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| Born : | 12/30/1983 | Rachel & Ross Trudeau, twins of Jane Pauley & Gerry Trudeau |
| Died : | 11/13/1983 | "Alvin" Junior Samples, country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 56 |
| Died : | 05/30/1983 | Alfred M Gruenther, US general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84 |
| Died : | 11/03/1983 | Alfredo Antonini, conductor (Jane Froman Canteen), dies at 82 |
| Died : | 02/19/1983 | Alice White, leading lady, dies at 78 of a stroke |
| Died : | 03/28/1983 | Ank [Anna M] van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy), dies |
| Died : | 08/15/1983 | Anthony Costello, actor, dies at 42 |
| Died : | 03/26/1983 | Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for USSR, dies |
| Died : | 09/08/1983 | Antonin Magne, French bicylist (won Tour de France 1931, 34), dies |
| Died : | 07/05/1983 | Arie Querido, psychiatrist (social psychiatry), dies |
| Died : | 03/16/1983 | Arthur Godfrey, TV host (Arthur Godrey Show), dies at 79 |
| Died : | 03/03/1983 | Arthur Koestler, Hung/Brit writer (Dialogue With Death), dies |
| Died : | 01/13/1983 | Arthur Space, actor (Doc Weaver-Lassie), dies of cancer at 74 |
| Died : | 01/07/1983 | August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies |
| Died : | 03/23/1983 | Barney Clark, 1st artifical heart recipient, dies after 112 days |
| Died : | 08/21/1983 | Benigno S Aquino, Phillippine politician, dies |
| Died : | 08/15/1983 | Benjamin V Cohen, US author of New Deal-legislation, dies at 88 |
| Died : | 06/30/1983 | Bo Gentry, songwriter/producer dies |
| Died : | 11/03/1983 | Bob [H˜man] Scholte, singer, dies |
| Died : | 04/26/1983 | Bronislaw Kaper, composer, dies at 81 |
| Died : | 04/23/1983 | Buster Crabbe, Olympic swimmer/actor, dies at 75 in Scottsdale Az |
| Died : | 08/03/1983 | Carolyn Jones, actress (Morticia-Addams Family), dies at 54 of cancer |
| Died : | 06/01/1983 | Charles Tham, of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha, count of Flanders/Prince, dies |
| Died : | 11/28/1983 | Christopher George, actor, dies at 54 of a heart attack |
| Died : | 01/13/1983 | D Mack Reynolds, US writer (Amazon Planet, Once Departed), dies |
| Died : | 07/29/1983 | David Niven, actor (Rugues), dies in Switzerland at 73 |
| Died : | 12/09/1983 | David Rounds, actor (Terence-Beacon Hill), dies at 53 |
| Died : | 02/05/1983 | Derk Roemers, union leader/politician (soc dem), dies at 67 |
| Died : | 04/11/1983 | Dolores Del Rio, actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 78 |
| Died : | 01/17/1983 | Doodles Weaver, actor/comedian, commits suicide by gun at 71 |
| Died : | 12/10/1983 | Dorothy Cummings, actress dies at 84 |
| Died : | 04/22/1983 | Earl "Fatha" Hines, US, jazz pianist/conductor, dies |
| Died : | 07/15/1983 | Eddie Foy Jr, actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange), dies of cancer at 78 |
| Died : | 12/07/1983 | Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA |
| Died : | 02/10/1983 | Eduard Franz, actor (Zorro), dies at 80 |
| Died : | 12/04/1983 | Estelle Omens, actress, dies at 55 |
| Died : | 03/09/1983 | Faye Emerson, actress (I've Got a Secret), dies of cancer at 65 |
| Died : | 04/17/1983 | Felix Pappalardi, rocker (Cream, Mountain), dies |
| Died : | 12/02/1983 | Fifi D'Orsay, "French Bombshell" dies of cancer at 79 |
| Died : | 12/31/1983 | Frank Link, actor (Burns & Schreiber Comedy Show), dies at 46 |
| Died : | 07/20/1983 | Frank Reynolds, news anchor (ABC Evening News), dies at 59 |
| Died : | 09/30/1983 | Freddy Martin, orch leader (started Merv Griffin), dies at 76 |
| Died : | 01/08/1983 | Gale Page, actress, dies of cancer at 72 |
| Died : | 04/07/1983 | Gavin Gordon, television actor, dies at 82 |
| Died : | 04/30/1983 | George Balanchine, Russian choreographer, dies at 78 |
| Died : | 01/24/1983 | George Cukor, director, dies of stroke & heart attack at 83 |
| Died : | 10/16/1983 | George Liberace, violinist (Liberace Show), dies at 72 |
| Died : | 10/31/1983 | George S Halas, NFL coach (Chicago Bears), dies at 88 |
| Died : | 04/04/1983 | Gloria Swanson, actress (Airport 1975), dies at 84 of a heart ailment |
| Died : | 04/15/1983 | Gyula Illyes, Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at 80 |
| Died : | 01/02/1983 | Harriet Parsons, actress/producer, dies at 76 of cancer |
| Died : | 07/05/1983 | Harry James, swing-era bandleader/trumpet player, dies in Las Vegas |
| Died : | 09/01/1983 | Henry "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash), dies at 71 |
| Died : | 03/04/1983 | Herg‚, [Georges R‚mi], Belgian cartoonist (Kuifje), dies |
| Died : | 07/07/1983 | Herman Kahn, US futurist/nuclear strategist, dies at 71 |
| Died : | 12/27/1983 | Houari Boumediene, Algerian President dies after 40 days in a coma |
| Died : | 07/30/1983 | Howard Deitz, MGM executive, dies at 86 of Parkinson's disease |
| Died : | 09/17/1983 | Humberto Madeiros, US cardinal to Boston, dies at 67 |
| Died : | 08/17/1983 | Ira Gershwin, lyricist, dies in Beverly Hills, Cal, at 86 |
| Died : | 09/24/1983 | Isobel Baillie, oratorio singer, dies |
| Died : | 07/29/1983 | J B Charles, [Willem H Nagel], criminologist/writer, dies |
| Died : | 05/31/1983 | Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 87 |
| Died : | 08/24/1983 | Jack Somack, actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show), dies at 64 |
| Died : | 04/04/1983 | Jacqueline Logan, silent film leading lady, dies at 78 |
| Died : | 02/20/1983 | James G Richardson, (Tim Cassidy-Sierra), dies at 37 in ski accident |
| Died : | 03/27/1983 | James Hayter, actor, dies at 75 |
| Died : | 08/28/1983 | Jan Clayton, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie), dies at 66 |
| Died : | 05/19/1983 | Jean Rey, Belgian minister, dies |
| Died : | 04/30/1983 | Jerry Hatsuo Fujikawa, actor (Uncle Matsu-Mr T & Tina), dies at 71 |
| Died : | 04/19/1983 | Jerzy Andrzejewski, writer (Ashes & Diamonds), dies at 73 |
| Died : | 10/23/1983 | Jessica Savage, Margate NJ, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies at 36 |
| Died : | 10/24/1983 | Jessica Savitch, news anchor (NBC-TV), dies at 35 |
| Died : | 02/04/1983 | Jim Ameche, actor (Festival of Stars), dies at 68 |
| Died : | 10/08/1983 | Joan Hackett, actress, dies of cancer at 49 |
| Died : | 12/25/1983 | Joan Miro, Spanish surrealist, dies at his home in Majorca at 90 |
| Died : | 01/30/1983 | Joan Valerie, actress, dies of pneumonia |
| Died : | 02/25/1983 | John Cowles Sr., Us publisher, dies at 84 |
| Died : | 10/03/1983 | John K.M. McCaffery, TV host (One Minute Please), dies at 69 |
| Died : | 11/15/1983 | John LeMesurier, British actor (Dad's Army), dies at 71 |
| Died : | 01/13/1983 | John McHugh, actor, dies of a heart attack at 69 |
| Died : | 05/05/1983 | John Williams, actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at 80 |
| Died : | 03/15/1983 | Jos‚ Luis Sert, Spanish-US architect/urban developer, dies at 80 |
| Died : | 08/05/1983 | Judy Canova, singer/comedienne/actress, dies at 66 of cancer |
| Died : | 02/04/1983 | Karen Carpenter, drummer/singer (Carpenters), dies at 32 |
| Died : | 09/15/1983 | LeRoy Prinz, choreographer, dies at 88 |
| Died : | 09/25/1983 | Leopold III, king of Belgium (1934-51), dies |
| Died : | 12/13/1983 | Leora Dana, actress dies at 60 |
| Died : | 01/08/1983 | Lois Wilson, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 88 |
| Died : | 04/19/1983 | Lorene Scott, actress (Faraway Hill), dies at 74 |
| Died : | 01/27/1983 | Louis De Funes, actor, dies at 68 of a heart attack |
| Died : | 07/29/1983 | Luis Bu¤uel, movie director, dies at 83 of cirrhosis of liver |
| Died : | 07/30/1983 | Lynn Fontanne, Broadway's premier actress, dies at 95 |
| Died : | 11/20/1983 | Marcel Dalio, actor (Casablanca), dies at 83 |
| Died : | 02/13/1983 | Marian Nixon, actress, dies of cancer at 78 |
| Died : | 05/02/1983 | Marius F Duintjer, architect, dies |
| Died : | 04/17/1983 | Mark W Clark, US general (WW II), dies at 87 |
| Died : | 03/25/1983 | Martha Sleeper, actress, dies of a heart attack at 72 |
| Died : | 03/28/1983 | Martinus A Jansen, bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), dies |
| Died : | 06/30/1983 | Mary Livingstone, actress (Jack Benny Show), dies at 75 |
| Died : | 12/13/1983 | Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at 78 |
| Died : | 10/19/1983 | Maurice Bishop, prime minister of Grenada & others murdered in coup |
| Died : | 03/14/1983 | Maurice Ronet, actor, dies at 55 |
| Died : | 06/27/1983 | Maxie Anderson & Don Ida, balloonists, die during a race |
| Died : | 01/15/1983 | Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach, Fla, at 81 |
| Died : | 11/22/1983 | Michael Conrad, actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 58 |
| Died : | 08/26/1983 | Mike Kellin, actor (Honestly Celeste), dies at 61 of cancer |
| Died : | 01/11/1983 | Nikolaj V Podgorny, president USSR, dies |
| Died : | 06/12/1983 | Norma Shearer, Academy Award-winner, dies at 80 |
| Died : | 04/10/1983 | Olf S von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist, dies |
| Died : | 10/15/1983 | Pat O'Brien, actor (Some like it hot), dies of heart attack at 83 |
| Died : | 12/10/1983 | Patrick O'Moore, actor dies at 74 |
| Died : | 01/26/1983 | Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach (Alabama), dies at 69 |
| Died : | 10/14/1983 | Paul Fix, actor (Rifleman), dies at 82 of kidney failure |
| Died : | 08/01/1983 | Peter Arne, actor, bludgeon to death in London at 62 |
| Died : | 11/19/1983 | Peter Coffield, Ill, actor (Kevin-W.E.B.), dies at 37 |
| Died : | 04/17/1983 | Peter Potter, DJ (Peter Potter Show, Juke Box Jury), dies at 78 |
| Died : | 07/01/1983 | R Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87 |
| Died : | 10/10/1983 | Ralph Richardson, actor (Richard III), dies at 80 |
| Died : | 02/20/1983 | Ray Vitte, actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police at 33 |
| Died : | 12/19/1983 | Raymond Massey, actor (Dr Gillespie-Dr Kildaire), dies at 87 |
| Died : | 07/29/1983 | Raymond Massey, actor, dies of pneumonia in Beverly Hills, Calif at 86 |
| Died : | 11/20/1983 | Richard Loo, actor, dies of cardio-pulmonary arrest |
| Died : | 03/29/1983 | Richard O'Brien, actor (Rocky Horror Show), dies of cancer at 65 |
| Died : | 11/08/1983 | Robert Agnew, director, died at 84 of kidney failure |
| Died : | 12/05/1983 | Robert Aldrich, dir/producer dies at 65 |
| Died : | 03/07/1983 | Robert Bray, actor (Corey-Lassie, Simon-Stagecoach West), dies at 65 |
| Died : | 01/27/1983 | Robert Christian, actor, dies of cancer at 42 |
| Died : | 12/21/1983 | Rod Cameron, actor dies at 73 |
| Died : | 04/15/1983 | Rodolfo Hoyos, actor (Luis-Viva Valdez), dies at 68 |
| Died : | 02/22/1983 | Romain Maes, Belgian bicyclist, dies |
| Died : | 04/23/1983 | Selena Royale, actress (Robot Monster), dies at 78 |
| Died : | 01/15/1983 | Shepperd Strudwick, actor, dies of cancer at 75 |
| Died : | 08/29/1983 | Simon Oakland, actor (Toma, Kolchak, Baa Baa Black Sheep), dies at 61 |
| Died : | 12/08/1983 | Slim Pickins, western actor dies at 64 after brain surgery |
| Died : | 05/25/1983 | Sydney Box, academy award producer, dies at 76 |
| Died : | 10/23/1983 | Tamara Shayne, actress, dies at 80 of a heart attack |
| Died : | 02/24/1983 | Tennessee Williams, US playwright (Cat on a hot tin roof), dies at 71 |
