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1983 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2033. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1983 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1983

• January 18, 1983 – The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe’s Olympic medals to his family.
• February 13, 1983 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
• February 18, 1983 – Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
• March 11, 1983 – Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
• April 7, 1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
• May 20, 1983 – First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
• June 2, 1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane’s doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.
• June 13, 1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the farthest planet from the Sun at the time).
• July 15, 1983 – Orly Airport attack is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA at the Paris-Orly Airport in Paris; it leaves eight people dead and 55 injured.
• December 27, 1983 – Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Ağca in Rebibbia’s prison and personally forgives him for the 1981 attack on him in St. Peter’s Square.

Who Were Born On 1983?

• February 26, 1983 – Jerome Harrison, American football player
• March 27, 1983 – Marc Marzenit, Spanish DJ and producer
• April 3, 1983 – Stephen Weiss, Canadian ice hockey player
• April 23, 1983 – Daniela Hantuchová, Slovakian tennis player
• April 25, 1983 – DeAngelo Williams, American football player
• May 19, 1983 – Jessica Fox, English actress
• June 22, 1983 – Allar Raja, Estonian rower
• August 16, 1983 – Tomoko Honda, Japanese announcer
• September 12, 1983 – Sergio Parisse, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
• October 21, 1983 – Shelden Williams, American basketball player