March 1983 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1983 Tamara McKinney becomes first US woman skier to win the World Cup.
• 02 Mar 1983 Final episode of M*A*S*H; 125,000,000 viewers
• 04 Mar 1983 Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
• 05 Mar 1983 New South Wales beats Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield.
• 06 Mar 1983 On Your Toes opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 505 performances
• 07 Mar 1983 TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV.
• 08 Mar 1983 IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0
• 09 Mar 1983 Anne Burford resigns as head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency amid scandal.
• 10 Mar 1983 Walter Alston, Los Angeles Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame.
• 11 Mar 1983 Ice Dance Championship at Helsinki Finland won by Torvill and Dean
• 12 Mar 1983 Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:01:09).
• 13 Mar 1983 Woman of the Year closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 performances
• 15 Mar 1983 JosT Luis Sert, Spanish-US architect/urban developer, dies at age 80.
• 16 Mar 1983 Smallest crowd (1814) at Cleveland Coliseum for NBA game, Cleveland Caviliers versus New Jersey Nets.
• 17 Mar 1983 70th hat trick in New York Islanders' history-Mike Bossy.
• 21 Mar 1983 Only known typo on Time Magazine cover ("contol" instead of "control"), all recalled.
• 22 Mar 1983 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president.
• 23 Mar 1983 US President Ronald Reagan introduces Star Wars-plan
• 24 Mar 1983 The redesigned 1984 model Corvette sports car goes on sale in California, USA.
• 25 Mar 1983 Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000 metre (1:12.58).
• 26 Mar 1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 27 Mar 1983 13th Easter Seal Telethon
• 31 Mar 1983 Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people

Famous Birthday

• Carrie Underwood

  American country singer.

• Taylor Hanson

  American musician (Hanson).

• Sean Biggerstaff

  Scottish actor.

• Lupita Nyong'o

  Movie Actress.

• Maite Perroni

  Mexican singer (RBD).

• Rio de Janeiro
• Vitaa (singer)
• Ladji Doucouré

  French track and field athlete, who finished fourth in the 60 m hurdles final at the 2003 World Indoor Championships.

• Lisandro López

  Argentinian footballer.

• François Gabart

  French skipper, he won the "Vendée Globe" in 78 days, quicker than Phileas Fogg, Jules Verne's character (Around the World in 80 days).

• Kelly Key
• Kim Smith
• Mohammed Farah
• Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro

  French tennis player.

• Raquel Alessi
• Katie White
• Céline Couderc
• Ed Skrein
• Stephanie Gatschet
• Matt Sydal

  American professional wrestler.

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Famous Deaths

• Maurice Ronet

  Nice, France -- Actor (Frantic, Sphinz, Circle of Love).

• Louison Bobet

  French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55), dies at age 58.

• Faye Emerson

  American actress seen in early TV.

• Arthur Godfrey

  American entertainer, a radio announcer, singer, aviator, farmer, business executive, guitarist and ukulele player, a true renaissance man...

• Anthony Blunt

  British art expert who was exposed as a Soviet spy.

• Igor Markevitch

  Ukrainian conductor and composer (Born 1912).

• Robert Bray

  Actor (Corey-Lassie, Simon-Stagecoach West), dies at 65.

• Jevsei G Liberman

  Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at age 85.

• Paul R Citroen

  Dutch sculptor, dies at age 86.

• Umberto of Piemonte

  King Umberto II of Italy (1946), dies.

• Anthony F Blunt

  British art historian/spy for USSR, dies at age 75.

• Martinus A Jansen

  bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), dies at age 77.

• Herge

  Belgian comics creator (Born 1907).

• King Umberto II of Italy

  (Born 1904).

• Thelma Pelish

  Actress (Pajama Game), dies at 55.

• William Walton

  English composer (Born 1902).

• Barney Clark

  1st artifical heart recipient, dies after 112 days at 62.

• Christina Stead

  Australia -- Novelist (Man Who Loved Children).

• Bob Waterfield

  American football player and coach (d. 1983).

• Coloman Braun-Bogdan

  Romanian football midfielder and manager (Born 1905).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
2. Bob Seger - Shame On The Moon
3. Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
4. Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
5. Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
2. David Bowie - Let's Dance
3. Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know?
4. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
5. Culture Club - Church Of The Poison Mind