Johan Cruyff
To Feyenoord
At the end of the 1982–83 season, Ajax decided not to offer Cruyff a new contract. This angered Cruyff, who responded by signing for Ajax's archrivals Feyenoord.
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- Lula da Silva
The Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) union association
In 1983 he helped found the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) union association.
- Sooronbay Jeenbekov
The Chief Livestock Specialist
Jeenbekov started his career at the Lenin School in the Uzgen District, where he worked as a teacher at 18 and taught Russian and literature. In 1983, he became the chief livestock specialist of the Soviet farm in the Soviet district of Osh region and continued to work in the position for about five years.
- Barack Obama
Graduated
Later in 1981, he transferred as a junior to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations and in English literature and lived off-campus on West 109th Street. He graduated with a BA degree in 1983.
- Microsoft
Paul Allen resigned
Paul Allen resigned from Microsoft in 1983 after developing Hodgkin's disease.
- DC Comics
One of the longest-running comic-book series
That title evolved into Adventure Comics, which continued through issue #503 in 1983, becoming one of the longest-running comic-book series. In 2009 DC revived Adventure Comics with its original numbering.
- Computer animation
First 3D film telling a Story
In 1983, Philippe Bergeron, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, and Daniel Thalmann directed Dream Flight, considered as the first 3D generated film telling a story. The film was completely programmed using the MIRA graphical language, an extension of the Pascal programming language based on abstract graphical data types. The film got several awards and was shown at the SIGGRAPH '83 Film Show.
- Nicaraguan Revolution
Contras had launched a Major Offensive
By 1983 the Contras had launched a major offensive and the CIA was helping them to plant mines in Nicaragua's harbors to prevent foreign weapons shipments from arriving.
- Linux
Complete Unix-compatible software system
The GNU Project started in 1983 by Richard Stallman, who had the goal of creating a "complete Unix-compatible software system" composed entirely of free software.
- Nuclear Power
Krško Nuclear Power Plant
The Krško Nuclear Power Plant is located in Vrbina in the Municipality of Krško, Slovenia. The plant was connected to the power grid on October 2, 1981, and went into commercial operation on January 15, 1983. It was built as a joint venture by Slovenia and Croatia which were at the time both parts of Yugoslavia.
- Internet
Flag day
ARPANET became the technical core of what would become the Internet, and a primary tool in developing the technologies used. The early ARPANET used the Network Control Program (NCP, sometimes Network Control Protocol) rather than TCP/IP. On January 1, 1983, known as flag day, NCP on the ARPANET was replaced by the more flexible and powerful family of TCP/IP protocols, marking the start of the modern Internet.
- Internet
Originally named IP/TCP it was installed in the ARPANET
The software was redesigned as a modular protocol stack, using full-duplex channels. Originally named IP/TCP it was installed in the ARPANET for production use in January 1983.
- Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
Iran's Revolutionary Guard
He began working with Iran's Revolutionary Guard in Kuwait in 1983, organizing attacks on embassies of countries that supported Saddam in the Iran–Iraq War.
- Donald Trump
Jewish National Fund Tree of Life Award
In 1983, Trump received the Jewish National Fund Tree of Life Award, after he helped fund the building of two playgrounds, a park, and a reservoir in Israel.
- Thanksgiving
U.S. invasion
In the West Indian island of Grenada, in the Caribbean, there is a national holiday known as Thanksgiving Day which is celebrated on October 25. Even though it bears the same name, and is celebrated at roughly the same time as the American and Canadian versions of Thanksgiving, this holiday is unrelated to either of those celebrations. Instead the holiday marks the anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of the island in 1983, in response to the deposition and execution of the socialist Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop by a military government from within his own party.
- Iran–Iraq War
Operation Fajr al-Nasr (Dawn of Victory)
In Operation Fajr al-Nasr (Before the Dawn/Dawn of Victory), launched 6 February 1983, the Iranians shifted focus from the southern to the central and northern sectors. Employing 200,000 "last reserve" Revolutionary Guard troops, Iran attacked along a 40 km (25 mi) stretch near al-Amarah, Iraq, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast of Baghdad, in an attempt to reach the highways connecting northern and southern Iraq. The attack was stalled by 60 km (37 mi) of hilly escarpments, forests, and river torrents blanketing the way to al-Amarah, but the Iraqis could not force the Iranians back. Iran directed artillery on Basra, Al Amarah, and Mandali.
