Historical Events In 1983

Feb 04 José Happart becomes mayor of Voeren Belgium

Feb 11 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18"(46 cm))

Feb 09 Belgium buys 44 F-16s

Feb 22 Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India

Feb 21 Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 minutes 7.1 seconds

Feb 24 USSR performs underground nuclear test

Feb 13 World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds

Feb 27 Jan Stephenson wins Tucson Conquistadores LPGA Golf Tournament

Feb 27 Eamonn Coghlan sets indoor mile record of 3 49.78

Feb 02 Chicago Archbishop Joseph L Bernardin is among 18 new cardinals invested

Feb 24 Dow Jones closes above 1100 mark for first time

Apr 18 Joan Benoit set a women's record for the Boston Marathon

Apr 19 Lorene Scott actress (Faraway Hill), dies at 74

Apr 03 12th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott

Apr 25 "Nightline" expands from « hour to a full hour

Apr 17 India launched its first satellite

Apr 16 Steve Garvey sets NL record by playing in 1,118 consecutive games

Apr 17 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,500th batter

Apr 13 Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault

Apr 26 Vaughn Taylor actor (Johnny Jupiter), dies at 72

Apr 18 N G Thomas discovers asteroid #2933 Amber, #3151 Talbot & #3561 Devine

Apr 04 Gloria Swanson actress, dies at 84 of a heart ailment

Apr 25 Yuri Andropov invites US schoolgirl Samantha Smith to USSR

Apr 11 Statistics Canada reports Canada's unemployment rate in March of 13.6% or 1,658,000 unemployed; a new record.

Apr 09 6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth

Apr 03 2nd NCAA Women's Basketball Championship Southern California beats Los Angeles Tech 69-67

Apr 22 Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth

Apr 18 KMO-AM in Tacoma Wash changes call letters to KAMT (now KKMO)

Apr 17 Wayne Gretsky scores 7 points in a playoff game

Apr 26 Bronislaw Kaper composer, dies at 81

Apr 13 Dedication of the Rats of Tobruk Memorial on Anzac Parade by the Governor-General, the Rt Hon Sir Ninian Stephen The memorial commemorates Australian and other Allied servicemen who fought and died during the siege of Tobruk in 1941

Apr 04 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched

Apr 07 Gavin Gordon television actor, dies at 82

Apr 15 Tokyo Disneyland opens

Apr 17 India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket

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