1983
From top to bottom, left to right: Michael Jackson rises to massive global popularity following the success of Thriller, the best selling album of all time; the United States invasion of Grenada begins; the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings kill 307 people in Beirut; the Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by the Soviet Union near Sakhalin Island, killing all on board; the video game crash of 1983 devastates the North American gaming industry; Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space aboard STS-7; the Black July anti-Tamil pogrom erupts in Sri Lanka; the Diretas Já movement demands direct elections in Brazil; and the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia devastates Ethiopia.
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1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1983rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 983rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1980s decade.
1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.