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For the Jimi Hendrix song, see 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be).

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Contents

1 Events of 1983

1.1 January

1.2 February

1.3 March

1.4 April

1.5 May

1.6 June

1.7 July

1.8 August

1.9 September

1.10 October

1.11 November

1.12 December

1.13 Undated

1.14 Ongoing

2 Births

2.1 January-March

2.2 April-June

2.3 July-September

2.4 October-December

3 Deaths

3.1 January-March

3.2 April-June

3.3 July-September

3.4 October-December

4 Nobel prizes

5 Templeton Prize

6 External links

7 Notes

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[edit] January

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January 1 - The New Jersey Transit Police Department is created in the state of New Jersey

January 2 - The musical Annie is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows at the Uris Theatre on Broadway, New York City..

January 3 - CITV was launched in the United Kingdom on the channel ITV.

January 3 - Kilauea began slowly erupting on the Big Island of Hawaii and is still flowing as of 2008.

January 8 - A riot breaks out at Sing Sing prison, New York.

January 19 - Release of the Apple Lisa personal computer by Apple Inc.

January 19 - High ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.

January 22 - Björn Borg retires from tennis after winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.

January 24 - Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Aldo Moro.

January 26 - Lotus 1-2-3 is released for IBM-PC-compatible computers.

January 26 - Red rain falls in the UK, caused by sand from the Sahara Desert in the droplets.

January 30 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dolphins 27-17 in Super Bowl XVII at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California.

January 31 - Seatbelt use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.

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February 2 - Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial for multiple counts of bigamy involving 105 women.

February 3 - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament for elections on March 5. Bob Hawke replaces Bill Hayden as leader of the Australian Labor Party.

February 4 Singer Karen Carpenter dies at 8:51 am of a heart attack brought on by her nine year struggle with anorexia nervosa. She was 32 years old.

February 6 - Klaus Barbie is officially charged with war crimes.

February 7 - Iran opens an invasion in the southeast of Iraq.

February 13 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims 1983 "The Year of the Bible".

February 13 - A cinema fire in Turin, Italy kills 64.

February 16 - The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 76 people in one of Australia's worst fires ever.

February 18 - Wah Mee massacre: 13 people are killed in an attempted robbery in Seattle, Washington.

February 23 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intention to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.

February 24 - A special commission of the Congress of the United States releases a report critical of the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.

February 24 — The controversial Bermondsey by-election, where Simon Hughes's defeat of Peter Tatchell was criticised for alleged homophobia.

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March 1 - The Balearic Islands and Madrid become autonomous communities of Spain.

March 1 - Swatch introduces their first watches.

March 5 - Bob Hawke is elected Prime Minister of Australia.

March 8 - IBM releases the IBM PC XT.

March 8 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire."

March 9 - Anne Burford resigns as head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency amid scandal.

March 11 - Australia's First Hawke Ministry is sworn in; Andrew Peacock becomes Federal Opposition leader.

March 16 - The Transmitter Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany, is demolished.

March 23 - Strategic Defense Initiative: U.S. President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. The media dub this plan "Star Wars."

March 25 - During the anniversary show Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever Michael Jackson thrills the audience by dancing and singing while performing his hit song Billie Jean. The highlight of his act is his signature move ; the moonwalk, which he performs in public for the first time. When the show is broadcast on television on May 16 Jackson's performance causes an (inter)national sensation.

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April 7 - STS-6: Space Shuttle Challenger astronauts Story Musgrave and Donald H. Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk (duration: 4 hours, 10 minutes).

April 11 - The National Economic Summit is held in Canberra, Australia.

April 11 - The 55th Academy Awards, hosted by Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, and Walter Matthau, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California with Gandhi winning Best Picture.

April 12 - Harold Washington is elected the first African American mayor of Chicago.

April 15 - American Public Radio is founded (becomes 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 21 - Scandal-plagued Jackie Presser is elected president of the Teamsters.

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 the Hitler Diaries.

April 23 - Corinne Hermès wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 for Luxembourg with the song, Si la vie est cadeau.

April 25 - Manchester, 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.

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