1983 Tennessee Volunteers football team
The 1983 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously "Tennessee", "UT" or the "Vols") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Johnny Majors, in his seventh year, and played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of nine wins and three losses (9–3 overall, 4–2 in the SEC) and a victory over Maryland in the Florida Citrus Bowl. The Volunteers offense scored 282 points while the defense allowed 165 points.


1983 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Team players drafted into the NFL
The following players were selected in the 1984 NFL Draft:


1983 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Team players drafted into the NFL
The following players were selected in the 1984 NFL Supplemental Draft:


1983 Texas A&M Aggies football team
The 1983 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M University in the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC). The Aggies were led by head coach Jackie Sherrill in his second season and finished with a record of five wins, five losses and one  (5–5–1 overall, 4–3–1 in the SWC).


1983 Texas A&M Aggies softball team
The 1983 Texas A&M Aggies softball team represented Texas A&M University in the 1983 NCAA Division I softball season. The Aggies were coached by Bob Brock, who led his second season at Texas A&M. The Aggies finished with a record of 41–11.


1983 Texas A&M Aggies softball team
The Aggies were invited to the 1983 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, where they swept the Central Regional and then completed a run through the Women's College World Series to claim the NCAA Women's College World Series Championship for the first time. Texas A&M had won the 1982 AIAW Women's College World Series the previous year, and did not participate in the 1982 NCAA Women's College World Series.


1983 Texas Longhorns baseball team
The 1983 Texas Longhorns baseball team represented the University of Texas in the 1983 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Longhorns played their home games at Disch-Falk Field. The team was coached by Cliff Gustafson in his 16th season at Texas.


1983 Texas Longhorns baseball team
The Longhorns won the College World Series, defeating the Alabama Crimson Tide in the championship game.


1983 Texas Longhorns baseball team, Longhorns in the 1983 MLB Draft
The following members of the Texas Longhorns baseball program were drafted in the 1983 Major League Baseball Draft.


1983 Texas Longhorns football team
The 1983 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Longhorns finished the regular season with an 11–0 record and lost to Georgia in the Cotton Bowl Classic.


1983 Texas Rangers season
The Texas Rangers 1983 season involved the Rangers finishing third in the American League West with a record of 77 wins and 85 losses. The Rangers did break a Major League Baseball record for the most runs ever scored by one team during a single extra inning.


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


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


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


1983 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team
The 1983 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third season under head coach Jerry Moore, the Red Raiders compiled a 3–7–1 record (3–4–1 against SWC opponents), were outscored by a combined total of 253 to 160, and finished in sixth place in the conference. The team played its home games at Clifford B. and Audrey Jones Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.


1983 Texas–Arlington Mavericks football team
The 1983 Texas–Arlington Mavericks football team was an American football team that represented  the University of Texas at Arlington in the Southland Conference during the 1983 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their tenth year under head coach Harold Elliott, the team compiled a 5–6 record.


1983 Thai general election
Prawit Wongsuwan (PPRP)Wissanu Krea-ngamAnutin Charnvirakul (BJT)Jurin Laksanawisit (D)Don PramudwinaiSupattanapong Punmeechaow


1983 Thai general election
Borders : Cambodia Laos Malaysia Myanmar (Maritime : India Indonesia Vietnam)


1983 Thai general election
General elections were held in Thailand on 18 April 1983. The result was a victory for the Social Action Party, which won 92 of the 324 seats. Voter turnout was 50.8%.


1983 Thailand Masters
The 1983 Thailand Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament held in August 1983 in Bangkok, Thailand.


1983 Thailand Masters
Tony Meo won the tournament, defeating Steve Davis 2–1 in the final.


1983 The Citadel Bulldogs football team
The 1983 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 1983 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Tom Moore served as head coach for the first season. The Bulldogs played as members of the Southern Conference and played home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium.


1983 The Hot Ones
1983 The Hot Ones was a various artists "hits" compilation album released in Australia in 1983 by Festival Records. The album spent four weeks at the top of the Australian album charts in 1983.


1983 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
The 1983 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 93rd staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.


1983 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
On 30 October 1983, Borris-Ileigh won the championship after a 0-17 to 1-11 defeat of Loughmore-Castleiney in the final at Semple Stadium. It was their fifth championship title overall and their first title since 1981.


1983 Tirreno–Adriatico
The 1983 Tirreno–Adriatico was the 18th edition of the Tirreno–Adriatico cycle race and was held from 11 March to 16 March 1983. The race started in Santa Severa and finished in San Benedetto del Tronto. The race was won by Roberto Visentini of the Inoxpran team.


1983 Toledo Rockets football team
The 1983 Toledo Rockets football team was an American football team that represented the University of Toledo in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second season under head coach Dan Simrell, the Rockets compiled a 9–2 record (7–2 against MAC opponents), finished in second place in the MAC, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 276 to 157.


1983 Toledo Rockets football team
The team's statistical leaders included Jim Kelso with 1,346 passing yards, Steve Morgan with 630 rushing yards, and Capus Robinson with 499 receiving yards.


1983 Tolly Cobbold Classic
The 1983 Tolly Cobbold Classic was the fifth edition of the professional invitational snooker tournament, which took place from 21 to 23 February 1983. The tournament was played at the Corn Exchange in Ipswich, and featured eight professional players.


1983 Tolly Cobbold Classic
Steve Davis won the title for the second time in succession, beating Terry Griffiths 7–5 in the final.


1983 Tongan A Grade
The 1983 season of the Tongan A Grade was the 10th season of top flight association football competition in Tonga. Ngeleʻia FC won the championship for the second time, their second title in a then-record of 7 consecutive championships.


1983 Torneo Descentralizado
The 1983 Torneo Descentralizado, the top tier of Peruvian football (soccer), was played by 17 teams. The national champion was Sporting Cristal.


1983 Torneo Descentralizado
Top 6 from First Stage played in Lima for the Championship without carrying their whole season record; top 3 entered that round with Bonus of 3, 2, and 1 point respectively. For 1984 First Division grew to 25 teams. So besides Sport Pilsen which gained the right to be promoted, 9 other teams were invited to join First Division.


1983 Torneo Godó
The 1983 Torneo Godó or Trofeo Conde de Godó was a men's tennis tournament that took place on outdoor clay courts in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was the 31st edition of the tournament and was part of the 1983 Grand Prix circuit. It was held from 3 October until 9 October 1983. First-seeded Mats Wilander won his second consecutive singles title at the event.


1983 Torneo Godó, Finals, Doubles
Anders Jarryd /  Hans Simonsson defeated  Jim Gurfein /  Erick Iskersky 7–5, 6–3


1983 Torneo di Viareggio
The 1983 winners of the Torneo di Viareggio (in English, the Viareggio Tournament, officially the Viareggio Cup World Football Tournament Coppa Carnevale), the annual youth football tournament held in Viareggio, Tuscany, are listed below.


1983 Torneo di Viareggio, Format
The 16 teams are seeded in 4 groups. Each team from a group meets the others in a single tie. The winner of each group progress to the final knockout stage.


1983 Toronto Argonauts season
The 1983 Toronto Argonauts season was the 94th season for the team since the franchise's inception in 1873. The team finished in first place in the East Division with a 12–4 record and qualified for the playoffs for the second consecutive year. The Argonauts defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Eastern Final and qualified for the Grey Cup for the second year in a row. Toronto defeated the BC Lions in the first ever Grey Cup match between the two teams, winning their 11th Grey Cup championship by a score of 18-17. The win ended a 31-year championship drought, which is the longest drought in Canadian Football League history.


1983 Toronto Argonauts season
During the regular season, receiver Terry Greer set a professional football record (NFL and CFL) for most receiving yards with 2003 yards. He also set a record for most 200-yard ball games in a year with three.


1983 Toronto Blue Jays season
The 1983 Toronto Blue Jays season was the franchise's seventh season of Major League Baseball. It resulted in the Blue Jays finishing fourth in the American League East with a record of 89 wins and 73 losses. It was the franchise's first winning season, starting a streak of 11 consecutive winning seasons. It was the team's first season to use the song "OK Blue Jays" in the seventh-inning stretch.


1983 Toronto Blue Jays season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases


1983 Toronto Blue Jays season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases


1983 Toronto Blue Jays season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts


1983 Toronto Blue Jays season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; IP = Innings pitched; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts


1983 Toronto Blue Jays season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts


1983 Toronto International Film Festival
The 8th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 9 and September 17, 1983. This year, the festival introduced Contemporary World Cinema programme. The festival also shone light on Paul Verhoeven's work. The festival also held a retrospective in honor of David Cronenberg, first time for a Toronto-reared director. The censor board insisted that the censored version of Cronenberg's film The Brood, approved in 1979 be used.


1983 Toronto International Film Festival
The Big Chill by Lawrence Kasdan was selected as the opening film. It won the People's Choice Award at the festival, and later got nominated for Academy Awards, BAFTAs and the Golden Globes.


1983 Toronto Molson Light Challenge
Jimmy Connors won in the final 6–2, 6–0, 5–7, 6–0 against José Higueras.


1983 Tour de France
The 1983 Tour de France was the 70th edition of the Tour de France, run from 1 to 24 July, with 22 stages and a prologue covering a total distance of 3,809 km (2,367 mi) The race was won by French rider Laurent Fignon. Sean Kelly of Ireland won the points classification, and Lucien Van Impe of Belgium won the mountains classification.


1983 Tour de France, Teams
The Tour organisation wanted to globalize cycling by having cyclist from the Eastern Bloc in the Tour. Because they only rode as amateurs, the 1983 Tour was also opened for amateur teams. In the end, only the Colombian and Portuguese national amateur teams applied for a place, and the Portuguese team later withdrew. The 1983 Tour started with 140 cyclists, divided into 14 teams of 10 cyclists.


