1983 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The 1983 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by Elizabeth II on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. The awards celebrated the passing of 1982 and the beginning of 1983, and were announced on 31 December 1982.


1983 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1983 New York City Marathon
The 1983 New York City Marathon was the 14th edition of the New York City Marathon and took place in New York City on 23 October.


1983 New York Cosmos season
The 1983 New York Cosmos season was the original Cosmos franchise's thirteenth season of existence, and their thirteenth in the original North American Soccer League. At the time, the NASL represented the top tier of American soccer. Finishing the season with 194 points off of 22 wins and eight losses, the Cosmos clinched their sixth-consecutive regular season championship, and their seventh overall. In the postseason, however, the Cosmos lost to Montreal Manic.


1983 New York Cosmos season, Roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1983 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Standings
W = Wins, L = Losses, T= Ties GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts= point system


1983 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season, Standings
6 points for a win1 point for a shootout win0 points for a loss1 point for each regulation goal scored up to three per game


1983 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
The 49th New York Film Critics Circle Awards honored the best filmmaking of 1983. The winners were announced on 21 December 1983 and the awards were given on 29 January 1984.


1983 New York Giants season
The 1983 New York Giants season was the franchise's 59th season in the National Football League (NFL). The Giants finished in last place in the National Football Conference East Division with a 3–12–1 record, the team’s worst record since 1976.


1983 New York Giants season
In the 1983 NFL draft, the Giants selected defensive back Terry Kinard in the first round, with the 10th overall pick. The 1983 season was the first for the Giants under Bill Parcells, who had been offered the position after previous head coach Ray Perkins resigned before succeeding Bear Bryant as the coach for the University of Alabama. Parcells named Scott Brunner the team’s starting quarterback, ahead of Phil Simms and Jeff Rutledge; upset with the decision, Simms requested a trade at one point during the season. New York was 2–2 in their first four games of the season, before a three-game losing streak that left the club at 2–5. Against the Philadelphia Eagles in their sixth game, the Giants inserted Simms into their lineup in place of Brunner; shortly afterward, Simms suffered a season-ending injury.


1983 New York Giants season
The St. Louis Cardinals hosted the Giants in a matchup on October 24 that the New York Daily News' Gary Myers later called the worst game in the history of Monday Night Football. After the Giants lost a lead late in the fourth quarter, the game went into overtime. The Cardinals missed three field goal attempts in the extra period, including two in the final 1:06, and the contest ended in a 20–20 tie. The Giants lost the following three games before a victory in Philadelphia, which was their final win of the season. Losses to the Los Angeles Raiders, St. Louis, Seattle, and Washington left the team’s final record at 3–12–1.


1983 New York Giants season
Ali Haji-Sheikh, the Giants' kicker, set a team record for points scored in a season; with 35 field goals and 22 conversions, he was responsible for 127 points. In addition, he set a team record for the longest field goal in a game versus Green Bay, with a 56-yard kick. Earnest Gray had 1,139 receiving yards, becoming the first Giants wide receiver in 15 years to exceed 1,000 yards.


1983 New York Jets season
The 1983 New York Jets season was the 24th season for the team and the 14th in the National Football League. It began with the team trying to improve upon its 6–3 record from 1982 and return to the playoffs under first-year head coach Joe Walton. The Jets, who finished the season with a record of 7–9, played their twentieth and final season at Shea Stadium before relocating their home games to Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, starting with the following season.


1983 New York Mets season
The New York Mets' 1983 season was the 22nd regular season for the Mets. They went 68–94 and finished in sixth place in the National League East. They were managed by George Bamberger and Frank Howard. They played home games at Shea Stadium.


1983 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In


1983 New York Yankees season
The New York Yankees' 1983 season was the 81st season for the Yankees. The team finished in third place in the American League Eastern Division with a record of 91-71, finishing 7 games behind the Baltimore Orioles. New York was managed by Billy Martin. The Yankees played their home games at Yankee Stadium.


1983 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Spring training
For the fourth straight spring training, the Yankees played an exhibition game at the Louisiana Superdome. On March 27, 1983, the Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 2 to 1 behind six shutout innings from Doyle Alexander. Attendance was 15,129 for the game.


1983 New York Yankees season, Regular season, Pine Tar Game
The Pine Tar Game refers to a controversial incident that took place in an American League baseball game played between the Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees on July 24, 1983.


1983 New York Yankees season, Regular season, Pine Tar Game
Playing at New York's Yankee Stadium, the Royals were trailing 4-3 with two outs in the top of the ninth and U L Washington on first base. In the on deck circle, George Brett  was heard remarking to a teammate, "Watch this baby fly" as he shook his bat. He then came to the plate and connected off Yankee reliever Rich "Goose" Gossage for a two-run home run and a 5-4 lead. As Brett crossed the plate, New York manager Billy Martin approached home plate umpire Tim McClelland and requested that Brett's bat be examined.


1983 New York Yankees season, Regular season, Pine Tar Game
Earlier in the season, Martin and other members (most notably, third baseman Graig Nettles, who as a member of the Minnesota Twins, recalled a similar incident involving Thurman Munson) of the Yankees had noticed the amount of pine tar used by Brett, but Martin had chosen not to say anything until the home run.


1983 New York Yankees season, Regular season, Pine Tar Game
With Brett watching from the dugout, McClelland and the rest of the umpiring crew inspected the bat. Measuring the bat against the width of home plate (which is 17 inches), they determined that the amount of pine tar on the bat's handle exceeded that allowed by Rule 1.10(b) of the Major League Baseball rule book, which read that "a bat may not be covered by such a substance more than 18 inches from the tip of the handle."


1983 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1983 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1983 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1983 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1983 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1983 New York Yankees season, Awards and honors
Ron Guidry and Dave Winfield represented the Yankees at the 1983 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.


1983 New York Yankees season, Awards and honors
Gold Gloves were awarded to pitcher, Guidry and outfielder, Winfield.


1983 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election
On 3 February 1983, a New Zealand Labour Party leadership election was held to determine the leadership of the New Zealand Labour Party. The leadership was won by Mangere MP David Lange, who had been Deputy Leader of the party since 1979.


1983 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Background
The leadership election was instigated when Bill Rowling announced his retirement from the leadership to the Labour caucus in late 1982. Labour's caucus had been divided between the supporters and critics of Rowling. Backers of Rowling (notably Jim Anderton, Helen Clark and Fran Wilde) supported him out of their shared faith in Labour's traditional Keynesian policies which others opposed. Lange's main support were from MPs who saw Rowling as merely an impediment to their own ambitions to implement newer economic policy along globalized free market lines.


1983 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Background
Many in both the caucus and media saw Lange as the inevitable choice as leader and so turned their attention to the question of the deputy leadership. All three candidates were from Christchurch to reflect geographical proportionality, Mike Moore MP for Papanui, Geoffrey Palmer MP for Christchurch Central and Ann Hercus MP for Lyttelton.


1983 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Candidates, David Lange
After entering parliament in a 1977 by-election, Lange became Labour's rising star. He used the unusually high media attention from this to propel him to the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party in 1979, beating Bob Tizard. Lange narrowly missed ousting Rowling in 1980, with him and his group of free market economic supporters (Roger Douglas, Michael Bassett, Richard Prebble and Mike Moore) becoming known as the "Fish and Chip Brigade" due to a picture published at the time with the group eating Fish and chips in Douglas' office after the vote.


1983 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Candidates, David Lange
Following the coup attempt Lange resigned as deputy leader in January 1981 to offer himself for re-election as a vote of confidence. At Labour's first caucus meeting of the year he was re-elected as deputy leader. Only one vote (Tizard's) was cast against him. giving Lange a good idea of his support levels in the caucus. Since 1982 he had been Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs. By this time Lange had become recognised by many to be more than a match for the tiring Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon, with his superb wit and debating skill.


1983 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Candidates, Russell Marshall
Marshall entered Parliament in 1972 as the MP for Wanganui. He had served as Labour's Senior Whip in 1977-78 and since 1975 he had been Shadow Minister of Education. He was one of several people courted by Rowling's supporters to attempt to head off Lange. He declared his intention to run on 18 January after other potentials had pulled out. According to Michael Bassett, Marshall was the only one who remained bold enough to challenge Lange on the day of the vote.


1983 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Candidates, Colin Moyle
Colin Moyle had been informed by Rowling that he intended to resign. Moyle had previously been seen as leadership potential since the 1970s, with even Muldoon considering him to be a threat to him, resulting in the infamous Moyle Affair, where Moyle ended up resigning his seat, ironically to be won by Lange. Moyle re-entered parliament in 1981 and had been Shadow Minister of Overseas Trade and Rural Banking since 1982. Moyle attempted to rally Rowling's supporters at a meeting in Auckland, though attendance was low. He took this as a sign and then informed Lange he would not stand on assurances Lange was healthy enough for the job. Moyle was mindful of Norman Kirk's health deterioration a decade earlier, but Lange said he was fighting fit.


1983 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Candidates, Bob Tizard
Former Deputy Prime Minister Bob Tizard (who had coveted the leadership for years) also declared his intention to stand once Rowling announced his retirement. At the time he was ranked third in the caucus and was Shadow Minister of Finance. However, on the day of the ballot he failed to put his name forward.


1983 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Result
A caucus vote was held on 3 February 1983 where Lange defeated his sole opponent Russell Marshall 33 votes to 9. With the Deputy Leadership now vacant a vote was held for that position. It was much closer with the more moderate Geoffrey Palmer (who was Lange's preferred candidate) winning by one vote, 22 to 21 over the more free market friendly Mike Moore in the second ballot. Moore had led on the first, but after Hercus was eliminated most of her supporters voted for Palmer.


1983 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Aftermath
Lange waited until 16 March before allocating portfolios to caucus, but withheld any rankings. The retiring Rowling served as Lange's Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs while Tizard was stripped of the finance portfolio in favour of Roger Douglas, which Tizard was openly critical of. After gauging caucus feelings on the portfolio allocation, Lange then announced the rankings at the beginning of April when the parliamentary session began for the year. Lange would lead Labour until 1989 when he too resigned. Barely over a year later, during the snap election of 1984 Lange and Labour fought an excellent campaign winning a landslide victory. Labour held a 17-seat majority. At 41 years old, Lange became New Zealand's youngest prime minister of the 20th century.


