WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO OCTOBER 1983
Find out what all happened July to October 1983

Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T Inc.) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois. (13. 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)

Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. (4. October 1983)

Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board. (23. September 1983)

The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War. (24. July 1983)

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

Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov. (7. July 1983)

Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast. (9. October 1983)

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

TAME 737-200 crash: A Boeing 737-2V2 Advanced of national airline TAME crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives. (11. July 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)

Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence. (19. September 1983)

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

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)

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

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

Sikorsky S-61 disaster: a helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities. (16. July 1983)