Arbor Day was celebrated from 1983 until 1999 in South Africa, when the national government extended it to National Arbor Week, which lasts from 1 – 7 September.

This was a topic of major commercial effort at the time, dominating shows like the National Computer Conference ( NCC ) in Anaheim in May 1983.

In 1983, the American National Standards Institute formed a committee, X3J11, to establish a standard specification of C. After a long and arduous process, the standard was completed in 1989 and ratified as ANSI X3. 159-1989 " Programming Language C ." This version of the language is often referred to as " ANSI C ", or sometimes " C89 " ( to distinguish it from C99 ).

In 1988 Colonel Koffi Botty was the high commander of the National Gendarmerie, having replaced Brigadier General N ' daw in 1983.

* Rescue: Minimum breaking strength requirements and calculations for rescue carabiners are set out in National Fire Protection Association standard 1983 Fire Service Life Safety Rope and Equipment.

* National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1983

ESPN first broadcast the National High School Cheerleading Competition nationwide in 1983.

In 1983, Peter Greyson, an art student, entered Ottawa's National Archives ( known today as Library and Archives Canada ) and poured red paint mixed with glue over a copy of the proclamation of the 1982 constitutional amendment.

In 1980 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and was on a U. S. postage stamp in 1983.

Representatives of the EDA companies Daisy Systems, Mentor Graphics, Motorola, National Semiconductor, Tektronix, Texas Instruments and the University of California, Berkeley established the EDIF Steering Committee in November 1983.

When US troops withdew from Grenada in December 1983 Nicholas Braithwaite of the National Democratic Congress was appointed Prime Minister of an interim administration by the Governor General Sir Paul Scoon until elections could be organised.

** National Semi-Finalist in 1974, 1983, 1992, 1993

Johnny Lee Bench ( born December 7, 1947 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ) is a former professional baseball catcher who played in the Major Leagues for the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 to 1983 and is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

The day Gustav Vasa was hailed as King ( he was not crowned until 1528 though ) would become, in 1983, the National Day of Sweden.

* 1979 – Six-year-old Etan Patz disappears from the street just two blocks away from his New York City home, prompting an international search for the child, and causing U. S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25th as National Missing Children's Day ( in 1983 ).

1983: National Health Policy – MCH & Family welfare services were integrated during this policy

In addition Keith Hernandez, former National League MVP and perennial gold-glove winner was obtained by the Mets in 1983.

* 1983 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.

Smith was voted in as the National League's starting shortstop in the All-Star Game for the first time in 1983, and at season's end won a fourth consecutive Gold Glove Award.

The Phillies made the playoffs twice more in the 1980s after their Series win, in 1981 and 1983, where they lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series, but they would soon follow these near-misses with a rapid drop back into the basement of the National League.

Super Bowl XVIII was an American football game between the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion Washington Redskins and the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Los Angeles Raiders to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1983 season.

He received the National Cartoonist Society Comic Book Award for 1986, their Humor Comic Book Award for 1973, 1974, and 1976, their Magazine and Book Illustration Award for 1989, their Special Features Award for 1977, their Gag Cartoon Award for 1983, and their Reuben Award in 1996 for his work on Mad and Groo the Wanderer.

In 1983, the United States Congress, pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 140 ( Public Law 97 — 198 ), designated February 11, Edison's birthday, as National Inventor's Day.

It has been named best humor strip by the National Cartoonists Society in 1971, 1976, 1980, 1982 and 1983.

On December 11, 1983, John Henry became the first racehorse to surpass $ 4 million in career earnings when he won the Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes with jockey Chris McCarron at Hollywood Park Racetrack.

Three Billie Turf movies were made between 1978 and 1983, mostly spelling the name of the main character as " Billy Turf ".

