1983 School Year in Review - News
NEWSSeptember 29-October 1 - The Tylenol scare is sparked when 7 people in the Chicago area die after ingesting capsules laced with potassium cyanide.
November 13 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
December 26 - Time Magazine's Man of the Year is given for the first time to a non-human, the computer.
December 7 - The first U.S. execution by lethal injection is carried out in Texas.
March 8 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire."
March 23 - Strategic Defense Initiative: U.S. President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. The media dub this plan "Star Wars."
INTERNATIONALNovember 12 - In the Soviet Union, former KGB head Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid I. Brezhnev.
November 14 - The leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, is released from 11 months of internment near the Soviet border.
November 29 - Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37, stating that the Soviet Union should withdraw from Afghanistan.
June 9 - Conservative Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 1979, wins a landslide victory (42% of the popular vote). The much improved economy (after 2-3 years of restructuring), her victory in the Falkands, as well as shrinking unemployment rates consolidates her election victory.
ENTERTAINMENTOctober 1 - The Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World opens to the public for the first time.
December 1 - Thriller album by Michael Jackson is released, becoming the biggest selling album of all time in entertainment history.
January 2 - The musical Annie is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows at the Uris Theatre on Broadway, New York City.
February 28 - M*A*S*H (TV series) ends after 11 years and 251 episodes on CBS. The series finale, Goodbye, Farewell and Amen, becomes the highest rated episode in TV history.
April 12 - The British film Gandhi wins 8 Oscars.
BUSINESSOctober 1 - Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
November 3 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43.41 points, or 4.25%, to close at 1,065.49, its first all-time high in more than nine years. It last hit a record on January 11, 1973 when the average closed at 1,051.70. The points gain was the biggest ever up to that point.
January 19 - Release of the Apple Lisa personal computer by Apple Inc.
March 1 - Swatch introduces their first watches.
March 8 - IBM releases the IBM PC XT.
SPORTSOctober 20 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-3 in game 7 to win the World Series
November 20 - University of California, Berkeley executes "The Play" in a college football game against Stanford. Completing a wacky 57-yard kickoff return that includes five laterals, Kevin Moen runs through Stanford band members who had prematurely come onto the field. His touchdown stands and California wins 25-20.
January 22 - Björn Borg retires from tennis after winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.
January 30 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dolphins 27-17 in Super Bowl XVII at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California.
May 29 - Indianapolis 500: Tom Sneva wins his first race after three previous runner-up finishes.
SCIENCEDecember 2 - At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart (he will live for 112 days with the device).
May 9 - Pope John Paul II retracts the ban on Galileo Galilei.
April 7 - STS-6: Space Shuttle Challenger astronauts Story Musgrave and Donald H. Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk (duration: 4 hours, 10 minutes).
June 13 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system.
June 18 - STS-7: Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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