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November 1983

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On the 1st...

New Treasury minister John Moore says "no state monopoly is sacrosanct"

On the 2nd...

Inquiry ordered, by the Government, into claims that a high incidence of cancer is to be found around Windscale Nuclear power plant.
Reagan signs a bill to make Martin Luther King's birthday a National Holiday

On the 3rd...

S. Africa: A referendum of whites comes out in favour of power-sharing with coloureds and Indians but not blacks

On the 4th...

Lebanon: 39 israeli troops die when an arab suicide bomber drives a lorry full of explosives into their camp

On the 5th...

Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" reaches #1 on the UK Singles Chart.

On the 6th...

100 bodies including PM Maurice Bishop found in Grenada
Turkey: Turgut Ozal wins the general election aimed at returning the country to civilian rule

On the 9th...

Amsterdam: Brewing magnate Alfred Heineken is kidnapped

On the 10th...

Fred Cohen, graduate student, released (in a controlled experiment) the world's first computer virus.

On the 12th...

Gerry Adams is elected leader of Sinn Fein
Lionel Richie reaches #1 on the US Singles Chart with "All Night Long".
Lionel Richie's album CAN'T SLOW DOWN knocks Culture Club's COLOUR BY NUMBERS from the #1 position.

On the 14th...

Eastenders' Actress Letitia Dean's 16th Birthday

On the 15th...

Cyprus: Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash declares an independent Turkish Republic of Cyprus
300 protestors were arrested out side the house of commons. They were protesting against the arrival of Tomahawk missiles at Greenham Common

On the 16th...

Luxembourg: English fans riot after England beat Luxembourg 4-0, but fail to qualify for European Finals

On the 18th...

Argentina announced its ability to produce enriched uranium for nuclear weapons.
Liverpool: Walton sextuplets are born.
A report commissioned by the Metropolitan Police says some officers are "racists and bullies"

On the 19th...

Tom Evans, former bass player with Badfinger is found hanged at his home in Surry, England at the age of 36.

On the 20th...

Northern Ireland: Gunmen burst into a protestant chapel and opened fire. They killed 3 and wounded 7

On the 22nd...

The Official unionist party furious at 3 elders being killed at a church mission announced they were to pull out of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Wimbledon Champion Boris Becker's 16th Birthday

On the 23rd...

The Soviet Union breaks off peace talks in Geneva as it appears they are losing the arms race.

On the 24th...

Moscow: Andropov says the USSR will decrease the submarine missiles aimed at the US because of Cruise
Israel freed 4,800 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for only 6 Israeli Soldiers held in Tripoli
The Queen presented Mother Theresa of Calcutta with the Insignia of the Order of Merit

On the 26th...

"PYT" becomes the sixth US Top Ten single from Michael Jackson's TRILLER album.
Ł25 million in Gold Bars was stolen from the Brinksmat security warehouse.

On the 27th...

183 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid's Barajas airport.
Manila: Thousands of anti-marcos protestors, take to the streets on the birthday of Benigno Aquino

On the 28th...

The space shuttle Columbia blasted into orbit, carrying six astronauts who conducted experiments using the $1 billion Spacelab in the shuttle's cargo bay.
The government says it will end the opticians' monopoly on glasses sales

On the 30th...

Holland: Police free kidnapped Alfred Heineken