1984 San Diego Padres season, World series
In the 1984 World Series, the Padres faced the powerful Detroit Tigers, who steamrolled through the regular season with 104 victories (and had started out with a 35–5 record, the best ever through the first 40 games). The Tigers were managed by Sparky Anderson and featured shortstop and native San Diegan Alan Trammell and outfielder Kirk Gibson, along with Lance Parrish and DH Darrell Evans. The pitching staff was bolstered by ace Jack Morris (19-11, 3.60 ERA), Dan Petry (18-8), Milt Wilcox (17-8), and closer Willie Hernández (9-3, 1.92 ERA with 32 saves). Jack Morris would win games 1 and 4 and the Tigers would go on to win the Series in five games.


1984 San Diego Padres season, World series
San Diego's starting pitchers crumbled in the postseason with a combined ERA of 9.09, including 13.94 against Detroit, surpassing the Cubs mark of 9.50 in 1932 as the worst in the then-82-year history of the World Series. Show, Thurmond, Lollar, and Whitson combined to throw only 10+2⁄3 innings versus the Tigers while surrendering 25 hits, eight walks, and 16 earned runs. Only once did a starter pitch at least five innings. Whitson (NLCS Game 3) was the only starter to earn a win in the playoffs. Out of the bullpen, Lefferts was excellent in the postseason with 10 scoreless innings in six appearances, while Hawkins and Dravecky pitched well in the playoffs as well.


1984 San Diego Padres season, World series
After a disappointing season for 37-year-old journeyman Kurt Bevacqua, he hit .412 in the World Series as the Padres designated hitter, hitting the game-winning home run in Game 2 as well as an eighth-inning homer in the finale, which had cut San Diego's deficit to 5–4. Playing in place of the injured McReynolds, Bobby Brown had the team's only two RBIs by Padres outfielders against the Tigers, but he batted just 1-for-15.


1984 San Diego Padres season, World series
Reporter Barry Bloom of MLB.com wrote in 2011 that "the postseason in '84 is still the most exciting week of Major League Baseball ever played in San Diego." Gossage, who is mostly remembered as a Yankee, called it "special being a part of turning on a city for the first time, going to the World Series for the first time".


1984 San Diego Padres season, World series
AL Detroit Tigers (4) vs. NL San Diego Padres (1)


1984 San Diego State Aztecs football team
The 1984 San Diego State Aztecs football team represented San Diego State University during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC).


1984 San Diego State Aztecs football team
The team was led by head coach Doug Scovil, in his fourth year, and played home games at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego, California. They finished with a record of four wins, seven losses and one tie (4–7–1, 4–3–1 WAC).


1984 San Diego State Aztecs football team, Team players in the NFL
The following finished their college career in 1984, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.


1984 San Diego mayoral election
The 1984 San Diego mayoral election was held on November 6, 1984 to elect the mayor for San Diego. Incumbent mayor Roger Hedgecock stood for reelection.


1984 San Diego mayoral election
Municipal elections in California are officially non-partisan, though some candidates do receive funding and support from various political parties. The non-partisan primary was held June 5, 1984. Roger Hedgecock and Dick Carlson received the most votes and advanced to the November runoff. Hedgecock was reelected with a majority of the votes in the November election.


1984 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign
Incumbent mayor Roger Hedgecock stood for reelection for his first full term, having previously been elected to finish Pete Wilson's third term. Maureen O'Connor, who had previously come in second to Hedgecock in the 1983 mayoral election, declined to run. Dick Carlson, a former anchorman and savings-and-loans executive, was considered Hedgecock's main challenger.


1984 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign
A major issue during the campaign were allegations that Hedgecock's 1983 mayoral campaign benefited from $357,000 in illegal contributions. Carlson, on the other hand, was criticized for being inexperienced in government and for going back on a promises not to use his personal fortune in the campaign.


1984 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign
On June 5, 1984, Hedgecock came in first in the primary with 47.0 percent of the vote, followed by Carlson with 37.7 percent of the vote. The remaining 15.3 percent of the primary vote was scattered among seven minor candidates, none of whom received more than 5 percent individually. Local newspapers interpreted the relatively high vote for the minor candidates as protest votes and an indication that the electorate was dissatisfied with both Hedgecock and Carlson.


1984 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign
Because Hedgecock was short of an overall majority of the vote, he and Carlson advanced to a runoff election scheduled for November 6, 1984. Hedgecock ultimately prevailed in the general election with 57.9 percent of the vote, and was reelected as mayor.


1984 San Francisco 49ers season
The 1984 San Francisco 49ers season was their 39th season in the National Football League. The season was highlighted by their second Super Bowl victory. The franchise had their best season ever with a record of 15 wins and only 1 loss. Quarterback Joe Montana would be awarded the Super Bowl's Most Valuable Player Award for the second time in his career, joining Bart Starr and Terry Bradshaw as the only two-time Super Bowl MVPs.


1984 San Francisco 49ers season
The 1984 49ers became the first team to win fifteen games in the NFL's regular season since the league went to a sixteen-game schedule in 1978. The 49ers, if not for their loss to the Steelers, would have become the 2nd team after the 1972 Miami Dolphins to complete a perfect season, and the Niners would have been the first to do so since the NFL expanded to a 16-game schedule. The 1985 Chicago Bears, the 1998 Minnesota Vikings, the 2004 Pittsburgh Steelers, the 2011 Green Bay Packers, and the 2015 Carolina Panthers would later join the 1984 49ers to finish 15–1, although the 2007 New England Patriots would exceed this feat by finishing the regular season at an unbeaten 16–0.


1984 San Francisco 49ers season
In the playoffs, the 49ers were the #1 seed. They defeated the Giants 21–10 in the divisional round, then they shut out the Chicago Bears 23–0, and finally defeated the Miami Dolphins 38–16 in Super Bowl XIX. This 49ers team has gone down as the best in franchise history and many call this season the best in Joe Montana's career.


1984 San Francisco 49ers season, Training Camp
The 1984 San Francisco 49ers held training camp at Sierra College in Rocklin, California.


1984 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season
The 49ers advanced to their second Super Bowl in team history after becoming the first team ever to win 15 regular season games since the league expanded to a 16-game schedule in 1978. Much of the hype surrounding the team was their offense, which boasted 5 Pro Bowlers. Quarterback Joe Montana recorded 279 out of 432 completions for 3,630 yards, 28 touchdowns, and only 10 interceptions. Running back Roger Craig was one of the 49ers' major weapons, both rushing and receiving.


1984 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season
Craig was the team's second leading rusher with 649 rushing yards and 7 touchdowns, and also caught 71 passes for 675 yards. Pro Bowl running back Wendell Tyler, who had rushed for a team record 1,262 yards during the regular season, recorded 7 rushing touchdowns, and also caught 28 passes for 230 yards and 2 touchdown receptions. Wide receivers Freddie Solomon and Dwight Clark also were deep threats, gaining a combined total of 1,617 yards and 16 touchdowns. Up front, 3 of the 49ers' 5 starting offensive linemen, Randy Cross, Fred Quillan, and Keith Fahnhorst, had been selected to play in the Pro Bowl. Overall, San Francisco's offense finished the season ranked second in the NFL in scoring (475 points) and fourth in total yards (6,544).


1984 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season
Although they did not get as much media attention as the offense, the 49ers defense led the league in fewest points allowed during the regular season (227). All 4 of the 49ers' starting defensive backs, Ronnie Lott, Eric Wright, Carlton Williamson, and Dwight Hicks, were selected to play in the Pro Bowl. Pro Bowl linebacker Keena Turner was also a major defensive weapon, recording 2 sacks and 4 interceptions for 51 yards. Defensive end Dwaine Board anchored the line, recording 10 sacks and 1 fumble recovery.


1984 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7 vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
Gary Anderson kicked the game-winning field goal in the fourth quarter that would ultimately prevent the 49ers from going undefeated.


1984 San Francisco 49ers season, Playoffs, NFC Divisional Playoff
Quarterback Joe Montana threw for 309 yards and 3 touchdown passes as he led the 49ers to a victory, while receiver Dwight Clark caught 9 passes for 112 yards and a touchdown.


1984 San Francisco 49ers season, Playoffs, NFC Championship Game
The 49ers passed for 228 yards while limiting the Bears to only 37 passing yards and no points.


1984 San Francisco Giants season
The 1984 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 102nd season in Major League Baseball, their 27th season in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their 25th at Candlestick Park. The team finished in sixth place in the National League West with a 66–96 record, 26 games behind the San Diego Padres.


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


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


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


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


1984 San Francisco State Gators football team
The 1984 San Francisco State Gators football team represented San Francisco State University during the 1984 NCAA Division II football season.


1984 San Francisco State Gators football team
San Francisco State competed in the Northern California Athletic Conference (NCAC). The Gators were led by head coach Vic Rowen in his 24th year at the helm. They played home games at Cox Stadium in San Francisco, California. The team finished the season with a record of four wins, five losses and one tie (4–5–1, 2–3–1 NCAC). For the season the team was outscored by its opponents 209–240.


1984 San Francisco State Gators football team
After the season ended, it was determined that San Francisco state had used two ineligible players in all of their victories plus the tie and that they would have to forfeit those games. The five forfeits brought their final record to no wins and ten losses (0-10, 0-6 NCAC).


1984 San Francisco State Gators football team, Team players in the NFL
No San Francisco State players were selected in the 1985 NFL Draft.


1984 San Jose State Spartans football team
The 1984 San Jose State Spartans football team represented San Jose State University during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by head coach Claude Gilbert, in his first year as head coach at San Jose State. He had been their defensive coordinator for the previous three years. They played home games at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California. The Spartans finished the 1984 season with a record of five wins and six losses (6–5, 5–2 PCAA).


1984 San Jose State Spartans football team
After the season was over, it was discovered that the UNLV Rebels had used multiple ineligible players during both the 1983 and 1984 season. As a result, San Jose State's loss at UNLV turns into a forfeit win and their record is adjusted to 7–4, 6–1 PCAA.


1984 San Jose State Spartans football team, Team players in the NFL
The following finished their college career in 1984, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.


1984 San Juan, Puerto Rico mayoral election
The 1984 San Juan, Puerto Rico mayoral election was held on November 6, 1984, to elect the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was held as part of the 1984 Puerto Rican general election. It saw the election of Baltasar Corrada del Río, a member of the New Progressive Party.


1984 San Marino Grand Prix
The 1984 San Marino Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Imola on 6 May 1984. It was the fourth race of the 1984 Formula One World Championship.


