What Happened in November 1983

Historical Events

Event of Interest

Nov 2 US President Ronald Reagan signs bill establishing Dr Martin Luther King Jr. holiday

Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King Jr. — Civil Rights Activist
Martin Luther King Jr.

US President & Actor Ronald Reagan — US President & Actor
Ronald Reagan

Music Single

Nov 2 "Thriller" single released worldwide by Michael Jackson

King of Pop Michael Jackson — King of Pop
Michael Jackson

Nov 3 Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency (D)
Nov 3 Nashville Network begins on cable TV
Nov 4 Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed
Nov 4 Washington Capitals first NHL overtime victory beating Vancouver 5-4
Nov 5 NY Rangers & Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 secs of 3rd period
Nov 5 Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden
Nov 6 Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, California
Nov 6 Tampa Bay Buccaneer James Wilder rushes for 219 yards vs Minnesota Vikings
Nov 6 Turkey Turgut Özals Moederland party wins elections
Nov 7 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his 2nd NY Giant record 56 yard field goal
Nov 7 Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
Nov 8 Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky
Nov 8 STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad

Nov 8 W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia
Nov 9 Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped
Nov 9 Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center
Nov 10 "Amen Corner" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 83 performances
Nov 10 US Federal government shut down
Nov 10 'Marvelous' Marvin Hagler retains world middleweight boxing title with a 15-round unanimous points decision over Roberto Duran at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas; first time Hagler taken the distance as champion
Nov 11 1st US cruise missiles arrive in Great Britain

Event of Interest

Nov 11 President Reagan became 1st US President to address Japanese legislature

Nov 11 Wayne Phillips scores 159 on Test Cricket debut, v Pakistan at WACA
Nov 12 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas
Nov 12 NJ Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3
Nov 14 First cruise missile placed at Greenham Common, England

Event of Interest

Nov 15 75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy

Ice Hockey Great Mike Bossy — Ice Hockey Great
Mike Bossy

Nov 15 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed

Event of Interest

Nov 16 Kapil Dev takes 9-83 v WI at Ahmedabad, but India still lose

Cricketer Kapil Dev — Cricketer
Kapil Dev

Nov 17 "La Tragedie de Carmen" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 187 performances
Nov 17 Harm Wiersma retains checkers world championship
Nov 17 Philadelphia Flyers win 13th straight NHL game

Film Premier

Nov 17 Film "Yentl" produced, directed and starring Barbra Streisand and Mandy Patinkin premieres, based on play and story by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Singer-songwriter & Actress Barbra Streisand — Singer-songwriter & Actress
Barbra Streisand

Nov 18 Argentina announces its ability to produce enriched uranium for nuclear weapons

Event of Interest

Nov 19 Edmonton Oilers beat NJ Devils, 13-4, Wayne Gretzky calls the Devils "a Mickey Mouse organization"

Ice Hockey Great Wayne Gretzky — Ice Hockey Great
Wayne Gretzky

Event of Interest

Nov 19 Jari Kurri becomes the first (and only) Finnish player to score five goals in a game

NHL Star Jari Kurri — NHL Star
Jari Kurri

Nov 20 "Marilyn: An American Fable" opens at Minskoff NYC for 16 performances
Nov 20 100 million watch ABC TV movie "The Day After" about nuclear war
Nov 20 Cleveland Browns shutout Patriots 30-0

Nov 20 NY Giants Butch Woolfolk ties NFL record of 43 attempts rushing

Film Premier

Nov 20 "Terms of Endearment" from the book by Larry McMurtry, directed by James L. Brooks and starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger premieres in New York (Best Picture 1984)

Actress Shirley MacLaine — Actress
Shirley MacLaine

Nov 20 33rd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Bobby Allison wins
Nov 21 "Doonesbury" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 104 performances
Nov 23 Soyuz T-9 lands
Nov 23 USSR leaves weapon disarmament talks
Nov 24 PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians & Lebanese
Nov 24 Test Cricket debut of Richie Richardson for the West Indies vs India in Bombay

Historic Publication

Nov 24 "The Colour of Magic" by Terry Pratchett published by Colin Smythe in the UK, 1st book in the Discworld series

Novelist Terry Pratchett — Novelist
Terry Pratchett

Boxing Title Fight

Nov 25 Larry Holmes TKOs Marvis Frazier in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

WBC Heavyweight Champion Larry Holmes — WBC Heavyweight Champion
Larry Holmes

Nov 25 Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off
Nov 25 Syria & Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli
Nov 25 World's greatest robbery; 26 million pounds (sterling) worth of gold, diamonds and cash stolen from Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport, England
Nov 26 Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
Nov 27 71st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats BC Lions, 18-17
Nov 27 Colombian jetliner Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 181
Nov 27 Desmond Haynes out handled the ball v India
Nov 28 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-is launched
Nov 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Nov 30 Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam
Nov 30 Radio Shack announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)
Nov 30 Raúl Alfonsín wins Argentine presidential election
Nov 30 Sam Shepards "Fool for love" premieres in NYC
Nov 30 Denver Nuggets coach Doug Moe, hoplessly behind, advise team to let Blazers break their scoring record

