September 1 - 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.
September 6 - 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
September 23 - 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 are later apprehended.
September 23 - Barbara Turnbull, a Canadian 18 year old girl, was shot into the neck and became paralyzed for life during a store robbery in Mississauga, Canada.
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.
December
December 12 - The Australian Dollar is Floated. 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.
Delayed the June 1983 cost-of-living adjustment until December 1983 (January 3,1984 checks) and provides for future adjustments payable in January rather than July of each year.
Provides for crediting the OASDI and HI trust funds at the beginning of each month with revenues to be received during the month and for special reports by the Boards of Trustees in the event the trust fund assets fall below 20 percent of annual expenditures.
For instance, it provided for an increase in SSI benefit rates beginning with July 1983 by $20 for an individual and $30 for a couple.
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