1984 Belgian Grand Prix, Summary
Goodyear dominated qualifying filling six of the top seven places with Michele Alboreto securing his first career pole position. Teammate René Arnoux was second, followed by Keke Rosberg in the Williams FW09-Honda. Derek Warwick, the first Michelin runner, was fourth ahead of Elio de Angelis (Lotus 95T-Renault) and the surprising fast ATS D7-BMW of Manfred Winkelhock. The McLarens were off the pace with points leader Alain Prost in eighth and Niki Lauda in 14th. Reigning world champion Nelson Piquet qualified his Brabham BT53-BMW ninth. The best of the Pirelli runners was Johnny Cecotto in 16th in his Toleman TG183B-Hart. The only non-qualifier was Philippe Alliot in his RAM-Hart.


1984 Belgian Grand Prix, Summary
Alboreto led all 70 laps and was even able to retain the lead during pit stops, despite Piquet pushing through without stopping. Warwick started well to run second for much of the race with Arnoux, Winkelhock and de Angelis pursuing. Prost and Riccardo Patrese (Alfa Romeo 184T) were early retirements with Cecotto dropping out on lap 1 with a broken clutch.


1984 Belgian Grand Prix, Summary
Lauda's McLaren MP4/2 broke its water pump at half-distance, the second such failure for the TAG-Porsche engine after Prost suffered the same fate on the warm up lap in South Africa. Shortly afterwards Winkelhock stopped and Andrea de Cesaris crashed his Ligier JS23-Renault. Piquet found himself third after the stops, but faded as the race neared its conclusion. Arnoux moved into third until he was caught by Rosberg. Piquet's BMW engine blew and with a lap to go Rosberg ran out of fuel, allowing Arnoux to join Alboreto and Warwick on the podium. Rosberg was classified fourth, with de Angelis fifth and Stefan Bellof completing the top six in his Tyrrell 012-Ford.


1984 Belgian Grand Prix, Aftermath
The results would change months later as the impact of Tyrrell Racing's disqualification from the 1984 season saw Stefan Bellof removed from sixth position, promoting Ayrton Senna (Toleman TG183B) into the points.


1984 Belgian Grand Prix, Aftermath
The Belgian Grand Prix would return to traditional home at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in 1985. The shortened version of the home of Belgian motorsport had its Formula One debut the previous year and proven instantly popular and Gilles Villeneuve's death two years earlier at Zolder was still fresh.


1984 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1984 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 1984 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 6–8 July 1984 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. The race was marred by the fatal accident of rider Kevin Wrettom in practice leading up to the race.


1984 Belizean general election
General elections were held in Belize on 14 December 1984. The result was a victory for the opposition United Democratic Party, which won 21 of the 28 seats. Voter turnout was 75.0%.


1984 Belizean general election, Background
The elections were the first in Belize since it achieved full independence from the United Kingdom in 1981. In its more than 30 years of existence, the ruling People's United Party had never lost an election at the national level, whilst the opposition had never won more than six seats (out of a possible eighteen in 1974). However, by 1984 the PUP were presiding over an economy in recession and that had just recently been bailed out by the IMF. The party was internally fractured and faced a United Democratic Party that had made significant gains since losing the last general election in 1979. Senator Manuel Esquivel – who Prime Minister George Price defeated in his own House constituency in 1979 – became UDP leader in December 1983.


1984 Belizean general election, Background
Just a few months before the election, Price ordered a redistricting of electoral boundaries. This created 10 new constituencies for a total of 28, but the majority were upset because of claims that the PUP drew the boundaries with victory in mind. Esquivel was elected in the newly created Caribbean Shores House constituency, while Price himself was defeated in his Freetown constituency after over 30 years of continuous service in the House of Representatives and its predecessors. Esquivel succeeded Price as prime minister to become the first non-PUP leader in the nation's history. Price continued to lead the PUP from outside the National Assembly while Florencio Marin became Leader of the Opposition.


1984 Beninese parliamentary election
Elections for the National Revolutionary Assembly were held in Benin on 10 June 1984. They were originally scheduled for 1983, but the term of the Assembly was extended by 18 months. At the time, the country was a one-party state under the People's Revolutionary Party of Benin, with voters given the choice of approving the party's list of 196 candidates (reduced from 336) or not. The list was ultimately approved by 98.2% of voters, with a 93.1% turnout. Following the election, Mathieu Kérékou was elected President (unopposed) by the Assembly on 31 July.


1984 Beninese parliamentary election, Assembly members
Rather than geographical constituencies, seats were given to 22 professions. The largest number of seats (78) were held by "Peasants and craftsmen from rural areas". Also represented were mass organizations, the party (31 seats), civil servants (divided into six categories), the army (divided into privates, non-commissioned officers and officers ), workers, religious bodies, students, retired people, magistrates and the "national bourgeoisie". Assembly members, known as "People's Commissioners", also had their terms extended from three to five years.


1984 Benson & Hedges Championships
The 1984 Benson & Hedges Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Wembley Arena in London in England that was part of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix. The tournament was held from 5 November through 11 November 1984. Third-seeded Ivan Lendl won the singles title and the accompanying $50,000 first-prize money.


1984 Benson & Hedges Championships, Finals, Doubles
Ivan Lendl /  Andrés Gómez defeated  Pavel Složil /  Tomáš Šmíd 6–2, 6–2


1984 Benson & Hedges Cup
The 1984 Benson & Hedges Cup was the thirteenth competing of cricket's Benson & Hedges Cup.


1984 Benson and Hedges Open
The 1984 Benson and Hedges Open was a men's Grand Prix tennis tournament held in Auckland, New Zealand an played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 17th edition of the tournament and was held from January 9 through January 15, 1984. Unseeded Danny Saltz won the singles title.


1984 Benson and Hedges Open, Finals, Doubles
Brian Levine /  John Van Nostrand defeated  Brad Drewett /  Chip Hooper 7–5, 6–2


1984 Benson and Hedges Open – Singles
Danny Saltz defeated Chip Hooper 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–4 to win the 1984 Heineken Open singles competition. John Alexander was the defending champion.


1984 Benson and Hedges Open – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1984 Berlin Marathon
The 1984 Berlin Marathon was the 11th running of the annual marathon race held in Berlin, West Germany, held on 30 September. Sweden's John Skovbjerg won the men's race in 2:13:35 hours, while the women's race was won by Hungary's Ágnes Sipka in 2:39:32. Sweden's Bo Lindquist (2:16:32) and West Germany's Gabriele Beyer (2:47:14), won the men's and women's wheelchair races. A total of 7297 runners finished the race, comprising 6875 men and 422 women.


1984 Bhiwandi riot
The 1984 Bhiwandi riot was a Hindu-Muslim riot that occurred in May 1984 in and around Bhiwandi town in Indian state of Maharashtra. It left 146 people dead and over 600 injured. On 17 May 1984, riots broke out in industrial belt from Bombay, Thane, and Bhiwandi. In all, 278 were killed and 1,118 were wounded.


1984 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1984 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City, from March 7 to March 10, 1984. Its winner received the Big East Conference's automatic bid to the 1984 NCAA Tournament. It is a single-elimination tournament with four rounds. Georgetown had the best regular season conference record and received the #1 seed.


1984 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
Georgetown defeated Syracuse in the championship game 82–71, to claim its third Big East Tournament championship.


1984 Big Eight Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1984 Big Eight Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 8–10 at a combination of on-campus gymnasiums and the Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri.


1984 Big Eight Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Second-seeded Kansas defeated top-seeded Oklahoma in the championship game, 79–78, to win the Big Eight men's basketball tournament.


1984 Big Eight Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The Jayhawks received an automatic bid to the 1984 NCAA Tournament. They were joined in the tournament by fellow Big Eight member Oklahoma, who earned an at-large bid.


1984 Big Eight Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
All eight of the conference's members participated in the tournament field. They were seeded based on regular season conference records, with all teams placed and paired in the initial quarterfinal round.


1984 Big Eight Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
All first-round games were played on the home court of the higher-seeded team. The semifinals and championship game were played at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri.


1984 Big League World Series
The 1984 Big League World Series took place from August 11–18 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. Taipei, Taiwan defeated Maracaibo, Venezuela in the championship game. It was Taiwan's second straight championship


1984 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1984 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 9–10 at the Dee Events Center at Weber State College in Ogden, Utah.


1984 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Fourth-seeded Nevada defeated Montana in the championship game, 71–69, to clinch their first Big Sky tournament title. In the semifinals, the Wolf Pack shocked regular season champion, defending tournament champion, and host Weber State by seventeen points.


1984 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
For the first time, all eight Big Sky members participated in the conference tournament. Teams were again seeded based on regular season conference records, and all were entered into the quarterfinal round, which was held on the home courts of the top four seeds on Tuesday. The semifinals (Friday) and finals (Saturday) were hosted by the highest remaining seed; the top four seeds all advanced.


1984 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, NCAA tournament
Nevada (17–13) received an automatic bid to the 53-team NCAA tournament, their first Division I tournament appearance. Seeded eleventh in the West regional, the Wolf Pack lost by ten points to sixth seed Washington in the first round in Pullman, Washington. Weber State played in the 32-team NIT, winning the opener at home over Fordham by twelve, then fell by two in double overtime at Southwestern Louisiana.


1984 Big Ten Baseball Tournament
The 1984 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Siebert Field on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota from May 18 through 20. The top two teams from the regular season in each division participated in the double-elimination tournament, the fourth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Michigan won their third tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1984 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament


1984 Big Ten Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The 1984 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage within each division. The top seed from each division played the second seed from the opposite division in the first round.


