February 1983 calendar

Events

• 02 Feb 1983 Chicago Absp Joseph L Bernardin is among 18 new cardinals invested
• 03 Feb 1983 US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners.
• 04 Feb 1983 Jose Happart becomes Mayor of Voeren Belgium
• 05 Feb 1983 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial
• 06 Feb 1983 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic.
• 07 Feb 1983 1st female secretary of transportation sworn-in
• 08 Feb 1983 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of four goals in one period.
• 09 Feb 1983 Belgium buys 44 F-16 fighter jets.
• 10 Feb 1983 Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral United Kingdom nuclear disarmament.
• 11 Feb 1983 Weird Al Yankovic records Ricky andBuckingham Blues debut LP
• 13 Feb 1983 Merlin opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 performances
• 14 Feb 1983 United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher is later convicted of fraud.
• 16 Feb 1983 Nellie massacre: over 2,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslims, are massacred in Assam, India, during the Assam agitation.
• 17 Feb 1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 18 Feb 1983 NBA Indiana Pacers begin a 28 game road losing streak
• 19 Feb 1983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400-metre freestyle swimming record.
• 20 Feb 1983 Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays
• 21 Feb 1983 NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29-game road losing streak.
• 22 Feb 1983 Hindus kill 3000 Muslims in Assam, India.
• 23 Feb 1983 US immigration judge Gordon Sacks orders Feodor Fedorenko deported to the Soviet Union, his birthplace. Fedorenko had served as a guard in a German death camp in Treblinka, Poland, between 1942 and 1945.
• 24 Feb 1983 A special commission of the Congress of the United States releases a report critical of the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
• 26 Feb 1983 Shortwave pirate Radio USA (Wellsville, NY) begins transmission
• 27 Feb 1983 Eamonn Coghlan sets indoor mile record of 3:49.78.
• 28 Feb 1983 Final TV episode of MASH airs (CBS); record 125 million watch.

Famous Birthday

• Emily Blunt

  Movie Actress.

• Mélanie Laurent

  French actress, model, director, singer and writer.

• Kate Mara

  American actress.

• Melrose Bickerstaff

  American model and fashion designer.

• Aziz Ansari

  Indian-American comedian.

• Sophie Howard
• Marilou Berry

  French actress, daughter of sculptor Philippe Berry and actress Josiane Balasko.

• Andrew VanWyngarden

  musician (MGMT).

• Carolina Klüft

  Swedish heptathlete and jumper.

• Selita Ebanks

  Model.

• Reem Kherici
• Amélie Bitoun
• Rafael van der Vaart

  Dutch footballer.

• Alexia Palombo (Star Academy)
• Iveta Benesová
• Louise Glover
• Iliza Shlesinger

  American comedian and actress.

• Bacary Sagna

  French footballer.

• Hillary Scott
• Justin Verlander

  American baseball player.

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Famous Deaths

• Tennessee Williams

  American writer, poet, and outstanding playwright most noted for his powerful, emotional and dramatic works, "The Glass Menagerie," 1945, "A...

• Eubie Blake

  ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You), dies at age 100.

• Roy Horb

  Suriname sergeant / putschist, commits suicide.

• Eduard Franz

  Actor (Zorro), dies at 80.

• James G Richardson

  (Tim Cassidy-Sierra), dies at 37 in ski accident.

• Ray Vitte

  Actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police at 33.

• Herbert Norman Howells

  Composer, dies at 90.

• Tullio Campagnolo

  Italian bicycle manufacturer, dies.

• Sam Chatman

  elder statesman of the blues, dies.

• Derk Roemers

  Dutch union leader/politician (Social Democrat), dies at age 67.

• Christina E "Christine" Auwen

  singer/wife of John Kelly, dies at age 75.

• John Cowles Sr

  US publisher, dies at age 84.

• Sam Chatmon

  American blues musician (Born 1897).

• Fritz Koberle

  Austrian-Brazilian physician (Born 1910).

• Adrian Boult

  British internationally known conductor knighted by King George VI in 1937.

• Romain Maes

  Belgian cyclist who won the 1935 Tour de France after wearing the yellow jersey of leadership from beginning to end.

• Alice White

  American actress and singer (d. 1983).

• Herbert Howells

  English organist composer and educator (d. 1983).

• Jim Ameche

  Actor (Festival of Stars), dies at 68.

• Marian Nixon

  Actress (Dr Bull, Sweepstakes), dies of cancer at 78.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Toto - Africa
2. Men At Work - Down Under
3. Patti Austin - Baby, Come To Me
4. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
5. Bob Seger - Shame On The Moon

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
2. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
3. Men At Work - Down Under
4. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
5. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)