Editing 1983 (section)

===July ===
*[[July 1]]
** A [[North Korea]]n [[Ilyushin Il-62]]M jet, en route to Conakry Airport in [[Guinea]], [[1983 Chosonminhang Ilyushin Il-62 crash|crashes]] into the Fouta Djall Mountains of [[Guinea]], killing all 23 people on board.
** A technical failure causes the release of [[iodine-131]] from the [[Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant]], Germany.
*[[July 7]] – Ten-year-old American girl [[Samantha Smith]] accepts her invitation from Soviet Premier [[Yuri Andropov]] and begins her visit to the USSR with her parents.
*[[July 11]] – ''[[Reading Rainbow]]'' debuts on [[PBS]]. 
*[[July 15]]
** [[Nintendo]]'s Family Computer, also known as the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|Famicom]], goes on sale in Japan.
** The [[1983 Orly Airport attack|Orly Airport attack]] in Paris leaves eight dead and 55 injured.
* [[July 16]] – [[1983 British Airways Sikorsky S-61 crash|Sikorsky S-61 disaster]]: A helicopter crashes off the [[Isles of Scilly]], causing 20 fatalities.
* [[July 20]] – The government of Poland announces the end of [[Martial law in Poland|martial law]] and amnesty for political prisoners.
* [[July 21]] – The [[Lowest temperature recorded on Earth|lowest temperature on Earth]] is recorded in [[Vostok Station]], Antarctica with −89.2&nbsp;°C (−128.6&nbsp;°F).
* [[July 22]] – Australian [[Dick Smith (entrepreneur)|Dick Smith]] completes his solo [[circumnavigation]] of the world in a helicopter.
* [[July 23]]
** 13 [[Sri Lanka Army]] soldiers are killed during a [[Four Four Bravo|deadly ambush]] by the militant [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]], thus beginning the [[Sri Lankan civil war|Sri Lankan Civil War]], which would continue until [[2009]].
** Heavy rain and mudslides in western [[Shimane Prefecture]], Japan, kill 117.
* [[July 24]] – The [[Black July]] anti-Tamil riots begin in [[Sri Lanka]], killing between 400 and 3,000 [[Sri Lankan Tamils]] and [[Hill-country Tamils]].