Events
DateEvent
1983 Georges Auric Died
1983 Cathy Berberian Died
1983 Eubie Blake Died
1983 Sten Broman Died
1983 Werner Egk Died
August 24 1983 Arkady Filippenko Died
June 25 1983 Alberto Ginastera Died
1983 Edward Guglielmino Was Born
1983 Herbert Howells Died
1983 Jānis Ivanovs Died
1983 Elizabeth Lutyens Died
1983 Igor Markevitch Died
1983 Peter Mennin Died
1983 Jerome Moross Died
January 06 1983 Bernard Stevens Died
1983 Germaine Tailleferre Died
1983 Claude Vivier Died
1983 William Walton Died
January 01 1983 Internet Created When ARPANET Makes Change
March 27 1983 Arnold van Wyk Died
January 17 1983 Detroit: Hudson's Flagship Store Closes
January 18 1983 IOC Restores Thorpe's Olympic Medals
January 19 1983 Criminal Klaus Barbie Arrested In Bolivia
January 19 1983 Apple's Lisa Computer Announced
January 27 1983 Seikan, The World's Longest Sub-aqueous Tunnel
February 08 1983 Record Drought Creates Dust Storm In Melbourne
February 12 1983 Pakistan: Women Protest Against Law Of Evidence
February 13 1983 Italian Cinema Fire Kills 64
February 14 1983 United American Bank Collapses
February 16 1983 Ash Wednesday Claims 75 Lives
February 18 1983 Thirteen People Die In Massacre
February 22 1983 Moose Murders Opens, Closes Same Night
February 23 1983 The EPA Buys Times Beach, Missouri
February 24 1983 Congress Opposed Internment
February 28 1983 M.A.S.H Final Episode Holds Record For Most Viewers On An Episode
March 02 1983 CDs Enter The Global Market
March 04 1983 Bertha Appointed To Canada Supreme Court
March 06 1983 First USFL Game
March 08 1983 Reagan Calls Soviet Union ""evil Empire."
March 11 1983 A Nuclear Weapon Has Been Successfully Cold Tested By Pakistan
March 16 1983 Last Wooden Radio Tower In Germany Demolished
March 23 1983 Reagan Proposes Initiative To Intercept Enemy Missiles
April 04 1983 Challenger Begins First Shuttle Flight
April 07 1983 Musgrave And Peterson Perform Spacewalk During STS-6
April 18 1983 Suicide Bombing In Lebanon Kills 63 People
April 22 1983 Forged 'Hitler Diaries' Found In East Germany
April 25 1983 Pioneer 10 Travels Beyond Pluto's Orbit
April 25 1983 Samantha Smith: Visits USSR Andropov: Nuclear Fear
May 01 1983 Mikis Theodorakis Awarded Lenin Peace Prize
May 06 1983 Hitler Diaries Revealed As Hoax
May 16 1983 Sudan Movement Rebels Against Sudanese Government
May 17 1983 FOA Request Reveals Oak Ridge Mercury Contamination
May 17 1983 Agreement Is Signed On Israeli Withdrawal
May 18 1983 Ireland Cracks Down On Pirate Radio
May 20 1983 HIV Virus Journal By Luc Montagnier
May 20 1983 Car Bomber Sizwe 19 Dead Pretoria
May 26 1983 Earthquake Triggers Tsunami, Which Devastates Japan
June 02 1983 Canadian Airliner Accident Prompts Safety Regulations
June 13 1983 Pioneer 10 Passes Neptune, Leaves Solar System
June 18 1983 Ride Is The First American Woman In Space
June 18 1983 Ten Bahá'í Women Hanged In Shiraz
July 01 1983 Jet Crash In Guinea-Bissau Kills 23
July 07 1983 U.S. Schoolgirl Flies To USSR
July 15 1983 ASALA Launches Attack At Orly Airport
July 16 1983 Isles Of Scilly: Sikorsky Helicopter Crashes
July 19 1983 3D Reconstruction Of Head In CT Published
July 21 1983 Vostok Station Coldest Inhabited Place At -89.2C
July 22 1983 Martial Law In Poland Is Officially Revoked
July 23 1983 13 Soldiers Dead In Tamil Tiger Ambush
July 23 1983 Flight 143 Makes Emergency Landing
July 24 1983 Black July The Bloody Beginning Of The Sri Lankan Civil War
July 24 1983 George Brett's Home Run Is Nullified
July 25 1983 37 Killed In Walikada Prison Massacre
July 27 1983 Columbo Sees Second Day Of Massacres
August 18 1983 Hurricane Alicia Hits The Texas Coast
August 21 1983 Benigno Aquino, Jr Assassinated At Airport
September 01 1983 Congressman's Flight Shot Down Entering Soviet Airspace
September 06 1983 Soviet Union Admits Shooting Korean Flight
September 12 1983 Connecticut: Wells Fargo Depot Robbed
September 12 1983 USSR Vetoes UN Security Council In Jetliner Downing
September 15 1983 Israeli Premier Menachem Begin Resigns
September 17 1983 Vanessa Williams First Black Miss America
September 19 1983 Saint Kitts And Nevis Gains Independence
September 23 1983 Saint Kitts And Nevis Join UN
September 23 1983 First African Boxer Named World Heavyweight Champion
September 23 1983 Gulf Air Flight 771 Bombed, All Killed
September 25 1983 38 Escape In Biggest British Prison Bust
September 26 1983 Petrov Identifies Incoming Nuclear Missile As False Alarm
September 27 1983 Richard Stallman: Free Operating System Project Announced
October 04 1983 Nobel Sets Land Speed Record Of 633,468
October 09 1983 Rangoon: Assassination Attempt On S. Korean Pres. Doo-hwan
October 12 1983 Japan's Former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei
October 13 1983 AMC Launches First Cellular Network In Chicago
October 14 1983 Cord Overthrows And Executes Bishop
October 21 1983 Metre Defined At 17th General Conference
October 22 1983 Two Prison Guards Killed By Inmates
October 23 1983 299 Soldiers Dead In Beirut Bombings
October 25 1983 Operation Urgent Fury:United States And Allies Invade Granada
October 30 1983 First Democratic Elections In Argentina
November 02 1983 Reagan Signs Bill Creating MLK Jr. Day
November 05 1983 Byford Dolphon Accident Kills 5
November 07 1983 Bomb Explodes Inside The US Capitol
November 10 1983 Bill Gates Introduces Windows 1.0
November 15 1983 Turkish Republic Of Northern Cyprus Founded
November 17 1983 Zapatista Army Founded In Mexico
November 21 1983 US Military Campaign In Granada Ends
November 26 1983 £26 Million Gold Stolen Brink's-MAT Vault
November 27 1983 Plane Crashes, Kills 181
December 05 1983 Dissolution Of Military Junta In Argentina
December 07 1983 Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 Collides With Aviaco
December 10 1983 Inauguration Of Argentinian President Alfonsin Restores Democracy
December 12 1983 Australian Labor Government Floats Australian Dollar
December 14 1983 Communist Youth Begins Congress In Greece
December 17 1983 Six Dead In Provisional IRA London Bombing
December 19 1983 Jules Rimet Trophy Stolen From Brazilian Football Headquarters
December 27 1983 Pope Forgives St. Peter Square Bomber
December 31 1983 ATT Bell System Broken U. S
December 31 1983 Buhari Ends Nigerian Republic With Coup