November 1983 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1983 President Reagan established Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday
• 02 Nov 1983 President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L King day
• 03 Nov 1983 Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency
• 04 Nov 1983 Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed
• 05 Nov 1983 New York Rangers and Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 seconds of 3rd period
• 06 Nov 1983 Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Sports Nippon Team Match Golf Tournament
• 07 Nov 1983 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his second New York Giants' record 56-yard field goal.
• 08 Nov 1983 Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female Governor of Kentucky
• 09 Nov 1983 Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped
• 10 Nov 1983 Amen Corner opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 83 performances
• 11 Nov 1983 1st US cruise missiles arrive in Great Britain
• 12 Nov 1983 New Jersey Devils, first overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3.
• 13 Nov 1983 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
• 14 Nov 1983 1st cruise missile placed
• 15 Nov 1983 75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
• 16 Nov 1983 Kapil Dev takes 9-83 vs. WI at Ahmedabad, but India still lose
• 17 Nov 1983 La Tragedie de Carmen opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 187 performances
• 19 Nov 1983 Edmonton Oilers beat New Jersey Devils, 13-4, Wayne Gretzky calls the Devils a Mickey Mouse organization
• 20 Nov 1983 Marilyn: An American Fable opens at Minskoff NYC for 16 performances
• 21 Nov 1983 Doonesbury opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 104 performances
• 23 Nov 1983 Soyuz T-9 lands
• 24 Nov 1983 PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese
• 25 Nov 1983 Larry Holmes TKOs Marvis Frazier in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
• 26 Nov 1983 Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
• 27 Nov 1983 71st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats BC Lions, 18-17
• 28 Nov 1983 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 - is launched.
• 29 Nov 1983 Soviet war in Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution stating that Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.
• 30 Nov 1983 6th Emmy Sports Award presentation

Famous Birthday

• Laura Smet

  French actress.

• Future (rapper)
• Jennifer Ayache

  French singer (Superbus).

• Alexa Chung

  British TV presenter and former fashion model.

• Emma Daumas
• Adam Driver

  Movie Actor.

• Miranda Lambert

  American country music artist who gained fame as a finalist on the 2003 season of Nashville Star, where she finished in third place and...

• Karine Vanasse

  Canadian actress and producer.

• Daria Werbowy

  Ukrainian-Canadian model.

• Sonia Lacen
• Fernando Verdasco

  Spanish tennis player.

• Nikki Bella

  Wrestler.

• Harry Lloyd

  English actor producer and screenwriter.

• Michal (singer)
• Luis León Sanchez
• Atsushi Ito
• Britta Steffen

  German freestyle swimmer, she holds the world's record for women's 50 and 100 metre freestyle.

• Philipp Lahm

  German footballer who plays as a full back or defensive midfielder for Bayern Munich and the German national team, both of which he...

• Lauren-Elaine Edleson
• Blanka Vlasic
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Famous Deaths

• David Alexandrovich Toradze

  Composer, dies at 61.

• Michael Conrad

  actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at age 58.

• Manuel Scorza

  Peruvian writer, dies at about 55.

• "Alvin" Junior Samples

  Country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 56.

• Robert Agnew

  Director, dies at 84 of kidney failure.

• Richard Loo

  Actor, (China Sky), dies of cardiopulmonary arrest.

• Anthony van Hoboken

  Dutch musicologist (Born 1887).

• Junior Samples

  American comedian (Hee Haw) (Born 1926).

• Juhan Muks

  Estonian artist (Born 1899).

• Marcel Dalio

  French character actor who appeared in almost 150 movies, including major roles in two of Jean Renoir's most famous films, "Grand Illusion"...

• Mordecai Kaplan

  Lithuanian rabbi, essayist and Jewish educator and the co-founder of Reconstructionist Judaism along with his son-in-law Ira Eisenstein.

• Germaine Tailleferre

  French woman composer who was the only woman member of the group of young composers, "The Six.

• Christopher George

  Actor (Chisum, Heist), dies of heart attack at 54.

• Robert Gross

  American businessman (d. 1961).

• Alfredo Antonini

  American conductor and composer, at age 82 (born 1901).

• Tom Evans

  English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Badfinger) (d. 1983).

• Charlie Grimm

  American baseball player manager and sportscaster (d. 1983).

• Waheed Murad

  Pakistani actor producer and screenwriter (d. 1983).

• James Booker

  American jazz singer (Born 1939).

• Peter Coffield

  Ill, actor (Kevin-W E B), dies at 37.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Kenny Rogers - Islands In The Stream
2. Lionel Richie - All Night Long (All Night)
3. Paul McCartney - Say Say Say
4. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
5. Billy Joel - Uptown Girl

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
2. The Flying Pickets - Only You
3. Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson - Say Say Say
4. Paul Young - Love Of The Common People
5. Slade - My Oh My