1984 Tournament Players Championship, Field
John Adams, Isao Aoki, George Archer, Wally Armstrong, Seve Ballesteros, Dave Barr, Andy Bean, Chip Beck, Ronnie Black, Jim Booros, Bob Boyd, Bill Britton, Mark Brooks, Brad Bryant, George Burns, George Cadle, Rex Caldwell, Chen Tze-chung, Bobby Clampett, Lennie Clements, Russ Cochran, Jim Colbert, Frank Conner, John Cook, Fred Couples, Ben Crenshaw, Jim Dent, Mike Donald, Bob Eastwood, Danny Edwards, David Edwards, Dave Eichelberger, Lee Elder, Nick Faldo, Brad Faxon, Keith Fergus, Ed Fiori, Bruce Fleisher, Raymond Floyd, Dan Forsman, John Fought, Buddy Gardner, Al Geiberger, Gibby Gilbert, Bob Gilder, David Graham, Lou Graham, Thomas Gray, Hubert Green, Ken Green, Jay Haas, Gary Hallberg, Dan Halldorson, Donnie Hammond, Phil Hancock, Morris Hatalsky, Mark Hayes, Vance Heafner, Lon Hinkle, Scott Hoch, Joe Inman, Hale Irwin, Peter Jacobsen, Barry Jaeckel, Tom Jenkins, Tom Kite, Gary Koch, Ralph Landrum, Bernhard Langer, Wayne Levi, Steven Liebler, Bruce Lietzke, Pat Lindsey, Mark Lye, John Mahaffey, Roger Maltbie, Gary McCord, Mike McCullough, Mark McCumber, Pat McGowan, Allen Miller, Johnny Miller, Jeff Mitchell, Larry Mize, Griff Moody, Gil Morgan, Bob Murphy, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Jim Nelford, Larry Nelson, Jack Nicklaus, Mike Nicolette, Greg Norman, Tim Norris, Andy North, Mac O'Grady, Mark O'Meara, David Ogrin, Peter Oosterhuis, Arnold Palmer, Jerry Pate, Corey Pavin, Mark Pfeil, Gary Player, Dan Pohl, Don Pooley, Greg Powers, Nick Price, Tom Purtzer, Sammy Rachels, Joey Rassett, Victor Regalado, Mike Reid, Jack Renner, Larry Rinker, Bill Rogers, Clarence Rose, Bill Sander, Bob Shearer, Tony Sills, Scott Simpson, Tim Simpson, Joey Sindelar, J. C. Snead, Ed Sneed, Craig Stadler, Payne Stewart, Dave Stockton, Curtis Strange, Ron Streck, Mike Sullivan, Hal Sutton, Doug Tewell, Leonard Thompson, Jim Thorpe, Lee Trevino, Bobby Wadkins, Lanny Wadkins, Denis Watson, Tom Watson, D. A. Weibring, Tom Weiskopf, Willie Wood, Richard Zokol


1984 Tournament of the Americas
The 1984 Tournament of the Americas, since 2005 called the FIBA Americas Championship or FIBA AmeriCup, was the 2nd edition of this basketball tournament, hosted in Sao Paulo, Brazil from 15–24 May 1984. The outcome would determine the three berths allocated to the Americas for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics and five berths for the 1986 FIBA World Championship in Moscow. The United States did not participate in the tournament, claiming host-courtesy. Brazil was undefeated in the round robin tournament and were accompanied to the Olympic games by Canada and Uruguay.


1984 Tournament of the Americas, Qualification
Eight teams promoted from the respective zone tournaments in 1982 and 1983 to the 1984 tournament; Canada qualified automatically since they are one of only two members of the North America zone. Venezuela withdrew from the tournament. The teams formed a single group of nine teams.


1984 Tournament of the Americas squads
This article displays the rosters for the participating teams at the 1984 Tournament of the Americas played in São Paulo, Brazil from May 15 to May 24, 1984.


1984 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election
Elections to Trafford Council were held on 3 May 1984. One third of the council was up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a four-year term of office, expiring in 1988. The Conservative Party retained overall control of the council.


1984 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election
Due to the death of one of the candidates for Timperley ward after the close of nominations, the election for Timperley was postponed until 28 June 1984. The result shown on this page is the result of that election.


1984 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election
After the election, the composition of the council was as follows:


1984 Trampoline World Championships
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1984 Trampoline World Championships
The 13th Trampoline World Championships were held in Osaka, Japan from August 24 to August 26, 1984.


1984 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1984 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Centenary Park on the campus of Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport, Louisiana from May 13 through 15. This was the sixth tournament championship held by the Trans America Athletic Conference, in its sixth year of existence. Nicholls State won their first tournament championship.


1984 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
At the end of the conference regular season, the top two finishers in each division advanced to the tournament with each division winner playing the runner up from the opposite division in the first round of the double-elimination tournament.


1984 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. No MVP was named until 1985.


1984 Trans-Am Series
The 1984 Budweiser Trans-Am Championship was the nineteenth running of the Sports Car Club of America's premier series.


1984 Transamerica Open
The 1984 Transamerica Open, also known as the Pacific Coast Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California in the United States. The event was part of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix circuit. It was the 94th edition of the tournament and was held from September 17 through September 23, 1984. First-seeded John McEnroe won the singles title, his fourth at the event after 1978, 1979 and 1982, and earned $40,000 first-prize money. Defending champion Ivan Lendl withdrew before the tournament due to Davis Cup obligations.


1984 Transamerica Open, Finals, Doubles
Peter Fleming /  John McEnroe defeated  Mike De Palmer /  Sammy Giammalva 6–3, 6–4


1984 Troy State Trojans football team
The 1984 Troy State Trojans football team represented Troy State University during the 1984 NCAA Division II football season, and completed the 64th season of Trojans football. The Trojans played their home games in at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Troy, Alabama. The 1984 team came off a 7–4 record from the previous season. The 1984 team was led by coach Chan Gailey. The team finished the regular season with a 9–1 record and made the NCAA Division II playoffs. The Trojans defeated the North Dakota State Bison 18–17 in the National Championship Game en route to the program's first NCAA Division II Football Championship and second overall national championship.


1984 Troy State Trojans football team, The National Championship Game
The title game between Troy and North Dakota State proved to be a good one, as it pitted the #3-ranked team against the #1-ranked team. The game was shown nationally on ESPN.


1984 Troy State Trojans football team, The National Championship Game
The game was close throughout, with both teams playing good defense in a low-scoring affair. Troy State trailed 17-15 late in the contest and, with 1:30 remaining in the game, Carey Christensen returned to lead the Trojans on their final drive to try and win the game. Starting from its own 10-yard line, Troy State eventually reached the NDSU 32 yard-line. With the clock running and the Trojans out of time-outs, the Trojans and freshman kicker Ted Clem took the field with :08 seconds remaining on the clock as it was ticking down. Just as time was about to expire, the Trojans got the snap off, and Ted Clem hit a 50-yard field goal to give Troy the lead and the win over North Dakota State.


1984 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team
The 1984 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team represented the University of Tulsa during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their seventh and final year under head coach John Cooper, the Golden Hurricane compiled a 6–5 record (5–0 against conference opponents) and won the Missouri Valley Conference championship.


1984 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team
The team's statistical leaders included Richie Stephenson with 1,134 passing yards, Gordon Brown with 995 rushing yards, and Ronnie Kelley with 675 yards. Head coach John Cooper was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.


1984 Turkish local elections
Turkey held local elections on 25 March 1984. In the elections, both the mayors and the local parliaments (Turkish: İl Genel Meclisi) were elected. The figures presented below are the results of the local parliament elections.


1984 Turks and Caicos Islands general election
General elections were held in the Turks and Caicos Islands on 29 May 1984. The result was a victory for the ruling Progressive National Party (PNP), which won eight of the eleven seats in the Legislative Council, including Kew North Caicos, where Rosita Butterfield became the islands' first female Legislative Council member. Following the elections, PNP leader Norman Saunders remained Chief Minister.


1984 Turks and Caicos Islands general election, Electoral system
The eleven members of the Legislative Council were elected from single-member constituencies.


1984 Turks and Caicos Islands general election, Campaign
A total of 22 candidates contested the elections, with both the PNP and People's Democratic Movement (PDM) running in all eleven constituencies.


1984 U.S. Clay Court Championships
The 1984 U.S. Clay Court Championships (also known as the 1984 U.S. Open Clay Courts) was a men's Grand Prix and a women's Championship Series tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Indianapolis in the  United States. It was the 16th edition of the tournament and was held from August 4 through August 12, 1984. Andrés Gómez and Manuela Maleeva won the singles titles.


1984 U.S. Clay Court Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles
Ken Flach /  Robert Seguso defeated  Heinz Gunthardt /  Balázs Taróczy 7–6, 7–5


1984 U.S. Clay Court Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles
Beverly Mould /  Paula Smith defeated  Elise Burgin /  JoAnne Russell 6–2, 7–5


1984 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Men's Doubles
Fifth-seeded pair Ken Flach and Robert Seguso won the title, sharing $18,000 prize money. The third seeds Heinz Günthardt and Balázs Taróczy lost the final after being penalized the twelfth game of the second set following a dispute with the umpire.


1984 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Men's Doubles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round. A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1984 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Men's Singles
Top-seeded Andrés Gómez defeated Balázs Taróczy in the final to claim the title and $51,000 prize money.


1984 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds received a bye into the second round. A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1984 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Women's Doubles
Third-seeded pair Beverly Mould and Paula Smith claimed the title by defeating second-seeds Elise Burgin and JoAnne Russell in the final.


1984 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Women's Doubles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1984 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Women's Singles
Fourth-seeded Andrea Temesvári was the defending champion but went out in the semifinals to Manuela Maleeva. Top-seed Maleeva won the final and $34,000 first prize money by defeating Lisa Bonder-Kreiss in the final.


