MART were demolished after the fair closed. The monorails were moved to Florida and re-used at Zoo Miami. Despite its problems, the fair is fondly remembered by many New Orleans residents, particularly for its noteworthy post-modern architecture, such as the groundbreaking Wonderwall designed by noted architect Charles Willard Moore and his partner William Turnbull.


1984 Louisiana World Exposition, Legacy
On November 11, 2014, on the Fair's 30th Anniversary, a large bronze commemorative plaque was unveiled at the corner of Julia Street and Convention Center Boulevard, the heart of the world fair site.


1984 Louisville Cardinals football team
The 1984 Louisville Cardinals football team represented the University of Louisville in the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Cardinals, led by fifth-year head coach Bob Weber, participated as independents and played their home games at Cardinal Stadium.


1984 Luxembourg general election
General elections were held in Luxembourg on 17 June 1984. The Christian Social People's Party remained the largest party, winning 25 of the 64 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. It formed a coalition government with the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party, the Santer-Poos government.


1984 MTV Video Music Awards
The 1984 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on September 14, 1984. The inaugural ceremony honored the best music videos released between May 2, 1983 and May 2, 1984, and was hosted by Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City.


1984 MTV Video Music Awards
Herbie Hancock was the show's most-awarded artist, taking home five awards, followed by Michael Jackson, who won three. The main award, Video of the Year, went to The Cars for "You Might Think". This was the first instance of only a few in the show's history where the video of the year did not win any other awards. Hancock's "Rockit" and The Police's "Every Breath You Take" were the most-nominated videos, receiving eight nominations apiece. Cyndi Lauper was the most-nominated artist of the night, with nine overall for two of her videos: six for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", which eventually won the Moonman for Best Female Video, and three for "Time After Time".


1984 MTV Video Music Awards
Other major nominees included Jackson and The Cars, both of whom received six nominations each for their videos "Thriller" and "You Might Think" respectively; ZZ Top, who received six nominations among their videos for "Legs", "Sharp Dressed Man", and "Gimme All Your Lovin'"; and Billy Idol, who garnered five nominations for "Dancing with Myself" and "Eyes Without a Face". Lastly, David Bowie earned four nominations for his "China Girl" and "Modern Love" videos, and was also one of the honorees for the Video Vanguard award.


1984 MTV Video Music Awards, Performances
Madonna's  performance of "Like a Virgin" has been referred to as one of the most "unforgettable" and "iconic" moments in both pop culture and VMA history for the singer's fashion and her "provocative moves". She emerged from a 17-foot tall wedding cake wearing a "racy", "risque", see-through wedding dress and bustier, with a silver belt buckle that read "BOY TOY". While descending the steps of the cake, one of her high heeled shoes slipped off, prompting her to dive to the floor and roll around to cover up the wardrobe malfunction.


1984 MTV Video Music Awards, Performances
Her attempt to retrieve the shoe inadvertently led to her flashing her underwear on live television—Rolling Stone listed the moment as the sixth-most outrageous in MTV VMA history. Madonna later told Billboard after the incident, "So I thought, 'Well, I'll just pretend I meant to do this,' and I dove onto the floor and I rolled around. And, as I reached for the shoe, the dress went up. And the underpants were showing". In 2017, the outlet ranked her performance as the second-greatest award show performance of all time, saying that after her they "became the historical record; the way we remember stars at their most iconic, and the way they demonstrate their immortality".


1984 MTV Video Music Awards, Winners and nominees
Michael Jackson – "Thriller" (Choreographers: Michael Jackson and Michael Peters)


1984 MTV Video Music Awards, Winners and nominees
Herbie Hancock – "Rockit" (Art Directors: Jim Whiting and Godley & Creme)


1984 MTV Video Music Awards, Winners and nominees
Herbie Hancock – "Rockit" (Editors: Roo Aiken and Godley & Creme)


1984 MTV Video Music Awards, Winners and nominees
The Police – "Every Breath You Take" (Director of Photography: Daniel Pearl)


1984 Macau Grand Prix
The 1984 Macau Grand Prix Formula Three was the 31st Macau Grand Prix race to be held on the streets of Macau on 18 November 1984. It was the first edition for Formula Three cars.


1984 Madrid Tennis Grand Prix
The 1984 Madrid Grand Prix was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 13th edition of the tournament and was part of the Super Series of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix. It was played in Madrid, Spain and was held from 27 February until 4 March 1984. First-seeded John McEnroe won the singles title.


