May 1983 in History

Events in History

May 3 Soviet leader Yuri Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe

May 16 Chinese American architect I. M. Pei is awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in New York

May 16 Lebanese parliament accepts peace accord with Israel
May 16 Sudan People's Liberation Army and Movement rebels against the Sudanese government
May 17 Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty
May 18 Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program
May 19 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 506
May 21 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida), for mating for STS-7 mission
May 23 Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air
May 24 Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as Chancellor of Austria
May 24 Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students
May 25 1st US National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed
May 25 Fire in Nassermeer, Egypt, kills 357
May 25 France performs nuclear test
May 26 NASA launches Exosat
May 26 Space Shuttle Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7
May 26 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 27 Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress
May 30 Surrey all out for 14 vs Essex, their lowest score ever

May 10 Gustav Fridolin, Swedish politician
May 10 Natalia Zabala, Miss Spain 2007
May 13 Anita Görbicz, Hungarian handball player
May 24 Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, Anglo-Australian videogame creator and critic, born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England

May 2 Marius Duintjer, Dutch architect (Kolenkit), dies at 74
May 5 Horst Schumann, Nazi physician, dies at 77
May 7 Peter Edel, writer, dies
May 10 John P Strijbos, writer (Called that Bird), dies at 92
May 11 Zenna Henderson, American sci-fi author (Anything Box), dies at 65
May 14 Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mexican attorney and President of Mexico (1946-52), dies at 80
May 14 Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
May 15 James Van Der Zee, African-American photographer, dies at 96
May 19 Jean Rey, Belgian politician and President of the European Commission dies at 80
May 21 Kenneth Clark, English art historian (Civilisation), dies at 79
May 23 Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and physician (Nobel 1974), dies at 84
May 28 Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (b. 1909)
May 29 Arvīds Pelše, Soviet Latvian leader (First Secretary of the Latvian SSR, CPSU Politburo member), dies at 84
May 30 Alfred Gruenther, American general (NATO commander 1953-56), dies at 84