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.
- 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.
- 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 11, 1983 – Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
- 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 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 23, 1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
- July 25, 1983 – Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
- September 12, 1983 – A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
- September 23, 1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
- September 26, 1983 – Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
- October 29, 1983 – Over 500,000 people demonstrate against cruise missiles in The Hague, Netherlands.
- 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.
- 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 31, 1983 – In Nigeria a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Nigerian Second Republic.
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