Author Description

Day-by-day listing of a variety of events that occurred in 1983. Includes sporting and scientific achievements, social and political changes and bizarre and humorous events. Includes a miscellaneous selection of facts relating to many different areas of life, for example the weight of the world's fattest cat, and the number of pandas living in the Wolong Reserve in Sichuan. Designed to provide children the historical background to the year of their birth.