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.
- February 14, 1983 – United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
- February 18, 1983 – Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee Massacre in Seattle, Washington. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
- 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 6, 1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
- March 16, 1983 – Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
- May 11, 1983 – Aberdeen F.C. defeat Real Madrid 2-1 to win the European Cup Winners’ Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- May 16, 1983 – Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
- July 16, 1983 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: a helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
- July 19, 1983 – The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
- July 23, 1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
- September 12, 1983 – The USSR vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
- September 23, 1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
- 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 26, 1983 – Brink’s-MAT robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink’s-MAT vault at Heathrow Airport.
- December 5, 1983 – ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal in the same year.
- December 7, 1983 – An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 93 people.
- December 19, 1983 – The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
- December 31, 1983 – The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
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