KAL 007 shot down
1983 · Event
Soviet fighter shoots down a Korean Air Lines 747 — 269 deaths.
On these timelines: Master, Cold War, Russia & the USSR, Korea
Around 1983
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)