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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
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Historical Events Of 1983
- February 13, 1983 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
- February 28, 1983 – The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.
- March 2, 1983 – Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
- March 23, 1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
- July 23, 1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
- September 12, 1983 – A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
- September 19, 1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
- October 12, 1983 – Japan’s former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to four years in jail.
- October 21, 1983 – The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
- November 5, 1983 – Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
Who Were Born On 1983?
- February 7, 1983 – Sho Kamogawa, Japanese footballer
- March 4, 1983 – Samuel Contesti, French-Italian figure skater
- April 15, 1983 – Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
- May 2, 1983 – Maynor Figueroa, Honduran footballer
- June 21, 1983 – Marlon Davis, English comedian and actor
- July 2, 1983 – Michelle Branch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (The Wreckers)
- July 3, 1983 – Matt Papa, American singer-songwriter
- September 16, 1983 – Katerine Avgoustakis, Belgian singer and pianist
- November 28, 1983 – Tyler Glenn, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Neon Trees)
- November 29, 1983 – Jennifer Oeser, German heptathlete