1983 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1983?
- February 8, 1983 – The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia’s second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 m deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
- February 13, 1983 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- February 24, 1983 – A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
- 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.
- 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.
- April 25, 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
- June 13, 1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the furthest planet from the Sun at the time).
- 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.
- 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 6, 1983 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
- September 12, 1983 – A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
- September 15, 1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
- September 26, 1983 – Australia II wins the America’s Cup, ending the longest winning streak in sporting history.
- October 30, 1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
- November 5, 1983 – Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
- November 17, 1983 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
- December 5, 1983 – Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
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