1983 New Zealand NBL season
The 1983 NBL season was the second season of the National Basketball League. With the relegation of Hamilton and Palmerston North to the Conference Basketball League (CBL), Wellington and Napier were promoted to the NBL for the 1983 season. Auckland won the championship in 1983 to claim their second league title.


1983 New Zealand National Soccer League
The 1983 New Zealand National Soccer League was the 14th season of a nationwide round-robin club competition in New Zealand football. Manurewa comfortably won the league for the first time, finishing eight points clear of second-placed Hanimex North Shore United. This was the first season in which a win scored three points; prior to this they were worth only two.


1983 New Zealand National Soccer League, Promotion and relegation
Promotion was automatic, with the three lowest placed sides in the 1982 league (Hamilton, East Coast Bays,  and Invercargill Thistle) replaced by the winners of the northern, central, and southern leagues (Papatoetoe, Nelson United, and Dunedin Technical respectively).


1983 New Zealand National Soccer League, Promotion and relegation
From 1983 play-offs for promotion and relegation returned, with the bottom side in the league playing off with the three regional champions for a solitary league place. This was thus the last season in which the top teams from the regional leagues would automatically enter the league. In the event bottom-placed Dunedin Technical withdrew from the league at the end of the season, meaning that the three regional champions would play off for the vacancy.


1983 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
It was Auckland's year, with all of the top four places filled by teams from the Queen City. The league was very close with teams who had led early ending in the bottom half of the table and vice versa. As the second half of the season started only two points separated second from ninth, and at the end of the season fourth and seventh place were separated on goal difference alone. Manurewa were by far the league's strongest side in 1983, and would have finished first by either the old or new points system.


1983 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
They scored five more goals than the second highest scoring team, and conceded fewer than any other side as well on their way to the title. Their season was topsy-turvy, and after three matches they were bottom of the league with just one point. Their remaining 19 matches contained only two further losses, however. Their team was bolstered by the twin acquisitions of Steve Sumner and Mark Armstrong, who between them scored 30 goals. Sumner was the league's top scorer with 18, and the inaugural winner of the league's Golden Boot award.


1983 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
Hanimex North Shore United repeated 1982's second placing, and did so in a similarly unorthodox fashion. As with their 1982 performance, they could not repeat their home form away. At home they were invincible, with ten wins and a single draw from their eleven matches. Away, they were a different side, drawing five, losing six, and failing to pick up a single win. Newcomers Papatoetoe impressed with their third placing. unlike North Shore, it was the reds' away form which saw them reach the heights, with seven wins on the road.


1983 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
Mount Wellington had a lacklustre season by their high standards, finishing fourth. They led in the first half of the season, but their later form was inconsistent and the league at the halfway mark was too close for that to go unpunished. Fifth-placed Christchurch United had also headed the table mid-season, but a series of bad results saw them drop to the lower reaches of the table.


1983 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
Wellington Diamond United was another team briefly in title contention after an undefeated string of eight matches. A mid-season break did them no favours, and they found it impossible to replicate this early form on the resumption. Early competition leaders Miramar Rangers also found their early good form elusive to repeat, and their last seven matches included just two wins. Napier City Rovers' season was the opposite of this; they started very poorly but produced an excellent second half to the season to rise out of relegation danger. Dunedin City was another team to have a mid-season change of fortune. With five games to go they were second on the table, but their final five games produced only one point.


1983 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
Gisborne City had a consistently poor season, never being far from the foot of the table. Nelson United finished one point below Gisborne, a far cry from the brief spell they had at the top of the table after the opening round of matches. Neither they nor Gisborne was in any real danger of relegation, however, as Dunedin Technical found the step up from the regional leagues simply too great. They set records of the wrong sort with 59 goals scored against them and a gap of 20 points between them and eleventh placed Nelson.


1983 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours
The 1983 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours was an appointment by Elizabeth II to the Queen's Service Order, to mark the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to New Zealand in April that year, and was dated 20 April 1983.


1983 New Zealand rugby league season
The 1983 New Zealand rugby league season was the 76th season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.


1983 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
New Zealand drew a series with Australia 1-all and defeated Papua New Guinea 60-20. New Zealand were coached by Graham Lowe and included; Fred Ah Kuoi, Dean Bell, Ian Bell, Mark Broadhurst, first Test captain Mark Graham, Gary Kemble, James Leuluai, Ron O'Regan, Gary Prohm, Joe Ropati, Gordon Smith, Dane and Kurt Sorensen, PNG Test captain Howie Tamati, Shane Varley, second Test captain Graeme West, Nick Wright, Robin Alfeld, Marty Crequer, Clayton Friend, Frank Tinitelia, Hugh McGahan, Dean Orr and John Ackland. In the match against Papua New Guinea, McGahan scored a world Test record six tries.


1983 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
First Division champions Hull FC, who included James Leuluai and Gary Kemble, drew 16-all with Auckland at Carlaw Park.


1983 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
New Zealand Māori toured the United Kingdom. Coached by Andy Berryman, the side included Nolan Tupaea, Pat Poasa, Riki Cowan, Russell Tuuta, Owen Wright, Hugh McGahan, Kevin Schaumkell, Cedric Lovett, Dean Bell, Mark Roiall, Dick Uluave, Tom Waitai, Joe Ropati, Lou Kupa, Trevor Clark, Charles Paki, Clayton Friend, Ron O'Regan (vice-captain), Ian Bell (captain), Nick Wright and Anthony Murray.


1983 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
James Leuluai won the New Zealand Rugby League's player of the year award.


1983 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Rugby League Cup
Wellington again held the Rugby League Cup at the end of the season.


1983 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition
Auckland defeated Central Districts 52-2 at Carlaw Park. Auckland were coached Bob Bailey and included Ron O'Regan, Dean Bell, John Ackland, Dean Bell, James Leuluai, Owen Wright, Mark Bourneville and Nick Wright. Auckland also defeated New Zealand Māori 44-2.


1983 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, District competition
The West Coast defeated Canterbury 28-8 at Wingham Park. Their biggest win since 1948.


1983 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, National Club competition
Otahuhu won the Tusk Cup, defeating Randwick 30-22. Otahuhu had eliminated the Mount Albert Lions 14-8 in a quarterfinal.


1983 New Zealand rugby league season, Australasian competition
Central Districts were eliminated in Round one of the KB Cup when they lost 50-0 to the Newtown Jets at Leichhardt Oval.


1983 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
Otahuhu won the Auckland Rugby League's Fox Memorial Trophy and Kiwi Shield. They defeated the Mount Albert Lions 14-11 in the Fox Memorial Grand Final. Mount Albert won the Rukutai Shield while Manukau won the Roope Rooster and Stormont Shield. Richmond won the Sharman Cup while Glenora/Kelston won the Norton Cup.


1983 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
Owen Wright (Otahuhu) won the Best and Fairest award. Darryl Morrison (Otahuhu) won the Lipscombe Cup, Ron O'Regan (City Newton) again won the Rothville Trophy, John Ackland (Mt Albert) and Joe Ropati (Otahuhu) won the Bert Humphries Memorial, Paul Sorich (Ellerslie) won the Tetley Trophy, Phil Harrison(Northcote) won the Painter Rosebowl Trophy and Ian Gorden Otahuhu) won the Hyland Memorial Cup.


1983 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
Mark Bourneville played for Mount Albert while Otahuhu included Hugh McGahan, Frank Tinitelia and Owen Wright.


1983 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury
Hornby won the Canterbury Rugby League's Pat Smith Challenge Trophy.


1983 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions
The Waitara Bears defeated Western Suburbs 16-12 in the Taranaki Rugby League grand final.


1983 New Zealand rugby union tour of Scotland and England
The 1983 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain was a series of eight matches played by the New Zealand national rugby union team (the All Blacks) in Scotland and England in October and November 1983. New Zealand won five of their eight games, drew one and lost the other two. They won neither of the two international matches, drawing with Scotland and losing to England. In the non-international fixtures they also suffered a defeat by the English Midlands Division invitational team.


1983 Newark explosion
On January 8, 1983, at approximately 12:15 am, the city of Newark, New Jersey experienced an explosion due to a human error at the Texaco Farms fuel storage facilities. After an intense investigation, the Newark Fire Department concluded that there was no foul play; instead an accidental ''spillage or overfilling'' caused the explosion of three gasoline storage tanks at the facility. Further investigation by the company indicated that workers had failed to monitor a pipeline delivery of gasoline to a tank, violating Texaco operations manuals that called for checks of the gauge.


1983 Newark explosion
As a result of this failure, a vapor cloud formed caused by the overflow of about 150,000 US gallons (570,000 l; 120,000 imp gal) of gasoline. Approximately 3,000,000 US gallons (11,000,000 l; 2,500,000 imp gal) of fuel spilled, and the flames rose up to 1,000 feet (300 m). The blast was felt up to 100 miles (160 km) away, in areas including White Plains, New York, and Southport, Connecticut. The blast injured 24 people and killed one employee, and caused property damage to facilities nearby. Due to its size, the fire continued for three days until it was at a more manageable and less life-risking level.


1983 Newark explosion, Texaco Farms
The Texaco Farms located on Doremus Avenue is an expanse of land on which a number of fuel oil storage tanks are located. Newark held roughly 40 tank farms, each holding about 3,142 million US gallons (1.189×1010 l; 2.616×109 imp gal) of fuel. The tanks used in Texaco Farms did not have proper safety measures such as alarms that would indicate when a tank was reaching its capacity and would automatically shut down any further flow into the tank. Instead, as a part of company procedure, someone was to check the gauge. After the explosion, both the Newark Fire Department and Texaco USA investigated the incident. Christopher Kiersted, manager of public relations for Texaco USA in Houston, explained in an interview that the company’s investigation concluded that a number of employees failed to follow operating procedures.