1984 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds received a bye into the second round. A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1984 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
The 1984 U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place in Salt Lake City, Utah. Medals were awarded in three colors: gold (first), silver (second), and bronze (third) in four disciplines – men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing – across three levels: senior, junior, and novice.


1984 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
The event determined the U.S. teams for the 1984 Winter Olympics and 1984 World Championships.


1984 U.S. Open (golf)
The 1984 U.S. Open was the 84th U.S. Open, held June 14–18 at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York, a suburb northeast of New York City. Fuzzy Zoeller defeated Greg Norman in an 18-hole playoff to win his first U.S. Open title and second major championship.


1984 U.S. Open (golf)
Arnold Palmer failed to qualify for this U.S. Open, snapping a streak of 31 consecutive Opens played, which began in 1953. The 1960 champion played in one more, at Oakmont in 1994.


1984 U.S. Open (golf)
This was the fourth U.S. Open at Winged Foot's West Course; it previously hosted in 1929, 1959, and 1974. It later hosted the PGA Championship in 1997 and the U.S. Open in 2006 and 2020.


1984 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Second round
Amateurs: Sigel (+1), Fehr (+7), Tentis (+8), Kirby (+9), Case (+10), Mediate (+11), Gallagher (+16), Hadden (+17), Burroughs (+19), Friend (+20), Ludwig (+20).


1984 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round
Hale Irwin, the 1974 champion at Winged Foot, was the 54-hole leader, but faded in the final round with a 79 to finish in sixth place. With Irwin's collapse, the tournament became a duel between Zoeller and Norman. Zoeller led Norman by three shots heading to the back-nine, but Norman managed to draw level by the time he reached 18. His approach shot on the last sailed into the grandstand, but he managed to save par by holing a 45-foot (14 m) putt. Zoeller, standing in the 18th fairway, waved a white towel as a playful sign of surrender, then proceeded to par the hole himself to force a playoff. The two finished at 276 (–4), five shots clear of the rest of the field.


1984 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Playoff
The playoff proved to be no contest. Both birdied the first and Zoeller the 2nd, but Norman double-bogeyed it and fell three strokes behind, and Zoeller carried a five-shot lead at the turn. Network coverage on ABC joined the round in progress, on the back nine at 4 pm EDT. Zoeller finished with a 67, eight shots better than Norman; this time on 18, it was Norman who waved a white towel in mock surrender. Zoeller's 67 was the lowest round ever recorded in a U.S. Open playoff.


1984 U.S. Pro Indoor
The 1984 U.S. Pro Indoor was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts that was part of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix. It was played at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States and took place from January 23 through January 29, 1984. Second-seeded John McEnroe won his third consecutive singles title at the event.


1984 U.S. Pro Indoor, Finals, Doubles
Peter Fleming /  John McEnroe defeated  Henri Leconte /  Yannick Noah


1984 U.S. Pro Indoor – Doubles
Kevin Curren and Steve Denton were the defending champions, but did not participate this year.


1984 U.S. Pro Indoor – Doubles
Peter Fleming and John McEnroe won the title, defeating Henri Leconte and Yannick Noah 6–2, 6–3 in the final.


1984 U.S. Pro Indoor – Singles
McEnroe successfully defended his title, defeating Ivan Lendl, 6–3, 3–6, 6–3, 7–6 in the final.


1984 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships
The 1984 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor green clay courts at the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The event was part of the Super Series of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix circuit. It was the 57th edition of the tournament and was held from July 16 through July 22, 1984. Sixth-seeded Aaron Krickstein won the singles title and earned $34,000 first-prize money.


1984 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles
Ken Flach /  Robert Seguso defeated  Gary Donnelly /  Ernie Fernandez 6–4, 6–4


1984 U.S. Women's Open
The 1984 U.S. Women's Open was the 39th U.S. Women's Open, held July 12–15 at Salem Country Club in Peabody, Massachusetts. Hollis Stacy won her third U.S. Women's Open, one stroke ahead of runner-up Rosie Jones. It was Stacy's fourth and final major title.


1984 U.S. Women's Open
The championship was played here thirty years earlier in 1954, won by Babe Zaharias, her tenth and final major title.


1984 UC Davis Aggies football team
The 1984 UC Davis football team represented the University of California, Davis in the 1984 NCAA Division II football season. UC Davis competed in the Northern California Athletic Conference (NCAC).


1984 UC Davis Aggies football team
The Aggies were led by head coach Jim Sochor in his 15th year. They played home games at Toomey Field. UC Davis finished the season as champion of the NCAC for the 14th consecutive season and it was their 15th consecutive winning season. The Aggies finished the regular season with a record of nine wins and one loss (9–1, 6–0 NCAC) and were ranked as high as Number 6 in the Division II rankings. With the 6–0 conference record, they stretched their conference winning streak to 21 games dating back to the 1981 season.


1984 UC Davis Aggies football team
At the end of the season, the Aggies qualified for the Division II playoffs for the third consecutive year. In the first playoff game they were defeated by North Dakota State. This was the second straight year that North Dakota State eliminated UC Davis in the playoffs. That brought the Aggies final record to nine wins and two losses (9–2, 6–0 NCAC). The Aggies outscored their opponents 295–133 for the season.


1984 UC Davis Aggies football team, NFL Draft
The following UC Davis Aggies players were selected in the 1985 NFL Draft.


1984 UCF Knights football team
The 1984 UCF Knights football season was the sixth season for the team. It was Lou Saban's second and final season as the head coach of the Knights. After a disappointing 1–6 start to the season, Saban stepped away from the program, and was replaced by assistant coach Jerry Anderson. The Knights finished the year with a 2–9 overall record.


1984 UCF Knights football team
The Knights competed as an NCAA Division II Independent. The team played their home games at the Citrus Bowl in downtown Orlando.


1984 UCF Knights football team
In their October 20 game against Illinois State, the Knights fell behind 21–0 in the first quarter. UCF rallied for a 28–24 victory, their largest comeback win in school history. As of 2021, it is still tied for the program's best comeback win.


1984 UCI Road World Championships
The 1984 UCI Road World Championships took place on 1 September 1984 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Only one race took place due to the Los Angeles Olympic Games.


1984 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
The men's road race at the 1984 UCI Road World Championships was the 51st edition of the event. The race took place on Sunday 2 September 1984 in Barcelona, Spain. The race was won by Claude Criquielion of Belgium.


1984 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
The 1984 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain in 1984. Due to the 1984 Summer Olympics only nine events were contested, 7 for men (5 for professionals, 2 for amateurs) and 2 for women.


1984 UCLA Bruins football team
The 1984 UCLA Bruins football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their ninth year under head coach Terry Donahue, the Bruins compiled a 9–3 record (5–2 Pac-10), finished in a tie for third place in the Pacific-10 Conference, and were ranked #9 in the final AP Poll. The Bruins went on to defeat Miami in the 1985 Fiesta Bowl. Gaston Green and James Washington were named the offensive and defensive most valuable players in the 1985 Fiesta Bowl.


1984 UCLA Bruins football team
UCLA's offensive leaders in 1984 were quarterback Steve Bono with 1,333 passing yards, running back Danny Andrews with 605 rushing yards, and wide receiver Mike Sherrard with 635 receiving yards.


1984 UCLA Bruins football team, 1985 NFL Draft
The following players were drafted into professional football following the season.


1984 UCLA Bruins softball team
The 1984 UCLA Bruins softball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the 1984 NCAA Division I softball season. The Bruins were coached by Sharron Backus, who led her tenth season. The Bruins played their home games at Sunset Field and finished with a record of 45–6–1. They competed in the Western Collegiate Athletic Association, where they finished first with a 7–3 record.


1984 UCLA Bruins softball team
The Bruins were invited to the 1984 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, where they swept the West Regional and then completed a run through the Women's College World Series to claim their second NCAA Women's College World Series Championship. The Bruins had earlier claimed an AIAW title in 1978 and the first NCAA event in 1982.


1984 UEFA Cup Final
The 1984 UEFA Cup Final was an association football tie played on 9 May and 23 May 1984 to determine the champion of the 1983–84 UEFA Cup. The two-legged final was contested between Anderlecht of Belgium–– who were defending champions–– and Tottenham Hotspur F.C. of England. Tottenham won 4–3 on penalty kicks after the tie finished 2–2 on aggregate.


1984 UEFA Cup Final
To date, this remains the most recent European honour won by Tottenham. In addition, it would be another thirty-five years until Spurs even played in another major European final, when they reached the Champions League Final in 2019, losing to Liverpool.


1984 UEFA Cup Final
Years later, it emerged that Anderlecht's passage to the final had involved the club's chairman paying a bribe totalling £27,000 to the referee for the semi-final against Nottingham Forest. A dubious penalty was awarded to Anderlecht, whilst a Forest goal was controversially disallowed.


1984 UEFA European Under-16 Championship
The 1984 UEFA European Under-16 Championship was the second edition of UEFA's European Under-16 Football Championship. West Germany hosted the championship, during 3–5 May 1984. Four teams entered the competition, after playing one qualifying stage and quarterfinals.


1984 UEFA European Under-16 Championship, Qualifying
The final tournament of the 1984 UEFA European Under-16 Championship was preceded by two qualification stages: a qualifying round and quarterfinals. During these rounds, 27 national teams competed to determine the four teams that played the tournament.


1984 UEFA European Under-16 Championship qualifying
This page describes the qualifying procedure for the 1984 UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship. 27 teams were divided into 8 groups of two, three and four teams each. The eight winners advanced to the quarterfinals, consisting in two-legged rounds. The four winners of the quarterfinals advanced to the final tournament.


