American stage and screen actress Helen Hayes portrayed Miss Marple in two American made-for-TV movies, both for CBS: A Caribbean Mystery ( 1983 ) and Murder with Mirrors ( 1984 ).

The system had been designed in 1983 through 1984 with an intended mass market rollout in June 1984, but was canceled shortly thereafter due to the sale of the company to Tramiel Technology Ltd on July 2, 1984.

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

While Capcom's first product was the coin-operated Little League from July 1983, its first real video game, the arcade title Vulgus, was released in May 1984.

Also in 1983, he recorded tracks including " In England and In Africa " and " Sing Like Billy Bragg " which were used as a ‘ demo ’ to secure a further Peel Session in 1984, where he performed three songs including " Hands Together Eyes Closed ".

By May 1984, Ken Barlow stood as the only original cast member, after the departures of Ena Sharples ( in 1980 ), Annie Walker ( in 1983 ), Elsie Tanner ( in 1984 ) and Albert Tatlock ( also 1984 ).

In 1983, antihero Len Fairclough ( Peter Adamson ), one of the show's central male characters since 1961, was killed off, and in 1984, Stan Ogden ( Bernard Youens ) died.

He received accolades for his portrayal of Sydney Carton in a made for television version of A Tale of Two Cities ( 1980 ), co-starred with Dennis Hopper in The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ), which was based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name, and co-starred with Goldie Hawn in Protocol ( 1984 ).

Licensed miniature manufacturers who produced official figures include Grenadier Miniatures ( 1980 – 1983 ), Citadel Miniatures ( 1984 – 1986 ), Ral Partha, and TSR itself.

While they continued to play live shows during 1983 and 1984, they took a break from releasing new records to concentrate on the Alternative Tentacles record label, which would become synonymous with DIY alternative culture.

Spain, Portugal ( 1974 ), and several of the military dictatorships in South America returned to civilian rule in the late 1970s and early 1980s ( Argentina in 1983, Bolivia, Uruguay in 1984, Brazil in 1985, and Chile in the early 1990s ).

The strip underwent a significant change after Trudeau returned to it from a 22-month hiatus ( from January 1983 to October 1984 ).

( Parton's March 1983 performance at London's Dominion Theatre from this tour was filmed and broadcast as a television special in the U. S .) From 1984 to 1985, she toured alongside Kenny Rogers for the Real Love Tour.

In December 1983, Plato moved in with rock guitarist Lanny Lambert ; the couple married in April 24, 1984.

* Revell ( some properties licensed 1983 to 1984 )

These clashes flared into another outbreak of serious fighting in January 1981 called the Paquisha War ; similar incidents occurred in 1983 and again in 1984.

) The ephemerides continued on this basis through 1983 ( with some changes due to adoption of improved values of astronomical constants ), after which, for 1984 onwards, they adopted the JPL ephemerides.

* 33, 465 ( 1983 – 1984 )

" This Oscar was lost in a fire in 1983 and replaced at the 1984 Academy Awards.

This was mainly due to the song " I Am What I Am ", which became a hit at dance clubs, and then on the Club Play chart in late 1983 / early 1984.

Further disappointment followed in the 1983 – 1984 season when the team again reached the Coppa Italia final, only to lose the Cup in the final minutes of the return match against defending Serie A champions Roma.

After its first flight in April 1983, Challenger quickly became the workhorse of NASA's Space Shuttle fleet, flying far more missions per year than Columbia.

Even when the orbiters Discovery and Atlantis joined the fleet, Challenger remained in heavy use with three missions a year from 1983 to 1985.

( Enterprise, the test vehicle which was the prototype for Columbia, originally had the same wing markings as Columbia but with the letters " USA " on the right wing spaced closer together ; Enterprises markings were modified to match Challenger in 1983.

Challenger ( OV-099 ) was delivered to KSC in July 1982, Discovery ( OV-103 ) in November 1983, and Atlantis ( OV-104 ) in April 1985.

* Challenger ( 1970 – 1974 ; 1978 – 1983 ; 2008 – present )

The changes delayed launch from February 1983 to May 1986 where it was to be deployed by the Space Shuttle Challenger, however, the Challenger disaster pushed the date to October 1990.

Launched on 4 April 1983, STS-6 was the sixth shuttle mission and the first of the ten missions flown by Challenger.

On 4 April 1983, STS-6, the first Challenger mission, lifted off at 13: 30 EST.

Challenger returned to Earth on 9 April 1983 at 10: 53 am PST, landing on Runway 22 at Edwards AFB.

Challenger ’ s second flight began at 7: 33 am EDT, 18 June 1983, with an on-time liftoff.

1983 Junior Johnson Pepsi Challenger Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS.

During the 1983 Daytona 500, on February 20, 1983, Waltrip, a pre-race favorite to win the race, driving the Junior Johnson prepared 1983 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS Pepsi Challenger, spun on lap 64, at exit of turn 4, at nearly 200 mph, as he was making an evasive maneuver to avoid rear-ending a much slower car ahead of him.

Challenger arrived at Kennedy Space Center on 29 June 1983, and was transferred to the Orbiter Processing Facility on 30 June.

Challenger finally launched at 06: 32 UTC ( 02: 32 EDT ) on 30 August 1983, after a final 17-minute delay due to thunderstorms near the launch site.

The major event of the second day ( 31 August 1983 ) was the successful deployment of the INSAT-1B satellite, which took place at 7: 48 UTC, with Challenger then maneuvering to avoid the firing of the booster motor forty minutes later.

On the original plan, this would have been at 7: 44 UTC on 4 September 1983, before accounting for the last-minute launch delay ; in the event, this was put back by one day to allow for further communications testing, and Challenger touched down at 07: 40: 33 UTC ( 00: 40: 33 PDT ), 5 September 1983, on Runway 22 at Edwards AFB, on the morning of the seventh day of the mission.

In 1983, as a member of the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger on the mission STS-8, Bluford became the first African American in space, and the second person of African ancestry, after the Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.

Mission duration was 120 hours before Challenger landed on a concrete runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on April 9, 1983.

STS-8 Challenger ( August 30 to September 5, 1983 ).

Challenger At Sea, 1983