Le 4 août 1984 était un samedi sous le signe astral du ♌. C'était le 216ème jour de l'année. Le président des États-Unis était Ronald Reagan.
Si vous êtes né ce jour-là, vous avez 41 ans. Ton dernier anniversaire était le lundi 4 août 2025, il y a 326 jours. Votre prochain anniversaire est le mardi 4 août 2026, dans 38 jours. Vous avez vécu 15 301 jours, soit environ 367 238 heures, ou environ 22 034 334 minutes, ou environ 1 322 060 040 secondes.
Date: 05 August 1984
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
Among the ''copycat'' poisonings that followed news of the seven deaths from cyanide-laced Tylenol in 1982 was the case of Susan Bowen, a 30-year-old mother in San Jose, Calif. Mrs. Bowen was treated for cyanide poisoning that, her husband charged, came from a tainted package of Anacin-3 capsules.
Date: 05 August 1984
Prospects faded again last week for talks with the Russians about space weapons. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko accused the Reagan Administration of ''looking for proposals that would be rejected.'' Said Robert C. McFarlane, the White House national security adviser: ''It appears that the Soviets were not serious about their proposal'' for a meeting Sept. 18 in Vienna.
Date: 05 August 1984
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
At its founding in 1922, the Burning Tree Club in Bethesda, Md., was declared an exclusive haven for golfers. United States Presidents, Supreme Court Justices, corporate figures all have been members.
Date: 05 August 1984
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
Worms are reputedly a $4 million- a-year industry in Maine, so when 60 worm diggers in Lincoln County went on strike in April for a penny rise in the 4 cents they were getting for each worm, dealers squirmed. But not for long.
Date: 05 August 1984
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
On Alcatraz Island in the 1940's, Cecil Wright was known as ''the Great Brain.'' While spending more than 15 years in prisons for stealing $2.43 in stamps from the Strasburg, Ill., post office, he taught himself law.
Date: 05 August 1984
On April 22, 1979, a headline in the Long Island Weekly read: ''Mentally Disabled: Issue in Kings Point.'' The same concerns voiced by the Crane Neck Association in your article of June 24, 1984 (''Hostel for Retarded Stirs Row''), i.e. ''safety, property values and a sense of well-being in the community,'' were expressed by some citizens in Kings Point both in that 1979 article and in a public meeting. Kings Point has much in common with Crane Neck. It is one of the most affluent communities in the country and has strict zoning codes.
Date: 05 August 1984
Though what happens in August is often forgotten by November, Walter F. Mondale last week once again put into jeopardy his effort to portray himself as a strong and decisive leader. Again, the damage came via Bert Lance, whom the former Vice President only a month ago made general chairman of his campaign. The appointment was intended to conciliate Southern party leaders fearful that without a Southerner on the ticket the Democrats would not do well in a region that once automatically went to them. But even there, Mr. Lance, the Carter Administration budget director who had left Washington to defend himself against bank fraud charges (of which he was subsequently acquitted), proved more a source of controversy than conciliation. The fact that the association, never a close working one, was near an end became clear when Mr. Lance was conspicuously absent from last week's kick-off campaign swing through the South. His resignation followed. The incident was not the only reminder of the Democrats' constituency difficulties. In response to rumblings of disaffection from blacks disappointed that they had left the Democratic National Convention last month without a clearly defined campaign role, Mr. Mondale named Representative Charles B. Rangel of Harlem as national co-chairman. Jesse Jackson, meanwhile, said that he would not run as an independent candidate for the Senate in South Carolina, as he had been considering doing, but would continue to press his fight to ''expand'' the Democratic Party through supporting black and ''progressive'' candidates.
Date: 05 August 1984
In one of the most complicated eviction proceedings in the annals of real estate, Britain agreed last week to terms for turning the keys to Hong Kong over to China when its 99-year lease on the 399- square-mile colony runs out in 1997. Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe said that, assuming the ironing out of a few details and ratification by Parliament, the agreement will ''provide for the preservation of all the rights and freedoms which the people of Hong Kong now enjoy'' until 2047.
Date: 04 August 1984
A cutoff of discount-priced oil to Central American and Caribbean countries ''that initiate warlike actions'' against their neighbors is a new policy instrument adopted by Mexico and Venezuela. A spokesman for Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Relations said the new condition would apply only to future actions. (Page 1, Column 2.) Saudi Arabia freed some Americans it had imprisoned on a variety of offenses, according to Saudi and American officials and a recently freed prisoner. A State Department official said 17 Americans, about half of the estimated 33 in Saudi prisons, had been released under a general amnesty and that additional releases were imminent. (1:4.)
Date: 05 August 1984
Mine-sweeper helicopters were ready for shipment to the of Gulf of Suez as Government officials weighed a decision on whether to send the craft to clear what are believed to be mines in the Gulf. There have been reports of damage to commercial shipping in the area by a recent series of mysterious explosions. (Page 1, Column 6.)