Historical Events in 1983 (Part 3)

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• Jul 22 Polish Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski lifts martial law after 19 months
• Jul 23 Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.

• Jul 24 "Mame" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances
• Jul 24 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switzerland (2-1)

• Jul 24 Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America
• Jul 24 70th Tour de France won by Laurent Fignon of France

• Jul 25 1st non-human primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
• Jul 25 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
• Jul 25 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Hazeltine National GC: Billy Casper wins with birdie on first extra hole after an 18-hole playoff with Rod Funseth
• Jul 26 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida), for mating for STS-8
• Jul 26 Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czech sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28)
• Jul 26 Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io
• Jul 26 US threatens action to preserve navigation in Persian Gulf
• Jul 27 104°F (40.3°C) in Garmersdorf (German record)

• Jul 28 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Jul 28 NASA launches Telstar-3A
• Jul 29 "Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV

• Jul 30 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, California
• Jul 30 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg

• Jul 31 Dutch July average temperature is 20.1°C; warmest July since 1852

• Aug 2 STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad
• Aug 2 US District Court begins trying Yonkers accused of race discrimination
• Aug 3 John Sain of South Bend, Indiana, builds 3.91 m house of cards
• Aug 3 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Aug 4 Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy
• Aug 4 France performs nuclear test
• Aug 4 Revolution in Republic of Upper Volta brings Thomas Sankara to power
• Aug 4 16th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hotel San Diego

• Aug 6 First NFL exhibition game in Europe; Minnesota Vikings beat St Louis Cardinals 28-10 at London's Wembley Stadium
• Aug 6 Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar catches fire and sinks northwest of Capetown, South Africa
• Aug 6 Bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of ANC, explodes at a synagogue in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Aug 7 "Merlin" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 199 performances
• Aug 7 1st Athletics World Championships open in Helsinki, Finland

• Aug 7 Some 675,000 AT&T employees strike
• Aug 8 Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned)

• Aug 10 1st World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in Men's Long Jump

• Aug 14 Robert de Castella wins Helsinki marathon (2:10:03)
• Aug 15 Ramones guitarist Joey Ramone beaten in fight, and undergoes brain surgery
• Aug 17 -19] Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas
• Aug 18 Hurricane Alicia battered Houston & Galveston, Texas
• Aug 18 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d becomes the youngest woman to swim English Channel
• Aug 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Aug 18 KC Royals defeat NY Yankees, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes); Hal McRae strikes out & Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order

• Aug 19 Dodgers trade Dave Stewart & Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut
• Aug 20 The South African anti-apartheid umbrella organization, United Democratic Front (UDF) is launched at Rocklands Community Centre in Cape Town, South Afrca
• Aug 21 Jerry Herman's musical "La Cage aux Folles", based Jean Poiret's French play of the same name , opens at Palace Theater, NYC; runs for 1761 performances, wins 6 Tony Awards
• Aug 21 110°F (43°C) at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record)

• Aug 25 Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark
• Aug 25 US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact
• Aug 26 Floods destroy most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain.
• Aug 27 Haiti adopts constitution
• Aug 27 US performs nuclear test

• Aug 28 Greg Luzinski is 1st player to put 3 HRs onto roof at Comiskey Park

• Aug 28 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
• Aug 30 8th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Challenger 3 launches for a 6-day excursion
• Aug 30 Elizabeth R Zakarian (Devon Pierce), 17, NY, crowned 1st Miss Teen USA
• Aug 30 Philadelphia TV station WKBS-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting after surrendering its license to the FCC, the first do so in at least 10 years. Parent company Field Enterprises Inc. was unable to find a buyer. [1]
• Aug 30 Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space
• Aug 31 Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz

• Sep 1 Korean Boeing 747, flight 007, strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet jet
• Sep 1 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 1 WGH-AM in Newport News VA changes call letters to WNSY

• Sep 4 "Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" closes at Royale NYC after 747 performances
• Sep 4 US Men's Amateur Golf Championship, North Shore CC: Jay Sigel successfully defends title 8 & 7 over Chris Perry
• Sep 4 Greg LeMond wins UCI World Road Race Championship in 7h 01' 21" in Altenrhein, Switzerland; first American cyclist to take the title
• Sep 4 Californian skier Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed record; 119.36 mph
• Sep 5 8th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB
• Sep 5 Elmer Trettr sets record for highest terminal velocity at 201.34 mph

• Sep 6 Soviet Union admits that it shot down the South Korean airliner KAL 007 on September 1st
• Sep 7 Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s)
• Sep 8 NASA launches RCA-6
• Sep 9 Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas
• Sep 9 Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2)

