April 1983 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1983 Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England.
• 03 Apr 1983 12th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott.
• 04 Apr 1983 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched.
• 05 Apr 1983 France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats.
• 06 Apr 1983 Caps 2-Isles 5 - Patrick Division Semifinals - Isles hold 1-0 lead
• 07 Apr 1983 Caps 4-Isles 2 - Patrick Division Semifinals - series tied 1-1
• 09 Apr 1983 6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth.
• 10 Apr 1983 Caps 3-Isles 6 - Patrick Division Semifinals - Isles win series 3-2
• 11 Apr 1983 3rd Golden Raspberry Awards: Inchon! wins
• 13 Apr 1983 Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault
• 14 Apr 1983 Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs. Ranger
• 15 Apr 1983 Rangers 0-Isles 5 - Patrick Division Finals - Isles hold 2-0 lead
• 16 Apr 1983 Steve Garvey sets NL record by playing in 1,118 consecutive games
• 17 Apr 1983 In Warsaw, Poland, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters.
• 18 Apr 1983 A lone suicide bomber kills 63, at US Embassy in Lebanon
• 20 Apr 1983 President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security
• 21 Apr 1983 Soyuz T-8 is launched [04-20?]
• 22 Apr 1983 Rangers 2-Isles 5 - Patrick Division Finals - Isles win series 4-2
• 24 Apr 1983 Show Boat opens at Uris Theater NYC for 73 performances
• 25 Apr 1983 Yuri Andropov invites US schoolgirl Samantha Smith to USSR
• 26 Apr 1983 Bruins 2-Isles 5-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 1-0 lead
• 27 Apr 1983 Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout King (3,509), passing Walter Johnson
• 28 Apr 1983 Bruins 4-Isles 1-Wales Conference Championship-Series tied 1-1
• 30 Apr 1983 Bruins 3-Isles 7-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 2-1 lead

Famous Birthday

• Miranda Kerr

  Australian model.

• Franck Ribéry

  French-born soccer player, who has been an integral player in the Club Bayern Munchen (Munich) which he joined in June 2007.

• Jessica Burciaga

  Model.

• Eric André
• Daniela Hantuchová

  Slovakian tennis player.

• Matt Lanter

  American actor and model.

• London Underground (the Tube)
• Jamie Chung

  American actress.

• Ryan Merriman

  American actor.

• Amanda Righetti

  American actress and producer.

• Alice Braga

  Brazilian actress.

• Jelena Dokic

  Serbian-Australian tennis player.

• Bérengère Krief
• Jay Cutler (football américain)
• Cécile Storti
• François Clerc
• Bobbi Starr

  American pornographic actress.

• Amanda Quagliata
• Federica Felini
• Megan Boone

  TV Actress.

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Famous Deaths

• George Balanchine

  Russian-born dancer and choreographer (Born 1904).

• Walter Slezak

  Austrian-American actor who won a Tony award and the N.Y.

• Buster Crabbe

  American athlete, an Olympic swimming champ with a Gold Medal in 1932 in the 400 m. freestyle.

• Lorene Scott

  Actress (Faraway Hill), dies at 74.

• Jerzy Andrezjewski

  Writer.

• Selena Royale

  Actress (Robot Monster), dies at 78.

• Bronislaw Kaper

  Composer, dies at 81.

• Jerry Hatsuo Fujikawa

  Actor (Uncle Matsu-Mr T & Tina), dies at 71.

• Vaughn Taylor

  Actor (Johnny Jupiter), dies at 72.

• Rodolfo Hoyos

  Actor (Luis-Viva Valdez), dies at 68.

• Danny Rapp

  American musician (Danny & the Juniors) (Born 1941).

• Corrie ten Boom

  Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (Born 1892).

• John Louis Evans

  American convicted murderer (executed) (Born 1950).

• Issam Sartawi

  Palestinian Liberation Organization ambassador to Portugal, is murdered.

• Ulf S von Euler-Chelpin

  Swedish physiologist, dies at age 78.

• Willem F Bon

  Dutch composer, dies at age 42.

• Gyula Illyes

  Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at age 80.

• Peter Potter

  DJ ( Show, Juke Box Jury), dies at age 78.

• Mark W Clark

  US General (WWII), dies at age 87.

• Earl "Fatha" Hines

  American jazz pianist/conductor, dies (born 1903).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
2. Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
3. Michael Jackson - Beat It
4. Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
5. Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. David Bowie - Let's Dance
2. Spandau Ballet - True
3. Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know?
4. Heaven 17 - Temptation
5. Culture Club - Church Of The Poison Mind