During the same time period, Bixby directed several episodes of another short-lived television series, Wizards and Warriors, which aired in 1983.

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 ).

He then reached a new commercial peak in 1983 with Let's Dance, which yielded several hit singles.

At the peak of the scene in 1983, The Face's Paul Rambali recalled that there were " several strong gothic characteristics " in the music of Joy Division.

In addition, as of early 1988 the government had lost control of several mountainous districts in Kurdistan where, since 1983, dissident Kurds have cooperated militarily with Iran.

There was much enthusiasm for the concept and for several years, from about 1983 onward, computer industry pundits would regularly declare the coming year to be “ the year of the LAN ”.

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.

On 3 February 1983, Fraser called a double dissolution election for 5 March, several months before it was due.

In the years immediately after the 1983 ratification of the MIDI specification, MIDI features were adapted to several early computer platforms, including Apple II Plus, IIe and Macintosh, Commodore 64 and Amiga, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes, and PC-DOS.

The original Macintosh system software was partially based on the Lisa OS, previously released by Apple for the Lisa computer in 1983 and, as part of an agreement allowing Xerox to buy shares in Apple at a favorable rate, it also used concepts from the Xerox PARC Xerox Alto, which Steve Jobs and several other Macintosh team members had previewed.

* 1983 – Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d ' état.

While historically presidents initiated the process for going to war, critics have charged that there have been several conflicts in which presidents did not get official declarations, including Theodore Roosevelt's military move into Panama in 1903, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the invasions of Grenada in 1983 and Panama in 1990.

Sakamoto was the songwriter and composer for a number of the band's hit songs, including " Yellow Magic ( Tong Poo )" ( 1978 ), " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), " Nice Age " ( 1980 ), " Ongaku " ( 1983 ), and " You've Got to Help Yourself " ( 1983 ), while playing the keyboards for many of their other songs, including international hits such as " Computer Game / Firecracker " ( 1978 ) and " Rydeen " ( 1979 ), and singing in several songs such as " Kimi ni Mune Kyun " ( 1983 ).

In 1983, it sabotaged several electrical transmission towers, causing a citywide blackout, and set fire and destroyed the Bayer industrial plant.

It was after he polled several hundred votes in Margaret Thatcher's Finchley constituency in 1983 that the deposit paid by candidates was raised from £ 150 to £ 500.

Time magazine in 1983 published reports of human rights violations in an article which stated that " According to Nicaragua's Permanent Commission on Human Rights, the regime detains several hundred people a month ; about half of them are eventually released, but the rest simply disappear.

In the mid 1980s, Curry performed in The Rivals ( Bob Acres 1983 ) and in several plays with the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, including The Threepenny Opera ( MacHeath 1986 ), Dalliance ( Theodore 1986 ), and Love For Love ( Tattle 1985 ).

President Ronald Reagan watched the film several days before its screening, on November 5, 1983.

Section 1983 itself is quite short ; the annotations ( i. e., the digests and summaries of court decisions interpreting it ), however, span several volumes.

On the other side of the world in 1983, Howard Jacobs created several wakeboards by mounting windsurfing foot straps and partial hydroslide pads on some smaller surfboards that he had shaped ; by 1984, he was throwing backflips on the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida.

even garnered some attention outside of literary criticism, having several pages devoted to it in a chapter on the American New Right in Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics by George Johnson ( 1983 ).

By 1967, the independent candidates had gained traction within the black community, winning several aldermanic seats ; by 1983, the League of Negro Voters would be instrumental in Washington's run for Mayor.

As BMW became the team's engine supplier in 1983, he qualified well on several occasions in 1983 and 1984, but the car was rarely reliable, so there were few results and a lot of accidents.

It was designed by architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee, in association with Houston-based Morris Architects ( formerly Morris-Aubry Architects ), and erected in 1983.

However, thanks to black-and-white photos and original plans, a group of Spanish architects reconstructed the pavilion permanently between 1983 and 1986.

Belo has its headquarters in the Belo Building in Downtown Dallas, designed by Dallas architects Omniplan and constructed between 1983 and 1985.

Upon winning an international design competition, local architects McGranahan and Messenger completed the Tacoma Dome in 1983 for $ 44 million which opened on April 21, the arena seats 17, 100 for basketball.

The museum was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1983, and was named as Scotland's second greatest post-war building ( after Gillespie, Kidd & Coia's St. Peter's Seminary ) in a poll of architects by Prospect magazine in 2005.

Founded in 1983, BSD maintains and supports advanced specification writing, cost estimating and BIM interoperability products used by thousands of architects, engineers and design professionals nationwide.

The arena was built in 1983 at the site of the former music hall, Pavillon de Paris, by architects Phillippe Chaix and Jean-Paul Morel.

The substantial increase in the number of Catholics in Stockholm and Sweden, mostly as a result of immigration after World War II, made the old church insufficient, and an extension, designed by architects Hans Westman and Ylva Lenormand, was inaugurated in 1983, at the 200th anniversary of the re-establishment in 1783 of the Roman Catholic Church in Lutheran Sweden.

The bactericidal properties of brass have been observed for centuries and were confirmed in the laboratory in 1983.

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.

The force was officially constituted in January 1983, when the various pro-Habré contingents were merged and renamed FANT.

The first reforms were implemented in three rounds – 1974 – 1983, 1985, and 1990.

The first licensed Call of Cthulhu 25mm gaming miniatures were sculpted by Andrew Chernack and released by Grenadier Models in boxed sets and blister packs in 1983.

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 ".

On March 2, 1983 CD players and discs ( 16 titles from CBS Records ) were released in the United States and other markets.

General elections were held in 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2008 and 2012.

Since the NL East winners had had home field advantage in 1983, the NL West winners were entitled to it.

" it was felt within the service that officers were likely to be questioned about the true political affiliation of Mrs. Joan Ruddock, who became chair of CND in 1983.

Population and housing censuses for Mauritius was collected in 1972, 1983, and 2000 ; although respondents were asked to identify their race / ethnic origin in the 1972 census, this question was dropped from the following censuses because " the government felt that it was a divisive question ".

At the 14 – 15 June 1983 Central Committee meeting, Vitaly Vorotnikov was elected as a candidate member of the Politburo, Grigory Romanov was elected to the Secretariat and five members of the Central Committee were given full membership.

These deliberate acts of violence against civilians were acknowledged by the CIA as early as late 1983, when Duane Clarridge, Latin America division chief of the CIA ’ s Directorate for Operations, reported in a secret briefing to the Senate subcommittee that his contras had murdered " civilians and Sandinista officials in the provinces, as well as heads of cooperatives, nurses, doctors and judges.

* 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 ).

Newcomb's tables formed the basis of all astronomical ephemerides of the Sun from 1900 through 1983: they were originally expressed ( and published ) in terms of Greenwich Mean Time and the mean solar day, but later, in respect of the period 1960 – 1983, they were treated as expressed in terms of ET, in accordance with the adopted ET proposal of 1948 – 52.

Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church ( many of whose members were targets of deprogramming ) issued this statement in 1983:

International Day of Nuclear Disarmament protests were held on June 20, 1983 at 50 sites across the United States.

There were two younger brothers, Hanly ( 1899 – 1983 ) and Carey ( 1902 – 1976 ), who were born after the family had moved to the nearby suburb of Beckenham — in Oakwood Avenue.

By 1983 Bevan was expressing a desire to join Black Sabbath permanently and Lynne and Tandy were recording tracks for the Electric Dreams soundtrack under Jeff Lynne's name.

In 1983 legislation arranged that both parents were to have equal rights for custody of their children.

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.