1983

1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1983rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 983rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1980s decade.

1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet[1] and the first mobile cellular telephone call.

Clockwise from top-left: the Ash Wednesday bushfires burned around 2,080 km ² (510,000 acres), killing 75 people in Victoria and South Australia ; a suicide bombing in Beirut , Lebanon killed 63 people (+1 suicide bomber) and injuring 120; Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 shoots Korean Air Lines Flight 007 killing all aboard; the video game crash of 1983 caused a large-scale recession in the North American video game industry; Sally Ride became the first American woman in space during STS-7 mission; a truck bomb blew up in Beirut, killing more than 307 people; the Black July anti-Tamil pogrom occurs in Sri Lanka ; the United States and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada .