1983

Year 1983 () was a (link displays the 1983 ).

January

 * - The is created in the state of
 * - The musical  is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows at the on Broadway, New York City..
 * - was launched in the  on the channel.
 * - A riot breaks out at prison,.
 * - High ranking   is arrested in.
 * - retires from  after winning 5 consecutive.
 * - Twenty-five members of the are sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of.
 * - is released for  computers.
 * - Red rain falls in the UK, caused by sand from the Sahara Desert in the droplets.
 * - The defeat the  27-17 in  at the  in,.
 * - use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the.

February

 * - goes on trial for multiple counts of  involving 105 women.
 * - Australian Prime Minister is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament for elections on .  replaces  as leader of the.
 * - is officially charged with s.
 * - opens an invasion in the southeast of.
 * - U.S. President proclaims 1983 "The Year of the ".
 * - A fire in,  kills 64.
 * - The bushfires in  and  claim the lives of 76 people in one of  worst fires ever.
 * - : 13 people are killed in an attempted in.
 * - The announces its intention to buy out and evacuate the -contaminated community of.
 * - A special commission of the releases a report critical of the practice of  during.
 * - playwright  is found dead in his  room.
 * - ' ends after 11 years and 251 episodes on . The series finale, ', becomes the.

March

 * - The and  become  of.
 * - introduces their first watches.
 * - is elected.
 * - releases the.
 * - U.S. President calls the  an "."
 * - resigns as head of the  amid scandal.
 * - Australia's is sworn in;  becomes Federal Opposition leader.
 * - The, the last wooden radio tower in Germany, is demolished.
 * - : U.S. President makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. The media dub this plan "Star Wars."

April

 * - ': Space Shuttle ' astronauts and  perform the first  spacewalk (duration: 4 hours, 10 minutes).
 * - The National Economic Summit is held in Canberra,.
 * - The British film  wins 8.
 * - is elected the first  mayor of.
 * - American Public Radio is founded (becomes in ).
 * - The first non-American opens in  as.
 * - The in, killing 63 people.
 * - -plagued is elected president of the.
 * - Soviet Embassy official Valery Ivanov is expelled from Australia for allegedly trying to recruit spies in the Australian government.
 * -  magazine in announces it has the.
 * - wins the  for  with the song, Si la vie est cadeau.
 * - schoolgirl  is invited to visit the  by its leader, after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about.

May

 * - magazine publishes the "" (later found to be forgeries).
 * - Pope retracts the ban on.
 * - wins the  - beating  2-1 in the final played in Gothenburg, Sweden.
 * - police begin the use of s on illegally-parked vehicles.
 * - NSW Premier Neville Wran steps down, in response to allegations raised by ABC program Four Corners that he attempted to influence the NSW Majestry.
 * -, , and the sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
 * - The begins at.
 * - : wins his first race after three previous runner-up finishes.

June

 * -,  since 1979, wins a landslide victory (42% of the popular vote) over , who led a highly-divided and weakened  which earned only 28% of the vote. The much improved economy (after 2-3 years of restructuring), her victory in the Falkands, as well as shrinking unemployment rates consolidates her election victory.
 * -  becomes the first manmade object to leave the.
 * - ': becomes the first American woman in space, on the Space Shuttle '.
 * - wins the Prudential world cup 1983.

July

 * - A n M jet en route to Conakry Airport in, crashes into the Fouta Djall Mountains in , killing all 23 people on board.
 * - The blocks construction of the  in.
 * - flies to the  (see April 25).
 * - The goes on sale in Japan
 * - : a helicopter crashes off the, causing 20 fatalities.
 * -   ends their original run.
 * - The government of announces end of  and  for s.
 * - stages a free concert in  in front of 800,000 people, enduring the severe weather but vows to return the next day.
 * - and the crowds return for day two of the performer's legendary  show.
 * - n completes his solo  in a.
 * - : Flight 143 crash-lands in.
 * - The, a communal riot occurs in.
 * - is expelled from a baseball game in, New York, after charging an umpire who called him out for having more  on his bat than technically allowed.
 * - Anti-Tamil riots break out in, leaving over 3,000 Tamils massacred and millions of dollars worth of their property destroyed. This is the beginning of a deadly  and  in.
 * - premier  is exonerated by the Street Royal Commission, over claims raised by ABC  programme , that he attempted to influence the NSW magistracy.