1984 Big Ten Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Outstanding Player
Kurt Zimmerman was named Most Outstanding Player. Zimmerman was an outfielder for Michigan.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season
The 1984 Big Ten Conference football season was the 89th season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Ten Conference and was a part of the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season
The 1984 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, under head coach Earle Bruce, compiled a 9–3 record, won the Big Ten championship, led the conference in scoring offense (32.6 points per game), lost the 1985 Rose Bowl to USC, and was ranked No. 13 in the final AP poll. Running back Keith Byars set a Big Ten record with 1,764 rushing yards, won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Big Ten's most valuable player, was selected as a consensus All-American, and finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting. Offensive guard Jim Lachey was also selected as a consensus All-American.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season
The 1984 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, under head coach Hayden Fry, compiled an 8–4–1 record, led the conference in scoring defense (15.5 points allowed per game), defeated Texas in the 1984 Freedom Bowl, and was ranked No. 15 in the final UPI poll. Linebacker Larry Station was a consensus All-American. Chuck Long was the first-team All-Big Ten quarterback and led the conference with a 156.4 passing efficiency rating, and Ronnie Harmon was a first-team All-Big Ten running back.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season
The 1984 Illinois Fighting Illini football team, under head coach Mike White, compiled a 7–3 record and finished in a tie for second place in the Big Ten. Wide receiver David Williams set Big Ten records with 101 receptions and 1,278 receiving yards and was a consensus All-American.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season
The 1984 Purdue Boilermakers football team compiled a 7–5 record,  tied with Illinois for second place in the Big Ten, and lost to Virginia in the 1984 Peach Bowl. Leon Burtnett was named Big Ten Coach of the Year, and quarterback Jim Everett led the conference with 3,256 passing yards.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season
Six Big Ten teams played in bowl games, compiling a 1–5 record in those games.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics
KeyAP final = Team's rank in the final AP Poll of the 1984 seasonAP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1984 seasonPPG = Average of points scored per game; conference leader's average displayed in boldPAG = Average of points allowed per game; conference leader's average displayed in boldMVP = Most valuable player as voted by players on each team as part of the voting process to determine the winner of the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy; trophy winner in bold


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, September 1
On September 1, 1984, the Big Ten football season began with a single conference game.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, September 8
On September 8, 1984, the Big Ten football teams played 10 non-conference games, resulting in eight wins and two losses.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, September 15
On September 15, 1984, the Big Ten teams played 10 non-conference games, resulting in two wins and eight losses.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, September 22
On September 22, 1984, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, September 29
On September 29, 1984, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 6
On October 6, 1984, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 13
On October 13, 1984, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 20
On October 20, 1984, the Big Ten football teams played five conference games.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 27
On October 27, 1984, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, November 3
On November 3, 1984, the Big Ten football teams played five conference games.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, November 10
On November 10, 1984, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, November 17
On November 17, 1984, the Big Ten teams played four conference games. Illinois and Northwestern did not play.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, December 1
On December 1, 1984, the Big Ten's regular season came to an end with a single non-conference game.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games
Six of ten Big Ten football teams participated in post-season bowl games.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games, 1985 Rose Bowl
On January 1, 1985, Ohio State (ranked No. 6 in the AP poll) lost to USC (ranked No. 18), 20-17, before a crowd of 102,594 in the 1985 Rose Bowl at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Ohio State quarterback Mike Tomczak threw three interceptions.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games, 1984 Peach Bowl
On December 31, 1984, Purdue lost to Virginia, 27-24, before a crowd of 41,107 in the 1984 Peach Bowl at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta. Purdue quarterback Jim Everett passed for 253 yards and three touchdowns, but the Boilermakers gained just 75 yards rushing and committed four turnovers in their first bowl loss.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games, 1984 Hall of Fame Classic
On December 29, 1984, Wisconsin lost to Kentucky, 20-19, before a crowd of 47,300 in the 1984 Hall of Fame Classic at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games, 1984 Freedom Bowl
On December 26, 1984, Iowa defeated Texas (ranked No. 19 in the AP poll), 55–17, in the 1984 Freedom Bowl at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games, 1984 Cherry Bowl
On December 22, 1984, Michigan State lost to Army, 10–6, before a crowd of 70,336 at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games, 1984 Holiday Bowl
On December 21, 1984, Michigan lost to BYU (ranked No. 1 in the AP and UPI polls), 24-17, before a crowd of 61,248 at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego. Robbie Bosco, playing with an injured leg, led BYU's winning touchdown drive in the final quarter, ending with a touchdown pass from Bosco to Kelly Smith with 1:23 remaining. After the bowl season, BYU was recognized as the 1984 consensus national champion.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Passing yards
1. Jim Everett, Purdue (3,256)2. Chuck Long, Iowa (2,871)3. Jack Trudeau, Illinois (2,724)4. Steve Bradley, Indiana (2,544)5. Mike Howard, Wisconsin (2,127)


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Rushing yards
1. Keith Byars, Ohio State (1,764)2. Thomas Rooks, Illinois (1,056)3. Owen Gill, Iowa (920)4. Ronnie Harmon, Iowa (907)5. Marck Harrison, Wisconsin (848)


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Receiving yards
1. David Williams, Illinois (1,278)2. Steve Griffin, Purdue (1,060)3. Len Kenebrew, Indiana (750)3. Al Toon, Wisconsin (750)5. Randy Grant, Illinois (680)


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Total offense
1. Jim Everett, Purdue (3,207)2. Jack Trudeau, Illinois (2,797)3. Chuck Long, Iowa (2,717)4. Steve Bradley, Indiana (2,561)5. Mike Howard, Wisconsin (2,138)


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Passing efficiency rating
1. Chuck Long, Iowa (156.4)2. Jack Trudeau, Illinois (136.3)3. Mike Tomczak, Ohio State (131.1)4. Jim Everett, Purdue (127.6)5. Mike Howard, Wisconsin (118.8)


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Rushing yards per attempt
1. Larry Emery, Wisconsin (6.2)2. John Wooldridge, Ohio State (5.9)3. Keith Byars, Ohio State (5.2)4. Bob Perryman, Michigan (5.2)5. Casey Cummings, Northwestern (4.9)


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Yards per reception
1. Dwayne McMullen, Minnesota (22.8)2. Len Kenebrew, Indiana (18.3)3. Randy Grant, Illinois (16.6)4. Steve Griffin, Purdue (16.6)5. Rick Brunner, Purdue (15.9)


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Points scored
1. Keith Byars, Ohio State (144)2. Chris White, Illinois (103)3. Tom Nichol, Iowa (89)4. Rich Spangler, Ohio State (87)5. Todd Gregoire, Wisconsin (84)


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Big Ten honors
The following players were picked by the Associated Press (AP) and/or the United Press International (UPI) as first-team players on the 1984 All-Big Ten Conference football team.


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-American honors
At the end of the 1984 season, four Big Ten players were consensus first-team picks for the 1984 College Football All-America Team. The Big Ten's consensus All-Americans were:


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-American honors
Other Big Ten players who were named first-team All-Americans by at least one selector were:


1984 Big Ten Conference football season, 1985 NFL Draft
The 1985 NFL Draft was held in New York on April 30 and May 1, 1985 in New York City, New York. The following players were among the first 100 picks:


1984 Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 crash
On 5 August 1984, a Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27-600 crashed into a marsh near Zia International Airport (now Shahjalal International Airport) in Dhaka, Bangladesh while landing in poor weather. The aircraft was performing a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Patenga Airport, Chittagong and Zia International Airport, Dhaka.


1984 Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 crash
With a total death toll of 49 people, it is the deadliest aviation disaster to occur on Bangladeshi soil and also the airline's worst accident.


1984 Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 crash, Aircraft and crew
The aircraft, a Fokker F27-600 registered S2-ABJ, was manufactured in 1971. It first flew for Indian Airlines but it was given to Biman in 1972, as a part of all the support given to Bangladesh by the Government of India following Bangladesh's Independence. At the time of the accident, the aircraft had flown more than 24,000 cycles and more than 15,500 airframe hours.


1984 Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 crash, Aircraft and crew
The captain of the flight was Kayes Ahmed Majumdar, an experienced pilot who had logged 5,000 flying hours. The first officer was Kaniz Fatema Roksana, who was the first female commercial pilot of Bangladesh.


1984 Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 crash, Accident
The weather conditions in Dhaka were poor on the day of the accident; there was turbulence and heavy rain made visibility very poor. Amid these conditions, the crew first attempted a VOR approach to Zia International Airport's runway 32. As the runway was not spotted by either crew member, a missed approach was executed. The crew then tried an ILS approach on runway 14 of the same airport, but a missed approach had to be executed again as both pilots had failed to spot the runway once again. On the crew's third approach (second on runway 14), the plane got too low while it was still several hundred meters from the runway but neither crew member realized this (due to the poor visibility) and the plane crashed into a swamp about 550 meters short of the runway.


1984 Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 crash, Passengers
There were a total of 45 passengers and 4 crew members on board the flight, all of whom perished in the crash. There was one Briton and one Japanese among the passengers, and the rest were Bangladeshi. Thirty-three of the passengers were traveling to Dhaka to catch connecting flights to the Middle East.


1984 Birthday Honours
Queen's Birthday Honours are announced on or around the date of the Queen's Official Birthday in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The dates vary, both from year to year and from country to country. All are published in supplements to the London Gazette and many are conferred by the monarch (or her representative) some time after the date of the announcement, particularly for those service people on active duty.


1984 Birthday Honours
The 1984 Queen's Birthday honours lists for New Zealand and the Cook Islands were announced on 16 June 1984.


1984 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The 1984 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of Elizabeth II, were appointments made by the Queen in her right as Queen of New Zealand, on the advice of the New Zealand government, to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on 16 June 1984.


1984 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1984 Black & Decker Indoor Championships
The 1984 Black & Decker Indoor Championships, also known as the Melbourne Indoor Championships,  was an Association of Tennis Professionals men's tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Festival Hall in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was the fourth edition of the tournament, which was part of the  1984 Grand Prix tennis circuit, and was held from 14 October until 20 October 1984. Unseeded Matt Mitchell won the singles title.


1984 Black & Decker Indoor Championships, Finals, Doubles
Broderick Dyke /  Wally Masur defeated  Peter Johnston /  John McCurdy 6–2, 6–3


1984 Blue Swords
The 1984 Blue Swords was an international figure skating competition in East Germany. First time in 1984 the competition was organised only for junior skaters. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles and pair skating. 52 participants from 18 countries started in Karl-Marx-Stadt.


1984 Boise State Broncos football team
The 1984 Boise State Broncos football team represented Boise State University in the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Broncos competed in the Big Sky Conference and played their home games on campus at Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho. The Broncos were led by second–year head coach Lyle Setencich, Boise State finished the season 6–5 overall and 4–3 in conference.


