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'''1983''' '''(MCMLXXXIII)''' is a Common_year_starting_on_Saturday of the Gregorian_calendar.
==Events==
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===January===
* January_2 - The musical ''Annie'' is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows (Uris_Theatre on Broadway, New York City).
* January_8 - Riot in the Sing_Sing prison
* January_10 - Mafia Hitman Roy_DeMeo is found dead in a trunk of his own car
* January_15 - Mafioso Meyer_Lansky dies at Mount_Sinai_hospital
* January_19 - Klaus_Barbie, Nazi war criminal, is arrested in Bolivia.
* January_22 - Björn_Borg retires from Tennis after winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon_championships.
* January_24 - 25 members of the Red_Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Aldo_Moro
* January_26 - Lotus_1-2-3 is released.
* January_31 - Seatbelt use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the United_Kingdom.
===February===
* February_2 - Giovanni_Vigliotto goes on trial for multiple counts of Bigamy - 105 women
* February_3 - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm_Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament for a double dissolution election for the March 5. Bob Hawke replaces Bill Hayden as federal ALP leader
* February_4 - Karen Carpenter(The Carpenters) died of Cardiac Arrest due to a prolonged battle with Anorexia Nervosa.
* February_6 - Klaus_Barbie is charged with War_crimes
* February_7 - Iran opens an invasion in the southeast of Iraq.
* February_13 - US President Ronald_Reagan proclaims 1983 "The Year of the Bible".
* February_16 - The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South_Australia claim the lives of 76 people in one of Australia's worst ever fires.
* February_19 - Benjamin_Ng_and_Willie_Mak kill 13 in an attempted Robbery in Seattle,_Washington
* February_23 - The Environmental_Protection_Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the Dioxin-contaminated community of Times_Beach,_Missouri.
* February_24 - A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report critical of the practice of Japanese_internment during World_War_II.
* February_25 - US playwright Tennessee_Williams found dead in his Hotel room
===March===
* March_1
**Balearic_Islands and Madrid become autonomous communities of Spain
**Swatch introduce their first timepieces
* March_5 - Madame Chiang Kai-shek's birthday
Bob Hawke Elected Australian Prime Minister
* March_8 - IBM releases the IBM_PC_XT
* March_8 - President Ronald_Reagan calls the Soviet_Union an "Evil_empire."
* March_11 - Hawke Ministry sworn in, Andrew Peacock becomes Federal Opposition leader
* March_16 - Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last radio tower in Germany built of Wood.
* March_23 - Strategic_Defense_Initiative: President Ronald_Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. The media dub this plan "Star Wars."
===April===
* April_7 - During STS-6, astronauts Story_Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space_shuttle spacewalk (duration: 4 hours, 10 minutes).
* April_11 National Economic Summit held In Canberra
* April_15 - American Public Radio founded; changes its name to the current Public_Radio_International in 1994
* April_15 - The first non-American Disney theme park opens in Japan as Tokyo_Disneyland
* April_18 - The U.S Embassy is bombed in Beirut, killing 63 people.
* April_22 - Soviet embassy official Valery_Ivanov is expelled from Australia for allegedly trying to recruit spies in the Australian government.
* April_23 - ''Stern'' magazine in West_Germany announces it has Hitler_diaries
* April_25 - Maine schoolgirl Samantha_Smith is invited to visit the Soviet_Union by its leader Yuri_Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about Nuclear_war.
===May===
* May_6 - Stern magazine publishes "Hitler_Diaries" (later found to be forgeries).
* May_9 - Pope John_Paul_II retracts the ban of Galileo_Galilei
* May_16 - London police begin the use of Wheel_clamps on illegally-parked vehicles.
* May_16 - NSW Premier Neville Wran steps down in response to allegations rasied by ABC program Four Corners That he Attempted to influence the NSW Majestry
* May_17 - Lebanon, Israel, and the United_States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
* May_25 - Return_of_the_Jedi opens in the United_States.
===June===
* Shipbreaking begins on the beach at Alang in Gujarat.
* 9_June: Conservative Margaret_Thatcher, Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom since 1979, won a landslide victory (42% of the popular vote) over Michael_Foot, who led a highly-divided and weakened Labour_Party which earned only 28% of the vote. The much improved economy (after 2-3 years of restructuring), her victory in the Falkands, as well as shrinking unemployment rates consolidated her election victory.
* June_13 - Pioneer_10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the Solar_system.
* June_18 - Sally_Ride becomes first American woman in space on the Space_Shuttle_Challenger.