1984 UEFA European Under-18 Championship
The UEFA European Under-18 Championship 1984 Final Tournament was held in the Soviet Union. It also served as the European qualification for the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship.


1984 UEFA European Under-18 Championship, Qualification, Other Groups
1The match Netherlands - Luxembourg at IJmuiden ended 1–0 but was awarded 0–3 to Luxembourg due to fireworks thrown on the field, injuring the Luxembourg keeper.


1984 UEFA European Under-18 Championship, Qualification to World Youth Championship
The six best performing teams qualified for the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship: four semifinalists and the best group runners-up (based on points, goal difference and scored goals). This would mean that both Poland and Scotland should have qualified. As for Poland, officials of the Polish Football Association (PZPN) missed deadline for application to the tournament. It is not clear why Scotland did not participate.


1984 UEFA European Under-18 Championship squads
Players in bold have later been capped at full international level.


1984 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
The 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Championship was the 4th staging of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship. The qualifying stage spanned two years (1982–84) and had 30 entrants. Albania, Iceland and Wales competed in the competition for the first time. England U-21s won the competition for the second time running.


1984 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
The 30 national teams were divided into eight groups (six groups of 4 + two groups of 3). The group winners played off against each other on a two-legged home-and-away basis until the winner was decided. There was no finals tournament or third-place playoff.


1984 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, Qualifying stage, Draw
The allocation of teams into qualifying groups was based on that of UEFA Euro 1984 qualifying tournament with several changes, reflecting the absence of some nations:


1984 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads
This article displays the squads for the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Although teams could have a maximum of three older players, the remaining squad members had to have been born on or after 1 January 1960. Players in bold have later been capped at full international level.


1984 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads, Albania
The following players participated in the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Championship two-legged match against Italy U21 on 14 March & 4 April 1984.


1984 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads, England
The following players participated in the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.


1984 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
The 1984 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the 58th year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.


1984 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
The year was dominated by the closure of greyhound racing's flagship stadium White City. It signified one of the lowest moments in the history of greyhound racing. The 1969 option granted to Stock Conversion and Investment Ltd for development finally became a reality. The final meeting was held on 22 September where Hastings Girl trained by Tommy Foster won the final race. The last White City Derby was won by Whisper Wishes before the event switched to Wimbledon, despite calls for it to go to Wembley. The company that introduced greyhound racing to Britain, (the Greyhound Racing Association) came under severe criticism.


1984 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
The National Greyhound Racing Club (NGRC) released the annual returns, with totalisator turnover slightly down at £59,382,835 and attendances also slightly down recorded at 3,942,344 from 5191 meetings. Track tote remained at 17.5% and government tote tax at 4%.


1984 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
Whisper Wishes, a black dog was voted Greyhound of the Year. after winning the Derby at White City. 1984 Greyhound of the Year Yankee Express trained by George Curtis won a third successive Scurry Gold Cup title.


1984 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
The White City events switched to new tracks, in addition to receiving the Derby, Wimbledon would host the Springbok and the English Greyhound Derby Invitation. The Grand National went to Hall Green but the Longcross Cup and Wood Lane Stakes was discontinued.


1984 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks
Walthamstow would take over the mantle as the leading track, as shown by the final of the Grand Prix. A crowd of more than 5,000 watched  Sunrise Sonny win the race. Over one million tote units were sold, the highest recorded figure since 1945.


1984 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks
Overshadowed by the closure of White City was the closure of three other tracks, on the 14 April both Cambridge and Perry Barr closed and Leicester ran its final meeting on 15 August after 56 years operating at Blackbird Road. It was sold by their owners Midland Sports to Barratts homes for new housing which left just Coventry operating under the name of Midland Sports. Mick Wheble who held the position of Racing Manager at Leicester and Coventry moved to take over at Oxford where Jim Layton had left for Brighton. Coventry recruited a young Racing Manager in Sean Doyle, son of trainer Paddy Doyle but Sean's career would be cut short when he died from cancer.


1984 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks
Independent tracks Brean Sands and Blackburn both closed but Ashington in Northumberland re-opened. Northern Sports opened their new state of the art 200 seated grandstand restaurant and leisure facilities including squash and snooker clubs at Dumpton Park, Ramsgate. Brough Park was sold to Bernard Neesham who stopped trainers from supplying greyhounds to neighbour Gosforth.


1984 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
White City trainers Tom Foster and David Kinchett joined Wimbledon and Ray Peacock went to Harringay Stadium. Frank Baldwin, Frank Melville, Graham Mann and Richard Griffin were left without a track.


1984 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
A black greyhound called Scurlogue Champ, whelped in July 1982 arrived in England after initially being sold at the Shelbourne Park sales and then on to owner/trainer Ken Peckham for £1700. He had an odd running style in that he would often be outpaced early before finishing with remarkable strength. From September he broke four long distance track records at Ipswich, Catford, Harringay and Hall Green. Another greyhound called Ballyregan Bob won his first race on 25 October 1984.


1984 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland
Ger McKenna won a twelfth Irish St Leger and a fifth Irish Laurels.


1984 UK Athletics Championships
The 1984 UK Athletics Championships was the national championship in outdoor track and field for the United Kingdom held at Cwmbran Stadium, Cwmbran. It was the third time the event was held in the Welsh town, following on from its hosting in 1977 and 1982. The competition was affected by heavy winds that year, particularly the jumps and sprints.


1984 UK Athletics Championships
It was the eighth edition of the competition limited to British athletes only, launched as an alternative to the AAA Championships, which was open to foreign competitors. However, due to the fact that the calibre of national competition remained greater at the AAA event, the UK Championships this year were not considered the principal national championship event by some statisticians, such as the National Union of Track Statisticians (NUTS). Many of the athletes below also competed at the 1984 AAA Championships.


1984 UK Athletics Championships
Fatima Whitbread won her fourth consecutive women's javelin throw UK title, while Aston Moore won his third straight men's triple jump title. Aside from Moore, four men successfully defended their 1983 titles and Peter Elliott (1500 metres), Keith Stock (pole vault), Derrick Brown (long jump) and Peter Yates (javelin). Venissa Head was the only woman to defend her title, doing so in the discus throw. Heather Oakes was the only athlete to win multiple UK titles, taking the women's 100 metres and 200 metres to repeat a feat she had achieved five years previously.


1984 UK Athletics Championships
The main international track and field competition for the United Kingdom that year was the 1984 Olympic Games. Reflecting the secondary nature of the UK competition and the fact it was not used as the Olympic trial event, only one of the 14 British individual Olympic medallists took a UK title that year – Fatima Whitbread. British Olympic relay medallists Simmone Jacobs, Heather Oakes and Kriss Akabusi were present at the UK Championships, however.


1984 UK Championship
The 1984 UK Championship (also known as the 1984 Coral UK Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a ranking professional snooker tournament that took place at the Guild Hall in Preston, England, between 18 November and 2 December 1984. This was the eighth edition of the UK Championship but only the first to be granted ranking status, as it was now open to all professional overseas players as well as those from the UK. The BBC aired the event from the second round onwards. The championship was sponsored by sports betting company Coral.


1984 UK Championship
The defending champion was Alex Higgins who won the 1983 event after defeating Steve Davis 16–15 in the final. The pair met in the final again, with Davis winning 16–8, to win his third UK Championship title. The highest break of the tournament was a 135 made by Jack McLaughlin during the non-televised stages; the highest break of the televised stages was a 134 made by Davis. There was a total prize fund of £101,000 with the winner receiving £20,000.


1984 UK Championship, Prize fund
The winner of the event received a total of £20,000. The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


1984 UK Championship, Main draw
The tournament featured 32 players. Players in bold denote match winners.


1984 UK Championship, Century breaks
A total of 28 century breaks were made during the tournament.


1984 UMass Minutemen football team
The 1984 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season as a member of the Yankee Conference. The team was coached by Bob Stull and played its home games at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium in Hadley, Massachusetts. The stadium had been called Alumni Stadium from its opening in 1965 until the November 3, 1984, game against Connecticut, when it was officially named for Warren McGuirk, who was the UMass Athletic Director from 1948 to 1972. UMass finished the season with a record of 3–8 overall and 1–4 in conference play.


1984 UNLV Rebels football team
The 1984 UNLV Rebels football team was an American football team that represented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third year under head coach Harvey Hyde, the team compiled an 11–2 record. In March 1985, the NCAA forced UNLV to forfeit all of its victories from their 1983 and 1984 seasons due to playing with ineligible players.


1984 US Indoors
The 1984 US Indoors was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Four Seasons Racquet Club in Livingston, New Jersey in the  United States that was part of the 1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. The tournament was held from February 20 through February 26, 1984. First-seeded Martina Navratilova won the singles title.


1984 US Indoors, Finals, Doubles
Martina Navratilova /  Pam Shriver defeated  Jo Durie /  Ann Kiyomura 5–7, 6–3, 6–3


1984 US Open (tennis)
The 1984 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the USTA National Tennis Center in New York City in New York in the United States. It was the 104th edition of the US Open and was held from August 28 to September 9, 1984.


1984 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Men's Doubles
John Fitzgerald /  Tomáš Šmíd defeated  Stefan Edberg /  Anders Järryd 7–6(7–5), 6–3, 6–3


1984 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Women's Doubles
Martina Navratilova /  Pam Shriver defeated  Anne Hobbs /  Wendy Turnbull 6–2, 6–4


1984 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Mixed Doubles
Manuela Maleeva /  Tom Gullikson defeated  Elizabeth Sayers /  John Fitzgerald 2–6, 7–5, 6–4


1984 US Open (tennis), Juniors, Boys' Doubles
Leonardo Lavalle /  Mihnea-Ion Năstase defeated  Agustín Moreno /  Jaime Yzaga 7–6, 1–6, 6–1


1984 US Open (tennis), Juniors, Girls' Doubles
Mercedes Paz /  Gabriela Sabatini defeated  Stephanie London /  Cammy MacGregor 6–4, 3–6, 6–2


1984 US Open (tennis), "Super Saturday"
September 8, 1984, is generally considered the single greatest day in tennis history. Each of the four matches played at Louis Armstrong Stadium, the tournament's Center Court at the time, went the maximum number of sets. All eight players would win at least one Grand Slam title, seven were eventually inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. From the opening serve of the first contest at 11:07 am (ET) to match point of the final one at 11:16 pm, there were 16 sets, 165 games and 979 points.


