1983 Calendar
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1983 Historical Event(s)
- February 13, 1983 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
- February 16, 1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
- March 8, 1983 – President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an “evil empire”.
- March 11, 1983 – Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
- June 13, 1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the furthest planet from the Sun at the time).
- July 24, 1983 – George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the “Pine Tar Incident”.
- July 25, 1983 – Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
- September 27, 1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
- October 29, 1983 – Over 500,000 people demonstrate against cruise missiles in The Hague, Netherlands.
- December 17, 1983 – The IRA bombs Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people.
Who Were Born On 1983?
- January 18, 1983 – Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
- February 2, 1983 – Alex Westaway, British musician
- February 23, 1983 – Emily Blunt, British actress
- February 27, 1983 – Kate Mara, American actress
- April 14, 1983 – Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Georgian basketball player
- April 24, 1983 – Princess Iman bint Al Hussein of Jordan
- July 22, 1983 – Arsenie Todiraş, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
- July 27, 1983 – Blair Redford, American actor
- September 26, 1983 – Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
- December 29, 1983 – Alison Brie, American actress