The British strategic bombing force largely came to an end when the V bomber force was phased out ; the last of which left service in 1983.

Fuller's last filmed interview took place on April 3, 1983, in which he presented his analysis of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers as a unique embodiment of the structural principles found in nature.

Ben Rosen provided the venture capital financing for the fledging company and served as chairman of the board for 18 years from 1983 until September 28, 2000, when he retired and was succeeded by Michael Capellas who served as the last Chairman and CEO until its merger with HP.

Its last class graduated in 1983.

Version 1 of BTNR188 ( DPNSS ) was issued in 1983 ; the last version of DPNSS to be released 6 in 1995 included compatibility with ISDN features released in V5.

Non-championship Formula One events were held for many years but, due to the increasing cost of competition, the last of these occurred in 1983.

Behind an improved defense the team would finish 7 – 9 in 1983, but it would be their last season in Baltimore.

Mayol ’ s last deep dive followed in 1983 when he reached the depth of 105m, at the age of 56.

Minor Threat, which had returned to being a four-piece group with the departure of Hansgen, played its last show on September 23, 1983, with go-go band Trouble Funk and the Big Boys, ending with " Last Song ", which was the original title of " Salad Days ".

Land growth has accelerated since the last quarter of the 20th century, from in 1972 to in 1983 to square kilometres in 1994.

* 1983 – Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.

The Brewers were in contention to repeat in 1983, but the team fell on a rough September to finish in 4th place with an 87 – 75 record, their last winning season until 1987.

At the time of the last official census in Burma, 31 March 1983, the population was 35, 442, 972., this was estimated by the CIA World Factbook to have increased to 54, 584, 650 ; however, many other estimates put this much higher, at around 60 million: China's People Daily reported that Burma had a census in 2007, and at the end of 2009 has 59. 2 million people, and growing at 2 % annually, with exception for Cyclone Nargis in 2008, and Britain-based human rights agencies place the population as high as 70 million.

The last official census in 1983 occurred at a time when parts of the country were controlled by insurgent groups and inaccessible to the government.

" The last turntable-playable recording Mad packaged with its magazines was " A Mad Look at Graduation ," in a 1983 Special.

The last Canadian segregated black school ( Guysborough, Nova Scotia ) was closed in 1983.

Volkswagen Group's Australian arm, Volkswagen Group Australia ( VGA ), announced that they would be returning Škoda, last sold in Australia in 1983, to the Australian car market in October 2007. the Fabia, Octavia, Roomster, Superb and Yeti are available in Australia.

His last wife was Shelagh Sinclair, to whom he was married from 1983 to his death on 27 February 2002.

Nonetheless Feline broke the Stranglers in Europe and reached No. 4 in the UK chart in January 1983 ( their last studio album to break the UK Top 10 ).

Terry Chambers left the band shortly thereafter, during the recording of their 1983 album Mummer ( his last recording on the track " Toys ").

Since their last Cup win in 1983, they are currently the only team of the four major North American sports leagues ( NHL, NFL, NBA, & MLB ) to win 4 consecutive championships, and hold the NHL record for most consecutive playoff series ' wins at 19 ( 1980 Playoffs-1984 Playoffs ).

* November 25 – George McMillin, American admiral, last Naval Governor of Guam ( d. 1983 )

In the debate on the address shortly after the general election of 1983, Powell picked up on Thatcher's willingness, when asked, to use nuclear weapons as a " last resort ".

The last ringdown telephone exchange in the United States was located at Bryant Pond, Maine, had 400 + subscribers, and converted to dial service in October 1983.

On 31 December 1983 Andropov celebrated the New Year for the last time.

The CIA manual, " Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare " ( Operaciones sicológicas en guerra de guerrillas ), had been written in 1983 to be used by the contras.

# Finds that the United States of America, by producing in 1983 a manual entitled ' Operaciones sicológicas en guerra de guerrillas ', and disseminating it to contra forces, has encouraged the commission by them of acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law ; but does not find a basis for concluding that any such acts which may have been committed are imputable to the United States of America as acts of the United States of America ;

It came with either a five-speed dog leg manual transmission, or a Mercedes-Benz-derived automatic transmission, originally with three speeds, with four-speed from 1983 in North America and 1984 in other markets.

It was also available with the LD28 OHC 2. 8 L I6 Diesel engine ( available in the US from mid-1981 through 1983 ) with either a five-speed manual or an automatic transmission.

Performance was improved with the introduction of a five-speed manual transmission in 1983.

The manual was first published in 1983.

BASIC A + was offered at a price of US $ 80. 00 in 1983, including the products OS / A + and EASMD ( Editor / Assembler ), and being an extension of Atari BASIC, came with a supplement to the latter's reference manual as its documentation.

The 1983 – 1984 models were additionally offered with Electronic Fuel Injection ( EFI ) with the 4K engine, but with 4-speed manual transmission, and similar to other markets ' XLi model.

