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June 8, 1949,George Orwell's tower,1984, hit the shelves. The literary rebellion against Big Brother ranks among the most influential works of science fiction of all time. It has been adapted in plays, ballets, operas, television shows and movies (one of which isacclaimed by criticism) He also made an indelible mark on ourlexicon, Ushering in such words and phrases like "Orwellien", "CityCryime", "Newspeak" and "Hole of Memory".

More recently,1984 has experienced a little resurgence, appearing at the top of the Amazon sales tables twice in recent years: once in 2013, after the news of aSurveillance scandal of the NSA broken, and again in 2017, when the sentence "alternative facts"was pronounced for the first time on national television. At the time of the latter, estimatedNew York Times Book criticismMichiko Kakutani called Orwell's fictitious dystopia "just as familiar".

Clearly, it took a little longer for the predictions of Orwell on the future to become reality (or close enough). But 1984 was still a year of banner in history. Of course, this may have been less Dystopian than Orwell's initial vision - but that does not mean that it was less exciting. And these historical events that really happened in 1984 are proof.

There are few more quintessesentification "1984" than the iconic advertising of Apple Computer. Inspired by Orwell's1984The Super Bowl AD changed the advertising face overnight. Not only the production value was across the roof-the dysstooth point was directed byRidley Scott, costsBlade runner-C''s too,$ 900,000 ($ 2.2 million, adjusted for inflation), one of the most expensive advertisements of all time. He created an entirely an entire industry in the industry:Super Bowl commands. Oh, and it also introduced the world to Macintosh.

Richard Branson had already won a lot of cultural cache with the success of Virgin's archives - signing everyone from sex pistols toPeter Gabriel ToPaula Abdul. But in 1984, he raised his profile much higher with theVIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS TRAINING. Its girl's flight from Gatwick airport to London to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, would start a successful race that has made it a significant competitor from the airline market for just over 30 years. (Alaska Airlines bought it in 2016.)

Prince possessed theSummer from 1984thanks to the exit of the movie and from the albumPurple rain, Which formally introduced the world to its support group, the revolution. Themusic was more complex than Prince so far, and the film was a commercial success. But single lead, "when doves cry," probably has the most durable impact;Rolling stone possibly would place it among the top 100 on its list of500 best songs of all time.

With the Cold Rage War, the Olympic Games have become a high-level opportunity for rival countries to put pressure on the other. In 1980, the United States led a boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games. Thus, in 1984, when the event moved to Los Angeles, the Soviet Union returned the favor.

Fourteen countries in the Eastern Bloc and Allies (including Cuba, Poland and East Germany) refused to compete in the 1984 Summer Olympics. In adeclaration About the decision, the USSR cited the marketing of the event, security concerns and "Chauvinist and anti-Soviet hysteria being searched in the United States".

Thanks to the lack of competition from so many important nations, the United States has marked an 83 record Olympic gold medals.

In May 1984, another major sport record was broken: the Brewers of Chicago White Sox and Milwaukee played the longest match in the history of the Great Baseball League. Sustainableeight hours and six minutes More than 25 sleeves, the game had to be spread over two days until the brewersfinally a 7-6 victory, thanks to a house at homeHarold baines.

During the 1984 election,a woman Courged on a major political partypresidential Ticket for the first time in history. CongressmanGeraldine Ferraro joined the old DemocratWalter world As he climbed against the Republican ownerRonald Reagan. Mondrale was behind most of the campaign and hoped that the choice of Ferraro for the vice-president candidate would stimulate not only the enthusiasm of women for his candidacy, but peeling the voters of Reagan.

Unfortunately for the democratic ticket, the addition of Ferraro was not enough to transform the tide during the election. Mondale would not just beat by Reagan in November 1984, it would be absolutely crushed.Reagan won 58.8% of the popular vote and 49 out of 50 states (anything but the original state of Minnesota). He tied him a 525 record electoral votes, which remains the most won in a presidential election. The month after the election, when asked what he wanted for Christmas,Reagan, "Well, the Minnesota would have been nice."

In the 1980s, many on the AIDS virus, which kills thousands of people, remained a terrifying and tragic mystery. It finally started changing in 1984 when the Ministry of the Department of Health and Human ServicesMargaret Heckler announcement that the National Cancer InstituteDr. Robert Gallo And his colleagues found the cause of AIDS: a retrovirus they labeled HTLV-III, which would eventually be replenished HIV (standing for the human immunodeficiency virus).

The fast food company Wendy launched its television ad entitled "Fluffy bun"In 1984, but it soon won another nickname. The ad introduced three older women receiving a hamburger with a huge bun and a small meat, to which the actressClara Peller request: "Where is the beef?" The director had asked Peller to say "where is all beef?" But because of his emphysema, she shortened it, according toAge. And thank you that she did: the advertisements won tons of attention and the sentence entered the popular culture, even inspiring a (non-hit)song.

