1983 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1983?
- January 19, 1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
- January 27, 1983 – The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world’s longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
- February 13, 1983 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
- February 16, 1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
- February 22, 1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
- February 23, 1983 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
- March 2, 1983 – Compact Disc players and discs are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had only been available in Japan before then.
- March 16, 1983 – Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
- May 1, 1983 – Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.
- May 6, 1983 – The Hitler diaries are revealed as a hoax after examination by experts.
- May 26, 1983 – A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people and injures thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyed.
- June 18, 1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
- July 11, 1983 – A Boeing 737 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
- July 21, 1983 – The world’s lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at -89.2 °C.
- July 23, 1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
- September 23, 1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
- September 26, 1983 – Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
- October 22, 1983 – Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
- November 17, 1983 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
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