1984 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 1984 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 1984 to elect members of  Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council in Greater Manchester, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party kept overall control of the council


1984 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election
21 seats were contested in the election: 13 were won by the Labour Party, 6 by the Conservative Party and 2 by the Liberal Party. In the Hulton ward, 2 Councillors were elected. After the election, the composition of the council was


1984 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election, Council Composition
Prior to the election the composition of the council was:


1984 Bordeaux Open
The 1984 Bordeaux Open also known as the Grand Prix Passing Shot was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at Villa Primrose in Bordeaux, France that was part of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix. It was the sixth edition of the tournament and was held from 17 September until 21 September 1984. Third-seeded José Higueras won the singles title.


1984 Bordeaux Open, Finals, Doubles
Pavel Složil /  Blaine Willenborg defeated  Loïc Courteau /  Guy Forget 6–1, 6–4


1984 Borden Classic
The 1984 Borden Classic  was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Tokyo, Japan that was part of the 1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. The tournament was held from 1 October through 7 October 1984. Third-seeded Etsuko Inoue won the singles title.


1984 Borden Classic, Finals, Doubles
Mercedes Paz /  Ronni Reis defeated  Emilse Raponi-Longo /  Adriana Villagrán-Reami 6–4, 7–5


1984 Boston College Eagles football team
The 1984 Boston College Eagles football team represented the Boston College in the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1984 Boston College Eagles football team
The Eagles finished the season with a 10–2 record. Doug Flutie gained national attention in 1984 when he quarterbacked the Eagles to victory in a high-scoring, back-and-forth game against the Miami Hurricanes (led by QB Bernie Kosar). The game was nationally televised on CBS the day after Thanksgiving and thus had a huge audience. Miami staged a dramatic drive to take the lead, 45–41, in the closing minute of the game. Boston College then took possession at its own 22-yard line with 28 seconds to go. After two passes moved the ball another 30 yards, only 6 seconds remained.


1984 Boston College Eagles football team
On the last play of the game, Flutie scrambled away from the defense and threw a Hail Mary pass that was caught in the end zone by Gerard Phelan, giving BC a 47–45 win. Although many people think that play clinched the Heisman Trophy for Flutie, the voting was already complete before that game.


1984 Boston College Eagles football team
Flutie left school as the NCAA's all-time passing yardage leader with 10,579 yards and was a consensus All-American as a senior. He earned Player of the Year awards from UPI, Kodak, The Sporting News, and the Maxwell Football Club.


1984 Boston College Eagles football team, 1984 team players in the NFL
The following players were claimed in the 1985 NFL Draft.


1984 Boston College Eagles football team, 1984 team players in the NFL
Bill Romanowski was also a member of the team and was drafted in 1988.


1984 Boston Red Sox season
The 1984 Boston Red Sox season was the 84th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished fourth in the American League East with a record of 86 wins and 76 losses, 18 games behind the Detroit Tigers, who went on to win the 1984 World Series.


1984 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season, Opening Day lineup
The Red Sox were defeated on Opening Day by the California Angels, 2–1, with both Angel runs scoring with two outs in the ninth on an error by Boston shortstop Jackie Gutiérrez.


1984 Boston University Terriers football team
The 1984 Boston University Terriers football team was an American football team that represented Boston University as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their eighth season under head coach Rick Taylor, the Terriers compiled a 9–3 record (4–1 against conference opponents), tied for the Yankee Conference championship, lost to Richmond in the first round of the NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship playoffs, and outscored opponents by a total of 287 to 187.


1984 Botswana general election
General elections were held in Botswana on 8 September 1984. Although the result was a fifth successive landslide victory for the Botswana Democratic Party, which won 29 of the 34 elected seats, the elections saw the opposition Botswana National Front make gains, winning both seats in the capital Gaborone and take control of all urban councils except Selebi-Phikwe in the simultaneous local elections.


1984 Botswana general election, Background
Following the death of President Seretse Khama in 1980, the 1984 elections were the first contested with Quett Masire as leader of the BDP.


1984 Botswana general election, Electoral system
The 34 elected members of the National Assembly were elected in single-member constituencies, an increased of two from the 1979 elections. Following the 1981 census, constituencies were redrawn and Gaborone was split into two.


1984 Botswana general election, Campaign
A total of 82 candidates contested the election as party representatives, with the BDP being the only party to contest all 34 seats. The Botswana National Front ran in 27 constituencies, the Botswana People's Party in 13, and the Botswana Independence Party and Botswana Progressive Union in four.


1984 Botswana general election, Campaign
The campaign was focussed on economic issues linked to the effect on the diamond industry of droughts and recession.


1984 Botswana general election, Aftermath
Following the elections, Botswana National Front co-leader Kenneth Koma went to court to have the result in the Gaborone South constituency overturned; Koma had lost to Vice-President Peter Mmusi, but an unopened ballot box was discovered after the final count. The High Court annulled the result and a by-election was held in December in which Koma defeated Mmusi.


1984 Bowling Green Falcons football team
The 1984 Bowling Green Falcons football team was an American football team that represented Bowling Green University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their eighth season under head coach Denny Stolz, the Falcons compiled an 8–3 record (7–2 against MAC opponents), finished in second place in the MAC, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 327 to 198.


1984 Bowling Green Falcons football team
The team's statistical leaders included Brian McClure with 2,951 passing yards, Bernard White with 1,036 rushing yards, and Stan Hunter with 744 receiving yards.


1984 Brabantse Pijl
The 1984 Brabantse Pijl was the 24th edition of the Brabantse Pijl cycle race and was held on 25 March 1984. The race started in Sint-Genesius-Rode and finished in Alsemberg. The race was won by Ronny Van Holen.


1984 Brazilian Grand Prix
The 1984 Brazilian Grand Prix, officially known as the XIII Grande Prêmio Brasil de Fórmula 1 was a Formula One motor race held on 25 March 1984 in Rio de Janeiro. The race was contested over 61 laps of Jacarepaguá Circuit and was the first race of the 1984 Formula One World Championship. This race was the 13th edition of the Brazilian Grand Prix, the ninth time that the Jacarepaguá Circuit race held a Grand Prix, and marked the debut of Ayrton Senna in Formula One.


1984 Brazilian Grand Prix
In qualifying, Italian driver, Elio de Angelis from Team Lotus claimed pole for the second time in his career as he finished ahead of fellow Italian driver, Michele Alboreto who was in the Ferrari. In the race it was Alain Prost in the McLaren car who would take out his second win in Brazil. He finished ahead of Keke Rosberg who was in the Williams with de Angelis finishing in third.


1984 Brazilian Grand Prix, Qualifying
Elio de Angelis claimed the first pole position of the season in his Lotus-Renault from the Ferrari of Michele Alboreto in his first race for the Prancing Horse. Derek Warwick, in his first race for Renault, was 3rd on the grid with the McLaren-TAG of Alain Prost 4th, Prost returning to the team he started his career with after three seasons with Renault. Reigning World Champion (and local favourite) Nelson Piquet qualified 7th in his Brabham-BMW, while another Brazilian, a Formula One rookie by the name of Ayrton Senna qualified 17th for his first ever Grand Prix in his Toleman-Hart.


1984 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race
With only 220 litres of fuel allowed, many teams on the grid tried various ways to save fuel from evaporating in the Rio heat. McLaren covered their cars in tin foil while others such as Lotus and Renault attempted to freeze their fuel in order to actually fit more in. The Renault team also had a sophisticated (for 1984) electronic fuel monitoring system which they hoped would give them an advantage over their rivals.


1984 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race
Alboreto got the jump at the start and led early from Warwick and de Angelis, with the McLarens of Niki Lauda 4th and Prost fighting back from a bad start. The Frenchman had bogged down at the green light with too few revs and was only 10th at the end of the first lap (Piquet also made a bad start after almost stalling at the green light and much to the agony of the crowd, was only in 23rd halfway through the first lap).


1984 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race
Not having done a practice start in the car, during the warm-up Prost had asked Lauda what revs to use at the start. Lauda told him no less than 10,000 but on the grid Prost felt this was too high and dropped to 8,000 only to find Lauda had been correct. Despite this he was beginning to show the superior race speed which would become the story of the season.


1984 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race
Lauda quickly passed de Angelis and when he passed Warwick for 2nd at the end of the back straight on lap 10, the McLaren's right rear hit the Renault's left front tyre. The hit damaged Warwick's suspension, leading to suspension failure for the Renault driver late in the race when running second.


1984 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race
Senna was the first retirement of the 1984 season with turbo failure on lap 8.


1984 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race
Alboreto's race was ruined by a loose bolt in his car's right front brake caliper which released all the brake fluid and caused the brake to overheat, resulting in a couple of spins and a pit stop where buckets of water were thrown over the brakes in a vain attempt at cooling it. Lauda was leading by some 40 seconds on lap 34 when the wires to his McLaren's battery came loose causing electrical failure. After almost stalling his Brabham-BMW at the start, Piquet finished an unhappy race on lap 32 when the BMW engine failed coming onto the pit straight.


1984 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race
After passing Warwick for the lead, Prost, who was in the pits for a tyre change when Lauda coasted in to retire, lost the lead back to the Englishman when he made his second stop for tyres. He regained the lead for good following Warwick's retirement and ran out the winner by 40 seconds from the Williams-Honda of Keke Rosberg and the Lotus of de Angelis. For Rosberg it was his third successive second place in the Brazilian Grand Prix, though it was the only one in which he was not disqualified. Eddie Cheever finish 4th in the Alfa Romeo, while Renault's Patrick Tambay was classified in 6th after running out of fuel on the last lap, losing 5th to another F1 rookie, Martin Brundle in his Tyrrell-Ford.


1984 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race
Brundle, and the Tyrrell team, would later be disqualified from the season for technical infringements. This promoted Tambay to 5th and the Arrows-Ford of Thierry Boutsen to 6th.


1984 Bridgestone Doubles Championships
The 1984 Bridgestone Doubles Championships 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 March 5 through March 11, 1984.


1984 Bridgestone Doubles Championships, Final
Ann Kiyomura /  Pam Shriver defeated  Barbara Jordan /  Elizabeth Smylie, 6–3, 6–7, 6–3.


