Page 4: Historical Events In 1983
Monday, 23 February 2026
Mar 06 New Bedford MA woman charges she was gang-raped atop a pool table. 


Mar 06 Thelma Pelish, actress (Pajama Game), dies at 55 


Mar 07 August Hoffman performs record 29051 consecutive sit-ups 


Mar 07 Igor Markevich, composer, dies at 70 


Mar 07 TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV 


Mar 08 House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR 


Mar 08 In this year, IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0 


Mar 08 President Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire". 


Mar 08 William T Walton, English composer (Belhazzar's feast), dies at 80. 


Mar 09 Caryl Churchill's "Fen", premieres in London 


Mar 09 Faye Emerson, actress (I've Got a Secret), dies of cancer at 65 


Mar 09 Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana 


Mar 11 Donald Maclean, spy and associate of Guy Burgess, buried in Moscow 


Mar 11 World Ice Dance Championship in Helsinki Finland won by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean (Great Britain) 


Mar 11 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev (USSR). 


Mar 11 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Rosalynn Sumners (USA). 


Mar 11 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA). 


Mar 12 Jevsei G Liberman, Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at 85 


Mar 13 Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55), dies at 58 


Mar 14 Maurice Ronet, actor (Circle of Love, Frantic, Sphinx), dies at 55 


Mar 14 OPEC cut oil prices for inaugural time in 23 years. 


Mar 15 Jose Luis Sert, Spanish-US architect/urban developer, dies at 80. 


Mar 15 Karnataka beat Bombay on inaugural innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy. 


Mar 16 Arthur Godfrey, TV host (Arthur Godrey Show), dies at 79. 


Mar 17 9th People's Choice Awards. 


Mar 18 Umberto of Piemonte, King Umberto II of Italy (1946), dies. 


Mar 20 In this year, Kathy Whitworth claims LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open. 


Mar 21 Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled 


Mar 22 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president 


Mar 23 Barney B. Clark, survived for 112 days before his death, the Jarvick 7, an artificial heart made of polyurethane and aluminum 


Mar 23 Barney Clark, 1st artifical heart recipient, dies after 112 days at 62 


Mar 23 US President Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars"-plan (SDI). 


Mar 25 In the Damavand-Amol area of Iran a5.2 quake killed 30 people and injured 61 , many homes damaged and landslides in the. 


Mar 25 Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72. 


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