| Died : | 10/06/1983 | Terence Cooke, cardinal/archbishop of NY, dies at 62 |
| Died : | 03/06/1983 | Thelma Pelish, actress, dies at 55 |
| Died : | 10/21/1983 | Theodorus HJ Zwartkruis, Bishop of Haarlem, dies |
| Died : | 09/26/1983 | Tino Rossi, French singer, dies |
| Died : | 02/01/1983 | Tullio Campagnolo, Itallian fiat manufacturer, dies |
| Died : | 03/18/1983 | Umberto van Piemonte, King Umberto II of Italy (1946), dies |
| Died : | 04/26/1983 | Vaughn Taylor, actor (Johnny Jupiter), dies at 72 |
| Died : | 05/03/1983 | Vaughn Taylor, actor, dies of a cerebal hemmorrhage at 72 |
| Died : | 06/26/1983 | Walter O'Keefe, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 82 |
| Died : | 04/21/1983 | Walter Slezak, actor, commits suicide at his NY home at 80 |
| Died : | 09/30/1983 | William D Elliot, actor (Bernie Loves Bridget, Adam 12), dies at 49 |
| Died : | 12/28/1983 | William Demarest, actor (My 3 Sons), dies at 92 in Palm Springs |
| Died : | 09/15/1983 | Willie Bobo, jazz drummer (Cos), dies at 49 |
| Died : | 05/11/1983 | Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, author (Anything Box), dies at 65 |
| Died : | 01/30/1983 | [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at 65 |
| Special : | 01/23/1983 | "A-Team" with Mr T premiers on NBC |
| Special : | 01/02/1983 | "Annie" closes on Broadway (it played 2,377 performances) |
| Special : | 07/29/1983 | "Friday Night Videos" premiers on NBC TV |
| Special : | 06/26/1983 | "Loving" premiers on TV |
| Special : | 04/25/1983 | "Nightline" expands from « hour to a full hour |
| Special : | 05/25/1983 | "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released |
| Special : | 07/22/1983 | -128ø F (-89ø C) recorded, Vostok, Antarctica (world record) |
| Special : | 11/20/1983 | 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "Day After," about nuclear war |
| Special : | 07/07/1983 | 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR |
| Special : | 08/21/1983 | 110øF (43øC) at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record) |
| Special : | 12/05/1983 | 12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut |
| Special : | 02/06/1983 | 13th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 20-19 |
| Special : | 04/17/1983 | 1st National Coin Week begins |
| Special : | 11/11/1983 | 1st US cruise rockets arrive in Great Britain |
| Special : | 07/17/1983 | 1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Phila Stars 24-22) |
| Special : | 03/13/1983 | 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14 |
| Special : | 08/07/1983 | 1st World Track & Field Championships |
| Special : | 12/25/1983 | 1st live telecast of Christmas Parade |
| Special : | 07/25/1983 | 1st nonhuman primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio |
| Special : | 10/08/1983 | 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7 |
| Special : | 09/29/1983 | 1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act |
| Special : | 06/22/1983 | 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle |
| Special : | 12/11/1983 | 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome) |
| Special : | 12/07/1983 | 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93 |
| Special : | 07/16/1983 | 20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident |
| Special : | 01/22/1983 | 2nd flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 22 seconds |
| Special : | 09/20/1983 | 3,112 turn out to see Pirates play NY Mets at Shea Stadium |
| Special : | 10/09/1983 | 4 South Korean cabinet ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma |
| Special : | 11/12/1983 | 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas |
| Special : | 02/11/1983 | 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18"(46 cm)) |
| Special : | 06/14/1983 | 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx |
| Special : | 05/02/1983 | 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga Calif |
| Special : | 04/09/1983 | 6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth |
| Special : | 04/04/1983 | 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched |
| Special : | 03/17/1983 | 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy |
| Special : | 11/15/1983 | 75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy |
| Special : | 06/18/1983 | 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st US woman |
| Special : | 06/24/1983 | 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB |
| Special : | 07/15/1983 | 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France |
| Special : | 09/05/1983 | 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB |
| Special : | 08/30/1983 | 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days) |
| Special : | 12/13/1983 | 9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT) |
| Special : | 11/28/1983 | 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-is launched |
| Special : | 12/08/1983 | 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-lands at Edwards AFB |
| Special : | 06/07/1983 | A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3152 |
| Special : | 12/28/1983 | A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3003 |
| Special : | 02/04/1983 | A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3324 |
| Special : | 12/06/1983 | A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis |
| Special : | 04/18/1983 | A lone suicide bomber kills 63, at US Embassy in Lebanon |
| Special : | 12/12/1983 | A truck bomb explodes at US Embassy in Kuwait |
| Special : | 01/13/1983 | AMA urges ban on boxing sites Muhammad Ali's deteoriating condition |
| Special : | 11/02/1983 | Abp Hickey conducts papal investigation of Abp Hunthausen, Seattle |