Between 1983 and 1987 the six-cylinder-engined cars were only available with a five-speed manual transmission ( Getrag 265 ), with a four-speed automatic ( ZF 4HP22 ) offered from 1987 onwards ( along with improved fuel injection as used on the XJ40 ).

From 1980 to 1983, the CJ-5 came standard with a " Hurricane "- branded version of the GM Iron Duke I4 with an SR4 close-ratio four-speed manual transmission.

The Fuego Turbo ( manual transmission only ) was added in 1983 to coincide with the midlife facelift.

The 1983 model-year introduced a 1. 7 L CD17 I4 diesel engine, mated with a four-speed manual transmission.

) When reintroduced, the engine came with manual transmission as standard equipment, but in 1983 automatic transmission with “ Selec-Trac ” four-wheel drive became standard.

The first generation of Chariot ( D0 # W-series ) was produced from February 1983 to May 1991 with a choice of SOHC straight-4 powerplants ranging from the 1. 6-liter 4G32 to the 2. 0-liter 4G63 petrol engines, or the 1. 8 liter 4D65T turbodiesel ( from October 1984 ), mated to a five-speed manual or three-speed automatic transmission.

In 1983, she analysed telephone intercepts on John Cox that gave her access to conversations with Joan Ruddock and Bruce Kent.

* Analogue mobile phone service ( 1983 – 2008 ) assigned bandwidth for just two carriers ( A / B ); in much of North America these effectively were " Alternate " and " Bell " ( or the incumbent regional telephone landline monopoly in the area ).

An acoustic coupler is prominently shown early in the 1983 film " WarGames ", when character David Lightman ( depicted by actor Matthew Broderick ) places a telephone handset into the cradle of a film prop acoustic modem to accentuate the act of using telephone lines for interconnection to the developing computer networks of the period, in this case, a military command computer.

The first mass use of the cards was as a telephone card for payment in French pay phones, starting in 1983.

War dialing or wardialing ( the name is derived from the 1983 film WarGames ) is a technique of using a modem to automatically scan a list of telephone numbers, usually dialing every number in a local area code to search for computers, Bulletin board systems and fax machines.

* In 1983 the British commercial telephone directory company Yellow Pages filmed their famous Fly Fishing by J. R. Hartley in Cecil Court.

The fictional character appeared in television advertisements for British commercial telephone directory company Yellow Pages, first shown in 1983.

In 1983, Northwestern Bell and AT & T in conjunction with Telesystems and First Data Resources / WATS Marketing, developed a method to use Direct Inward Dialing ( DID ) to handle traffic so call centers no longer had to have dedicated lines or trunk groups as they are called, to handle each telephone number.

He was involved in a controversy over the tapping of his telephone by the Irish state from February 1975 to February 1983.

In June 1983, Sweigard was elected interim leader by means of a telephone conference call of 19 party executive members, with nine votes to five votes for party vice-president Richard Lawrence.

In 2005, he told the BBC that Smith had sacked him by telephone in early 1983, telling him that they were undertaking a tour without him.

By 1983 the company owned seven television stations and by 1985 it owned and managed cellular telephone licenses serving Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, and Philadelphia.

1983 saw the 60, 000th telephone connected in Jersey which showed a 20, 000 increase in just 7 years.

Official waiting lists of customers seeking telephone service increased almost fourfold to almost 79 000 between 1977 and 1983, but had been reduced to less than 50 000 by 1986.

Allegations of intimidation by the Machine include the 1971 arson of the dormitory room of Jim Zeigler, a successful non-Machine candidate for SGA President, and alleged wire-taps on the telephone of victorious opposition candidate John Bolus in 1983.

It was originally developed and designed by AT & T in 1983 for the creation and administration of operations support systems for the US telephone company that required online transaction processing ( OLTP ) capabilities.

Named after Al Pearlman — a Philadelphia Democratic City Councilman at Large elected in 1975, 1979, and 1983 and unsuccessful candidate for a Democratic State Senator nomination in 1982 — its purpose was protest Pearlman's practice of campaigning through wooden signs, nailed to telephone poles far taller than any person and not removed after elections.

A telephone service, BACSTEL, was introduced in 1983, reducing the need for magnetic tapes.

Don Ameche, whose name sometimes became synonymous ( and a kind of running gag ) with the telephone ( thanks to his film portrayal of Alexander Graham Bell ), became a familiar television face as well as a well-respected film actor, enjoying a late-life popular revival through his roles in the 1983 film Trading Places and the 1985 film Cocoon.

CNCP applied in 1983 to operate a long distance network in competition with the incumbent local telephone companies ' long distance services.

Philadelphia had named exchanges in the Bell of Pennsylvania telephone book as late as 1983, long after AT & T had hoped to complete the conversion.

The first pornographic film in Italy was Il Telefono rosso ( The red telephone ) in 1983 by Riccardo Schicchi with Ilona Staller ( aka " Cicciolina ").