60 events found for 1983
A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los…
The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines…
Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 112 people on board.
Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze…
Soviet Air Force officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and…
Soyuz 7K-ST No. 16L, intended to launch a crew to the Salyut 7 space station, explodes on the launch pad. The launch…
John Pat, a 16-year old Aboriginal Australian boy, dies of injuries sustained by four off-duty police officers in…
Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in…
South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma, but the blast kills 21 and…
Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from the Lockheed…
Ameritech Mobile Communications launches the first US cellular network in Chicago.
The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident…
Lebanese Civil War: The U.S. Marines Corps barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military…
The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of…
The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held.
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake in the Turkish provinces of Erzurum and Kars leaves approximately 1,340 people dead.