Year in review
1983
3 recaps from this year - events, occasions, and cultural moments.
1983
1983Church Street, Pretoria bombing
On this day (05/20), 43 years ago: Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by UMkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
1983
1983HIV
On this day (05/20), 43 years ago: First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scientists including Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Jean-Claude Chermann, and Luc Montagnier.
Lebanon · 1983 · Disasters
1983Beirut Barracks Bombings
Nearly simultaneous truck bombings killed 241 American and 58 French soldiers, marking a watershed moment in asymmetric warfare and Middle Eastern intervention.
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