1984 San Marino Grand Prix, Report, Pre-race
A dispute between the Toleman team and tyre suppliers Pirelli lead to Ayrton Senna missing out on Friday practice running for his first Grand Prix around Imola. On Saturday his Hart 415T engine developed a misfire leading to Senna failing to qualify, the only time this would happen in the Brazilian's F1 career.


1984 San Marino Grand Prix, Report, Race
The 60-lap race was won by Alain Prost, driving a McLaren-TAG. René Arnoux finished second in a Ferrari, while Elio de Angelis was third in a Lotus-Renault, despite running out of fuel on the last lap.


1984 San Marino motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1984 San Marino motorcycle Grand Prix was the final race of the 1984 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 1–2 September 1984 at the Mugello Circuit.


1984 San Pedro Basin earthquake
The 1984 San Pedro Basin earthquake occurred on June 24 at 07:17:14 local time with a moment magnitude of 6.7 and a maximum  Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). The event occurred off the southern coast of the Dominican Republic and resulted in an estimated five fatalities.


1984 San Pedro Basin earthquake, Tectonic setting
The northern boundary of the Caribbean Plate is a diffuse zone of varied fault types. The Muertos Trough marks the southern portion of this zone of deformation with north dipping convergence.


1984 San Pedro Basin earthquake, Earthquake
This thrust earthquake occurred on a shallow and north-dipping fault and, at the time, it was the largest instrumentally recorded event in the Los Muertos Trough.


1984 San Pedro Basin earthquake, Intensity
The United States Geological Survey estimated that more than 227,000 people were exposed to intensity VII (Very strong) shaking and more than 2.8 million experienced intensity VI (Strong) shaking.


1984 San Pedro Basin earthquake, Aftershock
Five hours after the mainshock, a destructive 5.2 Mw  aftershock occurred about 5–10 miles to the northeast. Five deaths are also attributed to this event.


1984 Sandown 1000
The 1984 Sandown 1000 was an endurance motor race staged at the Sandown Raceway in Victoria, Australia on 2 December 1984. It was the eleventh and final round of the 1984 FIA World Endurance Championship and was the first FIA World Championship race to be held in Australia. It was to be the first of a three-year contract to race at Sandown, though the final two years would be cancelled.


1984 Sandown 1000
The event was the final round of the World Endurance Championship for Drivers  but did not count towards the associated World Endurance Championship for Manufacturers, the Group C2 Prototype FIA Cup, or the FIA Grand Touring Cup. The race was open to Group C1 Sports Prototypes, Group C2 Sports Prototypes, Group B GT Cars and IMSA GTP, GTX, GTO & GTU cars. With their drivers no longer in a position to win the Drivers Championship and no manufacturers points on offer, the Martini Racing team did not participate in this event with their Ferrari powered Lancia LC2s.


1984 Sandown 1000
An invitational class for "Australian Cars" (AC) was also included for cars that raced in the Australian GT Championship, and the Australian Sports Car Championship. These Group D GT, Group B Sports Sedan, and Group A Sports Cars, did not conform to World Endurance Championship regulations. The FIA only allowed five AC cars to compete and the drivers were not eligible to score championship points. Only four of these cars started, with the Bryan Thompson / Brad Jones Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC powered by a twin turbo, 4.2 litre Chevrolet V8 engine did not start due to overheating issues in practice and qualifying.


1984 Sandown 1000
Fittingly in Australia's first ever FIA World Championship event, the race included Australia's only two World Drivers' Champions. Sir Jack Brabham (1959, 1960 & 1966) and Alan Jones (1980) both participated as part of the factory backed Rothmans Porsche team. The race was Sir Jack's first and only World Championship race since the 1970 Mexican Grand Prix, though between 1970 and 1984 he had been a semi-regular competitor in Australian touring car racing.


1984 Sandown 1000
The race proved to be a financial disaster for promoters, the Light Car Club of Australia. The club failed to secure a major sponsor for the race, and were late in arranging a television deal so the race could be broadcast back to Europe.


1984 Sandown 1000
It wasn't until the last minute that the ABC decided to telecast the race (of Australia's major television stations, the Seven Network was committed to showing the 1984 Australian Open tennis from Kooyong in Melbourne, Channel 9 was showing a match between Victoria and the touring West Indies cricket team at the Melbourne Cricket Ground while Channel 10 was covering the Australian federal election). The official attendance was just 13,860, though many observers put the figure at less than 10,000. It was estimated that the LCCA lost anywhere from A$300,000 to 500,000 on the race.


1984 Sandown 1000, Qualifying
As expected, the factory Rothmans Porsche 956 of Stefan Bellof took pole with a time of 1:31.600 (prior to the race, the lap record of the new 3.9 km circuit was 1:36.9 set by John Bowe in a 1.6 litre Ford powered Ralt RT4/85 Formula Mondial car during the final round of the 1984 Australian Drivers' Championship). Sharing the front row was his teammate and rival for the World Endurance Championship Jochen Mass with a lap of 1:32.300.


1984 Sandown 1000, Qualifying
British driver Gordon Spice qualified 12th and was the fastest Group C2 runner with a time of 1:38.000 in his 3.3 litre Tiga CG84-Cosworth DFL.


1984 Sandown 1000, Qualifying
Four times CAMS Gold Star winner, Melbourne resident Alfredo Costanzo, qualified the 1984 Australian Sports Car Championship winning Romano WE84-Cosworth he would share with car owner Bap Romano in 13th place and fastest of the AC class with a 1:38.400 lap, despite persistent understeer in the slow corners (due to 70 kg of lead ballast the car was required to carry for the race), Costanzo twice stripping second gear in the car and an overnight engine change from the 3.0 litre Cosworth DFV engine to a more powerful 3.9 litre Cosworth DFL.


1984 Sandown 1000, Qualifying
In the only IMSA car in the field, American driver Jim Cook qualified 15th in Chuck Kendall's Lola T600-Chevrolet V8 with a 1:39.500, while Altfrid Heger qualified his Group B BMW M1 in 28th with a time of 1:50.500. The Group B BMW M1's (powered by the 3.5 litre BMW M88 Straight-six engine) actually proved slower than the production based Australian Group C touring cars had been at the circuit three months earlier, including being almost 3 seconds slower than the BMW 635 CSi touring car which used the same M88 engine.


1984 Sandown 1000, Race
Without the factory Lancia's, the Group C class turned into a Porsche benefit with the first 10 places on the grid being filled by the 956 model and position 11 being the newer Porsche 962 run by John Fitzpatrick Racing for Australia's "Mr Versatile" of motor racing Colin Bond, and open wheel driver Andrew Miedecke.


1984 Sandown 1000, Race
Alan Jones had the honour of leading the first lap of the race having got the jump on temporary teammates Bellof and Mass. As in qualifying, the race was a Porsche benefit with the German cars finishing in the top 9 places (the 962 of Bond/Miedecke finished 6th). Rothmans Porsche drivers Bellof and Derek Bell won the race, giving Bellof the 1984 World Endurance Championship in the process. Teammates Jochen Mass and Jacky Ickx finished three laps behind in 2nd, with Jonathan Palmer and Jan Lammers a further lap down in 3rd place in their Richard Lloyd Racing 956B. The only car to actually challenge the Rothmans Porsche's during the race, the Skoal Bandit 956B of Thierry Boutsen and David Hobbs, was the only Group C1 car not to finish after suffering a burnt-out an ignition coil on lap 171.


1984 Sandown 1000, Race
The first non-Porsche finisher was the Group C2, 3.3L Cosworth DFL powered Tiga GC84 of Gordon Spice and Neil Crang in 10th place. The Tiga won C2 after a race long battle with the Italian Alba's and the German Gebhardt JC843-Cosworth. The AC class was won by the JPS Team BMW's 320i of Jim Richards and Tony Longhurst who finished in 14th place overall despite several spins and punctures caused by the road surface in the new infield section breaking up under the strain of the 650 bhp (485 kW; 659 PS) ground effect Group C Porsche's. The BMW was followed in 15th place by the Group B winning BMW M1 of Helmut Gall and Altfrid Heger. The only IMSA car in the race, a Lola T600-Chevrolet run by Chuck Kendall failed to finish having completed 95 laps.


1984 Sandown 1000, Race
The race distance was to be 257 laps, or 1000 km (620 mi) long. However, under WEC rules, with the exception of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, races had a time limit of 6 hours. The six-hour mark was reached when the Bellof/Bell Porsche had run only 206 laps (803.4 km), thus the race was declared at the time limit some 51 laps short of the 1000 km distance.


1984 Sandown 1000, Official results
Note: Cars that failed to complete 75% of the winner's distance were Not Classified and are marked as NC in the above table.


1984 Santa Clara Broncos football team
The 1984 Santa Clara Broncos football team represented Santa Clara University during the 1984 NCAA Division II football season.


1984 Santa Clara Broncos football team
Santa Clara competed in the Western Football Conference (WFC). The Broncos were led by head coach Pat Malley in his last year at the helm. Coach O'Malley finished his 26 year career at Santa Clara with an overall record of 142–100–3, a winning percentage of .586. The 1984 team played home games at Buck Shaw Stadium in Santa Clara, California. They finished the season with a record of seven wins and four losses (7–4, 1–2 WFC). The Broncos outscored their opponents 173–144 for the season.


1984 Santa Clara Broncos football team, Team players in the NFL
No Santa Clara Broncos players were selected in the 1985 NFL Draft.


1984 Santista Textile Open
The 1984 Santista Textile Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil that was part of the 1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. The tournament was held from 9 July through 15 July 1984. Second-seeded Sandra Cecchini won the singles title.


1984 Santista Textile Open, Finals, Doubles
Jill Hetherington /  Hélène Pelletier defeated  Penny Barg-Mager /  Kyle Copeland 6–3, 2–6, 7–6


1984 Sardinian regional election
The Sardinian regional election of 1984 took place on 24 June 1984.


1984 Sardinian regional election
After the election Mario Melis, leader of the Sardinian Action Party, a nationalist social-liberal outfit, formed a government with the support of the Italian Communist Party, the Italian Socialist Party and, since 1985, the Italian Democratic Socialist Party.


1984 Scheldeprijs
The 1984 Scheldeprijs was the 71st edition of the Scheldeprijs cycle race and was held on 31 July 1984. The race was won by Ludo Peeters.


1984 Scott Tournament of Hearts
The 1984 Scott Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women's national curling championship, was played February 25 to March 3 at the Charlottetown Forum in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.


