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Events on Wednesday 5 October 1983 2
1907 – 1983Earl Tupper (1907-1983)Died 5 October 1983, aged 76Earl Tupper was an American businessman who invented Tupperware, the airtight plastic food storage containers that became a household staple worldwide. He built a sales phenomenon around the "Tupperware party" marketing model. His products remain in common use decades later.
1983Lech Walesa Awarded Nobel Peace PrizeSolidarity leader honored for nonviolent resistancePolish trade union leader Lech Walesa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding and leading the Solidarity movement against communist rule. Fearing he would not be allowed to return, he did not travel to Oslo to accept it in person. He later became Poland's first post-communist president in 1990.