The Electron was developed during 1983 as a cheap sibling for the BBC Micro with the intention of capturing the low-cost Christmas sales market for that year.

Chile pressed ahead with privatizations, including public utilities plus the re-privatization of companies that had returned to the government during the 1982 – 1983 crisis.

Andropov's health declined rapidly during the tense summer and fall of 1983, and he became the first Soviet leader to miss the anniversary celebrations of the 1917 revolution that November.

His command positions included: commanding officer of a platoon and two rifle companies during two tours of duty in Vietnam ; commanding officer of Special Training Branch and Recruit Series at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California ( 1966 – 1968 ); commanding officer of Counter-Guerilla Warfare School, Northern Training Area on Okinawa ( 1970 ), Company officer at the United States Naval Academy ( 1970 – 1973 ); commanding officer of the Marine Barracks at Naval Air Station North Island, California ( 1973 – 1976 ), and commanding officer, 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines ( 1983 – 1985 ).

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.

In Changes in the Land ( 1983 ), William Cronon analyzed and documented 17th-century English colonists ' reports of increased seasonal flooding in New England during the period when new settlers initially cleared the forests for agriculture.

In the tense situation leading up to the 1983 Fatah rebellion, during the Lebanese Civil War, the DFLP offered mediation to prevent the Syrian-backed formation of a rival Fatah leadership under Said al-Muragha ( Abu Musa ), the Fatah al-Intifada faction.

Massive foreign borrowing, initiated during the years of the second military regime and continued under Roldós, resulted in a foreign debt that by 1983 was nearly US $ 7 billion.

* 1983 – A special commission of the U. S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.

Both authors were pioneers in feminist criticism of science fiction during the 1960s and 70s through essays collected in The Language of the Night ( Le Guin, 1979 ) and How To Suppress Women's Writing ( Russ, 1983 ).

On October 1983, during the U. S. invasion of Grenada, U. S. President Ronald Reagan maintained that US Marines arrived on the island of Grenada, which was considered a Soviet-Cuban ally that would export communist revolution throughout the Caribbean.

Widespread discontent in Haiti began in 1983, when Pope John Paul II condemned the regime during a visit, finally provoking a rebellion, and in February 1986, after months of disorder, the army forced Duvalier to resign and go into exile.

For example, Ken Thompson noted during his 1983 Turing Award lecture that it is possible to add code to the UNIX " login " command that would accept either the intended encrypted password or a particular known password, allowing a back door into the system with the latter password.

The second incident occurred on 1 September 1983, during a period of heightened Cold War tension, when a Soviet Su-15 interceptor shot down a straying Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island, just west of Sakhalin Island.

Some major works composed during this period include Wavemaker ( 1977 ), Phrygian Gates for solo piano ( 1977 ), Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), Common Tones in Simple Time ( 1979 ), Harmonium ( 1980 – 81 ), Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ), Light Over Water ( 1983 ), Harmonielehre ( 1984 – 85 ), The Chairman Dances ( 1985 ), Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), and Nixon in China ( 1985 – 87 ).

Since 1983, it has been defined as " the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of of a second.

* 1983 October 21The 17th CGPM defines the metre as equal to the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of of a second.

Their mixture of heavy metal and glam rock stylings produced several best-selling albums during the 1980s, including Shout at the Devil ( 1983 ), Theatre of Pain ( 1985 ), and Girls, Girls, Girls ( 1987 ), which showcased their love of motorcycles, whiskey and strip clubs, and which told tales of substance abuse, sexual escapades, and general decadence.

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

Gerald Kaufman, once Harold Wilson's press officer and during the 1980s prominent on the Labour right, described the 1983 Labour manifesto as " the longest suicide note in history ".

Around 1983, during the development of the first release of Windows, Microsoft had plans to make a Windows version.

In 1983, North Korean agents attempted to assassinate then South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during a visit to Burma.

Jack Little, an engineer, was exposed to it during a visit Moler made to Stanford University in 1983.

According to different sources, 8, 000 to 30, 000 people, are estimated to have disappeared and died during the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

* 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

In June 1983, he assumed the post of chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, thus becoming the ceremonial head of state.

US − Soviet relations deteriorated rapidly beginning in March 1983, when US President Ronald Reagan dubbed the Soviet Union an " evil empire ".

Further deterioration occurred as a result of the Sept. 1, 1983 Soviet shoot down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island carrying 269 people including a sitting US congressman, Larry McDonald, and over Reagan's stationing of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe.

* 1903 – Nikolai Podgorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet ( d. 1983 )

Diplomatic relations between Grenada and the Soviet Union were severed in 1983 by the Governor General of Grenada.

There is also a Soviet movie The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe ( Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго, 1983 ), directed by Sergey Tarasov, with songs of Vladimir Vysotsky, starring Peteris Gaudins as Ivanhoe.

* 1983 – Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U. S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.

* 1983 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an " evil empire ".

In 1972, he headed a Soviet delegation to Belgium, and three years later he led a delegation to West Germany ; in 1983 he headed a delegation to Canada to meet with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and members of the Commons and Senate.

* 1983 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution stating that Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.

A test Soviet connection to Austria in 1982 existed, in 1982 and 1983 there were series of " world computer conferences " at VNIIPAS initiated by the U. N. where USSR was represented by a team of scientists from many Soviet Republics headed by biochemist Anatoly Klyosov ; the other participating countries were UK, USA, Canada, Sweden, FRG, GDR, Italy, Finland, Philippines, Guatemala, Japan, Thailand, Luxembourg, Denmark, Brazil and New Zealand.

* 1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace.

* 1983 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.

* 1983 – The USSR vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.

A Russian edition V Mire Nauki was launched in the Soviet Union in 1983, and continues in the present-day Russian Federation.

Filmed in late 1983 and early 1984, the primary plot centres on two families, the Kemps and the Becketts, as an international crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union erupts and escalates.