1984 US Open (tennis), "Super Saturday"
The day opened with an over-35 men's singles semifinal match won by Stan Smith over John Newcombe. In the first of two men's singles semifinal contests, Ivan Lendl advanced to his third consecutive US Open final after outlasting Pat Cash 3–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–7 (5–7), 7–6 (7–4). The last two matches involved rivalries. Martina Navratilova captured the second of her four US Open women's singles championships by defeating Chris Evert 4–6, 6–4, 6–4. The other men's singles semifinal between John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors didn't begin until 7:28 pm. McEnroe survived a nighttime thriller 6–4, 4–6, 7–5, 4–6, 6–3, en route to what would be the last singles Grand Slam title of his career (subsequently adding to his men's doubles titles at the US Open in 1989 and Wimbledon in 1992).


1984 US Open (tennis), "Super Saturday"
The lengthy day at Center Court was made possible by CBS which was televising the tournament. Not wanting a recurrence of what happened the previous year when three quick contests forced a scramble to fill the remaining allocated time, the network had requested the addition of the Smith-Newcombe match to lead off the program. The broadcast established what was then the longest continuous coverage of a sporting event in American television history.


1984 US Open (tennis), "Super Saturday"
Tennis fans who were present at Armstrong Stadium to enjoy all the contests that day were able to do so on a single admission. When both Serena and Venus Williams made the tournament finals together for the first time in 2001, organizers switched the women's singles championship match to prime time to attract more television viewers. In the process, they also began charging separate admission for each of the two sessions on the last Saturday of the fortnight.


1984 US Open – Men's Doubles
Peter Fleming and John McEnroe were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Swedes Stefan Edberg and Anders Järryd.


1984 US Open – Men's Doubles
John Fitzgerald and Tomáš Šmíd won the title defeating Edberg and Järryd in the final.


1984 US Open – Men's Singles
John McEnroe defeated Ivan Lendl in the final 6–3, 6–4, 6–1, to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1984 US Open. It was Lendl's third consecutive runner-up finish at the US Open.


1984 US Open – Men's Singles
Jimmy Connors was the defending champion, but he was defeated by his rival McEnroe in the semifinals, in the last match between the two in a major singles tournament.


1984 US Open – Mixed Doubles
Elizabeth Sayers and John Fitzgerald were the defending champions but lost in the final 2–6, 7–5, 6–4 against Manuela Maleeva and Tom Gullikson.


1984 US Open – Women's Doubles
Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver were the defending champions and won in the final 6–2, 6–4 against Anne Hobbs and Wendy Turnbull.


1984 US Open – Women's Singles
Defending champion Martina Navratilova defeated Chris Evert, in the final 4–6, 6–4, 6–4, to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1984 US Open.


1984 US Open – Women's Singles
This victory was Navratilova's sixth straight Major title, tying her with Margaret Court and Maureen Connolly for the most consecutive Grand Slam titles won. Navratilova became the first player in history to win Grand Slam tournaments on clay, grass and hard court in the same calendar year, after having won the French Open and Wimbledon.


1984 US Open – Women's Singles
This was the first Grand Slam tournament appearance for future world No. 3 and 1990 US Open Champion Gabriela Sabatini.


1984 US Open – Women's Singles Qualifying
Players who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual US Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held over several days before the event.


1984 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The 1984 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships took place between June 8–9 at Jaguar Stadium on the campus of San Jose City College in San Jose, California. The meet was organized by The Athletics Congress.


1984 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
This meet was separate from the 1984 Olympic Trials, held in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum a week later. Among the notable events at this meet were Leslie Maxie's youth world best in the 400 metres hurdles that lasted more than 30 years. Also, then 47 year old Al Oerter was at this meet making one last attempt to get to the Olympics, 16 years after the end of his 4 successive gold medal streak in the discus. His hopes ended here when he was injured stepping into a crater left by a hammer during the preliminary round. Local rivals John Powell and Mac Wilkins instead threw their season bests at this meet before going on to the silver (Wilkins) and bronze (Powell) medals at the Olympics in Los Angeles.


1984 USC Trojans football team
The 1984 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second year under head coach Ted Tollner, the Trojans compiled a 9–3 record (7–1 against conference opponents), won the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) championship, and outscored their opponents 220 to 173.


1984 USC Trojans football team
Quarterback Tim Green, in replacement of the injured Sean Salisbury, led the team in passing, completing 116 of 224 passes for 1,448 yards with five touchdowns and eight interceptions. Fred Crutcher led the team in rushing with 307 carries for 1,155 yards and ten touchdowns. Hank Norman led the team in receiving yards with 39 catches for 643 yards and two touchdowns.


1984 USFL Draft
The 1984 USFL Draft was the second collegiate draft of the United States Football League (USFL). It took place on January 4, 1984, at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York. The new six expansion teams were given the first six selections, followed by the established teams' picks, then followed by six additional selections by the expansion teams. In the even numbered rounds, the established teams chose first, followed by the expansion teams.


1984 USFL Territorial Draft
The 1984 USFL Territorial Draft was the second Territorial Draft of the United States Football League (USFL). It took place on January 4, 1984, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. It included six new expansion teams.


1984 USFL season
The 1984 USFL season was the second season of the United States Football League.


1984 USFL season, General news
On September 21, 1983, the New Jersey Generals were sold to real estate tycoon and future President of the United States Donald Trump.


1984 USFL season, General news
On October 19, 1983, the United States Football League awarded the 1984 USFL Champion Game to Tampa Stadium in Tampa, FL and the 1985 USFL Championship Game to the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, MI.


1984 USFL season, General news
On February 15, the USFL took control of the Chicago Blitz.


1984 USFL season, General news
In May 1984, the USFL announced a "new" Chicago franchise would be created for the 1985 season.


1984 USFL season, General news
Players vote to form a union, United States Football League Players Association, with former Buffalo Bills linebacker Doug Allen serving as executive director.


1984 USFL season, General news
Philadelphia and Tampa Bay played in a post season exhibition game billed as "The Jetsave Challenge Cup"  in Wembley Stadium on July 21. Philadelphia won 24–21.


1984 USFL season, General news
On August 22, 1984, the owners voted to move to a fall schedule starting in 1986.


1984 USFL season, General news
On October 19, 1984, the owners reaffirmed the move to the fall.


1984 USFL season, Regular season
W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PCT= Winning Percentage, PF= Points For, PA = Points Against


1984 USFL season, Regular season
Birmingham won the Southern Division championship over Tampa Bay based on a division record tiebreaker advantage (7-1-0 to 6-2-0). Birmingham and Tampa Bay tied in the first tiebreaking step, head-to-head (1-1-0).


1984 USFL season, Regular season
Tampa Bay won the tiebreaker over New Jersey for the 3rd seed based on winning the head to head game.


1984 USFL season, Regular season
Los Angeles won the Pacific Division championship over Arizona based on a conference record tiebreaker advantage (7-4-0 to 5-6-0). Los Angeles and Arizona tied in the first two tiebreaking steps, head-to-head (1-1-0) and best divisional record (3-3-0).


1984 USFL season, Regular season
Michigan won the tiebreaker over Arizona for the 3rd seed based on winning the head to head game.


1984 USFL season, Regular season
Pittsburgh finished ahead of Washington based on a head-to-head tiebreaker advantage (2-0-0).


1984 USSR Chess Championship
The 1984 Soviet Chess Championship was the 51st edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 2-28 April 1984 in Lvov. The title was won by Andrei Sokolov. Semifinals took place in Volgodonsk, Irkutsk, Minsk and Nikolayev; The First League (also qualifying to the final) was held at Tallinn.


1984 USSR Chess Championship, Qualifying, Semifinals
Semifinals took place at (the first three gaining a direct promotion to the final): Volgodonsk (Novikov, Sveshnikov, Ehlvest); Irkutsk (Lputian, Chemin, Chekhov); Minsk (Belyavsky, Vyzhmanavin, Eingom); Nikolayev (Aseev, Mikhalchishin, A.Sokolov).


1984 USSR Chess Championship, Qualifying, First League
Boris Gulko did not play the final for an unknown reason, and was replaced by Yuri Balashov.


1984 UTEP Miners football team
The 1984 UTEP Miners football team was an American football team that represented the University of Texas at El Paso in the Western Athletic Conference during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third year under head coach Bill Yung, the team compiled a 2–9 record.


1984 Uganda Cup
1984 Uganda Cup was the tenth season of the main Ugandan football Cup.


1984 Uganda Cup, Overview
The competition has also been known as the Kakungulu Cup and was won by Kampala City Council FC who beat Coffee Kakira 3-2 in the final. The results are not available for the earlier rounds


1984 Uganda Super League
The 1984 Ugandan Super League was the 17th season of the official Ugandan football championship, the top-level football league of Uganda.


1984 Uganda Super League, Overview
The 1984 Uganda Super League was contested by 16 teams and was won by SC Villa, while Bell FC, Lufula and Hodari were relegated.


1984 Uganda Super League, Leading goalscorer
The top goalscorer in the 1984 season was Frank Kyazze of Kampala City Council FC with 18 goals.