| Special : | 09/12/1983 | Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes |
| Special : | 09/26/1983 | Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks NY Giant record 56 yard field goal |
| Special : | 11/07/1983 | Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his 2nd NY Giant record 56 yard field goal |
| Special : | 06/29/1983 | Angel Cordero wins his 5,000th horse races |
| Special : | 02/10/1983 | Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral UK nuclear disarmament |
| Special : | 09/16/1983 | Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen |
| Special : | 10/02/1983 | Art Monk begins NFL streak of 136 plus consecutive game receptions |
| Special : | 05/07/1983 | August Hoffman perform record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups |
| Special : | 09/26/1983 | Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-US winner) |
| Special : | 01/12/1983 | B A Skiff discovers asteroids #2864 Soderblom & #2881 |
| Special : | 01/09/1983 | B A Skiff discovers asteroids #3140, #3505 & #3684 |
| Special : | 07/05/1983 | Baby girl born in Roanoke, Va., to a mother brain dead for 84 days |
| Special : | 10/16/1983 | Balt Orioles beat Phila Phillies, 4 games to 3 in 80th World Series |
| Special : | 01/11/1983 | Billy Martin named Yankee manager for 3rd time |
| Special : | 01/23/1983 | Bjorn Borg announces his retirement from tennis |
| Special : | 10/15/1983 | Black Hawks & Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds) |
| Special : | 02/17/1983 | Bob Bourne fails on 8th Islander penalty shot |
| Special : | 09/25/1983 | Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0 |
| Special : | 03/05/1983 | Bob Hawke (Labor) defeats Australian PM Malcolm Fraser (Cons) |
| Special : | 08/07/1983 | Bobby Murcer day at Yankee Stadium |
| Special : | 01/21/1983 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Appends |
| Special : | 11/07/1983 | Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries |
| Special : | 06/28/1983 | Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Ct collapsed kills 3 |
| Special : | 08/08/1983 | Brig Gen Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela |
| Special : | 01/09/1983 | British PM Margaret Thatcher visits the Falkland Islands |
| Special : | 04/26/1983 | Bruins 2-Isles 5-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
| Special : | 04/30/1983 | Bruins 3-Isles 7-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 2-1 lead |
| Special : | 05/03/1983 | Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead |
| Special : | 04/28/1983 | Bruins 4-Isles 1-Wales Conf Championship-Series tied 1-1 |
| Special : | 05/07/1983 | Bruins 4-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles win series 4-2 |
| Special : | 05/05/1983 | Bruins 5-Isles 1-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-2 lead |
| Special : | 12/31/1983 | Brunei gains complete independence from Britain |
| Special : | 10/06/1983 | Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs |
| Special : | 11/05/1983 | C Shoemaker & E Shoemake discovers asteroid #3285 Ruth Wolfe |
| Special : | 01/13/1983 | C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2906 Caltech |
| Special : | 07/03/1983 | Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (9.93 s for 100 m) |
| Special : | 04/06/1983 | Caps 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Semifinals- Isles hold 1-0 lead |
| Special : | 04/09/1983 | Caps 2-Isles 6 -Patrick Semis-Denis Potvin fails on penality shot |
| Special : | 04/10/1983 | Caps 3-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Isles win series 3-2 |
| Special : | 04/07/1983 | Caps 4-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-series tied 1-1 |
| Special : | 10/02/1983 | Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat |
| Special : | 03/22/1983 | Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president |
| Special : | 06/29/1983 | Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
| Special : | 07/26/1983 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8 |
| Special : | 05/21/1983 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission |
| Special : | 05/26/1983 | Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7 |
| Special : | 09/09/1983 | Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas |
| Special : | 06/08/1983 | Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal |
| Special : | 06/16/1983 | Charlos Vieira completes 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria Portugal |
| Special : | 01/25/1983 | China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life |
| Special : | 11/20/1983 | Cleveland Browns shutout Patriots 30-0 |
| Special : | 11/27/1983 | Colombian jetliner crashes in Madrid killing 185 |
| Special : | 10/15/1983 | Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football, will lose next 44 games |
| Special : | 12/15/1983 | Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB |
| Special : | 10/19/1983 | Columbia moves to Orbiter Processing Facility |
| Special : | 09/23/1983 | Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation of STS-9 |
| Special : | 09/26/1983 | Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10 |
| Special : | 07/14/1983 | Crane (Rep-R-Il) & Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages |
| Special : | 09/20/1983 | Cryptographic Communications System & Method (RSA) patented |
| Special : | 09/06/1983 | Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova requests political asylum in NY |
| Special : | 12/10/1983 | Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize |
| Special : | 05/21/1983 | David Bowie's "Let's "Dance," single goes #1 |
| Special : | 09/19/1983 | David Slowinski on 2 CRAY-1 comp's find 2^132049-1 prime # |
