49 events found for 1983
A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los…
The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines…
Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 112 people on board.
Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze…
Soviet Air Force officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and…
Soyuz 7K-ST No. 16L, intended to launch a crew to the Salyut 7 space station, explodes on the launch pad. The launch…