1984 Union 76 Pacific Southwest Open
The 1984 Union 76 Pacific Southwest Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the newly-opened Los Angeles Tennis Center in Los Angeles, California in the United States. The event moved back from April to the more traditional September time slot and was part of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix circuit. It was the 58th edition of the Pacific Southwest tournament and was held from September 10 through September 16, 1984. First-seeded Jimmy Connors won the singles title and the corresponding $36,000 first-prize money.


1984 Union 76 Pacific Southwest Open, Finals, Doubles
Ken Flach /  Robert Seguso defeated  Wojciech Fibak /  Gene Mayer 4–6, 6–4, 6–3


1984 United Airlines Tournament of Champions
The 1984 United Airlines Tournament of Champions  was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, Florida in the United States that was part of the 1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and was held from April 23 through April 29, 1984. First-seeded Martina Navratilova won her fifth consecutive singles title at the event.


1984 United Airlines Tournament of Champions, Finals, Doubles
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch /  Hana Mandlíková defeated  Anne Hobbs /  Wendy Turnbull 6–0, 1–6, 6–3


1984 United Jersey Bank Classic
The 1984 United Jersey Bank Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Mahwah, New Jersey in the [United States that was part of the 1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. The tournament was held from August 13 through August 19, 1984. First-seeded Martina Navratilova won the singles title.


1984 United Jersey Bank Classic, Finals, Doubles
Martina Navratilova /  Pam Shriver defeated  Jo Durie /  Ann Kiyomura 7–6, 3–6, 6–2


1984 United Kingdom local elections
Local elections were held in the United Kingdom in 1984. There was a slight reversal in the Conservative government's fortunes, but the party remained ahead. The projected share of the vote was Conservatives 38%, Labour 37%, Liberal-SDP Alliance 21%.


1984 United Kingdom local elections
Labour gained 88 seats, bringing their number of councillors to 8,870 in the first elections under the leadership of Neil Kinnock who had succeeded Michael Foot the previous autumn.


1984 United Kingdom local elections
The Conservatives lost 164 seats, leaving them with 10,393 councillors.


1984 United Kingdom local elections
The SDP-Liberal Alliance, now led by David Owen, gained 160 seats and finished with 2,331 councillors.


1984 United Kingdom local elections, England, Metropolitan boroughs
All 36 metropolitan borough councils had one third of their seats up for election.


1984 United Kingdom local elections, England, District councils
In 123 districts one third of the council was up for election.


1984 United Kingdom local elections, England, District councils
A further 20 councils had passed a resolution under section 7 (4) (b) of the Local Government Act 1972, requesting a system of elections by thirds. They could do so because they had had their new ward boundaries introduced at the 1983 elections.


1984 United Malays National Organisation leadership election
A leadership election was held by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) party in 1984. It was won by incumbent Prime Minister and President of UMNO, Mahathir Mohamad.


1984 United Nations Security Council election
The 1984 United Nations Security Council election was held from 22 October to 18 December 1984 during the Thirty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected Australia, Denmark, Madagascar, Thailand, and Trinidad and Tobago, as the five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1985. Madagascar, Thailand and Trinidad and Tobago were elected to Council for the first time.


1984 United Nations Security Council election, Rules
The Security Council has 15 seats, filled by five permanent members and ten non-permanent members. Each year, half of the non-permanent members are elected for two-year terms. A sitting member may not immediately run for re-election.


1984 United Nations Security Council election, Rules
In accordance with the rules whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes, the five available seats are allocated as follows:


1984 United Nations Security Council election, Rules
To be elected, a candidate must receive a two-thirds majority of those present and voting. If the vote is inconclusive after the first round, three rounds of restricted voting shall take place, followed by three rounds of unrestricted voting, and so on, until a result has been obtained. In restricted voting, only official candidates may be voted on, while in unrestricted voting, any member of the given regional group, with the exception of current Council members, may be voted on.


1984 United Nations Security Council election, Endorsed candidates
Prior to the first round of balloting, the delegate of Sweden, speaking on behalf of the Western European and Others Group, endorsed Australia and Denmark. The African Group had previously endorsed Ethiopia.


1984 United Nations Security Council election, Endorsed candidates
Following the first round, the delegate of Ecuador thanked the Member States that had voted for his country and reiterated the fact that Ecuador had withdrawn its candidacy prior to the vote.


1984 United Nations Security Council election, Endorsed candidates
After receiving votes in the fifth, sixth, and seventh rounds of voting, the delegates of Kenya, Tanzania, and Cameroon underlined the fact that their countries were not candidates. Tanzania explicitly endorsed Ethiopia's candidacy.


1984 United Nations Security Council election, Endorsed candidates
Between the tenth and eleventh rounds of balloting, under mediation by the Organization of African Unity, Ethiopia and Somalia agreed to withdraw their candidacies in favour of Madagascar. The result of this negotiation was formally announced by the Congolese delegate, as chairman of the African Group, prior to the final round of balloting.


1984 United Nations Security Council election, Result
Voting was conducted on a single ballot. Ballots containing more states from a certain region than seats allocated to that region were invalidated.


1984 United Nations Security Council election, Result, Day 1
The first four rounds of balloting were held on 22 October 1984 during the 33rd plenary meeting of the General Assembly.


1984 United Nations Security Council election, Result, Day 2
The fifth through tenth rounds of balloting were held on 28 November 1984 at the 77th Plenary meeting of the General Assembly.


1984 United Nations Security Council election, Result, Day 3
The eleventh and final round of balloting was held on 18 December 1984 at the 105th Plenary meeting of the General Assembly.


1984 United Soccer League season
The 1984 USL season was the United Soccer League's first and only full season.


1984 United Soccer League season, History
The creation of Ingo Krieg, owner of the Jacksonville Tea Men, the United Soccer League formally announced its existence on February 1, 1984. The roots go back to Krieg's frustration over the direction taken by the second division American Soccer League which was declining after a period of overexpansion and financial excesses. Krieg proposed the creation of a financially sound league. In late January 1984, three ASL teams, the Dallas Americans, Detroit Express and Jacksonville Tea Men informed the ASL that they intended to move to the USL for the upcoming season.


1984 United Soccer League season, History
When the league announced its formal creation on the first of February, it added to the list of teams by including one in Oklahoma City and another in North Carolina. By the end of February, the list of teams had solidified with Detroit dropping out and Buffalo and Fort Lauderdale joining. Bill Burfeind was named league commissioner  On March 18, 1984, the league announced a final line-up of nine teams in three divisions. The season would run from May 12 through August 15.


1984 United Soccer League season, History
The season went fairly smoothly for a recently founded league, but the playoffs began with considerable confusion. The last week of July, league officials announced that the top team in each division would make the playoffs, for a total of three teams. The two teams with the next highest total points would play a single wild card game to determine the fourth team in the playoffs. Then the team with the highest number of points would play the team with the lowest in one semifinal and the middle two teams would play in the other semifinal.


1984 United Soccer League season, History
However, on Friday, August 17, two days before the first playoff games, league officials changed the format. They announced that Oklahoma City, which had topped the league with 127 points would play the winner of the wild card game, and not the Buffalo Storm which had the lowest number of points. Then the Storm owner, Sal DeRosa, announced that all games between his team and the Fort Lauderdale Storm would take place in Florida because of the low attendance at Buffalo home games.


1984 United Soccer League season, History
Fort Lauderdale Sun owner, Ronnie Sharp was forced to sell his team shortly after winning the 1984 championship, because of his involvement in a drug smuggling operation. Entertainment Investors, Inc., which was mostly made up of a group of doctors that used to sit together at Strikers' games, took over control of the Sun.


1984 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska
The Alaska congressional election of 1984 was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1984. The term of the state's sole Representative to the United States House of Representatives expired on January 3, 1985. The winning candidate would serve a two-year term from January 3, 1985, to January 3, 1987.


1984 United States House of Representatives election in District of Columbia
The 1984 congressional election for the Delegate from the District of Columbia was held on November 6, 1984. The winner of the race was Walter E. Fauntroy (D), who won his seventh re-election. All elected members would serve in 99th United States Congress.


1984 United States House of Representatives election in District of Columbia
The non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the District of Columbia is elected for two-year terms.


1984 United States House of Representatives election in District of Columbia, Candidates
Walter E. Fauntroy, a Democrat, sought re-election for his eighth term to the United States House of Representatives. Fauntroy was completely unopposed in this election, although some voters still chose to write in other names. Fauntroy was nevertheless re-elected with over 95% of the vote.


1984 United States House of Representatives election in Puerto Rico
The election for Resident Commissioner to the United States House of Representatives took place on November 6, 1984, the same day as the larger Puerto Rican general election and the United States elections, 1984.