1983 Tour de France, Route and stages
The 1983 Tour de France started on 1 July, and had one rest day, after the finish on the Alpe d'Huez. The highest point of elevation in the race was 2,115 m (6,939 ft) at the summit of the Col du Tourmalet mountain pass on stage 10.


1983 Tour de France, Race overview
In 1983, Fignon was a part of the team that helped Bernard Hinault to win the 1983 Vuelta a España. Guimard did not want to send Fignon to the Tour de France, because two grand tours could be too much for a 22-year-old rider. When Hinault, winner of four of five previous Tours, announced that he would not start due to injury, the Renault team was without a team captain.


1983 Tour de France, Race overview
Fignon was added to the 1983 Tour de France selection for the Renault team, and the team decided to go for stage wins, with hopes of having Fignon or Marc Madiot compete for the young rider classification. After stage nine, the first mountain stage, Fignon was in second place, behind Pascal Simon, and he was allowed to be team leader. In the eleventh stage, Simon crashed and broke his shoulder blade. Simon continued, and only lost little time the next stages. In the fifteenth stage, a mountain time trial, Fignon was able to win back so much time that he was within one minute of Simon.


1983 Tour de France, Race overview
In the seventeenth stage, Simon had to give up, and Fignon became the new leader. In the next stages, Fignon was able to answer all attacks from his opponents, and he even won the time trial in the 21st stage. At 22 years old, Fignon was the youngest man to win the Tour since 1933.


1983 Tour de France, Race overview
Fignon later said that he was lucky to have won the 1983 Tour: if Hinault would have been present, Fignon would have helped Hinault, as Hinault was the team leader.


1983 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
There were several classifications in the 1983 Tour de France, four of them awarding jerseys to their leaders. The most important was the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey; the winner of this classification is considered the winner of the Tour.


1983 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
Additionally, there was a points classification, where cyclists got points for finishing among the best in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and was identified with a green jersey.


1983 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
There was also a mountains classification. The organisation had categorised some climbs as either hors catégorie, first, second, third, or fourth-category; points for this classification were won by the first cyclists that reached the top of these climbs first, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and wore a white jersey with red polka dots.


1983 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
Another classification was the young rider classification. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders that rode the Tour for the first time were eligible, and the leader wore a white jersey.


1983 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The fifth individual classification was the intermediate sprints classification. This classification had similar rules as the points classification, but only points were awarded on intermediate sprints. In 1983, this classification had no associated jersey.


1983 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The team classification changed; in 1982 it was calculated with the times of the best four cyclists in every stage, and in 1983 this changed to the times of the best three cyclists. The riders in the team that led this classification were identified by yellow caps. There was also a team points classification. Cyclists received points according to their finishing position on each stage, with the first rider receiving one point. The first three finishers of each team had their points combined, and the team with the fewest points led the classification. The riders of the team leading this classification wore green caps.


1983 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
In addition, there was a combativity award given after each mass-start stage to the cyclist considered most combative. The decision was made by a jury composed of journalists who gave points. The cyclist with the most points from votes in all stages led the combativity classification. Serge Demierre won this classification, and was given overall the super-combativity award. The Souvenir Henri Desgrange was given in honour of Tour founder Henri Desgrange to the first rider to pass the summit of the Col du Tourmalet on stage 10. This prize was won by José Patrocinio Jiménez.


1983 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 11
The 1983 Tour de France was the 70th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Fontenay-sous-Bois with a prologue individual time trial on 1 July and Stage 11 occurred on 12 July with a flat stage to Fleurance. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 24 July.


1983 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 11, Prologue
1 July 1983 — Fontenay-sous-Bois, 5.5 km (3.4 mi) (individual time trial)


1983 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 1
2 July 1983 - Nogent-sur-Marne to Créteil, 163 km (101.3 mi)


1983 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 2
3 July 1983 — Soissons to Fontaine-au-Pire, 100 km (62.1 mi) (team time trial)


1983 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 3
4 July 1983 — Valenciennes to Roubaix, 149.5 km (92.9 mi)


1983 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 4
5 July 1983 — Roubaix to Le Havre, 299 km (186 mi)


1983 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 5
6 July 1983 — Le Havre to Le Mans, 254 km (158 mi)


1983 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 6
7 July 1983 — Châteaubriant to Nantes, 58 km (36 mi) (individual time trial)


1983 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 7
8 July 1983 — Nantes to Île d'Oléron, 211 km (131 mi)


1983 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 8
9 July 1983 — La Rochelle to Bordeaux, 219.5 km (136.4 mi)


1983 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 9
10 July 1983 — Bordeaux to Pau, 203 km (126 mi)


1983 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 10
11 July 1983 — Pau to Bagnères-de-Luchon, 198 km (123 mi)


1983 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 11
12 July 1983 — Bagnères-de-Luchon to Fleurance, 176 km (109 mi)


1983 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22
The 1983 Tour de France was the 70th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Fontenay-sous-Bois with a prologue individual time trial on 1 July and Stage 12 occurred on 12 July with a flat stage from Fleurance. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 24 July.


1983 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 12
13 July 1983 — Fleurance to Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, 254 km (157.8 mi)


1983 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 13
14 July 1983 — Roquefort-sur-Soulzon to Aurillac, 200.5 km (124.6 mi)


1983 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 14
15 July 1983 — Aurillac to Issoire, 147 km (91 mi)


1983 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 15
16 July 1983 — Clermont-Ferrand to Puy de Dôme, 15.6 km (9.7 mi) (individual time trial)


1983 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 16
17 July 1983 — Issoire to Saint-Étienne, 144.5 km (89.8 mi)


1983 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 17
18 July 1983 — La Tour-du-Pin to Alpe d'Huez, 223.5 km (138.9 mi)


1983 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 18
20 July 1983 — Le Bourg-d'Oisans to Morzine, 247.5 km (153.8 mi)


1983 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 19
21 July 1983 — Morzine to Avoriaz, 15 km (9.3 mi) (individual time trial)


1983 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 20
22 July 1983 — Morzine to Dijon, 282 km (175 mi)


1983 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 21
23 July 1983 — Dijon to Dijon, 50 km (31 mi) (individual time trial)


1983 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 22
24 July 1983 — Alfortville to Paris Champs-Élysées, 195 km (121 mi)


1983 Tour de Romandie
The 1983 Tour de Romandie was the 37th edition of the Tour de Romandie cycle race and was held from 3 May to 8 May 1983. The race started in Bulle and finished in Vernier. The race was won by Stephen Roche of the Peugeot team.


1983 Tour de Suisse
The 1983 Tour de Suisse was the 47th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 14 June to 24 June 1983. The race started in Seuzach and finished in Zürich. The race was won by Sean Kelly of the Sem–France Loire team.


1983 Tour du Haut Var
The 1983 Tour du Haut Var was the 15th edition of the Tour du Haut Var cycle race and was held on 27 February 1983. The race started in Nice and finished in Seillans. The race was won by Joop Zoetemelk.


1983 Tour of Flanders
The 67th running of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic was held on Sunday, 3 April 1983. Dutch rider Jan Raas claimed his second win in the monument race following a 20 km solo attack. His teammate Ludo Peeters won the sprint for second place at one-and-a-half minute. 38 of 188 riders finished.


1983 Tour of Flanders, Route
The race started in Sint Niklaas and finished in Meerbeke (Ninove) – covering 272 km. There were 12 categorized climbs:


1983 Tour of the Basque Country
The 1983 Tour of the Basque Country was the 23rd edition of the Tour of the Basque Country cycle race and was held from 4 April to 8 April 1983. The race started in Legorreta and finished at Errezil. The race was won by Julián Gorospe of the Reynolds team.


1983 Tournament Players Championship
The 1983 Tournament Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held March 24–28 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the tenth Tournament Players Championship.


1983 Tournament Players Championship
Heavy rains on Thursday delayed the start until Friday, with the final two rounds planned for Sunday. Thunderstorms on Sunday morning allowed only the third round to be completed, and the final round was held on Monday.


1983 Tournament Players Championship
Hal Sutton, age 24, came from four strokes back with a final round 69 to win his second tour event, one stroke ahead of runner-up Bob Eastwood. Later in the year, Sutton won his only major title, the PGA Championship in August at Riviera.


1983 Tournament Players Championship
Defending champion Jerry Pate withdrew before the start, due to a lingering neck injury.


1983 Tournament Players Championship
Sutton became the youngest champion of the TPC, formerly Mark Hayes, 27 in 1977. It was only for a year, as Fred Couples was five months younger at his win in 1984.


1983 Tournament Players Championship, Venue
This was the second Tournament Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at  6,857 yards (6,270 m). Despite refinements in the past year, the Pete Dye-designed course continued to be scrutinized by many.


