Hill then became an assistant professor at the Evangelical Christian O. W. Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University where she taught from 1983 to 1986.

* 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 1983, she analysed telephone intercepts on John Cox that gave her access to conversations with Joan Ruddock and Bruce Kent.

Within a year of her inauguration she survived two unsuccessful coups and in October 1983, as chairperson of the Organization of East Caribbean States, endorsed the US Invasion of Grenada.

In May 1983, she became a grandmother.

In 1982 and into early 1983, she toured to support her Heartbreak Express album, but health problems resulted in the cancellation of a number of that tour's dates.

( 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 1983, she released an album entitled Gloria Gaynor, in which she rejected disco for mid-tempo R & B and Pop style songs.

Robinson's early political career included election to Dublin City Council in 1979, where she served until 1983.

* The first TEs were discovered in maize ( Zea mays ), by Barbara McClintock in 1948, for which she was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1983.

In 1983, when Ryder was 12, she enrolled at the American Conservatory Theater in nearby San Francisco, where she took her first acting lessons.

On September 7, 1983 she committed suicide after surgery earlier in the year to remove a tumor.

Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business.

One of France's most renowned actresses, she has also appeared in seven English-language films, most notably the 1983 cult classic The Hunger.

Her most mainstream and well-received role was as Laotian refugee Keo Sirisomphone in Michael Landon's 1983 American television movie, Love Is Forever, in which she was credited as Moira Chen.

In 1983 she was diagnosed with cancer and underwent a successful operation.

In 1983, she appeared on the Grammy Awards, performing Dylan's anthemic " Blowin ' in the Wind ", a song she first performed twenty years earlier.

In 1983, she auditioned for the female lead in Jean-Luc Godard's ' controversial Hail Mary, a modern retelling of the Virgin birth.

Hall later had gender reassignment surgery and became Dawn Langley Simmons, under which name she wrote a biography of Rutherford in 1983.

By the time of her death in 1983, she was largely remembered at best for her " noble " roles in The Women, Marie Antoinette, and Romeo and Juliet.

" They were still married at the time of her death on June 12, 1983 ( from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease ) at the age of 80, although in her declining years she repeatedly called Martin " Irving ".

In 1983, she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award.

Fuller's last filmed interview took place on April 3, 1983, in which he presented his analysis of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers as a unique embodiment of the structural principles found in nature.

Earl Weaver retired and Joe Altobelli took over for 1983.

In the 1983 general election, the alliance took 25 % of the popular vote, but this only translated into 23 seats ( out of a total of 650 ).

In a letter published in The Times newspaper on 9 April 1983, Geoffrey Crawley explained the discrepancy by suggesting that the photograph was " an unintended double exposure of fairy cutouts in the grass ", and thus " both ladies can be quite sincere in believing that they each took it ".

Phyllis Pearce ( Jill Summers ) was hailed as the new Ena Sharples in 1982, the Duckworths moved into No. 9 in 1983 and slipped into the role once held by the Ogdens, while Percy Sugden ( Bill Waddington ) appeared in 1983 and took over the grumpy war veteran role from Albert Tatlock.

To maintain the momentum of the perceived commercial interest in this new investment opportunity, in 1983, the Government itself granted eleven interim franchises for new broadband systems each covering a community of up to around 100, 000 homes, but the competitive franchising process was otherwise left to the new regulatory body, the Cable Authority, which took on its powers from January 1, 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.

Nonetheless, decades later, in Cinéma I and Cinema II ( 1983 – 1985 ), the philosopher Gilles Deleuze took Matter and Memory as the basis of his philosophy of film and revisited Bergson's concepts, combining them with the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce.

Fab 5 Freddy and Futura 2000 took hip hop graffiti to Paris and London as part of the New York City Rap Tour in 1983.

On 19 October 1983 the military under Hudson Austin took power in a second coup and formed a military government to run the country.

Foot took a back seat in Labour politics after 1983 and retired from the House of Commons at the 1992 general election, when Labour lost to the Tories ( now led by John Major ) for the fourth election in succession, but remained politically active.

The America won the race and took the trophy, the America's Cup, beck to the U. S where, held by the New York Yacht Club it remained until 1983.

There are two threads in the history of finite simple groups – the discovery and construction of specific simple groups and families, which took place from the work of Galois in the 1820s to the construction of the Monster in 1981 ; and proof that this list was complete, which began in the 19th century, most significantly took place 1955 through 1983 ( when victory was initially declared ), but was only generally agreed to be finished in 2004., work on improving the proofs and understanding continues ; see for 19th century history of simple groups.

In 1983, the first wheelchair races took place.

The Quattro quickly became the car to beat on snow, ice or gravel ; and in 1983 took Hannu Mikkola to the World Rally Championship title.

Also for English television, Laurence Olivier took the role in a 1983 TV production for Granada Television.

The Colgate Series, renamed the Toyota Series in 1981, included tournaments from the across the world, whereas the Avon sponsored events took place solely in the U. S. The two circuits merged beginning with the 1983 season, when Virginia Slims returned to take full sponsorship rights of the WTA Tour.

Although Caine also took better roles, including a BAFTA-winning turn in Educating Rita ( 1983 ), and an Oscar-winning one in Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ) and a Golden Globe-nominated one in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ( 1988 ), he continued to appear in notorious duds like the thinly veiled skin flick Blame It on Rio, the Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais comedy Water and the critical-commercial flop Jaws: The Revenge ( 1987 ) ( in which he had mixed feelings about the production and the final cut ) and Bullseye!

The last trial against a former Waffen-SS member took place in 1983.

Weaver took his own life at age 71 on January 17, 1983, via a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

In 1983, he won his 3rd European Cup title by winning the 200 metres, beating his old adversary Pietro Mennea in London, and again took 2nd in the 100.

Provincial parties grew in popularity and number after the return of democracy in 1983, and took several of the provincial governor positions.