| Special : | 07/22/1983 | Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world |
| Special : | 12/17/1983 | Disco in Madrid catches fire; 83 die |
| Special : | 11/09/1983 | Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center |
| Special : | 11/06/1983 | Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, Calif |
| Special : | 06/24/1983 | Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters |
| Special : | 02/21/1983 | Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 m 7.1 s |
| Special : | 04/26/1983 | Dow Jones Industrial Avg breaks 1200 for 1st time |
| Special : | 09/07/1983 | Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s) |
| Special : | 03/16/1983 | E Barr discovers asteroid #3445 |
| Special : | 03/10/1983 | E Barr discovers asteroid #3743 |
| Special : | 02/11/1983 | E Bowell disc asteroid 2875 Lagerkvist, 3116 Goodricke & 3594 Scotti |
| Special : | 02/19/1983 | E Bowell discovers asteroid #3414 Champollion |
| Special : | 01/16/1983 | E Bowell discovers asteroid #3464 Owensby & #3766 |
| Special : | 07/11/1983 | E Bowell discovers asteroid #3485 Barucci |
| Special : | 01/22/1983 | E Bowell discovers asteroid #3670 |
| Special : | 11/28/1983 | E Bowell discovers asteroid #3758 |
| Special : | 09/04/1983 | E Bowell discovers asteroids #2959 Scholl & #3439 Lebofsky |
| Special : | 10/12/1983 | E Bowell discovers asteroids #2985 Shakespeare & #3714 |
| Special : | 11/29/1983 | E Bowell discovers asteroids #3210 Lupishko & #3615 Safronov |
| Special : | 07/10/1983 | E Bowell discovers asteroids #3222 Lillerand #3751 |
| Special : | 09/28/1983 | E F Helin & V Shkodrav discovers asteroid #3546 Atanasoff |
| Special : | 08/08/1983 | E F Helin discovers asteroid #3737 |
| Special : | 02/27/1983 | Eamonn Coghlan set mile record of 3:49.78 |
| Special : | 08/31/1983 | Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz |
| Special : | 12/20/1983 | El Salvador adopts constitution |
| Special : | 02/08/1983 | Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days |
| Special : | 06/16/1983 | European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10 |
| Special : | 09/11/1983 | Fashion designer Donna Karen marries Stephan Weiss |
| Special : | 02/28/1983 | Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch |
| Special : | 03/02/1983 | Final episode of M*A*S*H; 125,000,000 viewers |
| Special : | 05/25/1983 | Fire in Nassermeer Egypt kills 357 |
| Special : | 05/27/1983 | Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress |
| Special : | 02/05/1983 | Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial |
| Special : | 07/05/1983 | France invades Algeria |
| Special : | 09/11/1983 | Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards |
| Special : | 07/06/1983 | Fred Lynn of Angels hits All-Star game 1st grand slam (AL wins 13-3) |
| Special : | 08/12/1983 | General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army |
| Special : | 09/18/1983 | George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere |
| Special : | 09/04/1983 | Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship |
| Special : | 08/07/1983 | Grete Waitz of Norway, wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki Fin) |
| Special : | 12/20/1983 | Guy Lafleur, Montreal, became 10th NHLer to score 500 goals |
| Special : | 08/31/1983 | H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3450 |
| Special : | 08/27/1983 | Haiti adopts constitution |
| Special : | 08/07/1983 | Hall Sutton wins PGA golf tournament |
| Special : | 04/12/1983 | Harold Washington becomes Chicago's 1st black mayor |
| Special : | 04/29/1983 | Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor |
| Special : | 01/15/1983 | Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard |
| Special : | 11/26/1983 | Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million |
| Special : | 09/23/1983 | Heavyweight Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in Ohio |
| Special : | 06/27/1983 | Highest price paid for painting by a living artist-œ960,200-Mir¢ |
| Special : | 01/24/1983 | Hulk Hogan pins the Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title |
| Special : | 08/18/1983 | Hurricane Alicia battered Houston & Galveston, Texas |
| Special : | 03/08/1983 | IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0 |
| Special : | 10/20/1983 | IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released |
| Special : | 06/18/1983 | IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC |
| Special : | 10/11/1983 | IRAS discovers asteroid #3200 Phaethon |
| Special : | 01/23/1983 | In NBA, Portland scores all 17 pts in overtime to beat Houston 113-96 |
| Special : | 04/17/1983 | In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters |
| Special : | 04/17/1983 | India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket |
| Special : | 01/25/1983 | Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit |
| Special : | 12/13/1983 | Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers |
| Special : | 10/06/1983 | Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick |
| Special : | 12/22/1983 | Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps |
| Special : | 04/14/1983 | Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Ranger |
| Special : | 05/16/1983 | Isles win 3rd Cup in row def Canucks in Vancouver 3-1 in game 4 |
| Special : | 05/17/1983 | Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty |
| Special : | 10/10/1983 | Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM |
| Special : | 08/28/1983 | Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation |
| Special : | 03/--/1983 | Ivory Coast changes capital from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro |
| Special : | 08/31/1983 | J Gibson discovers asteroid #3711 |
| Special : | 02/20/1983 | Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km) |
| Special : | 07/26/1983 | Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czech sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28) |
| Special : | 11/03/1983 | Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency (D) |
| Special : | 09/11/1983 | Jimmy Connors & Martina Navratilova win US Open tennis tournament |
| Special : | 04/18/1983 | Joan Benoit set a women's record for Boston Marathon |
| Special : | 09/--/1983 | Joan Rivers becomes permanent guest host of Tonight Show |
| Special : | 07/03/1983 | John McEnroe regains men's singles title at Wimbledon |
| Special : | 07/02/1983 | John McEnroe wins Wimbledon |
| Special : | 08/03/1983 | John Sain of South Bend, Ind builds 3.91 m house of cards |
| Special : | 08/28/1983 | Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour |
| Special : | 12/23/1983 | Journal Science publishes 1st report on nuclear winter |
| Special : | 01/10/1983 | K Herkenhoff discovers asteroids #3489 Lottie & #3532 Tracie |
| Special : | 04/18/1983 | KMO-AM in Tacoma Wash changes call letters to KAMT (now KKMO) |
| Special : | 12/13/1983 | KYA-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KOIT |
| Special : | 01/02/1983 | Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes |
| Special : | 09/01/1983 | Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet jet |
| Special : | 01/13/1983 | L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #2892 Filipenko |
| Special : | 08/04/1983 | L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #3063 Makhaon |
| Special : | 12/05/1983 | LA Dodger pitcher Steve Howe is suspended for 1 year for cocaine use |
| Special : | 05/26/1983 | LA Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws |
| Special : | 08/19/1983 | LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting |
| Special : | 06/20/1983 | Larry Nelson wins US Open golf tournament |
| Special : | 12/10/1983 | Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7 |
| Special : | 10/05/1983 | Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| Special : | 05/10/1983 | Lee Chin Yong did 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul |
| Special : | 12/21/1983 | Loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan |
| Special : | 12/04/1983 | M Antal discovers asteroid #3730 |
| Special : | 05/15/1983 | Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion |
| Special : | 11/08/1983 | Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky |
| Special : | 12/13/1983 | Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor |
| Special : | 09/10/1983 | Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert Lloyd for US Open title |
| Special : | 06/27/1983 | Maxie Anderson & Don Ida die during a balloon race |
| Special : | 02/26/1983 | Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks |
| Special : | 10/--/1983 | Microsoft releases MS-DOS 2.11 (PC-DOS 2.1 + MS-DOS 2.01) |
| Special : | 08/06/1983 | Minn Vikings beat St Louis Cards 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo) |
| Special : | 04/18/1983 | N G Thomas discovers asteroid #2933 Amber, #3151 Talbot & #3561 Devine |
| Special : | 02/11/1983 | N G Thomas discovers asteroid #3117 Niepce |
| Special : | 01/12/1983 | N G Thomas discovers asteroid #3614 |
| Special : | 02/15/1983 | N Thomas discovers asteroid 3367 Alex, 3413 Andriana, 3525 Paul & 3580 |
| Special : | 09/02/1983 | N V Metlova discovers asteroid #3044 |
| Special : | 05/26/1983 | NASA launches Exosat |
| Special : | 06/28/1983 | NASA launches Galaxy-A |
| Special : | 09/22/1983 | NASA launches Galaxy-B |
| Special : | 04/28/1983 | NASA launches Goes-F |
| Special : | 09/08/1983 | NASA launches RCA-6 |
| Special : | 04/11/1983 | NASA launches RCA-F |
| Special : | 06/27/1983 | NASA launches space vehicle S-205 |
| Special : | 02/18/1983 | NBA Indiana Pacers begin a 28 game road losing streak |
| Special : | 12/21/1983 | NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak |
| Special : | 02/21/1983 | NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak |
| Special : | 12/18/1983 | NBA San Diego Clippers ends 29 game road losing streak |
| Special : | 01/12/1983 | NCAA creates the football Kickoff Classic to begin in August |
| Special : | 06/22/1983 | NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period |
| Special : | 11/12/1983 | NJ Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3 |
| Special : | 12/04/1983 | NJ Devils 1st shut-out, beating Minnesota Detroit Red Wings 6-0 |
| Special : | 07/05/1983 | NJ Devils purchase AHL Maine Mariners as their farm team |
| Special : | 11/20/1983 | NY Giants Butch Woolfolk ties NFL record of 43 attempts rushing |
| Special : | 12/20/1983 | NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Pitts Penguins |
| Special : | 04/01/1983 | NY Isle Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 cons seasons |
| Special : | 10/06/1983 | NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands |
| Special : | 11/21/1983 | NY Ranger Ron Greschner marries model Carol Alt |
| Special : | 01/25/1983 | Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia |
| Special : | 02/17/1983 | Netherlands adopts constitution |
| Special : | 03/06/1983 | New Bedford, Mass woman charges she was gang-raped atop a pool table |
| Special : | 09/18/1983 | New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chic Bears 34-31 |
| Special : | 01/17/1983 | Nigeria expels 2 million illegal aliens, mostly Ghanaians |
| Special : | 12/31/1983 | Nigeria's National Assembly dissolves after military coup |