===July===
* July_1 - A North Korean Ilyushin_Il-62M jet en route to Conakry_Airport in Guinea crashed into the Fouta_Djall_Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
* July_1 - High Court Blocks construction of the Franklin Dam In Tasmania
* July_7 - Samantha_Smith flies to the Soviet_Union.
* July_16 - Sikorsky S-61 disaster: helicopter crash off the Isles_of_Scilly, causing 20 fatalities
* July_18 - Michael Litton was born.
* July_20 - Government of Poland announces end of the Martial_law and Amnesty for Political_prisoners.
* July_22 - Australian Dick_Smith completes his solo Circumnavigation in a Helicopter
* July_23 - Gimli_Glider: Air_Canada flight 143 crash-lands in Gimli,_Manitoba.
* July_25 - The outbreak of anti-Tamil riots in Sri Lanka which left over 3,000 Tamils massacred and millions of dollars worth of their property was destroyed. This Genocide is the beginning of a deadly civil war in Sri Lanka.
* July_25 - Metallica released their debut album Kill_'Em_All.
* July_28 New_South_Wales premier Neville_Wran exonerated by Street Royal Commision over claims raised by ABC (Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation) program Four Corners which claimed,he attempted to influence the NSW majestry
===August===
* August_4 - Thomas_Sankara became President in Upper_Volta.
* August_18 - Hurricane_Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
* August_18 - 5 people are killed and 18 others injured when a road train is deliberatly driven into a motel at Ayers Rock (Uluru) NT (The driver, Douglas Edward Crabbe, was found guilty of this in March 1984)
* August_21 - In the Philippines, opposition politician Benigno_Aquino is assassinated just as he returns from exile
* August_24 - Old Philadelphia_Arena is destroyed by arson
* August_21 - Benigno_Aquino,_Jr., Philippines opposition leader, assassinated in Manila
===September===
* September_1 - Cold_War: Korean_Air_Flight_007 is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter when the commercial aircraft entered Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die.
* September_4 - Six men walk underwater across the Sydney_Harbor - 82.9 km in 48 hours
* September_5 - Tom Brokaw becomes lead anchor for NBC Nightly News
* September_6 - The Soviet_Union admits to shooting down Korean_Air_Flight_007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian Aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace
* September_10 - Jon_B._Minnoch, heaviest man in USA, dies weighing 362 kg. When he was admitted to hospital in March 1978, his weight was 635 kg
* September_16 - Donna_Griffiths of Pershore, England, stops sneezing after continuous series of sneezes for 978 days, since January_13 1981
* September_23 - Violence erupts in New_Caledonia between native Kanaks and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of Independence
* September_23 - Mass outbreak in Maze prison - 38 prisoners hijack a lorry and crash out of the gate - one guard dead and 5 others injured. 19 of the prisoners are later apprehended.
* September_23 - Barbara_Turnbull, an 18 year old Canadian girl, was shot in the neck and became paralyzed for life during a store robbery in Mississauga, Canada.
* September_25-26 - Soviet military officer Stanislav_Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
* September_27 - The GNU project was announced publicly on the Net.unix-wizards and Net.usoft Newsgroups.
===October===
* October_2 - Neil_Kinnock is elected leader of the British Labour Party.
* October_4 - Richard_Noble sets a new Land_speed_record of 633.468 Mph, driving Thrust_2 at the Black_Rock_Desert, Nevada.
* October_7 - Plan to abolish Greater_London_Council announced.
* October_12 - Japan's ex Prime Minister Tanaka_Kakuei found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
* October_19 - Maurice_Bishop, the President of Grenada, and 40 others are shot in a military coup
* October_22 - In Bonn, West_Germany people demonstrate for Nuclear_disarmament
* October_23 - A suicide truck-bombing destroys the United_States_Marine_Corps barracks at Beirut International Airport, killing 241 US servicemen.
* October_24 - Arthur_Hutchinson kills three members of Laitner family and rapes their daughter in the Sheffield suburb of Dore.
* October_25 - United_States invades Grenada.
* October_27 - Pope_John_Paul_II visits Mehmet_Ali_Ağca in prison to forgive him. Ali Ağca is the Turkish gunman who attempted to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981
* October_30 - The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
===November===
* November_2 - Martin_Luther_King_Day: At the White_House Rose Garden, President Ronald_Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January to honor American_civil_rights leader Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
* November_5 - The worst offshore diving accident ever to take place, happened on board the Byford_Dolphin rig in the North_Sea of the coast of Norway. Five divers where killed and one severely wounded in an Explosive_decompression accident.