1984 Madrid Tennis Grand Prix, Finals, Doubles
Peter Fleming /  John McEnroe defeated  Fritz Buehning /  Ferdi Taygan 6–3, 6–3


1984 Maine Black Bears football team
The 1984 Maine Black Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maine as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their fourth season under head coach Ron Rogerson, the Black Bears compiled a 5–6 record (2–3 against conference opponents) and finished fourth out of six teams in the Yankee Conference. Gary Hufnagle was the team captain.


1984 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
The 1984 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 55th midseason exhibition between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was played on July 10, 1984, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, home of the San Francisco Giants of the National League. The game resulted in a 3-1 victory for the NL.


1984 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Roster
Players in italics have since been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.


1984 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game summary
The National Leaguers drew first blood in the first off Dave Stieb when Steve Garvey singled to right and went to second on an error by Reggie Jackson. Garvey then scored on another error by catcher Lance Parrish after Dale Murphy singled. In the second, George Brett tied it with a homer off Charlie Lea, and game MVP Gary Carter quickly gave the NL the lead back with a shot off Dave Stieb.


1984 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game summary
The game would remain 2-1, NL, for five more innings with two noteworthy pitching performances by National League pitchers along the way. Fernando Valenzuela struck out Dave Winfield, Reggie Jackson, and George Brett in the fourth, and 19-year-old Dwight Gooden fanned Lance Parrish, Chet Lemon, and Alvin Davis in the fifth.


1984 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game summary
Dale Murphy added a homer in the eighth off Willie Hernández for the final 3-1 margin. Goose Gossage got the save. The game set a nine-inning All-Star Game record for most strikeouts (21)--which would be broken in 1999.


1984 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game summary
Huey Lewis and the News sang the United States National Anthem prior to the game, with the Presidio of San Francisco color guard presenting the colors and airplanes from Travis Air Force Base flying over Candlestick Park at the Anthem's conclusion. The ceremonial first pitch ceremony featured Carl Hubbell.


1984 Major League Baseball draft, First round selections
The following are the first round picks in the 1984 Major League Baseball draft.


1984 Major League Baseball season
The 1984 Major League Baseball season started with a 9-game winning streak by the eventual World Series champions Detroit Tigers who started the season with 35 wins and 5 losses and never relinquished the first place lead.


1984 Malaysian Masters
The 1984 Camus Malaysian Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament held in August 1984 in Malaysia.


1984 Malaysian Masters
The event was held as a round robin with each player playing each other once. Professionals Steve Davis, Terry Griffiths and Tony Meo participated along with two local players. Terry Griffiths won the tournament by virtue of finishing top of the round robin league table, winning three and drawing one of his matches.


1984 Manal Aru massacres
The Manal Aru massacres of 1984 refers to a series of massacres of Sri Lankan Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan military across numerous traditional Tamil villages in the Manal Aru region which spans across the Mullaitivu and Trincomalee districts. The motive behind the massacres were to drive out the local Tamil population from their villages, for colonization of Sinhala settlers.


1984 Manal Aru massacres
Over the period from 1 December 1984 till 15 December 1984 the area surrounding the region that connects Mullaithivu to Trincomalee saw three well planned massacres, property destruction and forced eviction of Tamils from this region by the Sri Lankan military. The result was that the people who were expelled remained and still remain uprooted from their land.


1984 Manal Aru massacres, State aided Sinhala colonization of Tamil areas
The Mullaitivu and Trincomalee Districts were dotted with what have been traditional Tamil farming and fishing villages for generations. It was interspersed with small and large farms owned by Tamils or held on long lease by Tamil-owned business enterprises. Among the large farms were: Navalar farm, Ceylon Theatres farm, Kent farm, Railway Group Farm, Postmaster Group Farm and Dollar Farm. Kent and Dollar farms were later used to rehabilitate the hill country victims of the 1977 anti-Tamil pogrom.


1984 Manal Aru massacres, State aided Sinhala colonization of Tamil areas
Throughout the 1980s the Sri Lankan government conspired many schemes to grab the lands of Tamils, and settle them with Sinhalese people. The deliberate and coordinated attacks on Tamil villages, however began after the 1983 Anti- Tamil pogrom in which more than 3000 ethnic Tamils were wiped out and hundreds of thousands were forced to flee the island.


