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The April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut kills 63 people. The Disney Channel is initiated on American cable TV. April 25 – Manchester, Maine schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov , after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war .
1983 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1983rd year of the Common Era (CE) and ... Sally Ride's place in history was assured, when ...
1983 – The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic. 1986 – Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships
1912 – John Le Mesurier, English actor (d. 1983) 1912 – István Örkény, Hungarian author and playwright (d. 1979) 1912 – Bill Roberts, English sprinter and soldier (d. 2001) 1913 – Antoni Clavé, Catalan artist (d. 2005) 1913 – Nicolas Grunitzky, 2nd President of Togo (d. 1969) 1913 – Ruth Smith, Faroese artist (d. 1958)
1983 in the United States by state or territory (55 C) 1983 events in the United States by month (12 C) 1983 disestablishments in the United States (44 C, 20 P)
The comedy series We Got it Made debuts, the first new series on NBC's autumn list to premiere—and the start of one of the least successful new autumn show rosters for a network in history, as none of the series would survive a 2nd season (the other series being Manimal, Jennifer Slept Here, Mr. Smith, Bay City Blues, The Yellow Rose, Boone ...
While the "marriage" didn't last, it was biggest corporate merger in history at the time. 2006 : America Online drops its old name to officially become AOL and no longer charges for email services.
Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the deadliest aviation accident in history. 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212. [13] 1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for ...