1983, Year OTT Union Time Line

 Year 1983 CE

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Civilian Events
IRAS is launched to conduct Terra's first all-sky infrared survey from space.

First flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-7 mission.

Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-8 mission.

Pioneer 10 passes the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the vicinity of the major planets of Sol System.

Reagan Ronald Reagan announces that the GlobalPositioning System (GPS) will be made available for civilian use.

The meter is officially defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of an Earth second.

Harry Boot, English physicist and Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist & Prize Nobel Prize laureate die.

Nobel Prize for Physics – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler.

Nobel Prize for Chemistry – Henry Taube

Military Events
The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet).

Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a Earthwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a warning of attack by U.S. missiles as a false alarm.

Simultaneous suicide truck-bombings destroy both the French Army and United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians.

Invasion of Grenada by United States troops at the behest of Eugenia Charles of Dominica, a member of the Organization of American States.

The first United States cruise missiles arrive in England amid protests from peace campaigners.