Historical Events In 1983

Aug 28   Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation in the year 1983.  

Aug 28   In the year 1983 jan Clayton, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie), dies at 66  

Aug 28   Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour on this day in history.  

Aug 29   Simon Oakland, actor (Toma, Kolchak, Baa Baa Black Sheep), dies at 61 on this day in history.  

Aug 30   In the year 1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)  

Aug 30   In the year 1983 guion S. Bluford Jr, the first African-American astronaut, blasts off as a crewmember aboard the space shuttle Challenger.  

Aug 30   Guy Bluford becomes the first black American in space in the year 1983.  

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 on this day in history.  

Sep 01   Henry "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash), dies at 71 in the year 1983.  

Sep 01   In the year 1983 korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia &is shot down by a Soviet jet  

Sep 02   Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israelli PM in the year 1983.  

Sep 04   On this day in history greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship  

Sep 04   On this day in history scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph)  

Sep 05   On this day in history 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB  

Sep 06   USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2 in the year 1983.  

Sep 07   In the year 1983 drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s)  

Sep 07   On this day in history hans Munch, composer, dies at 90  

Sep 08   Antonin Magne, French bicylist (won Tour de France 1931, 34), dies on this day in history.  

Sep 08   NASA launches RCA-6 on this day in history.  

Sep 09   In the year 1983 challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas  

Sep 09   On this day in history radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (the Coco2)  

Sep 09   In the year 1983 vitas Gerulatis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat the 100th ranked male tennis player  

Sep 10   Balthasar J "John" Vorster, S African premier (1966-78), dies at 67 in the year 1983.  

Sep 10   John Vorster, former prime minister of South Africa, dies in Cape Town at age 67 on this day in history.  

Sep 12   Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million on this day in history.  

Sep 12   USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane on this day in history.  

Sep 13   In the year 1983 uS mint strikes first gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)  

Sep 14   US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner in the year 1983.  

Sep 15   In the year 1983 leRoy Prinz, choreographer, dies at 88  

Sep 16   On this day in history arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen  

Sep 17   In the year 1983 humberto Madeiros, US cardinal to Boston, dies at 67  

Sep 17   In the year 1983 vanessa Williams of NY became first black Miss America  

Sep 18   On this day in history george Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere  

Sep 19   St Christopher-Nevis gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day) in the year 1983.  

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Apr 28   In the year 1983 birth of roger Johnson, English footballer  

Apr 30   In the year 1983 birth of tatjana Hüfner, German luger  

Apr 30   In the year 1983 birth of troy Williamson, American football player  

Apr 30   In the year 1983 birth of yamini, Tamil Singer  

May 22   In the year 1983 birth of john Hopkins, Anglo-American motorcycling racer  

Jun 07   In the year 1983 birth of mark Lowe, American baseball player  

Jun 14   On this day in history birth of john Stocco, American football player  

Jun 14   Louis Garrel, French actor was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   Bernard George Stevens, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

Jan 07   On this day in history august Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies at 79  

Jan 08   On this day in history gale Page, actress (4 Daughters, Knute Rockney), dies of cancer at 72  

Jan 11   In the year 1983 nikolaj V Podgorny, president USSR, dies at 79  

Jan 12   On this day in history death of rebop Kwaku Baah, Nigerian percussionist (b. 1944)  

Jan 13   Arthur Space, actor (Doc Weaver-Lassie), dies of cancer at 74 in the year 1983.  

Jan 15   Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach Fla at 80 on this day in history.  

Jan 17   Doodles Weaver, actor/comedian (Ring of Fire), shoots himself at 71 died in the year 1983.