February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
May 7 » In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
June 28 » The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
Day of death May 9, 1983
The temperature on May 9, 1983 was between 9.0 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 16 » The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
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.
July 24 » George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".
September 17 » Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
October 21 » The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
December 19 » The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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