1983 Newark explosion, Effects, Blast radius
The blast was heard and felt through most of northern New Jersey and in several New York boroughs, including Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. Residents in Mount Sinai, New York, 75 miles (121 km) away, called the police force, as well as residents of White Plains, Port Jefferson and many towns on the north shore of Long Island, Orangetown in Rockland county, Westchester, Nassau County, and Suffolk County. Additionally, police received reports from residents of Connecticut, including Stamford, Greenwich, Southport (which is 55 miles (89 km) east of Newark), and Preston (130 miles (210 km) away from the blast).


1983 Newark explosion, Effects, People
The explosion killed 1 employee and injured 24 people. William Van Zile was 40 years old and lived in North Arlington, New Jersey, when he died. Zile had been working at the Texaco Oil Tank Farm when, while walking with another employee, the full impact of the blast hit him, causing fatal burns. Twelve workers were at Oak Island Conrail Freight Yard, only a few hundred yards west of the explosion, when the tank exploded. All twelve workers were sent to St. James Hospital, although only three had to be treated for injuries.


1983 Newark explosion, Effects, People
James Kandrach, 36, of Chatham, New Jersey, was admitted for deep lacerations on his scalp, while Peter O’ Donnell, 40, also from Chatham, was admitted for smoke inhalation and Bob Rose, 24 was treated for lacerations and a hole in the ear drum from the explosion. In total, 16 people were sent to St. James for treatment including the 12 workers from Oak Island Conrail Freight Yard. Five people were treated at Newark Beth Israel Hospital and later released.


1983 Newark explosion, Effects, People
In Jersey City, about 3 1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) away, two people including a three-year-old boy went to Jersey City Medical Center for cuts from shattered windows and also released. Finally, one person was treated at University Hospital (UMDNJ, now Rutgers New Jersey Medical School). The Texaco Farms invited any customers with any damage to file a claim.


1983 Newark explosion, Effects, Investigation
The Texaco Oil Tank Farm’s Houston G. Ingram was the spokesman for Northeast Texaco, USA, which was the division of Texaco that operated the Newark Terminal. Ingram spoke and released information about the investigation that Texaco held for the explosion. While the Newark Fire Department's Director, John P. Caulfield, also released information from their investigation of the explosion, the two investigations aligned, stating that the explosion was caused by an overflow that would cause vapor to travel to an incinerator, ignite, and explode.


1983 Newark explosion, Effects, Investigation
Many employees failed to follow shut off instructions for when the valve is overflowing. About a month after the explosion five employees were fired. The Newark Fire Company’s investigation stated that no one person could have been responsible for the fire. Two of the men who were fired, Robert J. Suter and Udell Evans, had both worked twenty-three years at the company. Suter was the shift supervisor at the time, and had left at 7pm, but was still fired even though the fire occurred later at 12:15am. As such, Suter believed he was being used as a scapegoat. The fire director stated, “they were aware of the overflow, and they did take precautions to shut it down.”


1983 Newark explosion, Effects, Investigation
"The tank that overflowed had the capacity of 1.8 million US gallons (6,800,000 l; 1,500,000 imp gal) of gasoline. It was not equipped with an automatic shut off valve or an electronic device to detect overflow. Even if these workers wanted to shut off the tank and prevent the overflow, the tanks were not designed to do so."


1983 Nicholls State Colonels football team
The 1983 Nicholls State Colonels football team represented Nicholls State University in the 1983 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Colonels were led by third-year head coach Sonny Jackson. They played their home games at John L. Guidry Stadium and were an NCAA Division I-AA Independent. They finished the season 5–6.


1983 Niger State gubernatorial election
The 1983 Niger State gubernatorial election occurred on August 13, 1983. NPN candidate Awwal Ibrahim won the election.


1983 Niger State gubernatorial election, Results
Awwal Ibrahim representing NPN won the election. The election held on August 13, 1983.


1983 Nigerian coup d'état
The Nigerian military coup of 1983 took place on 31 December that year. It was coordinated by key officers of the Nigerian military and led to the ousting of the democratically elected government of President Shehu Shagari and the installation of Major General Muhammadu Buhari as head of state.


1983 Nigerian coup d'état, Background
Tensions between the civilian and military aspects of Nigerian government were escalating. One major incident was when General Muhammadu Buhari, the commanding officer of the 3rd Division, cut off fuel and food supplies into neighboring Chad, an action caused by border disputes between Nigeria and Chad that was opposed by President Shehu Shagari. Buhari disregarded orders by Shagari to avoid entering Chadian territory, and his unit pursued Chadian intruders around 50 kilometers into Chad. This incident was one of the major contributing factors to the coup, as it placed the civilian government and military on opposite sides of a highly divisive issue.


1983 Nigerian coup d'état, Background
Shortly before the coup, the director general of the National Security Organization, Umaru Shinkafi, detected communications that implicated several coup plots. However, the NSO was unable to intervene in these plots because of the tenuous and vague nature of the intelligence gathered.


1983 Nigerian coup d'état, Coup details
Colonel Tunde Ogbeha was tasked by the coup plotters to negotiate the peaceful surrender of President Shagari's Brigade of Guards army unit. Ogbeha was unable to reach Colonel Bello Kaliel, the Commander of the Brigade of Guards and engaged in a Lagos-to-Abuja-and-back seeking game which made Kaliel suspicious. Brigadier Ibrahim Bako was given the responsibility of arresting President Shagari after Ogbeha's successful negotiation of a peaceful surrender. Unknown to Bako was the fact that no such surrender had been negotiated.


1983 Nigerian coup d'état, Coup details
Additionally, details of the plot had not only been leaked to President Shagari but also to Captain Anyogo, and Lt Colonel Eboma of the Brigade of Guards mounted a defense of the presidential villa in anticipation of an attack. As expected, Brigadier Bako arrived at the Presidential villa to arrest President Shagari but President Shagari's guards were not pacified as expected. A firefight ensued leading to the killing of Brigadier Bako.


1983 Nigerian coup d'état, Participants, Additional notes on Buhari's role
General Buhari has denied his involvement in the December 1983 coup; however, the example of the late Major Daniel Bamidele betrays Buhari's complicity in the December 1983 coup. Nigerian military historians Max Siollun and Nowa Omoigui note that when Major Bamidele got wind of the coup to oust Shagari, Bamidele reported the issue up the chain of command to his GOC 3rd Armored Division (Major General Buhari) who was allegedly in on the plot. To prevent Bamidele from leaking the plot, Buhari ordered the arrest and detention of Bamidele for two weeks. Bamidele wasn't released until the successful execution of the coup. Learning from this unfortunate experience, Bamidele didn't report any rumors of the so-called Vatsa coup (between 1985 and 1986) and was executed for it. Bamidele's words to the Special Military Tribunal that tried and convicted him are:


1983 Nigerian coup d'état, Participants, Additional notes on Buhari's role
"I heard of the 1983 coup planning, told my GOC General Buhari who detained me for two weeks in Lagos. Instead of a pat on the back, I received a stab. How then do you expect me to report this one? This trial marks the eclipse of my brilliant and unblemished career of 19 years. I fought in the civil war with the ability it pleased God to give me. It is unfortunate that I'm being convicted for something which I have had to stop on two occasions.


1983 Nigerian coup d'état, Participants, Additional notes on Buhari's role
This is not self adulation but a sincere summary of the qualities inherent in me. It is an irony of fate that the president of the tribunal who in 1964 felt that I was good enough to take training in the UK is now saddled with the duty of showing me the exit from the force and the world."


1983 Nigerian coup d'état, Participants, Additional notes on Buhari's role
Additionally, in a 2015 interview, Sambo Dasuki alleges that he and two other military officers (co-conspirators) travelled to Jos to brief Major General Buhari, who was then the GOC of 3rd Armoured Division, on the status of planning for the 1983 coup.


1983 Nigerian coup d'état, Participants, Additional notes on Buhari's role
Major General Buhari's Supreme Military Council (SMC) observed a minute of silence for the slain Brigadier Bako during the SMCs first meeting.


1983 Nigerian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Nigeria in August 1983. The Senate was elected on 20 August and the House of Representatives on 27 August. The result was a victory for the ruling National Party of Nigeria, which won 60 of the 96 Senate seats and 306 of the 450 House seats.


1983 Nigerian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Nigeria on 6 August 1983. The result was a victory for incumbent Shehu Shagari, who won 47.5% of the vote. His National Party of Nigeria had won the parliamentary elections held later in August.


1983 Nippon Professional Baseball season
The 1983 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 34th season of operation for the league.


1983 North American Soccer League Playoffs
The 1983 NASL Playoffs was the post-season championship of North American Soccer League (NASL), the top soccer league in the United States and Canada at that time. It was the 16th edition of the NASL Playoffs, the tournament culminating at the end of the 2019 regular season. The playoffs began on September 5, 1983, and concluded with the Soccer Bowl '83 on October 1.


1983 North American Soccer League Playoffs
New York Cosmos were the defending NASL champions, having won their fifth title in Soccer Bowl '82, but they were eliminated by Montreal Manic in the Quarterfinals. The 1983 regular season best record were Vancouver Whitecaps, but they were also eliminated in the Quarterfinals, by Toronto Blizzard (1971–1984).


1983 North American Soccer League Playoffs, Division standings
W = Wins, L = Losses, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, PT= point system


1983 North American Soccer League Playoffs, Division standings
6 points for a win in regulation and overtime, 4 point for a shootout win,0 points for a loss,1 bonus point for each regulation goal scored, up to three per game.


1983 North American Soccer League season
Statistics of North American Soccer League in season 1983. This was the 16th and penultimate season of the NASL.


1983 North American Soccer League season, Overview
There were 12 teams in the league. The Tulsa Roughnecks won the championship. Though Vancouver won two more games than any other club, for the fourth time in league history, the team with the most wins did not win the regular season due to the NASL's system of awarding points.


1983 North American Soccer League season, Regular season
W = Wins, L = Losses, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, PT= point system


1983 North American Soccer League season, Regular season
6 points for a win in regulation and overtime, 4 point for a shootout win,0 points for a loss,1 bonus point for each regulation goal scored, up to three per game.


