1983 Calendar
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1983 Historical Event(s)
February 8, 1983
– The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia’s second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 m deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
February 13, 1983
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
July 19, 1983
– The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
July 23, 1983
– Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
September 23, 1983
– Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
October 25, 1983
– Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.
December 5, 1983
– ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal in the same year.
December 7, 1983
– An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 93 people.
December 10, 1983
– Democracy is restored in Argentina with the assumption of President Raúl Alfonsín.
December 19, 1983
– The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
Who Were Born On 1983?
February 8, 1983
– Jermaine Anderson, Canadian basketball player
February 25, 1983
– Eduardo da Silva, Brazilian-born Croatian footballer
March 30, 1983
– Davis Romero, Panamanian baseball player
April 4, 1983
– Ben Gordon, American basketball player
April 11, 1983
– Rubén Palazuelos, Spanish football player
April 15, 1983
– Matt Cardle, British singer/songwriter
September 29, 1983
– Lisette Oropesa, American soprano
November 8, 1983
– Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer
November 26, 1983
– Chris Hughes, American businessman, co-founder of Facebook
December 23, 1983
– Michael Chopra, English footballer