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1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a warning of attack by U.S. missiles as a false alarm. The Soyuz T-10-1 mission ends in a pad abort at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, when a pad fire occurs at the base of the Soyuz U rocket during the launch ...
On December 5, 2018, after 90 days of inactivity from the volcano, the eruption that started in 1983 was declared to be over. January 18 – The International Olympic Committee restores Native American athlete Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family. January 19 – Apple Inc. releases the Apple Lisa personal computer.
February – Work begins on extending the Piccadilly line of London Underground at Heathrow Airport to serve the new Terminal 4. [5]1 February – TV-am launches on ITV. [4]3 February – Unemployment stands at a record high of 3,224,715 – though the previous high reached in the Great Depression of the early 1930s accounted for a higher percentage of the workforce.
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1983 events in South America by month (8 C) * 1983 sports events by month (12 C) 0–9. January 1983 events (3 C, 1 P) February 1983 events (3 C, 1 P) March 1983 ...
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See 1983 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Books in Canada First Novel Award: W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe; Gerald Lampert Award: Diana Hartog, Matinee Light; Pat Lowther Award: Rhea Tregebov, Remembering History; Stephen Leacock Award: Morley Torgov, The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick