WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO APRIL 1983
Find out what all happened January to April 1983

Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon. (11. March 1983)

Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada. (4. March 1983)

A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people. (13. February 1983)

100 women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law. (12. February 1983)

Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. (19. January 1983)

Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. (23. March 1983)

The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. (22. February 1983)

The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night. (8. February 1983)

Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit. (25. April 1983)

The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri. (23. February 1983)

The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. (1. January 1983)

U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire". (8. March 1983)

The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through. (27. January 1983)

United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud. (14. February 1983)

The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced. (19. January 1983)

The German magazine Der Stern claims that the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries. (22. April 1983)

The tallest department store in the world, Hudson's flagship store in downtown Detroit, closes due to high cost of operating. (17. January 1983)

Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany. (16. March 1983)

American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war. (25. April 1983)

A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people. (18. April 1983)