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  • Jobra, Bangladesh
    Saturday Oct 1, 1983
    Muhammad Yunus

    The Pilot Project began Operation as a Full-Fledged Bank ("Village Bank")

    Jobra, Bangladesh
    Saturday Oct 1, 1983

    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").




  • Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S.
    Thursday Oct 13, 1983
    Mobile Phones

    The First analog Cellular System Widely deployed in North America

    Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S.
    Thursday Oct 13, 1983

    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.




  • Lebanon
    Sunday Oct 23, 1983
    Ronald Reagan

    Lebanese Civil War

    Lebanon
    Sunday Oct 23, 1983

    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.




  • Grenada, Carribean islands
    Tuesday Oct 25, 1983
    Ronald Reagan

    Operation Urgent Fury of Grenada

    Grenada, Carribean islands
    Tuesday Oct 25, 1983

    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.




  • Turkey
    Sunday Oct 30, 1983
    04:12:00 AM
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1983 Erzurum Earthquake

    Turkey
    Sunday Oct 30, 1983
    04:12:00 AM

    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.




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