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1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.

Years:
1980 1981 1982 - 1983(MCMLXXXIII) - 1984 1985 1986

Decades:
1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s

Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1983 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and technology
Aviation - Rail transport - Radio - Science
Other topics
Australia - Canada - Ireland - South Africa - Sport
Births - Deaths

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Events

January

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 10 - Mafia hitman Roy DeMeo is found dead in a trunk of his own car
January 15 - Mafioso Meyer Lansky dies at Mount Sinai hospital
January 19 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal, is arrested in Bolivia.
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.
January 31 - Seatbelt use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.

February

February 2 - Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial for multiple counts of bigamy - 105 women
February 3 - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament for a double dissolution election for the March 5. Bob Hawke replaces Bill Hayden as federal ALP leader
February 6 - Klaus Barbie is charged with war crimes
February 7 - Iran opens an invasion in the southeast of Iraq.
February 13 - US President Ronald Reagan proclaims 1983 "The Year of the Bible".
February 16 - The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 76 people in Australia's worst ever fires.
February 19 - Benjamin Ng and Willie Mak kill 13 in an attempted robbery in Seattle, Washington
February 23 - The Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxinontaminated 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 25 - US playwright Tennessee Williams found dead in his hotel room

March

March 1
- Balearic Islands and Madrid become autonomous communities of Spain
- Swatch introduce their first timepieces
March 5 - Madame Chiang Kai-shek's birthday

Bob Hawke Elected Australian Prime Minister

March 8 - IBM releases the IBM PC XT
March 8 - President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire."
March 11 - Hawke Ministry sworn in, Andrew Peacock becomes Federal Opposition leader
March 16 - Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last radio tower in Germany built of wood.
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."

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 15 - The first non-American Disney theme park opens in Japan as Tokyo Disneyland
April 18 - The U.S Embassy is bombed in Beirut, killing 63 people.
April 22 - Soviet embassy official Valery Ivanov is expelled from Australia for allegedly trying to recruit spies in the Australian government.
April 23 - Stern magazine in West Germany announces it has Hitler diaries
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 9 - Pope John Paul II retracts the ban of Galileo Galilei
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 allegations 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.
9 June: Conservative Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 1979, won a landslide victory (42% of the popular vote) over Michael Foot, who led a highly-divided and weakened Labour Party which earned only 28% of the vote. The much improved economy (after 2-3 years of restructuring), her victory in the Falkands, as well as shrinking unemployment rates consolidated her election victory.
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.

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 16 - Sikorsky S-61 disaster: helicopter crash off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
July 20 - Government of Poland announces end of the martial law and amnesty for political prisoners.
July 22 - Australian Dick Smith completes his solo circumnavigation in a helicopter
July 23 - Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 crash-lands in Gimli, Manitoba.
July 25 - Metallica released their debut album Kill 'Em All.
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 became 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 18 - 5 people are killed and 18 others injured when a road train is deliberatly driven into a motel at Ayers Rock (Uluru) NT (The driver, Douglas Edward Crabbe, was found guilty of this in March 1984)
August 21 - In the Philippines, opposition politician Benigno Aquino is assassinated just as he returns from exile
August 24 - Old Philadelphia Arena is destroyed by arson
August 21 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippines opposition leader, assassinated in Manila

September

September 1 - Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter when the commercial aircraft entered Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die.
September 4 - Six men walk underwater across the Sydney Harbor - 82.9 km in 48 hours
September 5 - The half-hour Robert MacNeil Report changes its name to the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, becoming the first hour-long network news show.
September 5 - Tom Brokaw becomes lead anchor for NBC Nightly News
September 6 - The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace
September 10 - Jon B. Minnoch, heaviest man in USA, dies weighing 362 kg. When he was admitted to hospital in March 1978, his weight was 635 kg
September 16 - Donna Griffiths of Pershore, England, stops sneezing after continuous series of sneezes for 978 days, since January 13, 1981
September 23 - Violence erupts in New Caledonia between native Kanaks and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of independence
September 23 - Mass outbreak in Maze prison - 38 prisoners hijack a lorry and crash out of the gate - one guard dead and 5 others injured. 19 of the prisoners are later apprehended.
September 23 - Barbara Turnbull, an 18 year old Canadian girl, was shot in the neck and became paralyzed for life during a store robbery in Mississauga, Canada.
September 25a href="September_26.html" title="September 26">26 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
September 27 - The GNU project was announced publicly on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups.

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 22 - In Bonn, West Germany people demonstrate for nuclear disarmament
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 rapes 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 the 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, President Ronald 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 5 - The worst offshore diving accident ever to take place, happened on board the Byford Dolphin rig in the North Sea of the coast of Norway. Five divers where killed and one severely wounded in an explosive decompression accident.
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 24 - 15-year-old Lynda Mann is found raped and strangled in the village of Narborough, England (Colin Pitchfork is sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988)
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 ASIO agents bungle a training exercise on the Melbourne Sheraton
Microsoft Word is first released.

