1983 - Wikipedia

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s

Years: 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 - 1983 - 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988

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Events

January - Apple Lisa introduced by Apple Computer
January 1 - the ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet
January 2 - The musical Annie[?] is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows (Uris Theatre[?] on Broadway, New York City).
January 19 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal, is arrested in Bolivia
January 19 - The Apple Lisa personal computer is announced
January 22 - Bjorn Borg retires from tennis after winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.
January 26 - Lotus 1-2-3 is released
February 16 - The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 71 people in Australia's worst ever fires.
February 24 - A special commission of the United States Congress releases a report critical of the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
March 8 - President Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "Evil Empire".
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 7 - During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave[?] and Don Peterson[?] perform the first space shuttle spacewalk (duration: 4 hours, 10 minutes).
April 25 - American 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 17 - Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
June 18 - Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger
July 7 after writing Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov, asking why the Soviets wanted to rule the world
August 4 - Thomas Sankara become President in Upper Volta
August 21 - Benigno Aquino, Jr.[?], Philippines opposition leader, assassinated in Manila
September 1 - Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down while off course over Soviet territory [[1] (http://aviation-safety.net/cvr/cvr_ke007.htm)]
October 23 - United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut destroyed by suicide bomber, killing 241
October 27 - 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,
October 25 - United States invades Grenada

Barbara McClintock receives Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of the first transposons in maize in 1940.
The U.S Embasy is bombed in Beirut, killing 40 people
Internet Domain Name System invented by Paul Mockapetris

Democratic reform in power in Argentina
Maine schoolgirl Samantha Smith travels to the Soviet Union

Art, Culture & Fashion

1983 in film
- May 25 - Return of the Jedi
- Terms of Endearment
- The Big Chill
- The Right Stuff
1983 in literature
1983 in music
1983 in sports[?]
- March 6 - The United States Football League begins its first year of competition
1983 in television
- February 28 - Over 125 million Americans tune in to watch the final episode of M*A*S*H
- March 7 - The Nashville Network[?] (TNN) begins broadcasting.

Births

May 2 - Rose Falcon[?], actress/singer

Deaths

January 23 - George Cukor, director
February 4 - Karen Carpenter[?], singer, dies of anorexia nervosa
February 12 - Eubie Blake, musician, songwriter
February 25 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
March 3 - Herge, Belgian comics creator
March 8 - William Walton, composer
March 15 - Rebecca West, writer
March 23 - Barney Clark[?], first artificial heart recipient
April 4 - Gloria Swanson, actress
April 22 - Earl 'Fatha' Hines[?], musician
May 15 - Meyer Lansky, gangster
May 19 - Jean Rey, President of the European Commission
June 12 - Norma Shearer, Academy Award winning actress
July 23 - Georges Auric, composer, member of Les Six
July 29 - Raymond Massey, actor
September 25 - Leopold III of Belgium
October 28 - Otto Messmer[?], creator of Felix the Cat
November 7 - Germaine Tailleferre, composer
December 2 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress
December 25 - Joan Miro, surrealist painter
Buckminster Fuller, American architect
Stan Rogers, Canadian musician

Nobel Prizes