• Sep 10 US Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert-Lloyd 6-1, 6-3 for her first US singles title
• Sep 11 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• Sep 11 Pittsburgh running back Franco Harris runs for 118 yards in Steelers 25-21 win at Green Bay to become the only the third player in NFL history to rush for 11,000 yards
• Sep 12 Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes
• Sep 12 Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million
• Sep 12 USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane
• Sep 13 Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save

• Sep 13 Steve O'Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 mins, Lancs v Leics
• Sep 13 US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)
• Sep 14 US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner
• Sep 14 Texan San Jacinto county sheriff James "Humpy" Parker convicted of violating inmates civil rights and of torture
• Sep 15 Police officers beat Michael Stewart to death for graffiting NYC subway
• Sep 15 Israel premier Menachem Begin resigns
• Sep 15 Frances Schreuder is convicted for the first-degree murder of Franklin Bradshaw

• Sep 17 Chicago White Sox clinch their 1st-ever AL West championship

• Sep 18 George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere
• Sep 18 Lebanese & Syrian army battle
• Sep 18 New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chicago Bears 34-31
• Sep 18 Kiss' first "unmasked" (no make up) appearance on MTV
• Sep 18 Action series "Hardcastle and McCormick" premieres on ABC in the US
• Sep 19 David Slowinski on 2 CRAY-1 comp's find 2^132049-1 prime #
• Sep 19 St Kitts & Nevis declares independence from UK
• Sep 20 3,112 turn out to see Pirates play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
• Sep 20 Cryptographic Communications System & Method (RSA) patented
• Sep 21 11 killed in anti Marcos demonstrations in Manila

• Sep 21 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Sep 22 NASA launches Galaxy-B
• Sep 22 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Sep 22 Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4"
• Sep 23 Argentine military regime gives amnesty to military and political assassins
• Sep 23 Columbia moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida), for mating in preparation of STS-9
• Sep 23 Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in 10 for heavyweight boxing title in Ohio

• Sep 24 Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in season
• Sep 24 Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of champion Pakistan batsman Hanif Mohammad; scores 6 in drawn 2nd Test v India in Jullundur; goes on to play 45 Tests
• Sep 24 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Sep 25 35th Emmy Awards: "Hill Street Blues", "Cheers", Ed Flanders & Shelley Long win
• Sep 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
• Sep 26 Cardinals' Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, beating Montreal Expos 3-0, in St. Louis
• Sep 26 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks 56 yard field goal, a NY Giants record
• Sep 26 Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race - 1st non-US winner
• Sep 26 Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
• Sep 26 Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns
• Sep 26 Soviet military officer Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by judging supposed missile attack from the US an error
• Sep 27 South African worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed from prison after 19 years

• Sep 28 STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad
• Sep 29 "A Chorus Line" with 3,389 performances becomes the then longest-running Broadway show
• Sep 29 Beirut airport reopens

• Sep 29 Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0
• Oct 1 Denise Wallace, 18, of Virginia, crowned Miss Teen of America
• Oct 2 Wide receiver Art Monk begins NFL streak of 183 consecutive games with a reception in the Washington Redskins' 37-35 win over the LA Raiders
• Oct 2 Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat
• Oct 2 Green Bay Packers erupt for NFL record 49 points in the first half (35 in the second quarter) to clobber the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 55-14 at Tampa Stadium

• 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 Panamanian jockey Jorge Velasquez wins his 5,000th career race, riding Banquet Scene to victory in the 4th race at Belmont Park
• Oct 6 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC

• 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 NFL Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes for 419 yards with 5 TDs, winning 38-35, in overtime, over Dolphins, in Miami
• Oct 9 Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar) bombing: North Korean agents attempt to assassinate South Korean President results in 21 deaths, including 9 South Korean government officials; presidential advisors and security team members; and 3 reporters
• Oct 10 17th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
• Oct 10 Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzḥak Shamir as Prime Minister
• 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 12 5225 Loral & 5424 Covington
• Oct 13 Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
• Oct 14 Grenada Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard launches a leftist coup within the revolutionary government and takes power for 3 days
• Oct 14 US Marine peacekeeper Sgt Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut
• Oct 15 NHL Chicago Black Hawks & Toronto Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds), in a 10-8 Leaf win in Toronto
• 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 16 "Zorba" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 362 performances

• Oct 16 Baseball World Series: Baltimore Orioles beat Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0 for 4 games to 1 series victory; MVP: Baltimore catcher Rick Dempsey
• Oct 17 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Gérard Debreu
• Oct 17 STS-9 vehicle moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) due to SRB nozzle problem

• Oct 19 Space Shuttle Columbia moves to Orbiter Processing Facility
• Oct 19 Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council"
• Oct 19 Philadelphia Flyers begin 13 NHL game winning streak

• Oct 20 IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released

• Oct 22 Two correctional officers are killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspired the Supermax model of prisons.

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