- Internet
MILNET
In 1983, the U.S. military portion of the ARPANET was broken off as a separate network, the MILNET. MILNET subsequently became the unclassified but military-only NIPRNET, in parallel with the SECRET-level SIPRNET and JWICS for TOP SECRET and above. NIPRNET does have controlled security gateways to the public Internet.
- Gary Webb
Webb worked for the newspaper Cleveland Plain Dealer
In 1983, Webb moved to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, where he continued doing investigative work.
- Disasters with highest death tolls
Ash Wednesday Bushfires
The Ash Wednesday bushfires, known in South Australia as Ash Wednesday II, were a series of bushfires that occurred in south-eastern Australia on 16 February 1983, which was Ash Wednesday in the Christian calendar. In Victoria 47 people died. There were 28 deaths in South Australia. This included 14 CFA and 3 CFS volunteer fire-fighters who died across both states that day.
- Mass Shootings in the United States
Wah Mee Massacre
The Wah Mee massacre was multiple homicides that occurred during the night of February 18–19, 1983, in which Kwan Fai "Willie" Mak, Wai-Chiu "Tony" Ng, and Benjamin Ng (no relation) bound, robbed, and shot fourteen people in the Wah Mee gambling club at the Louisa Hotel in Chinatown-International District, Seattle. Thirteen of their victims died, but Wai Chin, a dealer at the Wah Mee, survived to testify against the three in the separate high-profile trials held in 1983 and 1985. It is the deadliest mass murder in Washington state history.
- Iran–Iraq War
capturing Majnoon Island
By 27 February, they had captured the island, but suffered catastrophic helicopter losses to IRAF. On that day, a massive array of Iranian helicopters transporting Pasdaran troops were intercepted by Iraqi combat aircraft (MiGs, Mirages and Sukhois).
- Stuart Long
Long joined Carroll College
Stuart Long attended Carroll College, a private Catholic College in Helena. He played football for two years and began boxing.
- Mobile Phones
The DynaTAC 8000X mobile phone
On 6 March 1983, the DynaTAC 8000X mobile phone launched on the first US 1G network by Ameritech. It cost $100M to develop, and took over a decade to reach the market. The phone had a talk time of just thirty-five minutes and took ten hours to charge. Consumer demand was strong despite the battery life, weight, and low talk time, and waiting lists were in the thousands.
- Celine Dion
Dion received a gold record in France
By 1983, in addition to becoming the first Canadian artist to receive a gold record in France for the single "D'amour ou d'amitié" ("Of Love or Friendship"), Dion had also won several Félix Awards, including "Best Female performer" and "Discovery of the Year".
- Iran–Iraq War
Operation Dawn-1
From early 1983–1984, Iran launched a series of four Valfajr (Dawn) Operations (that eventually numbered to 10). During Operation Dawn-1, in early February 1983, 50,000 Iranian forces attacked westward from Dezful and were confronted by 55,000 Iraqi forces. The Iranian objective was to cut off the road from Basra to Baghdad in the central sector.
- Nancy Pelosi
Phillip Burton died
Phillip Burton died in 1983 and was succeeded by his wife, Sala. In late 1986, Sala became ill with cancer and decided not to run for reelection in 1988. She picked Pelosi as her designated successor, guaranteeing her the support of the Burtons' contacts.
- Robin Williams
First child
William's first son Zachary Pym "Zak" Williams was born in 1983.
- Indira Gandhi
The Punjab Police Deputy was shot dead
On 23 April 1983, the Punjab Police Deputy Inspector General A. S. Atwal was shot dead as he left the Temple compound. The following day, after the murder, Harchand Singh Longowal confirmed the involvement of Bhindranwale in the murder.
- James Bond
Octopussy
Octopussy is a 1983 spy film and the thirteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions; it was the sixth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by John Glen and the screenplay was written by George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum, and Michael G. Wilson.
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Belgrade Conference
The sixth UN conference on trade and development in Belgrade, 6–30 June 1983 was held against the background of earlier UNCTADs which have substantially failed to resolve many of the disagreements between the developed and developing countries and of a world economy in its worst recession since the early 1930s. The key issues of the time were finance and adjustment, commodity price stabilization, and trade.
- Tony Blair
1983 General Election
At the age of thirty, he was elected as MP for Sedgefield in 1983; despite the party's landslide defeat at the general election.
