Today in History for September 1983

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 81 of 81

1st - Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
1st - Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet jet
1st - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1st - WGH-AM in Newport News VA changes call letters to WNSY
2nd - Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM
4th - "Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" closes at Royale NYC after 747 perfs
4th - 83rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel
4th - Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship
4th - Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph)
5th - 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB
5th - Elmer Trettr sets record for highest terminal velocity at 201.34 mph
5th - Jerry Lewis' 18th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,691,627
5th - Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
6th - USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
7th - Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s)
8th - NASA launches RCA-6
9th - Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas
9th - Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2)
9th - Vitas Gerulatis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat 100th ranked male tennis player
Tennis Player Martina Navratilova 10th - 97th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert L Mills (61 63)
10th - Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
11th - 103rd US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 67 75 60)
11th - Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards
11th - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship
11th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
12th - Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes
12th - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
12th - Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million
12th - USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane
13th - Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save
13th - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
13th - Oakland's Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season
13th - Steve O'Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 mins, Lancs v Leics
13th - US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)
14th - US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner
15th - Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting NYC subway
15th - Israel premier Begin resigns
Actor/Body Builder/Politician Arnold Schwarzenegger 16th - Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen
17th - Chicago White Sox clinch their 1st-ever AL West championship
17th - Vanessa Williams (NY), 20, crowned 56th Miss America 1984, 1st black
18th - George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere
18th - Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
18th - Lebanese & Syrian army battle
18th - New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chic Bears 34-31
19th - David Slowinski on 2 CRAY-1 comp's find 2^132049-1 prime #
19th - St Kitts & Nevis declares independence from UK
20th - 3,112 turn out to see Pirates play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
20th - Cryptographic Communications System & Method (RSA) patented
21st - 11 killed in anti Marcos demonstrations in Manila
21st - David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross," premieres in London
21st - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
22nd - Everly Brothers reunite after 10 years (Royal Albert Hall)
22nd - NASA launches Galaxy-B
22nd - USSR performs underground nuclear test
22nd - Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4"
23rd - Argentina milt regime gives amnesty to military/political assassins
23rd - Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation of STS-9
23rd - Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
23rd - Heavyweight Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in Ohio
23rd - Phillies Steve Carlton is 16th to wins 300 game (beating Cards)
24th - Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in season
24th - Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of Hanif, v India Jullundur
24th - USSR performs underground nuclear test
25th - 35th Emmy Awards: Hill St Blue, Cheers, Ed Flanders & Shelley Long
25th - Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0
25th - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
26th - Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks NY Giant record 56 yard field goal
26th - Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-US winner)
26th - Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
26th - Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns
26th - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
26th - St Louis Card Bob Forsch 2nd no-hitter beats Montreal Expos, 3-0
26th - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
27th - South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years
27th - Tim Raines is 1st since Ty Cobb to steal 70 & drive in 70 runs
28th - STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad
29th - "A Chorus Line" 3,389 performance to become longest running Bdwy show
29th - 1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act
29th - Airport of Beirut reopens
29th - Congress authorized Pres Reagan to keep 1,600 US Marines in Lebanon
29th - Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 54 of 54

1st - José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
2nd - Mark Foster, English rugby player
3rd - Augusto Farfus, Brazilian racing driver
3rd - Nicky Hunt, English footballer
3rd - Marcus McCauley, American football player
3rd - Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player
4th - Yuichi Nakamaru, Japanese idol, (member of KAT-TUN)
4th - Tareq Aziz, Bangladeshi cricketer
5th - Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer
5th - Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer
5th - Xavier Susai, Australian comedian
7th - Philip Deignan, Irish cyclist
7th - Mehmet Topuz, Turkisher footballer
7th - Pops Mensah-Bonsu, British basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks
7th - Annette Dytrt, German skater figure
8th - Wali Lundy, American football player
8th - Diego Benaglio, Swiss-Italian footballer
8th - Chris Judd, Australian football player
8th - Lewis Roberts-Thompson, Australian football player
8th - Will Blalock, American basketball player
9th - Kyle Davies, American baseball player
9th - Edwin Jackson, Major League Baseball pitcher
9th - Sam Hollenbach, National Football League quarterback
9th - Cleveland Taylor, International footballer
11th - Jacoby Ellsbury, American baseball player
11th - Ike Diogu, American basketball player
12th - Carly Smithson, Irish singer
12th - Daniel Muir, football player
13th - Sean Brosnan II, American actor and son of actor Pierce Brosnan
13th - James Bourne, English musician
14th - Frostee Rucker, National Football League defensive end
Singer Amy Winehouse (14th) 14th - Amy Winehouse, Southgate, London, singer ("Stronger Than Me, Rehab), (d. 2011)
15th - Luke Hochevar, American baseball player
16th - Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer
17th - Jennifer Peña, American singer
18th - Kevin Doyle, Irish footballer
19th - Matt Wiman, American mixed martial artist
19th - Joey Devine, American baseball player
19th - Charlie Haeger, American baseball player
20th - Yuna Ito, Japanese singer and actress
20th - Ángel Sánchez, Puerto Rican baseball player
21st - Joseph Mazzello, actor (Internal Affairs)
21st - Fernando Cavenaghi, Argentinian footballer
21st - Maggie Grace, American actress
21st - Anna Meares, Australian cyclist
24th - Randy Foye, American basketball player
25th - Terrance Pennington, National Football League guard
26th - Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
26th - Samantha Hammel, American record producer and actress
27th - Travis MacRae, Canadian singer-songwriter
27th - Shermon Tang, Hong Kong actress
27th - Jeon Hye Bin, Korean actress
28th - Stefan Moore, English footballer
30th - Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

11th - Fashion designer Donna Karen marries Stephan Weiss

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 21 of 21

1st - Henry "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash), dies at 71
1st - Lennox Brown, cricket leg spinner (3 wickets at 63 for South Africa), dies
1st - Larry McDonald, American congressman (b. 1935)
3rd - Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (b. 1926)
5th - Antonio Mairena, flamenco singer (b. 1909)
7th - Hans Munch, composer, dies at 90
7th - Henry Promnitz, cricketer (5-58 on debut for South Africa 1927-28), dies
8th - Antonin Magne, French bicylist (won Tour de France 1931, 34), dies
8th - Willem C "Wim" Kan, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 72
10th - Balthasar J "John" Vorster, South African premier (1966-78), dies at 67
10th - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
15th - LeRoy Prinz, choreographer, dies at 88
15th - Willie Bobo, jazz drummer (Cos), dies at 49
15th - Prince Far I, reggae deejay, producer and Rastafarian
17th - Humberto Madeiros, US cardinal to Boston, dies at 67
24th - Isobel Baillie, oratorio singer, dies
25th - Leopold III, king of Belgium (1934-51), dies
26th - Tino Rossi, French singer, dies
27th - Tino Rossi, singer/actor (Destins, Belle Menuniere), dies at 76
30th - Freddy Martin, orchestra leader (started Merv Griffin), dies at 76
30th - William D Elliot, actor (Bernie Loves Bridget, Adam 12), dies at 49