1983 Tournament Players Championship, Field
John Adams, Isao Aoki, George Archer, Seve Ballesteros, Miller Barber, Andy Bean, Chip Beck, Woody Blackburn, Jim Booros, Bill Britton, Brad Bryant, George Burns, Bob Byman, Rex Caldwell, Antonio Cerda Jr., Bobby Clampett, Lennie Clements, Jim Colbert, Bobby Cole, Frank Conner, Charles Coody, John Cook, Fred Couples, Ben Crenshaw, Jim Dent, Bruce Devlin, Terry Diehl, Mike Donald, Bob Eastwood, Danny Edwards, David Edwards, Dave Eichelberger, Lee Elder, Nick Faldo, Keith Fergus, Forrest Fezler, Ed Fiori, Bruce Fleisher, Raymond Floyd, John Fought, Al Geiberger, Gibby Gilbert, Bob Gilder, David Graham, Lou Graham, Thomas Gray, Hubert Green, Jay Haas, Gary Hallberg, Dan Halldorson, Phil Hancock, Morris Hatalsky, Vance Heafner, Lon Hinkle, Scott Hoch, Mike Holland, Joe Inman, Hale Irwin, Peter Jacobsen, Barry Jaeckel, Tom Jenkins, Tom Kite, Gary Koch, Wayne Levi, Bruce Lietzke, Pat Lindsey, Mark Lye, John Mahaffey, Roger Maltbie, Mike McCullough, Mark McCumber, Pat McGowan, Mark McNulty, Steve Melnyk, Allen Miller, Johnny Miller, Jeff Mitchell, Larry Mize, Gil Morgan, Jodie Mudd, Bob Murphy, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Jim Nelford, Larry Nelson, Jack Nicklaus, Mike Nicolette, Greg Norman, Tim Norris, Andy North, Mark O'Meara, Peter Oosterhuis, Arnold Palmer, Calvin Peete, Mark Pfeil, Dan Pohl, Don Pooley, Greg Powers, Tom Purtzer, Victor Regalado, Mike Reid, Jack Renner, Bill Rogers, Clarence Rose, Bob Shearer, Jim Simons, Scott Simpson, Tim Simpson, J. C. Snead, Ed Sneed, Craig Stadler, Payne Stewart, Curtis Strange, Ron Streck, Mike Sullivan, Hal Sutton, Doug Tewell, Leonard Thompson, Jim Thorpe, Lee Trevino, Howard Twitty, Tommy Valentine, Bobby Wadkins, Lanny Wadkins, Denis Watson, Tom Watson, D. A. Weibring, Tom Weiskopf, Larry Ziegler, Fuzzy Zoeller


1983 Tournament Players Championship, Round summaries, First round
Rain washed out play on Thursday, and the final two rounds were rescheduled for Sunday.


1983 Tournament Players Championship, Round summaries, Second round
With two rounds planned for Sunday, the cut was set at 149 (+5), reducing the field to 67. The eight players on 150, who would normally have made the cut, received prize money.


1983 Tournament Players Championship, Round summaries, Third round
Officials had hoped to complete the event with 36 holes on Sunday. Thunderstorms in the morning delayed play for three hours, and the final round was moved to Monday.


1983 Toyota Silver Coronas season
The 1983 Toyota Silver Coronas season was the ninth and final season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Return to Toyota Super Corollas in the Open Conference. The team would disband on February 1984 and its PBA franchise was sold to the Lucio Tan group of companies.


1983 Toyota Silver Coronas season, Summary
Toyota defeated Crispa, 86-84, in the main game of the season's first Conference on March 6, the All-Filipino, which was shelved for two years as the Silver Coronas spoiled Tommy Manotoc's debut as coach of the Redmanizers. Toyota had a 4-3 won-loss slate after the one-round eliminations, they didn't win a single match in the short semifinal round and placed fourth behind Great Taste Discoverers.


1983 Toyota Silver Coronas season, Summary
Kevin Porter, an outstanding former Washington Bullet quarterback, was Toyota's import in the Reinforced Filipino Conference. After scoring 50 points in his debut in the 135-141 Toyota loss to Tanduay on May 17, Porter went into a slump before leaving the Silver Coronas after eight games. Former U/tex import Julius Wayne came in to replaced Porter. The Silver Coronas had seven wins against seven defeats after the eliminations and lost all their quarterfinal matches and were eliminated.


1983 Toyota Silver Coronas season, Summary
In the Open Conference, former best import awardee Andrew Fields is back with Toyota in his fifth PBA season. The Super Corollas are allowed to field in one import at the time and Toyota's other import was newcomer Ralph Brewster. The Super Corollas played without Ramon Fernandez, Sonny Jaworski and Francis Arnaiz when they beat an off-form Crispa, 102-93, in both teams' first game on August 30 with the Redmanizers still showing signs of their championship hangover and failed to cash on their two-import edge.


1983 Toyota Silver Coronas season, Summary
After overpowering Great Taste in their second outing, they lost their next four assignments, starting with Galerie Dominique's 108-104 upset win and consecutive defeats to Tanduay, Gilbey's and Winston. Going into their last two games in the eliminations, the Super Corollas were coming off a two-game winning streak and a 136-130 triple-overtime win against Gilbey's on October 20 when they were beaten by San Miguel Beermen in overtime, 117-122 on October 23. The Tanduay Rhum Makers forced a knockout game with Toyota four nights later by winning over the Super Corollas, 131-119. Both teams finished with identical six wins and eight losses.


1983 Toyota Silver Coronas season, Summary
On October 30, Toyota seemed headed into the quarterfinal round as they led most of the way in the playoff match, but the Rhum Makers suddenly came alive in the final quarter and escaped with a 111-110 win. Tanduay import George Melton partially blocked Ramon Fernandez's final attempt with four seconds left to preserve the victory.


1983 Toyota Silver Coronas season, Occurrences
After being booted out for the second straight conference and suffered their worst finish, seventh in the Open Conference, the Toyota Super Corollas were nearly resurrected as a team with a possible stint in the quarterfinal round when an internal problem surfaced over at the Galerie Dominique camp, the surprise team who made it to the quarterfinals. It was suggested the Super Corollas instead take the place of Galerie Dominique. The Toyota management seemed to be receptive, especially after coming off from a sorry playoff loss to Tanduay, but the jubilation for Toyota fans was short-lived as the PBA board voted in favor of giving financial assistance to the Artists.


1983 Toyota Silver Coronas season, Occurrences
On the same day the PBA had its board meeting, the Toyota management called for a top-level meeting to discuss the possible disbandment of the team due to financial problems within their parent company Delta Motor Corporation.


1983 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election
Elections to Trafford Council were held on Thursday, 5 May 1983. One third of the council was up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a four-year term of office, expiring in 1987. The Conservative Party retained overall control of the council.


1983 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election
After the election, the composition of the council was as follows:


1983 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1983 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Centenary Park on the campus of Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport, Louisiana from May 2 through 4. This was the fifth tournament championship held by the Trans America Athletic Conference, in its fifth year of existence. Mercer won their third tournament championship.


1983 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Format
The teams played an 8-team double-elimination tournament, involving all teams in the conference.


1983 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. No MVP was named until 1985.


1983 Trans-Am Series
The 1983 Budweiser Trans-Am Championship was the eighteenth running of the Sports Car Club of America's premier series.


1983 Transamerica Open
The 1983 Transamerica Open, also known as the Pacific Coast Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California in the United States. The event was part of the 1983 Volvo Grand Prix circuit. It was the 93rd edition of the tournament and was held from September 19 through September 25, 1983. The singles event had a field of 32 players. Second-seeded Ivan Lendl won the singles title.


1983 Transamerica Open, Finals, Doubles
Peter Fleming /  John McEnroe defeated  Ivan Lendl /  Vincent Van Patten 6–1, 6–2


1983 Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol regional election
The Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol regional election of 1983 took place on 20 November 1983.


1983 Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol regional election
The weakened Christian Democracy continued the alliance with the South Tyrolean People's Party.


1983 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
The 1983 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place in a single phase on 1 May 1983 to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India.


1983 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), led by Nripen Chakraborty, won 37 seats and formed a Government in Tripura


1983 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Highlights
Election to the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on February 15, 1993. The election were held in a single phase for all the 60 assembly constituencies.


1983 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Government Formation
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) won 37 out of 60 seats in the 60-seat Legislative Assembly. The Indian National Congress (INC) won 12 seats in the Legislative Assembly. Nripen Chakraborty of the CPI-M formed a government as Chief Minister.


1983 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team
The 1983 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team represented the University of Tulsa during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their seventh year under head coach John Cooper, the Golden Hurricane compiled an 8–3 record (5-0 against conference opponents) and won the Missouri Valley Conference championship.


1983 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team
The team's statistical leaders included Steve Gage with 876 passing yards, Michael Gunter with 1,198 rushing yards, and John Green with 365 yards. Head coach John Cooper was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.


1983 Tulsa Roughnecks season
The 1983 Tulsa Roughnecks season was the club's sixth season of existence, and their fifth in North American Soccer League, the top flight of American soccer at that time. The 1983 season was Terry Hennessey's second full NASL season as head coach of the Roughnecks.


1983 Tulsa Roughnecks season
On October 1, 1983, Tulsa defeated Toronto 2–0 in Soccer Bowl '83 in Vancouver, becoming  first and only professional franchise to win a sports championship title in the state of Oklahoma.


1983 Tulsa Roughnecks season, Club, Honors
The Roughnecks received two individual honors following the 1983 NASL season.


1983 Tulsa Roughnecks season, Competitions, NASL regular season, Division standings
W = Wins, L = Losses, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, GD = Goal differential, PTS= point system


1983 Tulsa Roughnecks season, Competitions, NASL regular season, 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. - Qualified for NASL playoffs.


1983 Tulsa Roughnecks season, Competitions, NASL regular season, Overall league playoff seeding
Division champions automatically receive top three seeds  - Division champions


1983 Tulsa Roughnecks season, Statistics, Season scoring
GP = Games Played, G = Goals (worth 2 points), A = Assists (worth 1 point), Pts = Points


1983 Tulsa Roughnecks season, Statistics, Season goalkeeping
Note: GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; Svs = Saves; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; W = Wins; L = Losses; SO = Shut outs


1983 Tulsa Roughnecks season, Statistics, Playoff scoring
G = Goals (worth 2 points), A = Assists (worth 1 point), Pts = Points


1983 Tulsa Roughnecks season, Statistics, Playoff goalkeeping
Note: GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; Svs = Saves; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; W = Wins; L = Losses; SO = Shut outs


1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon
The 1983 Turkish embassy attack was an attack on the Turkish embassy in Lisbon on 27 July 1983, which resulted in the death of 7 people, including all 5 attackers.