1984 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Catherine Barker Third: Anita KellySecond: Elizabeth JamesLead: Lillian Howse


1984 Scottish Cup Final
The 1984 Scottish Cup Final was played on 19 May 1984 at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the final of the 109th Scottish Cup. The previous year's winners and defending champions in the match were Aberdeen who had beaten Rangers in the 1983 final. Aberdeen had beaten Dundee 2–0 in their semi-final to reach the final whereas Celtic had beaten St Mirren 2–1. The holders, Aberdeen and Celtic, contested the match; Aberdeen won the match 2–1, their goals were scored by Eric Black and Mark McGhee. This marked three consecutive Scottish Cup wins for Aberdeen.


1984 Scottish League Cup Final (March)
The 1983–84 Scottish League Cup Final was played on 25 March 1984, at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the final of the 38th Scottish League Cup competition. The final was an Old Firm derby contested by Rangers and Celtic.


1984 Scottish League Cup Final (March)
Rangers won the match 3–2 thanks to an Ally McCoist hat-trick. He scored a penalty in the first half, conceded a foul to give Celtic theirs in the last minute of normal time and then was himself fouled during extra time; although he had this second penalty saved, he scored the winning goal from the rebound.


1984 Scottish League Cup Final (October)
The 1984–85 Scottish League Cup Final was played on 28 October 1984, at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the final of the 39th Scottish League Cup. The final was contested by Rangers and Dundee United. Rangers won the match 1–0 thanks to an Iain Ferguson goal.


1984 Scottish Masters
The 1984 Langs Scottish Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 20 and 23 September 1984 at the Hospitality Inn in Glasgow, Scotland.


1984 Scottish Masters
Steve Davis won the tournament by defeating Jimmy White 9–4 in the final.


1984 Scottish local elections
Local elections were held in Scotland on Thursday 3 May 1984, to elect members to all 53 district councils under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which had established the two-tier system of regions and districts. This was the first election to take place after the 1983 general election landslide victory for the Conservatives. The local elections resulted in the Labour Party taking control of the City of Edinburgh for the first time.


1984 Scottish local elections, Results by council area
The numbers of seats on each council before and after the election were as follows:


1984 Seattle Mariners season
The Seattle Mariners 1984 season was their eighth since the franchise creation. They finished fifth in the American League West with a record of 74–88 (.457).


1984 Seattle Mariners 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 Seattle Mariners season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In


1984 Seattle Seahawks season
The 1984 Seattle Seahawks season was the team's ninth season with the National Football League. The season opener was moved from Sunday to Monday afternoon on Labor Day to avoid a conflict with the Seattle Mariners baseball game.


1984 Seattle Seahawks season
The 1984 Seahawks were a well-balanced team on offense and defense. They scored 418 points (26.1 per game), and gave up only 282 points (17.6 per game), both ranked 5th in the NFL. Their point differential of +136 points was third in the NFL; the Seahawks' giveaway/takeway ratio was +24, best in the league. The team's 63 defensive takeaways is the most in NFL history for a 16-game schedule, and the most since the merger.


1984 Seattle Seahawks season
The team's offense boasted a 3,000-yard passer in quarterback Dave Krieg (3,671 yards), and a 1,000-yard wide receiver in Steve Largent (74 receptions for 1,164 yards). The passing attack more than made up for the loss of star running back Curt Warner, who suffered a season-ending knee injury in the opener.


1984 Seattle Seahawks season
The Seahawks's defensive line generated an outstanding pass rush, with defensive ends Jeff Bryant and Jacob Green registering 14.5 and 13 sacks, respectively. Safety Kenny Easley led the team and league with 10 interceptions. Easley, Green, and NT Joe Nash made the All-Pro team.


1984 Seattle Seahawks season
In a wild Week 10 game against the Kansas City Chiefs, the Seahawks intercepted Kansas City's quarterbacks six times, and returned four of them for touchdowns. All the touchdown returns were for over 50 yards. In the game, the Seahawks set NFL records for most yards returning interceptions (325), and most interceptions-for-touchdowns in a game (4).


1984 Seattle Seahawks season
Seattle would make the playoffs for the second straight season. They defeated the defending Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Raiders 13–7 in the wild card round avenging their 1983 loss. However, they were not able to advance past the Miami Dolphins, as they lost in Miami 31–10 to a powerful Dolphins squad led by record setting second year quarterback Dan Marino, who they had defeated in the playoffs the previous season. After this season, the Seahawks wouldn't win another playoff game until their Super Bowl-appearing 2005 season.


1984 Seattle Seahawks season, Schedule, Regular season
Divisional matchups have the AFC West playing the NFC Central.


1984 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 3: at New England Patriots
The Seahawks saw the Patriots erase a 23–0 deficit with 38 unanswered points led by new quarterback Tony Eason, who took over halfway through the game for Steve Grogan.


1984 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Postseason
Seattle entered the postseason as the #4 seed in the AFC.


1984 Segunda División de Chile
The 1984 Segunda División de Chile was the 33rd season of the Segunda División de Chile.


1984 Seiko Super Tennis Hawaii
The 1984 Seiko Super Tennis Hawaii, also known as the Hawaii Open, was a men's tennis tournament played an indoor carpet courts at the Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States that was part of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix circuit. It was the 11th and last edition of the tournament and was held from September 24 through September 30, 1984. Unseeded Marty Davis won the singles title and earned $20,000 first-prize money as well as 100 Grand Prix ranking points which elevated his ATP ranking from 80th to the mid-50s.


1984 Seiko Super Tennis Hawaii, Finals, Doubles
Gary Donnelly /  Butch Walts defeated  Mark Dickson /  Mike Leach 7–6, 6–4


1984 Senior League World Series
The 1984 Senior League World Series took place from August 13–18 in Gary, Indiana, United States. Altamonte Springs, Florida defeated Pingtung, Taiwan in the championship game.


1984 Senior PGA Tour
The 1984 Senior PGA Tour was the fifth season since the Senior PGA Tour officially began in 1980 (it was renamed the Champions Tour in 2003 and PGA Tour Champions in 2016). The season consisted of 22 official money events with purses totalling $4,366,000, including four majors. Miller Barber won the most tournaments, four. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.


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


1984 Seychellois presidential election
Presidential elections were held in the Seychelles on 17 June 1984. Following a coup in 1977, the Seychelles People's Progressive Front was the sole legal party, and its leader, France-Albert René, was the only candidate in the election. He was re-elected with 92.6% of the votes on a 95.9% turnout.


1984 Shakin'
1984 Shakin'  was a various artists "hits" collection album released in Australia in 1984 on the Festival record Label (Cat No. RML 50005). The album spent two weeks at the top of the Australian album charts in 1984.


1984 Sheffield City Council election
Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 3 May 1984. One third of the council was up for election.


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


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


1984 Singapore Masters
The event was held as a round robin with each player facing the others once. Professionals Steve Davis, Terry Griffiths and Tony Meo participated along with two local players, Benjamin Liu and Lau Weng Yew. Griffiths won the tournament, finishing unbeaten, and placing top of the round robin league table on points countback, ahead of Davis.


1984 Singaporean general election
General elections were held in Singapore on 22 December 1984. President Devan Nair dissolved parliament on 4 December 1984 on the advice of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. The result was a victory for the People's Action Party, which won 77 of the 79 seats, marking the first time since 1963 that at least one opposition candidate was elected to parliament, although the first presence of opposition was in 1981.


1984 Singaporean general election, Background
In his 1983 National Day Rally speech, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew lamented that declining birth rates and large number of graduate women remaining single or not marrying their intellectual equal could see Singapore's talent pool shrink. The PAP government then proceeded to launch the "Graduate Mothers' Scheme" to entice graduate women with incentives to get married and grant graduate mothers priority in the best schools for their third child. The proposal was met with anger by the Singapore public (including many female graduates) and the PAP government drew accusations of elitism, and even eugenics. Notably, prominent PAP stalwarts like Deputy Prime Minister S. Rajaratnam and also ex-minister Toh Chin Chye expressed opposition to the proposal.


1984 Singaporean general election, Background
In March 1984, Health Minister Howe Yoon Chong released a controversial proposal to raise the age for the withdrawal of Central Provident Fund (CPF) savings from 55 to 60 years. At a news conference on 26 March 1984, Howe reasoned that Singaporeans could not depend only on their children in their old age. That suggestion, part of the 54-page report of the Committee on the Problems of the Aged which he chaired, was eventually dropped. Taking up the suggestions in the report, the Singapore Government subsequently introduced the Minimum Sum scheme. This allows workers to withdraw some of their CPF funds at age 55, setting aside a certain minimum sum which can only be withdrawn at retirement age, currently at 62 years.


1984 Singaporean general election, Background
These controversial proposals sparked debate and uproar in the Singapore electorate and were said to have contributed to a big dip in PAP's support and its share of votes plunged by 12.9% to below 64.8%, the biggest fall and the lowest for PAP since the 1963 General Election (this remains the largest anti-PAP swing ever in a seriously contested general election as of 2020). In his memoirs, Lee Kuan Yew recalled that the swing against the PAP was larger than what he expected.


1984 Singaporean general election, Background, New candidates/outgoing incumbents
Minister of Finance Hon Sui Sen died during his term on 14 October 1983 and his seat of Havelock was vacated, but no by-election was held on the constituency, and announced to be merged into Delta constituency. Tony Tan succeeded Hon as the new Finance Minister.


1984 Singaporean general election, Background, New candidates/outgoing incumbents
PM Lee's son Lee Hsien Loong (who went on to become the nation's third (and current) Prime Minister) made his debut in the seat of Teck Ghee, while PAP stalwarts Dr Goh Keng Swee and Ong Pang Boon stepped down. In the only election among several preceding and succeeding ones, the election deposit ($1,500) remained unchanged.


1984 Singaporean general election, Background, New candidates/outgoing incumbents
The Workers' Party of Singapore (WP) secretary-general J. B. Jeyaretnam successfully retained the Anson constituency with an increased majority, while the Singapore Democratic Party made its first in-road into Parliament with the victory of Chiam See Tong, who would serve the Potong Pasir Single Member Constituency for the next 26 years until 2011; this also began a continuing trend whereas three political parties were represented in Parliament (regardless of status as a NCMP or an elected MP) with the exception of 1986-88 (due to the disqualification of sole-WP candidate J. B. Jeyaretnam in 1986), and 2015-20 (all the nine minimum opposition seats were awarded to a single party of WP, with three being NCMPs).


