What Happened In October 1983 In History

Historical Events for October, 1983

• 4th » Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of Convert 633.468 mph km/h, driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
• 9th » Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Yangon named Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four
• 13th » Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T Inc.) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
• 21st » 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.
• 22nd » Two Prison officer or correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary, Marion named United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
• 23rd » Lebanon Civil War: The United States Marine Corps U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut is 1983 Beirut barracks bombing hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A France French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58
• 30th » The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.

Famous Birthdays on October in 1983

• 1st » Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (d. 2006)
• 1st » Mirko Vučinić, Montenegrin footballer
• 3rd » Fred (footballer) known as Fred, Brazilian footballer
• 3rd » Thiago Alves (fighter) known as Thiago Alves, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 3rd » Andreas Papathanasiou, Cypriot footballer
• 3rd » Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese actor and singer
• 4th » Dan Clarke, English race car driver
• 4th » Risa Kudō, Japanese model and actress
• 4th » Marios Nicolaou (footballer, born 1983) e.g Marios Nicolaou, Cypriot footballer
• 4th » Chansi Stuckey, American football player
• 4th » Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player
• 4th » Tatsuya Ueda, Japanese singer and actor (KAT-TUN)
• 5th » Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
• 5th » Nicky Hilton, American model and fashion designer
• 5th » Florian Mayer, German tennis player
• 5th » Mashrafe Mortaza, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 5th » Noot Seear, Canadian model and actress
• 6th » Renata Voráčová, Czech tennis player
• 7th » Archie Bland, English journalist and author
• 7th » Dwayne Bravo, Trinidadian cricketer
• 7th » Flying Lotus, American rapper and producer, founded Brainfeeder
• 7th » Scottie Upshall, Canadian ice hockey player
• 8th » Mario Cassano, Italian footballer
• 8th » Michael Fraser, Scottish footballer
• 8th » Mihkel Kukk, Estonian javelin thrower
• 8th » Abhishek Nayar, Indian cricketer
• 8th » Travis Pastrana, American motorcycle racer
• 9th » Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
• 9th » Spencer Grammer, American actress
• 9th » Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter
• 9th » Andreas Zuber, Austrian race car driver
• 10th » Vusimuzi Sibanda, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 10th » Nikos Spyropoulos, Greek footballer
• 10th » Sherab Zam, Bhutanese archer
• 10th » Tolga Zengin, Turkish footballer
• 11th » Bradley James, English actor
• 11th » Ruslan Ponomariov, Ukrainian chess player
• 11th » William Sledd, American video blogger
• 12th » Alex Brosque, Australian footballer
• 12th » Carlton Cole, English footballer
• 12th » Katie Piper, English model and television host
• 14th » Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
• 14th » Betty Heidler, German hammer thrower
• 14th » Vanessa Lane, American porn actress
• 15th » Holly Montag, American model
• 15th » Bruno Senna, Brazilian race car driver
• 15th » Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer and actress (Cookies (group) named Cookies)
• 16th » Loreen (singer) named Loreen, Swedish singer
• 16th » Philipp Kohlschreiber, German tennis player
• 17th » Daniel Booko, American actor
• 17th » Milica Brozovic, Serbian-Russian figure skater
• 17th » Felicity Jones, English actress
• 17th » Toshihiro Matsushita, Japanese footballer
• 17th » Junichi Miyashita, Japanese swimmer
• 17th » Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
• 17th » Mitch Talbot, American baseball player
• 17th » Vitali Teleš, Estonian footballer
• 18th » Dante (footballer) called Dante, Brazilian footballer
• 19th » Cara Santa Maria, American neuroscientist and blogger
• 20th » Flavio Cipolla, Italian tennis player
• 20th » Luis Saritama, Ecuadorian footballer
• 20th » Michel Vorm, Dutch footballer
• 20th » Takayuki Yamada, Japanese actor and singer
• 21st » Casey Fien, American baseball player
• 21st » Zack Greinke, American baseball player
• 21st » Gonzalo Klusener, Argentinian footballer
• 21st » Andy Marte, Dominican baseball player
• 21st » Christopher Sherrington, English martial artist
• 21st » Charlotte Sullivan, Canadian actress
• 21st » Ninet Tayeb, Israeli singer and actress
• 21st » Aaron Tveit, American actor and singer
• 21st » Shelden Williams, American basketball player
• 22nd » Plan B (musician) or Plan B, English rapper, producer, and actor
• 22nd » Anton Müller (footballer) e.g Anton Müller, German footballer
• 23rd » Filippos Darlas, Greek footballer
• 23rd » Goldie Harvey, Nigerian singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
• 23rd » Josh Strickland, American actor and singer
• 24th » Adrienne Bailon, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (3LW and The Cheetah Girls (band) called The Cheetah Girls)
• 24th » V V Brown, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 24th » Hernán Garin, Argentinian footballer
• 24th » Brian Vickers, American race car driver
• 25th » Gyptian, Jamaican singer
• 25th » Mirjam Liimask, Estonian hurdler
• 25th » Tim McGarigle, American football player
• 25th » Taylor Vixen, American porn actress
• 25th » Han Yeo-reum, South Korean actress
• 26th » Francisco Liriano, Dominican baseball player
• 26th » Dmitri Sychev, Russian footballer
• 26th » Luke Watson, South African rugby player
• 27th » Brent Clevlen, American baseball player
• 27th » Martín Prado, Venezuelan baseball player
• 27th » Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Turkish actor
• 28th » Jarrett Jack, American basketball player
• 28th » Joe Thomas (actor) known as Joe Thomas, English actor and screenwriter
• 29th » Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor
• 29th » Maurice Clarett, American football player
• 29th » Freddy Eastwood, Welsh footballer
• 29th » Dana Eveland, American baseball player
• 29th » Johnny Lewis, American actor (d. 2012)
• 29th » Jason Tahincioglu, Turkish race car driver
• 30th » Trent Edwards, American football player
• 30th » Iain Hume, Scottish-Canadian footballer
• 30th » Maor Melikson, Israeli footballer
• 31st » Adam Bouska, American photographer and activist, founded the NOH8 Campaign
• 31st » Katy French, Swiss-Irish model (d. 2007)
• 31st » Sitashma Chand, Miss Nepal Miss Nepal 2007 named 2007 Winner

Famous Deaths for October 1983

• 5th » Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 5th » Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded the Tupperware or Tupperware Corporation (b. 1907)
• 6th » Terence Cooke, American cardinal (b. 1921)
• 8th » Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
• 10th » Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
• 12th » Ernie Roth, American wrestling manager (b. 1929)
• 14th » Johannes O., Indonesian-Dutch murderer (b. 1916)
• 14th » Willard Price, Canadian-American historian and author (b. 1887)
• 17th » Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (b. 1905)
• 18th » Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish economist and author (b. 1897)
• 18th » Willie Jones (baseball) known as Willie Jones, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 19th » Maurice Bishop, Aruban-Grenadian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
• 20th » Peter Dudley, English actor (b. 1935)
• 20th » Yves Thériault, Canadian author (b. 1915)
• 23rd » Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
• 31st » George Halas, American football player and coach (b. 1895)

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