Historical Events In 1983

Jan 25 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia

Jan 29 "Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on UK pop chart

Jan 30 Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ

Jan 07 Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala

Jan 29 40th Golden Globes Gandhi, ET &Tootsie win

Jan 15 Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand vs India

Jan 18 IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball

Jan 23 "A-Team" with Mr T premieres on NBC

Jan 02 "Sophisticated Ladies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City NY after 767 performances

Jan 25 China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life

Jan 02 Ken Anderson of Cincinnati OH completes record 20 consecutive passes

Jan 17 Alabama Governor George C Wallace, becomes governor for record 4th time

Jan 02 Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing "Doonesbury"

Jan 05 Roman Catholic Bishops of Canada release New Year's message attacking government economic policy.

Jan 07 Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala

Jan 02 Don Muraco beats Pedro Morales to become WWF Intercontinental Champ

Jan 09 British PM Margaret Thatcher visits the Falkland Islands

Jan 02 Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing "Doonesbury"

Jan 23 Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean

Jan 02 Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau starts 18-day mission to Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines

Jan 10 In Los Angeles, the Fraggle Rock children's show debuts on HBO; partly produced in Toronto by Jim Henson

Jan 17 Alabama Governor George C Wallace, becomes governor for record 4th time

Jan 02 The musical Annie, based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, ends its Broadway run after 2,377 performances.

Jan 02 Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau starts 18-day mission to Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines

Jan 05 Roman Catholic Bishops of Canada release New Year's message attacking government economic policy.

Jan 23 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $14,700,000

Jan 19 Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia

Jan 02 Don Muraco beats Pedro Morales to become WWF Intercontinental Champ

Feb 10 Canada signs agreement allowing US testing of military equipment in Canada, including cruise missiles

Feb 20 Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km)

Feb 28 Statistics Canada reports Canadian Gross National Product fell 4.8% in 1982; sharpest decline since 1933

Feb 21 NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak

Feb 08 Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days

Feb 11 "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Ricky" & "Buckingham Blues" debut LP

Feb 01 USSR performs underground nuclear test

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