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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