August

 * - becomes President in.
 * - first airs as.
 * - hits the  coast, killing 22 and causing over US$3.8 billion (2005 dollars) in damage.
 * - Five people are killed and 18 others injured when a road train is deliberately driven into a motel at Ayers Rock, NT (The driver, Douglas Edward Crabbe, is convicted in March 1984).
 * -, opposition leader, is assassinated in  just as he returns from exile.
 * - The Old is destroyed by arson.
 * - ': Space Shuttle ' carries, the first astronaut, into space.

September
- escape. 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of. The largest prison escape since WWII and in British history
 * - : is shot down by a  jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed.
 * - Six men walk underwater across the - 82.9 km in 48 hours.
 * - becomes lead anchor for .
 * - The admits to shooting down, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian  when it violated Soviet airspace.
 * - Donna Griffiths of in  stops sneezing after a continual series of sneezes for 978 days (since, ).
 * - becomes the first  to be crowned, in ,.
 * - Violence erupts in between native s and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of.
 * September 25- - Soviet military officer averts a worldwide nuclear war.
 * - wins.
 * - The is announced publicly on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft s.

October

 * - arrived in Cochin, Kerala India.
 * - is elected leader of the.
 * - sets a new  of 633.468, driving  at the ,.
 * - opens up in.
 * - A plan to abolish the is announced.
 * - The kills 's Foreign Minister,, and 21 others.
 * - 's former Prime Minister is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from, and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
 * -, the Prime Minister of , and 40 others are executed in a military coup.
 * - At the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures, the is defined in terms of the  as the distance light travels in a  in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
 * - In, , people demonstrate for.
 * - Simultaneous destroy both the  and the  barracks in, killing 241 US servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians.  The game show "GO!" premieres on NBC.
 * - kills 3 members of the Laitner family and rapes their daughter in the  suburb of.
 * - troops invade  at the behest of  of, a member of the.
 * - is first released.
 * - visits his would-be assassin  in prison to forgive him.
 * - The first democratic elections in after 7 years of military rule are held.

November

 * - : At the Rose Garden, U.S. President  signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January to honor  leader.
 * - The Reverend announces his candidacy for the 1984  presidential nomination.
 * - The rig diving bell accident off the coast of . Five divers are killed and one severely wounded in an  accident.
 * - becomes the first U.S. President to address the, 's national legislature.
 * - The first s arrive at  Airbase in England amid protests from peace campaigners.
 * - The Turkish part of declares.
 * - A jury in acquits Ginny Foat of the murder of Argentine businessman Moses Chaiyo.
 * - The is founded.


 * - Lynda Mann, 15, is found raped and strangled in the village of, ( is sentenced to  in 1988).
 * - : In, 6,800 bars worth nearly UK£26 million are taken from the Brinks Mat vault at . Only a fraction of the gold is ever recovered, and only 2 men are convicted of the crime.
 * - A n crashes near,  killing 181 of the 192 on board.

December

 * - Two passenger planes collide on the foggy  at a  airport killing 90.
 * - The is floated, by Federal treasurer . 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 is taken by the government of.
 * - Military rule ends and is restored in.
 * - becomes the new soccer world champion, after beating Hamburg by 2-1.
 * - The and the visiting  combine for an  record 370 points, with Detroit winning in triple, 186-184.
 * - A fire in, , kills 83 people.
 * - A car bomb kills 6 Christmas shoppers and injures 90 outside  in.
 * - Ambush expert J.K Coventry was born in.
 * - A explosion in  kills five firefighters and two civilians.
 * - The Reverend travels to  to secure the release of U.S. Navy Lieutenant, who has been in Syrian captivity after being shot down over the country on a reconnaissance mission.
 * - gains  from the.
 * - Two bombs explode in . One on the Paris train kills 3 and injures 19. The other at Marseille station kills 2 and injures 34.

