Explore 3174 historical events from 1980–1989.
Lebanon, officially the Lebanese Republic, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bo…
Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon
Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) are two species of Lentivirus that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progre…
First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scienti
The Church Street bombing was a terrorist car bombing on 20 May 1983 in the South African capital Pretoria by uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the paramilitary wing of the African National C…
Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by UMkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pret
Miranda May Kerr is an Australian model. She rose to prominence in 2007 as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels. Kerr was the first Australian Victoria's Secret model and also repre…
Miranda Kerr, Australian model
Tarvaris D'Andre Jackson was an American professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL). Jackson played college football for the Arkansas Razorb…
Tarvaris Jackson, American football player (died 2020)
Kimberly Wall is an English former sprinter specializing in the 400 metres and the 2010 World Athletics Indoor Championships bronze medalist in the 4 × 400 m relay. She also won ei…
Kim Wall, British sprinter
Sam W. Heads is a British palaeontologist, a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, as well as a former Officer and Editor-in-Chief a…
Sam W
The 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake occurred on May 26, 1983, at 11:59:57 local time. It had a magnitude of 7.8 on the moment magnitude scale. It occurred in the Sea of Japan, about 1…
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Air Canada Flight 797 was an international passenger flight operating from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Montréal–Dorval International Airport, with an intermediate st…
After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed
Gordon Wendell Kahl was an American World War II veteran, farmer and tax protester who was known for being a one-time member of the Posse Comitatus movement and for his involvement…
Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, A
Aleksandr Suvorov is a Valerian Kuybyshev-class (92-016, OL400) Soviet/Russian river cruise ship, cruising in the Volga–Don basin. On 5 June 1983 Aleksandr Suvorov crashed into a g…
More than 100 people are killed when the Russian river cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov collides with a girder of the Ulyan
Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 was an American domestic flight from Cold Bay, Alaska, to Seattle, Washington, on June 8, 1983. Shortly after takeoff, the Lockheed L-188 Electra of…
Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 loses one of its propellers in flight resulting in damage to the flight controls
Shkëlzen Shala is a Kosovo Albanian entrepreneur, gastronome and veganism activist based in Pristina, Kosovo.
Shkëlzen Shala, Albanian entrepreneur and veganism activist
Leon Hougaard Andreasen is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a defender or midfielder. He won 20 caps and scored three goals for the Denmark national team.
Leon Andreasen, Danish international footballer
Daniela Hantuchová is a Slovak tennis commentator and retired player. She turned professional in 1999 and had her breakthrough year in 2002, when she won her first WTA Tour title a…
Daniela Hantuchová, Slovak tennis player
Pioneer 10 is a NASA space probe launched in 1972 that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. Pioneer 10 became the first of five artificial objects to achieve the esca…
Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptun
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transpor…
Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space
Mona Mahmudnizhad was an Iranian Baháʼí who, in 1983, together with nine other Baháʼí women, was sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran, on the grounds of being a member of …
Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other women of the Baháʼí Faith, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders China and …
A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in…
The Ministry of State Security (MSS) is the principal civilian intelligence and security service of the People's Republic of China, responsible for foreign intelligence, counterint…
The Ministry of State Security is established as China's principal intelligence agency
Ian Henderson is a former professional rugby league footballer who last played for the Sydney Roosters in the NRL. A Scotland international hooker, his brothers, Andrew Henderson a…
Ian Henderson, English rugby league player
Hanna Anatoliïvna Kasyanova is a Ukrainian heptathlete.
Hanna Melnychenko, Ukrainian heptathlete
Johnathan Dean Thurston is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the National Rugby League (NRL). Thurston was an Australian international, Queens…
Johnathan Thurston, Australian rugby league player
DeAngelo Chondon Williams is an American professional wrestler and former football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons. He played college f…
DeAngelo Williams, American football player