Timeline June 1983

Events in June 1983 10

• 1902 – 1983 Norma Shearer (1902-1983) Canadian-American actress, MGM's first lady in the late 1920s and 1930s and wife of Irving Thalberg.
• 1983 French Open 1983 Men: Yannick Noah · Women: Chris Evert Lloyd Noah — first French winner of Roland Garros since 1946.
• 1983 The Police release Synchronicity Number one album Their last album — it knocks Thriller off the top of the US charts.
• 1983 U2 play Red Rocks Under a Blood Red Sky A rain-soaked Colorado concert that breaks them in America.
• 1983 Octopussy — Roger Moore Bond investigates a jewel-smuggling ring run by the mysterious Octopussy and uncovers a Soviet general's plot to detonate a nuclear device on a NATO base in West Germany. Moore, by now 55 years old, wears the role lightly. Budget: $27.5 million. Box office: $187.5 million.
• 1983 – present Kim Clijsters The Belgian Star Won four majors; famous for winning three of them after returning from retirement and motherhood.
• 1983 Margaret Thatcher Re-elected UK Prime Minister Conservatives win landslide after Falklands War Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party won a landslide general election victory, boosted by success in the Falklands War the previous year. Labour suffered its worst result in decades under Michael Foot. Thatcher went on to serve until 1990.
• 1983 Norma Shearer dies in Woodland Hills Norma Shearer dies aged 80.
• 1983 Stevie Ray Vaughan releases Texas Flood Debut album Recorded in two days in Jackson Browne's studio.
• 1983 Sally Ride Becomes First American Woman in Space STS-7 mission aboard Space Shuttle Challenger Sally Ride flew aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-7, becoming the first American woman in space. She had been selected as part of NASA's 1978 astronaut class, the first to include women. Her flight was a milestone for women in science and spaceflight.