His legacy is complicated, to put it lightly, but no one was more famous in 1984 thanMichael Jackson. Who did on January 27th a major moment ofpop cultureAs the reports have emerged that while turning the sixth shot of a pyrotechnic shot for a Pepsi advertising, sparks have landed on Jackson's heavily gelled hair and define it to the aflamme. The incident would have left severe burns on his scalp, face and body.

AlthoughJackson and Pepsi kept calm thingsThe tragedy has attracted extra attention after the death of the Star Pop Star - the episode may have started its regular use and its dependence on analgesics.

For a certain subset of players, it might seem likeTetris has always been there. But it was published for the first time as at June 6, 1984, almost 35 years ago. The block-designed block building puzzleAlexey Leonidovich Pajitnov, aartificial intelligence researcher - was one ofOldest video games.Tetris It was first available on Commodore 64 and IBM PC, but quickly appeared on, well, almost all the consoles you can think.

And that shows no signs of slowing down: in 2019,Tetris 99-A competitive online version of the game, played against 99 other people - launched on the Nintendo switch.

Today we take this direct answeradvertising This highlights a toll-free number and a pitchman-selling everything from the cleaning fluid to fast-rapid plans - for granted. But this form of advertising could only exist only 1984, when theCommission on Federal Communications Eliminated a regulation that program length advertisements prohibited. Television at 3:00, would never be the same.

The crack, a cheaper and smoke cocaine form, first introduced in Los Angeles in 1984 and quickly expanded to the major cities of the United States; The word "crack" appeared for the first time inThe New York Times On November 17, 1985. and a few years a few years ago, it would be a full wife epidemic.

In February 1984,Fastening hit the theaters, telling the story of a city child (played byKevin Bacon) That goes into a very conservative city where rock music and dance are prohibited. Themovie was a shot, but his original band was probably larger, more precisely the title track by '8 Soundtrack MasterKenny Loggins, Who knockedNumber 1 on theBillboard Hot board.

In May 1984, he opens upSixteen candlesthe debut of the director ofJohn Hughes, launched a movie chain defining the era of filmmakers. WithThe breakfast club,Pretty in pink, andFERRIS BUELLER DAY OFFIn addition, Hughes would present the world not only to Brat package (Molly Ringwald,Judd Nelson,Allier Surédie,Emilio Estevez,Anthony Michael Hall, andAndrew McCarthy), but also to a vision of high school as a privileged but dangerous playground. And who could forget thefashion choice And super sound bands, to start?

Danger!had launched a kick around the TV network since 1964, but theAlex Trebek The iteration proved the most popular and sustainable ... by far. It was in 1984 that Trebek first moved behind the podium, starting a record race as a game host, that it continues to expand to this day-More than 8,000 episodes And counting!

Although it was a year earlier that the world saw the first time that Jackson's Moonwalk dance on television, 1984 had its own important interstellar promenade. During an eight-day mission on theChallenger In February 1984, theastronauts on board attempted the first "free spatial walk of any lifeline and propelled in the dark vacuum by tiny jets", asThe New York Times reported, becoming "in force, the first human satellites".

Speaking ofspare Travel, 1984 was also the year that saw one-third of NASA shuttles,Discovery, launch. Take off from the Kennedy Space Center to Orlando, Florida,Discoverywould become the longest orbiter serving, possiblyFly 39 times between 1984 and 2011.

Colonel of the American Air Force at RetirementJoseph Kitter Inhibited in his fighting plane for a hot air balloon and, in September 1984, he was the first person to cross the solo of the Atlantic Ocean in the unique mode of transport. He got up from Caribou, Maine (northeast-most US) on boardPeace Ball of Rosie O'Grady.Eighty-six hours and nearly 3,600 miles later, he turned to Montenotte, Italy, solidifying his place into history books.

An idiotmovie About a Ghoul hunter rag-label team probably did not seem similarBOX-OFFICE GOLD beforeghost huntershit the theaters. But theIvan Reitman- The fantasized comedy has become a moment Smash, with his Proton packs, spirits of ectoplasm-valet and a man of skyscrapers. The film, which opened in June 1984, would be grossMore than half a billion dollars and showed howa good comedy could be.

Whileghost hunters turned its main actors (Bill MurrayandDan Aykroyd) In the superstars, it was anotherSaturday Night Live Alum who struck even bigger in 1984.Eddie Murphy was already a household name-thank you to the success of movies like48 hours.andStock markets-But his turn like Axel Foley inBEVERLY HILLS COPHis first role of solo lead draws in the stratosphere. The film became theHaut-Pilot of the Year And Murphy became a legend.

