Editing 1983 (section)

===January===
* [[January 1]] – The migration of the [[ARPANET]] to [[Internet protocol suite|TCP/IP]] is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true [[Internet]]).<ref>{{cite book |last=Parry |first=Robert |title=The map library in the new millennium |publisher=American Library Association Library Association Pub |location=Chicago; London |year=2001 |isbn=9780838935187 |page=90}}</ref>
* [[January 6]] – [[Pope John Paul II]] appoints a bishop over the Czechoslovak exile community, which the ''[[Rudé právo]]'' newspaper calls a "provocation." This begins a year-long disagreement between the [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic]] and the [[Vatican City|Vatican]], leading to the eventual restoration of diplomatic relations between the two states.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=The 1984 World Book Year Book: A Review of the Events of 1983 |publisher=World Book, Inc. |year=1984 |isbn=0-7166-0484-1 |editor-last=Zeleny |editor-first=Robert O. |location=Chicago |pages=469}}</ref>
* [[January 14]] – The head of [[Bangladesh]]'s military dictatorship, [[Hussain Muhammad Ershad]], announces his intentions to "turn Bangladesh into an Islamic state."<ref name=":0" />
* [[January 18]] – [[United States Secretary of the Interior|U.S. Secretary of the Interior]] [[James G. Watt]] makes controversial remarks blaming poor living conditions on [[Indian reservation|Native American reservations]] on "the failures of [[socialism]]." Watt will eventually resign in September after a series of other controversial remarks.<ref>{{Cite news |last=UPI |date=January 19, 1983 |title=Watt Sees Reservations As Failure of Socialism |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/19/us/watt-sees-reservations-as-failure-of-socialism.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] – Twenty-five members of the [[Red Brigades]] are sentenced to life imprisonment for the [[1978]] murder of Italian politician [[Aldo Moro]].
* [[January 25]] – [[IRAS]] is launched from [[Vandenberg AFB]], to conduct the world's first all-sky [[infrared]] survey from space.
* [[January 26]] – [[1983 Code of Canon Law]]: [[Pope John Paul II]] revises [[Canon law of the Catholic Church|Roman Catholic canon law]], the first such revision since [[1917 Code of Canon Law|1917]]. Among the changes is a reduction in the number of offenses qualifying for [[Latae sententiae and ferendae sententiae|automatic excommunication]], from 37 to only seven.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Briggs |first=Kenneth A. |date=January 26, 1983 |title=New Code of Canon Law: Modifying the Role of Rules |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/26/us/new-code-of-canon-law-modifying-the-role-of-rules-news-analysis.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] – The pilot shaft of the [[Seikan Tunnel]], the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) in Japan, breaks through.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_XI7PXtdQMEC&pg=PA354 |title=Ground Improvement: Case Histories |last2=Buddhima Indraratna |last3=Jian Chu |date=7 November 2005 |publisher=Elsevier| isbn=978-0-08-045736-9 }}</ref>
* [[January 30]] – Chinese newspaper [[People's Daily]] reports that the nation will run out of food and clothes by the year 2000 if the state's [[One-child policy|population control]] efforts are not successful.<ref name=":0" />