- Margaret Thatcher
Thatcher re-elected for a second successive term
The "Falklands factor", an economic recovery beginning early in 1982, and a bitterly divided opposition all contributed to Thatcher's second election victory in 1983.
- Brexit
The 1983 general election
The Labour Party campaigned in the 1983 general election on a commitment to withdraw from the EC without a referendum.
- Red Dog (Pilbara)
Red Dog (1983)
Soon after Red's death, Australian, author Nancy Gillespie wrote and compiled anecdotes and poetry written by several people of the Pilbara region for her 1983 book Red Dog.
- Eiffel Tower
The south pillar was fitted with an electrically driven Otis lift to serve the Jules Verne restaurant
In 1983, the south pillar was fitted with an electrically driven Otis lift to serve the Jules Verne restaurant.
- James Bond
Icebreaker was published
Icebreaker, first published in 1983, was the third novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and is the first Bond novel to be published in the United States by Putnam, beginning a long-standing association.
- Iran–Iraq War
Capturing the Iraqi town of Haj Omran
During Operation Dawn-2, the Iranians directed insurgency operations by proxy in April 1983 by supporting the Kurds in the north. With Kurdish support, the Iranians attacked on 23 July 1983, capturing the Iraqi town of Haj Omran and maintaining it against an Iraqi poison gas counteroffensive. This operation incited Iraq to later conduct indiscriminate chemical attacks against the Kurds.
- Vladimir Putin
Marriage
On 28 July 1983, Putin married Lyudmila Shkrebneva, and they lived together in East Germany from 1985 to 1990. They have two daughters, Mariya Putina, born 28 April 1985 in Leningrad, and Yekaterina Putina, born 31 August 1986 in Dresden, East Germany.
- Iran–Iraq War
Operation Dawn 3
The Iranians attempted to further exploit activities in the north on 30 July 1983, during Operation Dawn-3. Iran saw an opportunity to sweep away Iraqi forces controlling the roads between the Iranian mountain border towns of Mehran, Dehloran and Elam. Iraq launched airstrikes, and equipped attack helicopters with chemical warheads; while ineffective, it demonstrated both the Iraqi general staff's and Saddam's increasing interest in using chemical weapons. In the end, 17,000 had been killed on both sides, with no gain for either country.
- Carlos the Jackal
The Maison de France in West Berlin attack
In August 1983, he also attacked the Maison de France in West Berlin, killing one man and injuring twenty-two.
- Murder of Gabriel Fernandez by Pearl Fernandez, and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre
Pearl's Birth
Pearl Sinthia Fernandez was born on August 29, 1983 to Robert and Sandra Fernandez.
- Iran–Iraq War
Operation Dawn-4
The focus of Operation Dawn-4 in September 1983 was the northern sector in Iranian Kurdistan. Three Iranian regular divisions, the Revolutionary Guard, and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) elements amassed in Marivan and Sardasht in a move to threaten the major Iraqi city Suleimaniyah. Iran's strategy was to press Kurdish tribes to occupy the Banjuin Valley, which was within 45 km (28 mi) of Suleimaniyah and 140 km (87 mi) from the oilfields of Kirkuk. To stem the tide, Iraq deployed Mi-8 attack helicopters equipped with chemical weapons and executed 120 sorties against the Iranian force, which stopped them 15 km (9.3 mi) into Iraqi territory. 5,000 Iranians and 2,500 Iraqis died.
- Plane Accidents
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
Soviet interceptor Sukhoi Su-15 shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a Boeing 747-230B, bound for Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, South Korea, after it flew into Soviet airspace; all 269 passengers and crew on board died.
- Nuclear Power
Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant
The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant is a decommissioned two-unit RBMK-1500 nuclear power station in Visaginas Municipality, Lithuania. It was named after the nearby city of Ignalina. Due to the plant's similarities to the infamous Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in both reactors.
- Atari, Inc.
Financial problems
The video game crash of 1983, with losses that totaled more than $500 million. Warner's stock price slid from $60 to $20, and the company began searching for a buyer for its troubled division. In 1983, Ray Kassar had resigned and executives involved in the Famicom merger lost track of negotiations, eventually killing the deal. With Atari's financial problems and the Famicom's runaway success in Japan after its July 16, 1983, release, Nintendo decided to remain independent.
