Events in 1983

245 notable events from 1983. Page 1 of 3.

• Korean Air Lines Flight 007
  Sep 1, 1983 · Russian Federation
• Robert Pickton
  Jan 1, 1983–Jan 1, 2001 · Canada
• Diane Downs
  May 19, 1983 · —
• Gimli Glider
  Jul 23, 1983 · Canada
• Roy DeMeo
  Jan 10, 1983 · —
• Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi
  Jun 22, 1983 · —
• Tammy Lynn Leppert
  Jul 6, 1983 · United States
• Video game crash of 1983
  1983–1985 · United States
• Charles Ng
  Jan 1, 1983–Jan 1, 1985 · United States
• 1983 Beirut barracks bombings
  Oct 23, 1983 · Lebanon
• Leonard Lake
  Jan 1, 1983–Jan 1, 1985 · United States
• Karla Faye Tucker
  Jun 13, 1983 · —
• 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident
  Sep 26, 1983 · Russian Federation
• Kidnapping of Michelle Marie Newton
  Apr 2, 1983 · —
• Disappearance of Ludovic Janvier
  Mar 17, 1983 · France
• Air Canada Flight 797
  Jun 2, 1983 · United States
• 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake
  May 26, 1983 · Japan
• Benton fireworks disaster
  May 27, 1983 · United States
• Black July
  Jul 24, 1983–Jul 30, 1983 · Sri Lanka
• Assassination of Ninoy Aquino
  Aug 21, 1983 · Philippines
• Pine Tar Incident
  Aug 18, 1983 · United States
• Kidnapping of Freddy Heineken
  Nov 9, 1983–Nov 30, 1983 · Netherlands
• Nerima family of five murder case
  Jun 27, 1983 · Japan
• Avianca Flight 011
  Nov 27, 1983 · Spain
• Nellie massacre
  Feb 18, 1983 · India
• Gukurahundi
  Jan 3, 1983–Dec 22, 1987 · Zimbabwe
• Rangoon bombing
  Oct 9, 1983 · Myanmar
• Brian Dugan
  Feb 25, 1983–Jun 2, 1985 · United States
• 1983 Madrid Airport runway collision
  Dec 7, 1983 · Spain
• Murder of Meredith Emerson
  Jun 20, 1983 · —
• 1983 United States Senate bombing
  Nov 7, 1983 · United States
• Nyan Nyan incident
  1983 · Japan
• Stoneman
  Jan 1, 1983–Jan 1, 2011 · India
• Disappearance of Mirella Gregori
  May 7, 1983 · —
• Utsunomiya Hospital scandal
  Jan 1, 1983 · Japan
• Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8
  Jun 8, 1983 · United States
• Great Basin Murders
  Jan 1, 1983–Jan 1, 1997 · United States
• Roy Radin
  May 13, 1983 · —
• 1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut
  Apr 18, 1983 · Lebanon
• Arthur Hutchinson (murderer)
  Oct 23, 1983 · —
• Richard Wayne Snell
  Nov 3, 1983–Jun 30, 1984 · —
• Kentucky Fried Chicken murders
  Sep 23, 1983 · United States
• 1983 Lucanamarca massacre
  Apr 3, 1983 · Peru
• Wah Mee massacre
  Feb 18, 1983 · United States
• Mountain War (Lebanon)
  Sep 3, 1983–Feb 1984 · Lebanon
• 1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état
  Aug 4, 1983 · Burkina Faso
• Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 013
  Mar 7, 1983 · Bulgaria
• Andrei Barausov
  Jan 1, 1983–Jan 1, 1997 · Russian Federation
• Mitt Romney dog incident
  Jun 1983 · United States
• Aeroflot Flight 6833
  Nov 18, 1983 · Georgia
• Egidius Schiffer
  Jan 1, 1983–Jan 1, 1990 · Germany
• 1983 Negev mid-air collision
  May 1, 1983 · Israel
• Dayton Leroy Rogers
  Jan 1, 1983–Jan 1, 1987 · United States
• James Edward Smith (murderer)
  Mar 7, 1983 · United States
• Disappearance of Nyleen Marshall
  Jun 25, 1983 · United States
• Killing of the Labrousse family
  Oct 1983 · France
• Church Street, Pretoria bombing
  May 20, 1983 · South Africa
• Ponticelli massacre
  Jul 2, 1983 · Italy
• Killing of Lasa and Zabala
  Oct 16, 1983 · Spain
• Air Illinois Flight 710
  Oct 11, 1983 · United States
• United Airlines Flight 2885
  Jan 11, 1983 · United States
• Murder of Francesca Alinovi
  Jun 12, 1983 · Italy
• Ash Wednesday bushfires
  Feb 16, 1983 · Australia
• Cinema Statuto fire
  Feb 13, 1983 · Italy
• Gulf Air Flight 771
  Sep 23, 1983 · United Arab Emirates
• Thomas Rung
  Jan 1, 1983–Jan 1, 1995 · Germany
• Via Pipitone massacre
  Jul 29, 1983 · Italy
• Jack Harold Jones
  Jan 1, 1983–Jan 1, 1995 · —
• Eastern Air Lines Flight 855
  May 5, 1983 · United States
• 1983 Anchorage runway collision
  Dec 23, 1983 · United States
• 1983 Rhein-Main Starfighter crash
  May 22, 1983 · Germany
• 1983 Tsumagoi gas explosion
  Nov 22, 1983 · Japan
• Alcalá 20 nightclub fire
  Dec 17, 1983 · Spain
• 1983–1988 Kuwait terror attacks
  Dec 12, 1983 · Kuwait
• Malaysian Airline System Flight 684
  Dec 18, 1983 · Malaysia
• Singapore cable car crash
  Jan 29, 1983 · Singapore
• 1983 Orly Airport attack
  Jul 15, 1983 · France
• William Darrell Lindsey
  Jan 1, 1983–Jan 1, 1996 · —
• Disappearance of Ann Gotlib
  Jun 1, 1983 · United States
• 1983 CAAK Ilyushin Il-62 crash
  Jul 1, 1983 · Guinea
• Eppstein school shooting
  Jun 3, 1983 · Germany
• Byford Dolphin diving accident
  Nov 5, 1983 · Norway
• Michael Durocher
  Nov 1, 1983–Aug 1, 1988 · —
• Shannon Street massacre
  Jan 1, 1983 · United States
• Yokohama vagrant assault murder case
  Feb 1983 · Japan
• Edmund Zagorski
  Apr 23, 1983 · United States
• Alfonso López Trujillo
  Feb 2, 1983 · —
• Michel Lambin
  Jan 21, 1983–Jul 1, 2004 · France
• Kerwin Duinmeijer
  Aug 21, 1983 · Netherlands
• Mario Stiebitz
  Jan 1, 1983–Jan 1, 1984 · Germany
• Maurizio Giugliano
  Jan 1, 1983–Jan 1, 1984 · —
• 1983 congressional page sex scandal
  1983 · —
• Cabbage Patch riots
  1983 · —
• Louis D. Hastings
  Mar 1, 1983 · —
• Petrus killings
  1983–1985 · Indonesia
• Murder of Sheila Anderson
  Feb 7, 1983 · United Kingdom
• TAME Flight 173
  Jul 11, 1983 · Ecuador
• Michael Jackson (murderer)
  Aug 31, 1983 · United States
• 1983 Harrods bombing
  Dec 17, 1983 · United Kingdom
• 1983 Popayán earthquake
  Mar 31, 1983 · Colombia