25 events found for 1983
Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he r
The West German news magazine Stern begins publishing excerpts from the purported diaries of Adolf Hitler, later reveale
The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by new experts
Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon
First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scienti
Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by UMkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pret
After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed
Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, A
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 loses one of its propellers in flight resulting in damage to the flight controls
Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptun
Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space
Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other women of the Baháʼí Faith, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran
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 is established as China's principal intelligence agency
Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri…
A TAME airline Boeing 737-200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board.