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1983
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POLITICS and HISTORY
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President Reagan dubs the Soviet Union the Evil Empire and proposes a revolutionary new anti-missile defense system...the strategic defense initiative, nicknamed 'Star Wars'
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Israel and Lebanon sign a peace treaty, yet civil war in Lebanon continues
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Australia wins the America's Cup after 132 years of unbroken American victory
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M*A*S*H ends after 251 episodes
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A bomb planted by Shi'ite Muslims destroys the U.S embassy in Beirut (87 people killed)
MUSIC
- 99 Luftballoons by Nena
- 1999 by Prince
- Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler
- Send me an Angel by Real Life
- Love Cats by The Cure
- Every Day I write the Book by Elvis Costello
TV and at the MOVIES
- M*A*S*H closed the operating room for good
- Kevin Costner gave his best acting performance ever in The Big Chill
- William Hurt gave us the chills in Gorky Park
- Babs became a boy in Yentl
- Michael Caine was Educating Rita
- Hill St Blues policed our tv screens
People who died in 1983
- Karen Carpenter (b.1951) American singer
- William Demerest (b.1892) Uncle Charlie in 'My Three Sons', actor
- Ira Gershwin (b.1897) American lyricist
- David Niven (b.1910) English actor
- Muddy Waters (b.1914) American Blues singer
- Slim Pickens (b.1919) American westerns film actor
- Gloria Swanson (b.1899) American silent film actress
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