1983

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s? 2020s? 2030s?

Years: 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 - 1983 - 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988

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Births

Deaths

• Buckminster Fuller, American architect

Events

• [Barbara McClintock]? recieves Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of the first transposons in corn (zea mays) in 1940.
• Democratic reform in power in Argentina.

Sport

• January 30 - Super Bowl XVII Washington Redskins (27) def. Miami Dolphins (17)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Subramanyan Chandrasekhar]?, [William Alfred Fowler]?
• Chemistry - [Henry Taube]?
• Medicine - [Barbara McClintock]?
• Literature -[William Golding]?
• Peace - Lech Walesa
• Economics - [Gerard Debreu]?