1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon, Background
Witnesses said the gunmen arrived at about 10:30 a.m. in two Ford Escorts, a red one that remained out front and a white one that entered the driveway. The car aroused the suspicions of a Portuguese security guard because it had been there the day before. On that occasion, two men who arrived in the car were challenged by the Ambassador's bodyguard. They said they had come for visas, but when asked to produce their passports, they left hurriedly.


1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon, Background
Because of this incident, the Turkish Embassy requested extra police protection from the Portuguese authorities, and one additional policeman was stationed on the road outside of the embassy on the day of the attack.


1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon, Attack
The Turkish bodyguard was alerted by the Portuguese policeman when the white car returned the next day. When the policeman approached it, an armed man opened fire with a submachine gun, wounding the policeman, but the attacker was in turn shot dead by the Turkish bodyguard.


1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon, Attack
As Portuguese police hurried toward the scene, four other intruders, failing to gain entry to the embassy building, raced into the adjacent ambassador's residence and seized its only occupants, Cahide Mıhçıoğlu, 42, the wife of the embassy's chargé d'affaires, and her son Atasay, 17. The gunmen held the hostages in a room around which they planted plastic explosives. They threatened to blow up the building if the police tried to storm it.


1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon, Attack
A force of some 170 riot policemen surrounded the building, cordoning off the area and hiding behind cars and trees to avoid sporadic gunfire from within the embassy compound. The Portuguese Cabinet under the Prime Minister Mário Soares went into an emergency session during the siege and decided to use for the first time the newly formed, British SAS-trained elite police detachment, the GOE (Grupo de Operações Especiais).


1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon, Attack
However, before the special forces could start the operation, the attackers detonated a bomb, setting the building ablaze. When anti-terrorist police stormed the building, they met no resistance and found six burned corpses. The dead included 4 attackers, the Turkish diplomat's wife, and a Portuguese policeman, identified as Manuel Pacheco.


1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon, Attack
Officials suggested that unforeseen developments may have led the assailants to fear a major police intervention was imminent and caused them to prematurely detonate their explosives.


1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon, Attack
It turned out that the dead policeman, Pacheco, was familiar with the embassy. He had rushed to the scene after hearing about the attack over the radio and climbed into the room where the gunmen were holding hostages. He was killed in the explosion. Around the same time, one of the hostages, 17-year-old Atasay, jumped through the first-floor window of the residence, but was wounded in the leg by attackers as he fled. Escape of the hostage and interference of Pacheco might have prompted the gunmen to detonate the explosives.


1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon, Attack
The Portuguese Interior Minister Eduardo Pereira said that "the terrorists clearly planned to occupy the embassy for a number of days, seizing a large number of hostages in order to make a major impact on public opinion." Police officials revealed that the two cars were filled with food and explosives, suggesting that the gunmen were prepared for a long siege.


1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon, Aftermath
The Armenian Revolutionary Army claimed responsibility for the attack. A typewritten message signed by the Armenian Revolutionary Army delivered to The Associated Press office in Lisbon said: "We have decided to blow up this building and remain under the collapse. This is not suicide, nor an expression of insanity, but rather our sacrifice to the altar of freedom." The group said the attack had been carried out because "Turkey and its allies refused to acknowledge the genocide of Armenians".


1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon, Aftermath
The attackers entered the country through Lisbon Airport as tourists bearing Lebanese passports. They reserved hotel rooms from a public telex in Beirut and rented three cars in Lisbon. From the documents found in the hotel rooms, the police identified the five as Setrak Ajamian, 19 years old; Ara Kuhrjulian, 20; Sarkis Abrahamian, 21; Simon Yahniyan, 21, and Vache Daghlian, 19 (known in Armenian sources as "The Lisbon five"). They were buried in Beirut at the Armenian national cemetery in Bourj Hammoud.


1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon, Aftermath
In addition to impacting relations between Armenians and Turks, the Lisbon attack also prompted changes to U.S. national security strategy. Namely, Ronald Reagan reportedly took note of the embassy attack and reacted emotionally, because it involved a female victim (i.e. Cahide Mıhçıoğlu). Reagan is quoted as saying: "That's it. We're going to work with other governments and put a stop to this once and for all." U.S. National Security Council member Oliver North then began drafting a National Security Decision Directive (NSDD) that authorized covert operations that were intended to "neutralize" terrorists.


1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon, Aftermath
This prompted some discussion as to the directive's legality vis-a-vis Executive Order 12333, which proscribed "assassination." While the neutralization terminology was ultimately scrapped in the signed NSDD 138, the directive nevertheless marked a significant shift in U.S. security policy in that it explicitly articulated America's right to defend itself against terrorists.


1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon, Commemoration
The attack on the Turkish embassy in Lisbon is commemorated by Armenians and Turks around the world.


1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon, Commemoration
Every year the Armenian community in Lebanon holds memorial services to commemorate the deaths of the 5 attackers. The Armenian community of Glendale, California, held a vigil at a local church to "commemorate and honor the sacrifice" of the five attackers. The Armenian-American newspaper Asbarez in its editorial referred to the attackers as "freedom fighters and the heroes".


1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon, Commemoration
In 2011 the Turkish embassy in Lisbon held a ceremony to commemorate the deaths of the wife of the Turkish diplomat and the Portuguese policeman who died in the attack.


1983 Turkish general election
General elections were held in Turkey on 6 November 1983, the first since 1977 because the democratic rights were abandoned after the military coup of 1980. The National Security Council banned the previous political parties from participating, leading to the establishment of new parties. Turgut Özal's Motherland Party (ANAP) won a significant victory in this elections by gaining 45.14% of the votes. This victory was the starting point of a rapid change in the structure of the state and society in Turkey. Voter turnout was 76.6%.


1983 Turkish general election
The People's Party (HP) was the continuation of the former CHP and was the only left-wing participant in the election. The Nationalist Democracy Party was founded by the military junta of the time, whilst the Motherland Party was seen as the successor of the Justice Party (AP) by some circles but Süleyman Demirel, the leader of AP, would later form the DYP to challenge the power of Turgut Özal's Motherland Party. With a first-ever televised debate on TRT, the elections brought a new factor into the political campaign. Necdet Calp was a long serving politician, Sunalp a high-ranking officer, and both had little to offer to confront Turgut Özal rhetorical skills.


1983 Turkish general election, Results
Owing to a registration error in the town of Bingöl, ANAP were unable to take one of the seats they had won there, lowering the total number of MPs in the chamber to 399.


1983 U.S. Clay Court Championships
The 1983 U.S. Clay Court Championships (also known as the 1983 U.S. Open Clay Courts) was a men's Grand Prix and women's Championship Series tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Indianapolis in the United States. It was the 15th edition of the tournament and was held from July 31 through August 7, 1983. Jimmy Arias and Andrea Temesvári won the singles titles.


1983 U.S. Clay Court Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles
Mark Edmondson /  Sherwood Stewart defeated  Carlos Kirmayr /  Cássio Motta 6–3, 6–2


1983 U.S. Clay Court Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles
Kathleen Horvath /  Virginia Ruzici defeated  Gigi Fernández /  Beth Herr 7–5, 6–4


1983 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Men's Doubles
Second-seeded pair Mark Edmondson and Sherwood Stewart won the title, sharing $18,000 prize money after beating Carlos Kirmayr and Cássio Motta in the final.


1983 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Men's Doubles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round. A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1983 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Men's Singles
José Higueras was the defending champion, but lost to Jimmy Brown in the second round. Third seed Jimmy Arias defeated Andrés Gómez in the final to claim the title and first prize money of $51,000 .


1983 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds received a bye into the second round. A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1983 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Women's Doubles
Top-seeded pair Kathy Horvath and Virginia Ruzici claimed the title by defeating Gigi Fernández and Beth Herr in the final.


1983 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Women's Doubles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1983 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Women's Singles
Fourth-seeded Virginia Ruzici was the defending champion but went out in the semifinals to Andrea Temesvári. Top-seed Temesvári won the final and $34,000 first prize money by defeating Zina Garrison in the final.


1983 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds received a bye into the second round. A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1983 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
The 1983 U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place at Pittsburgh Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with the female champion crowned February 3, 1983, and male champion crowned February 4, 1983. Medals were awarded in three colors: gold (first), silver (second), and bronze (third) in four disciplines – men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing – across three levels: senior, junior, and novice.


1983 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
The event determined the U.S. team for the 1983 World Championships.


1983 U.S. Open (golf)
The 1983 U.S. Open was the 83rd U.S. Open, held June 16–20 at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, a suburb northeast of Pittsburgh. Larry Nelson won the second of his three major titles, and only U.S. Open, one stroke ahead of defending champion Tom Watson.


1983 U.S. Open (golf)
Watson and Seve Ballesteros shared the 54-hole lead, with Nelson a stroke back. Nelson was 7-over for the championship after four holes in his third round, but then played the final fourteen holes on Saturday in 7-under to get to even-par 213, one shot behind the co-leaders. Watson was attempting to become the first to successfully defend a U.S. Open title in over thirty years, last achieved by Ben Hogan in 1951.


1983 U.S. Open (golf)
In the final round, Watson opened with a front-nine 31 to open up a three-stroke lead over Nelson, who shot 33. Nelson tied Watson with a birdie at 14 after Watson had bogeyed 10 and 12. A storm came through Oakmont around 5:30 p.m., which postponed play to the following morning. Watson was on the 14th green, Nelson on the 16th tee, tied at four-under for the championship.


1983 U.S. Open (golf)
On Monday morning, Nelson holed a 62-foot (19 m) birdie putt at the par-3 16th, but then three-putted at the 18th for bogey. Nelson finished at four-under 280 total and waited for Watson. After he failed to save a par from a bunker at the 17th, Watson was one stroke behind Nelson. Watson needed a birdie at 18 to tie but his approach flew over the green. Nelson became the winner when Watson failed to hole out his chip shot.