1984 Singaporean general election, Background, Non-Constituency Member of Parliament scheme
A new Non-Constituency Member of Parliament scheme was introduced whereby between three and six seats, the exact number which was decided by the President of Singapore, would be offered to unsuccessful opposition candidates with the best scores and who garner at least 15% of the votes if any one party wins all the seats, subtracting one NCMP seat for every one opposition MP elected. Opposition parties dismissed the scheme for misleading voters into thinking that they could have opposition MPs without voting for them. M.P.D. Nair of WP who contested Jalan Kayu was the first to be offered but declined. The offer was then made to Singapore United Front's Tan Chee Kien who contested Kaki Bukit, who also declined, and no further offers were made.


1984 Singaporean general election, Electoral boundaries
The newer constituencies are those with rapid developments of Ang Mo Kio, Tampines, Jurong East, Bedok & Jurong West (smaller developments), while other constituencies were dissolved, which was reflected in the table:


1984 Singaporean general election, New/Outgoing MP
: A caret indicates that the constituency was removed and absorbed to other wards.


1984 Singaporean general election, Results
Chua Chu Kang SMC United People's Front candidate Teo Kim Hoe who garnered only 196 votes, or 0.81% of the valid votes cast, set a worst-scoring result for any candidates in the history of the election until the 2013 by-election where Desmond Lim surpassed the record with 168 votes or 0.53% of the valid votes; not counting by-elections, the record has also be broken by independent candidate Samir Salim Neji in the 2015 general election, with 150 votes or 0.60% of the valid votes.


1984 Singaporean general election, Results
Excluding the 30 uncontested constituencies, the voter turnout was 95.6%, with 63.2% of the total electorate casting their votes.


1984 Skate Canada International
The 1984 Skate Canada International was held in Victoria, British Columbia on October 25–27. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1984 Sligo Intermediate Football Championship
This is a round-up of the 1984 Sligo Intermediate Football Championship. Geevagh were crowned champions in Centenary Year, after a comprehensive defeat of neighbours Shamrock Gaels, in the most one-sided final to date.


1984 Sligo Senior Football Championship
This is a round-up of the 1984 Sligo Senior Football Championship. In Centenary Year, it was St. Mary's who retained the title, defeating Tubbercurry in a disappointing final. The champions had been brought to a replay by Curry in the semi-final, however St. Mary's won that replay with ease.


1984 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final
Team:G. YoungT. FoleyH. GilvarryJ. McGowanT. CarrollG. FinanT. DaltonB. JonesG. MonaghanJohn KentJ. CrehanM. Laffey (Capt)J. BirdJim KentR. Henneberry


1984 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final
Team:O. WynneL. GilmartinG. GilmartinJ. StensonP. ReganP. GilmartinP. McCarrickJ. KilcoyneE. GilmartinR. McCarrickJ. MurphyF. RyanJ.J. GorhamN. KilloranP. Donoghoe


1984 Sohmor massacre
The 1984 Sohmor massacre, also known as the first Sohmor massacre, took place on 20 September 1984 when  the South Lebanon Army, backed by the Israel Defence Forces, fired guns and killed 13 civilians in the Lebanese village of Sohmor.


1984 Sohmor massacre, Background
Sohmor is a Shia Muslim village in Western Beqaa. The South Lebanon Army, lead by Antoine Lahad consists mainly of Christian and Druze militiamen, that have been trained and armed by Israel.


1984 Sohmor massacre, Attack
While the IDF encircled the village, the SLA gathered 300 men, aged 16 to 39 years, in the main square to investigate in a recent ambush that killed 3 Druze militiamen. The shooting went on for 15 to 30 minutes, killed 13 and wounded 40.


1984 Sohmor massacre, Aftermath
Lebanese Information Minister Joseph Skaf called the attack a part of a "series of massacres perpetrated by Israel or encouraged by it and carried out under its direct coverage and with its full support". IDF officials blamed the massacre on the SLA. Reporters were denied entrance to the village.


1984 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election
The Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council elections were held on Thursday, 3 May 1984, with one third of the council to be elected and a double vacancy in Shirley West. The Conservatives retained control of the council. Voter turnout was 35.2%


1984 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election result
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:


1984 Solomon Islands general election
General elections were held in the Solomon Islands on 24 October 1984. A total of 230 candidates contested the election, the result of which was a victory for the Solomon Islands United Party, which won 13 of the 38 seats, despite receiving fewer votes than the People's Alliance Party.


1984 Solomon Islands general election, Aftermath
Following the elections, Peter Kenilorea was elected Prime Minister on 24 October, defeating Solomon Mamaloni by 21 votes to 13. All twelve People's Alliance Party MPs and the sole National Democratic Party MP voted for Mamaloni, while the thirteen Solomon Islands United Party MPs, four Solomon Agu Segu-Fenua MPs and four independents voted for Kenilorea.


1984 Somali parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Somalia on 31 December 1984. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party (SRSP) as the sole legal party. Voters were asked to approve a list of 171 SRSP candidates. Turnout was reported to be 99.86% by the communist government.


1984 Sonoma State Cossacks football team
The 1984 Sonoma State Cossacks football team represented Sonoma State during the 1984 NCAA Division II football season. Sonoma State competed in the Northern California Athletic Conference in 1984.


1984 Sonoma State Cossacks football team
The 1984 Cossacks were led by third-year head coach Tony Kehl. They played home games at Cossacks Stadium in Rohnert Park, California. On the field, Sonoma State finished the season with a record of one win and nine losses (1–9, 1–5 NCAC). However, San Francisco State was later required to forfeit three of their wins, including the October 13th game against Sonoma State. That brought the Cossacks record to an adjusted two wins and eight losses (2–8, 2–4 NCAC). The Cossacks were outscored by their opponents 126–288 for the season.


1984 Sonoma State Cossacks football team, Team players in the NFL
No Sonoma State players were selected in the 1985 NFL Draft.


1984 South African Grand Prix
The 1984 South African Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Kyalami on 7 April 1984. It was race 2 of 16 in the 1984 Formula One World Championship. The 75-lap race was won by Niki Lauda, driving a McLaren-TAG, with teammate Alain Prost second and Derek Warwick third in a Renault.


1984 South African Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Qualifying saw reigning World Champion Nelson Piquet take the first of an eventual nine pole positions for 1984 in his Brabham-BMW, with Keke Rosberg alongside him on the front row in his Williams-Honda. On the second row were Nigel Mansell in the Lotus and Patrick Tambay in the factory Renault, while on the third row were Alain Prost in the McLaren and Teo Fabi in the second Brabham. The top ten was completed by Elio de Angelis in the second Lotus, Niki Lauda in the second McLaren, Derek Warwick in the second Renault and Michele Alboreto in the Ferrari. The Cosworth-powered Tyrrells and Arrows struggled, with Thierry Boutsen coming 27th and last in his Arrows and thus failing to qualify.


1984 South African Grand Prix, Report, Race
In the Sunday morning warm-up session Piercarlo Ghinzani, who had qualified 20th in his Osella, crashed heavily at the fast left-hand Jukskei Sweep, the car bursting into flames. Ghinzani escaped with minor burns on his hands, and subsequently withdrew from the race, thus promoting Boutsen to the last grid spot.


1984 South African Grand Prix, Report, Race
At the start, Piquet almost stalled on the grid and was passed by Rosberg and Mansell. The Lotus then faltered and Mansell fell down the order, putting Piquet back up to second by the first corner. At the end of lap 1, Piquet passed Rosberg for the lead, before teammate Fabi moved into second on lap 2. Lauda had made a good start to run fourth; he then overtook Rosberg on lap 4 and Fabi on lap 10. Both Brabhams then hit trouble, needing new tyres before retiring with turbo failures, Fabi on lap 19 and Piquet on lap 30.


1984 South African Grand Prix, Report, Race
From there, Lauda controlled the race and went on to win easily, with Prost over a minute behind in second and the only other driver on the lead lap. Warwick gained his first Formula One podium by finishing third, while completing the top six were Riccardo Patrese (Alfa Romeo), Andrea de Cesaris (Ligier-Renault) and, gaining his first ever World Championship point, Ayrton Senna in his Toleman-Hart.


1984 South African Open (tennis)
The 1984 South African Open  was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts in Johannesburg, South Africa that was part of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix and the 1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the 81st edition of the tournament. The women's tournament was held from 30 April through 6 May 1984 while the men's tournament was held from 19 November through 25 November 1984.


1984 South African Open (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles
Tracy Delatte /  Francisco Gonzalez defeated  Steve Meister /  Eliot Teltscher 7–6, 6–1


1984 South African Open (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles
Rosalyn Fairbank /  Beverly Mould defeated  Sandy Collins /  Andrea Leand 6–1, 6–2


1984 South African general election
General elections were held in South Africa in August 1984 to elect Coloured and Indian representatives to their respective houses of the Tricameral Parliament. The Coloured elections for the House of Representatives took place on 22 August, and resulted in a victory for the Labour Party, headed by the Reverend Allan Hendrickse, which won 76 of the 80 seats. The Indian elections for the House of Delegates were held on 28 August and saw the National People's Party emerge as the largest party, winning 18 of the 40 seats.


1984 South African general election
The Indian elections were opposed by the United Democratic Front and were marked by boycotts and protests. Despite the Prohibition of Political Interference Act of 1968 which banned mixed-race political parties, nine Indian members of Hendricke's Labour Party stood as independents, one of whom won a seat and subsequently joined the NPP.


1984 South African general election, Background
In addition to the whites-only House of Assembly, a November 1983 referendum had approved the creation of two new houses an 80-member House of Representatives for Coloureds and a 40-member House of Delegates for Asians.


1984 South African general election, Reactions
The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 554 (1984) condemning the election, declaring it null and void as it was designed to entrench minority rule.


1984 South African motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1984 South African motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 1984 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 22–24 March 1984 at the Kyalami circuit.


1984 South African presidential election
The 1984 South African presidential election was the first to be held under the new South African Constitution of 1983, which abolished the office of Prime Minister and merged its powers into the position of State President, who was now both head of state and government. According to the new basic law, the State President was to be elected by an electoral college composed of members of the majority party in each of the chambers of the new tricameral parliament. As such, the electoral college was composed of 50 National Party members elected by the House of Assembly, 25 Labor Party members elected by the House of Representatives, and 13 members of the National People's Party elected by from the House of Delegates.


1984 South African presidential election
The election came after the South African elections of 1984 to the two new legislative chambers in the South African Parliament: the House of Representatives, filled with representatives of the colored population in South Africa, and the House of Delegates, filled with representatives of the Indian population. The House of Assembly, the assembly representative of the white population last elected in 1981, was not reelected until 1987.


1984 South African presidential election
By unanimous vote of the members of the electoral college (88 votes), Pieter Willem Botha, outgoing Prime Minister and leader of the ruling National Party, was elected State President of South Africa, the first South African head of state to simultaneously be Head of Government. The inauguration of Botha's five-year term, marked by a ceremony in Parliament, took place in Cape Town on September 14, 1984.


