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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 December 2024. This article is about the year 1984. For the novel, see Nineteen Eighty-Four. For other uses, see 1984 (disambiguation). "MCMLXXXIV" redirects here. For the album, see MCMLXXXIV (album). 1984 January February March April May June July August September October November December Clockwise ...
November 6 – 1984 United States presidential election: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61% victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college ; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3,761 vote margin and the District of Columbia .
1 March – Labour MP Tony Benn is returned to parliament after winning the Chesterfield by-election, having lost his previous seat at the general election last year.; 2 March – Just five months after becoming Labour Party leader, Neil Kinnock's ambition of becoming Prime Minister at the next election (due to be held by June 1988) are given a boost when Labour come top of a MORI poll with 41 ...
Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime.
George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, whose wartime BBC career influenced his creation of Oceania. What is known of the society, politics and economics of Oceania, and its rivals, comes from the in-universe book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein, a literary device Orwell uses to connect the past and present of 1984. [1]
Since 1984, the number of Summer Olympic events for women has nearly tripled, to 151, while last summer’s Paris Games was the first to reach gender parity, with women accounting for half of the ...
However, unemployment fell to 7.7% by March 1984, [5] and Reagan's approval rating was at 54% in January 1984. His approval rating was aided by the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings and the invasion of Grenada. [7] Polling by CBS News and The New York Times in January 1984 showed him leading Mondale by 16%. [8]
"1984" is still considered a fictional piece of literature to many, but a lot of what appeared in the book is now a reality. Like Big Brother: In "1984", there are TV screens and computer monitors ...