1983
Stanislav Chistov, Russian ice hockey player
Stanislav Mikhailovich Chistov is a Russian former professional ice hockey player.
Stanislav Chistov, Russian ice hockey player
The 1980s
Explore 4219 historical events from 1980–1989.
1983
Roberto Jiménez, Peruvian footballer
Roberto Carlos Jiménez Jiménez is a Peruvian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Roberto Jiménez, Peruvian footballer
1983
Andrea Marcato, Italian rugby player
Andrea Marcato is an Italian rugby union coach and former international player. He won 16 caps for Italy and played in the 2008 and 2009 Six Nations Championships. After the end of…
Andrea Marcato, Italian rugby player
1983
Joe Mauer, American baseball player
Joseph Patrick Mauer is an American former professional baseball catcher and first baseman who spent his entire 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Minnesota Twins.…
Joe Mauer, American baseball player
1983
Miranda Kerr, Australian model
Miranda May Kerr is an Australian model. She rose to prominence in 2007 as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels. Kerr was the first Australian Victoria's Secret model and also repre…
Miranda Kerr, Australian model
1983
First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scienti
Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) are two species of Lentivirus that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progre…
First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scienti
1983
Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by UMkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pret
The Church Street bombing was a terrorist car bombing on 20 May 1983 in the South African capital Pretoria by uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the paramilitary wing of the African National C…
Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by UMkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pret
1983
The 7
The 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake occurred on May 26, 1983, at 11:59:57 local time. It had a magnitude of 7.8 on the moment magnitude scale. It occurred in the Sea of Japan, about 1…
The 7
1983
After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed
Air Canada Flight 797 was an international passenger flight operating from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Montréal–Dorval International Airport, with an intermediate st…
After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed
1983
Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, A
Gordon Wendell Kahl was an American World War II veteran, farmer and tax protester who was known for being a one-time member of the Posse Comitatus movement and for his involvement…
Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, A
1983
Tarvaris Jackson, American football player (died 2020)
Tarvaris D'Andre Jackson was an American professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL). Jackson played college football for the Arkansas Razorb…
Tarvaris Jackson, American football player (died 2020)
1983
Kim Wall, British sprinter
Kimberly Wall is an English former sprinter specializing in the 400 metres and the 2010 World Athletics Indoor Championships bronze medalist in the 4 × 400 m relay. She also won ei…
Kim Wall, British sprinter
1983
Sam W
Sam W. Heads is a British palaeontologist, a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, as well as a former Officer and Editor-in-Chief a…
Sam W
1983
Shkëlzen Shala, Albanian entrepreneur and veganism activist
Shkëlzen Shala is a Kosovo Albanian entrepreneur, gastronome and veganism activist based in Pristina, Kosovo.
Shkëlzen Shala, Albanian entrepreneur and veganism activist
1983
More than 100 people are killed when the Russian river cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov collides with a girder of the Ulyan
Aleksandr Suvorov is a Valerian Kuybyshev-class (92-016, OL400) Soviet/Russian river cruise ship, cruising in the Volga–Don basin. On 5 June 1983 Aleksandr Suvorov crashed into a g…
More than 100 people are killed when the Russian river cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov collides with a girder of the Ulyan
1983
Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 loses one of its propellers in flight resulting in damage to the flight controls
Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 was an American domestic flight from Cold Bay, Alaska, to Seattle, Washington, on June 8, 1983. Shortly after takeoff, the Lockheed L-188 Electra of…
Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 loses one of its propellers in flight resulting in damage to the flight controls
1983
Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptun
Pioneer 10 is a NASA space probe launched in 1972 that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. Pioneer 10 became the first of five artificial objects to achieve the esca…
Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptun
1983
Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transpor…
Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space
1983
Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other women of the Baháʼí Faith, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran
Mona Mahmudnizhad was an Iranian Baháʼí who, in 1983, together with nine other Baháʼí women, was sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran, on the grounds of being a member of …
Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other women of the Baháʼí Faith, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran
1983
Leon Andreasen, Danish international footballer
Leon Hougaard Andreasen is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a defender or midfielder. He won 20 caps and scored three goals for the Denmark national team.
Leon Andreasen, Danish international footballer
1983
Daniela Hantuchová, Slovak tennis player
Daniela Hantuchová is a Slovak tennis commentator and retired player. She turned professional in 1999 and had her breakthrough year in 2002, when she won her first WTA Tour title a…
Daniela Hantuchová, Slovak tennis player
1983
Ian Henderson, English rugby league player
Ian Henderson is a former professional rugby league footballer who last played for the Sydney Roosters in the NRL. A Scotland international hooker, his brothers, Andrew Henderson a…
Ian Henderson, English rugby league player
1983
Hanna Melnychenko, Ukrainian heptathlete
Hanna Anatoliïvna Kasyanova is a Ukrainian heptathlete.
Hanna Melnychenko, Ukrainian heptathlete
1983
Johnathan Thurston, Australian rugby league player
Johnathan Dean Thurston is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the National Rugby League (NRL). Thurston was an Australian international, Queens…
Johnathan Thurston, Australian rugby league player