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

Pope John Paul II's apostolic constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister of 25 January 1983, and the norms issued by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on 7 February 1983, for its implementation on diocesan level continued the work of simplification already initiated by Pope Paul VI.

* Umberto Mozzoni ( 15 June 1980 – 2 February 1983 )

* Opilio Rossi ( 2 February 1983 – 22 June 1987 )

Kaye had quadruple bypass heart surgery in February 1983 ; he contracted hepatitis from a blood transfusion he received at that time.

The financial had a previous life, from January 1979 to February 1983.

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.

* SanDee Pitnick ; married February 13, 1983 ; a 32-year-old Las Vegas dancer.

* a page from the congressional record of Wednesday, February 2, 1983, Vol.

She married Kon Ichikawa on April 10, 1948, and died on February 18, 1983 of breast cancer.

Intense attacks against U. S. and Western interests, including two truck bombings of the US Embassy in 1983 and 1984 and the landmark attacks on the U. S. Marine and French parachute regiment barracks on October 23, 1983, led to an American withdrawal, while the virtual collapse of the Lebanese Army in February 1984 was a major blow to the government.

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

Charles, Prince of Wales ( 3 November 1972 ), U. S. President Jimmy Carter ( 15 July 1978 ), and U. S. Vice President ( later President ) George H. W. Bush ( George Bush Senior ) ( 1 February 1983 ).

The first known printed use of " retroactive continuity " as referring to the altering of history within a fictional work is in All-Star Squadron # 18 ( cover-dated February 1983 ) from DC Comics.

The first such reported attack was in January 1983 near Huata, when ronderos killed 13 senderistas ; in February in Sacsamarca.

His last wife was Shelagh Sinclair, to whom he was married from 1983 to his death on 27 February 2002.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Hans Bethe went to Livermore in February 1983 for a two-day briefing on the X-ray laser, and " Although impressed with its scientific novelty, Bethe went away highly skeptical it would contribute anything to the nation's defense.

In 1983, the United States Congress, pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 140 ( Public Law 97 — 198 ), designated February 11, Edison's birthday, as National Inventor's Day.

The Undertones released two further studio singles in 1983 ; their first single, " Got To Have You Back " — which was inspired by both ABC and Smokey Robinson — was released in February and their second single, " Chain of Love ", was released in May.

* February 17 – Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor ( d. 1983 )

* February 11 – Sir Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand ( d. 1983 )

* February 12 – Roger J. Traynor, American judge ( d. 1983 )

* February 22 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director ( d. 1983 )

Yuri Andropov died in February 1984, after just 15 months in office.

* February 13 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

* February 9 – Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( b. 1914 )

On February 9, 1984 Andropov died and was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko who in turn died on March 10, 1985.

Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (; – 9 February 1984 ) was a Soviet politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 12 November 1982 until his death fifteen months later.

During his short rule, Andropov introduced modest reforms but died little more than a year later in February 1984.

Fearing that a known Hitler burial site might become a Neo-Nazi shrine, KGB director Yuri Andropov authorised an operation to destroy the remains that had been buried in Magdeburg on 21 February 1946.

Andropov died on February 9, 1984 and Chernenko was elected his replacement on February 13 but Chernenko was a compromise stopgap candidate as Gorbachev – Andropov's protege – lacked sufficient support in the Politburo.

In February, 1958, the patient suffered a myocardial infarction complicated by pulmonary edema.

In February 2006, he suffered a stroke in Scarborough, and stated: " I hope to be back on my feet, or should I say my left leg, as soon as possible, but I know it is going to take some time.

Orwell suffered a tubercular haemorrhage in February 1946 but disguised his illness.

In January 2010 he was hospitalized after a seizure in Los Angeles, and in February he suffered another seizure on the set of The Insider television program.

Napoleon was largely defeated in the Battle of the Nations outside Leipzig in October 1813, and was overwhelmed by much larger armies during the Six Days Campaign ( February 1814 ), although, the Six Days Campaign is often considered a tactical masterpiece because the allies suffered much higher casualties.

His 50-year old secretary Mahadev Desai died of a heart attack 6 days later and his wife Kasturba died after 18 months imprisonment on 22 February 1944 ; six weeks later Gandhi suffered a severe malaria attack.

In February she suffered a fall at her Bel Air home and was taken to St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California.

The three most destructive raids ( out of 363 that the city suffered ), occurred on 23 November 1943, and 3 February and 26 February 1945.

" By February 1926, the studio suffered a reported net loss of $ 333, 413.

In late February of 2008, Kohl suffered a stroke in combination with a falling accident which rendered him with serious head injuries and required his hospitalization, since when he has been reported as bound to a wheelchair due to partial paralysis and with difficulty speaking.

Remaining forces suffered various losses against the Imperial Japanese Army and were delegated to guerrilla combat after retreating into the mountainous regions at the borders of Henan and Shanxi province in February 1938.

Profits suffered, and he headed West for new material at Loring's behest, arriving in California in February 1877.

His only son, Peter, died on 14 February 1945 of wounds suffered in a strafing attack on a military train two days earlier.

During the course of the season, serious injuries suffered by both Roenick ( broken jaw ) and Primeau ( concussion ) in February forced the Flyers to trade for Chicago's Alexei Zhamnov, who filled in well and kept the Flyers afloat.

John V filled the Sultan's order, but is said to have suffered from this humiliation and died soon thereafter on 16 February 1391.

In February 2006, relations between Turkey and Israel suffered when Turkey hosted a delegation from the Palestinian group Hamas, although on a formal visit to Turkey in 2006, the Israeli then Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni stated that " Bilateral relations Turkey and Israel are excellent.

Lon Nol's health started to decline after he suffered a stroke in February 1971.

The project was put on hold in February 1958 after Kenneth Horne suffered a stroke that left him partially paralysed.

These duties would not burden Buchan for long, as, on 6 February 1940, he suffered a severe head injury when he fell during a stroke at Rideau Hall.

On February 27, 1945 Calais suffered a last bombing raid – this time by British bombers who mistook the town for Dunkerque, which was at that time still occupied by German forces.

Camden Lock Village, then known as Camden Canal market, suffered a major fire, but no injuries, on 9 February 2008.

In February 2007 the cathedral suffered a severe lightning strike.

Chattanooga suffered the effects of the Influenza of 1918 from before the end of the First World War in November 1918 to February 1919 by having movie theaters and pool halls closed, among other effects.