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 18, 1983 – The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe’s Olympic medals to his family.
- 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.
- March 6, 1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
- March 8, 1983 – President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an “evil empire”.
- April 7, 1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
- April 25, 1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto’s orbit.
- May 1, 1983 – Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.
- July 7, 1983 – Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
- 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 12, 1983 – The USSR vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
- September 17, 1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
- September 23, 1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
- September 25, 1983 – Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.
- 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.
- October 29, 1983 – Over 500,000 people demonstrate against cruise missiles in The Hague, Netherlands.
- 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.
- December 17, 1983 – The IRA bombs Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people.
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