1983 U.S. Open (golf)
Nelson established a new tournament record with 132 strokes over the last 36 holes, breaking Gene Sarazen's 51-year-old mark. It was the second consecutive runner-up finish at Oakmont for Watson, who lost a sudden-death playoff to John Mahaffey five years earlier at the PGA Championship in 1978.


1983 U.S. Open (golf)
Arnold Palmer made his last cut in a U.S. Open here and tied for 60th place. He played the Open just once more, in 1994 when he was granted a special exemption when it returned to Oakmont. Future major champion Paul Azinger made his major championship debut but missed the cut. Johnny Miller, the champion when the Open was last played at Oakmont in 1973, battled health issues, and also missed the cut.


1983 U.S. Open (golf)
This was the sixth U.S. Open at Oakmont, and ninth major championship. Ticket prices were $24 per day, cash only; practice days were $14.


1983 U.S. Open (golf), Course layout
Before 1962, the first hole was played as a par 5.


1983 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Second round
Amateurs: Faxon (+8), Sherman (+9), Sigel (+13), Lewis (+15), Rinker (+15), Moise (+18), McNamara (+19), Taylor (+21), Farlow (+23).


1983 U.S. Pro Indoor
The 1983 U.S. Pro Indoor was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts that was part of the 1983 Volvo Grand Prix. It was played at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States from January 31 through February 7, 1983. First-seeded John McEnroe won his second consecutive singles title at the event.


1983 U.S. Pro Indoor, Finals, Doubles
Kevin Curren /  Steve Denton defeated  Peter Fleming /  John McEnroe 6–4, 7–6


1983 U.S. Pro Indoor – Doubles
Peter Fleming and John McEnroe were the defending champions, but finished runner-up this year.


1983 U.S. Pro Indoor – Doubles
Kevin Curren and Steve Denton won the title, defeating Fleming and McEnroe 6–4, 7–6 in the final.


1983 U.S. Pro Indoor – Singles
McEnroe successfully defended his title, defeating Ivan Lendl, 4–6, 7–6, 6–4, 6–3 in the final.


1983 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships
The 1983 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor green clay courts at the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The event was part of the Super Series of the 1983 Volvo Grand Prix circuit. It was the 56th edition of the tournament and was held from July 11 through July 17, 1983. Second-seeded José Luis Clerc won the singles title, his second at the event after 1981.


1983 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles
Mark Dickson /  Cássio Motta defeated  Hans Gildemeister /  Belus Prajoux 7–5, 6–3


1983 U.S. Women's Open
The 1983 U.S. Women's Open was the 38th U.S. Women's Open, held July 28–31 at Cedar Ridge Country Club in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, a suburb southeast of Tulsa.


1983 U.S. Women's Open
In oppressive heat, Jan Stephenson won her third and final major championship with a score of 290 (+6), a stroke ahead of runners-up JoAnne Carner and Patty Sheehan.


1983 U.S. Women's Open
The low amateur was 18-year-old Heather Farr of Phoenix, who tied for eleventh place at 296 (+12).


1983 UC Davis Aggies football team
The 1983 UC Davis football team represented the University of California, Davis in the 1983 NCAA Division II football season. UC Davis competed in the Northern California Athletic Conference (NCAC).


1983 UC Davis Aggies football team
The Aggies were led by head coach Jim Sochor in his 14th year. They played home games at Toomey Field. UC Davis finished the season as champion of the NCAC for the 13th consecutive season and it was their 14th consecutive winning season. The Aggies finished the regular season undefeated, with a record of ten wins and no losses (10–0, 6–0 NCAC) and were ranked Number 1 in the Division II rankings for the last three weeks of the regular season and going into the playoffs. With the 6–0 conference record, they stretched their conference winning streak to 15 games dating back to the 1981 season.


1983 UC Davis Aggies football team
At the end of the season, the Aggies qualified for the Division II playoffs for the second consecutive year. In the quarterfinal game they defeated Butler. In the semifinal game they were defeated by North Dakota State. That brought the Aggies final record to eleven wins and one loss (11–1, 6–0 NCAC). The Aggies outscored their opponents 380–94 for the season.


1983 UC Davis Aggies football team, NFL Draft
The following UC Davis Aggies players were selected in the 1984 NFL Draft.


1983 UCF Knights football team
The 1983 UCF Knights football season was the fifth season for the team. It was Lou Saban's first as the head coach of the Knights. Looking to bounce back from a winless 1982 season, Saban's 1983 team earned a respectable 5–6 overall record. The Knights competed as an NCAA Division II Independent. The team played their home games at the Citrus Bowl in Downtown Orlando


1983 UCF Knights football team
In their rivalry game against the Bethune–Cookman, the two schools played for short-lived "Interstate 4 Trophy."


1983 UCI Road World Championships
The 1983 UCI Road World Championships took place on 4 September 1983 in Altenrhein, Switzerland.


1983 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
The men's road race at the 1983 UCI Road World Championships was the 50th edition of the event. The race took place on Sunday 4 September 1983 in Altenrhein, Switzerland, over a distance of 269.89 km (167.7 mi). The race was won by Greg LeMond of the United States.


1983 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
117 riders started, there were 46 classified finishers, and the winner's average speed was 38.31 km/h (23.80 mph).


1983 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
The 1983 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Zurich, Switzerland in 1983. Fourteen events were contested, 12 for men (5 for professionals, 7 for amateurs) and 2 for women.


1983 UCLA Bruins football team
The 1983 UCLA Bruins football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their eighth year under head coach Terry Donahue, the Bruins compiled a 7–4–1 record (6–1–1 Pac-10), finished in first place in the Pacific-10 Conference, and were ranked #17 in the final AP Poll. The Bruins went on to defeat Illinois in the 1984 Rose Bowl. The Bruins began the season 0–3–1 before winning seven of their final eight games of the season.


1983 UCLA Bruins football team
UCLA's offensive leaders in 1983 were quarterback Rick Neuheisel with 2,245 passing yards, running back Kevin Nelson with 898 rushing yards, and wide receiver Mike Sherrard with 709 receiving yards. Neuheisel was selected as the 1984 Rose Bowl Most Valuable Player.


1983 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, 1984 NFL Draft
The following players were drafted into professional football following the season.


1983 UEFA Cup Final
The 1983 UEFA Cup Final was played on 4 May 1983 and 18 May 1983 between Anderlecht of Belgium and Benfica of Portugal. Anderlecht won 2–1 on aggregate.


1983 UEFA European Under-18 Championship
The UEFA European Under-18 Championship 1983 Final Tournament was held in England.


1983 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
The 1983 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the 57th year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.


1983 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
The National Greyhound Racing Club (NGRC) released the annual returns, with totalisator turnover slightly down at £61,932,148 and attendances also slightly down recorded at 4,245,995 from 5443 meetings. Track tote retention was 17.5%.


1983 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
Im Slippy, a white and blue brindle dog was voted Irish Greyhound of the Year, he won the 1983 English Greyhound Derby at White City. Yankee Express, a brindle dog, trained by George Curtis was voted Greyhound of the Year after winning a second successive Scurry Gold Cup title at Slough, the October 1980 whelp had performed well in the Derby and also won the Pall Mall Stakes.


1983 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks
After failing to secure new premises at Oxleaze and Churchdown, the decision was made to close Gloucester & Cheltenham Stadium, the final meeting was held on 22 October. Many of the trainers and greyhounds were accommodated by the Swindon and Bristol Racing Manager's Bill Hiscock and Ken Whitrow respectively. Gloucester's leading trainer Janet Dickenson joined Bristol. Later in the year ADT (British Car Auctions) purchased Swindon and used its large car park as a base for their sales.


1983 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks
Ladbrokes sold Brough Park to Glassedin Greyhounds Ltd, headed by James Glass, father of female trainer Jane Glass. Cambridge had their NGRC licence cancelled and reverted once again to independent status leaving a some top trainers looking for a new attachment. Joe Cobbold went private and would eventually put the Utopia kennels in the hands of son and daughter in law, Trevor and Pam. Linda Mullins took up a position at Crayford, Theo Mentzis and Natalie Savva both went to Milton Keynes and Paddy Hancox moved from Perry Barr to Hall Green. Ayr Greyhound Stadium opened on 6 August.


1983 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
White City trainer Randy Singleton retired and was replaced by Ray Peacock and Frank Baldwin. Walthamstow Racing Manager Ray Spalding left to be replaced by Tony Smith. Seeding for open races was controversially scrapped as a recommendation from the Greyhound Racing Association's chief racing manager Bob Rowe, there was an opinion that segregating wide runners and railers in trap draws favoured those seeded wide.


1983 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
Five track records fell on the English Greyhound Derby final night, including that for the Derby distance when Hay Maker Mack became the first dog ever to break the 29-second barrier, posting 28.95 seconds. Hay Maker Mack had won a Derby heat before being knocked out and his racing career ended soon afterwards, when he sustained a broken hock during the Essex Vase at Romford.


1983 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
Decoy Lassie finished runner up in the Cesarewitch at Belle Vue but took consolation from winning the Steward's Cup and Cearns Memorial.


1983 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
Whisper Wishes, an August 1981 black dog, son of Sand Man bred in Ireland by Mrs G. Naylor out of her brood bitch, Micklem Drive was put with Maidstone's Charlie Coyle. After a year that consisted of only 15 races, winning six of them including the Courage Select Stakes at Wembley he came into the ownership of Irishman John Duffy. Duffy pencilled in the following year's Derby for his hound.


1983 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland
The Boyne Valley Greyhound Stadium in Navan is suspended by the Bord na gCon after they discovered that it owed more than £5,000 in unpaid prize money. Irish star Supreme Tiger trained by Matt O'Donnell broke a hock when preparing for the Anglo-Irish International and was retired


1983 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland
English Derby champion Im Slippy returned to Northern Ireland and won the Guinness National Sprint at Dunmore remaining undefeated throughout the event and winning the final by four lengths from Ring Beacon in 29.30 seconds. He became one of a select few to win a Classic event on both sides of the Irish Sea. After being retired he went on to prove himself one of the most influential stud greyhounds of modern times.