Undated

 * received for  built in.
 * (DARE) program launched in U.S.
 * ' and ' are box-office hits.
 * wins the
 * The  was approved by, leading to a revolution in the field of transplantation.
 * Kellogg's introduces Crispix cereal.
 * , the people of, and  /  and  /  win the.
 * introduces the.
 * divorces.
 * discovers while working for Cetus.
 * The ceases production.

Fictional
The references to 1983 in popular fiction are:

The 1968-1970 TV Series is set in the year 1983.

In the TV series, there are several 'special children,' who were all born in 1983.

January-February

 * -, Japanese gravure idol
 * -, American actress
 * -, American musician
 * -, American golfer
 * -, American wrestler
 * -, Chinese-American musician
 * -, French basketball player
 * -, German basketball player
 * -, Irish singer and actress
 * -, Japanese singer and songwriter
 * -, Japanese singer and DJ
 * -, German footballer
 * -, British flash animator
 * -, American Formula One driver
 * -, British actor
 * -, Swedish athlete competing in heptathlon, long jump and pentathlon.
 * -, American pornographic actress
 * -, Swedish model
 * -, American singer
 * -, Canadian footballer
 * -, Australian footballer
 * -, American rapper
 * -, Japanese singer and actress
 * -, American hockey player
 * -, Italian rugby player
 * -, Egyptian footballer
 * -, English actress
 * -, American basketball player
 * -, American actor

March-April

 * -, Colombian writer
 * -, American singer
 * -, Canadian murder victim (d. )
 * -, Kazakh boxer
 * -, American musician
 * -, British actor
 * -, American twin actors
 * -, British actor
 * -, American basketball player (d. )
 * -, English footballer
 * -, American wrestler
 * -, member of the Taiwanese girl-group


 * -, American rapper
 * -, American actress
 * -, Canadian ice hockey player
 * -, American soccer player
 * -, American actor
 * -, South African rugby player
 * -, Russian ice hockey player
 * -, Venezuelan player
 * -, Polish footballer
 * -, American football player
 * -, American playwright
 * -, Slovakian tennis player
 * -, British R&B singer
 * -, Australian model
 * -, American football player

May-June

 * -, Japanese actor
 * -, American football player
 * -, Australian actress and singer
 * -, Ivory Coast and er
 * -, Chechen singer
 * -, British actress
 * -, American actress
 * -, American football player
 * -, Hungarian model
 * -, British actress
 * -, American soccer player
 * -, British/ American actor
 * -, British actress


 * -, New Zealand rugby player
 * -, British actress
 * -, American pornstar
 * -, Belgian tennis player
 * -, Japanese seiyuu
 * -, American actress
 * -, South African player
 * -, Canadian hockey player
 * -, German violinist
 * -, American football player
 * -, British singer
 * -, Australian Rugby League player
 * -, American actor
 * -, British snooker player
 * -, Hong Kong actress
 * -, German actor
 * -, American guitarist, singer, and songwriter
 * -, English drummer
 * -, British singer
 * -, British singer, songwriter and musician

July-August

 * -, Korean singer, member of
 * -, Norwegian musician
 * -, American singer
 * -, Canadian-born American actor
 * -, American pornographic actress
 * -, American actor
 * -, Korean singer, member of
 * -, Swedish-born American singer
 * -, Japanese model
 * -, Chinese athlete
 * -, drummer
 * -, singer and composer
 * -, American
 * -, Australian
 * -, American
 * -, English
 * -, Irish footballer


 * -, British model
 * -, Dutch football player
 * -, actress
 * -, American actor
 * -, British actor
 * -, Canadian professionial ice hockey player
 * -, British model
 * -, Czechoslovakian professional ice hockey player
 * -, Ukrainian-American actress
 * -, American adult model and porn star
 * -, TV presenter and DJ
 * -, Greek basketball player
 * -, American baseball player
 * -, British singer
 * -, Australian actress
 * -, British reality TV star
 * -, n player
 * -, British actor
 * -, Taiwanese actor
 * -, Sri Lankan cricketer
 * -, New Zealand Rugby Union player
 * -, Japanese singer and actor
 * -, Finnish musician