1984 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming
The 1984 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming was held on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Representative Dick Cheney defeated Hugh B. McFadden, Jr. with 73.57% of the vote.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections
The 1984 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1984 which coincided with the re-election of President Ronald Reagan in a landslide. This victory also yielded gains for Reagan's Republican Party in the House, where they picked up a net of sixteen seats from the Democratic Party. Despite Reagan's extremely large electoral victory, the Democrats nonetheless retained a commanding majority in the House and gained seats in the Senate. These elections were the last until 2020 when a member of a political party other than the Democrats, Republicans, or an independent had one or more seats in the chamber.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections
This would be the last time for eight years that the Democrats lost seats in the House.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections, Retiring incumbents
Twenty-two representatives retired. Sixteen of those seats were held by the same party, six seats changed party.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections, Retiring incumbents, Democrats
Nine Democrats retired. Four of those seats were held by Democrats and five were won by Republicans.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections, Retiring incumbents, Republicans
Twelve Republicans retired. Eleven of those seats were held by Republicans and one was won by a Democrat.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections, Special elections
There were three special elections to the 98th Congress in 1984, two of which were held on the same day as the general election for the next term.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama
The 1984 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama were held on November 6, 1984, to determine who would represent Alabama in the United States House of Representatives. Alabama had seven seats in the House, apportioned according to the 1980 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections in California
The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1984 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 6, 1984. Only one incumbent, Democrat Jerry M. Patterson, lost reelection.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results
Final results from the Clerk of the House of Representatives:


1984 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland
The 1984 congressional elections in Maryland were held on November 6, 1984, to determine who will represent the state of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives. Maryland has eight seats in the House, apportioned according to the 1980 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms; those elected served in the 99th Congress from January 3, 1985 until January 3, 1987.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada
The 1984 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada were held on November 6, 1984, to determine who would represent Nevada in the United States House of Representatives. Nevada had two seats in the House, apportioned according to the 1980 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire
The 1984 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire were held on November 6, 1984, to determine who would represent New Hampshire in the United States House of Representatives. Negw Hampshire had two seats in the House, apportioned according to the 1980 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections in Rhode Island
The 1984 United States House of Representatives elections in Rhode Island were held on November 6, 1984 to determine who would represent Rhode Island in the United States House of Representatives. Rhode Island had two seats in the House, apportioned according to the 1980 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina
The 1984 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 6, 1984 to select six Representatives for two-year terms from the state of South Carolina. The primary elections for the Democrats and the Republicans were held on June 12. All six incumbents were re-elected and the composition of the state delegation remained three Democrats and three Republicans.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1st congressional district
Incumbent Republican Congressman Thomas F. Hartnett of the 1st congressional district, in office since 1981, defeated Democratic challenger Ed Pendarvis.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2nd congressional district
Incumbent Republican Congressman Floyd Spence of the 2nd congressional district, in office since 1971, defeated Democratic challenger Ken Mosely.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 3rd congressional district
Incumbent Democratic Congressman Butler Derrick of the 3rd congressional district, in office since 1975, defeated Republican challenger Clarence E. Taylor.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 4th congressional district
Incumbent Republican Congressman Carroll Campbell of the 4th congressional district, in office since 1979, defeated Democratic challenger Jeff Smith.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 5th congressional district
Incumbent Democratic Congressman John M. Spratt, Jr. of the 5th congressional district, in office since 1983, defeated two minor party candidates.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 6th congressional district
Incumbent Democratic Congressman Robin Tallon of the 6th congressional district, in office since 1983, won the Democratic primary and defeated Republican Martha Lois Eargle in the general election.


1984 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia
The 1984 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia were held on November 6, 1984 to determine who will represent the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives. Virginia had ten seats in the House, apportioned according to the 1980 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms.


1984 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)
The 1984 United States Olympic Trials for track and field were held at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, the same venue as would host the 1984 Olympics a month and a half later. Organised by The Athletics Congress (TAC), the nine-day competition lasted from June 16 until June 24. The national championships in track and field for the United States was a separate event that year, held a week earlier in San Jose, California. The Women's Marathon Olympic Trials were held on May 12 in Olympia, Washington. The Men's Marathon Trials were in Buffalo, New York on May 26.


1984 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)
The results of the event determined qualification for the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics.


1984 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)
This meet had two of the closest finishes. In the Women's 100 meters hurdles, the second, third and fourth-place finishers had the same time to the 100th of a second, with winner Kim Turner just one 100th ahead. Stephanie Hightower was the odd person out, not selected to the Olympic team. 28 years later at the 2012 Trials, Hightower as President of USATF had to administer over another similar tie in the Women's 100 meters between Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh that could not be separated by photo finish pictures.


1984 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)
The other close finish was in the Men's 800 meters, where Earl Jones and Johnny Gray both received the same time of 1:43.74 to share the American Record from the same race. And .17 behind them John Marshall and James Robinson also received the same time for the last qualifying place after Robinson kicked past the field and looked to have edged past Marshall, Robinson relaxed at the line while Marshall made one last lean to get the edge and take the final spot on the Olympic team.


1984 United States Senate election in Alabama
The 1984 United States Senate election in Alabama was held on November 6, 1984.


1984 United States Senate election in Alabama
Incumbent Democratic Senator Howell Heflin was easily re-elected to a second term.


1984 United States Senate election in Alaska
The 1984 United States Senate election in Alaska was held on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican Senator Ted Stevens sought re-election to a third term in the United States Senate. Owing to his popularity and the conservative bent of Alaska, Stevens did not face major opposition, and easily defeated former Alaska Attorney General John Havelock in the general election.


1984 United States Senate election in Arkansas
The 1984 United States Senate election in Arkansas was held on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator David Pryor won re-election to a second term.


1984 United States Senate election in Colorado
The 1984 United States Senate election in Colorado was held on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican William L. Armstrong defeated Democrat nominee Nancy E. Dick with 64.25% of the vote. Armstrong carried all but three counties in the state, and to date is the last Republican Senate candidate to carry normally heavily Democratic Denver.


1984 United States Senate election in Delaware
The 1984 United States Senate election in Delaware was held on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Democratic Senator Joe Biden won re-election to a third term, defeating Republican challenger John M. Burris.


1984 United States Senate election in Georgia
The 1984 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Sam Nunn won re-election to a third term.


1984 United States Senate election in Idaho
The 1984 United States Senate election in Idaho was held on November 6, 1984.


1984 United States Senate election in Idaho
Incumbent Senator James A. McClure was re-elected to a third term in office.


1984 United States Senate election in Idaho, Republican primary, Results
Senator McClure was unopposed for re-nomination by the Republican Party.


1984 United States Senate election in Idaho, General election, Campaign
The campaign was largely uneventful given McClure's large lead in polls and the Republican tendency of Idaho.


1984 United States Senate election in Idaho, General election, Campaign
During the campaign, Democratic candidate Peter Busch was involved in a minor plane crash. Busch would die in a similar crash while campaigning for Congress in 1986.


1984 United States Senate election in Illinois
The 1984 United States Senate election in Illinois took place on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican Senator Charles H. Percy ran for re-election to a fourth term in the United States Senate. Senator Percy was opposed by Democratic nominee Paul Simon, who was a United States Congressman from Illinois's 22nd congressional district. The campaign between Percy and Simon was brutal and toughly-fought, and ended up with Simon ousting Percy by fewer than 90,000 votes, which was, at the time, considered an upset. Incidentally, Percy's son-in-law Jay Rockefeller was elected Senator from West Virginia in the same election cycle.


1984 United States Senate election in Illinois, Election information
The election coincided with those for other federal offices (president and House), as well as state elections.


1984 United States Senate election in Illinois, Election information, Turnout
Turnout in the primaries was 36.67%, with a total of 2,219,583 votes cast.


1984 United States Senate election in Illinois, Election information, Turnout
Turnout in the general election was 73.99%, with 4,787,335 votes cast.


1984 United States Senate election in Illinois, General election, Results
The election was very close. Simon prevailed by only 89,126 votes, or 1.86%. Incumbent Percy did well throughout the state, including the Chicago collar counties. However, in the heavily populated and Democratic Cook County, which encompasses the city of Chicago and the majority of the Chicago Metropolitan Area, Simon ran ahead of Percy by over 300,000 votes. Simon also won most counties in southwestern Illinois, a traditionally Democratic region. Percy led early on and well into the night, but as Cook County began to count all of its votes, Simon pulled ahead.


1984 United States Senate election in Illinois, General election, Results
Simon won despite then-president Reagan winning the state easily. Percy called Simon at around 5 A.M. the next day and conceded. Percy also congratulated Simon on his hard-earned victory. Simon was sworn in on January 3, 1985, and served in the senate until January 3, 1997, when he retired. Simon was later succeeded by Dick Durbin, a close friend and fellow Democrat.


1984 United States Senate election in Iowa
The 1984 United States Senate election in Iowa was held on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican Senator Roger Jepsen ran for re-election to a second term in office. Jepsen was opposed by U.S. Representative Tom Harkin, from Iowa's 5th congressional district, who won the Democratic primary uncontested. The general election was full of mudslinging and personal attacks, including the embellishment by both candidates of their military records; Harkin attacked Jepsen for failing to keep his promise to not sell AWACS aircraft to Saudi Arabia. Ultimately, Harkin defeated Jepsen by a wide margin, winning the first of five terms in the Senate.


1984 United States Senate election in Kansas
The 1984 United States Senate election in Kansas was held on November 6, 1984.


1984 United States Senate election in Kansas
Incumbent Senator Nancy Kassebaum was re-elected to a second term in office.


1984 United States Senate election in Kansas, Republican primary, Results
Senator Kassebaum was unopposed for renomination by the Republican Party.


1984 United States Senate election in Kentucky
The 1984 United States Senate election in Kentucky was held on November 5, 1984. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Walter Huddleston ran for reelection to a third term, but was defeated by Republican Mitch McConnell by less than 0.5%. In spite of President Ronald Reagan's landslide reelection victory, this was the only Senate seat picked up by Republicans in 1984.


1984 United States Senate election in Kentucky, Democratic primary, Results
Huddleston was unopposed in the Democratic Party's primary. Governor John Y. Brown Jr. filed to run in March 1984, but withdrew for health reasons a few weeks later.


1984 United States Senate election in Louisiana
The primary election for the 1984 United States Senate election in Louisiana was held on September 29, 1984.


1984 United States Senate election in Louisiana
Incumbent Senator J. Bennett Johnston won the election with 85% of the vote and was declared elected by a majority, dispelling the need for a general election in November.


1984 United States Senate election in Louisiana, Results, General election
Under Section 511 of Title 18 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes, a candidate who received a majority of the votes in the Primary Election was declared elected. Johnston did not appear on the General Election ballot.


