February 23 » Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
August 28 » Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
October 18 » The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
November 5 » Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.
Day of death September 5, 1983
The temperature on September 5, 1983 was between 9.1 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (29%). 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.
April 25 » Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
July 1 » A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
July 24 » The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
September 26 » Australia II wins the America's Cup, ending the New York Yacht Club's 132-year domination of the race.
October 21 » The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
December 10 » Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín.
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