1984 South American Basketball Championship for Women
The 1984 South American Basketball Championship for Women was the 19th regional tournament for women in South America. It was held in Cúcuta, Colombia and won by the local squad. Eight teams competed.


1984 South American Basketball Championship for Women, Results
Each team played the other teams twice, for a total of eight games played by each team.


1984 South American Junior Championships in Athletics
The 16th South American Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Caracas, Venezuela from October 4–7, 1984.


1984 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, Participation
Detailed result lists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 176 athletes from about 8 countries: Argentina (16), Brazil (34), Chile (18), Colombia (21), Panama (2), Peru (22), Uruguay (9), Venezuela (54).


1984 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, Medal summary
Medal winners are published for men and womenComplete results can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History"website.


1984 South American Youth Championships in Athletics
The 7th South American Youth Championships in Athletics were held in Tarija, Bolivia from September 13–16, 1984.


1984 South American Youth Championships in Athletics, Medal summary
Medal winners are published for boys and girls. Complete results can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website. All results are marked as "affected by altitude" (A), because Tarija is located at 1,854 metres above sea level.


1984 South American Youth Championships in Athletics, Participation (unofficial)
Detailed result lists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 136 athletes from about 7 countries:


1984 South Asian Games
The 1984 South Asian Games (or 1st SAF Games) was the first edition of South Asian Games. It was held in Kathmandu, Nepal from September 17 to 23, 1984.


1984 South Asian Games
The number of disciplines were restricted to five only. Indian sportsmen topped the medal tally, winning 88 medals. Half of these medals were gold. There were 28 silver and 16 bronze medals won by India. Sri Lanka followed India by winning seven golds, 11 silver and 19 bronze medals whereas Pakistan got five gold, three silver and two bronze medals. As the games were held for the first time, all the gold medallists created new games records which were shattered in the subsequent editions. However, the two records created in swimming remain intact till date.


1984 South Asian Games
Bula Choudhary of India won the 100-metre freestyle event clocking 1:2:81 whereas the Indian relay team won the 4x100 metre freestyle event which continue to find place in the record books. Football was the only team game which could fit into the scheme of the games. Its gold was claimed by Nepal.


1984 South Asian Games, Sports
There were 5 official sports for the 1st SAF Games. They were :-


1984 South Australian Open
The 1984 South Australian Open was a men's professional tennis tournament held in Adelaide, Australia and played on outdoor grass courts. The event was part of the 1984 Grand Prix circuit and was held from 17 to 23 December. Unseeded Peter Doohan won his first title of the year, and the first of his career.


1984 South Australian Open, Finals, Doubles
Broderick Dyke /  Wally Masur defeated  Peter Doohan /  Brian Levine 4–6, 7–5, 6–1


1984 South Australian Open – Doubles
Craig A. Miller and Eric Sherbeck were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals this year.


1984 South Australian Open – Doubles
Broderick Dyke and Wally Masur won the title, defeating Peter Doohan and Brian Levine 4–6, 7–5, 6–1 in the final.


1984 South Australian Open – Singles
Mike Bauer was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals this year.


1984 South Australian Open – Singles
Peter Doohan won the title, defeating Huub van Boeckel 1–6, 6–1, 6–4 in the final.


1984 South Carolina Gamecocks football team
The 1984 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina as an independent team in the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Gamecocks would finish the season 10–2 overall, after losing to Oklahoma State in the Gator Bowl.


1984 South West Surrey by-election
The South West Surrey by-election, 1984 was a parliamentary by-election held on 3 May 1984 for the British House of Commons constituency of South West Surrey.


1984 South West Surrey by-election, Previous MP
The seat had become vacant on 10 March 1984. The constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Maurice Macmillan, had died suddenly at the age of 63. He had recently acquired the courtesy title of Viscount Macmillan of Ovendon when his father (who would ultimately outlive him by nearly three years) was created the Earl of Stockton on 24 February 1984.


1984 South West Surrey by-election, Previous MP
Maurice Macmillan was a Cabinet minister in Edward Heath's government in the 1970s, as well as the son of former Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who was still alive when his son died. He had been South West Surrey's MP since the constituency was created for the 1983 general election, having previously been MP for Farnham from 1966. Macmillan had first entered Parliament at the 1955 general election representing the constituency of Halifax, but had lost his seat at the 1964 general election.


1984 South West Surrey by-election, Candidates
Six candidates were nominated. They are listed below in descending order of votes.


1984 South West Surrey by-election, Candidates
1. Mrs Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley (born 1948), was the Conservative candidate. She was a part-time psychiatric social worker, at the time of the by-election. She is married to Peter Bottomley who has also served as a Conservative MP.


1984 South West Surrey by-election, Candidates
Mrs Bottomley had contested the Isle of Wight in the 1983 general election. Subsequent to the by-election she retained the seat, until she retired from the House of Commons and was granted a Life Peerage in 2005. She served as a member of John Major's cabinet from 1992 until 1997.


1984 South West Surrey by-election, Candidates
2. The Liberal Party candidate, representing the SDP-Liberal Alliance, was freelance journalist and broadcaster Gavin Douglas Scott (born 1950). Since the by-election Scott has become known as a screenwriter.


1984 South West Surrey by-election, Candidates
3. The Labour nominee was Mrs Barbara Maureen Roche (born 1954), a barrister. Mrs Roche has subsequently been elected to Parliament and has served as a junior minister.


1984 South West Surrey by-election, Candidates
4. Victor Litvin was an Independent candidate, who upset some people with his unique ballot paper label.


1984 South West Surrey by-election, Candidates
5. Miss Helen Mary Anscomb was an Independent candidate, who frequently contested by-elections in the 1980s.


1984 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1984 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Perry Field in Gainesville, FL from May 11 through May 14. Florida won the tournament and earned the Southeastern Conference's automatic bid to the 1984 NCAA Tournament.


1984 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1984 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Hennon Stadium on the campus of Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina from April 27 through April 29. This was the league's first championship tournament to be held since 1953, when seven schools departed the conference to form the Atlantic Coast Conference. Modern conference baseball records begin with the 1954 baseball season. The North Division's top seed Appalachian State won the tournament and earned the Southern Conference's automatic bid to the 1984 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


1984 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding
The top two teams from each division based on regular season conference winning percentage participated in the tournament. The top seed from the North Division played the second seed from the South in the first round, and vice versa. The winners of the first round then played, while the losers played an elimination game. There were no ties in the standings, so no tiebreakers were necessary.


1984 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1984 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 2–4, 1984 at the Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, North Carolina. The Marshall Thundering Herd, led by head coach Rick Huckabay, won their first Southern Conference title and received the automatic berth to the 1984 NCAA Tournament.


1984 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
The top eight finishers of the conference's nine members were eligible for the tournament. Teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage. The tournament used a preset bracket consisting of three rounds.


1984 Southern Illinois Salukis football team
The 1984 Southern Illinois Salukis football team was an American football team that represented Southern Illinois University (now known as Southern Illinois University Carbondale) in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Under first-year head coach Ray Dorr, the team compiled a 3–8 record (0–5 against conference opponents) and finished in last place out of seven teams in the MVC. The team played its home games at McAndrew Stadium in Carbondale, Illinois.


1984 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team
The 1984 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern Mississippi as an independent during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third year under head coach Jim Carmody, the team compiled a 4–7 record.


1984 Southwest Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1984 Southwest Conference Baseball Tournament was the league's annual postseason tournament used to determine the Southwest Conference's (SWC) automatic bid to the 1984 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The tournament was held from May 11 through May 13 at Disch–Falk Field on the campus of The University of Texas in Austin, TX.


1984 Southwest Conference Baseball Tournament
The number 1 seed Texas Longhorns went 3–0 to win the team's 6th SWC Tournament under head coach Cliff Gustafson.


1984 Southwest Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The tournament featured the top four finishers of the SWC's 8 teams in a double-elimination tournament.


1984 Southwest Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1984 Southwest Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 9-11, 1984 at The Summit in Houston, TX. The first round took place on March 6 at the higher seeded campus sites.


1984 Southwest Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Number 1 seed Houston defeated 2 seed Arkansas 57-56 to win their 4th championship and receive the conference's automatic bid to the 1984 NCAA Tournament.


1984 Southwest Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format and Seeding
The tournament consisted of 9 teams in a single-elimination tournament. The 3 seed received a bye to the Quarterfinals and the 1 and 2 seed received a bye to the Semifinals.


1984 Southwest Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 1984 Southwest Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was held March 5-10, 1984 at Hofheinz Pavilion in Houston, TX.


1984 Southwest Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
Number 1 seed Texas defeated 2 seed Texas Tech 83-73 to win their 2nd championship and receive the conference's automatic bid to the 1984 NCAA Tournament.


1984 Southwest Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Format and Seeding
The tournament consisted of a 6 team single-elimination tournament. The top two seeds had a bye to the Semifinals. The First Round games occurred at campus sites.


1984 Southwestern Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team
The 1984 Southwestern Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) as an independent during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fifth year under head coach Sam Robertson, the team compiled a 6–5 record.


1984 Soviet Cup
The 1984 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, Dinamo Moscow qualified for the continental tournament.


1984 Soviet Cup Final
The 1984 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on June 24, 1984. The match was the 43rd Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Zenit Saint Petersburg (Leningrad). The Soviet Cup winner Dinamo won the cup for the sixth time. The last year defending holders Shakhter Donetsk were eliminated in the round of 16 of the competition by Chernomorets Odessa.


1984 Soviet Cup Final, Road to Moscow
All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Dinamo and Zenit both qualified for the competition automatically.


1984 Soviet Cup Final, Road to Moscow
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).


1984 Soviet First League
The 1984 Soviet First League was the fourteenth season of the Soviet First League and the 44th season of the Soviet second tier league competition.


1984 Soviet Second League
1984 Soviet Second League was a Soviet competition in the Soviet Second League.


1984 Soviet Second League, Zone 6
1984 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 54th season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Soviet Second League in Zone 6. The season started on 31 March 1984.


1984 Soviet Second League, Zone 6
The 1984 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by FC Nyva Vinnytsia. Qualified for the interzonal playoffs, the team from Vinnytsia Oblast did not manage to gain promotion by placing second in its group.


1984 Soviet Second League, Zone 6
The "Ruby Cup" of Molod Ukrayiny newspaper (for the most scored goals) was received by SKA Odessa.