1984 Manal Aru massacres, State aided Sinhala colonization of Tamil areas
The Yan Oya settlement was one such, aimed at breaking the territorial contiguity of Tamil Eelam, the traditional homeland of Sri Lankan Tamils, between Trincomalee and Mullaitivu. The Yan Oya settlement scheme was administered by the Sri Lankan minister of Sinhala ethnicity Lalith Athulathmudali backed by President J.R. Jayewardene.


1984 Manal Aru massacres, State aided Sinhala colonization of Tamil areas
In November 1984, alleging Tamils as terrorists, the Superintendent of Police in Vauvuniya Arthur Herath raided and drove away the residents of Kent and Dollar Farm. Subsequently, Sinhala ex-convicts and prisoners were settled there and armed. Next, the nearby villages of Kokkilai, Manal Aru, Kokkuthoduvai, Alampil, Nayaru and Kumulamunai were targeted in Mullaitivu District. The historic Tamil villages of Amaravayal and Thennamarwadi in Trincomalee District was also attacked with the objective of ethnic cleansing of Tamils.


1984 Manal Aru massacres, Massacres, Manal Aru
On 03.12.1984, Sri Lankan military rounded up Manal Aru area and fired randomly at the civilians. Civilians from Manal Aru were chased away by the Sri Lankan military and their houses were set on fire. People who have lived in the villages for generations were thus displaced. Many civilians were killed including women and children. Hundreds of families were displaced from these areas. Sinhalese were settled in these villages later.


1984 Manal Aru massacres, Massacres, Manal Aru
Army officers either visited or sent messages to village elders informing them of an impending attack on their villages and advised them to leave. They also used harassment - theft, assault, kidnapping and rape. The harassment was followed by direct onslaught.


1984 Manal Aru massacres, Massacres, Othiyamalai
Another instance of the harassment of the Tamils was the massacre at Othiyamalai during the succeeding months where more than 25 Tamils were killed by the army. TULF representatives who took part in the Indian brokered APC talks raised the events in Manal Aru with the government. They were told that the Sinhalese were being settled as part of a security cordon.


1984 Manal Aru massacres, Massacres, Amaravayal
Amarivayal is an ancient Tamil village in the north of Trincomalee district. It lies close to Padaviya. The village was neglected by the state and its inhabitants were harassed by Sinhala colonists who wanted to grab their farmland. People of the village received a message that, unless they left the village immediately, they would be attacked by the Sinhalese. N.Vijayaratnam in his book 'Manal Aru' describes the events:


1984 Manal Aru massacres, Massacres, Amaravayal
The next moment the people gathered the few movables they possessed in cloth bundles and ran into the surrounding jungle. They waited there the whole of the night. They first heard gunshots from the direction of the village. Then they saw flames jump up. With burning hearts, they walked towards Mullaitivu and joined refugee camps. The young, boys and girls joined the LTTE and fought along with them to liberate their villages. They are yet to succeed. But they are determined to succeed.


1984 Manal Aru massacres, Massacres, Thennamarawadi
In December 1984, Soldiers and Sinhalese mobs invaded the village of Thennamarawadi variety of weapons, knives, axes, crowbars, clubs and guns. About 200 families lived in Thenaimarawadi at that time. They fled into the forest. The mob set fire to their huts and destroyed everything they could lay their hands on. The mob returned again the next day. They searched the forest for Tamils. They caught a few Tamils and soldiers shot them dead. Youths were lined up and shot. Women were also raped.


1984 Manal Aru massacres, Massacres, Thennamarawadi
On the third day, 4 December, residents of Thenaimarawadi began their journey to safety; they walked through the forest for four days and reached Mulliyavalai in the Mullaitivu district. They built temporary sheds and stayed there. They named their new settlement Ponnagar meaning Golden Town. They have lived there for the past 20 years.


1984 Manal Aru massacres, Massacres, Kokkilai and other coastal villages
Colonization and forced eviction attempts in traditional Tamil fishing villages by the Sri Lankan military culminated in to a series of massacres that killed hundreds of Tamils which included 31 women and 21 children.


1984 Manal Aru massacres, Aftermath
The Tamil community from this region never returned to its original prosperity. Similar treatment was meted out to numerous traditional villages in the Batticaloa, Ampara, Vavunia and Mannar districts.


1984 Manal Aru massacres, Aftermath
In December 1984, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam reprised these colonization attempts by attacking these newly established colonies in North-East which were heavily protected by Sri Lankan military and Sri Lankan Home Guards who had earlier ethnically cleansed the native Tamil population from these villages.