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1983
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 - 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 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 - Samantha Smith flies to the Soviet Union (see April 25).
* July 23 - Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 crash-lands in Gimli.
* August 4 - Thomas Sankara become 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 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]].
* 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 Embassy is bombed in Beirut, killing 40 people.
* Internet Domain Name System invented by Paul Mockapetris.
* Democratic reform in power in Argentina.
Art, Culture & Fashion
* 1983 in film
o May 25 - Return of the Jedi
o Terms of Endearment
o The Big Chill
o The Right Stuff
* 1983 in literature
* 1983 in music
* 1983 in sports
o March 6 - The United States Football League begins its first year
of competition
* 1983 in television
o February 28 - Over 125 million Americans tune in to watch the
final episode of M*A*S*H
o March 7 - The Nashville Network (TNN) begins broadcasting.
Births
* May 2 - Rose Falcon, actress/singer
* December 30 - Lauren Priest, dietrician/dancer
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
* August 21 - Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippine opposition leader
* 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
* Physics - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler
* Chemistry - Henry Taube
* Medicine - Barbara McClintock
* Literature -William Golding
* Peace - Lech Walesa
* Economics - Gerard Debreu
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