1983 North Carolina Tar Heels football team
The 1983 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Tar Heels were led by sixth-year head coach Dick Crum and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in second.


1983 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Schedule
A.  Clemson was under NCAA probation and was ineligible for the ACC title. As a result, this game did not count in the league standings.


1983 North Dakota State Bison football team
The 1983 North Dakota State football team represented North Dakota State University during the 1983 NCAA Division II football season, and completed the 87th season of Bison football. The Bison played their home games at Dacotah Field in Fargo, North Dakota. The 1983 team came off a 12–1 record from the previous season. The 1983 team was led by coach Don Morton. The team finished the regular season with a 9–1 record and made the NCAA Division II playoffs. The Bison defeated the Central State Marauders 41–21 in the National Championship Game en route to the program's first NCAA Division II Football Championship.


1983 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The 1983 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was part of the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. The season has no official bounds but cyclones tend to form between April and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern Indian Ocean. There are two main seas in the North Indian Ocean—the Bay of Bengal to the east of the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Sea to the west of India.


1983 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The official Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in this basin is the India Meteorological Department (IMD), while the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) releases unofficial advisories. An average of five tropical cyclones form in the North Indian Ocean every season with peaks in May and November. Cyclones occurring between the meridians 45°E and 100°E are included in the season by the IMD.


1983 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Storm Aurora (1A)
On August 9 a tropical depression developed in the northwest Arabian Sea. It tracked westward, becoming a tropical storm later that day. Aurora reached a peak of 50 mph winds before hitting eastern Oman on the 10th, where it dissipated shortly thereafter. The system was unofficially named as Aurora by the JTWC.


1983 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Storm Aurora (1A)
On Masirah Island, the storm dropped 46 mm (1.8 in) of rainfall.


1983 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Storm Two (2B)
Tropical Storm Two, which began its life on October 1 in the central Bay of Bengal, hit northeastern India on the 3rd as a 60 mph tropical storm, dissipating the next day.


1983 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Depression Kim (16W)
The remnants of Western Pacific Tropical Storm Kim redeveloped in the northeastern Bay of Bengal near Myanmar. It moved parallel the coastline, hit western Myanmar, and dissipated on the 20th.


1983 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Storm Three (3B)
65 mph Tropical Storm Three, which developed on November 5 in the central Bay of Bengal, hit southeastern Bangladesh on the 9th. The storm quickly dissipated without causing any reported damage.


1983 North Korean local elections
Elections to city, county, and district people's assemblies were held in North Korea on March 6, 1983. In total, 24,562 city, county and district people's assembly deputies were elected.


1983 North Korean local elections
Voter turnout was reported as 100%, with candidates receiving a 100% approval rate.


1983 Northeast Louisiana Indians football team
The 1983 Northeast Louisiana Indians football team was an American football team that represented Northeast Louisiana University (now known as the University of Louisiana at Monroe) in the Southland Conference during the 1983 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their third year under head coach Pat Collins, the team compiled a 8–3 record and as Southland Conference co-champions. The Indians offense scored 251 points while the defense allowed 119 points.


1983 Northern Illinois Huskies football team
The 1983 Northern Illinois Huskies football team represented Northern Illinois University, and were the champions of the Mid-American Conference in the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Huskies competed in the highest division of football at the time, Division I-A. They were led by head coach Bill Mallory, and they played their home games at Huskie Stadium.


1983 Northern Illinois Huskies football team
The Huskies celebrated their first ever MAC title, and first overall conference title since 1965, when they won the Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference during the final years of the conference's existence. The Huskies' trip to the California Bowl was also their first bowl trip since 1965, and with their win over Cal State-Fullerton, was their first bowl win since 1963, the same year the Huskies were crowned national champions of the College Division.


1983 Northern Mariana Islands Constitutional Convention referendum
A referendum on holding a Constitutional Convention was held in the Northern Mariana Islands on 5 November 1983. The proposal was approved by voters. A subsequent 44-part referendum on constitutional amendments was held in 1985.


1983 Northern Mariana Islands Constitutional Convention referendum, Background
The referendum was held in accordance with Chapter XVIII, article 2 of the Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Constitution, which stated that there must be a referendum on calling a Constitutional Convention every ten years. Voters were asked the question "Shall there be a constitutional convention to propose amendments to the Constitution?"


1983 Northern Territory general election
A general election was held in the Northern Territory, Australia on Saturday 3 December 1983. The result was a landslide victory for the incumbent Country Liberal Party (CLP) under Chief Minister Paul Everingham over the Australian Labor Party (ALP) opposition under Opposition leader Bob Collins.


1983 Northern Territory general election
For this election, the size of the assembly was increased from 19 to 25.


1983 Northern Territory general election
The only independent of the Legislative Assembly, Dawn Lawrie, lost her seat of Nightcliff at this election to the CLP.


1983 Northern Territory general election, Results
Northern Territory general election, 3 December 1983Legislative Assembly << 1980–1987 >>


1983 Northern Territory general election, Candidates
Sitting members are in bold. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk is used.


1983 Northern Territory general election, Post-election pendulum
The following pendulum is known as the Mackerras Pendulum, invented by psephologist Malcolm Mackerras. The pendulum works by lining up all of the seats held in the Legislative Assembly according to the percentage point margin they are held by on a two-party-preferred basis. This is also known as the swing required for the seat to change hands. Given a uniform swing to the opposition or government parties, the number of seats that change hands can be predicted.


1983 Northwest Territories general election
The 1983 Northwest Territories general election was held on November 21, 1983.


1983 Northwest Territories general election
This was the first election in the Northwest Territories with live television coverage of vote returns.


1983 Northwest Territories general election, Election Results
The election was held in 24 constituencies, up two from the previous general election in 1979, with 15,764 ballot cast, a turnout of 69.72%.


1983 Northwest Territories general election, Election Results
Outgoing Premier George Braden did not run for re-election. Richard Nerysoo was chosen as Premier January 12th, 1984, serving over a year until November 5, 1985; Nick Sibbeston was designated Premier following his resignation.


1983 Northwest Territories general election, Election Results, Candidates
* - denotes an incumbent running in a new district


1983 Northwestern Wildcats football team
The 1983 Northwestern Wildcats team represented Northwestern University during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third year under head coach Dennis Green, the Wildcats compiled a 2–9 record (2–7 against Big Ten Conference opponents) and finished in a tie for eighth place in the Big Ten Conference.


1983 Northwestern Wildcats football team
The team's offensive leaders were quarterback Sandy Schwab with 1,838 passing yards, Ricky Edwards with 561 rushing yards, and Ricky Edwards with 570 receiving yards. Punter John Kidd received first-team All-Big Ten honors from both the Associated Press and the United Press International.


1983 Norwegian Football Cup
The Norwegian Football Cup 1983 was won by Moss, when they beat Vålerengen in the cup final.


1983 Norwegian Football Cup, Final
Moss's winning team: Nils Espen Eriksen, Rune Gjestrumbakken, Tore Gregersen, Morten Vinje, Svein Grøndalen, Jan Rafn, Stein Kollshaugen, Per Heliasz, Ole Johnny Henriksen, Brede Halvorsen, Geir Henæs, Hans Deunk, Odd Skauen and Pål Grønstad


1983 Norwegian Football Cup, Final
Vålerenga's team: Tom R. Jacobsen, Per Gunnar Bredesen, Trond Sollied, Dag Roar Austmo, Tor Brevik, Henning Bjarnøy, Vidar Davidsen, Stein Gran, Egil Johansen, Lasse Eriksen, Paal Fredheim (from 61. ), Jo Bergsvand and Pål Jacobsen (from 61).


1983 Norwegian local elections
Country-wide local elections for seats in municipality and county councils were held throughout Norway in 1983. For most places this meant that two elections, the municipal elections and the county elections ran concurrently.


1983 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team
The 1983 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was coached by Gerry Faust and played its home games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana.


1983 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team
Notre Dame made it to the Liberty Bowl where they faced Boston College and their prized quarterback Doug Flutie. Boston College scored first on a 13-yard touchdown pass but missed the extra point. Notre Dame came back as Allen Pinkett and Chris Smith each rushed for 100-plus yards, while Pinkett scored two touchdowns as Notre Dame beat Boston College, 19–18, to win their first bowl game since the 1979 Cotton Bowl.


1983 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, USC
The game came to be known as the "Green Jerseys II" game. Notre Dame snapped a five-game losing streak to USC as Allen Pinkett rushed 21 times for 122 yards, his fourth straight 100-yard game and the first Irish player to do so since Jim Stone in 1980. "We felt could have beat USC in blue. We felt we could have beat them in T-shirts," said Pinkett. The game took place six years to the day from the original "Green Jersey" game in 1977 but head coach Gerry Faust had already made the decision to wear the jerseys over the summer.


1983 OFC U-17 Championship
The 1983 OFC U-17 Championship, was the OFC Under 17 Qualifying Tournament, the biennial football championship of Oceania (OFC). It was the 1st edition of the tournament and was held in Auckland, New Zealand from 3 to 10 December 1983. New Zealand qualified for the 1985 FIFA U-16 World Championship, in China.


1983 OFC U-17 Championship, Teams
1. Australia2. New Zealand3. Chinese Taipei4. New Caledonia5. Fiji6. Tahiti


1983 OFC U-17 Championship, Matches
Australia  2–1  New ZealandAustralia  3–0  Chinese TaipeiAustralia  4–0  New CaledoniaAustralia  4–1  FijiAustralia  9–0  TahitiNew Zealand  1–0  Chinese TaipeiNew Zealand  1–0  New CaledoniaNew Zealand  0–0   FijiNew Zealand  4–0  TahitiChinese Taipei  3–0  New CaledoniaChinese Taipei  8–0  FijiChinese Taipei  0–0   TahitiNew Caledonia  4–3  FijiNew Caledonia  2–1  TahitiFiji  2–2  Tahiti


1983 OFC Women's Championship
The 1983 OFC Women's Championship was the first OFC Women's Championship of association football (also known as the OFC Women's Nations Cup).


1983 Oakland Athletics season
The Oakland Athletics' 1983 season involved the A's finishing 4th in the American League West with a record of 74 wins and 88 losses.


1983 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1983 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1983 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1983 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1983 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1983 Ogun State gubernatorial election
The 1983 Ogun State gubernatorial election occurred on August 13, 1983. UPN candidate Olabisi Onabanjo won the election.


1983 Ogun State gubernatorial election, Results
Olabisi Onabanjo representing UPN won the election. The election held on August 13, 1983.


1983 Ohio Bobcats football team
The 1983 Ohio Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fifth season under head coach Brian Burke, the Bobcats compiled a 4–7 record (3–6 against MAC opponents), finished in eighth place, and were outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 270 to 163.


1983 Ohio State Buckeyes football team
The 1983 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented the Ohio State University in the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Buckeyes compiled a 9–3 record, including the 1984 Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Arizona, where they won, 28–23, against the Pittsburgh Panthers.


1983 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin
Woody Hayes dotted the "i" in the pregame Script Ohio.


1983 Oklahoma Sooners football team
The 1983 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. They played their home games at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium and competed as members of the Big Eight Conference. They were led by head coach Barry Switzer.


1983 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Postseason, NFL draft
The following players were drafted into the National Football League following the season.


1983 Oklahoma State Cowboys baseball team
The 1983 Oklahoma State Cowboys baseball team represented the Oklahoma State University in the 1983 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Cowboys played their home games at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium. The team was coached by Gary Ward in his 6th year at Oklahoma State.


1983 Oklahoma State Cowboys baseball team
The Cowboys won the Midwest Regional to advance to the College World Series, where they were defeated by the Arizona State Sun Devils.


1983 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team
The 1983 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma State University in the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. This was the 83rd year of football at OSU and the fifth under Jimmy Johnson. The Cowboys played their home games at Lewis Field in Stillwater, Oklahoma. They finished the season 8–4, and 3–4 in the Big Eight Conference. The Cowboys were invited to the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, where they defeated Baylor, 24–14.


1983 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team, After the season
The 1984 NFL Draft took place on May 1–2, 1984 at the Omni Park Central Hotel in New York City. The following Oklahoma State players were selected during the draft.


1983 Ole Miss Rebels football team
The 1983 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi in the sport of American football during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the first year for head coach Billy Brewer.


1983 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Season summary, Mississippi State
"The Immaculate Deflection" - Artie Crosby missed a 27-yard field goal attempt with 24 seconds left when 40 mile-per-hour winds knocked down the football before it could pass the crossbar.


1983 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Season summary, Mississippi State
Ole Miss received a bid to play in the Independence Bowl.


1983 Omloop Het Volk
The 1983 Omloop Het Volk was the 38th edition of the Omloop Het Volk cycle race and was held on 5 March 1983. The race started and finished in Ghent. The race was won by Alfons De Wolf.


1983 Ondo State gubernatorial election
The 1983 Ondo State gubernatorial election occurred on August 13, 1983. UPN candidate Michael Adekunle Ajasin won the election.


1983 Ondo State gubernatorial election, Results
Michael Adekunle Ajasin representing UPN won the election. The election held on August 13, 1983.


1983 Open Championship
The 1983 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 112th Open Championship, held from 14 to 17 July at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. It was the sixth time the course had hosted, with the first in 1954.


1983 Open Championship
Defending champion Tom Watson won his fifth Open Championship, one stroke ahead of runners-up Andy Bean and Hale Irwin. It was his second consecutive Open win and third in the last four, but was helped by Irwin "whiffing" a one-inch putt on the 14th hole on the third day, which cost him a chance of a play-off with Watson for the tournament.


1983 Open Championship
At age 33, this was Watson's eighth and final major title; he had won three of the last six majors, but had not won any event for twelve months.


1983 Open Championship
Watson was the fifth to win five Open Championships, last accomplished in 1965 by Peter Thomson, also at Royal Birkdale. He was the first to successfully defend the title in over a decade, since Lee Trevino in 1972 at Muirfield. Of his five Open wins, this was the only one outside Scotland.


1983 Open Championship
Seven years earlier at Royal Birkdale in 1976, defending champion Watson posted an 80 in the third round, finishing with a pair of sixes, and missed the 54-hole cut by a stroke.


1983 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round
Source:Amateurs: Parkin (+5), Gilford (+7), Plaxton (+12), Thompson (+12), Wood (+12), Hamer (+13), Thomas (+13), Crosby (+17).


1983 Orange Bowl
The 1983 Orange Bowl was the 49th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on Saturday, January 1. Part of the 1982–83 bowl game season, it matched the thirteenth-ranked LSU Tigers of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and the #3 Nebraska Cornhuskers of the Big Eight Conference. Favored Nebraska won by a point, 21–20.


1983 Orange Bowl
The game suffered its lowest attendance (54,407) in 36 years, due to civil disturbances in the nearby Overtown neighborhood, as well as the game having no impact on the national championship, since  second-ranked Penn State was playing #1 Georgia at the same time in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. In addition, Nebraska had played at Hawaii in December (and in the previous Orange Bowl), while LSU had lost two of its last three  games of the regular season.


1983 Orange Bowl, Teams, LSU
LSU began the season 7–0–1, notching two huge road victories in Southeastern Conference play, ousting #5 Florida 24–13 in October and #4 Alabama in November. The 20–10 triumph at Birmingham's Legion Field was the Tigers' first over the Crimson Tide since 1970 and lifted LSU to No. 6 in the national polls.


1983 Orange Bowl, Teams, LSU
One week after toppling Alabama, any faint national championship hopes LSU harbored were blown away with a stunning 27–24 loss to Mississippi State in Starkville. The Tigers recovered the next week to rout Florida State 55–21 in Baton Rouge to earn an Orange Bowl berth, but they inexplicably dropped a 31–28 decision to Tulane, a 28-point underdog, at home in the regular season finale. It was the Green Wave's first victory at Tiger Stadium since 1948, and is Tulane's last triumph in the series, which has not been played on a yearly basis since 1994. Despite the November swoon, LSU came into the bowl game ranked thirteenth in the AP and UPI polls. LSU was making a fifth Orange Bowl appearance, the first in nine years.


1983 Orange Bowl, Teams, Nebraska
Nebraska was 11–1 and ranked third in both polls, but they had been denied a chance to play for the national championship due to a controversial 27–24 loss at Penn State in September. The Huskers were in their ninth Orange Bowl, the second of three consecutive appearances.


1983 Orange Bowl, Game summary
Nebraska forced a three and out, and then scored easily on their first possession, capped by a five-yard touchdown run by fullback Mark Schellen to take a 7–0 lead just four minutes into the game, and the heavily favored Huskers looked as if they would put the Tigers away early. But then a series of miscues turned the game on its head.


1983 Orange Bowl, Game summary
Toby Williams intercepted a Tiger pass at the Husker seven to thwart a promising LSU drive. But the Huskers fumbled the ball right back to LSU on the very next play from scrimmage, and Dalton Hilliard scored from the one to tie the game at seven.


1983 Orange Bowl, Game summary
Nebraska drove to the LSU 15 before fumbling again, then inexplicably fumbled a third time after forcing LSU to punt. Turner Gill then threw an interception. The Tigers took advantage with a second Hilliard 1-yard touchdown run, and Nebraska found itself trailing 14–7 at halftime after committing four turnovers on four consecutive series.


1983 Orange Bowl, Game summary
Halftime provided no relief for the mistake-prone Husker offense, with a missed field goal on the opening drive of the second half, followed by yet another fumble. LSU converted the latest Husker error into a 28-yard Juan Bentanzos field goal, which gave them a 17–7 lead.


1983 Orange Bowl, Game summary
On the very next series, Nebraska held on to the football and went on a 12-play, 80-yard scoring drive, capped by an 11-yard swing pass from Turner Gill to Mike Rozier which pulled the Huskers within three at 17–14.


1983 Orange Bowl, Game summary
Gill then finished off a seven-play, 47-yard drive with a quarterback sneak early in the fourth to put the Huskers ahead 21–17. Another miscue, this time a dropped pass on a fake field goal, prevented the Huskers from extending their lead. LSU got a 49-yard field goal from Bentanzos late following an interception (Nebraska's sixth turnover of the night), but they could not get the ball back again, and the Cornhuskers held on to win 21–20.


1983 Orange Bowl, Aftermath
Nebraska remained in third in the final AP poll and LSU climbed to eleventh.


1983 Orange Bowl, Aftermath
Nebraska played in its third consecutive Orange Bowl the following year; through 2019, LSU has yet to return.


1983 Orange Bowl, Aftermath
These two teams met again in the Sugar Bowl in January 1985 and 1987, both won by Nebraska.


1983 Oregon Ducks football team
The 1983 Oregon Ducks football team represented the University of Oregon in the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. Playing as a member of the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10), the team was led by head coach Rich Brooks, in his seventh year, and played their home games at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon. They finished the season with a record of 4–6–1 overall and 3–3–1 in the Pac-10).


1983 Oregon Ducks football team
The season-ending Civil War game with Oregon State was a scoreless tie; it later became known as The Toilet Bowl.


1983 Oregon State Beavers football team
The 1983 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University in the 1983 NCAA college football season. The Beavers ended the season with two wins, eight losses, and a tie. 1983 was Oregon State's 13th consecutive losing season. The Beavers scored 171 points and allowed 332 points. The team was led by head coach Joe Avezzano. The season is most memorable for the 0–0 tie with Oregon in the Civil War, the last scoreless game in Division 1 college football history. The game is known colloquially as the "Toilet Bowl."


1983 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Stanford
Oregon State's first conference win in three and a half years was celebrated by students rushing the field and tearing down the goal posts with two seconds left in the game.


1983 Oregon State vs. Oregon football game
The 1983 Oregon State vs. Oregon football game was a college football game played on November 19, 1983, at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon, the 87th playing of the annual Oregon–Oregon State football rivalry game, then known as the Civil War. The game ended in a scoreless tie, and since overtime was added to NCAA Division I games in 1996, this is likely to be the last such game.


1983 Oregon State vs. Oregon football game
Due to the very poor standard of play, including eleven turnovers and four missed field goals, as well as the miserable weather conditions in which it was played, the game is often referred to as the Toilet Bowl.


1983 Oregon State vs. Oregon football game, Teams, Oregon State Beavers
In his four years as head coach, Joe Avezzano's Beavers had won a total of 4 games, including two one-win seasons and one winless season. The 1983 squad had been predicted to win five games and mark a turnaround in the program, but with only two wins coming in to the Civil War, Avezzano's job was in jeopardy. Additionally, the Beavers had lost eight straight Civil War games. The Beavers were led by fullback Bryce Oglesby, who was second in the conference in rushing yards. At quarterback, however, they were down to third-string replacement Ladd McKittrick, after injuries to season-starter Ricky Greene and backup Jeff Seay.


1983 Oregon State vs. Oregon football game, Teams, Oregon Ducks
Rich Brooks was in his seventh season as Ducks head coach. Brooks, who had played at Oregon State and been an assistant coach there, had never lost a Civil War game as a player or coach for either team; despite some down seasons with the Ducks, his seven straight Civil War victories had made him a popular coach. The Ducks were experiencing a mediocre season, but nonetheless came into the game as 131⁄2 point favorites over the hapless Beavers. Like the Beavers, the Ducks were down to their third-string quarterback: Chris Miller, an untested freshman. Mike Jorgensen, who had started the season at quarterback, was out with a broken leg and backup Mike Owens had been ineffective in relief.


1983 Oregon State vs. Oregon football game, Game summary
Until it was surpassed by the winter of 1995–96 (which led to the Willamette Valley Flood of 1996), 1983 was the wettest ever recorded in Eugene. On November 19, a storm swept through Oregon with extremely windy conditions that led to the shipwreck of the Blue Magpie, causing a major spill in Yaquina Bay on the Oregon Coast. At Autzen Stadium, the game took place in a cold, driving rainstorm. During the game, water cascaded down stadium aisles onto the field, leaving coaches, players, and other field personnel on the sidelines standing in several inches of water. In the press box, the windows fogged up; in order to see the field, coaches had to open the windows, allowing sideways rain to enter. As the game progressed, players had to contend with huge standing puddles that developed on Autzen Stadium's AstroTurf field.


1983 Oregon State vs. Oregon football game, Game summary, First half
As the game began, the Beavers, though heavy underdogs, seemed determined to end their eight-year losing streak and dominated the first half both defensively and offensively. The Beavers held the Ducks to 45 yards and a single pass completion. Oregon did not breach Oregon State's 49 yard-line in the first half. The Beavers opened the game with a 55-yard drive to the Duck 20, but a fumble by tailback Bryce Oglesby was recovered by Duck defensive tackle Dan Ralph.


1983 Oregon State vs. Oregon football game, Game summary, First half
Halfway through the second quarter, Oregon State drove to the Oregon 9 yard line, but kicker Marty Breen missed a 26-yard field goal. A few plays later, the Beavers tackled Oregon punter Kevin Hicks back at the 7 yard line and took possession deep in Duck territory. On the next play, however, a fumble by Beaver fullback James Terrell was recovered by the Ducks' Ron Johnson.


1983 Oregon State vs. Oregon football game, Game summary, First half
Just before halftime, Oregon's freshman quarterback Miller, who had completed just 1 of 7 passes in the half in his first college start, fumbled on the Duck 31 yard line and the Beavers recovered with four seconds left in the half. The Beavers attempted a field goal from the spot, but kicker Breen missed his second field goal attempt, this time from 48 yards.


1983 Oregon State vs. Oregon football game, Game summary, Second half
In the second half, it was the Ducks' turn to control the ball. Running back Kevin McCall got most of the work on his way to 100 yards on the day. But the Ducks too were unable to convert yards into points; on their second possession, they drove to the Beaver 3 yard line before being stopped, and Ducks kicker Paul Schwabe missed a 20-yard field goal attempt. Early in the fourth quarter, Oregon fullback Todd Bland fumbled the ball away at the Oregon State 5 yard line. With 3:40 left in the still-scoreless game, Schwabe missed another field goal—the fourth missed field goal of the game, two for each side—this time from 50 yards out.


1983 Oregon State vs. Oregon football game, Game summary, Second half
In the game's final three minutes, the game's miscues achieved a comic ineptitude: the Ducks intercepted two Beaver passes, while the Beavers recovered a Duck fumble and intercepted another Duck pass. In all, the game featured five interceptions and 11 fumbles, six of which were recovered by the opposing team.


1983 Oregon State vs. Oregon football game, Game summary, Second half
With 14 seconds remaining, the Beavers punted from their own 37 yard line, and instead of attempting a return and conserving clock, Ducks kick returner Lew Barnes let the ball roll dead at the Oregon 18 with one second left. Mike Owens, who had replaced Miller at quarterback, completed a pass to Barnes, who then lateraled to Laderia Johnson. Johnson raced into Beaver territory before being run out of bounds by Beaver linebacker James Murphy at the 18-yard line; officials ruled he had stepped out at the 50 anyway, ending the game at that point.


1983 Oregon State vs. Oregon football game, Aftermath
The game represented a low point for both teams. It was the fifth scoreless tie in Civil War history (the first since 1931), and the first in NCAA Division I FBS college football since a 1979 game between Eastern Michigan and Northern Illinois. It would turn out to be the last college football scoreless tie: in 1996, the NCAA implemented overtime, ensuring that no future game would end in a tie. The game was initially derided as "The Doughnut Bowl"—a play on college football's numerous bowl games—by the Bottom 10 column at the time, but now is more commonly referred to as the Toilet Bowl.


1983 Oregon State vs. Oregon football game, Aftermath
Following the game, Oregon State's board of intercollegiate athletics voted to fire Avezzano; however, with urging from athletic director Dee Andros, school president Robert MacVicar chose to give him another chance. The 1984 season was no more successful—again, the Beavers managed just two wins—and Avezzano was fired. The Beavers' non-winning streak against the Ducks reached thirteen through 1987; it was finally broken with a 21–10 victory in 1988.


1983 Oregon State vs. Oregon football game, Aftermath
This game may have marked the nadir of Brooks's tenure at Oregon; the team gradually improved in the next few years, making its first bowl game appearance since 1963 in the 1989 Independence Bowl and then winning the Pac-10 conference in 1994 and advancing to the Rose Bowl (where they lost to Big Ten Conference champion Penn State). Following the Rose Bowl, Brooks was hired as head coach of the NFL's St. Louis Rams. The Ducks' freshman quarterback Chris Miller, who had a rocky first start, went on to a successful ten-year career in the NFL, mostly with the Atlanta Falcons.


1983 Oregon State vs. Oregon football game, Aftermath
At least two FBS games since the introduction of overtime have been scoreless in regulation. On October 22, 2005, Arkansas State defeated Florida Atlantic 3–0 in overtime. The most recent such game came on November 22, 2014, when Wake Forest defeated Virginia Tech 6–3 in two overtimes.


1983 Origins Award winners
The following are the winners of the 10th annual (1983) Origins Award, presented at Origins 1984:


1983 Orly Airport attack
The Orly Airport attack was the 15 July 1983 bombing of a Turkish Airlines check-in counter at Orly Airport in Paris, by the Armenian militant organization ASALA as part of its campaign for the recognition of and reparations for the Armenian genocide. The explosion killed eight people and injured 55.


1983 Orly Airport attack, Attack
The bomb exploded inside a suitcase at the Turkish Airlines check-in desk in the airport's south terminal, sending flames through the crowd of passengers checking in for a flight to Istanbul. The bomb consisted of a half kilogram of Semtex plastic explosives connected to three portable gas bottles (which caused the extensive burns on the victims).


1983 Orly Airport attack, Attack
Three people were killed immediately in the blast and another five died in hospital. Four of the victims were French, two were Turkish, one was Greek-American, and one was Swedish. The death toll made the Orly bombing the bloodiest attack in France since the end of the Algerian War in 1962. The dead included one child. The dual national was identified as Anthony Peter Schultze, who was studying in Paris and came to the airport to see off his Turkish fiancée. She was out of the check-in area when the bomb exploded, and was uninjured.


1983 Orly Airport attack, Attack
French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy came to the airport and condemned the attack, promising to find and punish the perpetrators. Later he visited the hospital where the most seriously injured were being treated. French President François Mitterrand visited some of the hospitalized victims and condemned the attack, calling it a "crime for crime's sake".


1983 Orly Airport attack, Attack
The Orly bombing came five days before the second Armenian World Congress was due to open at Lausanne. According to Markar Melkonian, brother of ASALA member Monte Melkonian, the real reason for the bombing was to discredit the Armenian World Congress, since ASALA leader Hagop Hagopian felt it would benefit a rival Armenian group in France.


1983 Orly Airport attack, Investigation
Shortly after the Orly blast, the French police arrested 51 suspected ASALA militants. According to the police, all the arrested came to France within one year and had been under surveillance by intelligence forces. The police confiscated weapons and explosives, including pistols and submachine guns. ASALA threatened with military attacks on the French interests around the world if "the French regime continues its method of terror and terrorism against the Armenian people". A few days after the French arrest of fifty-one Armenians in connection with the Orly bombing, ASALA bombed the Air France office and the French Embassy in Tehran, and threatened more attacks.


1983 Orly Airport attack, Investigation
French police detained 29-year-old Varoujan Garabedian (Varadjian Garbidjian), a Syrian national of Armenian extraction, who confessed to planting the bomb at the airport. Garabedian claimed he was the head of the French branch of ASALA. At the airport, Garabedian said he had too much luggage and gave a passenger $65 to check the bag for him. The bomb was intended to explode aboard a Turkish Airways plane en route from Paris to Istanbul, but it detonated prematurely on a baggage ramp.


1983 Orly Airport attack, Investigation
Garabedian confessed that the bomb was assembled at the home of an Armenian of Turkish nationality, Ohannes Semerci, in Villiers-le-Bel. In Marseilles, police later arrested another Turkish citizen of Armenian extraction, 22 years old Nayir Soner, an electronics specialist who was suspected of assembling the bomb.