| Special : | 10/17/1983 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu |
| Special : | 04/27/1983 | Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3509), passing Walter Johnson |
| Special : | 04/17/1983 | Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,500th batter |
| Special : | 05/01/1983 | Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508) |
| Special : | 04/04/1983 | North Carolina State wins NCAA women's basketball championship |
| Special : | 03/14/1983 | OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years |
| Special : | 09/29/1983 | Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0 |
| Special : | 07/30/1983 | Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, Calif |
| Special : | 05/10/1983 | Oilers 0-Isles 2-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
| Special : | 05/14/1983 | Oilers 1-Isles 5-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead |
| Special : | 05/17/1983 | Oilers 2-Isles 4-Stanley Cup-Isles win cup 4-0 (15-5) |
| Special : | 05/12/1983 | Oilers 3-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead |
| Special : | 11/05/1983 | Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden |
| Special : | 11/05/1983 | Osservatorio San Vittore discovers asteroid #3744 |
| Special : | 09/08/1983 | P Wild discovers asteroid #3258 |
| Special : | 09/26/1983 | P Wild discovers asteroid #3552 |
| Special : | 04/--/1983 | PC-DOS 1.85 internally released by IBM (after PC DOS 2.0) |
| Special : | 01/01/1983 | PGA inaugrates all-exempt tour |
| Special : | 12/20/1983 | PLO chairman Yasser Arafat & 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon |
| Special : | 11/24/1983 | PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians & Lebanese |
| Special : | 10/03/1983 | Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in UK |
| Special : | 10/31/1983 | Paul McCartney releases "Pipes of Peace" album |
| Special : | 01/01/1983 | Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for college football title |
| Special : | 05/31/1983 | Phila 76ers sweep Lakers for NBA championship in 4 games |
| Special : | 09/23/1983 | Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 300th game (beating St Louis Cards) |
| Special : | 07/24/1983 | Pine Tar Game, Brett's HR disallowed against Yanks (overturned) |
| Special : | 06/13/1983 | Pioneer 10 becomes 1st man-made object to leave Solar System |
| Special : | 07/22/1983 | Poland's PM Januzelski lifts martial law |
| Special : | 07/21/1983 | Polish govt ends 19 months of martial law |
| Special : | 12/27/1983 | Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca) |
| Special : | 11/11/1983 | Pres Reagan became 1st US pres to address Japan's legislature |
| Special : | 03/08/1983 | Pres Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire" |
| Special : | 04/20/1983 | Pres Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security |
| Special : | 11/02/1983 | Pres Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L King day |
| Special : | 12/27/1983 | Propane gas fire devastated 16ý blocks of Buffalo |
| Special : | 04/18/1983 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Alice Walker for "Color Purple" |
| Special : | 01/13/1983 | Qu‚bec Nordiques play 251st NHL game without being shut out |
| Special : | 01/10/1983 | R Kirk & D Rudy discovers asteroid #3412 Kafka |
| Special : | 09/12/1983 | R S Dunbar discovers asteroid #3551 |
| Special : | 09/09/1983 | Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2) |
| Special : | 04/15/1983 | Rangers 0-Isles 5-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 2-0 lead |
| Special : | 04/20/1983 | Rangers 2-Isles 7-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 3-2 lead |
| Special : | 04/18/1983 | Rangers 3-Isles 1-Patrick Div Finals-Series tied at 2-2 |
| Special : | 12/10/1983 | Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president |
| Special : | 01/07/1983 | Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala |
| Special : | 05/13/1983 | Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times |
| Special : | 08/04/1983 | Revolution in Burkina |
| Special : | 10/04/1983 | Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car |
| Special : | 06/16/1983 | Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany |
| Special : | 12/01/1983 | Rita Lavelle, former head of EPA, convicted of perjury |
| Special : | 10/31/1983 | Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia |
| Special : | 08/18/1983 | Royals defeat Yanks, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes) |
| Special : | 04/07/1983 | STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk |
| Special : | 08/02/1983 | STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad |
| Special : | 11/08/1983 | STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad |
| Special : | 10/17/1983 | STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem |
| Special : | 09/28/1983 | STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad |
| Special : | 08/18/1983 | Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel |
| Special : | 04/26/1983 | San Antonio spurs beat Denver Nuggets, 152-133 in NBA playoff game |
| Special : | 09/04/1983 | Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph) |
| Special : | 09/12/1983 | Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million |
| Special : | 02/26/1983 | Shortwave pirate Radio USA (Wellsville, NY) begins transmission |
| Special : | 03/16/1983 | Smallest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Nets-1,814) |
| Special : | 08/07/1983 | Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T |
| Special : | 04/21/1983 | Soyuz T-8 is launched [04-20?] |
| Special : | 04/20/1983 | Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock |
