1983 in History (Part 2)

Events in History

Events 101 - 200 of 409

• Apr 12 Harold Washington elected Chicago's 1st black mayor
• Apr 12 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• Apr 13 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Apr 17 1st National Coin Week begins
• Apr 17 In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters
• Apr 17 India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket
• Apr 18 A lone suicide bomber kills 63, at US Embassy in Lebanon
• Apr 18 KMO-AM in Tacoma Wash changes call letters to KAMT (now KKMO)

• Apr 19 France performs nuclear test
• Apr 20 President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security
• Apr 20 Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock (lands 2 days later)
• Apr 21 1 pound coin introduced in United Kingdom
• Apr 22 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Apr 22 Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth


• Apr 22 Stern mag announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolf Hitler (turned out to be a hoax)
• Apr 24 Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election
• Apr 25 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

• Apr 25 NASA space probe Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
• Apr 26 Dow Jones Industrial Avg breaks 1,200 for 1st time
• Apr 28 Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead
• Apr 28 NASA launches Geos-F
• Apr 29 Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st African American mayor
• May 2 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga, California
• May 3 Soviet leader Yuri Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe
• May 3 US bishops condemn nuclear weapons
• May 4 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• May 5 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• May 7 August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
• May 10 Lee Chin Yong performs 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul
• May 11 Comet C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock) approaches 0.0312 AUs of Earth
• May 15 Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion
• 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 Vandenberg AFB, 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 Space Shuttle Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7
• May 26 NASA launches Exosat
• 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
• Jun 2 Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati
• Jun 6 Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland

• Jun 6 Nicaragua expels 3 US diplomats
• Jun 9 56th National Spelling Bee: Blake Giddens wins spelling purim

• Jun 12 Comet C/1983 (Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa) approaches 0.0628 AUs of Earth
• Jun 13 NASA's Pioneer 10 becomes the 1st man-made object to leave the solar system
• Jun 14 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx
• Jun 15 Supreme Court struck down state and local restrictions on abortion
• Jun 16 European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10

• Jun 16 General Secretary Yuri Andropov appointed President of the Soviet Union

• Jun 18 IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC
• Jun 20 Iran moves into northern Iraq (casualties top 13,800 in ten days)
• Jun 21 Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
• Jun 22 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle
• Jun 23 Syria throws out PLO leader Arafat
• Jun 23 US Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions

• Jun 24 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB
• Jun 26 "Loving" premieres on TV
• Jun 27 Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds - Miro
• Jun 27 NASA launches space vehicle S-205
• Jun 27 Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
• Jun 28 Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Connecticut collapses, killing 3
• Jun 28 NASA launches Galaxy-A
• Jun 29 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly Air Force Base
• Jul 1 Arbitrator Raymond Goetz rules 43 players who are on Disabled List during 1981 players' strike not entitled to salaries for that period
• Jul 3 American Calvin Smith sets new world record of 9.93 for 100m in Colorado Springs, beats Jim Hines 1968 mark by 0.02 seconds
• Jul 5 France invades Algeria
• Jul 5 Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, Virginia)
• Jul 6 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
• Jul 7 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR
• Jul 12 Chad government troops reconquer Abéché
• Jul 13 The Transvaal Attorney General announces that Eugène Terre'Blanche, leader of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and three associates will face terrorism charges, South Africa
• Jul 14 US politician Crane (Rep-R-Il) and Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages
• Jul 14 Mario Bros. is first released by Nintendo in Japan as an arcade game about an Italian-American plumber
• Jul 15 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France
• Jul 16 Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities in Britain's worst helicopter accident
• Jul 17 1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Philadelphia Stars 24-22)
• Jul 18 Despite being in 1st place in NL East, Phils fire manager Pat Corrales
• Jul 19 The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
• Jul 20 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll

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Deaths in History

• Sep 10 Norah Lofts, British author (The Town House), dies at 79
• Sep 10 Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (1966-77), dies at 67
• Sep 15 LeRoy Prinz, choreographer, dies at 88
• Sep 17 Humberto Madeiros, US cardinal to Boston, dies at 67
• Sep 21 Andrew Brewin, Canadian lawyer and MP for Greenwood, dies at 76
• Sep 25 Leopold III [Filip von Saksen-Coburg], King of the Belgians (from 1934, abdicated 1951), dies at 81
• Sep 27 Wilfred Burchett, Australian communist and writer (Catapult to Freedom), dies at 72
• Oct 3 Kurt Kusenberg, writer, dies at 79
• Oct 5 Earl Tupper, American-born Costa Rican inventor and businessman (Tupperware), dies of a heart attack at 76
• Oct 6 Terence Cooke, cardinal/archbishop of NY, dies at 62
• Oct 9 Sun Suk Joon, South Korean vice premier, murdered
• Oct 12 Jiri Lederer, Czechoslovakia journalist/dissident, dies at 61
• Oct 14 Willard Price, Canadian author and naturalist
• Oct 17 Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist, dies at 78
• Oct 18 Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (b. 1897)
• Oct 19 Albert Carel Willink, painter (surrealism), dies at 83
• Oct 19 Maurice Bishop, premier of Grenada (1979-83), murdered in coup
• Oct 20 Yves Thériault, French Canadian author (b. 1915)
• Oct 21 Theodorus H J Zwartkruis, Bishop (Haarlem), dies
• Nov 8 Robert Agnew, director, dies at 84 of kidney failure
• Nov 8 Mordecai Kaplan, Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (b. 1881)
• Nov 19 Reinout Willem van Bemmelen, Dutch geologist, dies at 79
• Nov 23 Juhan Muks, Estonian artist (b. 1899)
• Nov 27 Manuel Scorza, Peruvian writer, dies at about 55
• Nov 30 Richard Llewellyn, Welsh novelist (How Green Was My Valley), dies at 76
• Dec 1 Mirsky, mathematician, dies
• Dec 2 Fifi D'Orsay, "French Bombshell" (Dixie Jamboree), dies cancer at 79
• Dec 7 Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA

• Dec 11 Sir Neil Ritchie, British General (b. 1897)
• Dec 13 Mary Renault [Challans], British author (King Must Die, Funeral games), dies at 78
• Dec 13 Alexander Schmemann, Orthodox Christian priest and theologian (b. 1921)
• Dec 13 Nichita Stanescu, Romanian poet (b. 1933
• Dec 16 Kusan Sunim, found Milae Sa temple/Bulsung Sa Zen in Korea, dies at 74
• Dec 21 Paul de Man, Belgian literary critic, dies at 64
• Dec 23 Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)
• Dec 25 Joan Miro, Spanish painter and sculptor, dies at his home in Majorca at 90

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