WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1983
Find out what all happened September to December 1983

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0 (10. November 1983)

Lebanon Civil War: The U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops. (23. October 1983)

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

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

Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London, England, United Kingdom. Three police officers and three civilians are killed. (17. December 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)

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)

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

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)

The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government. (31. December 1983)

Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181. (27. November 1983)