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1983

1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

  • January 1 - Beat Raaflaub became Basel Boys Choir's new conductor
  • January 1 - the ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
  • January 1 - compulsory wearing of seat belts becomes law in the UK.
  • January 2 - The musical Annie is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows (Uris Theatre on Broadway, New York City).
  • January 8 - Riot in the Sing Sing prison
  • January 19 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal, is arrested in Bolivia.
  • January 19 - The Apple Lisa personal computer is announced.
  • January 22 - Björn Borg retires from tennis after winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.
  • January 24 - 25 members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Aldo Moro
  • January 26 - Lotus 1-2-3 is released.

    February

  • February 3 - Australian P.M Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament for a double dissolution election for the March 5, on that day Bob Hawke replaces Bill Hayden as federal ALP leader
  • February 7 - Iran opens an invasion in the southeast of Iraq.
  • February 16 - The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 71 people in Australia's worst ever fires.
  • February 23 - The Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
  • February 24 - A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report critical of the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
  • February 28 - Over 100 million television viewers tune in to watch the final episode of M*A*S*H on CBS making it the most watched television show in history at the time.

    March

  • March 1 - Balearic Islands and Madrid become autonomous communities of Spain
  • March 1 - Swatch introduce their first timepieces
  • March 1 - Duran Duran's album Rio goes gold
  • March 5 - Bob Hawke Elected Australian P.M
  • March 8 - IBM releases the IBM PC XT
  • March 8 - President Ronald Wilson Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire."
  • March 11 - Hawke Ministry sworn in, Andrew Peacock becomes Federal Opposition leader
  • March 23 - Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. The media dub this plan "Star Wars."
  • March 25 - Pop singer Michael Jackson performs his Moonwalk dance maneuver for the first time during his performance of Billie Jean on the Motown 25 TV special, which would air nationally on NBC on May 16.

    April

  • April 7 - During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk (duration: 4 hours, 10 minutes).
  • April 11 National Economic Summit held In Canberra
  • April 15 - American Public Radio founded; changes its name to the current Public Radio International in 1994
  • April 18 - The U.S Embassy is bombed in Beirut, killing 63 people.
  • April 22 - Soviet 1st Embassy official Valery Ivanov Expelled For alleged Spying (Aus)
  • April 25 - Maine schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

    May

  • May 6 - Stern magazine publishes "Hitler Diaries" (later found to be forgeries).
  • May 16 - London police begin the use of wheel clamps on illegally-parked vehicles.
  • May 16 NSW Premier Neville Wran steps down in response to alligations rasied by ABC program Four Corners That he Attempted to influence the NSW Majestry
  • May 17 - Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

    June

  • Shipbreaking begins on the beach at Alang in Gujarat.
  • June 13 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system.
  • June 18 - Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
  • June 27 - The Internet Domain Name System was invented by Paul Mockapetris.
  • June 27 - The conception of the MSX Home Computer System.

    July

  • July 1 - A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashed into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
  • july 1 High Court Blocks construction of the Franklin Dam In Tasmania
  • July 7 - Samantha Smith flies to the Soviet Union.
  • July 20 - Government of Poland announces end of the martial law and amnesty for political prisoners.
  • July 23 - Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 crash-lands in Gimli, Manitoba.
  • July 28 New South Wales premier Neville Wran exonerated by Street Royal Commision over claims raised by ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) program Four Corners which claimed,he attempted to influence the NSW majestry

    August

  • August 4 - Thomas Sankara become President in Upper Volta.
  • August 18 - Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
  • August 20 - Lucifer Christ is born.
  • August 24 - Old Philadelphia Arena is destroyed by arson fire
  • August 21 - Benigno Aquino, Jr, Philippines opposition leader, assassinated in Manila.

    September

  • September 1 - Cold War: Korean Air Flight KAL-007 is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter when the commercial aircraft entered Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die.
  • September 6 - The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace
  • September 23 - Mass outbreak in Maze prison - 38 prisoners hijack a lorry and crash out of the gate - one guard dead, 5 injured. 19 of the prisoners are later apprehended.
  • September 23 - Barbara Turnbull, a Canadian 18 year old girl, was shot in the neck and became paralyzed for life during a store robbery in Mississauga, Canada.
  • September 25 - September 26 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
  • Septembetr 26 - Australia wins the America's Cup ending the New York Yacht club's 132 year domination of the race

    October

  • October 2 - Neil Kinnock is elected leader of the British Labour Party.
  • October 4 - Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph, driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
  • October 7 - Plan to abolish Greater London Council announced.
  • October 12 - Japan's ex Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
  • October 19 - Maurice Bishop, the President of Grenada, and 40 others are shot in a military coup
  • October 23 - A suicide truck-bombing destroys the United States Marine Corps barracks at Beirut International Airport, killing 241 US servicemen.
  • October 24 - Arthur Hutchinson kills three members of Laitner family and rape their daughter in the Sheffield suburb of Dore.
  • October 25 - United States invades Grenada.
  • October 27 - Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Agca in prison to forgive him. Ali Agca is a Turkish gunman, who attempted to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981
  • October 30 - The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.

    November

  • November 2 - Martin Luther King Day: At the White House Rose Garden, United States President Ronald Wilson Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January to honor American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
  • November 13 - The first US cruise missiles arrive at Greenham Common airbase in England amid protests from peace campaigners.
  • November 15 - The Turkish part of Cyprus declares independence.
  • November 16 - A jury in Gretna, Louisiana acquits Ginny Foat of the murder of Argentine businessman Moses Chaiyo.
  • November 17 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation founded.
  • November 26 - Brinks Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly UK£26 million are taken from the Brinks Mat vault at Heathrow Airport. Only a fraction of the gold was ever recovered, and only two men were convicted of the crime.
  • [November 30] ASIS (Australian Secret Intelligence Service) agents Bungle A traning exercise on the Melbourne Sheraton

    December


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