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1983
 
    
A new version of the Apple adds the mouse to personal computers       
1983
 
   
Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino is assassinated at Manila International Airport      
1983
 
   
The Tamil Tigers launch a civil war against the Sinhalese majority in Sri Lanka      
1983
 
    
Classical ballerina Natalia Makarova triumphs on Broadway in On Your Toes       
1983
 
    
Rudolf Nureyev begins a successful 6-year period as artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet       
1983
 
   
Government imposition of Islamic law (sharia) triggers renewed civil war in Sudan between the Muslim north and Christian south      
1983
 
    
Polish union leader and activist Lech Walesa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize       
1983
 
     
President Reagan sends US marines to Grenada after the execution of the island's prime minister, Maurice Bishop     See in Google maps   
1983
 
   
Olivier Messiaen's opera St Francis of Assisi has its premiere in Paris      
1983
 
     
Luc Montagnier, at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, discovers a new human retrovirus that he names LAV (later changed to HIV)