September-October

 * -, Spanish football player
 * -, British singer
 * -, American singer
 * -, American actress
 * -, American actor
 * -, American basketball player
 * -, American producer, actress and singer


 * -, Japanese actor
 * -, Japanese gravure idol
 * -, American model and socialite
 * -, Scottish football goalkeeper
 * -, radio DJ
 * -, American porn star
 * -, Hong Kong singer and actress
 * -, Australian actress
 * -, American singer and actress
 * -, Canadian actress
 * -, American race car driver
 * -, American R&B singer
 * -, Swedish-born American singer
 * -, Australian actor/musician
 * -, Jordanian singer

November-December

 * -, Japanese gravure idol
 * -, American actress
 * -, Croatian high jumper
 * -, German footballer
 * -, Japanese model
 * -, American rapper
 * -, South African-born guitarist
 * -, South Korean singer
 * -, British actor
 * -, American singer/rapper
 * -, Norwegian computer programmer


 * -, Mexican volleyball player
 * -, South African rugby player
 * -, Polish footballer
 * -, American actor (', ')
 * -, American singer
 * -, American football player
 * -, Polish swimmer
 * -, UK basketball player
 * -, Canadian professional wrestler
 * -, British model
 * -, Canadian hockey player
 * -, British model
 * -, Australian television personality, crowned Miss Universe in 2004
 * -, American baseball player
 * -, Japanese singer

January-March

 * -, hitman (b. )
 * -, Indian industrialist and educator (b. )
 * -, Russian-born gangster (b. )
 * -, English cricketer (b. )
 * -, American film director (b. )
 * -, French actor (b. )
 * -, fifteenth (b. )
 * -, British artist of the
 * -, American singer (b. )
 * -, American musician and songwriter (b. )
 * -, German athlete (b. )
 * - Sir, English conductor (b. )
 * -, English composer (b. )
 * -, American playwright (b. )
 * -, Russian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. )
 * -, Belgian comics creator (b. )
 * -, Austrian writer (b. )
 * -, English composer (b. )
 * -, Swedish physiologist, laureate (b. )
 * -, English-born writer (b. )
 * -, American physiologist, laureate (b. )
 * -, American civil engineer, from the University of Colorado (b. )

April-June

 * -, American actress (b. )
 * -, American musician (b. )
 * -, American musician (b. )
 * -, American writer (b. )
 * -, American judge (b. )
 * -, Irish Foreign Minister (b. )
 * -, (b. )
 * -, British art historian (b. )
 * -, Belgian biologist, recipient of the (b. )
 * -, American heavyweight champion boxer (b. )
 * -, Canadian musician (b. )
 * -, Slovenian writer (b. )
 * -, American singer,  (b. )
 * -, Canadian-born actress
 * -, German industrial designer (b. )
 * -, Argentine composer (b. )

July-September

 * -, American architect (b. )
 * -, alleged English murderer (b. )
 * -, American model (murdered) (b. )
 * -, American-Canadian writer (b. )
 * -, British rock musician (b. )
 * -, American journalist (b. )
 * -, French composer (b. )
 * -, Canadian actor (b. )
 * -, English actor (b. )
 * -, American actress (b. )
 * -, baseball player (b. )
 * -, American lyricist (b. )
 * -, Filipino politician (b. )
 * -, U.S. Congressman (plane crash) (b. )
 * -, Swiss-born physicist, laureate (b. )
 * -, heaviest man who ever lived (b. )
 * - King (b. )
 * -, Corsican singer (b. )

October-December

 * -, American Catholic archbishop (b. )
 * -, American actress (b. )
 * -, baseball player (b. )
 * -, American journalist (drowned in a car accident) (b. )
 * -, American cartoonist (b. )
 * -, American football player and coach (b. )
 * -, American conductor and composer (b. )
 * -, French composer (b. )
 * -, British actor (b. )
 * -, Canadian actress (b. )
 * -, French singer (b. )
 * -, American actor (b. )
 * - Sir, British general (b. )
 * -, Belgian-born literary critic (b. )
 * -, Northern Irish artist (b. )
 * -, Catalan painter (b. )
 * -, American musician (The Beach Boys) (drowned) (b. )