- Muhammad Yunus
The Pilot Project began Operation as a Full-Fledged Bank ("Village Bank")
By 1982, it had 28,000 members. On 1 October 1983, the pilot project began operation as a full-fledged bank for poor Bangladeshis and was renamed Grameen Bank ("Village Bank").
- Mobile Phones
The First analog Cellular System Widely deployed in North America
The first analog cellular system widely deployed in North America was the Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS). It was commercially introduced in the Americas in 13 October 1983, Israel in 1986, and Australia in 1987. AMPS was a pioneering technology that helped drive mass market usage of cellular technology, but it had several serious issues by modern standards. It was unencrypted and easily vulnerable to eavesdropping via a scanner; it was susceptible to cell phone "cloning" and it used a Frequency-division multiple access (FDMA) scheme and required significant amounts of wireless spectrum to support.
- River Phoenix
Phoenix found a new role television movie Celebrity
In 1983, Phoenix found a new role in the 1984 television movie Celebrity, in which he played the part of young Jeffie Crawford. Although only onscreen for about ten minutes, his character was central.
- James Bond
Marvel published an accompanying comic "Octopussy"
When Octopussy was released in the cinemas in 1983, Marvel published an accompanying comic; Eclipse also produced a one-off comic for Licence to Kill, although Timothy Dalton refused to allow his likeness to be used.
- Ronald Reagan
Lebanese Civil War
With the approval of Congress, Reagan sent forces to Lebanon in 1983 to reduce the threat of the Lebanese Civil War. The American peacekeeping forces in Beirut, a part of a multinational force during the Lebanese Civil War, were attacked on October 23, 1983.
- Ronald Reagan
Operation Urgent Fury of Grenada
On October 25, 1983, Reagan ordered U.S. forces to invade Grenada (codenamed "Operation Urgent Fury") where a 1979 coup d'état had established an independent non-aligned Marxist–Leninist government.
- Kroger
The Kroger Company acquired Dillon Companies
In 1983, The Kroger Company acquired Dillon Companies grocery chain in Kansas along with its subsidiaries and the convenience store chain Kwik Shop.
- Disasters with highest death tolls
1983 Erzurum Earthquake
The 1983 Erzurum earthquake occurred in Turkey on 30 October 1983 at 07:12 local time (04:12 UTC). It was an Ms 6.9 earthquake. Death toll (estimate): 1,342.
- Gulf War
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein expelled Abu Nidal
When Iraqi President Saddam Hussein expelled Abu Nidal to Syria at the US's request in November 1983, the Reagan administration sent Donald Rumsfeld to meet Saddam as a special envoy and to cultivate ties.
- Best Buy
Best Buy Company, Inc
In 1983, with seven stores and $10 million in annual sales, Sound of Music was renamed Best Buy Company, Inc.
- Windows
Announcment
Microsoft Windows was announced by Bill Gates on November 10, 1983.
- Xerox
Xerox bought Crum & Forster
In 1983, Xerox bought Crum & Forster, an insurance company, and formed Xerox Financial Services (XFS) in 1984.
- Magdi Yacoub
The UK's First Heart and Lung Transplant
In December 1983 Yacoub performed the UK's first heart and lung transplant at Harefield.
- Diego Maradona
Began using cocaine
From the mid-1980s until 2004, Maradona was addicted to cocaine. He allegedly began using the drug in Barcelona in 1983.
- Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
December 1983 bomb attacks on U.S. and French embassies
Hours after the December 1983 bomb attacks on U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait, he fled to Iran.
- Jimmy Hoffa
Blood Feud
In the 1983 TV miniseries Blood Feud, Hoffa is portrayed by Robert Blake.
- Carlos the Jackal
Bombing of the Gare Saint-Charles
The bombing of the Gare Saint-Charles in Marseille on December 31, 1983 (2 dead, 33 injured).
- Carlos the Jackal
Bombing of the Marseille-Paris TGV train
The bombing of the Marseille-Paris TGV train (3 dead, 12 injured).
- Iran–Iraq War
Starting The so-called "Tanker War"
The so-called "Tanker War" started when Iraq attacked the oil terminal and oil tankers at Kharg Island in early 1984. Iraq's aim in attacking Iranian shipping was to provoke the Iranians to retaliate with extreme measures, such as closing the Strait of Hormuz to all maritime traffic, thereby bringing American intervention; the United States had threatened several times to intervene if the Strait of Hormuz were closed.
