March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
July 9 » The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
Day of death May 20, 1983
The temperature on May 20, 1983 was between 7.1 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 9.1 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (38%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
April 12 » Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago.
July 25 » Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
November 10 » Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.
November 15 » Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declares independence. Recognized only by Turkey.
December 4 » US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian Missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. 1 American pilot was killed, one was rescued and one is captured.
December 31 » The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
Day of burial May 25, 1983
The temperature on May 25, 1983 was between 8.2 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 11.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 12 » One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law.
April 18 » A suicide bomber in Lebanon destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.
September 26 » Soviet Air Force officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
October 13 » Ameritech Mobile Communications launches the first US cellular network in Chicago.
December 31 » Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.
December 31 » The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
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