January 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
February 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
July 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
Day of death February 11, 1983
The temperature on February 11, 1983 was between -4.9 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -1.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 1 » First collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced in Zürich, Switzerland.
March 11 » Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
July 7 » Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
September 17 » Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
October 9 » South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
November 27 » Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.
Day of burial February 15, 1983
The temperature on February 15, 1983 was between -3.4 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged -1.2 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 18 » Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
March 1 » First collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced in Zürich, Switzerland.
May 20 » First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
June 18 » Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other Bahá'í women, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran over her religious beliefs.
July 22 » Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
December 7 » An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid–Barajas Airport, killing 93 people.
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