- Johan Cruyff
To Feyenoord
At the end of the 1982–83 season, Ajax decided not to offer Cruyff a new contract. This angered Cruyff, who responded by signing for Ajax's archrivals Feyenoord.
- Lula da Silva
The Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) union association
In 1983 he helped found the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) union association.
- Sooronbay Jeenbekov
The Chief Livestock Specialist
Jeenbekov started his career at the Lenin School in the Uzgen District, where he worked as a teacher at 18 and taught Russian and literature. In 1983, he became the chief livestock specialist of the Soviet farm in the Soviet district of Osh region and continued to work in the position for about five years.
- Barack Obama
Graduated
Later in 1981, he transferred as a junior to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations and in English literature and lived off-campus on West 109th Street. He graduated with a BA degree in 1983.
- Microsoft
Paul Allen resigned
Paul Allen resigned from Microsoft in 1983 after developing Hodgkin's disease.
- DC Comics
One of the longest-running comic-book series
That title evolved into Adventure Comics, which continued through issue #503 in 1983, becoming one of the longest-running comic-book series. In 2009 DC revived Adventure Comics with its original numbering.
- Computer animation
First 3D film telling a Story
In 1983, Philippe Bergeron, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, and Daniel Thalmann directed Dream Flight, considered as the first 3D generated film telling a story. The film was completely programmed using the MIRA graphical language, an extension of the Pascal programming language based on abstract graphical data types. The film got several awards and was shown at the SIGGRAPH '83 Film Show.
- Nicaraguan Revolution
Contras had launched a Major Offensive
By 1983 the Contras had launched a major offensive and the CIA was helping them to plant mines in Nicaragua's harbors to prevent foreign weapons shipments from arriving.
- Linux
Complete Unix-compatible software system
The GNU Project started in 1983 by Richard Stallman, who had the goal of creating a "complete Unix-compatible software system" composed entirely of free software.
- Nuclear Power
Krško Nuclear Power Plant
The Krško Nuclear Power Plant is located in Vrbina in the Municipality of Krško, Slovenia. The plant was connected to the power grid on October 2, 1981, and went into commercial operation on January 15, 1983. It was built as a joint venture by Slovenia and Croatia which were at the time both parts of Yugoslavia.
- Internet
Flag day
ARPANET became the technical core of what would become the Internet, and a primary tool in developing the technologies used. The early ARPANET used the Network Control Program (NCP, sometimes Network Control Protocol) rather than TCP/IP. On January 1, 1983, known as flag day, NCP on the ARPANET was replaced by the more flexible and powerful family of TCP/IP protocols, marking the start of the modern Internet.
- Internet
Originally named IP/TCP it was installed in the ARPANET
The software was redesigned as a modular protocol stack, using full-duplex channels. Originally named IP/TCP it was installed in the ARPANET for production use in January 1983.
- Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
Iran's Revolutionary Guard
He began working with Iran's Revolutionary Guard in Kuwait in 1983, organizing attacks on embassies of countries that supported Saddam in the Iran–Iraq War.
- Donald Trump
Jewish National Fund Tree of Life Award
In 1983, Trump received the Jewish National Fund Tree of Life Award, after he helped fund the building of two playgrounds, a park, and a reservoir in Israel.
- Thanksgiving
U.S. invasion
In the West Indian island of Grenada, in the Caribbean, there is a national holiday known as Thanksgiving Day which is celebrated on October 25. Even though it bears the same name, and is celebrated at roughly the same time as the American and Canadian versions of Thanksgiving, this holiday is unrelated to either of those celebrations. Instead the holiday marks the anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of the island in 1983, in response to the deposition and execution of the socialist Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop by a military government from within his own party.
- Iran–Iraq War
Operation Fajr al-Nasr (Dawn of Victory)
In Operation Fajr al-Nasr (Before the Dawn/Dawn of Victory), launched 6 February 1983, the Iranians shifted focus from the southern to the central and northern sectors. Employing 200,000 "last reserve" Revolutionary Guard troops, Iran attacked along a 40 km (25 mi) stretch near al-Amarah, Iraq, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast of Baghdad, in an attempt to reach the highways connecting northern and southern Iraq. The attack was stalled by 60 km (37 mi) of hilly escarpments, forests, and river torrents blanketing the way to al-Amarah, but the Iraqis could not force the Iranians back. Iran directed artillery on Basra, Al Amarah, and Mandali.