1984 Soviet Second League, Zone 6, Format
The season consisted of two stages preliminary and final tournaments. During the preliminary tournament participants were split into two groups of 13 teams in each with the six best of each group qualifying for the championship group of the next stage and the seven worst played a consolation tournament.


1984 Soviet Second League, Zone 6, Format
In the final stage of both championship and consolation tournaments teams played home and away only with teams of another group. The winner of championship tournament further participated in the Soviet Second League interzonal playoffs in an effort to gain promotion to the First League, while the worst team of consolation tournament relegated to amateurs.


1984 Soviet Top League
18 teams participated, and Zenit Leningrad won the championship. The 10 games draw limit was implemented this season.


1984 Soviet Top League, Medal squads
Goalkeepers: Mikhail Biryukov (34). Defenders: Aleksei Stepanov (32 / 2), Sergei Vedeneyev (28 / 1), Anatoli Davydov (27 / 1), Vladimir Dolgopolov (27), Sergey Kuznetsov (22), Valeri Zolin (13), Nikolai Vorobyov (8), Gennadi Timofeyev (6). Midfielders: Valeri Broshin (32 / 4), Yuri Zheludkov (31 / 17), Arkadi Afanasyev (28 / 1), Vyacheslav Melnikov (21 / 3), Dmitri Barannik (19), Nikolay Larionov (9 / 2), Igor Komarov (5 / 2). Forwards: Sergey Dmitriev (30 / 8), Vladimir Klementyev (29 / 10), Boris Chukhlov (28 / 7), Yuri Gerasimov (7 / 1), Aleksandr Zakharikov (6).


1984 Soviet Top League, Medal squads
Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (34), Stanislav Cherchesov (2), Andrei Mikhalychev (1). Defenders: Vladimir Sochnov (33 / 2), Aleksandr Bubnov (33 / 1), Gennady Morozov (31), Boris Pozdnyakov (30 / 2), Sergei Bazulev (16), Sergei Shvetsov (11), Sergei Shulgin (3), Almir Kayumov (1). Midfielders: Yuri Gavrilov (34 / 8), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (34 / 5), Sergey Shavlo (32 / 5), Yevgeni Sidorov (26 / 4), Fyodor Cherenkov (25 / 8), Guram Adzhoyev (13 / 1), Valeri Gladilin (12 / 3), Oleksandr Baranov (2). Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (32 / 13), Mikhail Rusyayev (6 / 1), Jevgeņijs Miļevskis (6), Oleg Kuzhlev (5).


1984 Soviet Top League, Medal squads
Goalkeepers: Serhiy Krakovskyi (31 / 3), Viktor Konsevich (3). Defenders: Sergei Bashkirov (32), Serhiy Puchkov (29 / 2), Oleksandr Lysenko (28 / 2), Mykola Pavlov (19 / 1), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (17), Petro Kutuzov (17), Petro Chylibi (9), Andriy Bobrikov (1), Anatoliy Nazarenko (1), Oleksandr Chervonyi (1). Midfielders: Hennadiy Lytovchenko (33 / 7), Vyktor Kuznetsov (30 / 2), Andriy Dilay (30 / 1), Volodymyr Bahmut (25 / 2), Oleksiy Cherednyk (19 / 2), Oleh Serebryanskyi (13 / 2), Mykola Fedorenko (9), Serhiy Khudozhylov (3), Anatoli Zagrebayev (2), Volodymyr Ustymchyk (2). Forwards: Oleh Protasov (34 / 17), Volodymyr Lyutyi (30 / 8), Oleh Taran (20 / 7).


1984 Soviet Top League, Medal squads
One own goal scored by Yuri Lykov (FC SKA Rostov-on-Don).


1984 Soviet Union legislative election
Elections to the eleventh Supreme Soviet were held in the Soviet Union on 4 March 1984. They were the last in the Soviet Union to be held before Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and demokratizatsiya resulted in partially free elections in 1989. They were also the last direct elections to the Supreme Soviet, as in 1989 deputies were elected to the Congress of People's Deputies, who then elected the Supreme Soviet.


1984 Soviet Union legislative election, Electoral system
Candidates had to be nominated by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) or by a public organisation. However, all public organisations were controlled by the party and were subservient to a 1931 law that required them to accept party rule. The CPSU itself remained the only legal one in the country.


1984 Soviet Union legislative election, Electoral system
Voters could vote against the CPSU candidate, but could only do so by using polling booths, whereas votes for the party could be cast simply by submitting a blank ballot. Turnout was required to be over 50% for the election to be valid.


1984 Soviet Union legislative election, Candidates
CPSU candidates accounted for around three quarters of the nominees, whilst many of the others were members of Komsomol.


1984 Soviet Union legislative election, Results
With over 184 million Soviet citizens voting in the election, over 99% of the votes went to a deputy to the Supreme Soviet, with over 100,000 votes against Party candidates, the lowest for any election in the Soviet Union.


1984 Soviet Union tornado outbreak
The 1984 Soviet Union tornado outbreak, also known as the 1984 Ivanovo tornado outbreak, was one of only three disastrous tornado outbreaks in modern Russian history (one of the others being the 1904 Moscow tornado) and the third-deadliest tornado outbreak in European history. Occurring on June 9, 1984, the outbreak struck the Ivanovo and Yaroslavl regions north of Moscow, an area over 400,000 km2. At least two of the eleven known tornadoes were violent events, equal to F4 or higher in intensity on the Fujita scale, based upon observed damages.


1984 Soviet Union tornado outbreak
The main tornado, an F5, which was up to 500 metres (0.31 mi) wide, caused extreme damage, throwing heavy objects of 320,000 kilograms (710,000 lb) for distances up to 200 metres (0.12 mi). Another tornado, assessed to have been at least F4, occurred at Kostroma. Severe thunderstorms also produced hail up to 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) in weight, among the heaviest hailstones confirmed worldwide. In all, the entire tornado outbreak killed at least 69 people (though the exact death toll is unknown) and injured 804.


1984 Soviet Union tornado outbreak, Meteorological synopsis
On June 8, 1984, a negatively tilted trough caused an extratropical low pressure area to form over the coast of the Socialist Republic of Romania (now non-Communist Romania). Surface moisture moved north from the Black Sea and caused nearby dew points to rise to 20 °C (68 °F); though at that time these were restricted to Romania and the Ukrainian SSR, dew points were higher than average elsewhere. By 1800 UTC, developing thunderstorms over the Ukrainian SSR spread overnight into the Russian SFSR.


1984 Soviet Union tornado outbreak, Meteorological synopsis
Between 00 and 12 UTC on June 9, the strengthening low pressure area moved north-northeast over the northwestern Russian SFSR before undergoing occlusion. In the meantime, a strong cold front rapidly advanced along a line extending south from the surface low, then south of Minsk in the Byelorussian SSR (now Belarus), to near Bucharest. This front separated the drier air mass to the north from the warm, moist air mass near the Black Sea, and strong wind speeds near ground level caused vertical mixing.


1984 Soviet Union tornado outbreak, Meteorological synopsis
Therefore, dew points actually dropped before the first tornadoes formed, but nevertheless several factors overcame the lower dew points to produce tornadoes. Among these were a strong upper-level jet stream, clear skies causing daytime heating and instability, strong synoptic-scale lifting leading to ascension of updrafts, and high adiabatic lapse rates promoting thunderstorm development. All these factors combined to produce severe weather near Moscow. The tornadoes occurred in this region because an unstable and moist air mass, supported by warm sea surface temperatures over the Black Sea, had been in place four days before the outbreak began. The unusually strong intensity of the trough in the region on June 8–9, with a 500-millibar geopotential height measured at about 2.7 standard deviations below normal, also favored an intense tornado outbreak.


1984 Soviet Union tornado outbreak, Tornadoes, Ivanovo/Lunevo
A large, long-tracked, and devastating tornado, considered one of the worst in Russian history, destroyed numerous towns and villages along its path. Rated F5 on the Fujita scale, the 500 metres tornado killed at least 69 people and injured more than 130 others. About 1,180 homes were also damaged, destroyed or leveled by the tornado. Some estimates indicate up to 95 deaths or even more, with some sources suggesting 400 deaths in the outbreak were all related to the Ivanovo tornado.


1984 Soviet Union tornado outbreak, Tornadoes, Ivanovo/Lunevo
At 1130 UTC—other sources say 1205 UTC—this powerful multiple vortex tornado touched down 15 mi (24 km) south of Ivanovo. Near Ivanovo, the tornado snapped or bent pine, spruce, and birch trees about 1 m (3.3 ft)–3 m (9.8 ft) from ground level. In the town itself, the tornado picked up and cast aside a crane, weighing 320,000 kilograms (710,000 lb), and threw a water tank, weighing 50,000 kilograms (110,000 lb), over a distance of 200 metres (0.12 mi). ESWD mentions that the tornado destroyed factory areas.


1984 Soviet Union tornado outbreak, Tornadoes, Ivanovo/Lunevo
Near the Volga River, the tornado ripped up trees by their roots and destroyed many small huts. It also carried a water tank weighing 50 tonnes (110,000 lb) for 200 yd (0.11 mi). Steel water containers capable of holding 150 cubic metres (40,000 US gal) of water were carried 100 metres (330 ft) in the air and transported 1 km (0.62 mi) from their original site.


1984 Soviet Union tornado outbreak, Tornadoes, Ivanovo/Lunevo
Hail in association with the parent thunderstorm weighed up to 1 kilogram (2.2 lb), among the heaviest hailstones measured anywhere in the world; though the measurement came with few details, it is comparable to the world record, a hailstone also measuring 1 kg (2.2 lb) in Bangladesh on April 15, 1986. The F5 tornado tracked for 99 miles (160 km)—though some sources suggest only 80 kilometres (50 mi)—before dissipating near Lunevo in Yaroslavl Oblast. It caused at least 92 deaths, though many others likely went unreported.


1984 Soviet Union tornado outbreak, Tornadoes, Kostroma/Lyubim
According to Russian researchers writing in the 1980s, this tornado was either the same as the Ivanovo tornado or a member of the Ivanovo tornado family; if the latter, it may indicate that the Ivanovo tornado was in fact two separate tornadoes spawned by the same thunderstorm. However, recent research indicates that the Ivanovo storm was not the same as the one that produced the Kostroma tornado. Numerous trees were thrown long distances by the tornado. A crane weighing 350 t (770,000 lb) was knocked over, and numerous other structures were damaged. The severity of the damage was rated F4; however, there are indications that the tornado may have attained F5 intensity.


1984 Soviet nuclear tests
The Soviet Union's 1984 nuclear test series was a group of 29 nuclear tests conducted in 1984. These tests  followed the 1983 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1985 Soviet nuclear tests series.


