1983 in History (Part 3)

Events in History

Events 201 - 300 of 409

• Jul 21 Polish government ends 19 months of martial law
• Jul 21 US announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge

• Jul 21 World's lowest-ever natural temperature recorded −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K) at Soviet Vostok Station, Antarctica
• Jul 22 Angels OF Brian Downing error ends his record streak at 244 games
• Jul 22 Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world
• 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 Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America
• 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 26 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB 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 30 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, California
• 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 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 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 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 20 The South African anti-apartheid umbrella organization, United Democratic Front (UDF) is launched at Rocklands Community Centre in Cape Town, South Afrca
• Aug 21 110°F (43°C) at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record)
• 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 Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
• 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 2 Yitzḥak Shamir (Likud party) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM
• Sep 4 Californian skier Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed record; 119.36 mph
• Sep 5 8th 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 11 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 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 Steve O'Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 mins, Lancs v Leics
• 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 18 George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere
• Sep 18 Lebanese & Syrian army battle
• 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 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 23 Argentine military regime gives amnesty to military and political assassins
• Sep 23 Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation of STS-9
• Sep 24 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Sep 25 Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0
• Sep 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
• Sep 26 Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
• Sep 26 Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns
• Sep 26 St Louis Card Bob Forsch 2nd no-hitter beats Montreal Expos, 3-0
• 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 Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years
• Sep 28 STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad
• Sep 29 1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act
• Sep 29 Beirut airport reopens

• Oct 1 Denise Wallace, 18, of Virginia, crowned Miss Teen of America
• Oct 2 Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat
• 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

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