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year	1983
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1/1 - PGA inaugurates all-exempt tour

1/1 - Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for college football title

1/1 - World Communications Year begins

1/1 - TCP/IP protocols become the only approved protocol on the ARPANETp~ replacing the earlier NCP protocol

1/2 - Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes

1/2 - "Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing ""Doonesbury"""

1/2 - Don Muraco beats Pedro Morales to become WWF Intercontinental Champ

1/2 - Sophisticated Ladies closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 767 perfs

1/2 - Annie closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 2p~377 performances

1/3 - Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yd rushp~ Dallas vs Minnesota

1/4 - US Football League holds its 1st player draft

1/7 - President Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala

1/7 - Australia regain the Ashes with a 2-1 series win v England

1/9 - British PM Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands

1/10 - NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring NY Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver

1/11 - Billy Martin named NY Yankee manager for 3rd time

1/12 - Brooks Robinson & Juan Marichal elected to Hall of Fame

1/12 - NCAA creates football Kickoff Classic to begin in August

1/13 - AMA urges ban on boxing sites Muhammad Ali's deteriorating condition

1/15 - Dutch political party DS'70 disbands

1/15 - Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4p~812 (beat Devils) during blizzard

1/15 - Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand v India

1/15 - Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours

1/17 - Nigeria expels 2 million illegal aliensp~ mostly Ghanaians

1/17 - Alabama Gov George C Wallacep~ becomes governor for record 4th time

1/17 - 10th American Music Award: John Cougar & Rick Springfieldp~ Olivia Newton-John

1/18 - IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball

1/19 - Klaus Barbiep~ SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-Francep~ arrested in Bolivia

1/21 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht

1/21 - President Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid

1/22 - 2nd flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines: 22 seconds

1/22 - Houston is 1st NBA team to be held scoreless in an overtime Portland Trail Blazers out score them 17-0 & win 113-96

1/23 - Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:40.97)

1/23 - Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean

1/23 - In NBAp~ Portland scores all 17 pts in overtime to beat Houston 113-96

1/23 - Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $14p~700p~000

1/23 - A-Team with Mr T premieres on NBC

1/24 - Hulk Hogan pins Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title

1/25 - China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life

1/25 - Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit

1/25 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia

1/26 - Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from Calif

1/27 - World's longest underwater tunnel (53.90 km) opensp~ Honshu-Hokkaid

1/29 - Down Under by Men At Work hit #1 on UK pop chart

1/29 - 40th Golden Globes: Gandhip~ ET & Tootsie win

1/30 - Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ

1/30 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda of Deer Creek Golf Classic

1983-1-1

World Communications Year begins