Historical Events In 1983

Feb 28 Final TV episode of "MASH" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch

Feb 01 New channels first available on cable as pay TV launched in Canada; First Choice, Superchannel and C-Channel allyou got to do is PAY

Feb 22 Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary

Feb 13 Australia beats New Zealand 2-0 to win World Series Cup

Feb 23 25th Grammy Awards Rosanna, Toto IV, Men at Work win

Feb 04 Pop singer-drummer Karen Carpenter dies in Downey, California, at age 32.

Feb 08 Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance

Feb 03 US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners

Feb 04 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton

Feb 10 Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral UK nuclear disarmament

Feb 23 USFL New Jersey Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 million)

Feb 24 A U.S. congressional report condemns the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII.

Feb 26 Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks

Feb 05 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial

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

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