Historical Events In 1983

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

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)

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