Events
- Saturday, January 1, 1983 - Beat Raaflaub became Basel Boys Choir's new conductor
- Saturday, January 1, 1983 - the ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
- Saturday, January 1, 1983 - compulsory wearing of seat belts becomes law in the UK.
- Sunday, January 2, 1983 - The musical Annie is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows (Uris Theatre on Broadway, New York City).
- Saturday, January 8, 1983 - Riot in the Sing Sing prison
- Wednesday, January 19, 1983
- Saturday, January 22, 1983 - Björn Borg retires from tennis after winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.
- Monday, January 24, 1983 - 25 members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Aldo Moro
- Wednesday, January 26, 1983 - Lotus 1-2-3 is released.
- Thursday, April 7, 1983 - During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk (duration: 4 hours, 10 minutes).
- Friday, April 15, 1983 - American Public Radio founded; changes its name to the current Public Radio International in 1994
- Monday, April 18, 1983 - The U.S Embassy is bombed in Beirut, killing 63 people.
- Monday, April 25, 1983 - 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.
- Thursday, August 4, 1983 - Thomas Sankara become President in Upper Volta.
- Thursday, August 18, 1983 - Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
- Sunday, August 21, 1983 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippines opposition leader, assassinated in Manila.
- Thursday, September 1, 1983 - Cold War: Korean Air Flight KAL-007 is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter when the commercial aircraft entered Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die
- Tuesday, September 6, 1983 - The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace
- Friday, September 23, 1983 - Mass outbreak in Maze prison - 38 prisoners hijack a lorry and crash out of the gate - one guard dead, 5 injured. 19 of the prisoners were later apprehended
- Sunday-Monday, September 25-26, 1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war (because of time-zone differences, the date was Sept. 25 in the West, and Sept. 26 in the Soviet Union)
- Sunday, October 2, 1983 - Neil Kinnock is elected leader of the British Labour Party
- Friday, October 7, 1983 - Plan to abolish Greater London Council announced
- Wednesday, October 12, 1983 - Japan's ex Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
- Wednesday, October 19, 1983 - President of Grenada, Maurice Bishop and 40 others are shot in a military coup
- Sunday, October 23, 1983
- Monday, October 24, 1983 - Arthur Hutchinson kills three members of Laitner family and rape their daughter in the Sheffield suburb of Dore
- Tuesday, October 25, 1983 - United States invades Grenada.
- Thursday, October 27, 1983 - Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Agca in prison to forgive him. Ali Agca is a Turkish gunman, who attempted to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981
- Sunday, October 30, 1983 - The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
- Wednesday, November 2, 1983 - Martin Luther King Day: At the White House Rose Garden, US President Ronald Wilson 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.
- Sunday, November 13, 1983 - The first US cruise missiles arrive at Greenham Common airbase in England amid protests from peace campaigners
- Tuesday, November 15, 1983 - The Turkish part of Cyprus declares independence
- Wednesday, November 16, 1983 - A jury in Gretna, Louisiana acquits Ginny Foat of the murder of Argentine businessman Moses Chaiyo
- Thursday, November 17, 1983 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation founded
- Saturday, November 26, 1983 - 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)[2] (http://www.bbc.co.uk/crime/caseclosed/brinksmat.shtml).
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Births
- Saturday, July 2, 1983 - Michelle Branch, pop singer
- Monday, July 11, 1983 - Marie Eleonor Sernehlot, oldest of the A-Teens
- Wednesday, July 13, 1983 - Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdling athlete
- Saturday, July 23, 1983 - Aaron Peirsol, competitive swimmer
Deaths
- Tuesday, January 11, 1983 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian and educationist
- Saturday, January 15, 1983 - Meyer Lansky, mobster
- Sunday, January 23, 1983 - George Cukor, director
- Friday, January 28, 1983 - Frank Forde, fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia
- Friday, February 4, 1983 - Karen Carpenter, singer, dies of anorexia nervosa
- Saturday, February 12, 1983 - Eubie Blake, musician, songwriter
- Monday, February 14, 1983 - Lina Radke, German athlete
- Friday, February 25, 1983 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
- Thursday, March 3, 1983 - Hergé, Belgian comics creator
- Tuesday, March 8, 1983 - William Walton, composer
- Tuesday, March 15, 1983 - Rebecca West, writer
- Wednesday, March 23, 1983 - Barney Clark, first artificial heart recipient
- Wednesday, March 30, 1983 - Eilius Eques, photojournalist
- Friday, July 1, 1983 - Buckminster Fuller, American architect
- Monday, July 4, 1983 - John Bodkin Adams, alleged British murderer
- Thursday, July 7, 1983 - Vicki Morgan, fashion model
- Saturday, July 23, 1983 - Georges Auric, composer, member of Les Six
- Friday, July 29, 1983 - Raymond Massey, actor
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