Famous Birthdays

Nov 1 Yuko Ogura, Japanese model
Nov 1 Josh Wicks, American soccer player
Nov 1 Jon Wilkin, English rugby league footballer
Nov 3 Suzane von Richthofen, Brazilian murderess
Nov 3 Julie Marie Berman, actress (General Hospital), born in Los Angeles, California
Nov 5 Mike Hanke, German footballer
Nov 5 Andrew Hayden-Smith, TV presenter and actor
Nov 6 Janette McBride, Filipino-Australian actress and television host, born in Queensland, Australia
Nov 6 Jon Hume, Australian singer (Evermore), born in Lismore, Australia
Nov 8 Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper
Nov 8 Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer
Nov 8 Kat Shoob, British television presenter
Nov 10 Miranda Lambert, American singer
Nov 10 Craig Smith, American basketball player
Nov 11 Philipp Lahm, German footballer
Nov 11 Matt Garza, American baseball player
Nov 11 Sola Aoi, Japanese porn actress, born in Tokyo, Japan
Nov 12 Carlton Cole, English football player
Nov 14 Lil Boosie, American rapper
Nov 15 DJ Skee, American DJ/Personality
Nov 15 Laura Smet, French actress
Nov 15 Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player
Nov 16 Kari Lehtonen, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
Nov 16 Britta Steffen, German swimmer (Olympic gold 50/100m 2008), born in Schwedt, Germany
Nov 16 K, South Korean singer
Nov 17 Christopher Paolini, American novelist
Nov 17 Yiannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
Nov 17 Ryan Braun, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers), born in Los Angeles, California
Nov 17 Scott Moore, American baseball player
Nov 17 Nick Markakis, American baseball player
Nov 17 Harry Lloyd, English actor
Nov 18 Jon Johansen, Norwegian software developer
Nov 18 Travis Buck, American baseball player
Nov 19 Daria Werbowy, Ukranian-Canadian Supermodel
Nov 19 Chandra Crawford, Canadian cross-country skier

Adam Driver

Nov 19 Adam Driver, American actor (Girls, Star Wars), born in Fontana, California

Nov 21 Jamie Langley, English rugby player
Nov 22 Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist (Trivium)
Nov 22 Tyler Hilton, American singer and actor
Nov 22 Peter Ramage, English footballer
Nov 24 Dean Ashton, English footballer
Nov 24 Meredith Henderson, Canadian actress
Nov 24 Karine Vanasse, Quebec actress
Nov 25 Joey Chestnut, American champion competitive eater
Nov 25 Kirsty Crawford, Scottish singer/songwriter
Nov 26 Chris Hughes, American businessman and co-founder of Facebook, born in Hickory, North Carolina
Nov 27 Professor Green [Stephen Paul Manderson], British rapper (Lip Sync Battle UK), born in London, England
Nov 29 Tanner Glass, Canadian ice hockey player
Nov 29 Pamela Brown, American television reporter and newscaster (CNN, ABC WJLA-TV), born in Lexington, Kentucky
Nov 30 Adrian Cristea, Romanian footballer
Nov 30 Andy Akinwolere, English television presenter

Famous Weddings

Wedding of Interest

Nov 6 Businessman Vidal Sassoon (55) weds dressage champion Jeanette Hartford-Davis

Hairdresser Vidal Sassoon — Hairdresser
Vidal Sassoon

Nov 21 NY Ranger Ron Greschner marries model Carol Alt

Wedding of Interest

Nov 21 Actor Ed Harris (33) weds actress Amy Madigan (33)

Wedding of Interest

Nov 23 "Ordinary People" actress Mary Tyler Moore (46) weds Dr. Robert Levine at the Pierre Hotel in New York City

Famous Divorces

Divorce of Interest

Nov 14 Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (35) divorces Sarah Hugill after more than 11 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Nov 1 Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn Catalog), dies at 96
Nov 3 Alfredo Antonini, conductor (Jane Froman Canteen), dies at 82
Nov 6 Robert Gross, composer, dies at 69
Nov 7 David Alexandrovich Toradze, composer, dies at 61
Nov 7 Germaine Tailleferre, Fren composer (Le Marin du Bolivar), dies at 91
Nov 8 Robert Agnew, director, dies at 84 of kidney failure
Nov 8 Mordecai Kaplan, Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (b. 1881)

Betty Nuthall

Nov 8 Betty Nuthall, English tennis player, dies at 72

Nov 13 Junior Samples, American comedian and country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 56
Nov 15 John Le Mesurier, British actor (The Italian Job, Jabberwocky, Dad's Army), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 71
Nov 19 Peter Coffield, Ill, actor (Kevin-W E B), dies at 37
Nov 19 Tom Evans, English bass guitarist (Badfinger) (b. 1947)
Nov 19 Reinout W van Bemmelen, Dutch geologist, dies at 79
Nov 20 Marcel Dalio [Israel Moshe Blauschild], French actor (Sabrina, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Casablanca), dies at 83
Nov 20 Richard Loo, actor, (China Sky), dies of cardio-pulmonary arrest
Nov 22 Michael Conrad, American actor (Delvecchio, Hill St Blues), dies of cancer at 58
Nov 23 Juhan Muks, Estonian artist (b. 1899)
Nov 23 Waheed Murad, Pakistani film actor and director (Armaan), dies at 45
Nov 25 Anton Dolin [Sydney Francis Patrick Chippendall Healey-kay], British dancer (Girl From Petrovka), dies at 79
Nov 27 Manuel Scorza, Peruvian writer, dies at about 55
Nov 28 Christopher George, American actor (Chisum, Heist), dies of heart attack at 52
Nov 30 George Headley, cricket (10 tons in 22 Tests, 1st black WI capt), dies

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