* 1898 – Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer and test pilot ( d. 1983 )

* 1983 – The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel ( 53. 85 km ) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.

* " Killer " ( Taggart ), the 1983 pilot episode and title of the later re-named Scottish detective TV series, Taggart

* Masquerade ( 1983 ) ( pilot for a series which Shepherd did not appear in )

Jack Campion, Maggie Brown and Matt Dorf prepare for the first question round on the Press Your Luck pilot in May 1983.

Peter Tomarken on the set of Press Your Luck for the 1983 pilot.

Peter Tomarken, who had just come off of a 13-week gig as the host of Hit Man on NBC, was tapped to be the host, and a pilot, which included game show pilot mainstay Jack Campion, and future PYL contestant Maggie Brown ( both of whom appeared on pilot # 3 of Second Chance ) as contestants, was filmed in May 1983.

In 1983, after filming the pilot episode for the television series Hotel, Davis was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy.

In 1983, Ulf Merbold from ESA and Byron Lichtenberg from MIT ( engineer and Air Force fighter pilot ) were the first payload specialists to fly on the Space Shuttle, on mission STS-9.

In 1983, he took honors as the overall top graduate from Basic Jet Training at CFB Moose Jaw in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and in 1984 – 1985, he trained as a fighter pilot at CFB Cold Lake in Cold Lake, Alberta on CF-5s and CF-18s.

The original pilot film for Kids Incorporated was produced in 1983 and shopped to several networks by creators Thomas W. Lynch and Gary Biller.

* Hotel ( 1983 ) ( pilot for series )

In 1983, he starred in the television pilot, The Invisible Woman, as the bumbling mad scientist father of the title character, a journalist.

Dolman had worked with Howard on a 1983 television pilot called Little Shots that had not resulted in a series, and Lucas admired Dolman's work on the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati.

Kurt Waldemar Tank ( February 24, 1898 – June 5, 1983 ) was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot who led the design department at Focke-Wulf from 1931 to 1945.

Her performances on television during this time included the television movie Malibu in 1983 and the pilot episode of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1985.

The series ' pilot, which aired as the show's eighth episode in 1983, featured the book Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, and was narrated by Doug Parvin.

On September 1, 1983, one of these flights, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by a Soviet pilot who had mistaken it for a spy plane, after unintentionally violating Soviet airspace.

After British Airways had ceased regular passenger operations in 1983, BA continued to intermittently use Prestwick as a site for pilot training, especially for training Concorde pilots.

The series ' pilot was shot in November 1983, a full 10 months before the show actually went on the air.

From 1979 to 1982, and 1983 to 1984, he was assigned as a test and verification pilot in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory at JSC.

Anatoly Vasilyevich Liapidevsky ( 1908 – 1983 ) was a Soviet aircraft pilot and the first to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union ( in 1934 ).

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.