1984 Brisbane Rugby League season
The 1984 Brisbane Rugby League premiership was the 76th season of Brisbane's semi-professional rugby league football competition. Eight teams from across Brisbane competed for the premiership, which culminated in a grand final match between the Wynnum-Manly and Southern Suburbs clubs.


1984 Brisbane Rugby League season, Season summary
Teams played each other three times, with 21 rounds of competition played. It resulted in a top four of Wynnum-Manly, Southern Suburbs, Fortitude Valley and Redcliffe.


1984 Brisbane Rugby League season, Grand Final
Wynnum-Manly 42 (Tries: D. Green 2, W. Green, B. French, B. Walsh, W. Lewis, G. Miles, G. Dowling. Goals: W. Green 5.)


1984 Brisbane Rugby League season, Grand Final
Southern Suburbs 8 (Tries: H. Abbott. Goals: M. Meninga 2.)


1984 Bristol City Council election
The 1984 Bristol City Council election took place on 3 May 1984 to elect members of Bristol City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. In this election, one-third of seats were up for election. There was a general but small swing from Conservative to Labour. Labour regained their position as the largest party and took minority control of the Council.


1984 Bristol Open – Doubles
John Alexander and John Fitzgerald were the defending champions, but lost in the final this year.


1984 Bristol Open – Doubles
Larry Stefanki and Robert Van't Hof won the title, defeating Alexander and Fitzgerald 6–4, 5–7, 9–7 in the final.


1984 Bristol Open – Singles
Kriek successfully defended his title, defeating Brian Teacher 6–7, 7–6, 6–4 in the final.


1984 Brit Awards
The 1984 Brit Awards were the 4th edition of the biggest annual pop music awards in the United Kingdom. They are run by the British Phonographic Industry and took place on 21 February 1984 at Grosvenor House Hotel in London.


1984 Brit Awards, Multiple nominations and awards
The following artists received multiple awards and/or nominations. don't counting British Album of the Year and British Single of the Year.


1984 British Formula Three Championship
The 1984 British Formula Three Championship was the 34th season of British Formula Three. Johnny Dumfries took the BARC/BRDC Marlboro British Formula 3 Championship.


1984 British Formula Three Championship
Johnny Dumfries got a drive with Team BP for the season, and ran way with the British title. The Earl of Dumfries, calling himself “Johnny Dumfries” for racing purposes, clinched the title, with three rounds still remaining. His closure rival for most of the season was Russell Spence, but pipped to second place in Championship by the consistent point finishing of Allen Berg.


1984 British Grand Prix
The 1984 British Grand Prix (formally the XXXVII John Player British Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at Brands Hatch, Kent, England on 22 July 1984. It was the tenth race of the 1984 Formula One World Championship.


1984 British Grand Prix
The 71-lap race was won by Austrian Niki Lauda, driving a McLaren-TAG, with local driver Derek Warwick second in a Renault and Brazilian Ayrton Senna third in a Toleman-Hart. Lauda's teammate Alain Prost retired shortly after half distance with a gearbox failure, enabling Lauda to reduce the Frenchman's lead in the Drivers' Championship to 1.5 points.


1984 British Grand Prix, Report, Background
Going into the race, McLaren driver Alain Prost led the Drivers' Championship with 34.5 points. Teammate Niki Lauda was second on 24, closely followed by Lotus's Elio de Angelis on 23.5, Ferrari's René Arnoux on 22.5, Williams' Keke Rosberg on 20 and Brabham's Nelson Piquet on 18. McLaren led the Constructors' Championship with 58.5 points, comfortably ahead of Ferrari on 31.5, Lotus on 29.5, Williams on 24 and Brabham on 21.


1984 British Grand Prix, Report, Background
Prior to the event, the FIA announced that the Tyrrell team would be disqualified from the World Championship for the illegal use of fuel and ballast on their cars. The ruling resulted in Tyrrell losing the 13 points they had scored in the first nine races of the season. Tyrrell owner Ken Tyrrell was granted a High Court order to allow their cars to compete in the Friday Qualifying session. As a result of his crash in the previous race at Dallas in which he broke both of his ankles, Martin Brundle was replaced in the No. 4 Tyrrell by Swedish driver Stefan Johansson.


1984 British Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Johnny Cecotto broke both legs after a heavy crash during first practice. He would never race in Formula One again. Nelson Piquet claimed pole position. Niki Lauda's win for McLaren saw him become the highest point scorer in Formula One history, passing Jackie Stewart's 360.


1984 British Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Renault driver Derek Warwick gave the British fans something to cheer when he finished 42 seconds behind Lauda in second place, while Cecotto's Toleman teammate Ayrton Senna finished 21 seconds behind Warwick in third. Lotus-Renault driver Elio de Angelis kept his championship hopes alive finishing a lap down in fourth place. He was followed by the two Ferraris of Michele Alboreto and René Arnoux in the final points positions.


1984 British Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Lauda's win saw him move to 33 points and with Prost failing to finish his championship lead was cut to just 1.5 points. With 67.5 points, McLaren had scored almost double the amount of Constructors' points than second placed Ferrari who were on 34.5 points.


1984 British Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Eddie Cheever (Alfa Romeo), Philippe Alliot (RAM) and Jo Gartner (Osella) were all outed in a first lap crash which started when Riccardo Patrese lost his Alfa going into the Graham Hill Bend. The race was stopped after 11 laps to clear Jonathan Palmer's RAM.


1984 British League season
The 1984 British League season was the 50th season of the top tier of speedway in the United Kingdom and the 20th known as the British League.


1984 British League season, Team changes
Three teams dropped out and four teams replaced them. Midland's clubs Birmingham Brummies and Leicester Lions both dropped out and Hackney Hawks dropped to the National League, becoming the Hackney Kestrels after taking over from the Crayford Kestrels. The new teams to the league were Oxford Cheetahs, Newcastle Diamonds, Exeter Falcons (all from the National League) and the returning Wolverhampton Wolves who did not ride in 1982 and 1983.


1984 British League season, Summary
Oxford Cheetahs were financed by David Hawkins of Northern Sports. They bought Hans Nielsen from Birmingham for a record £30,000, Simon Wigg for £25,000 from Cradley Heath, Marvyn Cox for £15,000 from Rye House, Melvyn Taylor for £12,000 from King's Lynn and Jens Rasmussen. Defending champions Cradley Heath had a poor season after losing Wigg to Oxford and loaning Jan O. Pedersen to Sheffield Tigers in the National League.


1984 British League season, Summary
The 50th season of British speedway saw Ipswich Witches win the league and cup double. The Suffolk team had a great season despite losing their leading rider Dennis Sigalos who rode for Wolverhampton Wolves during the season. Australian Billy Sanders remained one of the teams main scorers and he was supported by strong season scoring from American showman John Cook, Finn Kai Niemi and the English international pair of Jeremy Doncaster and Richard Knight.


1984 British League season, Final table
M = Matches; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; Pts = Total Points


1984 British League season, British League Knockout Cup
The 1984 Speedway Star British League Knockout Cup was the 46th edition of the Knockout Cup for tier one teams. Ipswich Witches were the winners.


1984 British League season, British League Knockout Cup, Final, Second leg
Ipswich Witches were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 92-64.


1984 British League season, League Cup
The League Cup was split into North and South sections. The two-legged final was won by Cradley Heath Heathens beating Belle Vue Aces in the final 80-76 on aggregate.


1984 British National Track Championships
The 1984 British National Track Championships were a series of track cycling competitions held from 6–9 September 1984 at the Leicester Velodrome. The Championships were held later than usual because of the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1984 UCI Track Cycling World Championships which both took place in August.


1984 British Rally Championship
The 1984 British Open Rally Championship season consisted of six rallies held across the British Isles and was won by the Scot Jimmy McRae. He may have only won the final rally of the season at the Manx Rally to clinch the 1984 title but he got four podium finishes, enough to beat out his rival and triple winner Hannu Mikkola, the defending World Rally Champion from Joensuu, Finland.


1984 British Rowing Championships
The 1984 National Rowing Championships was the 13th edition of the National Championships, held from 14–15 July 1984 at the National Water Sports Centre in Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham. The Championships were seriously affected by the fact that the Great Britain squad was in San Diego training for the 1984 Summer Olympics and the Junior squad was in Sweden for the World Championships.


1984 British Saloon Car Championship
The 1984 Trimoco British Saloon Car Championship was the 27th season of the championship. The title was won by Andy Rouse in a Rover Vitesse, claiming his third BSCC title.


1984 British Saloon Car Championship, Calendar & Winners
All races were held in the United Kingdom. Overall winners in bold.


1984 British Saloon Car Championship, Championship Standings, Drivers' Championship
Points were awarded on a 9, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 basis to the top six finishers in each class, with one bonus point for the fastest lap in each class. A driver's best nine scores counted towards the championship, dropped scores are shown in brackets. Positions are shown as overall/class.


1984 British Saloon Car Championship, Championship Standings, Drivers' Championship
Bold - Pole in classItalics - Fastest lap in class


1984 British Speedway Championship
The 1984 British Speedway Championship was the 24th edition of the British Speedway Championship. The Final took place on 20 June at Brandon in Coventry, England. The Championship was won by Kenny Carter, with Andy Grahame edging out Dave Jessup for second place.


1984 British Speedway Championship, Final
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance •  t - exclusion for touching the tapes •  x - other exclusion •  e - retired or mechanical failure •  f - fell •  ns - non-starter •  nc - non-classify


1984 British motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1984 British motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 1984 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 3–5 August 1984 at the Silverstone Circuit.


1984 Brown Bears football team
The 1984 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University during the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Brown finished fourth in the Ivy League.


1984 Brown Bears football team
In their first season under head coach John Rosenberg, the Bears compiled a 4–5 record and were outscored 231 to 165. S. Heffernan and T. Love were the team captains.


1984 Brown Bears football team
The Bears' 4–3 conference record placed fourth in the Ivy League standings. They were outscored 156 to 135 by Ivy opponents.


1984 Brown Bears football team
Brown played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.


1984 Brownlow Medal
The 1984 Brownlow Medal was the 57th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Peter Moore of the Melbourne Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-four votes during the 1984 VFL season.