If you think the news is crazy today, imagine that you like to open the newspaper in 1984 to read that several preschool teachers were engaged in abuse of the satanic ritual child, which would have understood everything to fly in the tunes to pierce holes in children. These were among the accusations that were presented at the trial of several teachers at McMartin's kindergarten in Manhattan Beach, California and their associates. No conviction was made, and all the accusations were finally abandoned - but only after a six-year trial and many other sensational allegations in the same way were exposed to the whole.Satanic panic"As much more than the unclear collective hysteria in reality.

March 1984 saw the fijerous tensions between the United Kingdom National Miners National Union and the British National Coal Board (under the direction of the British Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher) to boil. The Commission's plan to close 20 mines and eliminating some 20,000 jobs has resulted in a strike of more than 150,000 minors, causing England's mining industry. The strike, which lasted until March 1985, became one of the longest and a long-term commercial disputes and amoment of definition in British industrial relations.

In the 1984 sliding days, Thatcher and Chinese firstZhao Ziyang signed theSino-British joint statementIn order to return Hong Kong (a British colony since 1842) in China, in 1997. The Agreement establishes a dual system policy in which Hong Kong would become a special administrative region of China while maintaining a capitalist system. The parties concerned blocked by the agreement and at midnight on 1 July 1997, Hong Kong became part of China.

MTV held its first video music prices on September 14, 1984 at Radio City Music Hall. He presentedMadonna Iconic "like a virgin" performance, in which she emerged from a 17-foot wedding cake. And the price for the video of the year went on the cars' "You might think" - who "Thriller" from Jackson for the victory of Jackson.

Miss America lost much of his cultural cache in recent years, but thebeauty competition Used to be a huge deal. And one of his greatest moments came in July 1984 when Miss America winVanessa Williams-The first african american winner in the history of the Pageant - has been stripped of his crown when naked pictures she had laid before were published inPenthouse.She had never allowed the photos and the CEO of Miss America Organization has sinceexcused for the decisionBut Williams would have the last laugh: the wave of advertising around the scandal only raised his celebrity and helped throw it in a successful career of actor and singing.

A series of kidnappings, rapes and grape murders across the United States over a six-week period in early 1984 shocked the nation. AustralianChristopher Wilder Ducted from a state to the state, damping young women to his car with promises of work modeling before attacking and, in at least eight cases, killing his victims. He won the name "Beauty Queen Killer"Due to the attractiveness of his victims and his authorities who finally caught him with him at a New Hampshire gas station, where he exchanged bullets with state soldiers and was killed in the confrontation.

July 15, 1984, 41 years oldJames Huberty I entered a McDonald restaurant in San Ysidro, California and opened fire on customers. He killed 21 people and injured 19 before being killed by the police. It was theMost murderer with mass ever committed In the United States at the time. (Currently, it's the seventh.)

March 16, 1984,William Francis BuckleyThe head of the CIA station at the United States Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped outside of his residence. His Kidnappers Jihadites offered to use it as a bargaining device in an exchange of prisoners, but it was rather transported to Iran where it would have beendrugged and tortured For more than a year, before dying of his wounds. Its vestiges were returned to the United States in 1991.

On an express train on Manhattan, four young African Americans approached native queensBernhard Goetz, who took out a handy weapon and slaughtered them, injuring the four. He stated that he tried to steal him; They said they had just been Panhanmir and ask for a change.

Thisgenerated a national debate on race and crime. Some saw Goetz as hero; Some have believed the version of the events of four men; And still others believed that men had indeed attempted to steal a flight, but felt like goetz excessively. No matter how you felt there, there was no exhaust of the incident, which remained on the first page of the New York City papers for months.

Indira gandhi-The second minister of the Prime Minister of India and the daughter of the Prime Minister of the country, the ups and dasses of the first minute of the country since increasing the role in 1966. First, she marked a major victory over Pakistan In 1971. She was ousted in 1977. But in 1980 she dates back to popularity and became prime minister again. Nevertheless, she struggled to browse the intense divisions of the country, who went to the head when ordering a raid of the army on a Sikh temple as a strike against the Sikh extremists. A pair of his bodyguards, at once Sikh, put their religion first and, on October 31,Gandhi murdered.

Surprised by images of famine in Ethiopia he saw on bbc, musicianBob Geldof and friend / companion of musician and producerMidge URE decided in early November 1984 that they had written, produce and freeAn advantage songIn time for Christmas - and recruit a few dozen their famous musicians from the will to contribute to the voice. They managed to remove it, get singers and musicians likePhil Collins,Bono,George boy, andGeorge Michael, to name a few, record the eye-catching "Do they know it's Christmas?" The song was a massive success, selling one million copies its first week and from 3 million here at the end of 1984. It remains a fixation of pop radio during the holidays (helped without small room per periodicRefrays / Updates versions)

The world of music lost a giant on April 1, 1984, whenMarvin Gaye Intervened in a fight Between his parents, anger of his father, who shot him on a virgin beach. He died a few minutes later, just one day after his 45th birthday. And for another look at the decade that was, check the30 facts that will overwhelm you with the nostalgia of the 1980s.

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