- The year I was born.
- Microsoft Word was first released.
- Mafia hitman Roy
DeMeo is found dead in a trunk of his own car.
- US President Ronald Reagan proclaims 1983, "The Year of the Bible".
- London police begin the use of wheel clamps on illegally-parked vehicles.
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Jon B. Minnoch, heaviest man in USA, dies at the age of 42 years and weighing 362 kg. When he was admitted to hospital in March 1978, his weight was
635 kg.