WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1983
Find out what all happened August to December 1983

The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace. (6. September 1983)

Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations. (23. September 1983)

1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused. (7. November 1983)

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico. (17. November 1983)

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

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

Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns. (15. September 1983)

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

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. (21. October 1983)

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

The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (19. December 1983)

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

Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina. (5. December 1983)

Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and later executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard. (14. October 1983)

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

Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system. (27. September 1983)

Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured. (5. November 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)

Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état. (25. October 1983)