1983 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1983?
- January 17, 1983 – The tallest department store in the world, Hudson’s, flagship store in downtown Detroit closes due to high cost of operating.
- 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 14, 1983 – United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
- February 16, 1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
- 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.
- April 18, 1983 – A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
- May 1, 1983 – Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.
- May 16, 1983 – Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
- 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 22, 1983 – Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
- July 23, 1983 – The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Terrorist group. In the subsequent riots of Black July, about 1,000 Tamils are slaughtered, some 400,000 Tamils flee to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, India and many find refuge in Europe and Canada.
- September 1, 1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
- September 15, 1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
- September 17, 1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
- 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 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.
- November 7, 1983 – 1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No people are harmed, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
- December 10, 1983 – Democracy is restored in Argentina with the assumption of President Raúl Alfonsín.
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