1983 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1983?
- January 19, 1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
- February 13, 1983 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
- February 22, 1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
- February 24, 1983 – A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
- March 8, 1983 – President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an “evil empire”.
- March 11, 1983 – Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
- May 18, 1983 – In Ireland, the government launches a crackdown, with the leading Dublin pirate Radio Nova being put off the air.
- May 20, 1983 – First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
- June 18, 1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
- July 1, 1983 – A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
- July 15, 1983 – A terrorist attack is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA at the Paris-Orly Airport in Paris; it leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured.
- July 16, 1983 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: a helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
- September 17, 1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
- September 23, 1983 – Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
- September 25, 1983 – Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.
- October 14, 1983 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and later executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard.
- October 21, 1983 – The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
- December 10, 1983 – Democracy is restored in Argentina with the assumption of President Raúl Alfonsín.
- December 31, 1983 – In Nigeria a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Nigerian Second Republic.
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