1983 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland
Belvedere Bran won the £25,000 Carroll's 1983 Irish Greyhound Derby. Litter sisters Kerogue Nella and Kerogue Sarah finished first and second during the running of the Irish TV Trophy.


1983 UK Athletics Championships
The 1983 UK Athletics Championships was the national championship in outdoor track and field for the United Kingdom held at Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh. It was the second time the event was held in the Scottish city, following on from the 1978 UK Athletics Championships. The women's 5000 metres race walk was restored to the programme after an absence at the 1982 event.


1983 UK Athletics Championships
It was the seventh edition of the competition limited to British athletes only, launched as an alternative to the AAA Championships, which was open to foreign competitors. However, due to the fact that the calibre of national competition remained greater at the AAA event, the UK Championships this year were not considered the principal national championship event by some statisticians, such as the National Union of Track Statisticians (NUTS). Many of the athletes below also competed at the 1983 AAA Championships.


1983 UK Athletics Championships
Three athletes, Steve Barry (men's racewalk), Martin Girvan (men's hammer throw) and Fatima Whitbread (women's javelin throw) took their third straight UK titles. Aston Moore defended his men's triple jump title, as did women's long jumper Beverly Kinch and hurdler Susan Morley. Kathy Smallwood-Cook and Buster Watson achieved short sprint doubles and Venissa Head won both the women's shot put and discus throw.


1983 UK Athletics Championships
The main international track and field competition for the United Kingdom that year was the inaugural 1983 World Championships in Athletics. Women's UK champions Fatima Whitbread and Kathy Smallwood-Cook went on to reach the world podium.


1983 UK Championship
The 1983 UK Championship (also known as the 1983 Coral UK Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place at the Guild Hall in Preston, England, between 21 November and 4 December 1983. This was the seventh edition of the UK Championship, the sixth staging of the competition in Preston, and the sixth UK Championship to be sponsored by Coral. The televised stages were shown on the BBC from 26 November through to the end of the championship.


1983 UK Championship
Alex Higgins staged a dramatic comeback, recovering from 0–7 down to beat Steve Davis 16–15 in the final, to win his only UK Championship title. The highest break of the tournament was a 139 made by Tony Meo.


1983 UK Championship, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


1983 UMass Minutemen football team
The 1983 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1983 NCAA Division I-AA football season as a member of the Yankee Conference. The team was coached by Bob Pickett and played its home games at Alumni Stadium in Hadley, Massachusetts. The 1983 season was Pickett's last as coach of the Minutemen, who won four conference championships and appeared in the National Championship Game once during his tenure. UMass finished the season with a record of 3–8 overall and 2–3 in conference play.


1983 UNLV Rebels football team
The 1983 UNLV Rebels football team was an American football team that represented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second year under head coach Harvey Hyde, the team compiled a 7–4 record. In March 1985, the NCAA ruled UNLV to forfit all of its victories from their 1983 and 1984 seasons due to playing with ineligible players.


1983 US Indoors
The 1983 US Indoors was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts in Hartford, Connecticut in the United States that was part of the 1983 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. The tournament was held from September 26 through October 2, 1983. Kim Shaefer won the singles title.


1983 US Indoors, Finals, Doubles
Billie Jean King /  Sharon Walsh defeated  Kathy Jordan /  Barbara Potter 3–6, 6–3, 6–4


1983 US Open (tennis)
The 1983 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the USTA National Tennis Center in New York City in New York in the United States. It was the 103rd edition of the US Open and was held from August 30 to September 11, 1983.


1983 US Open (tennis)
The event was marred by the death of linesman Dick Wertheim from blunt cranial trauma after an errant serve by Stefan Edberg struck his groin, causing him to fall and hit his head.


1983 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Men's Doubles
Peter Fleming /  John McEnroe defeated  Fritz Buehning /  Van Winitsky 6–3, 6–4, 6–2


1983 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Women's Doubles
Martina Navratilova /  Pam Shriver defeated  Rosalyn Fairbank /  Candy Reynolds 6–7(4–7), 6–1, 6–3


1983 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Mixed Doubles
Elizabeth Sayers /  John Fitzgerald defeated  Barbara Potter /  Ferdi Taygan 3–6, 6–3, 6–4


1983 US Open (tennis), Juniors, Boys' Doubles
Mark Kratzmann /  Simon Youl defeated  Patrick McEnroe /  Brad Pearce 6–1, 7–6


1983 US Open (tennis), Juniors, Girls' Doubles
Ann Hulbert /  Bernadette Randall defeated  Natasha Reva /  Larisa Savchenko 6–4, 6–2


1983 US Open – Men's Doubles
The Men's Doubles tournament at the 1983 US Open was held from August 30 to September 11, 1983, on the outdoor hard courts at the USTA National Tennis Center in New York City, United States. Peter Fleming and John McEnroe won the title, defeating Fritz Buehning and Van Winitsky in the final.


1983 US Open – Men's Singles
Jimmy Connors successfully defended his title, defeating Ivan Lendl 6–3, 6–7(2–7), 7–5, 6–0 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1983 US Open. It was a rematch of the previous year's final. It was Connors' 100th ATP singles title.


1983 US Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Jimmy Connors is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1983 US Open – Mixed Doubles
Anne Smith and Kevin Curren were the defending champions but did not compete that year.


1983 US Open – Mixed Doubles
Elizabeth Sayers and John Fitzgerald won in the final 3–6, 6–3, 6–4 against Barbara Potter and Ferdi Taygan.


1983 US Open – Mixed Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1983 US Open – Women's Doubles
Rosemary Casals and Wendy Turnbull were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to Mima Jaušovec and Kathy Jordan.


1983 US Open – Women's Doubles
Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver won in the final 6–7(4–7), 6–1, 6–3 against Rosalyn Fairbank and Candy Reynolds.


1983 US Open – Women's Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1983 US Open – Women's Singles
First-seeded Martina Navratilova defeated defending champion Chris Evert, 6–1, 6–3, in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1983 US Open. Her win meant that she completed the career Grand Slam.


1983 US Open – Women's Singles
Jo Durie reached the semifinal, the last time a British female player did so until Johanna Konta repeated the achievement at the 2016 Australian Open; Durie was also the last British player to reach the semifinals of the US Open until Emma Raducanu did so in 2021.


1983 US Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Martina Navratilova is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1983 US Open – Women's Singles Qualifying
Players who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual US Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held over several days before the event.


1983 US Open – Women's Singles Qualifying
Barbie Bramblett won her match after being 6-0, 5-0 40-0 down and saved 18 match points in total against Ann Hulbert. Previously in the same year, she saved 20 match points to win another match.


1983 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The 1983 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships took place between June 18–20 at IUPUI Track and Soccer Stadium on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in Indianapolis, Indiana. The meet was organized by The Athletics Congress.


1983 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The Marathon championships were the San Francisco Marathon for men and the Avon International Marathon for women.


1983 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
In addition to being the National Championship, it was the selection meet to international teams including for the 1983 World Championships in Athletics.


1983 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
This meet is famous for Carl Lewis' 200 meters, where after clearly separating from his competitors. he began celebrating more than 10 meters from the finish. Presumed to have slowed because of the celebration, Lewis missed Pietro Mennea's altitude assisted world record by .03. While he won the Olympic gold medal the following year, Lewis would never run faster.


1983 USC Trojans football team
The 1983 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first year under head coach Ted Tollner, the Trojans compiled a 4–6–1 record (5–2 against conference opponents), finished in fourth place in the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10), and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 238 to 210.


1983 USC Trojans football team
Quarterback Sean Salisbury led the team in passing, completing 142 of 248 passes for 1,882 yards with ten touchdowns and nine interceptions. Michael Harper led the team in rushing with 151 carries for 685 yards and six touchdowns. Timmie Ware led the team in receiving yards with 23 catches for 481 yards and five touchdowns.


1983 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, California
USC sacked Pac-10 total offense leader Gale Gilbert eight times.


1983 USFL Draft
The 1983 USFL Draft was the first Collegiate Draft of the United States Football League (USFL). It took place on January 4, 1983, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York.


1983 USFL Territorial Draft
The 1983 USFL Territorial Draft was the first Territorial Draft of the United States Football League (USFL). It took place on January 4, 1983, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York.


1983 USFL season
The 1983 USFL season was the inaugural season of the United States Football League.


1983 USFL season, Expansion cities for 1984
During the 1983 season, the USFL announced expansion cities for the 1984 season.


1983 USFL season, Regular season
W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PCT= Winning Percentage, PF= Points For, PA = Points Against


1983 USFL season, Regular season
Michigan won  the tiebreaker with Chicago based on season series 2-0-0


1983 USSR Chess Championship
The 1983 Soviet Chess Championship was the 50th edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 2-28 April 1983 in Moscow. The title was won by  Anatoly Karpov. Semifinals took place in Ivano-Frankivsk, Pavlodar, Sievierodonetsk and Yaroslavl; The First League (also qualifying to the final) wad held at Telavi. There was no final in 1982, the year of the Soviet Zonal (Interzonal qualifying).


1983 USSR Chess Championship, Qualifying, Semifinals
Semifinals took place at Ivano-Frankivsk, Pavlodar, Sievierodonetsk and Yaroslavl in June-July 1982. The winners respectively were Konstantin Lerner, Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Vladimir Malaniuk and Yuri Razuvayev gaining a direct promotion to the final.


1983 USSR Chess Championship, Final
The final was held as late as April 1983 at Moscow with the unusual number of 17 players. Tal was soon ill and withdrew after round ten (after 2 loses, 3 draws and 4 adjourned games). The diagnosis this time was high blood pressure.


