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This year in history
In the year 1983

	January 2nd	The popular musical play, Annie, was performed for the last time on Broadway after 6 years and almost 2,500 thousand performances.
	January 15th	Russian-born gangster, Meyer Lansky, died at the age of 81. He was one the most instrumental figures of the Mafia in the United States and a close friend to mob boss Lucky Luciano.
	January 26th	Lotus 1-2-3 is released. it was one of the most popular applications ever to be released for the (IBM) PC. During the 1980's and early 1990's it was one of the most popular corporate computer applications available.
	January 27th	French actor, Louis de Funes, died at the age of 69. He was France's foremost comedy actor who enjoyed wide international fame.
	February 18th	Thirteen people were shot dead during the robbery of an illegal gambling club in Seattle, USA. It is one of the worst, robbery motivated, murder cases in history.
	February 28th	The final episode of MAS*H was broadcast in the USA. It was one of the most watched episodes in the history of television. The show had been in production since 1972.
	March 1st	The first Swatch watches were introduced to the public.
	April 11th	Mexican actress, Dolores del Rio, died at the age of 78 in Laguna Beach, California. She was a star in the Hollywood era of silent movies and one of the biggest stars of Spanish speaking Latin America for many decades.
	April 15th	Tokyo Disneyland opened. It is the only Disney theme park not owned the Walt Disney Company but rather the owner company leases the theme from them.
	April 18th	A suicide bomber detonated a van filled with explosives outside the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people. The van was stolen from the embassy earlier the same year.
	June 9th	Margaret Thatcher was elected for a second term by a landslide victory in the British General Election.
	June 13th	The Pioneer 10 space probe became the first manmade object to leave the confines of our solar system. The spacecraft was launched in 1972 and its last signal was received in 2003.
	June 16th	Yuri Andropov became president of the Soviet Union after the death of Leonid Brezhnev.
	July 11th	An Ecuadorian passenger flight crashed near Cuenca, Ecuador, resulting in the death of 119 people.
	July 13th	Approximately 3000 Tamils were slaughtered in Sri Lanka marking the beginnings of civil war in the country.
	July 21st	The world's lowest recorded temperature was observed at Vostok Station, Antarctica at -89.2C (-129F).
	July 29th	English actor, David Niven, died at the age of 72. He was one of the most popular British actors of his time who also served in the Second World War with the British Commandos and also was among the British forces that landed at Normandy.
	August 18th	22 people lost their lives when hurricane Alicia hit the Texas coast.
	September 1st	Korean Air Flight 007 was shot down by a Soviet Union fighter plane when Flight 007 entered Soviet airspace. All 269 people on board died.
	September 3rd	Greek actress, Ellie Lambeti, died at the age of 57. She was one of the most celebrated actress in Greece, with a career that spanned almost 40 years.
	September 17th	Vanessa Williams became the first ever African-American Miss America. She was forced to resign her title in 1984, when was discovered that 2 years earlier she had posed nude for photographs.
	September 23th	The Caribbean federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis joined the United Nations.
	September 26th	The Australia II sailing boat became the first non-American boat to win the Americas Cup. The New York Yacht Club had remained the unbeaten champion for over 25 challenges in over 113 years making it by far the longest winning streak in the history of any sport.
	October 12th	Japan's former prime minister, Tanaka Kakuei, was convicted to four years in prison for taking a $2 million bribe from the Lockheed company.
	November 20th	The television movie, The Day After, was aired in America. An estimated 100 million people watched the film on that day.
	November 26th	In London's Heathrow Airport, 6,800 bars of gold were stolen from the Brinks Mat vault. At an approximate worth of 26 million pounds. Although the robbers were captured and tried, most of the gold was never recovered.
	November 27th	A Colombian passenger jet crashed near Madrid's Barajas Airport, resulting in the death of 183 people.
	December 10th	Democracy was restored in Argentina after a right-wing military dictatorship has assumed power in 1976.
	December 10th	Lech Walesa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as the leader of Solidarity. Solidarity was a trade union federation and a force in the anti-communist social movement.
	December 17th	An IRA bomb exploded inside the Harrods Department Store in London, resulting in the death of seven people.
	December 25th	Spanish painter, Joan Miro, died at the age of 90. He was one of the most influential painters of the 20th century.

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