1983 Orly Airport attack, Investigation
French press alleged that the French government had struck a secret deal with ASALA in January 1982, in which there would be no further attacks on French soil in return for French recognition that the Turks had attempted genocide against the Armenians in 1915. Under the terms of the deal ASALA members supposedly were also granted unrestricted use of French airports, and four ASALA members charged with the takeover of the Turkish consulate in Paris, in which a security guard was killed, were given light sentences (seven years in jail). Garabedian told French investigators that the violation of the secret pact by ASALA was an accident, and that the suitcase bomb was supposed to detonate on board the Turkish airliner, not on French soil. But the Orly airport attack forced the French government to crack down on ASALA.


1983 Orly Airport attack, Trial
During an 11-day jury trial in suburban Créteil, Garabedian, defended by Jacques Vergès, denied his earlier confession. He was found guilty and on 3 March 1985 and was given a life sentence. Nayir Soner, accused of buying bottles of gas used to make the bomb, was given a 15-year sentence, and Ohannes Semerci, in whose apartment ammunition and dynamite were found, received a 10-year sentence.


1983 Orly Airport attack, Trial
The victims were defended by Gide Loyrette Nouel: principal Jean Loyrette argued for denial of the Armenian genocide; his collaborators Gilles de Poix and Christian de Thezillat argued on the attack itself, to demonstrate the guilt of the three defendants. Several Turkish scholars – Sina Aksin, Türkkaya Ataöv, Avedis Simon Hacinlyian, Hasan Köni, Mümtaz Soysal – testified for the prosecution during the trial.


1983 Orly Airport attack, Trial
In 1995, over 1 million people in Armenia signed a petition to the authorities in France calling for the release of Garabedian from prison.


1983 Orly Airport attack, Trial
In 2001, after 17 years in jail, Garabedian was released on condition he was deported to Armenia. He was greeted by Prime Minister of Armenia Andranik Margaryan, who expressed happiness at Garabedian's release.


1983 Orly Airport attack, Trial
In an interview in 2008, Garabedian explained the Orly bombing was a protest against the hanging execution of Levon Ekmekjian in Istanbul in 1982, and he planned to destroy a Turkish Airlines plane, which was to transport high-ranking representatives of the Turkish secret services, as well as Turkish generals and diplomats. Garabedian claims that as a result of the attack 10 Turks were killed and 60 were injured.


1983 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo)
1983 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo) was the 77th water polo championship in Hungary. There were fourteen teams who played two round match for the title.


1983 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo), Final list
* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point


1983 Ottawa Rough Riders season
The 1983 Ottawa Rough Riders finished the season in 2nd place in the East Division with an 8–8 record. This season marked the last time an Ottawa football team hosted a playoff game until 2015 when the second-year Ottawa Redblacks hosted the East Final, where the Rough Riders lost the East-Semi Final game to Hamilton by a score of 33–31.


1983 Overseas Final
The 1983 Overseas Final was the third running of the Overseas Final as part of the qualification for the 1983 Speedway World Championship Final to be held in West Germany. The 1983 Final was run at the Belle Vue Stadium in Manchester, England, and was the second last qualifying round for Commonwealth and American riders.


1983 Overseas Final
The Top 10 riders qualified for the Intercontinental Final to be held at the White City Stadium in London. Manchester's own Phil Collins won the Overseas Final.


1983 Oyo State gubernatorial election
The 1983 Oyo State gubernatorial election occurred on August 13, 1983. NPN's Victor Omololu Olunloyo won election for a first term, defeating main opposition UPN candidate, Bola Ige, and other party candidates in the contest.


1983 Oyo State gubernatorial election
Victor Omololu Olunloyo emerged winner in the NPN gubernatorial primary election. His running mate was Olatunji Mohammed.


1983 Oyo State gubernatorial election, Electoral system
The Governor of Oyo State is elected using the plurality voting system.


1983 Oyo State gubernatorial election, Results
There were five parties registered by the Federal Electoral Commission (FEDECO). The NPN candidate, Victor Omololu Olunloyo, was announced by the returning officer, Daniel Adopoju Lapade Laniran, to have defeated the Incumbent Governor, UPN's Bola Ige to win the contest. There was a total of 3,004,715 vote cast.


1983 PBA All-Filipino Conference
The 1983 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) All-Filipino Conference was the first conference of the 1983 PBA season. It started on March 6 and ended on April 24, 1983.


1983 PBA All-Filipino Conference, Format
The following format will be observed for the duration of the conference:


1983 PBA All-Filipino Conference Finals
The 1983 PBA All-Filipino Conference Finals was the best-of-5 basketball championship series of the 1983 PBA All-Filipino Conference, and the conclusion of the conference playoffs.


1983 PBA All-Filipino Conference Finals
The Crispa Redmanizers scored a 3-0 sweep in their finals series against Gilbey's Gin to complete a 12-game winning streak and retains the All-Filipino crown.


1983 PBA Open Conference
The 1983 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Open Conference was the third and last conference of the 1983 PBA season. It started on August 28 and ended on December 1, 1983. The tournament is an Import-laden format, which requires two imports per each team.


1983 PBA Open Conference, Format
The following format will be observed for the duration of the conference:


1983 PBA Open Conference, Imports
Each team were allowed two imports. The first line in the table are the original reinforcements of the teams. Below the name are the replacement of the import above. Same with the third replacement that is also highlighted with a different color. GP is the number of games played.


1983 PBA Open Conference, Semifinals
All four teams were tied with three wins and three losses after the double-round semifinals. The PBA had their first-ever double playoff for the two finals berths.


1983 PBA Open Conference Finals
The 1983 PBA Open Conference Finals was the best-of-5 basketball championship series of the 1983 PBA Open Conference, and the conclusion of the conference playoffs.


1983 PBA Open Conference Finals
The Crispa Redmanizers achieved a historic 2nd Grand Slam, repeating over Great Taste Coffee Makers, this time via 3–0 sweep in their best-of-five finals series.


1983 PBA Open Conference Finals, Games summary, Game 1
The Redmanizers engaged the Coffee Makers in a nip-and-tuck battle before coming up with a 9-2 windup in the last one minute and 55 seconds to pull off the victory. Behind 109-111, the Redmanizers equalized on a jumpshot by Atoy Co with 1:39 left before Philip Cezar put Crispa ahead for good, 113-111, on a fastbreak pitch by Billy Ray Bates with 59 seconds to go, Ricardo Brown of Great Taste missed a three-point shot and Bates put in what proved to be the winning points on a foul by Brown with 11 ticks remaining.


1983 PBA Open Conference Finals, Games summary, Game 2
From a 35-30 first period advantage, Crispa poured on the heat and was up by 22 points early in the third quarter, 73-51. The Coffee Makers tried to mount a rally but the closest they got was within eight points twice, the last at 123-131 with 3:25 left, another 14-5 flurry by the Redmanizers wrapped up the contest.


1983 PBA Open Conference Finals, Games summary, Game 3
Billy Ray Bates hit all of his first five jumpers, including a three-point shot in the last quarter as the black superman unleashed 21 of his 58 points in the final 12 minutes to spark the Redmanizers' runaway victory and a second grandslam. The see-saw encounter turned into a devastating rout through a 25-13 splurge for a 117-103 Crispa advantage.


1983 PBA Reinforced Filipino Conference
The 1983 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Reinforced Filipino Conference was the second conference of the 1983 PBA season. It started on May 15 and ended on August 23, 1983. The tournament is an Import-laden format, which requires an import with the height limit of 6"5' and below for each team.


1983 PBA Reinforced Filipino Conference, Format
The following format will be observed for the duration of the conference:


1983 PBA Reinforced Filipino Conference Finals
The 1983 PBA Reinforced Filipino Conference Finals was the best-of-5 basketball championship series of the 1983 PBA Reinforced Filipino Conference, and the conclusion of the conference playoffs.


1983 PBA Reinforced Filipino Conference Finals
The Crispa Redmanizers won their second championship of the season and 11th league title, winning over first-time finalist Great Taste Coffee Makers, three games to two, in their best-of-five championship series.


1983 PBA Reinforced Filipino Conference Finals, Games summary, Game 3
In a closely fought contest, Crispa import Billy Ray Bates got his fifth foul with 4:08 left in the game, the Redmanizers levelled the count for the last time at 115-all with 3:27 remaining, Bogs Adornado and Ricardo Brown unloaded a 6-0 bomb to put Great Taste ahead for good, 121-115 with two minutes left.


1983 PBA Reinforced Filipino Conference Finals, Games summary, Game 4
From a 31-26 advantage for Crispa after the first period, Billy Ray Bates suddenly catch fire in the second quarter, back-to-back three-pointers and a fastbreak lay-up by Bates gave the Redmanizers a 50-32 lead. The Coffee Makers came within eight points, 76-84 in the third quarter, but Bates spearhead a 14-4 Crispa run that sent Great Taste reeling from the onslaught at the end of the crucial third period. Crispa blew the game wide open in the fourth quarter, leading by as many as 26 points, 125-99 with 3:14 left in the game.


1983 PBA Reinforced Filipino Conference Finals, Games summary, Game 5
Crispa led 63-49 at halftime of the deciding fifth game, the Redmanizers padded their lead to 17 points, 76-59 in the third quarter, but the Coffee Makers countered with a 12-2 run to trimmed the deficit at 71-78 with 5:52 remaining, Atoy Co's turnaround jumper just before the buzzer sounded ending the third period put Crispa up front, 97-85.


1983 PBA Reinforced Filipino Conference Finals, Games summary, Game 5
Great Taste were down by eight, 94-102, when Bernie Fabiosa got an easy inside basket and Bates hitting one from the left and Yoyoy Villamin making a follow-up shot as Crispa's lead were back to 14 points, 108-94, Billy Ray Bates was unstoppable as the Redmanizers answered every baskets the Coffee Makers made, Abet Guidaben finalized the count with an open lay-up for a 139-120 tally.