1983 UTEP Miners football team
The 1983 UTEP Miners football team was an American football team that represented the University of Texas at El Paso in the Western Athletic Conference during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second year under head coach Bill Yung, the team compiled a 2–10 record.


1983 Uganda Cup
1983 Uganda Cup was the ninth season of the main Ugandan football Cup.


1983 Uganda Cup, Overview
The competition has also been known as the Kakungulu Cup and was won by SC Villa who beat Kampala City Council FC 1–0 in the final. While results are not available for the earlier rounds, KCCA defeated Jinja's Tobacco FC, while SC Villa defeated Express to reach the final.


1983 Uganda Super League
The 1983 Ugandan Super League was the 16th season of the official Ugandan football championship, the top-level football league of Uganda.


1983 Uganda Super League, Overview
The 1983 Uganda Super League was contested by 16 teams and was won by Kampala City Council FC, while Mbarara, Tobacco and Spinners were relegated.


1983 Uganda Super League, Leading goalscorer
The top goalscorer in the 1983 season was Issa Ssekatawa of Express FC with 21 goals.


1983 Union 76 Pacific Southwest Open
The 1983 Union 76 Pacific Southwest Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Los Angeles Tennis Club in Los Angeles, California in the United States. The event was part of the 1983 Volvo Grand Prix circuit. It was the 57th edition of the Pacific Southwest tournament and was scheduled to be held from April 11 through April 17, 1983 but due to rain the final was postponed until Monday, April 18. Second-seeded Gene Mayer won the singles title and the corresponding $36,000 first-prize money.


1983 Union 76 Pacific Southwest Open, Finals, Doubles
Peter Fleming /  John McEnroe defeated  Sandy Mayer /  Ferdi Taygan 6–1, 6–2


1983 United Airlines Tournament of Champions
The 1983 United Airlines Tournament of Champions was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Grenelefe Golf & Tennis Resort in Haines City, Florida in the United States that was part of the 1983 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from April 18 through April 24, 1983. First-seeded Martina Navratilova won her fourth consecutive singles title at the event and earned $50,000 first-prize money.


1983 United Airlines Tournament of Champions, Finals, Doubles
Billie Jean King /  Anne Smith defeated  Martina Navratilova /  Pam Shriver 6–3, 1–6, 7–6(11–9)


1983 United Airlines Tournament of Champions – Doubles
Rosemary Casals and Wendy Turnbull were the defending champions but lost in the semifinals to Billie Jean King and Anne Smith.


1983 United Airlines Tournament of Champions – Doubles
King and Smith won in the final 6–3, 1–6, 7–6 against Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver.


1983 United Airlines Tournament of Champions – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1983 United Airlines Tournament of Champions – Singles
Martina Navratilova was the defending champion and won in the final 6–1, 7–5 against Andrea Jaeger.


1983 United Airlines Tournament of Champions – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. All eight seeds received a bye to the second round.


1983 United Kingdom general election
The 1983 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 June 1983. It gave the Conservative Party under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since that of the Labour Party in 1945, with a landslide majority of 144 seats.


1983 United Kingdom general election
Thatcher's first term as Prime Minister had not been an easy time. Unemployment increased during the first three years of her premiership and the economy went through a recession. However, the British victory in the Falklands War led to a recovery of her personal popularity; the economy had also returned to growth.


1983 United Kingdom general election
By the time Thatcher called the election in May 1983, the opinion polls pointed towards a Conservative victory, with most national newspapers backing the re-election of the Conservative government. The resulting win earned the Conservatives their biggest parliamentary majority of the post-war era, and their second-biggest majority as a single-party government, behind only the 1924 election (they earned even more seats in the 1931 election, but were part of the National Government).


1983 United Kingdom general election
The Labour Party had been led by Michael Foot since the resignation of former Prime Minister James Callaghan in 1980, and had seen a shift in its policies which was considered more left-wing than usual. Several moderate Labour MPs had defected from the party to form the Social Democratic Party (SDP); they then formed the SDP–Liberal Alliance with the existing Liberal Party.


1983 United Kingdom general election
The opposition vote split almost evenly between the Alliance and Labour. With its worst electoral performance since 1918, the Labour vote fell by over 3 million votes from 1979 and this accounted for both a national swing of almost 4% towards the Conservatives and their larger parliamentary majority of 144 seats, even though the Conservatives' total vote fell by almost 700,000. This was the last general election until 2015 in which a governing party increased its number of seats.


1983 United Kingdom general election
The Alliance finished in third place but came within 700,000 votes of out-polling Labour; by gaining 25.4% of the vote it won the largest percentage for any third party since sixty years prior. Despite this, it won only 23 seats, whereas Labour won 209. The Liberals argued that a proportional electoral system would have given them a more representative number of MPs. Changing the electoral system had been a long-running Liberal Party campaign plank, and would later be adopted by the Liberal Democrats.


1983 United Kingdom general election
The election night was broadcast live on the BBC, and was presented by David Dimbleby, Sir Robin Day and Peter Snow. It was also broadcast on ITV, and presented by Alastair Burnet, Peter Sissons and Martyn Lewis.


1983 United Kingdom general election
Three future leaders of the Labour Party (Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Jeremy Corbyn) were first elected at this election; Blair and Brown went on to hold the office of Prime Minister.


1983 United Kingdom general election
As the likes of Blair, Brown and Corbyn entered parliament, a string of prominent members of parliament stepped aside or lost their seats. Former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson stood down from parliament after 38 years, while the SDP's Shirley Williams and Bill Rodgers lost their seats only a short time after winning them.


1983 United Kingdom general election
Joan Lestor, Tony Benn as well as Speaker of the House of Commons and former Labour cabinet minister George Thomas also departed from parliament at this election, although Benn would return after winning a by-election in Chesterfield the following year, and Lestor returned to parliament after winning a seat at the following general election in 1987. In addition, two future Leaders of the Liberal Democrats (the successors to the Alliance at the end of the decade) were first elected - (Paddy Ashdown and Charles Kennedy). Michael Howard, who later served the Conservatives as Home Secretary in government and as party leader in opposition, was also elected to parliament in 1983.


1983 United Kingdom general election, Background and campaign
Michael Foot was elected leader of the Labour Party at the end of 1980, replacing James Callaghan. The election of Foot signalled that the core of the party was swinging to the left and the move exacerbated divisions within the party. During 1981, a group of senior figures including Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams left Labour to found the Social Democratic Party (SDP). The SDP agreed to a pact with the Liberals for the 1983 election and stood as "The Alliance". For a while the Alliance topped the opinion polls and looked capable of achieving their goal of forming a coalition government at the next general election, but the success of the Falklands campaign in 1982 saw the political tide turn in favour of the Conservative government.


1983 United Kingdom general election, Background and campaign
The election did not have to be held until 1984. Although political circumstances were clearly favourable for the government and opposition parties anticipated that Mrs Thatcher would go to the country in June, earlier in 1983 the Conservatives were split on the timing of the election. One faction favoured a June election, but another group wanted to wait until October before going to the country, while some within the Party even advocated delaying the contest until 1984.


1983 United Kingdom general election, Background and campaign
Supporters of waiting to a later time to hold an election included Thatcher's deputy and Home Secretary Willie Whitelaw and John Biffen who was then serving as Leader of the House of Commons. On 27 April it was reported that all the Conservative party's regional agents had unanimously  expressed a preference to Thatcher for a June election, although some members of her cabinet were advising her to wait until October. On 8 May senior Conservatives met at Chequers and agreed to go to the country on 9 June. The election was formally called the next day and Parliament was dissolved on 13 May for a four-week official election campaign.


1983 United Kingdom general election, Background and campaign
The campaign displayed the huge divisions between the two major parties. Thatcher had been highly unpopular during her first two years in office until the swift and decisive victory in the Falklands War, coupled with an improving economy, considerably raised her standings in the polls. The Conservatives' key issues included reducing umeployment (which had increased from 1.5 million in 1979 to more than 3 million by 1982), continuing economic growth following the recent recession, and defence.


1983 United Kingdom general election, Background and campaign
Labour's campaign manifesto involved leaving the European Economic Community, abolishing the House of Lords, abandoning the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent by cancelling Trident and removing cruise missiles — a programme dubbed by Labour MP Gerald Kaufman "the longest suicide note in history"; "Although, at barely 37 pages, it only seemed interminable", noted Roy Hattersley. Pro -Labour political journalist Michael White, writing in The Guardian, commented: "There was something magnificently brave about Michael Foot's campaign but it was like the Battle of the Somme."


1983 United Kingdom general election, National election, 1979
Following boundary changes in 1983, the BBC and ITN (Independent Television News) co-produced a calculation of how the 1979 general election would have gone if fought on the new 1983 boundaries. The following table shows the effects of the boundary changes on the House of Commons:


1983 United Kingdom general election, Timeline
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited Buckingham Palace on the afternoon of 9 May and asked the Queen to dissolve Parliament on 13 May, announcing that the election would be held on 9 June. The key dates were as follows:


1983 United Kingdom general election, Results
The election saw a landslide victory for the Conservatives, achieving their best results since 1935. Although there was a slight drop in their share of the vote, they made significant gains at the expense of Labour. The night was a disaster for the Labour Party; their share of the vote fell by over 9%, which meant they were only 700,000 votes ahead of the newly-formed third party, the SDP–Liberal Alliance. The massive increase of support for the Alliance at the expense of Labour meant that, in many seats, the collapse in the Labour vote allowed the Conservatives to gain.


1983 United Kingdom general election, Results
Despite winning over 25% of the national vote, the Alliance got fewer than 4% of seats, 186 fewer than Labour. The most significant Labour loss of the night was Tony Benn, who was defeated in the revived Bristol East seat. SDP President Shirley Williams, then a prominent leader in the Social Democratic Party, lost her Crosby seat which she had won in a by-election in 1981. Bill Rodgers, another leading figure in the Alliance (like Williams, one of the "Gang of Four") also failed to win his old seat that he previously held as a Labour MP.


