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Nineteen Eighty Four
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1984
Events
January
January 1
Brunei
becomes a fully independent state.
Bell System
in the United States is broken up.
January 3
– President of the United States
Ronald Reagan
meets with Navy Lieutenant
Robert Goodman
and the Reverend
Jesse Jackson
at the
White House
, following Lieutenant Goodman's release from Syrian captivity.
January 5
– President
Ronald Reagan
nominates
Elizabeth Dole
as U.S.
Secretary of Transportation
.
January 7
–
Brunei
becomes the sixth member of the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN).
January 10
The United States and the
Vatican
(
Holy See
) restore full diplomatic relations.
The
Victoria
Agreement is signed.
January 18
– The
Mitsui
Miike coal mine
explosion at
Omuta, Fukuoka
, Japan, kills 83.
January 22
– The release of the iconic
1984 (advertisement)
January 24
–
Apple Computer
places the
Macintosh
personal computer
on sale in the United States.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four
, often published as
1984
, is a
dystopian
novel by English author
George Orwell
published in 1949. The novel is
set
in
Airstrip One
(formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate
Oceania
in a world of
perpetual war
,
omnipresent government surveillance
and public manipulation, dictated by a political system
euphemistically
named
English Socialism
(or Ingsoc in the government's invented language,
Newspeak
) under the control of a privileged elite of the
Inner Party
, that persecutes
individualism
and independent thinking as "
thoughtcrime
".
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