- Internet
MILNET
In 1983, the U.S. military portion of the ARPANET was broken off as a separate network, the MILNET. MILNET subsequently became the unclassified but military-only NIPRNET, in parallel with the SECRET-level SIPRNET and JWICS for TOP SECRET and above. NIPRNET does have controlled security gateways to the public Internet.
- Gary Webb
Webb worked for the newspaper Cleveland Plain Dealer
In 1983, Webb moved to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, where he continued doing investigative work.
- Disasters with highest death tolls
Ash Wednesday Bushfires
The Ash Wednesday bushfires, known in South Australia as Ash Wednesday II, were a series of bushfires that occurred in south-eastern Australia on 16 February 1983, which was Ash Wednesday in the Christian calendar. In Victoria 47 people died. There were 28 deaths in South Australia. This included 14 CFA and 3 CFS volunteer fire-fighters who died across both states that day.
- Mass Shootings in the United States
Wah Mee Massacre
The Wah Mee massacre was multiple homicides that occurred during the night of February 18–19, 1983, in which Kwan Fai "Willie" Mak, Wai-Chiu "Tony" Ng, and Benjamin Ng (no relation) bound, robbed, and shot fourteen people in the Wah Mee gambling club at the Louisa Hotel in Chinatown-International District, Seattle. Thirteen of their victims died, but Wai Chin, a dealer at the Wah Mee, survived to testify against the three in the separate high-profile trials held in 1983 and 1985. It is the deadliest mass murder in Washington state history.
- Iran–Iraq War
capturing Majnoon Island
By 27 February, they had captured the island, but suffered catastrophic helicopter losses to IRAF. On that day, a massive array of Iranian helicopters transporting Pasdaran troops were intercepted by Iraqi combat aircraft (MiGs, Mirages and Sukhois).
- Stuart Long
Long joined Carroll College
Stuart Long attended Carroll College, a private Catholic College in Helena. He played football for two years and began boxing.
- Mobile Phones
The DynaTAC 8000X mobile phone
On 6 March 1983, the DynaTAC 8000X mobile phone launched on the first US 1G network by Ameritech. It cost $100M to develop, and took over a decade to reach the market. The phone had a talk time of just thirty-five minutes and took ten hours to charge. Consumer demand was strong despite the battery life, weight, and low talk time, and waiting lists were in the thousands.
- Celine Dion
Dion received a gold record in France
By 1983, in addition to becoming the first Canadian artist to receive a gold record in France for the single "D'amour ou d'amitié" ("Of Love or Friendship"), Dion had also won several Félix Awards, including "Best Female performer" and "Discovery of the Year".
- Iran–Iraq War
Operation Dawn-1
From early 1983–1984, Iran launched a series of four Valfajr (Dawn) Operations (that eventually numbered to 10). During Operation Dawn-1, in early February 1983, 50,000 Iranian forces attacked westward from Dezful and were confronted by 55,000 Iraqi forces. The Iranian objective was to cut off the road from Basra to Baghdad in the central sector.
- Nancy Pelosi
Phillip Burton died
Phillip Burton died in 1983 and was succeeded by his wife, Sala. In late 1986, Sala became ill with cancer and decided not to run for reelection in 1988. She picked Pelosi as her designated successor, guaranteeing her the support of the Burtons' contacts.
- Robin Williams
First child
William's first son Zachary Pym "Zak" Williams was born in 1983.
- Indira Gandhi
The Punjab Police Deputy was shot dead
On 23 April 1983, the Punjab Police Deputy Inspector General A. S. Atwal was shot dead as he left the Temple compound. The following day, after the murder, Harchand Singh Longowal confirmed the involvement of Bhindranwale in the murder.
- James Bond
Octopussy
Octopussy is a 1983 spy film and the thirteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions; it was the sixth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by John Glen and the screenplay was written by George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum, and Michael G. Wilson.
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Belgrade Conference
The sixth UN conference on trade and development in Belgrade, 6–30 June 1983 was held against the background of earlier UNCTADs which have substantially failed to resolve many of the disagreements between the developed and developing countries and of a world economy in its worst recession since the early 1930s. The key issues of the time were finance and adjustment, commodity price stabilization, and trade.
- Tony Blair
1983 General Election
At the age of thirty, he was elected as MP for Sedgefield in 1983; despite the party's landslide defeat at the general election.