1983 PBA season
The 1983 PBA season was the 9th season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


1983 PGA Championship
The 1983 PGA Championship was the 65th PGA Championship, held August 4–7 at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, California. Hal Sutton led wire-to-wire to win his only major title, one stroke ahead of runner-up Jack Nicklaus, a five-time champion. Nicklaus shot a final round 66 (−5) for his 19th and final runner-up finish in a major championship. Sutton was under scrutiny as he entered the weekend; two weeks earlier in Virginia, he had a six-shot lead after 54 holes, shot a final round 77, and finished third.


1983 PGA Championship
It was the second major at Riviera, following the U.S. Open in 1948, won by Ben Hogan. The PGA Championship returned to the course in 1995, and it hosts a regular event on the PGA Tour, originally known as the Los Angeles Open.


1983 PGA Championship
Only the third PGA Championship in California, it was preceded by 1929 in Los Angeles at Hillcrest and 1977 at Pebble Beach. The 1962 event was originally awarded to Brentwood in L.A., but was moved to Philadelphia at Aronimink.


1983 PGA Championship
This was the first major championship to award a six-figure winner's share, $100,000, increasing from the $65,000 of the previous year. The first five-figure winner's share in a major was the 1958 Masters and the 2001 Masters was the first to break seven figures.


1983 PGA Tour
The 1983 PGA Tour season was played from January 6 to October 30. The season consisted of 43 official money golf tournaments. Seve Ballesteros, Jim Colbert, Mark McCumber, Gil Morgan, Calvin Peete, Hal Sutton, Lanny Wadkins, and Fuzzy Zoeller won the most tournaments, two, and there were 10 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.


1983 PGA Tour
This was also the first season of the "All-Exempt Tour" which provided many more exemptions per year. For example, those that finished in the top 125 of the money list maintained full-time status rather than the top 60 which had been historic benchmark.


1983 PGA Tour, Tournament results
The following table shows all the official money events for the 1983 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.


1983 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
This is a list of the 1983 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates. 57 players earned their 1984 PGA Tour card through Q-School in 1983. The tournament was played over 108 holes at the Tournament Players Club in Ponte Vedra, Florida.


1983 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
Bob Tway shot a final round 81, three-putting the final green to miss earning a card by a stroke.


1983 Pacific Coast Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1983 Pacific Coast Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournament (now known as the Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament) was held March 10–12 at The Forum in Inglewood, California.


1983 Pacific Coast Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournament
Top-seeded conference newcomers UNLV defeated two-time defending champions Fresno State in the final, 66–63 (OT), thus capturing the Runnin' Rebels' first PCAA/Big West title.


1983 Pacific Coast Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournament
UNLV, in turn, received a bid to the 1983 NCAA Tournament, the program's fourth appearance. PCAA third-place finisher Utah State also participated.


1983 Pacific Coast Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
The tournament field increased by one from 1982 with the addition of UNLV to the PCAA. Nonetheless, conference member UC Santa Barbara again did not participate in the league tournament.


1983 Pacific Coast Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
With eight teams participating, all eight teams were placed into the first round, with teams seeded and paired based on regular-season records. After the first round, teams were re-seeded so the highest-remaining team was paired with the lowest-remaining time in one semifinal with the other two teams slotted into the other semifinal.


1983 Pacific Coast Metal Trades Union strike
The 1983 Todd Shipyard Strike (Part of the Pacific Coast Metal Trades Union Strike) was a strike action by 10,000 Pacific Coast Metal Trades Union members from July 26 to September 26, 1983, deadlocking business in 9 shipyards. The Todd Shipyards Corporation was significantly impacted by this strike. The bargaining between the unions under the Pacific Coast Metal Trades District Council, and the Pacific Shipbuilders Association led to a new contract, but that did not prevent Todd Shipyards from losing a significant amount of business and subsequent loss of workers in the years that followed.


1983 Pacific Coast Metal Trades Union strike, Background
The Todd Seattle shipyard was one of several yards operated by the New York-based Todd Shipyards Corporation in the 1980s. It was also once the largest shipbuilding company in the United States . The Seattle shipyard was acquired in 1915 along with docks in New Jersey and New York under the William H. Todd Corporation before the company name was changed. During World War I, Todd Shipyards built close to 90% of the U.S. naval convoy, leading to a boom in production and employment figures (18,000 workers on payroll). However at the end of the war, the payroll shrank to 2,000 due to a massive drop in demand.


1983 Pacific Coast Metal Trades Union strike, Background
By the time World War II started, there was again great demand for naval vessels and other shipbuilding services. To fight an effective war at sea, a strong naval fleet was paramount and a priority of the U.S. Government. Todd Shipyards was again at the forefront of this labor demand and employed 57,000 workers over the course of the war.


1983 Pacific Coast Metal Trades Union strike, Background
By the late 1970s and early 1980s, civilian contracts were superseded by military contracts yet again in large part due to the Carter and Reagan administrations' defense buildup. By 1983, the company was geared primarily toward military contracts leading to an over-reliance on government contracts (which dwindled)-causing an inevitable fall in profits and work.


1983 Pacific Coast Metal Trades Union strike, Background
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan eliminated a 44-year-old federal shipbuilding subsidy, doubling costs for US shipbuilders such as Todd. Because Todd had significantly higher labor costs than some other US shipyards, it submitted higher bids for Naval contracts, losing the work to other US shipyards. The lack of Naval contracts pressured Todd to resist further pay increases in union contract negotiations.


1983 Pacific Coast Metal Trades Union strike, Background
In 1982, collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) across the United States were running out. The lack of the ability to fund wage increases for American workers was worrisome for industries such as shipbuilding on the West Coast, especially after Ronald Reagan's cuts in shipbuilding subsidies. Industrial production was down nearly nine percent in October 1982 from the previous year, and unemployment was at 10.2% in November.


1983 Pacific Coast Metal Trades Union strike, Union talks
Throughout 1982, with the older contracts coming to a close, a series of talks took place among Steel industry representatives, most of which proved unfruitful. And, in the Summer of 1983, the Collective Bargaining Agreement for West coast metal workers expired leaving workers without a contract and with adequate wage guarantees.


1983 Pacific Coast Metal Trades Union strike, Union talks
The Pacific Coast Metal Trades Union strike lasted from July 26 to September 26, 1983, and in the case of Todd Shipyards was the result of the workers being dissatisfied with a new wage offer (they voted the offer down 6,535 to 54 against). This led to a shortage of metalworkers in the yard-and hence lack of adequate labor to compete for bids. Nine shipyards along the West coast were affected by this strike from San Francisco to Seattle, 11 unions under the Pacific Coast Metal Trades District Council.


1983 Pacific Coast Metal Trades Union strike, Aftermath
With the void in military contracts, forfeit civilian contracts, and now even higher labor costs, Todd Shipyards was struggling to stay afloat. Todd completed its $3 billion contract with the U.S. Government in 1983, and began a period of significant decline for the company. In 1986, the Todd Corporation filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. The new Collective Bargaining Agreement reached by the Metalworkers Union did little in terms of preventing the Todd Shipyard from other factors that ultimately contributed to its failure just a few years later. Todd was already struggling with being overpriced in its bids on ship contracts and with the higher wages in the new agreement, this continued. This led to the eventual closure of all shipyards under Todd except for the Seattle shipyard by the end of 1990.


1983 Pacific Coast Metal Trades Union strike, Re-thinking business
With government contracts no longer supplying the lion's share of contracts for Todd, they increasingly turned to smaller civilian jobs, including the construction of Washington State Ferrys and other projects. This was a direct result of a decrease of 45% in government work and increase in profit margins in 1994. In 2011, Todd Shipyards was purchased by Vigor Industrial for about $130 million.


1983 Pacific Tigers football team
The 1983 Pacific Tigers football team represented the University of the Pacific (UOP) in the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association.


1983 Pacific Tigers football team
The team was led by head coach Bob Cope, in his first year, and played their home games at Pacific Memorial Stadium in Stockton, California. On the field, they finished the season with a record of three wins and nine losses (3–9, 1–5 PCAA). The Tigers were outscored by their opponents 211–347 over the season.


1983 Pacific Tigers football team
After the 1984 season was over, it was discovered that the UNLV Rebels had used multiple ineligible players during both the 1983 and 1984 seasons. As a result, Pacific's loss to UNLV turns into a forfeit win and their record is adjusted to 4–8, 2–4 PCAA.


1983 Pacific Tigers football team, Team players in the NFL
The following UOP players were selected in the 1984 NFL Draft.


1983 Pacific hurricane season
The 1983 Pacific hurricane season was the longest season ever recorded at that time. It was a very active Pacific hurricane season. The season started on May 15, 1983 in the eastern Pacific, and on June 1, 1983 in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1983. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. During the 1983 season, there were 21 named storms, which was slightly less than the previous season. Furthermore, twelve of those storms became hurricanes. And eight of the storms reached major hurricane status, or Category 3 or higher on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS). The decaying 1982–83 El Niño event likely contributed to this level of activity. That same El Niño influenced a very quiet Atlantic hurricane season.


1983 Pacific hurricane season
The first storm of the season, Hurricane Adolph, became the southernmost-forming east Pacific tropical cyclone on record after forming at a latitude of 7.1°N. After a slow start, activity picked up in July, when Hurricane Gil moved through the Hawaiian Islands, resulting in minor damage. In early August, Hurricane Ismael was responsible for three deaths and $19 million (1983 USD) in damage in the United States. In September, hurricanes Kiko and Lorena brought significant damage and seven deaths to southern Mexico. About a month later, Tropical Storm Octave became the worst tropical cyclone on record to affect Arizona.


1983 Pacific hurricane season
Octave killed 15 people, and caused $500 million in damage to Arizona and $12.5 million to New Mexico. Later in October, Hurricane Tico was a very intense hurricane at the time of its landfall and thus left 25,000 homeless. Damage throughout the country was estimated at $200 million while 135 deaths were reported in Mexico. Although most of its impact occurred in Mexico, Tico's remnants brought significant flooding in the Central United States, resulting in six deaths and $42 million in damage. A few days later, Hurricane Raymond posed a threat to Hawaii, but did little actual damage. The final storm of the season, Hurricane Winnie, was a rare December cyclone.