February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
October 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Day of death March 5, 1983
The temperature on March 5, 1983 was between 0.9 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 14 » United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
March 1 » First collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced in Zürich, Switzerland.
March 2 » Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
March 11 » Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
July 19 » The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
November 2 » U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Day of burial March 9, 1983
The temperature on March 9, 1983 was between 2.1 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 11 » Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
May 1 » The Sydney Entertainment Centre is opened.
September 17 » Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
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.
November 8 » TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462 crashes after takeoff from Lubango Airport killing all 130 people on board. UNITA claims to have shot down the aircraft, though this is disputed.
November 17 » The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
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