1. The International Olympic Committee restores Native American athlete Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family. January 18th.
2. The final episode of M*A*S*H February 28th.
3. The April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut kills 63 people. April-18th.
4. Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the Solar System on June 13th.
5. Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space on June 18th.
6. Reading Rainbow debuts on PBS on July 11th.
7. Guion S. Bluford is the first African-American astronaut to go in space on august 30th.
8. Vanessa Lynn Williams becomes the first African-American to be crowned Miss America
9. Martin Luther King Jr. Day--U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday
10. Suicide truck-bombings destroy both the French and the United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen on October 23rd.
