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On This Day September 1 1983 – Korean Air Lines Flight 007 Shot Down
On this day September 1 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter after it unintentionally entered Soviet airspace. The civilian Boeing 747 was en route from New York to Seoul, with a stop in Anchorage, when it deviated from its planned course and crossed into...- Pete
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On This Day July 21, 1983 – Coldest Temperature Ever Recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica
On this day July 21, 1983, the coldest natural temperature ever recorded on Earth was measured at Vostok Station, a remote Russian research base in Antarctica. The temperature dropped to an astonishing minus 89.2 degrees Celsius, or minus 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Located near the center of the...- Pete
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On This Day: July 7, 1983 - Samantha Smith Was Invited to the Soviet Union by Yuri Andropov
On this day July 7, 1983, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith was formally invited to visit the Soviet Union by Secretary General Yuri Andropov. The invitation came in response to a heartfelt letter she had written expressing her fears of nuclear war and asking why the United States and the...- Pete
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