1984 Brownlow Medal, Leading votegetters
* The player was ineligible to win the medal due to suspension by the VFL Tribunal during the year.


1984 Broxbourne Borough Council election
The Broxbourne Council election, 1984 was held to elect council members of the Broxbourne Borough Council, the local government authority of the borough of Broxbourne,  Hertfordshire, England.


1984 Broxbourne Borough Council election, Results summary
An election was held in 14 wards on 3 May 1984.


1984 Broxbourne Borough Council election, Results summary
The Conservative Party gained one seat from the Labour Party in Rosedale Ward


1984 Broxbourne Borough Council election, Results summary
The political balance of the council following this election was:


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


1984 Bucknell Bison football team
In their tenth year under head coach Bob Curtis, the Bison compiled a 5–5 record. Bob Gibbon, Keith Jansen and Scott Somerville were the team captains.


1984 Bucknell Bison football team
Bucknell played its home games at Memorial Stadium on the university campus in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.


1984 Buffalo Bills season
The 1984 Buffalo Bills season was the franchise's 15th season in the National Football League, and the 25th overall. The team started the season with eleven consecutive losses before an upset home win over Dallas in Week 12. The 1984 Bills gave up a team-record 454 points on defense, an average of more than 28 per game. The Bills gave up 30+ points eight times and allowed fewer than 20 points in a game only three times all season. The Bills also allowed sixty quarterback sacks, for a total of 554 yards, the most-ever at the time.


1984 Buffalo Bills season
The Bills’ 4,341 total yards gained was second-worst in the league in 1984 (only the Colts gained fewer total yards). The 1984 Bills are one of only two NFL teams to have been outscored by 25 points six different times during the season. This season is notable for being Pete Carroll’s first NFL coaching experience.


1984 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason, Uniform change
For the third time in team history, the Bills changed their helmets. While keeping the streaking buffalo logo from the second change, the Bills changed their helmet color from white to red. They would keep the red helmet through the 2010 season. It was the Bills first major change to their helmets since changing from the "standing Bison" to the streaking buffalo before the 1974 season.


1984 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason, Uniform change
Since three of the Bills' four AFC Eastern division opponents—Miami, Indianapolis and New England—then had white helmets (the Jets wore green helmets, but would wear white ones from 1998-2018; the Patriots have used silver helmets since 1993), "it was easier for [Ferguson] to distinguish and that's the reason why we made the switch." Ferguson had thrown a high number of interceptions over the previous two seasons, and coach Kay Stephenson hoped it would help the quarterback reduce them.


1984 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason, Uniform change
Ironically, 1984 was Ferguson's last year with the Bills, and only year with the red helmets; Ferguson, after 107 consecutive starts dating to the 1977 season (at the time tied with the league record), was benched in favor of Joe Dufek on September 30. Ferguson's interception total actually increased compared to the previous year, and he would go on to play for at least three more teams (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Indianapolis Colts and Canadian football's San Antonio Texans) that all had white helmets.


1984 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason, NFL draft
Notre Dame running back Greg Bell made the Pro Bowl in his rookie season; he was later traded to the Los Angeles Rams in the blockbuster three-team Eric Dickerson trade. Defensive end Sean McNanie played for the team for four of his seven NFL seasons. Punter John Kidd played his first six seasons with Buffalo; his career lasted a total of 15 seasons.


1984 Bulgarian Cup Final
The 1984 Bulgarian Cup Final was the 44th final of the Bulgarian Cup, and was contested between Levski Sofia and Botev Plovdiv on 2 May 1984 at Druzhba Stadium in Kardzhali. Levski won the final 1–0.


1984 Burundian presidential election
Presidential elections were held for the first time in Burundi on 31 August 1984. Incumbent Jean-Baptiste Bagaza of the Union for National Progress (UPRONA; then the sole legal party) was the only candidate, and was re-elected with 99.63% of the vote. Voter turnout was 98.3%.


1984 CARIFTA Games
The 13th CARIFTA Games was held in Nassau, Bahamas on April 21–23, 1984.


1984 CARIFTA Games, Participation (unofficial)
For the 1984 CARIFTA Games only the medalists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 104 medalists (60 junior (under-20) and 44 youth (under-17)) from about 10 countries: Antigua and Barbuda (1), Bahamas (35), Barbados (13), Bermuda (5), Cayman Islands (3), Jamaica (29), Martinique (5), Netherlands Antilles (1), Suriname (1), Trinidad and Tobago (11).


1984 CARIFTA Games, Austin Sealy Award
The Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athlete of the games was awarded to Pauline Davis from the Bahamas. She won 2 gold medals (100m, and 200m) in the junior (U-20) category. In addition, she was probably part of at least one of the medal winning relay teams (there is no information on the team members).


1984 CARIFTA Games, Medal summary
Medal winners are published by category: Boys under 20 (Junior), Girls under 20 (Junior), Boys under 17 (Youth), and Girls under 17 (Youth). The medalists can also be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.


1984 CART PPG Indy Car World Series
The 1984 CART PPG Indy Car World Series season, the sixth in the CART era of U.S. open-wheel racing, consisted of 16 races,  beginning in Long Beach, California on March 31 and concluding in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 10. The PPG Indy Car World Series Drivers' Champion was Mario Andretti and the Indianapolis 500 winner was Rick Mears. Rookie of the Year was Roberto Guerrero. The 68th Indianapolis 500 was sanctioned by the USAC, but counted in the CART points standings.


1984 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Drivers and constructors
The following teams and drivers competed for the 1984 PPG Indy Car World Series. Number in parenthesis ( ) is the number used at Indianapolis only.


1984 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Schedule
This season featured a new oval in Canada called Sanair Super Speedway. Other changes included new street circuit races at the Meadowlands Sports Complex, and in Long Beach, California. Also added was a new permanent road course race at Portland International Raceway. Leaving the schedule was Riverside International Raceway and Atlanta Motor Speedway.


1984 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Schedule
O  Oval/Speedway R  Dedicated road course S  Temporary street circuitNC Non -championship event


1984 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Schedule
*The Detroit News Grand Prix was scheduled to be held on September 23, but postponed a day by rain.


1984 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Nation's Cup
Best result in each race counts towards the nation's cup.


1984 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1984 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 13th CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. It was played between March 2 and March 10, 1984. First round games were played at campus sites, while 'final four' games were played at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. By winning the tournament, Michigan State received the Central Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 1984 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1984 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured three rounds of play. The four teams that finished below eighth place in the standings were not eligible for postseason play. In the quarterfinals, the first and eighth seeds, the second and seventh seeds, the third seed and sixth seeds and the fourth seed and fifth seeds played a two-game series where the team that scored the higher number of goals after the games was declared the victor and advanced to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the remaining highest and lowest seeds and second highest and second lowest seeds play a single-game, with the winners advancing to the finals. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 1984 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1984 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


1984 CECAFA Cup
The 1984 CECAFA Cup was the 12th edition of the tournament. It was held in Uganda, and was won by Zambia. The matches were played between December 1–15.


1984 CECAFA Cup, Group B
Before the match, Malawi has secured qualification, and Zanzibar has already been eliminated. After Kenya made a draw with Somalia, they were tied; so they went into penalty shootout to determine the remaining qualification slot.


1984 CFL Draft
The 1984 CFL Draft composed of eight rounds where over 71 Canadian football players were chosen from eligible Canadian universities and Canadian players playing in the NCAA. A total of nine players were selected as territorial exemptions, with every team but Montreal making at least one selection during this stage of the draft.


1984 CFL Draft, Territorial exemptions
Ottawa Rough Riders (via Montreal)  Jim De Silva  OL  Carleton


1984 CFL season
The 1984 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the 31st season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the 27th Canadian Football League season.


1984 CFL season, CFL News in 1984
The CFL granted a conditional expansion team to the city of Halifax, the team was named the Atlantic Schooners. The franchise were supposed to begin play in 1984. However, before the season started, ownership could not secure and provide the financing for a new stadium. Without a stadium in place, the Schooners folded without playing a single game in the CFL.


1984 CFL season, CFL News in 1984
Calgary native Douglas H. Mitchell, Q.C. became the sixth CFL Commissioner in history on Friday, June 1, succeeding Jake Gaudaur who had served in that position since 1968.


1984 CFL season, CFL News in 1984
In the fall, the CFL conducted a market research study with the fans in CFL cities.


1984 CFL season, CFL News in 1984
The CFL, eliminated territorial exemptions, which allowed the 1985 Canadian College Draft to be more open – allowing teams to draft players from different regions.


1984 CFL season, CFL News in 1984
The regular season started in June for the first time in league history, while Edmonton hosted its first Grey Cup championship game.


1984 CFL season, Regular season standings, Final regular season standings
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points


1984 CFL season, Grey Cup playoffs
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are the 1984 Grey Cup champions, defeating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 47–17, at Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium. This was Winnipeg's first Grey Cup victory since 1962. The Blue Bombers' Tom Clements (QB) was named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player on Offence and Tyrone Jones (LB) was named Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player on Defence, while Sean Kehoe (RB) was named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Canadian.


1984 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
The 1984 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 20th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. It determined that year's club champion of association football in the CONCACAF region and was played from 15 March till 21 October 1984.


1984 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
The teams were split in 2 zones, North/Central America and Caribbean, (as North and Central America sections combined to qualify one team for the final), each one qualifying the winner to the final tournament. The final was scratched and Violette were declared champions and became CONCACAF champion for the first time in their history after CD Guadalajara and New York Pancyprian-Freedoms were disqualified for their failure to agree on match dates.


1984 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, North/Central American Zone, Fourth round
1 Both clubs were disqualified after failing to agree on the dates for the matches.


1984 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, Caribbean Zone, First round
Surinam did not enter as they were suspended by FIFA.


1984 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, Caribbean Zone, First round
1 Both clubs were disqualified for late payment of the entry fee.


1984 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, Caribbean Zone, Third round
Other matches and results are unknown. 1 Results from 1st leg are in doubt.


1984 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, Final series
As CD Guadalajara and New York Pancyprian-Freedoms did not agree on match dates, they were disqualified by CONCACAF, which awarded the title to Haitian club Violette. Therefore, the team achieved their first Champions' Club trophy.


