1983 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1983?
- February 13, 1983 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 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 4, 1983 – Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
- March 6, 1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
- March 11, 1983 – Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
- March 16, 1983 – Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
- April 7, 1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
- April 22, 1983 – The German magazine Der Stern claims that the “Hitler Diaries” had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
- July 15, 1983 – A terrorist attack is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA at the Paris-Orly Airport in Paris; it leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured.
- August 18, 1983 – Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 people and causing over USD $1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
- September 26, 1983 – Australia II wins the America’s Cup, ending the longest winning streak in sporting history.
- September 27, 1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
- October 9, 1983 – Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast.
- October 12, 1983 – Japan’s former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail.
- October 23, 1983 – Lebanon Civil War: The U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
- October 30, 1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
- November 2, 1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
- November 27, 1983 – Avianca Flight 011, a Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid’s Barajas Airport, killing 181.
- December 5, 1983 – Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
- December 17, 1983 – The IRA bombs Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people.
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