Space Shuttle Challenger Maiden Voyage on STS-6, April 4, 1983

The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F). Date: July 21, 1983 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 21 📅 Events on this day in 1983 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1983Space Shuttle Columbia Launches STS-9 with Spacelab Module,…

Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba. Date: July 23, 1983 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 23 📅 Events on this day in 1983 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1983Pope John Paul II Forgives Mehmet Ali…

Cold War: The command post exercise Able Archer 83 begins, eventually leading to the Soviet Union to place air units in East Germany and Poland on alert, for fear that NATO was preparing for war Date: November 7, 1983 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 7 📅 Events on this day…

Nintendo and Sega enter the console market with the respective releases of the Famicom and SG-1000 in Japan. Date: July 15, 1983 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 15 📅 Events on this day in 1983 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1983Magnitude 6.6 Erzurum-Kars Earthquake Kills 1,340 -…

The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. Date: September 12, 1983 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 12 📅 Events on this day in 1983 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1983Seikan Tunnel Pilot Shaft Breakthrough, World’s…