1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. 1983 - Events. January 2 - The musical Annie is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows (Uris Theatre on Broadway, New York City). January 8 - Riot in the Sing Sing prison January 10 - Mafia hitman Roy DeMeo is found dead in a trunk of his own car January 15 - Mafioso Meyer Lansky dies at Mount Sinai hospital January 19 - Klaus B ...

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1983 in aviation - January. January 25 - Saab 340 1983 in aviation - April. April 9 - Piper PA-48 Enforcer April 25 - Dornier Do ATT 1983 in aviation - June. June 27 - EMBRAER EMB-120 1983 in aviation - August. August 23 - Skyfox Corporation Skyfox August 29 - Beech Starship 1 1983 in aviation - September. < ...

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1983 in aviation - January. January 31 - the Ayres Turbo Thrush NEEDS cropduster plane officially joins the United States' "war on drugs". 1983 in aviation - February. February 1 - Boeing announces it will stop producing Boeing 727 airliners. February 9 - British Airways begins Boeing 757 service. 1983 in aviation - March. March 4 and 5 - a Cubana de Aviacion Ilyushin Il-62M strays off course and overf ...

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Vanessa Lynn Williams (born March 18, 1963 in Millwood, New York) is a pop/R&B singer and actress who made history when she became the first African American woman to be crowned Miss America in September, 1983. She resigned close to the end of her reign on July 23, 1984, however, when it was discovered that she had posed nude for photographs that were later published in the September 1984 issue adult magazine Penthouse without her permission. The crown w ...

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The Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas - CONADEP ("National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons") was created by Argentine President Raúl Alfonsín on December 15, 1983, shortly after his inauguration to investigate the fate of the desaparecidos and other human rights violations performed during the military dictatorship of 1976 to 1983. The research of the investigation commission was documented in the Nunca Más (Never Again) book, delivered to Alfonsín on September 20, 1984, which opened the doors to the tri ...

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USS Honolulu (SSN-718), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Honolulu, Hawaii. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 15 September 1977 and her keel was laid down on 10 November 1981. She was launched on 24 September 1983 sponsored by Mrs. Joan B. Clark, and commissioned on 6 July 1985, with Capt. Robert M. Mitchell in command.

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1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. 1981 - Events. January - Sarawak chamber found January 1 - Greece enters the EEC January 1 - Palau becomes self-governing January 4 - Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 13 - Donna Griffiths, a schoolgirl in Pershore, Worcestershire, UK, begins a uncontrollable series of sneezes that end September 16, 1983 - after 978 days Janua ...

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Paul William "Bear" Bryant (September 11, 1913 – January 26, 1983) was a American college football coach. Best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team, he achieved much status in the sport, winning the national championship six times, and setting the record as the all-time (up to that time) most successful coach in NCAA Division I college football, with a record of 323-85-17. Bear Bryant - Biography. Paul Bryant was born in Moro Bottom, Arkansas on September 11, 1913. H ...

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Sir William Gerald Golding (September 19, 1911 – June 19, 1993) was an English novelist, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1983) "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today." William Golding - Early life. Golding was born on September 19, 1911 at St Columb Minor, a village near Newquay, Cornwall, England. He started writing at the age of seven. His Cornish background ...

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King Baudouin, (also spelled Boudewijn, Balduin or Baldwin) born Albert Charles Léopold Axel Marie Gustave, (7 September 1930 - 31 July 1993), reigned as King of the Belgians from 1951 to 1993. He was the eldest son of King Léopold III (1901-1983) and his first wife, Princess Astrid of Sweden (1905-1935). Boudewijn is his Dutch name; Balduin in German; Baudouin in French, which is also mostly used in forei ...

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Andreea Mădălina Răducan (born September 30, 1983) is a gymnast from Bîrlad, Romania. She competed in artistic gymnastics at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, winning gold in the team event and silver on the vault. Raducan's 2000 Olympic all-around experience was surrounded by controversy from the start. Halfway through the competition (after Raducan had already vaulted), the vaulting horse was found to have been accidentally set several centimeters too low. This was an extremely dangerous situation: there were many crashes, and se ...

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Andy Lau Tak-Wah (Traditional: 劉德華; Simplified: 刘德华; Hanyu Pinyin: Liú Déhuá; Jyutping: Lau4 Dak1 Waa4) (born September 27, 1961 in Hong Kong as 劉福榮) is a Hong Kong popstar and a movie actor. The first lead role that made his initial popularity was the TVB series Hunting in 1982. In the same year, Andy started in his first movie in Boat People. Later in 1983, his role as Yang Guo in wuxia TV ...

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Arthur Koestler (Hungarian: Kösztler Artur; September 5, 1905 – March 3, 1983) was a journalist, novelist, political activist, social philosopher, and science writer. Born Hungarian and a naturalized British subject, he wrote a number of popular books, including Arrow in the Blue (the first volume of his autobiography); The Yogi and the Commissar (a collection of essays, many dealing with Communism); The Sleepwalkers (A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe); The Act of Creation; and Including:

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"CHiPs" was a US television series running on NBC from September 15, 1977 to July 17, 1983. A light-weight crime drama created by Rick Rosner, it starred Erik Estrada (Officer Francis Llewellyn "Ponch" Poncherello) and Larry Wilcox (Officer Jon Baker) as Highway Patrolmen of the Los Angeles Central Division of the California Highway Patrol (CHP). The program ran for 139 episodes over six seasons. In season 5, Estrada was occasionally replaced by Bruce Jenner (Steve McLeish) due to a contract dispute. Prior to season 6, Wilcox f ...

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Bryher (1894-1983) was the pen name of Annie Winnifred Ellerman. She was born in September 1894 in Margate. She travelled in Europe as a child, to France, Italy and Egypt. At the age of fourteen she was enrolled in a traditional English boarding school. On one of her travels, Ellerman journeyed to the Isles of Scilly off the southwestern coast of Great Britain and acquired her future pseudonym from one of them. During the 1920s, ...

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Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (April 18, 1924 - September 10, 2005) was a Louisiana and Tex-Mex American blues musician. He was a highly acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, who played a impressive array of instruments such as guitar, fiddle, mandolin, viola as well as harmonica and drums. During his career, Brown recorded 30 records. He won a Grammy Award for Traditional Blues in 1983 for his album, Alright Again. Born in Vinton, Louisiana, Brown was raised in Orange, Texas. His professional musical career began in 1945, playi ...

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1983 in South Africa - January. 26 January - One person is killed and five injured by a bomb the explodes at the New Brighton Community Council offices 30 January - A bomb explodes at the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court Explosion 1983 in South Africa - February. 10 February - Umkhonto we Sizwe cadres burn 5 square kilometres of land in the Richards Bay area in an arson attack 11 February - The Drakensberg Administration Board offices are dama ...

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Umberto II, occasionally anglicized as Humbert II, (September 15, 1904 - March 18, 1983), the last King of Italy, nicknamed the King of May (Italian: Re di Maggio), was born the Prince of Piedmont. He served as the last King of Italy for slightly over a month, from May 9, 1946 to June 12, 1946. He was married in Rome, Italy on January 8, 1930 to Marie José of Belgium (August 4, 1906 - January 27, 2001). His children included: Maria Pia 1934- Vittorio Emanuele 1937- Maria Gabr ...

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1983 in rail transport - April events. April 25 - Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad discontinues independent intercity passenger train service with the final run of the Rio Grande Zephyr. 1983 in rail transport - May events. May 6 - The last Georgia Railroad mixed train is operated by the Seaboard System Railroad. 1983 in rail transport - June events. June 20 - The Chicago and North Western Railway ...

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