Editing 1983 (section)

===September===
* [[September 1]] – [[Cold War]]: [[Korean Air Lines Flight 007]] is shot down by [[Soviet Air Force|Soviet Union Air Force]] [[Sukhoi Su-15|Su-15 Flagon]] pilot Major Gennadi Osipovich near [[Moneron Island]] when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed, including U.S. Congressman [[Larry McDonald]].
* [[September 6]] – The [[Soviet Union]] admits to shooting down [[Korean Air Lines Flight 007]], stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
* [[September 19]]
** [[Saint Kitts and Nevis]] becomes an independent state.<ref>{{cite book |title=Treaties in Force: A List of Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States in Force on .. |date=2006 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=277 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KunY5Mu_zhMC&pg=PA277 |language=en}}</ref>
** ''[[Press Your Luck]]'' premieres on [[CBS]]. 
* [[September 23]]
** [[Gulf Air Flight 771]] crashes in the [[United Arab Emirates]] after a bomb explodes in the baggage compartment, killing 117.
** Violence erupts in [[New Caledonia]] between native [[Kanak people|Kanaks]] and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of [[independence]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Crisis in New Caledonia in the 1980s. In: France and the South Pacific since 1940.|last=Aldrich|first=Robert|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan, London|year=1993|isbn=978-1-349-10830-5|pages=242}}</ref>
* [[September 26]]
** [[1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident]]: Soviet military officer [[Stanislav Petrov]] averts a worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a warning of attack by U.S. missiles as a [[false alarm]].
** The ''[[Soyuz T-10-1]]'' mission ends in a pad abort at the [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]], when a pad fire occurs at the base of the [[Soyuz U]] rocket during the launch countdown. The escape tower system, attached to the top of the capsule containing the crew and [[Soyuz spacecraft]], fires immediately, pulling the crew safe from the vehicle a few seconds before the rocket explodes, destroying the launch complex.
** The [[Atari video game burial|mass burial]] of around 700,000 unsold [[Atari]] video game cartridges, consoles, and computers occurs in [[Alamogordo]], New Mexico.
** The Australian [[yacht]] ''[[Australia II]]'' wins the [[1983 America's Cup|America's Cup]], the first successful challenge to the [[New York Yacht Club]]'s 132-year defence of the [[sailing (sport)|sailing]] trophy.
* [[September 27]] – The [[GNU Project]] is announced publicly on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft [[newsgroup]]s.