1984 Sovran Bank Classic
The 1984 Sovran Bank Classic was a men's tennis tournament and was played on outdoor clay courts. The event was part of the 1984 Grand Prix circuit. It was the 16th edition of the tournament and was held at Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. from July 23 through July 29, 1984. Second-seeded Andrés Gómez won the singles title.


1984 Sovran Bank Classic, Finals, Doubles
Pavel Složil /  Ferdi Taygan defeated  Drew Gitlin /  Blaine Willenborg 7–6, 6–1


1984 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1984 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 1984 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 5–6 May 1984 at the Circuito Permanente del Jarama.


1984 Special Honours (New Zealand)
The 1984 Special Honours in New Zealand was a Special Honours List, published on 24 May 1984, in which six people were awarded the Polar Medal, for good services as members of New Zealand expeditions to Antarctica in recent years.


1984 Speedway World Pairs Championship
The 1984 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the fifteenth FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship. The final took place in Lonigo, Italy. The championship was won by England (27 points). Silver medal was won by Denmark who beat New Zealand after Run-Off (both 25 points).


1984 Speedway World Pairs Championship, Preliminary round
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fellns - non-starter • nc - non-classify


1984 Speedway World Pairs Championship, World final
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fellns - non-starter • nc - non-classify


1984 Speedway World Team Cup
The 1984 Speedway World Team Cup was the 25th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.


1984 Speedway World Team Cup
The final took place at the Stadion Alfreda Smoczyka, in Leszno, Poland. Denmark easily won their fourth title, winning by 20 clear points in the final.


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification
Hans Nielsen - 11 Preben Eriksen - 9 Erik Gundersen - 9 Bo Petersen - 8 Peter Ravn - 0


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification
Jan Andersson - 11 Bjorn Andersson - 9 Pierre Brannefors - 9 Tommy Nilsson - 5 Per Jonsson - 0


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification
Kai Niemi - 8 Ari Koponen - 7 Pekka Hautamaki - 4 Olli Tyrväinen - 3 Seppo Keskinen - 0


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification
Ingvar Skogland - 3 Einar Kyllingstad - 0 Tormod Langli - 0 Roy Otto - 0 Arne Svendse - NS


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification
1.Bobby Schwartz - 5 (1,2,2,0) 2.Dennis Sigalos - 12 (3,3,3,3) 3.Lance King - 5 (f,3,1,1) 4.Shawn Moran - 11 (3,3,3,2) 17.John Cook - 1 (1,-,-,-)


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification
9.Michael Lee - 8 (2,0,3,3) 10.Chris Morton - 5 (2,2,1,-) 11.Simon Wigg - 10 (2,3,2,3) 12.Dave Jessup - 1 (1,-,-,-) 19.John Louis - 8 (-,2,3,3\0)


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification
13.Billy Sanders - 8 (3,1,2,2) 14.Phil Crump - 7 (2,1,2,2) 15.John Titman - 0 (0,-,-,-) 16.Gary Guglielmi - 8 (3,2,1,2) 20.Steve Regeling - 2 (-,1,1,e)


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification
5.Larry Ross - 1 (0,0,0,1) 6.Mitch Shirra - 2 (f,1,x,1) 7.Ivan Mauger - 0 (0,0,0,-) 8.David Bargh - 1 (1,0,0,0) 18.Alan Mason - 1 (-,-,-,1)


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification
Josef Aigner - 12 Klaus Lausch - 7 Karl Maier - 7 Stefan Deser - 3


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification
Armando Castagna - 9 Armando Dal Chiele - 9 Giorgio Zaramella - 6 Gianni Famari - 4 Ottaviano Righetto - 0


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification
Adi Funk - 9 Walter Nebel - 6 Hubert Fischbacher - 5 Siegfried Eder - 2 Robert Funk - 2


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification
Zdravko Tomanic - 5 Kreso Omerzel - 4 Zvonko Pavlic - 4 Joze Zibert - 1


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification
Aleš Dryml Sr. - 12 Petr Ondrašík - 11 Antonín Kasper Jr. - 7 Václav Verner - 6 Jiri Svoboda - 1


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification
Peter Berecz - 11 József Petrikovics - 6 Josef Sziraczki - 6 Sándor Tihanyi - 6 Janos Oresko - 3


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification
Henny Kroeze - 7 Frits Koppe - 4 Ralph Geurtz - 2 Henk Steman - 1 Wil Stroes - 1


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification
Orlin Janakiev - 4 Rudolf Valentinov - 4 Nikolai Manev - 3 Vesselin Markov - 1 Angel Eftimov - 0


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Tournament
1.Jiří Štancl - 9 2.Aleš Dryml Sr. - 10 3.Petr Ondrašík - 9 4.Václav Verner - 9 17.Antonín Kasper Jr. - NS


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Tournament
5.Egon Müller - 8 6.Karl Maier - 11 7.Josef Aigner - 5 8.Klaus Lausch - 3 18.Peter Wurtele - NS


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Tournament
13.József Petrikovics - 2 14.Zoltán Adorján - 8 15.Zoltan Hajdu - 6 16.Sándor Tihanyi - 2 20.Istvan Rusz - 0


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Tournament
9.Armando Dal Chiele - 4 10.Armando Castagna - 6 11.Gianni Famari - 3 12.Giorgio Zaramella - 1 19.Valentino Furlanetto - 1


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Tournament
Lance King - 11 Shawn Moran - 11 Bobby Schwartz - 10 Kelly Moran - 6 John Cook - 3


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Tournament
Erik Gundersen - 9 Hans Nielsen - 5 Bo Petersen - 5 Preben Eriksen - 4


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Tournament
Simon Wigg - 8 Peter Collins - 4 Chris Morton - 4 Phil Collins - 1 John Louis - 1


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Tournament
Jan Andersson - 5 Per Jonsson - 5 Pierre Brannefors - 2 Bjorn Andersson - 1 Tommy Nilsson - 0


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Tournament
Hans Nielsen - 8 (2,3,1,2) Bo Petersen - 8 (3,3,1,1) Erik Gundersen - 10 (1,3,3,3) Preben Eriksen - 0 (0,-,-,-) Peter Ravn - 8 (-,2,3,3)


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Tournament
Phil Collins - 11 (3,3,3,2) Simon Wigg - 5 (1,2,0,2) Chris Morton - 5 (2,2,1,x) Peter Collins - 6 (3,1,2,0) Andy Grahame - NS


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Tournament
Václav Verner - 2 (1,1,0,0) Petr Ondrašík - 1 (0,0,-,1) Jiří Štancl - 8 (3,0,3,2) Aleš Dryml Sr. - 8 (2,1,2,3) Antonín Kasper Jr. - 0 (-,-,0,-)


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Tournament
Egon Müller - 5 (0,e,2,3) Karl Maier - 5 (2,1,1,1) Klaus Lausch - 3 (0,2,0,1) Peter Wurtele - 3 (1,e,2,x) Georg Hack - NS


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Tournament
5.Bo Petersen - 12 (3,3,3,3) 6.Erik Gundersen - 12 (3,3,3,3) 7.Preben Eriksen - 9 (2,3,3,1) 8.Hans Nielsen - 11 (2,3,3,3) 18.Peter Ravn - NS


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Tournament
13.Chris Morton - 4 (0,1,2,1) 14.Peter Collins - 2 (2,0,0,-) 15.Simon Wigg - 9 (3,2,1,3) 16.Phil Collins - 7 (1,2,2,2) 20.Neil Collins - 2 (-,-,-,2)


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Tournament
9.Bobby Schwartz - 2 (1,-,1,-) 10.Shawn Moran - 6 (3,1,1,1) 11.Kelly Moran - 5 (1,2,x,2) 12.Lance King - 5 (0,2,2,1) 19.John Cook - 2 (-,0,-,2)


1984 Speedway World Team Cup, Tournament
1.Roman Jankowski - 1 (0,1,0,x) 2.Zenon Kasprzak - 1 (0,-,1,-) 3.Zenon Plech - 4 (2,0,2,f) 4.Leonard Raba - 2 (1,1,0,0) 17.Boleslaw Proch - 0 (-,0,-,f)


1984 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season
The 1984 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 65th year with the National Football League and the 25th season in St. Louis. Despite finishing with the same 9–7 record as their division rivals Dallas and New York, the Giants made the playoffs based upon the best head-to-head record among the three teams.


1984 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season
The Cardinals’ 6,345 offensive yards in 1984 was third in the NFL, and the most in team history. Their 423 points were fourth-best in the league.


1984 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season
This was the Cardinals' last winning season in St. Louis. The franchise moved to Arizona in 1988, and did not enjoy a winning season there until 1998.


1984 St. Louis Cardinals season
The St. Louis Cardinals 1984 season was the team's 103rd season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 93rd season in the National League. The Cardinals went 84-78 during the season and finished 3rd in the National League East, 12½ games behind their arch-rivals, the Chicago Cubs. It was also the final season of the Columbia blue road uniforms for the Cardinals.


1984 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season
Pitcher Joaquín Andújar and shortstop Ozzie Smith won Gold Gloves this year. Bruce Sutter had a then-NL record of 45 saves.


1984 St. Louis Cardinals 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 Stafford by-election
The Stafford by-election, 1984 was a parliamentary by-election held on 3 May 1984 for the British House of Commons constituency of Stafford.


1984 Stafford by-election, Previous MP
The seat fell vacant when the constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Major Sir Hugh Charles Patrick Joseph Fraser MBE (23 January 1918 – 6 March 1984) died.


1984 Stafford by-election, Previous MP
Fraser was educated at Ampleforth College, Balliol College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union, and at the Sorbonne. He was commissioned into the Lovat Scouts in 1936 and during World War II saw service in North Africa and Europe; he retired in the 1950s with the rank of Major.


1984 Stafford by-election, Previous MP
Fraser was elected Member of Parliament for Stone in 1945, later Stafford and Stone following constituency boundary changes, from 1950 until 1983, and then Stafford until his death.


1984 Stafford by-election, Candidates
Four candidates were nominated. The list below is set out in descending order of the number of votes received at the by-election.


1984 Stafford by-election, Candidates
1. The Conservative candidate was William Nigel Paul Cash (born on 10 May 1940), a solicitor.


1984 Stafford by-election, Candidates
He has served continuously in the House of Commons since winning the by-election (as of July 2017). Cash represented Stafford, until boundary changes took effect in 1997. Since then he has been returned as MP for Stone.