1984 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament
The 1984 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament was the sixth edition of the CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament, the quadrennial, international football tournament organised by the CONCACAF to determine which national teams from the North, Central America and Caribbean region qualify for the Olympic football tournament.


1984 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament
As the top two teams, champions,  Costa Rica and Canada qualified for the 1984 Summer Olympics as representatives of CONCACAF.


1984 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament, Final round
As Canada and Costa Rica had qualified for the Olympics following their second match, and Cuba were therefore eliminated, the Cuba v Canada match was not played.


1984 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament qualification
The qualifying competition for the 1984 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament determined the three teams for the final tournament.


1984 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament
The CONCACAF Under-20 Championship 1984 was held in Trinidad and Tobago. It also served as qualification for the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship.


1984 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament, Teams
Jamaica and Surinam withdrew before the tournament and the Dominican Republic confirmed their participation too late. The following teams entered the tournament:


1984 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament, Qualification to World Youth Championship
The two best performing teams qualified for the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship.


1984 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament
The 1984 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament began on 8 February and ended on 21 February 1984 and was the 7th CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament. Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, and Uruguay did not participate. Brazil and Chile qualified for the 1984 Summer Olympics.


1984 Cal Poly Mustangs football team
The 1984 Cal Poly Mustangs football team represented California Polytechnic State University during the 1984 NCAA Division II football season.


1984 Cal Poly Mustangs football team
Cal Poly competed in the Western Football Conference (WFC). The Mustangs were led by third-year head coach Jim Sanderson and played home games at Mustang Stadium in San Luis Obispo, California. They finished the season with a record of six wins and four losses (6–4, 2–1 WFC). Overall, the team outscored its opponents 197–90 for the season.


1984 Cal Poly Mustangs football team, Team players in the NFL
The following Cal Poly Mustang players were selected in the 1985 NFL Draft.


1984 Cal State Fullerton Titans baseball team
The 1984 Cal State Fullerton Titans baseball team represented California State University, Fullerton in the 1984 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Titans played their home games at Titan Field. The team was coached by Augie Garrido in his 12th season at Cal State Fullerton.


1984 Cal State Fullerton Titans baseball team
The Titans won the College World Series, defeating the Texas Longhorns in the championship game.


1984 Cal State Fullerton Titans baseball team, Titans in the 1984 MLB Draft
The following members of the Cal State Fullerton Titans baseball program were drafted in the 1984 Major League Baseball Draft.


1984 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team
The 1984 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team represented California State University, Fullerton during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1984 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team
The Titans competed in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by fifth-year head coach Gene Murphy. The Titans played their home games in Santa Ana Stadium in Santa Ana, California. This was the fourth home venue for the Titans in three years, but they continued playing in Santa Ana Stadium for the next eight years.


1984 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team
The Titans finished the season with their best record ever, a mark of eleven wins and one loss (11–1, 6–1 PCAA). Their sole loss came to the UNLV Rebels. However, in March 1985 it was found that UNLV had used several ineligible players during the 1983 and 1984 seasons. As a result, UNLV was forced to forfeit all of their victories in those two seasons. This makes the Titans season into an undefeated season (12–0, 7–0 PCAA) and they were crowned conference champion.


1984 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team, Team players in the NFL
The following Cal State Fullerton Titans were selected in the 1985 NFL Draft.


1984 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team, Team players in the NFL
The following finished their college career in 1984, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.


1984 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team
The 1984 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team represented California State University, Hayward in the 1984 NCAA Division II football season. Cal State Hayward competed in the Northern California Athletic Conference (NCAC).


1984 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team
The Pioneers were led by tenth-year head coach Tim Tierney. They played home games at Pioneer Stadium in Hayward, California. The Pioneers finished the season with a record of seven wins and three losses (7–3, 4–2 NCAC). They outscored their opponents 260–175 for the 1984 season.


1984 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team, Team players in the NFL
No Cal State Hayward Pioneers players were selected in the 1985 NFL Draft.


1984 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team
The 1984 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team represented Cal State Northridge during the 1984 NCAA Division II football season.


1984 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team
Cal State Northridge competed in the Western Football Conference (WFC). The 1984 Matadors were led by sixth-year head coach Tom Keele. They played home games at North Campus Stadium in Northridge, California. On the field, Cal State Northridge finished the season with a record of two wins and eight losses (2–8, 0–3 WFC). However, San Francisco State later forfeited their win over the Matadors, so the adjusted record becomes (3–7, 0–3 WFC). The Matadors were outscored by their opponents 119–248 for the season.


1984 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team, Team players in the NFL
No Cal State Northridge players were selected in the 1985 NFL Draft.


1984 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team, Team players in the NFL
The following finished their college career in 1984 were not drafted, but played in the NFL.


1984 Calgary Stampeders season
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1984 Calgary Stampeders season
The 1984 Calgary Stampeders finished in 5th place in the West Division with a 6–10 record and failed to make the playoffs.


1984 California Angels season
The California Angels 1984 season involved the Angels finishing 2nd in the American League west with a record of 81 wins and 81 losses.


1984 California Angels 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 California Bowl
The 1984 California Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on December 15, 1984 at Bulldog Stadium in Fresno, California. The game pitted the UNLV Rebels and the Toledo Rockets.


1984 California Bowl, Background
The Rebels rebounded from a 7–4 year in 1983 to win the Pacific Coast Athletic Association title with a perfect conference record, with their only losses being to Hawaii and SMU. This was UNLV's first ever bowl game appearance. The Rockets started the season 5–0–1, with victories over four conference opponents and a tie at Ohio. A loss to Kent State was their only conference loss, as they finished the season with three straight conference wins (and a loss against independent Temple) to win the Mid-American Conference for the second time in four seasons.


1984 California Bowl, Game summary
Randall Cunningham went 18-of-28 for two touchdowns, one interception and one touchdown run. UNLV had 127 rushing yards, 270 passing yards, and 77 return yards. Toledo had 203 rushing yards, 137 passing yards, and 96 return yards. UNLV turned it over three times, while Toledo turned it over once.


1984 California Bowl, Aftermath
After the game, it was found that UNLV had used ineligible players during the season. Despite the fact that they were not used in the bowl game, the school forfeited the win, though the NCAA does not recognize the forfeit. Because of this, both teams treat it as a victory in a technical sense. Toledo was given the trophy from the game, though when the two teams met years later, the trophy was evidently lost.


1984 California Bowl, Aftermath
Both teams underwent bowl droughts after this game, with the Rebels not going to a bowl game again until 1994 and the Rockets not going to a bowl game until 1995. Both teams won their games, which both took place in the Las Vegas Bowl, the successor to the California Bowl.


1984 California Golden Bears football team
The 1984 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley in the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fourth year under head coach Joe Kapp, the Golden Bears compiled a 2–9 record (1–8 against Pac-10 opponents), finished in last place in the Pac-10, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 264 to 150.


1984 California Golden Bears football team
The team's statistical leaders included Gale Gilbert with 1,693 passing yards, Ed Barbero with 554 rushing yards, and Rance McDougald with 473 receiving yards.


1984 Cameroonian coup d'état attempt
An attempted coup d'état occurred in Cameroon in 1984, when presidential palace guards unsuccessfully tried to overthrow President Paul Biya. The fighting that resulted began on April 6, 1984, and ended several days later. The coup attempt is widely viewed as one of the most crucial events in the history of Cameroon since independence in 1960.


1984 Cameroonian coup d'état attempt, Background
After nearly 23 years as President of Cameroon, Ahmadou Ahidjo resigned for unclear reasons in November 1982 and was succeeded by Prime Minister Paul Biya. Despite his resignation, Ahidjo remained President of the Cameroon National Union (CNU), the ruling party, and retained enormous political influence. Although Ahidjo's resignation was voluntary and he was initially happy to see Biya take his place as President (although Biya was a Christian from the south and Ahidjo was a Muslim from the north), a power struggle between the two developed in 1983.


1984 Cameroonian coup d'état attempt, Background
Ahidjo attempted to assert his supremacy by arguing that the party should make policy decisions and that the state should merely implement them, but Biya in turn pointed out that the constitution assigned responsibility for determining policy to the President of the Republic. Ahidjo went into exile in July 1983, and on August 22, 1983, Biya publicly accused Ahidjo of plotting a coup, while simultaneously dismissing two key Ahidjo loyalists—Prime Minister Maigari Bello Bouba and Minister of State for the Armed Forces Maikano Abdoulaye—from the government. Ahidjo bitterly criticized Biya from exile, accusing him of paranoia and misrule, and he resigned as President of the CNU. In February 1984 he was sentenced to death in absentia for alleged involvement in the 1983 coup plot, although the sentence was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment by Biya.


1984 Cameroonian coup d'état attempt, Background
In early April 1984, President Biya ordered a transfer of all presidential palace guards who came from the predominantly Muslim north, probably because he had been alerted to a coup plot involving those soldiers. Dissident members of the palace guard promptly reacted to the order by rebelling against Biya; the plot's leaders may have been forced to launch their coup attempt prematurely due to Biya's order to relocate the soldiers away from the capital, Yaoundé. An important factor was Cameroon Air Force, which remained loyal to the president.


1984 Cameroonian coup d'état attempt, Background
After several days of heavy fighting in Yaoundé, Biya loyalists defeated the rebels. Estimates of the death toll ranged from 71 (according to the government) to about 1,000. More than 1,000 accused dissidents were arrested shortly afterward, and 35 of them were immediately sentenced to death and executed. The government declared a state of emergency lasting six months in Yaoundé and the surrounding region.


1984 Cameroonian coup d'état attempt, Background
Although Ahidjo was not overtly involved in the coup attempt, it was widely believed that he had masterminded it from exile. The failure of the coup attempt was followed by Biya's full consolidation of power; in 1985 he relaunched the CNU as the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM).


1984 Cameroonian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Cameroon on 14 January 1984. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Cameroonian National Union as the sole legal party. Its leader, Paul Biya, was the only candidate in the election, and won unopposed. Voter turnout was 97.7%.


