On Jan. 25, 1984, President Ronald Reagan delivered his third State of the Union at 9:00 p.m. EST. . The State of the Union tradition stems from the U.S. Constitution's requirement that the president “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” In the waning days of 1984, Thatcher and Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, agreeing to return Hong Kong (a British colony since 1842) to China, in 1997. The agreement set out a dual-system policy in which Hong Kong would become a special administrative region of China while maintaining a capitalist system.

Reuters —. George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” set in an imagined future where totalitarian rulers deprive their citizens of all agency in order to maintain support for senseless wars

Hardcover – April 4, 2017. With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition. “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker. Jilly Cooper's novel Riders has a storyline set at the show jumping event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. In the Seinfeld episode "The Gymnast", Jerry dates a woman who competed in the 1984 Olympics and won a silver medal for Romania. In American Horror Story: 1984, the characters watch it together on the TV in the girls cabin. . 440 176 424 27 362 116 204 386

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