After the release of the Apple Lisa computer in January 1983, Apple invested considerable effort in the development of a local area networking ( LAN ) system for the machines.

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

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

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.

Public support for unilateralism in September 1982 was 31 %, falling to 21 % in January 1983, but it is hard to say whether this decline was a result of the contemporary propaganda campaign against CND or not.

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.

The strip underwent a significant change after Trudeau returned to it from a 22-month hiatus ( from January 1983 to October 1984 ).

He played " Faceman " from 1982 to 1986 ( although the series didn't air until January 1983, and the final episode wasn't shown until 1987 re-runs ).

These clashes flared into another outbreak of serious fighting in January 1981 called the Paquisha War ; similar incidents occurred in 1983 and again in 1984.

On 1 January 1983 the Falkland Islanders gained British citizenship under the British Nationality ( Falkland Islands ) Act 1983, and on 3 October 1985 the Constitution of the Falkland Islands was established.

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

The highest officially recorded temperature was on 26 July 1983 and the lowest was on 12 January 1985.

George Dewey Cukor (; July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983 ) was an American film director.

Cukor died of a heart attack on January 24, 1983, and was interred in an unmarked grave at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

A new advertising campaign was aired in time for the 1982 Christmas season, and the ECS itself was shown to the public at the January 1983 Consumer Electronic Show ( CES ) in Las Vegas.

The migration of the ARPANET to TCP / IP was officially completed on flag day January 1, 1983, when the new protocols were permanently activated.

1-2-3 was released on January 26, 1983 and immediately overtook Visicalc in sales.

A January 1983 Metamagical Themas column by Douglas Hofstadter, in Scientific American, was influential as was his 1985 book of the same name.

By the time of the January 1983 Winter NAMM Show, Smith was able to demonstrate a MIDI connection between his Prophet 600 analog synthesizer and a Roland JP-6.

By January 1983, Men at Work had the top album and single in both the US and the UK-a feat never achieved previously by an Australian act.

# Decides that the United States of America, by certain attacks on Nicaraguan territory in 1983-1984, namely attacks on Puerto Sandino on 13 September and 14 October 1983, an attack on Corinto on 10 October 1983 ; an attack on Potosi Naval Base on 4 / 5 January 1984, an attack on San Juan del Sur on 7 March 1984 ; attacks on patrol boats at Puerto Sandino on 28 and 30 March 1984 ; and an attack on San Juan del Norte on 9 April 1984 ; and further by those acts of intervention referred to in subparagraph ( 3 ) hereof which involve the use of force, has acted, against the Republic of Nicaragua, in breach of its obligation under customary international law not to use force against another State ;

After the World Series championship, Smith and the Cardinals agreed on a new contract in January 1983 that paid Smith $ 1 million per year.

Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (; 13 January 1596 – 27 April 1656 ) was a Dutch landscape painter.

Jan ." ( third day to the calends of January ) in the Roman dating system.

Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch ( 3 March 1895 – 31 January 1973 ) was a Norwegian economist and the co-winner with Jan Tinbergen of the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969.

* January 14 – The Polish ferry M / S Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea, killing 54 people.

* January 16 – Student Jan Palach sets himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia ; 3 days later he dies.

* January 19 – Jan Palach, Czech student protester ( suicide ) ( b. 1948 )

* January 12 – Dutch journalist and writer Jan Campert dies in the Neuengamme concentration camp.

January 8 | Jan. 8: First Transcontinental Railroad | Transcontinental R. R.

January 11 | Jan. 11: Battle of Arkansas Post.

January 20 | Jan. 20: John F. Kennedy inaugurated as President of the U. S.

January 16 | Jan. 16: Battle of Corunna.

* January 28 – Jan Lamb, Hong Kong singer and actor

* January 13 – Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter ( d. 1656 )

* January 1 – Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski, Polish noble ( d. 1567 )

* January 8 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies ( d. 1629 )

* January 12 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist ( d. 1644 )

* January 12 – Jan Szczęsny Herburt, political writer ( d. 1616 )

* January 1 – Jan Steen, Dutch painter

The queen insisted upon another colloquy, which was opened at St. Germain Jan. 28, 1562, eleven days after the proclamation of the famous January edict which granted important privileges to those of the Reformed faith.

* Jan ( 8 January 1499 – 18 February 1538 ), Bishop of Wilen ( 1519 ) and of Posen 1536

Jan Brueghel the Elder (; 1568 – 13 January 1625 ) was a Flemish painter, son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and father of Jan Brueghel the Younger.

Blommaert was investigated in Amsterdam by the board of the East-India Company on January 30, 1616 about a vessel, named Mauritius de Nassau, sailed from a Dutch port, under the command of Jan Remmetszoon, of Purmerend.

* History's First Video-Game-Themed Parade ( Jan. 8, 1983 ) Des Moines Register, January 9, 1983