1984 United States Senate election in Maine
The 1984 United States Senate election in Maine was held on November 7, 1984. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator William Cohen won re-election to a second term in a landslide.


1984 United States Senate election in Massachusetts
The 1984 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held on November 6 to elect a member of the U.S. Senate from the State of Massachusetts. The election was won by Democrat John Kerry, the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts who remained Senator until 2013 when he resigned to become United States Secretary of State. One-term incumbent Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas declined to seek reelection and retired after developing cancer.


1984 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Democratic primary, Candidates, Declined
To the surprise of many, incumbent Senator Paul Tsongas retired despite his very young age and popularity. Tsongas disclosed his diagnosis with lymphoma in January and cited his desire to spend more time with his family.


1984 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Democratic primary, Candidates, Declined
By the month's end, four Democratic candidates announced they would run to succeed Tsongas. On the day of Tsongas's retirement, Secretary of the Commonwealth Michael J. Connolly said "I expect to be a candidate for the U.S. Senate." The first major candidate to declare was Edward Markey, a four-term representative from Malden who had become nationally famous as a leading advocate for a nuclear freeze. He was followed by former Massachusetts House Speaker David Bartley and Lieutenant Governor John Kerry.


1984 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Democratic primary, Candidates, Declined
In early February, Rep. James Shannon declared his candidacy. Shannon was already Tsongas's successor in Congress as the representative from the Lowell and Merrimack Valley seat. He boasted the support of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill and hoped to win the endorsement of Governor Michael Dukakis, whom he had supported in the contentious 1978 primary.


1984 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Democratic primary, Campaign
In early May, Markey shook up the race by announcing that he would withdraw to stand for re-election to his House seat. Markey would go on to successfully run for the seat in 2013 after Kerry's resignation in order to become U.S. Secretary of State under the Obama Administration. Shannon got another boost when he won the endorsement of the Massachusetts Democratic convention with 53 percent of the delegates. With O'Neill's support, Shannon secured the support of feminists and organized labor.


1984 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Democratic primary, Campaign
By June, the race shaped up as a two-way contest between Shannon and John Kerry, who was the only candidate with statewide experience and recognition. Despite Shannon's victory at the convention, polls showed that Kerry led by nine points among likely primary voters. Polling also showed that Kerry matched up best with Elliot Richardson, the leading Republican candidate.


1984 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Democratic primary, Campaign
Both candidates focused their attacks on Elliot Richardson, with Shannon stressing that Richardson would be an ineffective representative. Kerry, a prominent anti-war activist and veteran, criticized Richardson for his support of President Nixon's strategy in Vietnam and the bombing of Cambodia.


1984 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Democratic primary, Results
Kerry won a close race against Shannon by 24,529 votes or 3.11 percent of votes cast.


1984 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Democratic primary, Results
Shannon attempted to replicate Tsongas's victory over Paul Guzzi in the 1978 primary by performing extremely well in his home district, but he was unable to overcome Kerry's advantage throughout the rest of the commonwealth.


1984 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Democratic primary, Results
Bartley performed well in his native Hampden County, especially in his hometown of Holyoke.


1984 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Republican primary, Campaign
With Tsongas an early favorite for re-election, only one Republican entered the race to challenge him: conservative Ray Shamie, the 1982 nominee for Senate against Ted Kennedy. However, once Tsongas announced in January that he would not stand for re-election, the prospect of divided Democratic Party encouraged Republicans to consider regaining this seat, which they held from 1937 until 1979.


1984 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Republican primary, Campaign
In January, White House operatives on behalf of President Reagan encouraged liberal Elliot Richardson to run. The former Massachusetts Attorney General, cabinet official, and Watergate icon had been at odds with the administration on foreign policy, but Reagan officials preferred him to Shamie nonetheless. Richardson officially entered the race on March 19, citing "the preservation of peace" and casting himself as a supporter of President Reagan's agenda.


1984 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Republican primary, Campaign
Shamie responded by attacking Richardson for his late entry into the race, his moderate ideology, and his position as a member of Boston's elite establishment. Shamie aimed at the increasingly conservative Republican base, citing his own support for tax cuts and Reagan's  foreign policy agenda, while calling Richardson "a liberal Rockefeller-type Republican who would be very comfortable in the Democratic Party." Despite Shamie's aggressive attacks, Richardson was still seen as the leading candidate for the seat as the summer campaign season began.


1984 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Republican primary, Campaign
Throughout the campaign, Richardson was hampered by his dull speaking style and long service in Washington, which had kept him away from Massachusetts politics. He attempted to counter this image by meeting voters face-to-face and collecting signatures at town dumps. As the leading candidate in both parties, he faced attacks from John Kerry and James Shannon in addition to Shamie.


1984 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Republican primary, Results
Despite his early lead in polls, Richardson failed to win the Republican nomination. Shamie easily won the September 18 primary with over 60% of the vote. Richardson only managed to carry a few municipalities in the Berkshires, Cape and Islands region, and Boston's wealthy suburbs. Richardson also won the liberal college towns of Amherst and Cambridge.


1984 United States Senate election in Michigan
The 1984 United States Senate election in Michigan was held on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Carl Levin won re-election to a second term, defeating Republican candidate and former astronaut Jack Lousma. Coinciding with Republican Ronald Reagan's landslide in Michigan and the rest of the country, this was the only Senate election of Levin's career in which his percentage of the vote and margin of victory decreased from the previous one.


1984 United States Senate election in Minnesota
The 1984 United States Senate election in Minnesota was held on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz defeated Democratic challenger Joan Growe.


1984 United States Senate election in Minnesota
Boschwitz's victory coincided with President Ronald Reagan's nationwide landslide in the concurrent presidential election in which he defeated Walter Mondale, a Minnesota native, despite Mondale narrowly winning the state.


1984 United States Senate election in Mississippi
The 1984 United States Senate election in Mississippi was held on November 5, 1984. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Thad Cochran rode the coattails of President Ronald Reagan, who won 49 states in concurrent presidential election, and won re-election to a second term.


1984 United States Senate election in Montana
The 1984 United States Senate election in Montana took place on November 6, 1984. Incumbent United States Senator Max Baucus, who was first elected in 1978, ran for re-election. He easily won renomination in the Democratic primary, and advanced to the general election, where he faced Chuck Cozzens, a former State Representative and the Republican nominee. Despite President Ronald Reagan's strong performance in the state that year, Baucus was able to easily win a second term over Cozzens.


1984 United States Senate election in Nebraska
The 1984 United States Senate election in Nebraska was held on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator J. James Exon won re-election to a second term.


1984 United States Senate election in New Hampshire
The 1984 United States Senate election in New Hampshire was held on November 6, 1984.


1984 United States Senate election in New Hampshire
Senator Gordon Humphrey was re-elected to a second term in office.


1984 United States Senate election in New Hampshire, Republican primary, Results
Senator Humphrey was unopposed for re-nomination by the Republican Party.


1984 United States Senate election in New Hampshire, General election, Campaign
During the campaign, D'Amours accused Humphrey of being "ultraconservative." Humphrey, long considered a target for Senate Democrats, may have been helped by his support of environmental programs, including an increase for Superfund spending.


1984 United States Senate election in New Jersey
The 1984 United States Senate election in New Jersey was held on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Democrat Bill Bradley defeated Republican nominee Mary V. Mochary with 64.16% of the vote, winning every county in the state. To date, this is the most recent time Hunterdon, Sussex, and Warren counties were won by a Democrat in a statewide election. This was also the last time Morris County voted Democratic in a statewide election, until Senator Cory Booker won the county in his 2020 reelection. Joe Biden also triumphed over Donald Trump in Morris County.


1984 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Campaign
Mochary was forced to suspend her campaign in October due to her husband's life-threatening illness. She traveled with her husband to Stanford, California for an experimental heart transplant.


1984 United States Senate election in New Mexico
The 1984 United States Senate election in New Mexico took place on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Pete Domenici successfully ran for re-election to a third term, defeating Democrat Judith Pratt.


1984 United States Senate election in North Carolina
The North Carolina United States Senate election of 1984 was held on November 6, 1984 as part of the nationwide elections to the Senate, and coinciding with the 1984 presidential election. The election was fought between the Republican incumbent Jesse Helms and then-incumbent Democratic Governor Jim Hunt. Helms won the election, the most expensive non-presidential election in United States history up to that point, by a margin significantly reduced from the margin that Helms achieved in 1978.


1984 United States Senate election in North Carolina, Primaries, Democratic primary
Hunt easily defeated businessman Thomas Allred, a supporter of Lyndon Larouche, to win the Democratic nomination.


1984 United States Senate election in North Carolina, General election, Campaign
Hunt had a commanding lead in opinion polls for much of the campaign, with one poll in 1983 putting him nineteen points clear of Helms. However, that was changed by the most bitterly contested election in the country that year. Hunt ran a campaign ad connecting Helms to death squads in El Salvador through his association with the Nationalist Republican Alliance, for whom Roberto d'Aubuisson had recently run for the President of El Salvador. In the short time before election day, however, the highly popular incumbent US President Ronald Reagan gave Helms a significant boost by campaigning for him and running a local TV ad praising Helms and asking registered voters in North Carolina to re-elect him.


1984 United States Senate election in North Carolina, General election, Campaign
The election cost a total of $26,379,483 in total reported spending (over twelve times as much as the 1980 race), of which, 64% ($16.9m) was spent by Helms.


1984 United States Senate election in North Carolina, General election, Campaign
This election is remembered as "one of North Carolina's most infamous political battles" and "as a prototype of the no-holds-barred brawls that typify a strand of modern-day partisan politics, polarizing voters along distinct ideological lines."