1984 Stafford by-election, Candidates
2. The Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate, representing the SDP-Liberal Alliance, was David Joseph Dunn. He was a senior lecturer in International Relations, at the time of the by-election. He was born in 1946 and had contested the seat in the 1983 general election.


1984 Stafford by-election, Candidates
3. Michael John David Poulter was the Labour candidate. He worked as a senior probation officer and was born in 1942. He contested Stafford and Stone in 1979 and this constituency in 1983.


1984 Stafford by-election, Candidates
4. Christopher David Teasdale was an Independent, using the ballot paper label "Soon to be unemployed".


1984 Stafford state by-election
A by-election was held in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland seat of Stafford on 4 August 1984. It was triggered by the death of sitting Labor member Denis Murphy.


1984 Stafford state by-election
The seat was lost to the Liberal Party with the election of candidate Terry Gygar.


1984 Stafford state by-election, Background
Previously an academic with strong ties to the Labor Party, Denis Murphy was first elected to state parliament at the 1983 state election to the seat of Stafford. He defeated sitting member Terry Gygar of the Liberal Party, who had been relegated to third place in the contest behind Murphy and National Party candidate Pat Blake. On 21 June 1984, Murphy died of cancer.


1984 Stafford state by-election, Background
Commentators viewed Labor as having the most to lose, although it could gain from any anti-government swing. The Liberals had the most to gain — the by-election gave them an unexpectedly early chance to gain lost ground and to re-establish themselves as a legitimate force in Queensland politics after their relegation to minor party status after the 1983 election.


1984 Stafford state by-election, Candidates
To defend the seat Labor chose ABC personality Janine Walker. The Liberal Party and the National Party chose the same candidates who stood in Stafford at the previous election; Terry Gygar—who had held the seat from 1974 to 1983—and Pat Blake respectively.


1984 Stafford state by-election, Results
With National candidate Pat Blake finishing narrowly behind the Liberal Party's Terry Gygar, the instant runoff was between Gygar and Labor's Janine Walker. Though winning a clear plurality of the primary vote, Walker was starved of National Party preferences—more than 96 per cent of National preferences flowed to the Liberal Party—and lost to Gygar by 1,153 votes.


1984 Stafford state by-election, Results
It was determined that some 17 to 18 per cent of Liberal voters ordered the Labor candidate ahead of the National candidate on their ballots. Thus if Blake's primary vote had eclipsed that of Gygar's, the distribution of preferences may have delivered the seat to Labor.


1984 Stanford Cardinal football team
The 1984 Stanford Cardinal football team represented Stanford University in the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first season under head coach Jack Elway, the Cardinal compiled a 5–6 record (3–5 in Pac-10, tied for seventh), and played home games on campus at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California.


1984 Stanford Cardinal football team
Elway was hired the previous December from nearby San Jose State, where he went  35–20–1 (.634) in five seasons. His Spartans had defeated Stanford the previous three years, the first two while his son John Elway was the Cardinal quarterback. Now on the other side, Coach Elway won the South Bay matchup again this season, as Stanford rallied to win by a point to snap the streak.


1984 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, San Jose State
Stanford snapped a three-game losing streak to the Spartans, rallying to win by a point.


1984 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, at UCLA
The 23–21 upset on October 6 at the Rose Bowl was head coach Jack Elway's first Pac-10 victory. Making his first-ever collegiate start, backup quarterback Fred Buckley led the Cardinal over the #17 UCLA Bruins, and the redshirt junior was named Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Week.


1984 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1984 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1983–84 season, and the culmination of the 1984 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the Edmonton Oilers and the defending champion New York Islanders.


1984 Stanley Cup Finals
The upstart Oilers won the best-of-seven series, four games to one, to win their first Stanley Cup, becoming the third post-1967 expansion team and first former World Hockey Association team to win the Cup, and also the first team based west of Chicago to win the Cup since the WCHL's Victoria Cougars became the last non-NHL team to win it in 1925.


1984 Stanley Cup Finals
In the previous year's Stanley Cup Finals, the Islanders had swept the Oilers in four straight games. The teams rematched in 1984, with the Islanders seeking their fifth consecutive Stanley Cup championship. It was the fifth straight Finals of teams that joined the NHL in 1967 or later. As of 2021, the Islanders' four consecutive Cup wins (1980, 1981, 1982, 1983) and their appearance in the 1984 Cup Finals is an NHL record of 19 consecutive playoff series wins that currently stands unbroken.


1984 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1984 Finals was the second of eight consecutive Finals contested by a team from Alberta (the Oilers appeared in six, the Calgary Flames in two), and the first of five consecutive Finals to end with the Cup presentation on Alberta ice (the Oilers won four times at home, the Montreal Canadiens once in Calgary).


1984 Stanley Cup Finals
The Oilers became the fastest-ever Canadian-based expansion team to win a major sports title by winning a title in only their fifth NHL season. The feat would be eclipsed in 2016 by the Ottawa Redblacks, who won the Grey Cup in their third CFL season.


1984 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals
Edmonton defeated the Winnipeg Jets 3–0, the Calgary Flames 4–3 and the Minnesota North Stars 4–0 to reach the Finals.


1984 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals
New York defeated the New York Rangers 3-2, the Washington Capitals 4–1, and the Montreal Canadiens 4–2 to reach the Finals.


1984 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
NOTE: The 1984 Stanley Cup Finals were played in a 2–3–2 format, which the NBA Finals (1985–2013) and World Series (always) use, instead of the usual 2–2–1–1–1; however, the NHL would only use the format again the following season before going back to the 2–2–1–1–1 format for the 1986 Stanley Cup Finals.


1984 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
Grant Fuhr shut out the Islanders in the first game, on Long Island (his first Finals game), with Kevin McClelland scoring the game's only goal, but the Islanders won game two 6–1. The series then shifted to Edmonton for three games. In game three, the Islanders had a 2–1 lead in the second period, but Mark Messier scored on an individual effort to tie the game. That changed the momentum in favor of the Oilers, and they proceeded to beat the Islanders 7–2.


1984 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
But the Oilers lost Fuhr for games four and five after the Islanders' Pat LaFontaine crashed into Fuhr on the forecheck during game three, and Fuhr was slow to get up. Andy Moog started games four and five. The Oilers won game four by the same score, with Wayne Gretzky scoring his first goal of the Finals (he scored the first and last goal of the game). The Oilers then won game five by the score of 5–2 thanks to Gretzky's two first-period goals, and two Duane Sutter penalties. They became the first former WHA team, and the first team from Edmonton, to win the Stanley Cup.


1984 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
Mark Messier won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.


1984 Stanley Cup Finals, Broadcasting
The series aired on CBC in Canada and on the USA Network in the United States. USA's national coverage was blacked out in the New York area due to the local rights to Islanders games in that TV market, with SportsChannel New York airing games one and two, and WOR televising the other three games.


1984 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The 1984 Stanley Cup was presented to Oilers captain Wayne Gretzky by NHL President John Ziegler following the Oilers 5–2 win over the Islanders in game five.


1984 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The following Oilers players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup


1984 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving, Stanley Cup engraving
Each team was required to play 20 players out of a 24-man roster. The Oilers engraved 21 players' names on the Cup, leaving off four players who were dressed in the playoffs. All four players left off the Stanley Cup were awarded a Stanley Cup ring, and are included in the team picture.


1984 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving, Stanley Cup engraving
On the new ring, EDMONTON was misspelt DDMONTON. An "E" was stamped twice over the first "D" to correct the mistake.


1984 Stanley Cup playoffs
The 1984 Stanley Cup playoffs, the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League (NHL) began on April 4, after the conclusion of the 1983–84 NHL season. The playoffs concluded on May 19 with the Edmonton Oilers defeating the four time defending champion New York Islanders 5–2 to win the Stanley Cup Finals four games to one, the franchise's first Stanley Cup.


1984 Stanley Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds
The 1984 playoffs largely maintained the format used for the previous two seasons. The four teams with the best regular-season records from each of the four divisions would secure playoff berths. The division semi-finals would see the first-place club against the fourth-place team, while the second- and third-place teams faced off. The winning clubs would then meet in the division final. Home-ice advantage for these first two rounds of the playoffs would be granted to the team with the better regular-season record. Division winners would then face one another in the conference finals.


1984 Stanley Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds
Leaving behind the coin flip system introduced for the 1982 playoffs, the NHL changed the method by which home-ice advantage would be determined for the conference and Stanley Cup finals. The higher total of points accumulated by teams within a division from contests against teams of the other division in the conference, secured home-ice advantage for the corresponding division champion. Similarly, the higher total of points accumulated by teams within a conference from contests against teams of the other conference, secured home-ice advantage for the corresponding conference champion.


1984 Stanley Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds
This formula resulted in home-ice advantage for the Adams and Smythe division champions in the conference finals and resulted in home-ice advantage for the Wales Conference champions in the Stanley Cup finals.


1984 Stanley Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds
The sequence of Stanley Cup Finals games was changed for this season. The series opened with two games in the city with home-ice advantage and then shifted to the rival team's rink for the next three games, including the fifth (if necessary). The series then returned to the initial city for the final two games (if necessary).


1984 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Prince of Wales Conference, (A1) Boston Bruins vs. (A4) Montreal Canadiens
This was the 19th playoff series between these two teams. Montreal lead 16–2 in previous playoff meetings. Montreal won the most recent meeting in seven games in the 1979 Stanley Cup Semifinals.


1984 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Prince of Wales Conference, (A2) Buffalo Sabres vs. (A3) Quebec Nordiques
This was the first playoff series meeting between these two teams.


1984 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Prince of Wales Conference, (P1) New York Islanders vs. (P4) New York Rangers
This was the sixth playoff series meeting between these two teams. The Islanders won four of the previous five meetings, including in each of the past three seasons. The Islanders won in six games in last year's Patrick Division Finals.


1984 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Prince of Wales Conference, (P2) Washington Capitals vs. (P3) Philadelphia Flyers
This was the first playoff series meeting between these two teams.


1984 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Clarence Campbell Conference, (N1) Minnesota North Stars vs. (N4) Chicago Black Hawks
This was the third playoff series meeting between these two teams. Chicago won both previous meetings over the past two seasons, including last year's Norris Division Finals in five games.


1984 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Clarence Campbell Conference, (N2) St. Louis Blues vs. (N3) Detroit Red Wings
This was the first playoff series meeting between these two teams.


1984 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Clarence Campbell Conference, (S1) Edmonton Oilers vs. (S4) Winnipeg Jets
This was the second playoff series meeting between these two teams. This was a rematch of last year's Smythe Division Semifinals, in which Edmonton won in a three-game sweep.