December

December 9 - The Australian Dollar is floated, By Federal treasurer Paul Keating. Under the old flexible peg system, the Reserve Bank bought and sold all Australian dollars and cleared the market at the end of the day. This initiative was taken by the government of Bob Hawke.
December 13 - The Denver Nuggets and the visiting Detroit Pistons combined for an NBA record 370 points, with Detroit winning in triple overtime, 186-184.
December 17 - A fire at a discotheque in Madrid, Spain, kills 83 people.
December 17 - An IRA car bomb kills six Christmas shoppers and injures 90 outside Harrods in London.
December 31 - Brunei gains independence from United Kingdom.
December 31 - Two bombs explode in Marseille. One on the Paris train kills 3 and injures 19. Other at Marseille station kills 2 and injures 34.

Unknown dates

Democratic reform in power in Argentina.
Roxanne Pulitzer divorces Herbert Pulitzer
Gerard Debreu wins the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Leopold Kohr, the people of Belau, Amory and Hunter Lovins / Rocky Mountain Institute and Manfred Max-Neef / CEPAUR win the Right Livelihood Award
McDonald's introduces the McNugget
In Australia, the Northern Territory decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults
The immunosuppressant cyclosporine was approved by FDA, leading to a revolution in the field of transplantation.

Births

January-March

January 2 - Kate Bosworth, American actress
January 18 - Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
January 19 - Utada Hikaru, American singer
February 7 - Elin Grindemyr, Swedish model
February 8 - Jim Verraros, American singer
February 9 - Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer
February 23 - Mido, Egyptian footballer
March 10 - Carrie Underwood, American singer
March 14 - Taylor Hanson, American musician
March 21 - Bruno Langley, British actor

April-June

April 13 - Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
April 15 - Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian hockey player
April 17 - Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
April 22 - Matt Jones, American football player
April 22 - Sean Muir, American playwright
April 23 - Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakian tennis player
May 11 - Matt Leinart, American football player
May 11 - Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer
May 14 - Amber Tamblyn, American actress
May 27 - Bobby Convey, American soccer player
May 30 - Jennifer Ellison, British actress
June 4 - Ivan, Italian writer
June 6 - Joe Rokocoko, New Zealand rugby player
June 8 - Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
June 30 - Cheryl Tweedy, British singer

July-September

July 2 - Michelle Branch, American singer
July 11 - Marie Eleonor Sernehlot, Swedish musician (A-Teens)
July 13 - Liu Xiang, Chinese athlete
July 21 - Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer and composer
July 21 - Kellen Winslow Jr., American football player
July 22 - Shelby Belle, Canadian actress
July 23 - Rebecca Cartwright, Australian actress
July 23 - Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
August 6 - Robin van Persie, Dutch football player
August 14 - Mila Kunis, Ukrainian actress
August 19 - Tammin Sursok, Australian actress
August 24 - Christopher Parker, British actor
September 17 - Jennifer Peña, American singer
September 21 - Maggie Grace, American actress

October-December

October 2 - Efren Ramirez, American actor
October 5 - Nicky Hilton, American model and socialite
October 24 - Brian Vickers, American race car driver
October 30 - Diana Karazon, Jordanian singer
November 16 - Fallon Bowman, South African-born guitarist (Kittie)
November 18 - Jon Johansen, Norwegian computer programmer
December 6 - Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
December 12 - Katrina Elam, American singer
December 13 - Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer
December 15 - René Duprée, Canadian professional wrestler
December 20 - Lucy Pinder, British model

Deaths

January-March

January 11 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)
January 15 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born gangster (b. 1902)
January 23 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
January 24 - George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)
January 28 - Frank Forde, fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
February 4 - Karen Carpenter, American singer (b. 1950)
February 12 - Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (b. 1887)
February 14 - Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
February 22 - Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
February 25 - Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)
March 3 - Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907)
March 3 - Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b. 1905)
March 8 - William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
March 15 - Rebecca West, English-born writer (b. 1892)

April-June

April 4 - Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1897)
April 22 - Earl 'Fatha' Hines, American musician (b. 1903)
May 8 - Frank Aiken, Irish Foreign Minister (b. 1898)
May 14 - Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
May 19 - Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
May 21 - Kenneth Clark, British art historian (b. 1903)
June 2 - Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
June 12 - Norma Shearer, Canadian-born actress
June 18 - Marianne Brandt, German industrial designer (b. 1893)
June 25 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)

July-September

July 1 - Buckminster Fuller, American architect (b. 1895)
July 4 - John Bodkin Adams, alleged English murderer (b. 1899)
July 7 - Vicki Morgan, American model (murdered) (b. 1952)
July 23 - Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
July 29 - Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
July 29 - David Niven, English actor (b. 1910)
August 16 - Earl Averill, baseball player (b. 1902)
August 21 - Benigno Aquino Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1932)
September 1 - Larry McDonald, U.S. Congressman (plane crash) (b. 1935)
September 10 - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
September 25 - King Léopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
September 26 - Tino Rossi, Corsican singer (b. 1907)

October-December

October 6 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1921)
October 8 - Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
October 18 - Willie Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
October 28 - Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (b. 1892)
November 7 - Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
November 15 - John Le Mesurier, British actor (b. 1912)
December 2 - Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (b. 1904)
December 6 - Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
December 11 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (b. 1897)
December 25 - Joan Miró, Catalan painter (b. 1893)

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler
Chemistry - Henry Taube
Medicine - Barbara McClintock
Literature - William Golding
Peace - Lech Wałęsa
Economics - Gerard Debreu

Templeton Prize

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Deaths

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October-December

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