WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1983
Find out what all happened June to December 1983

The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held. (30. October 1983)

Orly Airport attack is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA at the Paris-Orly Airport in Paris; it leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured. (15. July 1983)

The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F). (21. July 1983)

Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald. (1. September 1983)

Black July: 18 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days. (27. July 1983)

13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. (23. July 1983)

Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars). (18. August 1983)

Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail. (12. October 1983)

Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons. (22. October 1983)

Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion. (23. September 1983)

Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín. (10. December 1983)

Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history. (25. September 1983)

Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike. (26. September 1983)

A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros. (12. September 1983)

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognized only by Turkey. (15. November 1983)

Martial law in Poland is officially revoked. (22. July 1983)

Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport). (21. August 1983)

The third Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts. (14. December 1983)

Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America. (17. September 1983)

The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published. (19. July 1983)