Timeline July 1983

Events in July 1983 11

• 1895 – 1983 Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) Died 1 July 1983, aged 87 Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, inventor, and futurist best known for popularizing the geodesic dome. He advocated for efficient, sustainable design decades before environmentalism became mainstream. His ideas influenced architecture, engineering, and design education worldwide.
• 1896 – 1983 Raymond Massey (1896-1983) Canadian-American actor, famous as Abraham Lincoln on stage and film and as Dr. Gillespie in Dr. Kildare.
• 1910 – 1983 David Niven (1910-1983) Died 29 July 1983, aged 73 David Niven was a British actor known for his urbane screen persona in films including Around the World in Eighty Days and won an Academy Award for Separate Tables. He also wrote several best-selling volumes of memoirs. He remains regarded as one of the classic era's most charming leading men.
• 1981 – 1983 Martial Law in Poland Jaruzelski’s Crackdown A brutal period where the communist government attempted to crush the Solidarity movement.
• 1983 Wimbledon 1983 Men: John McEnroe · Women: Martina Navratilova
• 1983 Nintendo Famicom Launched Home console debuts in Japan Nintendo released the Family Computer, or Famicom, in Japan, beginning what would become the Nintendo Entertainment System line abroad. It helped revive the home video game industry after the 1983 North American crash. The console and its successors sold hundreds of millions of units worldwide.
• 1983 Black July Anti-Tamil Pogrom Riots in Sri Lanka mark start of civil war Sinhalese mobs attacked Tamil communities across Sri Lanka following the killing of soldiers by Tamil militants, leaving hundreds to thousands dead. The violence is widely seen as the start of the Sri Lankan Civil War, which lasted until 2009. Many Tamils fled into exile in its aftermath.
• 1983 Metallica release Kill 'Em All Debut album A founding record of thrash metal.
• 1983 – present Nirmal Purja Nepalese Mountaineer Nepalese mountaineer and former British Special Forces soldier, known as Nims or Nimsdai, who became one of the most celebrated climbers in history. In 2019, he completed Project Possible, summiting all fourteen of the world's 8,000-metre peaks in just six months and six days — a feat that had previously taken the fastest climber almost eight years. The achievement was documented in the Netflix film 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible. In January 2021, he was part of the team that made the first winter ascent of K2. He was killed by an avalanche on Broad Peak in Pakistan at the age of 42.
• 1983 Nirmal Purja born in Dana, Nepal Born Nirmal Purja in Dana, a village in Nepal's Myagdi district, beneath the shadow of the Himalayas. His father and three older brothers all served as Gurkha soldiers in the British Army.
• 1983 Raymond Massey dies in Los Angeles Raymond Massey dies aged 86.