1983 United Kingdom general election, Results
In Scotland, both Labour and the Tories sustained modest losses to the Alliance. Labour remained by far the largest party, with 41 seats to 21 for the Scottish Conservatives. The Scottish Conservatives have been unable to match their 1983 Westminster seat total since, although they did record a slightly larger share of the Scottish vote in 2017, by which time the Scottish National Party had become the dominant party in Scotland with the Tories being the largest unionist party.


1983 United Kingdom general election, Results
On a UK-wide basis, the 1983 election was the worst result in Labour's modern history until the 2019 election, in terms of seats won. The 1983 result remains the worst-ever modern performance for Labour in England.


1983 United Kingdom general election, Tables of target seats, Labour targets
To regain an overall majority, Labour needed to make at least 65 gains.


1983 United Kingdom general election in England
The 1983 United Kingdom general election in England was held on 9 June 1983 for 523 English seats to the House of Commons. The Conservative Party won a landslide majority of English seats, gaining 37 seats for a total of 362. The Labour Party came second, winning 148 MPs, a decline of 45. Labour's share of the vote in England was its lowest since 1918, and its number of English MPs was its smallest since 1931. The SDP–Liberal Alliance won 26.4% of the popular vote, just 0.4% behind Labour, but won only 13 seats compared to 148 for Labour, due to the first-past-the-post electoral system.


1983 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland
The 1983 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 9 June with 17 MPs elected in single-seat constituencies using first-past-the-post as part of the wider general election in the United Kingdom. This was an increase of five seats, after the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1979 had come into effect to account for the reduced representation after direct rule had been imposed since 1972.


1983 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland, Results
The Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher as prime minister won another term in government.


1983 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland, Results
The main beneficiaries of the increase of seats was the Ulster Unionist Party, now led by James Molyneaux. The SDLP lost a seat held by former leader Gerry Fitt to Gerry Adams of Sinn Féin, but the new SDLP leader John Hume gained a seat.


1983 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland, MPs elected, By-elections
In December 1985, all Unionist MPs resigned their seats in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Agreement and sought re-election in by-elections. These resulted in a loss of one seat to the SDLP


1983 United Kingdom general election in Scotland
These are the results of the 1983 United Kingdom general election in Scotland. The election was held on Thursday 9 June 1983 and all 72 seats in Scotland were contested.


1983 United Kingdom general election in Wales
The 1983 United Kingdom general election in Wales took place on 9 June 1983 for all 38 Welsh seats to the House of Commons. The Labour Party again won a majority of Welsh MPs, but the party's vote share declined by 9.4% and they lost three seats. In this election popular vote and percentage gap produced between Labour and Conservative parties will be the smallest one up until 2019 UK general election.


1983 United Kingdom general election in Wales
The governing Conservatives made a net gain of two seats, with the SDP–Liberal Alliance gaining one.


1983 United Kingdom general election in Wales
Across the UK the Conservatives won a landslide majority and continued in office for a second term.


1983 United Kingdom general election in Wales, Results
Below is a table summarising the results of the 1983 general election in Wales.


1983 United Kingdom local elections
Local elections were held in the United Kingdom in 1983. The results were a success for Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who soon afterwards called a general election in which the Conservatives won a landslide victory. The projected share of the vote was Conservative 39%, Labour Party 36%, Liberal-SDP Alliance 20%.


1983 United Kingdom local elections
The three major parties all made net gains at the expense of smaller parties and independents, despite a slight reduction in the number of councillors.


1983 United Kingdom local elections
The Conservatives gained 110 seats, giving them 10,557 councillors. Labour gained just 8 seats, finishing with 8,782 seats. The Liberal-SDP Alliance gained 321 seats, finishing with 2,171 seats. It was a decent showing for Labour - with a much larger share of the vote than any opinion poll had shown since the party's split in 1981 - but a major disappointment for the Alliance. However, the subsequent general election saw the Conservative government elected by a landslide, while the Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes, although Labour won almost 10 times as many seats.


1983 United Kingdom local elections, England, Metropolitan boroughs
All 36 metropolitan borough councils had one third of their seats up for election.


1983 United Kingdom local elections, England, District councils, Whole council
In 193 districts the whole council was up for election.


1983 United Kingdom local elections, England, District councils, Whole council
In 54 districts there were new ward boundaries, following electoral boundary reviews by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.


1983 United Kingdom local elections, England, District councils, Third of council
In 103 districts one third of the council was up for election.


1983 United Nations Security Council election
The 1983 United Nations Security Council election was held on 31 October 1983 during the Thirty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected Egypt, India, Peru, the Ukrainian SSR, and Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso; first election), as the five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1984.


1983 United Nations Security Council election, Rules
The Security Council has 15 seats, filled by five permanent members and ten non-permanent members. Each year, half of the non-permanent members are elected for two-year terms. A sitting member may not immediately run for re-election.


1983 United Nations Security Council election, Rules
In accordance with the rules whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes, the five available seats are allocated as follows:


1983 United Nations Security Council election, Rules
To be elected, a candidate must receive a two-thirds majority of those present and voting. If the vote is inconclusive after the first round, three rounds of restricted voting shall take place, followed by three rounds of unrestricted voting, and so on, until a result has been obtained. In restricted voting, only official candidates may be voted on, while in unrestricted voting, any member of the given regional group, with the exception of current Council members, may be voted on.


1983 United Nations Security Council election, Representation of Grenada
The United States having initiated Operation Urgent Fury just six days prior to the election, questions were raised as to the legitimacy of the Grenadian delegation. The United States, supported by several other delegations, formally objected to the presence of the Grenadian delegate, stating that Sir Paul Scoon Governor-General of Grenada had informed the Secretary-General that no one was authorised to represent Grenada before the UN and that no credentials for the Thirty-eighth session of the General Assembly had been presented by Grenada.


1983 United Nations Security Council election, Representation of Grenada
The Grenadian delegate responded by stating that last he heard, Scoon was in American custody and that his delegation was treating him as a potential hostage. He added that "should someone want to make [him] leave the room, they would have to resort to the use of force."


1983 United Nations Security Council election, Result
Voting was conducted on a single ballot. Ballots containing more states from a certain region than seats allocated to that region were invalidated. The first and only round of balloting was held on 31 October 1983 at the 40th plenary meeting of the General Assembly.


1983 United States Grand Prix West
The 1983 United States Grand Prix West (officially the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach) was a Formula One motor race held on March 27, 1983 at Long Beach, California. It was the second race of the 1983 Formula One World Championship.


1983 United States Grand Prix West
The 75-lap race was won by Northern Irishman John Watson, driving a McLaren-Ford. Watson took his fifth and final F1 victory having started from 22nd position, the lowest from which a driver has won an F1 race. Austrian teammate Niki Lauda finished second, having himself started 23rd, with Frenchman René Arnoux third in a Ferrari.


1983 United States Grand Prix West
This was the final running of the Long Beach race as an F1 event, before organizer Chris Pook switched to the CART IndyCar series.


1983 United States Grand Prix West, Qualifying, Qualifying report
Once again, the Long Beach circuit had been slightly modified, primarily to free up Ocean Boulevard, one of the city's main thoroughfares. Since the alternate route on Seaside Way included a tunnel under the Long Beach convention center, the pits were moved to the long, curving Shoreline Drive section, where the Start and Finish lines were reunited for the first time since 1977.


1983 United States Grand Prix West, Qualifying, Qualifying report
As practice began on Friday, two bumps where the circuit rejoined the old layout at the end of the Seaside Way straight were causing problems. Some teams were concerned that the suspension on their cars would not last more than a few laps under race conditions. René Arnoux (Ferrari) was the first to go over the bumps flat out and his 1:26.935 led Alain Prost (Renault), Patrick Tambay (Ferrari) and Riccardo Patrese (Brabham) on the day's timing chart, while Nelson Piquet (Brabham), Lauda and Watson found their Michelin qualifying tires virtually useless and set poor times.


1983 United States Grand Prix West, Qualifying, Qualifying report
Overnight repair work smoothed the problematic bumps. Tambay grabbed his first pole with a lap of 1:26.117, the only lap to beat teammate Arnoux's Friday time; Keke Rosberg (Williams) took third with 1:27.145, ahead of teammate Jacques Laffite. American Danny Sullivan (Tyrrell), in his only season of Formula One, managed ninth, while the other American in F1, Eddie Cheever (driving the older model Renault RE30C) was 15th, 7 places behind team mate Prost in the newer RE40 model. The McLarens of Watson and Lauda were never able to arrive at a balanced setup, and they would start in 22nd and 23rd position.


1983 United States Grand Prix West, Race, Race report
The race took place in warm and sunny conditions. Tambay held the lead at the first corner. Rosberg, immediately behind him, tried to squeeze through the middle of the all-Ferrari front row. He touched Arnoux's right front with his left rear as he swung wide, but both continued, with Rosberg in second, followed by Laffite and Arnoux. Rosberg spun later in the lap while attempting to overtake, but continued without damage.


1983 United States Grand Prix West, Race, Race report
After one lap, Sullivan was up to sixth, behind Arnoux, and Cheever was ninth, immediately behind Prost. Sullivan was passed by Patrese on the second lap, and then by Prost and Cheever on lap three. Before long, however, Prost began dropping back with a misfire that had been plaguing him recurrently all weekend, and he finally pitted on lap 16. Cheever was able to get by Arnoux and Patrese when Arnoux began to lose grip from his Goodyears, and was up into fifth place. When Cheever entered the Renault pit for a new set of tires, however, he found the crew still working on Prost's car; he was forced to continue. Prost's problem was eventually solved and he continued, albeit three laps down.