Editing 1983 (section)

===October===
* [[October 2]] – [[Neil Kinnock]] is elected leader of the British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].
* [[October 4]] – British entrepreneur [[Richard Noble]] sets a new [[land speed record]] of 633.468&nbsp;mph (1,019.468&nbsp;km/h), driving [[Thrust2]] at the [[Black Rock Desert]], [[Nevada]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Howard | first = Geoffrey | title = Automobile aerodynamics : theory and practice for road and track | publisher = Osprey for Motorbooks International | location = London Osceola, Wis., USA | year = 1986 | isbn = 9780850456653 | page=53}}</ref>
* [[October 9]] – The [[Rangoon bombing]] kills South Korea's Foreign Minister, [[Lee Beom-seok (foreign minister)|Lee Bum Suk]], and 21 others. The perpetrators are believed to be [[North Korea]]ns.
* [[October 12]] – Japan's former Prime Minister [[Kakuei Tanaka]] is found guilty of taking a $2&nbsp;million bribe from [[Lockheed Corporation|Lockheed]], and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
* [[October 13]] – The world's first commercial mobile cellular telephone call is made, in Chicago, United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thenextweb.com/news/call-history-witness-the-first-commercial-cellular-phone-call-being-made-in-1983|title=Witness the First Commercial Cellular Call Being Made in 1983|date=April 17, 2013}}</ref>
* [[October 19]] – [[Maurice Bishop]], Prime Minister of [[Grenada]], and 40 others are assassinated in a military coup.
* [[October 21]] – At the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures, the metre is defined in terms of the [[speed of light]] as the distance light travels in a [[vacuum]] in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
* [[October 23]] – [[1983 Beirut barracks bombing|Beirut barracks bombing]]: Simultaneous suicide truck-bombings destroy both the French Army and [[United States Marine Corps]] barracks in [[Beirut]], killing 241 U.S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians.
* [[October 25]]
** [[Invasion of Grenada]] by United States troops at the behest of [[Eugenia Charles]] of [[Dominica]], a member of the [[Organization of American States]].
** [[Word processor]] software ''Multi-Tool Word'', soon to become [[Microsoft Word]], is released<ref>{{cite book|first=Roy A.|last=Allen|title=A History of the Personal Computer: the People and the Technology|year=2001|publisher=Allan Publishing|isbn=978-0-9689108-0-1|url=https://archive.org/details/A_History_of_the_Personal_Computer|chapter=Chapter 12: Microsoft in the 1980s|chapter-url=https://archive.org/download/A_History_of_the_Personal_Computer/eBook12.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://archive.org/download/A_History_of_the_Personal_Computer/eBook12.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|pages=12/25–12/26|access-date=2010-11-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101996251033.aspx|title=Microsoft Office online, Getting to know you...again: The Ribbon|access-date=2011-06-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511074037/http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101996251033.aspx|archive-date=2011-05-11|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofbranding.com/microsoft.html|title=The history of branding, Microsoft history|access-date=2011-06-08|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528002301/http://www.historyofbranding.com/microsoft.html|archive-date=2009-05-28}}</ref> in the United States. It is primarily the work of programmers [[Richard Brodie (programmer)|Richard Brodie]] and [[Charles Simonyi]]. Free demonstration copies on disk are distributed with the November issue of ''[[PC World]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite news|first=Andrew|last=Pollack|title=Computerizing Magazines|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=1983-08-25|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/25/business/technologyandrew-pollack-computerizing-magazines.html|access-date=2011-06-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512095456/http://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/25/business/technologyandrew-pollack-computerizing-magazines.html|archive-date=2011-05-12|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 30]] – [[1983 Argentine general election|Argentine general election]]: The first democratic elections in [[Argentina]] after seven years of [[National Reorganization Process|military rule]] are held.