1984 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby
The Campeonato Argentino de Rugby  1984 was won by the selection of Buenos Aires that beat in the final the selection of the Entre Rios


1984 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Final
Buenos Aires: 15.Bernardo Miguens, 14.Jorge de Prat Gay, 13.Diego Cuesta Silva, 12.Fabian Turnes, 11.Marcelo Campo, 10.Hugo Porta, 9.Javier Miguens, 8.Ernesto Ure, 7.José Visca, 6.Tomas Petersen, 5. Gonzalo Gasso (Carlos Durlach), 4. E. Leiva, 3.Diego Casch, 2. Andrés Courreges, 1.Luis E. Lonardi. Entre Rios: 15.Castello, 14.M. Lescano, 13.Campos, 12.Albornoz, 11.Annichini, 10.Comaleras, 9.Faggi, 8.Ricciardi, 7. Federik, 6. C. Lescano, 5. Dall'Ava, 4.Budni, 3.Seri (Di Prettoro), 2.Cura (Bravo), 1. Borches.


1984 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The 1984 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A was the 28th edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.


1984 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Standings, Repescagem
Treze, Coritiba, Goiás and Joinville qualified to the Second Stage.


1984 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Standings, Second stage, Group G
Note: Corinthians qualified due to head to head results with Santa Cruz


1984 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Standings, Final stage, The Final
Vasco: Roberto Costa; Edevaldo, Ivan, Daniel González and Aírton; Pires, Arturzinho and Mário (Geovani); Mauricinho (Jussiê), Roberto Dinamite and Marquinho. Head coach: Edu.


1984 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Standings, Final stage, The Final
Fluminense: Paulo Víctor, Aldo, Duílio, Ricardo Gomes and Renato; Jandir, Delei (Renê) and Assis; Romerito, Washington (Wilsinho) and Tato. Head coach: Carlos Alberto Parreira.


1984 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Standings, Final stage, The Final
Fluminense: Paulo Víctor; Aldo, Duílio, Ricardo Gomes and Branco; Jandir, Delei and Assis; Romerito, Washington and Tato. Head coach: Carlos Alberto Parreira.


1984 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Standings, Final stage, The Final
Vasco: Roberto Costa; Edevaldo, Ivan, Daniel González and Aírton; Pires, Arturzinho and Mário; Jussiê (Marcelo), Roberto Dinamite and Marquinho. Head coach: Edu.


1984 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B
The 1984 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, officially, the Taça CBF, was the 6th edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B. The championship was disputed by 32 clubs in a knockout tournament form. the champion would be promoted to the Third phase of the Copa Brasil of that year, and the champions, along with the runner up, would have berths in the First level championship of the next year. Uberlândia won the title, beating Remo in the finals.


1984 Campeonato Carioca
The 1984 edition of the Campeonato Carioca kicked off on July 1, 1984 and ended on December 16, 1984. It is the official tournament organized by FFERJ (Federação de Futebol do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, or Rio de Janeiro State Football Federation. Only clubs based in the Rio de Janeiro State are allowed to play. Twelve teams contested this edition. Fluminense won the title for the 26th time. Campo Grande and Friburguense were relegated.


1984 Campeonato Gaúcho
The 64th season of the Campeonato Gaúcho kicked off on April 22, 1984 and ended in December 13, 1984. Fourteen teams participated. Internacional won their 29th title. Grêmio Bagé and São Paulo were relegated.


1984 Campeonato Paulista
The 1984 Campeonato Paulista da Primeira Divisão de Futebol Profissional da Série A1 was the 83th season of São Paulo's top professional football league. Santos won the championship for the 15th time. Noroeste and Marília  were relegated.


1984 Campeonato Paulista, Championship
The twenty teams of the championship would all play twice against each other, with the team with the most points being champions, and the bottom two teams being relegated.


1984 Campeonato da 1ª Divisão do Futebol
Statistics of Campeonato da 1ª Divisão do Futebol in the 1984 season.


1984 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia
The 1984 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Palermo, Italy that was part of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix. It was the sixth edition of the tournament and took place from 10 September until 16 September 1984. Fourth-seeded Francesco Cancellotti won the singles title.


1984 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia, Finals, Doubles
Tomáš Šmíd /  Blaine Willenborg defeated  Claudio Panatta /  Henrik Sundström 6–7, 6–3, 6–0


1984 Can-Am season
The 1984 Can Am season was the seventeenth running of the Sports Car Club of America's prototype series, and the eighth running of the revived series. 1984 would mark a major downturn in the series, as Juan Manuel Fangio II would become the last major driver to podium in a Can Am Series race, finishing third at Dallas. The dominant manufacturers were Chevrolet, Hart, BMW for the first time with a third-place finish at Brainerd, Cosworth, Lola, Ralt, and March. Dominant chassis were VDS, March, Frissbee-Lola, Ralt, and Williams with their first podium with a third-place finish at Lime Rock. Michael Roe was declared champion, with seven wins. The final race at Green Valley would feature the final truly notable driver in series history, John Andretti.


1984 Can-Am season
Kim Campbell won the two liter class in his March BMW.


1984 Canada Cup
The 1984 Labatt Canada Cup was a professional international ice hockey tournament played during the first three weeks of September 1984. The best-of-three final took place between Canada and Sweden, with Canada winning a two game sweep. Canadian forward John Tonelli was named the tournament's most valuable player.


1984 Canada Cup
This was the only Canada Cup to feature a team from West Germany, who managed a single point in five games based on a 4–4 tie with Czechoslovakia. This was also the only point for the Czechoslovaks, whose lineup had been weakened by defections, one of whom, Czechoslovak star Peter Šťastný, played for Team Canada in this event. The Canadian team was a disappointing 2–2–1 in the round-robin.


1984 Canada Cup
There was inner turmoil on the roster, which was dominated by players of two NHL powerhouses, the Edmonton Oilers and the New York Islanders—these two teams had faced off in the past two Stanley Cup Finals, and there were bitter feuds between players that had to be overcome. In one semifinal, fourth place Canada faced first-place USSR, who were a perfect 5–0 in the round-robin. Canada dominated the first two periods, but managed only a 1–0 lead due to spectacular goaltending from Vladimir Myshkin.


1984 Canada Cup
The Soviets scored twice in the third to take the lead, but defenceman Doug Wilson tied the game late in regulation. In overtime, Myshkin continued his brilliant play. The Soviets got a two-on one against the flow of the play, but were thwarted by a brilliant poke-check by Paul Coffey, who was normally an offensive defenceman. Later on that play, Coffey's point shot was deflected in front of the net by Mike Bossy for the winning goal. In the other semi-final, Sweden scored on its first four shots on goal and cruised to a stunning 9–2 victory over the United States. The Americans had beaten Sweden 7–1 in the round robin and had looked very impressive prior to collapsing in this game.


1984 Canada Cup
Canada won Game 1 of the final 5–2. In Game 2, they built up a commanding 5–0 lead in the first period before Sweden mounted a comeback that fell just short. The final score was 6–5.


1984 Canada Cup, Teams
As in 1981 and 1976 there were six competing teams. The West German national ice hockey team replaced Finland thanks to its fifth-place finish at the 1983 Ice Hockey World Championships.


1984 Canada Cup rosters
Below are the ice hockey national team rosters of the 1984 Canada Cup.


1984 Canada Cup rosters, Rosters, Canada
Forwards and defence:  Glenn Anderson, Brian Bellows, Mike Bossy, Bob Bourne, Raymond Bourque, Paul Coffey, Mike Gartner, Michel Goulet, Randy Gregg, Wayne Gretzky, Charlie Huddy, Kevin Lowe, Mark Messier, Rick Middleton, Larry Robinson, Peter Stastny, Brent Sutter, John Tonelli, Doug Wilson and Steve Yzerman. Training camp only -- Mario Marois, James Patrick, Denis Savard, Al Secord, Scott Stevens, Brian Sutter, Sylvain Turgeon and Rick Vaive Goaltenders: Grant Fuhr, Réjean Lemelin and Pete Peeters. Coaches: Glen Sather, John Muckler, Ted Green, Tom Watt


1984 Canada Cup rosters, Rosters, Czechoslovakia
Forwards and defence: Petr Rosol, Igor Liba, Petr Klíma, Jiří Dudáček, Vladimír Růžička, Vladimír Caldr, Jiří Lála, Dušan Pašek, Ladislav Svozil, Vladimír Kameš, Jiří Hrdina, Jaroslav Korbela, Vincent Lukáč, Miloslav Hořava, František Musil, Eduard Uvíra, Arnold Kadlec, Jaroslav Benák, Antonín StavjaňaGoaltenders: Dominik Hašek, Jaromír ŠindelCoaches: Luděk Bukač, Stanislav Neveselý


1984 Canada Cup rosters, Rosters, Sweden
Forwards and defence: Håkan Loob, Kent Nilsson, Bengt-Åke Gustafsson, Patrik Sundström, Peter Sundström, Thomas Steen, Anders Håkansson, Thomas Gradin, Per-Erik Eklund, Mats Näslund, Tomas Sandström, Jan Claesson, Mats Thelin, Anders Eldebrink, Jan Lindholm, Michael Thelvén, Bo Ericson, Peter Andersson, Thomas ErikssonGoaltenders: Rolf Ridderwall, Peter Lindmark, Göte WälitaloCoaches: Leif Boork, Curt Lindström


1984 Canada Cup rosters, Rosters, United States
Forwards and defence: Bob Brooke, Aaron Broten, Neal Broten, Bobby Carpenter,  Chris Chelios, Dave Christian, Bryan Erickson, Mark Fusco, Tom Hirsch, Phil Housley, David A. Jensen,  Mark Johnson, Rod Langway, Brian Lawton, Brian Mullen, Joe Mullen, Ed Olczyk, Mike Ramsey, Gordie Roberts and Bryan Trottier. Training camp only -- Scott Bjugstad, Mike Eaves, Tom Fergus, Don Jackson, David H. Jensen (injured), Pat LaFontaine (injured/did not play), Craig Ludwig, Moe Mantha, Jr. and  Chris Nilan. Goaltenders: Tom Barrasso, Glenn "Chico" Resch. Training camp only -- Marc Behrend, John VanbiesbrouckCoaches: Bob Johnson


