Page 11: Historical Events In 1983
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Aug 12 Henry Gifford Vivian, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ, 17 wkts), dies 


Aug 14 French troops deployed in Chad 


Aug 15 Anthony Costello, actor (Blue), dies at 42. 


Aug 17 In Luzon, Philippine Islands a 6.5 quake killed 16 and 47 injured and extensive damage in the Pasuquin-Laoag-Batac and Serrat areas 


Aug 17 Ira Gershwin lyricist, dies in Beverly Hills, Cal, at 86 


Aug 17 Ira Gershwin, lyricist, dies in Beverly Hills at 86 


Aug 18 Hurricane Alicia battered Houston andGalveston, Texas 


Aug 18 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel 


Aug 19 LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting 


Aug 20 Kerwin Duinmeijer, Antillean boy, murdered by racist at 15. 


Aug 21 Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed at 50 


Aug 24 Jack Somack, actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show), dies at 64. 


Aug 25 US and USSR sign $10 billion grain pact 


Aug 26 Mike Kellin, actor (Honestly Celeste), dies at 61 of cancer. 


Aug 28 Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation 


Aug 28 Jan Clayton, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie), dies at 66 


Aug 28 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2215 clay pigeons shot in an hour. 


Aug 29 Simon Oakland, actor (Toma, Kolchak, Baa Baa Black Sheep), dies at 61 


Aug 30 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days) 


Aug 30 Guion S. Bluford Jr, the inaugural African-American astronaut, blasts off as a crewmember aboard the space shuttle Challenger. 


Aug 30 Guy Bluford is recorded as becoming the inaugural black American in space 


Sep 01 A Soviet fighter plane downs a KAL Boeing 747 jumbo jet that veered 100 miles into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 people aboard. 


Sep 01 Henry "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash), dies at 71 


Sep 01 Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet 


Sep 02 Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israelli PM 


Sep 04 Greg LeMond is recorded as becoming only American to win cycling's Road Championship 


Sep 04 Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph) 


Sep 05 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB. 


Sep 06 USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2 


Sep 07 Drury Gallagher sets quickest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s). 


Sep 07 Hans Munch, composer, dies at 90 


Sep 08 Antonin Magne, French bicylist (won Tour de France 1931, 34), dies 


Sep 08 NASA launches RCA-6. 


Sep 09 Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas. 


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