Historical Events In 1983

Apr 21 Soyuz T-8 is launched [04-20?]

Apr 04 45th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship North Carolina State beats Houston 54-52

Apr 15 Rodolfo Hoyos actor (Luis-Viva Valdez), dies at 68

Apr 17 In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters

Apr 20 Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock

Apr 04 Jacqueline Logan silent film leading lady, dies at 78

Apr 05 New York Mets' Tom Seaver's sets record 14th National League Opening Day assignment

Apr 12 Harold Washington becomes Chicago's first black mayor

Apr 27 Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3509), passing Walter Johnson

Apr 21 Walter Slezak actor, commits suicide at his NY home at 80

Apr 22 Stern mag announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolph Hitler (turned out to be a hoax)

Apr 29 Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's first black mayor

Apr 18 A lone suicide bomber kills 63, at the US Embassy in Lebanon

Apr 26 Dow Jones Industrial Avg breaks 1200 for first time

Apr 17 First National Coin Week begins

Apr 07 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave &Don Peterson first STS spacewalk

Apr 05 France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats

Nov 03 Jesse Jackson launches his first campaign for Presidency (D)

Nov 06 Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, California

Nov 24 PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians &Lebanese

Nov 30 Radio Shack announces the Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)

Nov 08 Martha Layne Collins (D) elected first female governor of Kentucky

Nov 13 "Alvin" Junior Samples country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 56

Nov 25 Syria &Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli

Nov 02 President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L King day

Nov 08 STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad

Nov 20 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "The Day After," about nuclear war

Nov 11 President Reagan became first US President to address Japan's legislature

Nov 25 World's greatest robbery-œ25,000,000 of gold, Heathrow, England

Nov 12 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas

Nov 27 Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 185

Nov 08 W Wilson Goode (D) elected first black mayor of Philadelphia

Nov 28 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-is launched

Nov 25 Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off

Nov 26 Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million

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