1984 Canada Cup rosters, Rosters, USSR
Forwards and defence: Vladimir Krutov, Igor Larionov, Sergei Svetlov, Irek Gimayev, Mikhail Varnakov, Sergei Shepelev, Sergei Makarov, Sergei Yashin, Aleksandr Skvortsov, Mikhail Vasiliev, Aleksandr Kozhevnikov, Anatoli Semenov, Vladimir Kovin, Vladimir Zubkov, Igor Stelnov, Vasili Pervukhin, Alexei Kasatonov, Alexei Gusarov, Sergei Starikov, Zinetula BilyaletdinovGoaltenders: Vladimir Myshkin, Alexandr TyznykhCoaches: Viktor Tikhonov, Vladimir Yurzinov


1984 Canada Cup rosters, Rosters, West Germany
Forwards and defence: Peter Schiller, Ernst Höfner, Franz Reindl, Manfred Wolf, Peter Obresa, Marcus Kuhl, Holger Meitinger, Gerd Truntschka, Roy Roedger, Dieter Hegen, Helmut Steiger, Michael Betz, Andreas Niederberger, Udo Kiessling, Rainer Blum, Joachim Reil, Peter Scharf, Dieter Medicus, Ignaz Berndaner, Uli HiemerGoaltenders: Karl Friesen, Bernard EngelbrechtCoaches: Xaver Unsinn


1984 Canadian Grand Prix
The 1984 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal on 17 June 1984. It was the seventh race of the 1984 Formula One World Championship.


1984 Canadian Grand Prix
The 70-lap race was won by Brazilian Nelson Piquet, driving a Brabham-BMW. Piquet took pole position, led all 70 laps and set the fastest race lap, finishing 2.6 seconds ahead of Austrian Niki Lauda in the McLaren-TAG. Lauda's French teammate, Alain Prost, finished third.


1984 Canadian Grand Prix
The top six was completed by Elio de Angelis in the Lotus-Renault, René Arnoux in the Ferrari, and Nigel Mansell in the other Lotus-Renault.


1984 Canadian Grand Prix
After the race, Piquet climbed out of his car and collapsed on the ground, due to a badly burned right foot caused by the extreme heat from his Brabham's new nose-mounted oil cooler which had actually burned a hole in his driving boot. In the next race at Detroit, he had a special tray of ice for easing the blisters on his foot.


1984 Canadian Junior Men's Curling Championship
The 1984 Pepsi Canadian Junior Men's Curling Championship was held February 19 to 25, 1984 at the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The host Manitoba team, skipped by Bob Ursel (of Winnipeg) won the event, defeating British Columbia (skipped by Rob Houston) in the finals. For winning the event, Ursel and his team of Brent Mendella, Gerald Chick and brother Mike Ursel earned a spot representing Canada at the 1985 World Junior Curling Championships, where they won a gold medal.


1984 Canadian Professional Championship
The 1984 Canadian Professional Championship was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament, which took place in August 1984 in Toronto, Canada.


1984 Canadian Professional Championship
Cliff Thorburn won the title beating Mario Morra 9–2 in the final.


1984 Canadian federal budget
The Canadian federal budget for fiscal year 1984-1985 was presented by Minister of Finance Marc Lalonde in the House of Commons of Canada on 15 February 1984.


1984 Canadian federal election
The 1984 Canadian federal election (formally the 33rd Canadian general election) was held on September 4, 1984, to elect members to the House of Commons of Canada of the 33rd Parliament of Canada.


1984 Canadian federal election
In one of the largest landslide victories in Canadian political history, the Progressive Conservative Party (PC), led by Brian Mulroney defeated the incumbent governing Liberal Party led by Prime Minister John Turner.


1984 Canadian federal election
Mulroney's landslide majority government win came as a result of his building of a 'grand coalition' that comprised socially conservative populists from the West, fiscal conservatives from the East, and Quebec nationalists. Mulroney's PCs won the largest number of seats in Canadian history (at 211) and his party also won the second-largest percentage of seats in Canadian history (at 74.8%), only ranking behind Progressive Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's triumph in the 1958 federal election (at 78.5%). The Liberals suffered what at that time was the worst defeat for a governing party at the federal level. This election was also the last time that the winning party received over 50% of the national popular vote.


1984 Canadian federal election
The election marked the end of the Liberals' long dominance of federal politics in Quebec, a province which had been the bedrock of Liberal support for almost a century; they did not win a majority of Quebec seats again until three decades later in 2015.


1984 Canadian federal election, Background
The election was fought almost entirely on the record of the Liberals, who had been in power for all but 1 year out of 21, since 1963.


1984 Canadian federal election, Background
Pierre Trudeau, who had been Prime Minister from 1968 to 1979 and since 1980, retired from politics in early 1984. He was succeeded by John Turner, a former Cabinet minister under both Trudeau and Lester Pearson.


1984 Canadian federal election, Background
Turner had been out of politics for 9 years. Upon assuming the leadership, he made immediate changes in an attempt to rebuild the Liberals' struggling reputation. For example, he announced that he would not run in a by-election to return to the House of Commons, but would instead run in the next general election as the Liberal candidate in Vancouver Quadra, British Columbia. This was a sharp departure from usual practice, in which the incumbent in a safe seat resigns to allow a newly elected party leader a chance to get into Parliament.


1984 Canadian federal election, Background
But the Liberal Party had lost favour with western Canadians, and policies such as the National Energy Program only aggravated this sentiment. Turner's plans to run in a western Canada riding were, in part, an attempt to rebuild support in that region. Going into the election, the Liberals held only one seat west of Ontario—that of Lloyd Axworthy, from Winnipeg—Fort Garry, Manitoba.


1984 Canadian federal election, Background
More seriously, there was great disaffection in Quebec with the Liberal government, despite their traditional support for the party. Conflict between the provincial and federal parties, a series of scandals, and the 1982 patriation of the Canadian constitution without the approval of the Quebec provincial government had damaged the Liberals' brand in the province. Hoping for success in Quebec, leader Joe Clark began actively courting soft nationalist voters in the province, and was one of the main reasons businessman Brian Mulroney, a fluently bilingual native of Quebec, was chosen as Clark's replacement.


1984 Canadian federal election, Background
Although Turner was not required to call an election until 1985, internal data initially showed that the Liberals had regained the lead in opinion polls. Turner and his advisers were also mindful of the fact that Trudeau had seemingly missed an opportunity to take advantage of favourable opinion polls in the latter half of the 1970s, when he waited the full five years to call an election only to go down to an (albeit temporary) defeat. Another factor was that the majority that the Liberals had won at the previous election had slowly been eroded in the years that followed.


1984 Canadian federal election, Background
While the Liberal caucus still outnumbered the combined Tory and New Democratic caucuses, a series of pending by-elections could potentially have reduced Turner's government to a minority and left it in serious danger of being toppled by a motion of no confidence. With this in mind, the new Prime Minister requested that Queen Elizabeth II delay her tour of Canada, and asked Governor-General Jeanne Sauvé to dissolve Parliament on July 4. In accordance with Canadian constitutional practice, Sauvé granted the request and set the election for September 4.


1984 Canadian federal election, Background
The initial Liberal lead began to slip as Turner made several prominent gaffes. In particular, he spoke of creating new "make work programs", a concept from earlier decades that had been replaced by the less patronizing-sounding "job creation programs". He also was caught on camera patting Liberal Party President Iona Campagnolo on her posterior. Turner defended this action as being a friendly gesture, but it was seen by many as condescending.


1984 Canadian federal election, Background
Other voters turned against the Liberals due to their mounting legacy of patronage and corruption. An especially important issue was Trudeau's recommendation that Sauvé appoint over 200 Liberals to patronage posts just before he left office. This action enraged Canadians on all sides. Although Turner had the right to advise that the appointments be withdrawn (something that Sauvé would have had to do according to constitutional convention), he didn't do so. In fact, he himself appointed more than 70 Liberals to patronage posts despite a promise to bring a new way of politics to Ottawa. He cited a written agreement with Trudeau, claiming that if Trudeau had made the appointments, the Liberals would have almost certainly lost the election. However, the fact that Turner dropped the writ a year early hurt his argument.


1984 Canadian federal election, Background
Turner found out that Mulroney was allegedly setting up a patronage machine in anticipation of victory. At the English-language televised debate between Mulroney, Turner and New Democratic Party leader Ed Broadbent, Turner started to attack Mulroney on his patronage plans, comparing them to the patronage machine run by old Union Nationale in Quebec. However, Mulroney turned the tables by pointing to the raft of patronage appointments made on the advice of Trudeau and Turner.


1984 Canadian federal election, Background
Claiming that he'd gone so far as to apologize for making light of "these horrible appointments," Mulroney demanded that Turner apologize to the country for not cancelling the appointments advised by Trudeau and for recommending his own appointments. Turner was visibly surprised, and could only reply that "I had no option" except to let the appointments stand. Mulroney famously responded:


1984 Canadian federal election, Background
You had an option, sir. You could have said, 'I am not going to do it. This is wrong for Canada, and I am not going to ask Canadians to pay the price.' You had an option, sir—to say 'no'—and you chose to say 'yes' to the old attitudes and the old stories of the Liberal Party. That sir, if I may say respectfully, that is not good enough for Canadians.


1984 Canadian federal election, Background
Turner, clearly flustered by this withering riposte from Mulroney, could only repeat "I had no option." A visibly angry Mulroney called this "an avowal of failure" and "a confession of non-leadership." He told Turner, "You had an option, sir. You could have done better." Mulroney's counterattack led most of the papers the next day; it was often paraphrased as "You had an option, sir; you could have said 'no'." Many observers saw this as the end of any realistic chance for Turner to stay in power.


1984 Canadian federal election, Background
The last days of the campaign saw multiple Liberal blunders pile together. Turner continued to speak of the "make work programs" and made other gaffes that caused voters to see him as a relic from the past. Turner even rehired much of Trudeau's staff during the final weeks in an attempt to turn the tide, but this did nothing to reverse sliding poll numbers. Even Trudeau himself did not campaign for Turner, instead only making appearances to support Liberal candidates.