It was initially intended to be a next generation video game machine, but was redesigned as a general purpose computer after the North American video game crash of 1983.

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.

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.

It was announced early in 1983 with a fall introduction at the target price of $ 500 for plug-in AppleNet cards for the Lisa and the Apple II.

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

By late 1983 it was clear that IBM's Token Ring would not be ready in time for the launch of the Mac, and might miss the launch of these other products as well.

As trading became tighter in the petroleum market, and Aston Martin was requiring more time and money, Gauntlett agreed to sell Hays / Pace to the Kuwait Investment Office in September 1983.

( A revised 2-port model was released in 1983, along with a game adapter that allowed gamers to play all 2600 games.

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.

In 1963, Rowney ( now part of Daler-Rowney Ltd since 1983 ) was the first manufacturer to introduce an artist ’ s acrylic color in Europe, under the brand name Cryla.

Michigan Opera Theatre was the first major American opera company to present the work in 1983, and again in November 2009.

Aquino, a former Senator and a leading figure of the political opposition, was assassinated in 1983 at the Manila International Airport ( now the Ninoy Aquino International Airport ) upon returning home from exile.

The treaty was undisturbed until Ronald Reagan announced his Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) on March 23, 1983.

This seat was abolished in the 1983 general election and replaced with the present constituency of Hyndburn ( UK Parliament constituency ).

The HARM missile was approved for full production in March 1983, and then deployed in late 1985 with VA-72 and VA-46 aboard the aircraft carrier USS America.

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 ).

A. Panitz's patent, was developed by Mike Miller starting in 1983 and culminated with the first prototype in 1986.

The Bronx was the setting for the 1983 film Fuga dal Bronx, also known as Bronx Warriors 2 and Escape 2000, an Italian B-movie best known for its appearance on the television series Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

The first BBS using the Apple Macintosh platform was the Austin Arts BBS, which was a dial-up system developed by Bill Hood of the School of Screenprinting in 1983.

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.

Factional infighting developed between moderates in the CSP and radicals led by Captain Thomas Sankara, who was appointed prime minister in January 1983.

It was founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn.

Philippe Kahn was at all times Chairman, President, and CEO of Borland Inc. from its inception in 1983 until he left in 1995.

The Kop in 1983, before the Taylor Report recommended that standing areas in football grounds be outlawed following the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.

In April 1983 an advisory committee of the LAUSD recommended closing eight LAUSD schools, including Prairie Street School.

In April 1983 an advisory committee of the LAUSD recommended closing eight LAUSD schools, including Garden Grove School and Newcastle Avenue School in Reseda.

A 1983 Commons Committee recommended that Indian or First Nations communities be allowed to write their own membership code provided that the code did not violate fundamental human rights.

A second report from the 1983 Penner Committee recommended the gradual abolition of the office of Minister of Indian Affairs and a transfer of responsibility for their own affairs to First Nations communities.

In 1982 she eventually emigrated to the U. S. where she has specialized in playing European temptresses since her feature debut opposite William Hurt in Gorky Park ( 1983 ), for which she was recommended by Roman Polanski.

In 1983, with his new name, Hisaishi was recommended by a record company to create an album for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

On July 14, 1983 the House Ethics Committee recommended that Rep. Dan Crane ( R-IL ) and Rep. Gerry Studds ( D-MA ) be reprimanded for having engaged in sexual relationships with minors, specifically 17-year-old congressional pages.

Among the younger scientists were William Laird McKinlay ( 1889 – 1983 ), a 24-year-old science teacher from Glasgow who was recommended by the Scottish explorer William Speirs Bruce, and Bjarn Mamen ( 1893 – 1914 ), a 20-year-old skiing champion from Christiania, Norway, who was taken on as a forester, despite lacking scientific experience.

In 1983 it was further recommended by the State Boundaries Commission that Strathfield be amalgamated into Burwood.

A 1983 report by the Institute of Medicine recommended that nursing research be included in the mainstream of biomedical and behavioral science, and a 1984 NIH Task Force study found nursing research activities to be relevant to the NIH mission.

According to the files, the Ministry of Health had recommended, in 1983, that the import of untreated blood and blood products be banned, and that emergency imports of heat-treated products be allowed.

Various state and federal reports in 1966, 1969, 1973, 1978, and 1983 all recommended extensions of the Blue Line to Lynn or even Salem, but funding was instead given to the Haymarket North Extension and Southwest Corridor projects on the Orange Line and the Alewife and Braintree extensions of the red Line.

In 1983, a WHO working group recommended that the consumption of non-cariogenic " toothfriendly " confectionery should be encouraged.

* Concerto for alphorn No. 2 ( with flute, string orchestra & percussion ) ( 1983 ) by Daetwyler

The Dictionnaire historique et Généalogique des grandes familles de Grèce, d ' Albanie et de Constantinople ( 1983 ) by Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza adds a second illegitimate daughter of Andronikos, converting to Islam under the name Bayalun.

In 1983 he wrote an extended manuscript ( about 600 pages ) entitled Pursuing Stacks, stimulated by correspondence with Ronald Brown, ( see also R. Brown and Tim Porter at University of Bangor in Wales ), and starting with a letter addressed to Daniel Quillen.

* Ark ( The Animals album ), a 1983 album by The Original Animals

* Acorn Business Computer, a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers

Pace continued sponsoring racing events, and now sponsored all Aston Martin Owners Club events, taking a Tickford-engined Nimrod Group C car owned by AMOC President Viscount Downe, which came third in the Manufacturers Championship in both 1982 and 1983.

Age to Age became the first Christian album by a solo artist to be certified gold ( 1983 ) and the first Christian album to be certified platinum ( 1985 ).

* 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.

Its first product was Turbo Pascal in 1983, developed by Anders Hejlsberg ( who later developed. NET and C # for Microsoft ) and before Borland acquired the product sold in Scandinavia under the name of Compas Pascal.

He also received numerous other awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented to him on February 23, 1983 by President Ronald Reagan.

In addition to de facto renunciation through apostasy, heresy, or schism, the Roman Catholic Church envisaged from 1983 to 2009 the possibility of formal defection from the Church through a decision manifested personally, consciously and freely, and in writing, to the competent church authority, who was then to judge whether it was genuinely a case of " true separation from the constitutive elements of the life of the Church ... ( by ) an act of apostasy, heresy or schism.

However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.

Credit for organizing the backbone about 1983 is commonly attributed to Gene " Spaf " Spafford, although it is also claimed by Mark Horton.

* " Sunday Bloody Sunday ", a 1983 song by U2

In 1983 the Brabham BT52, driven by Piquet and Italian Riccardo Patrese, was powered by the BMW M12 Straight-4 engine, and powered Brabham to four of the team's 35 Grand Prix victories.

The incident has been commemorated by Irish band, U2, in their 1983 protest song " Sunday Bloody Sunday ".

Contemporary systems of categories have been proposed by John G. Bennett ( The Dramatic Universe, 4 vols., 1956-65 ), Wilfrid Sellars ( 1974 ), Reinhardt Grossmann ( 1983, 1992 ), Johansson ( 1989 ), Hoffman and Rosenkrantz ( 1994 ), Roderick Chisholm ( 1996 ), Barry Smith ( ontologist ) ( 2003 ), and Jonathan Lowe ( 2006 ).

In 1983, the Turkish Cypriots declared an independent state called the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC ), an action opposed by the United Nations Security Council.

In 1983, the Turkish Cypriots declared an independent " Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ", which has never been recognized by any country except Turkey and Pakistan.