| Special : | 06/27/1983 | Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station |
| Special : | 11/25/1983 | Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off |
| Special : | 09/19/1983 | St Kitts & Nevis declares independence from UK |
| Special : | 09/26/1983 | St Louis Card Bob Forsch 2nd no-hitter beats Montreal Expos, 3-0 |
| Special : | 04/11/1983 | Steve Ballesteros wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament |
| Special : | 06/07/1983 | Steve Carlton temporarily passes Nolan Ryan with his 3,552 strike out |
| Special : | 07/29/1983 | Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak |
| Special : | 04/16/1983 | Steve Garvey sets NL record by playing in 1,118 consecutive games |
| Special : | 07/21/1983 | Storm cuts short Diana Ross' free concert in NY's Central Park |
| Special : | 10/23/1983 | Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut |
| Special : | 01/30/1983 | Super Bowl XVII-Washington Redskins-27, Miami Dolphins-17 |
| Special : | 07/06/1983 | Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less |
| Special : | 06/15/1983 | Supreme Court struck down state & local restrictions on abortion |
| Special : | 11/25/1983 | Syria & Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli |
| Special : | 02/11/1983 | T Seki discovers asteroid #3150 Tosa |
| Special : | 11/28/1983 | T Seki discovers asteroid #3262 Miune |
| Special : | 03/01/1983 | Tamara McKinney becomes 1st US woman skier to win the World Cup |
| Special : | 06/21/1983 | Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery |
| Special : | 06/02/1983 | Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinatti |
| Special : | 04/15/1983 | Tokyo Disneyland opens |
| Special : | 10/10/1983 | Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers |
| Special : | 01/03/1983 | Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yd rush, Dallas vs Minnesota |
| Special : | 05/22/1983 | Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit HR |
| Special : | 08/25/1983 | Triple A baseball's Louisville breaks 1 million fan mark |
| Special : | 11/15/1983 | Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed |
| Special : | 08/25/1983 | US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact |
| Special : | 08/02/1983 | US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination |
| Special : | 01/04/1983 | US Football League holds its 1st player draft |
| Special : | 10/14/1983 | US Marine peacekeeper Sgt Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut |
| Special : | 10/15/1983 | US Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut Intl Airport |
| Special : | 12/29/1983 | US announced withdrawal from UNESCO |
| Special : | 07/21/1983 | US announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge |
| Special : | 05/03/1983 | US bishops condemn nuclear weapons |
| Special : | 10/25/1983 | US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!) |
| Special : | 12/04/1983 | US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon |
| Special : | 09/13/1983 | US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle) |
| Special : | 12/28/1983 | US say they will leave UNESCO on Dec 31, 1984 |
| Special : | 02/23/1983 | USFL NJ Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 mil) |
| Special : | 09/06/1983 | USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2 |
| Special : | 11/23/1983 | USSR leave weapon disarmament talks |
| Special : | 09/12/1983 | USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane |
| Special : | 06/25/1983 | Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m |
| Special : | 04/13/1983 | Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault |
| Special : | 09/17/1983 | Vanessa Williams of NY became 1st black Miss America |
| Special : | 02/22/1983 | Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500m freestyle swimming record |
| Special : | 02/19/1983 | Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 m freestyle swimming record |
| Special : | 11/08/1983 | W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia |
| Special : | 09/01/1983 | WGH-AM in Newport News VA changes call letters to WNSY |
| Special : | 10/08/1983 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7 |
| Special : | 11/04/1983 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime victory beating Vancouver 5-4 |
| Special : | 07/25/1983 | Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion |
| Special : | 07/30/1983 | Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg |
| Special : | 07/05/1983 | Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, VA) |
| Special : | 02/13/1983 | World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds |
| Special : | 01/01/1983 | World Communications Year begins |
| Special : | 11/25/1983 | World's greatest robbery-œ25,000,000 of gold, Heathrow, England |
| Special : | 01/27/1983 | World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid |
| Special : | 06/20/1983 | Yankee Bobby Murcer retires |
| Special : | 07/04/1983 | Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox |
| Special : | 06/05/1983 | Yannich Noah becomes 1st Frenchman to win French Open since WW II |
| Special : | 09/02/1983 | Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israelli PM |
| Special : | 04/25/1983 | Yuri Andropov invites US schoolgirl Samantha Smith to USSR |
| Special : | 05/29/1983 | Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m |
| Special : | 12/04/1983 | Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #3735 |
| Special : | 09/22/1983 | Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4" |
| Special : | 04/21/1983 | œ1 coin introduced in United Kingdom |
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