July 1983 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1983 A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
• 02 Jul 1983 90th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats A Jaeger
• 03 Jul 1983 11th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Hollis Stacy
• 04 Jul 1983 New York Yankees' Dave Righetti no-hits the Boston Red Sox.
• 05 Jul 1983 France invades Algeria
• 06 Jul 1983 54th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-3 at Comiskey Park, Chicago
• 07 Jul 1983 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR
• 08 Jul 1983 Rudi Koopmans retains European middleweight title
• 11 Jul 1983 Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, of New Zealand, crowned 32nd Miss Universe
• 14 Jul 1983 Crane (Rep-R-Il) and Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages
• 15 Jul 1983 Linda Ronstadt debuts as Mabel in Pirates of Penzance
• 16 Jul 1983 Sikorsky S-61 disaster: a helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
• 17 Jul 1983 112th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 275 at Royal Birkdale
• 18 Jul 1983 Despite being in 1st place in NL East, Phils fire manager Pat Corrales
• 19 Jul 1983 The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
• 20 Jul 1983 The Israeli cabinet votes to withdraw troops from Beirut but to remain in southern Lebanon.
• 21 Jul 1983 Polish government ends 19 months of martial law.
• 22 Jul 1983 Angels OF Brian Downing error ends his record streak at 244 games
• 23 Jul 1983 Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
• 24 Jul 1983 Mame opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances
• 25 Jul 1983 Washington Public Power Supply System defaults on US$2.25 billion loan.
• 26 Jul 1983 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8
• 27 Jul 1983 Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal
• 28 Jul 1983 NASA launches Telstar-3A
• 29 Jul 1983 Friday Night Videos premieres on NBC TV
• 30 Jul 1983 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of the USSR jerks a record 261 kg
• 31 Jul 1983 B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, and W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame

Famous Birthday

• Katrina Kaif
• Daniele De Rossi

  Italian footballer.

• Michelle Branch

  American singer (The Wreckers).

• Lorik Cana

  Soccer Player.

• Megumi Kawamura

  Japanese volleyball player.

• Isabeli Fontana

  Brazilian model.

• Kim Heechul

  Pop Singer.

• Miguel Angel Munoz

  Spanish actor and singer.

• Golshifteh Farahani

  Movie Actress.

• Carmen Villalobos

  Soap Opera Actress.

• Olga Graf
• Gregory Smith

  Canadian-born American actor.

• Aaron Peirsol

  American swimmer.

• Peter Cincotti

  American singer-songwriter and pianist.

• Barbara Goenaga
• Jodi Albert
• Leeteuk

  Pop Singer.

• Sharni Vinson

  Australian actress and dancer.

• Rebecca Cartwright
• Lucia Micarelli

  American violinist (Jethro Tull).

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Famous Deaths

• Vicki Morgan

  American homicide victim; the mistress from the age of 18 of financier Alfred Bloomingdale.

• Herman Kahn

  American mathematician, military strategist and author who tried to justify nuclear war; a true Dr. Strangelove.

• Gabrielle Roy

  Canadian author and educator (d. 1983).

• Harry James

  swing-era bandleader/trumpet player, dies in Las Vegas, Nevada.

• Vaclav Trojan

  Composer, dies at 76.

• J B Charles [Willem Nagel]

  Dutch criminologist / writer, dies at 83.

• R Buckminster Fuller

  American architect and philosopher (Born 1903).

• Keith Wickenden

  British politician (Born 1932).

• Luis Bunuel

  Spanish director and writer (Born 1900).

• Werner Egk

  German composer primarily of music for the theatre.

• David Niven

  British film producer and noted family, the first son of actor David Niven.

• Frank Reynolds

  American journalist, a broadcaster from 1947, and a news and war correspondent, from May 1968 to December 1970 he was co-anchor of "ABC...

• Chris Wood

  British saxophonist (Traffic) (Born 1944).

• Howard Dietz

  American publicist and songwriter (d. 1983).

• Luis Bunuel

  Spanish director and writer (Born 1900).

• Georges Auric

  French composer, writing prolifically for concert hall, ballet, stage and screen.

• Eddie Foy Jr

  Actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange), dies of cancer at 78.

• Raymond Massey

  Canadian actor, dies of pneumonia in Beverly Hills, California at age 86 (born 1896).

• Claus Adam

  Composer, dies at 65.

• Jerome Moross

  US Composer (Frankie & Johnny), dies at 69.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Irene Cara - Flashdance...What A Feeling
2. The Police - Every Breath You Take
3. Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
4. Culture Club - Time (Clock Of The Heart)
5. Sergio Mendes - Never Gonna Let You Go

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Rod Stewart - Baby Jane
2. KC & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up
3. Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)
4. Freeez - IOU
5. Irene Cara - Flashdance... What A Feeling