Historical Events in October 1983

Oct 3 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in UK

Oct 4 Richard Noble driving Thrust2 reaches new land speed record of 650.88 mph (1,047.49 km/h) at Black Rock Desert, Nevada

Oct 5 Lech Wałęsa wins Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 6 Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick

Oct 6 NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands
Oct 6 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Oct 8 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
Oct 8 Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7
Oct 8 MLB National League Championship: Philadelphia Phillies beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 3 games to 1
Oct 8 MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat Chicago White Sox, 3 games to 1
Oct 9 Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs
Oct 9 4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma
Oct 10 17th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
Oct 10 Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzḥak Shamir as PM
Oct 10 Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers
Oct 10 NBC premiere of true life drama "Adam", based on John Walsh's son's murder
Oct 11 Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial

Oct 11 "Can't Slow Down" 2nd studio album by Lionel Richie is released

Oct 12 5225 Loral & 5424 Covington
Oct 13 Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
Oct 14 Grenada leftist coup under vice-premier Coard

Oct 14 US Marine peacekeeper Sgt Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut
Oct 15 Black Hawks & Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds)
Oct 15 Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football, will lose next 44 games
Oct 15 US Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut International Airport
Oct 15 34th Formula One WDC: Nelson Piquet wins by two points
Oct 16 "Zorba" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 362 performances
Oct 16 25th Ryder Cup: US, 14½-13½ at PGA National Golf Club (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, US)
Oct 16 Balt Orioles beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 3 in 80th World Series
Oct 17 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Gérard Debreu
Oct 17 STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem
Oct 19 Columbia moves to Orbiter Processing Facility
Oct 19 Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council"
Oct 19 Philadelphia Flyers begin 13 NHL game win streak

Oct 19 Senate establishes Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday

Oct 21 Pope John Paul II names 3 new Dutch bishops

Oct 22 Two correctional officers are killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspired the Supermax model of prisons.
Oct 23 13th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:00
Oct 23 14th NYC Marathon won by Rod Dixon in 2:08:59
Oct 23 400,000 demonstrate in Brussels, against cruise missile
Oct 23 Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut
Oct 25 US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!)
Oct 26 Hugh Whitemore's "Pack of Lies" premieres in London
Oct 26 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Oct 29 550,000 Dutch demonstrate against cruise missile
Oct 29 Notre Dame's Gil Fenerty rushes for 337 yards & 6 touchdowns
Oct 30 The first democratic elections are held in Argentina after seven years of military rule.

Oct 31 Paul McCartney releases "Pipes of Peace" album