* November_11 - President_Reagan became the first U.S. chief executive to address the Diet, Japan's national legislature.
* November_13 - The first US Cruise_missiles arrive at Greenham_Common airbase in England amid protests from peace campaigners.
* November_15 - The Turkish part of Cyprus declares Independence.
* November_16 - A jury in Gretna,_Louisiana acquits Ginny_Foat of the murder of Argentine businessman Moses_Chaiyo.
* November_17 - The Zapatista_Army_of_National_Liberation founded.
* November_24 - 15-year-old Lynda Mann is found raped and strangled in the village of Narborough, England (Colin_Pitchfork is sentenced to Life_imprisonment in 1988)
* November_26 - Brinks_Mat_robbery: In London, 6,800 Gold bars worth nearly UK£26 million are taken from the Brinks_Mat vault at Heathrow_Airport. Only a fraction of the gold was ever recovered, and only two men were convicted of the crime.
* November_30 ASIO agents bungle a training exercise on the Melbourne Sheraton
* Microsoft_Word is first released.
===December===
* December_9 - The Australian Dollar is floated, by Federal treasurer Paul_Keating. Under the old flexible peg system, the Reserve Bank bought and sold all Australian dollars and cleared the market at the end of the day. This initiative was taken by the government of Bob_Hawke.
* December_13 - The Denver_Nuggets and the visiting Detroit_Pistons combined for an NBA record 370 points, with Detroit winning in triple overtime, 186-184.
* December_17 - A fire at a Discotheque in Madrid, Spain, kills 83 people.
* December_17 - An PIRA car bomb kills six Christmas shoppers and injures 90 outside Harrods in London.
* December_31 - Brunei gains Independence from United_Kingdom.
* December_31 - Two bombs explode in France. One on the Paris train kills 3 and injures 19. The other at Marseille station kills 2 and injures 34.
===Unknown dates===
* Democratic reform in power in Argentina.
* Roxanne_Pulitzer divorces Herbert Pulitzer
* Gerard_Debreu wins the Bank_of_Sweden_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences_in_Memory_of_Alfred_Nobel
* Leopold_Kohr, the people of Belau, Amory and Hunter_Lovins / Rocky_Mountain_Institute and Manfred_Max-Neef / CEPAUR win the Right_Livelihood_Award
* McDonald's introduces the McNugget
* In Australia, the Northern_Territory decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults
* The Immunosuppressant Cyclosporine was approved by FDA, leading to a revolution in the field of transplantation.
* Flashdance and Return_of_the_Jedi are box-office hits.
* Drug_Abuse_Resistance_Education (DARE) program launched in U.S.
* Kellogg's introduces Crispix cereal.
==Births==
===January-March===
* January_2 - Kate_Bosworth, American actress
* January_18 - Samantha_Mumba, Irish singer and actress
* January_19 - Hikaru_Utada, Japanese singer and songwriter
* February_7 - Elin_Grindemyr, Swedish model
* February_8 - Jim_Verraros, American singer
* February_23 - Mido, Egyptian footballer
* March_10 - Carrie_Underwood, American singer
* March_14 - Bakhtiyar_Artayev, Kazakh boxer
* March 14 - Taylor_Hanson, American musician
* March_21 - Bruno_Langley, British actor
===April-June===
* April_13 - Schalk_Burger, South African rugby player
* April_15 - Ilya_Kovalchuk, Russian hockey player
* April_17 - Miguel_Cabrera, Venezuelan Major_League_Baseball player
* April_22 - Matt_Jones, American football player
*April 22 - Sean_Muir, American playwright
* April_23 - Daniela_Hantuchova, Slovakian tennis player
* May_11 - Matt_Leinart, American football player
*May 11 - Holly_Valance, Australian actress and singer
* May_14 - Amber_Tamblyn, American actress
* May_27 - Bobby_Convey, American soccer player
* May_30 - Jennifer_Ellison, British actress
* June_4 - Ivan, Italian writer
* June_6 - Joe_Rokocoko, New Zealand rugby player
* June_8 - Kim_Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
* June_30 - Cheryl_Tweedy, British singer
===July-September===
* July_2 - Michelle_Branch, American singer
* July_11 - Marie_Eleonor_Sernehlot, Swedish musician (A-Teens)
* July_13 - Liu_Xiang, Chinese athlete
* July_21 - Eivør_Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer and composer
*July 21 - Kellen_Winslow_Jr., American football player
* July_22 - Shelby_Belle, Canadian actress
* July_23 - Rebecca_Cartwright, Australian actress
*July 23 - Aaron_Peirsol, American swimmer
* August_6 - Robin_van_Persie, Dutch football player
* August_14 - Mila_Kunis, Ukrainian actress
* August_19 - Tammin_Sursok, Australian actress
* August_23 - Nicol_David, Malaysian Squash player
* August_24 - Christopher_Parker, British actor
* September_17 - Jennifer_Peña, American singer
* September_21 - Maggie_Grace, American actress
