October 1983 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1983 Denise Wallace, 18, of Virginia crowned Miss Teen of America
• 02 Oct 1983 Art Monk begins NFL streak of 136 plus consecutive game receptions
• 03 Oct 1983 Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release Say, Say, Say in the UK
• 04 Oct 1983 Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 1019 kph (633.468 mph), driving Thrust 2 jet-powered car at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
• 05 Oct 1983 Lech Walesa of Poland wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 06 Oct 1983 New York Jets announce they are leaving Shea Stadium for the Meadowlands Coliseum.
• 07 Oct 1983 In New York, a magnitude 5.3 earthquake occurs.
• 08 Oct 1983 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
• 09 Oct 1983 4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma
• 10 Oct 1983 17th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
• 11 Oct 1983 Last hand-cranked telephones in the US go out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, are switched over to direct-dial.
• 12 Oct 1983 5225 Loral and 5424 Covington
• 13 Oct 1983 Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
• 14 Oct 1983 US Marine peacekeeper Sargeant Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut, Lebanon.
• 15 Oct 1983 Black Hawks and Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals
• 16 Oct 1983 Zorba opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 362 performances
• 17 Oct 1983 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu
• 19 Oct 1983 Columbia moves to Orbiter Processing Facility
• 20 Oct 1983 IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released
• 21 Oct 1983 Pope John Paul II names 3 new Dutch bishops
• 22 Oct 1983 Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
• 23 Oct 1983 14th NYC Marathon won by Rod Dixon in 2:08:59
• 25 Oct 1983 US invades Grenada, a country 1 / 2,000 its population
• 29 Oct 1983 550,000 Dutch demonstrate against cruise missile
• 30 Oct 1983 The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
• 31 Oct 1983 Paul McCartney releases Pipes of Peace album

Famous Birthday

• Amber Rose

  Model.

• Jesse Eisenberg

  American actor.

• Nicky Hilton

  American heiress of wealthy Hilton family, sister of Paris Hilton.

• Adrienne Bailon

  American recording artist, singer-songwriter, actress, dancer, and television personality of Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian descent.

• Travis Pastrana

  American motor sports competitor.

• Felicity Jones

  Movie Actress.

• Bradley James

  British actor.

• George Zimmerman
• Rachel Rotten
• Kivanc Tatlitug

  Model.

• Stephy Tang

  Hong Kong singer and actress (Cookies).

• Alona Tal

  TV Actress.

• Meghan Heffern
• Harmony Rose
• Jérémy Mathieu
• Takayuki Yamada

  Japanese actor and singer.

• Julien Arias
• Aaron Tveit

  Stage Actor.

• Chelsea Cooley
• Loreen (singer)
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Famous Deaths

• Jessica Savitch

  of Margate, New Jersey, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies in car accident drowning at age 36 (born 1947).

• Jessica Savitch

  of Margate, New Jersey, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies in car accident drowning at age 36 (born 1947).

• Raymond Aron

  French philosopher, sociologist, journalist, and political scientist.

• Joan Hackett

  American actress first discovered by a photographer named Scavullo at 17.

• Ralph Richardson

  England, United Kingdom -- Actor (Anna Karenina, Dr Zhivago).

• Jiri Lederer

  Czechoslovakia journalist / dissident, dies at 61.

• Theodorus H J Zwartkruis

  Bishop (Haarlem).

• Sten Broman

  Composer, dies at 81.

• Albert Carel Willink

  Painter (surrealism), dies at 83.

• Tamara Shayne

  Jolson Story, Actress, dies at 80 of a heart attack.

• Hermann Ambrosius

  Composer, dies at 86.

• Paul Fix

  Actor (Rifleman), dies at 82 of kidney failure.

• George S Halas

  NFL coach (Chicago Bears), dies at 88.

• Maurice Bishop

  Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and executed in a military coup d'etat led by Bernard Coard.

• Diego Abad de Santillan

  Spanish anarchist (Born 1897).

• Jessica Savitch

  American broadcast journalist, reporter and anchor for CBS affiliates, a congressional correspondent.

• George Halas

  American professional football coach and team owner (Born 1895).

• Terence Cooke

  American cardinal archbishop (Born 1921).

• Humberto Mauro

  Brazilian film director and screenwriter (Born 1897).

• Willard Price

  Canadian-American journalist and author (d. 1983).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
2. Kenny Rogers - Islands In The Stream
3. Billy Joel - Tell Her About It
4. Air Supply - Making Love Out Of Nothing At All
5. Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
2. Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know
3. David Bowie - Modern Love
4. Lionel Richie - All Night Long (All Night)
5. Howard Jones - New Song