Other films and TV shows featuring greasers include: Crime in the Streets ( 1956 ), The Delinquents ( 1957 ), 77 Sunset Strip ( 1958 ), The Young Savages ( 1961 ), Two-Lane Blacktop ( 1971 ), American Graffiti ( 1973 ), Badlands ( 1973 ), Happy Days ( 1974 – 1984 ), The Lords of Flatbush ( 1974 ), Grease ( 1978 ), The Wanderers ( 1979 ), Grease 2 ( 1982 ), The Loveless ( 1982 ), The Outsiders ( 1983 ) Eddie and the Cruisers ( 1983 ), Rumble Fish ( 1983 ), Streets of Fire ( 1984 ), Tuff Turf ( 1985 ), Stand By Me ( 1986 ), La Bamba ( 1987 ), Full House ( 1987 – 1995 ), Last Exit to Brooklyn ( 1989 ), Cry-Baby ( 1990 ), This Boy's Life ( 1993 ), Roadracers ( 1994 ), Deuces Wild ( 2002 ), Secondhand Lions ( 2003 ), the children's cartoon Johnny Bravo, the video game Bully ( 2006 ), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( 2008 ), Fallout 3 ( 2008 ), Mafia II ( 2010 ) and Fallout: New Vegas ( 2010 ), The Violent Kind ( 2010 ),

* Walter Haight Award for Excellence in Turf Writing, 1983

Amongst others, he trained Cougar II, the 1972 U. S. Champion Turf Horse, Kennedy Road, the 1983 Canadian Horse of the Year and for a time, Exceller.

* Hollywood Invitational Turf Handicap ( 1970, 1971, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1987 )

On 13 May 1983, Turf Moor was chosen to host a match between Czechoslovakia and West Germany during the 1983 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship.

The Mystery Writers of America established the Ellery Queen Award in 1983 " to honor writing teams and outstanding people in the mystery-publishing industry.

She graduated from Harvard University in 1977 with a BA in English, and later attended Stanford Business School ( 1979-1980 ), but dropped out in favor of the University of Iowa Writers ' Workshop, where she earned her MFA in fiction in 1983.

Norton published her first novel in 1934, and was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master Award from the World Science Fiction Society in 1977, and won the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ( SFWA ) association in 1983.

On February 20, 2005, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, which had earlier honored her with its Grand Master Award in 1983, announced the creation of the Andre Norton Award, to be given each year for an outstanding work of fantasy or science fiction for the young adult literature market, beginning in 2006.

John Maxwell ( JM ) Coetzee was also first published in the 1970s, and became internationally recognised in 1983 with his Booker Prize winning novel Life & Times of Michael K. His 1999 novel Disgrace won him his second Booker Prize as well as the 2000 Commonwealth Writers ' Prize.

She edited and contributed to El Salvador: The Work of Thirty Photographers ( Writers & Readers, 1983 ).

* A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers ( Alfred A. Knopf, 1983 )

Writers like Dashiell Hammett ( 1894 – 1961 ), Raymond Chandler ( 1888 – 1959 ), Jonathan Latimer ( 1906 – 1983 ), Mickey Spillane ( 1918 – 2006 ), and many others decided on an altogether different, innovative approach to crime fiction.

In 1983, the New York State Writers Institute was founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Kennedy.

* 1983 Crime Writers Association Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction for The Papers of Tony Veitch

Writers Gregorio Morales, Vicente Molina Foix, Luis Antonio de Villena, Javier Barquín, José Tono Martínez, Luis Mateo Díez, José Antonio Gabriel y Galán, José Luis Moreno-Ruiz and Ramón Mayrata were prominent in the “ Tertulia de Creadores ”, which were a cycle of meetings, lectures, debates and happenings that took place in the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid between 1983 and 1984.

He was selected as the National Coach of the Year in 1983 and 1985 by the U. S. Basketball Writers Association.

He was Chairman of the Crime Writers ' Association ( CWA ) ( 1970 – 71 ), Chairman of the Society of Authors ( 1983 – 84 ) and President of the Detection Club ( 1985 – 2000 ).

* 1983 Small Press Writers and Artists Organization-Best Comic ( Elfquest )

* Marin County Arts Council Writers Award, 1990, 1983

The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, compiled by Robert M. Ritter, was earlier published as a separate companion volume, in line with the eleven editions of its famous predecessor the Authors ’ and Printers ’ Dictionary by Frederick Howard Collins ( first published in 1905 and renamed in 1983 ).

McBride received the Writers Guild of America Award for cowriting The American Film Institute Salute to John Huston ( 1983 ).

* The Wine of Astonishment, Oxford: Heinemann, Caribbean Writers Series, 1983 ; new 2010 edition includes CSEC specific study notes.