===October-December===
* October_2 - Efren_Ramirez, American actor
* October_5 - Nicky_Hilton, American model and socialite
* October_24 - Brian_Vickers, American race car driver
* October_30 - Diana_Karazon, Jordanian singer
* November_16 - _Fallon_Bowman, South African-born guitarist (Kittie)
* November_18 - Jon_Johansen, Norwegian computer programmer
* December_6 - Bryan_Habana, South African rugby player
* December_12 - Katrina_Elam, American singer
* December_12 - Brad_Smith, American football player
* December_13 - Otylia_Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer
* December_15 - René Duprée, Canadian professional wrestler
* December_18 - Ryan_Dowling, American Singer/Songwriter/Mandolinist for the band The_Tipplin'_Weigh
* December_20 - Lucy_Pinder, British model
==Deaths==
===January-March===
* January_11 - Shri_Ghanshyam_Das_Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)
* January_15 - Meyer_Lansky, Russian-born gangster (b. 1902)
* January_23 - Fred_Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
* January_24 - George_Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)
* January_28 - Frank_Forde, fifteenth Prime_Minister_of_Australia (b. 1890)
* February_4 - Karen Carpenter, American singer (b. 1950)
* February_12 - Eubie_Blake, American musician and songwriter (b. 1887)
* February_14 - Lina_Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
* February_22 - Sir Adrian_Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
* February_25 - Tennessee_Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)
* March_3 - Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907)
*March_3 - Arthur_Koestler, Austrian writer (b. 1905)
*March_8 - William_Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
*March_9 - Ulf_von_Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
*March_15 - Rebecca_West, English-born writer (b. 1892)
*March_17 - Haldan_Keffer_Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
===April-June===
* April_4 - Gloria_Swanson, American actress (b. 1897)
* April_22 - Earl 'Fatha' Hines, American musician (b. 1903)
* May_8 - Frank_Aiken, Irish Foreign Minister (b. 1898)
* May_8 - John_Fante, American writer (b. 1909)
* May_14 - Roger_J._Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
* May_19 - Jean Rey, President_of_the_European_Commission (b. 1902)
* May_21 - Kenneth_Clark, British art historian (b. 1903)
*May_22 - Albert_Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine (b. 1899)
* June_2 - Stan_Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
* June_12 - Norma_Shearer, Canadian-born actress
* June_18 - Marianne_Brandt, German industrial designer (b. 1893)
* June_25 - Alberto_Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
===July-September===
* July_1 - Buckminster_Fuller, American architect (b. 1895)
* July_4 - John_Bodkin_Adams, alleged English murderer (b. 1899)
* July_7 - Vicki_Morgan, American model (murdered) (b. 1952)
* July_23 - Georges_Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
* July_29 - Raymond_Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
*July 29 - David_Niven, English actor (b. 1910)
* August_16 - Earl_Averill, baseball player (b. 1902)
* August_21 - Benigno_Aquino_Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1932)
* September_1 - Larry_McDonald, U.S. Congressman (plane crash) (b. 1935)
* September_10 - Felix_Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
* September_25 - King Léopold_III_of_Belgium (b. 1901)
* September_26 - Tino_Rossi, Corsican singer (b. 1907)
===October-December===
* October_6 - Terence_Cardinal_Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1921)
* October_8 - Joan_Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
* October_18 - Willie Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
* October_28 - Otto_Messmer, American cartoonist (b. 1892)
* November_7 - Germaine_Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
* November_15 - John_Le_Mesurier, British actor (b. 1912)
* December_2 - Fifi_D'Orsay, Canadian actress (b. 1904)
* December_6 - Lucienne_Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
* December_11 - Sir Neil_Ritchie, British general (b. 1897)
* December_21 - Paul_de_Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919)
* December_25 - Joan_Miró, Catalan painter (b. 1893)
==Nobel Prizes==
* Physics - Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar, William_Alfred_Fowler
* Chemistry - Henry_Taube
* Medicine - Barbara_McClintock
* Literature - William_Golding
* Peace - Lech_Wałęsa
* Economics - Gerard_Debreu
==Templeton_Prize==
* Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
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