- Margaret Thatcher
Thatcher re-elected for a second successive term
The "Falklands factor", an economic recovery beginning early in 1982, and a bitterly divided opposition all contributed to Thatcher's second election victory in 1983.
- Brexit
The 1983 general election
The Labour Party campaigned in the 1983 general election on a commitment to withdraw from the EC without a referendum.
- Red Dog (Pilbara)
Red Dog (1983)
Soon after Red's death, Australian, author Nancy Gillespie wrote and compiled anecdotes and poetry written by several people of the Pilbara region for her 1983 book Red Dog.
- Eiffel Tower
The south pillar was fitted with an electrically driven Otis lift to serve the Jules Verne restaurant
In 1983, the south pillar was fitted with an electrically driven Otis lift to serve the Jules Verne restaurant.
- James Bond
Icebreaker was published
Icebreaker, first published in 1983, was the third novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and is the first Bond novel to be published in the United States by Putnam, beginning a long-standing association.
- Iran–Iraq War
Capturing the Iraqi town of Haj Omran
During Operation Dawn-2, the Iranians directed insurgency operations by proxy in April 1983 by supporting the Kurds in the north. With Kurdish support, the Iranians attacked on 23 July 1983, capturing the Iraqi town of Haj Omran and maintaining it against an Iraqi poison gas counteroffensive. This operation incited Iraq to later conduct indiscriminate chemical attacks against the Kurds.
- Vladimir Putin
Marriage
On 28 July 1983, Putin married Lyudmila Shkrebneva, and they lived together in East Germany from 1985 to 1990. They have two daughters, Mariya Putina, born 28 April 1985 in Leningrad, and Yekaterina Putina, born 31 August 1986 in Dresden, East Germany.
- Iran–Iraq War
Operation Dawn 3
The Iranians attempted to further exploit activities in the north on 30 July 1983, during Operation Dawn-3. Iran saw an opportunity to sweep away Iraqi forces controlling the roads between the Iranian mountain border towns of Mehran, Dehloran and Elam. Iraq launched airstrikes, and equipped attack helicopters with chemical warheads; while ineffective, it demonstrated both the Iraqi general staff's and Saddam's increasing interest in using chemical weapons. In the end, 17,000 had been killed on both sides, with no gain for either country.
- Carlos the Jackal
The Maison de France in West Berlin attack
In August 1983, he also attacked the Maison de France in West Berlin, killing one man and injuring twenty-two.
- Murder of Gabriel Fernandez by Pearl Fernandez, and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre
Pearl's Birth
Pearl Sinthia Fernandez was born on August 29, 1983 to Robert and Sandra Fernandez.
- Iran–Iraq War
Operation Dawn-4
The focus of Operation Dawn-4 in September 1983 was the northern sector in Iranian Kurdistan. Three Iranian regular divisions, the Revolutionary Guard, and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) elements amassed in Marivan and Sardasht in a move to threaten the major Iraqi city Suleimaniyah. Iran's strategy was to press Kurdish tribes to occupy the Banjuin Valley, which was within 45 km (28 mi) of Suleimaniyah and 140 km (87 mi) from the oilfields of Kirkuk. To stem the tide, Iraq deployed Mi-8 attack helicopters equipped with chemical weapons and executed 120 sorties against the Iranian force, which stopped them 15 km (9.3 mi) into Iraqi territory. 5,000 Iranians and 2,500 Iraqis died.
- Plane Accidents
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
Soviet interceptor Sukhoi Su-15 shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a Boeing 747-230B, bound for Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, South Korea, after it flew into Soviet airspace; all 269 passengers and crew on board died.
- Nuclear Power
Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant
The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant is a decommissioned two-unit RBMK-1500 nuclear power station in Visaginas Municipality, Lithuania. It was named after the nearby city of Ignalina. Due to the plant's similarities to the infamous Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in both reactors.
- Atari, Inc.
Financial problems
The video game crash of 1983, with losses that totaled more than $500 million. Warner's stock price slid from $60 to $20, and the company began searching for a buyer for its troubled division. In 1983, Ray Kassar had resigned and executives involved in the Famicom merger lost track of negotiations, eventually killing the deal. With Atari's financial problems and the Famicom's runaway success in Japan after its July 16, 1983, release, Nintendo decided to remain independent.
