1983 - September

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On the 1st...

UK: Ian MacGregor takes over as chairman of the national coal board
The KAL flight 007 was downed by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace. 269 people were killed aboard the Korean Air Lines Boeing 747. The order was given by Soviet Gen'l. Anatoly Kornukov who held that the plane was part of a hostile US operation.
US President Ronald Reagan orders an amphibious force (including 1600 Marines) to sail to Lebanon following further outbreaks of fighting in Beirut.
Tel Aviv: Yitzhak Shamir is chosen to succeed Begin as leader of the Likud Party and Prime Minister

On the 3rd...

UB40 hit #1 on the UK Singles Chart with "Red Red Wine".
After 8 weeks at #1 on the US Singles Chart, "Every Breath You Take" by The Police is ousted by The Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)".
Washington: The US Census Bureau says the world's population stands at 4,721,887,000

On the 6th...

The Soviet Union admitted that military chiefs ordered a fighter pilot to "stop the flight" of Korean Airlines' Boeing 747 Flight 007. (It was shot down with the loss of 269 lives)

On the 7th...

Blackpool: Scargill attacks Solidarity as "an anti-socialist organ who desire the overthrow of a socialist state"

On the 8th...

Nicaragua: Rebel aircraft attack the capital Managua, bombing the airport and residential areas
The British Embassy advises British citizens to leave Lebanon due to the continued fight for control over Beirut.
NHS allow private contractors to tender cleaning, catering and laundering.

On the 9th...

Buenos Aires: President Bignone pardons former President Isabel Peron

On the 10th...

New Order's "Confusion" is the best selling independent single in the UK.
Michael Jackson's album THRILLER (already a #1 album for 19 weeks) returns to the #1 position on the US Album Chart.
It knocks The Police's Syncronicity album to #2.
Former Prime Minister and President of South Africa - Bathazar Johannes Vorster died

On the 11th...

UK: The SDP conference votes against a merger with the liberals for at least 5 years
Actor Harry Connick Jn's 16th Birthday

On the 12th...

During a meeting of the UN Security Council, the Soviet Union vetoes a resolution "deeply deploring" the shooting down of the South Korean airliner and calls for a UN inquiry.

On the 14th...

London: John Selwyn Gummer is chosen to succeed Cecil Parkinson as chairman of the Tories

On the 16th...

Washington: The CIA denies the Korean airliner was spying

On the 17th...

Vanessa Williams of New York became the first black contestant to be crowned "Miss America." The following July, she also became the first Miss America to resign in the wake of her Penthouse magazine scandal.
Paul Young hits #1 on the UK Album Chart with NO PARLEZ.

On the 18th...

Actress Tara Fitzgerald's 16th Birthday

On the 21st...

Fighting in Lebanon escalates and President Reagan accuses Syria of blocking attempts to negotiate a peace treaty.

On the 22nd...

The Everly Brothers play their first concert in over ten years at The Royal Albert Hall.
Billy Joel hits #1 on the US Singles Chart with "Tell Her About It".
Reggae artist Prince Far I is assassinated by gunmen at his home in St. Catherines's Jamaica. Motives for the murder are unknown.

On the 24th...

Italy: Executives of the company responsible for the 1976 Seveso disaster are jailed for up to 5 years
UB40 top the UK Album Chart with LABOUR OF LOVE.
Culture Club reaches #1 on the UK Singles Chart and remains there for six weeks.

On the 25th...

Northern Ireland: 134 IRA prisoners break out of the Maze Prison

On the 26th...

Alan Bond's Australia II, skippered by John Bertrand. Won the Americas cup. 1st time that America has lost since 1851. American defender "Liberty" was skippered by Dennis Conner

On the 28th...

Moscow: Andropov rejects Reagan's proposal to limit medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe

On the 29th...

Manila: Marcos shuts down a newspaper for hinting that army officers were involved in the murder of Aquino

On the 30th...

Manila: The chief justice of the Philipines resigns from the panel investigating the Aquino murder
The first AH-64 Apache attack helicopter was rolled out by McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co.

1983 - 1984

September 1983