1984 United States Senate election in North Carolina, General election, Results
A study by Voters Education Project in Atlanta showed that Helms received 63 percent of the white vote and was particularly successful in small towns and rural areas, while receiving less than 1 percent of the black vote in 35 almost-all-black precincts. Hunt got 37 percent of the white and 98.8 percent of the black vote, according to VEP. But only 61 percent of registered blacks voted, down from 63 percent in 1980."


1984 United States Senate election in Oklahoma
The 1984 United States Senate election in Oklahoma was held on November 6, 1984.


1984 United States Senate election in Oklahoma
Incumbent Senator David Boren was re-elected to a second term in office.


1984 United States Senate election in Oregon
The 1984 United States Senate election in Oregon took place on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield was re-elected to a fourth term in office, defeating Democratic State Senator Margie Hendriksen.


1984 United States Senate election in Rhode Island
The 1984 United States Senate election in Rhode Island took place on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell successfully sought re-election, defeating Republican Barbara M. Leonard.


1984 United States Senate election in South Carolina
The 1984 South Carolina United States Senate election was held on November 6, 1984 to select the U.S. Senator from the state of South Carolina. Popular incumbent Republican Senator Strom Thurmond cruised to re-election against Democratic challenger Melvin Purvis.


1984 United States Senate election in South Carolina, Democratic primary
The South Carolina Democratic Party held their primary on June 12, 1984. Melvin Purvis, a white minister and the son of famous FBI agent Melvin Purvis, won a close race against black photographer Cecil J. Williams. The closeness of the race and the fact that the black candidate did not win propelled Jesse Jackson to request a Justice Department investigation into the primary and he also considered an independent bid for the seat. Governor Richard Riley and 3rd district Representative Butler Derrick flirted with running, but backed down when Thurmond received endorsements from prominent Democrats in South Carolina.


1984 United States Senate election in South Carolina, Republican primary
The South Carolina Republican Party held their primary on June 12, 1984. Senator Strom Thurmond easily defeated Bob Cunningham to advance to the general election.


1984 United States Senate election in South Carolina, General election campaign
Thurmond received endorsements from former Democratic governor Robert Evander McNair, Charleston mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr., and an assortment of black mayors in the state. He did not face a serious challenge and spent almost $1.5 million on the race whereas Purvis spent less than $10,000. An ironic footnote to the election is the fact that Purvis used Thurmond's age as an issue in the campaign. He claimed Thurmond was too old, yet Purvis died less than two years after the election of a heart attack at age 46.


1984 United States Senate election in South Dakota
The 1984 United States Senate election in South Dakota was held on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican Senator Larry Pressler was easily re-elected to a second term.


1984 United States Senate election in Tennessee
The 1984 United States Senate election in Tennessee took place on November 6, 1984, as a part of the Senate class 2 election.


1984 United States Senate election in Tennessee, Situation
Popular three-term Republican incumbent Howard Baker, who had served as United States Senate Majority Leader since 1981 (Minority Leader from 1977 to 1981) decided not to seek re-election in order to concentrate on a planned bid for 1988 Republican presidential nomination (which did not happen, as he later accepted a White House Chief of Staff position under President Ronald Reagan). This made the seat open.


1984 United States Senate election in Tennessee, Democratic nomination
Democrats nominated Representative and future Vice President of the United States Al Gore, whose father, Albert Gore, Sr., had once held Tennessee's other Senate seat.


1984 United States Senate election in Tennessee, Republican primary
In primary, held on August 2, Ashe easily emerged as a winner:


1984 United States Senate election in Tennessee, General election
Although the Senate election coincided with the landslide re-election of President Reagan, who carried Tennessee by a wide margin, this time his victory did not have any coattails, as it did in 1980, and Democrats picked up three Republican seats. One of the Democratic gains was in Tennessee, where conservative Democrat Gore won in a landslide:


1984 United States Senate election in Texas
The 1984 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator John Tower decided to retire, instead of seeking a fifth term. Republican Phil Gramm won the open seat.


1984 United States Senate election in Texas, Democratic primary, Campaign
The primary was 45% Hispanic, but included many moderate to conservative voters. Hance positioned himself as the most moderate to conservative candidate, who co-sponsored President Ronald Reagan's tax package. Doggett was the more liberal candidate, attacking Reaganomics and getting endorsements from the Texas teachers' union and Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower. Doggett's campaign manager was James Carville. Krueger was seen as the front runner and was a moderate who supported the state's oil and gas industry, but had close ties with the Hispanic community because he was Spanish-speaking. Hance attacked both Krueger and Doggett for supporting amnesty for illegal aliens and supporting gay rights. The initial primary was extremely close between the top three candidates. Each candidate got 31% of the electorate. Hance ranked first, only 273 votes ahead of Doggett and 1,560 votes ahead of Krueger.


1984 United States Senate election in Texas, Democratic primary, Campaign
Since no candidate passed the 50% threshold, Hance and Doggett qualified for the run-off election. Hance fired his pollster despite ranking first. Krueger endorsed fellow U.S. Congressman Hance, saying "Ultimately, the quality of one's public service depends upon the character that one displays in filling an office." In the June election, Doggett very narrowly defeated Hance by just 1,345 votes.


1984 United States Senate election in Texas, Republican primary, Campaign
The primary was a highly competitive, multimillion-dollar contest. Gramm recently switched parties in 1983, but he was a conservative who supported Reaganomics. Gramm spent $4 million.


1984 United States Senate election in Virginia
The 1984 United States Senate election in Virginia took place on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator John W. Warner won re-election to a second term. He handily defeated Edythe Harrison, the "first woman in Virginia nominated by the Democratic Party for statewide office."


1984 United States Senate election in West Virginia
The 1984 United States Senate election in West Virginia was held on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Jennings Randolph chose to retire instead of seeking re-election to a fifth term, and was succeeded by West Virginia Governor Jay Rockefeller, who defeated Republican John Raese in one of the closer races of the year.


1984 United States Senate election in Wyoming
The 1984 United States Senate election in Wyoming took place on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Alan Simpson was re-elected to a second term in office, defeating Democrat Victor Ryan in a landslide.


1984 United States Senate elections
The 1984 United States Senate elections coincided with the landslide re-election of President Ronald Reagan in the presidential election. In spite of the lopsided presidential race, Reagan's Republican Party suffered a net loss of two Senate seats to the Democrats, although it retained control of the Senate and gained seats in the House.


1984 United States Senate elections, Race summary, Special elections
There were no special elections to the U.S. Senate in 1984.


1984 United States Senate elections, Race summary, Elections leading to the next Congress
In these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning January 3, 1985; ordered by state.


1984 United States Senate elections, Closest races
In sixteen races the margin of victory was under 10%.


1984 United States Senate elections, Alaska
Incumbent Republican Ted Stevens sought re-election to a third term. Owing to his popularity and the conservative bent of Alaska, Stevens did not face major opposition, and easily defeated former Alaska Attorney General John Havelock in the general election.


1984 United States Senate elections, Arkansas
Incumbent Democrat David Pryor won re-election to a second term over Republican U.S. Representative Ed Bethune.


1984 United States Senate elections, Colorado
Incumbent Republican William L. Armstrong won re-election to a second term over Democrat Lieutenant Governor of Colorado Nancy E. Dick.


1984 United States Senate elections, Delaware
Incumbent Democrat and future President of the United States Joe Biden won re-election to a third term, defeating Republican challenger John M. Burris, former Majority Leader of the Delaware House of Representatives.


1984 United States Senate elections, Georgia
Incumbent Democrat Sam Nunn won re-election to a third term over Republican educator, Mike Hicks


1984 United States Senate elections, Idaho
Incumbent Republican James A. McClure won re-election to a third term over Democratic Vietnam War veteran, Peter M. Busch.


1984 United States Senate elections, Illinois
Incumbent Republican Charles H. Percy ran for re-election to a fourth term in the United States Senate. Senator Percy was opposed by Democratic nominee Paul Simon, who was a United States Congressman from Illinois's 22nd congressional district. The campaign between Percy and Simon was brutal and toughly-fought, and ended up with Simon ousting Percy by fewer than 90,000 votes, which was, at the time, considered an upset.


1984 United States Senate elections, Illinois
The election was very close. Simon prevailed by only 89,126 votes, or 1.86%. Incumbent Percy did well all throughout the state, including the Chicago collar counties. However, Simon received huge numbers out of the heavily populated and Democratic Cook County, which encompasses most of the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Percy led early on and well into the night, but as Cook County began to count all of its votes, Simon pulled ahead. Simon won despite then-president Reagan winning the state easily. Percy called Simon at around 5 A.M. the next day and conceded. Percy also congratulated Simon on his hard-earned victory. Simon was sworn in on January 3, 1985, and served in the senate until January 3, 1997, when he retired. Simon was later succeeded by Dick Durbin, a close friend and fellow Democrat.


1984 United States Senate elections, Iowa
Incumbent Republican Roger Jepsen ran for re-election to a second term in the United States Senate. Jepsen was opposed by United States Congressman Tom Harkin, from Iowa's 5th congressional district, who won the Democratic primary uncontested. The general election was full of mudslinging and personal attacks, including the embellishment by both candidates of their military records; Harkin attacked Jepsen for failing to keep his promise to not sell AWACS aircraft to Saudi Arabia. Ultimately, Harkin defeated Jepsen by a wide margin, winning the first of five terms in the Senate.


1984 United States Senate elections, Kansas
Incumbent Republican Nancy Kassebaum won re-election to a second term over Democrat James R. Maher, a financial consultant.


1984 United States Senate elections, Kentucky
Incumbent Democrat Walter Huddleston ran for re-election to a third term, but lost by less than 0.5% to Jefferson County Executive Mitch McConnell.


1984 United States Senate elections, Louisiana
Incumbent Democratic J. Bennett Johnston won unopposed to a third term.