- Muhammad Yunus
The Pilot Project began Operation as a Full-Fledged Bank ("Village Bank")
By 1982, it had 28,000 members. On 1 October 1983, the pilot project began operation as a full-fledged bank for poor Bangladeshis and was renamed Grameen Bank ("Village Bank").
- Mobile Phones
The First analog Cellular System Widely deployed in North America
The first analog cellular system widely deployed in North America was the Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS). It was commercially introduced in the Americas in 13 October 1983, Israel in 1986, and Australia in 1987. AMPS was a pioneering technology that helped drive mass market usage of cellular technology, but it had several serious issues by modern standards. It was unencrypted and easily vulnerable to eavesdropping via a scanner; it was susceptible to cell phone "cloning" and it used a Frequency-division multiple access (FDMA) scheme and required significant amounts of wireless spectrum to support.
- River Phoenix
Phoenix found a new role television movie Celebrity
In 1983, Phoenix found a new role in the 1984 television movie Celebrity, in which he played the part of young Jeffie Crawford. Although only onscreen for about ten minutes, his character was central.
- James Bond
Marvel published an accompanying comic "Octopussy"
When Octopussy was released in the cinemas in 1983, Marvel published an accompanying comic; Eclipse also produced a one-off comic for Licence to Kill, although Timothy Dalton refused to allow his likeness to be used.
- Ronald Reagan
Lebanese Civil War
With the approval of Congress, Reagan sent forces to Lebanon in 1983 to reduce the threat of the Lebanese Civil War. The American peacekeeping forces in Beirut, a part of a multinational force during the Lebanese Civil War, were attacked on October 23, 1983.
- Ronald Reagan
Operation Urgent Fury of Grenada
On October 25, 1983, Reagan ordered U.S. forces to invade Grenada (codenamed "Operation Urgent Fury") where a 1979 coup d'état had established an independent non-aligned Marxist–Leninist government.
- Kroger
The Kroger Company acquired Dillon Companies
In 1983, The Kroger Company acquired Dillon Companies grocery chain in Kansas along with its subsidiaries and the convenience store chain Kwik Shop.
- Disasters with highest death tolls
1983 Erzurum Earthquake
The 1983 Erzurum earthquake occurred in Turkey on 30 October 1983 at 07:12 local time (04:12 UTC). It was an Ms 6.9 earthquake. Death toll (estimate): 1,342.
- Gulf War
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein expelled Abu Nidal
When Iraqi President Saddam Hussein expelled Abu Nidal to Syria at the US's request in November 1983, the Reagan administration sent Donald Rumsfeld to meet Saddam as a special envoy and to cultivate ties.
- Best Buy
Best Buy Company, Inc
In 1983, with seven stores and $10 million in annual sales, Sound of Music was renamed Best Buy Company, Inc.
- Windows
Announcment
Microsoft Windows was announced by Bill Gates on November 10, 1983.
- Xerox
Xerox bought Crum & Forster
In 1983, Xerox bought Crum & Forster, an insurance company, and formed Xerox Financial Services (XFS) in 1984.
- Magdi Yacoub
The UK's First Heart and Lung Transplant
In December 1983 Yacoub performed the UK's first heart and lung transplant at Harefield.
- Diego Maradona
Began using cocaine
From the mid-1980s until 2004, Maradona was addicted to cocaine. He allegedly began using the drug in Barcelona in 1983.
- Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
December 1983 bomb attacks on U.S. and French embassies
Hours after the December 1983 bomb attacks on U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait, he fled to Iran.
- Jimmy Hoffa
Blood Feud
In the 1983 TV miniseries Blood Feud, Hoffa is portrayed by Robert Blake.
- Carlos the Jackal
Bombing of the Gare Saint-Charles
The bombing of the Gare Saint-Charles in Marseille on December 31, 1983 (2 dead, 33 injured).
- Carlos the Jackal
Bombing of the Marseille-Paris TGV train
The bombing of the Marseille-Paris TGV train (3 dead, 12 injured).
- Iran–Iraq War
Starting The so-called "Tanker War"
The so-called "Tanker War" started when Iraq attacked the oil terminal and oil tankers at Kharg Island in early 1984. Iraq's aim in attacking Iranian shipping was to provoke the Iranians to retaliate with extreme measures, such as closing the Strait of Hormuz to all maritime traffic, thereby bringing American intervention; the United States had threatened several times to intervene if the Strait of Hormuz were closed.