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Barking Spiders Live: 1983

It was recorded during the final performances of their Last Stand tour in 1983, at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.


1983 in LGBT rights

In the 1983 by-election for the Bermondsey constituency in South London, Labour candidate Peter Tatchell loses a previously safe seat after a campaign dominated by attacks on his left-wing politics and homosexuality.

Alcira Argumedo

She returned to Argentina following elections in 1983, and in 1987, resumed her post in the University of Buenos Aires faculty and joined the National Research Council.

Atwater v. Lago Vista

Atwater and her husband, Michael Haas, an emergency room physician at a local hospital, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 with Charles Lincoln being the lawyer who launched the case, alleging that the city violated her Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizures by arresting her for a crime whose only punishment was a fine.

Avenida Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz

Ultimately, with the return of democracy, Canning was again renamed to Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, by a December 29, 1985, ordinance.

Boston mayoral election, 1983

King's campaign gained momentum through a voter registration drive and visits from Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young.

British Virgin Islands general election, 1983

The result was a victory for the opposition United Party led by Cyril Romney over the opposition Virgin Islands Party (VIP) led by former Chief Minister Lavity Stoutt.

David Maclean

Educated at Fortrose Academy, Fortrose, The Black Isle, Highland, and at the University of Aberdeen, he was elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1983 following the ennoblement of William Whitelaw.

Electoral district of Marrickville

The resulting by-election was won by Andrew Refshauge, who was the deputy premier from April 4, 1995 until his resignation on August 10, 2005.

Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: The Player Years, 1983–1988

1: The Player Years, 1983–1988 is a double disc that contains some of the contents of Too Short's first CDs ever, recorded locally in the Bay Area back around 1983-1986.

HMAS Australia

This sale was cancelled following the Falklands War and the 1983 Australian federal election.

Inge Ryan

Prior to the 1983 municipal election, Odd Einar Dørum, the leader of the Liberal Party asked him to run as a candidate for the municipal council, and Ryan accepted since he did no disagree with anything on the program.

Irish presidential election, 1983

Though former Nobel Peace Prize and Lenin Peace Prize winner Seán MacBride made it known in the Sunday Press newspaper that he wanted to contest the office, only Hillery was nominated and was declared re-elected without the need for a poll.

Italian general election, 1983

Craxi formed a renewed government in 1986, but could not survive in 1987 to a dispute with DC's secretary Ciriaco De Mita, who was searching and effectively obtained an early national election, ruled by an electoral Christian Democratic government with old Amintore Fanfani as PM.

Leicester South by-election, 2004

He lost it to the Conservative Party candidate, Derek Spencer, in the 1983 general election by 7 votes, but won it back at the 1987 election.

Marla Heasley

Introduced in season 2 episode 15 "The Battle of Bel-Air", the character was brought in as a replacement for Melinda Culea (Amy Allen), who was abruptly dropped from the series after insisting on being given more to do.

Menachem Elon

Supported by Menachem Begin and the coalition (Likud party), Elon was nearly selected as President of the State of Israel, losing in a close vote (61-57) to his childhood friend Chaim Herzog in 1983.

Mike Lowry

In a 1983 special election, he was defeated by Republican former Governor Dan Evans, then an appointed Senator and the incumbent, in a race to replace Democrat Henry "Scoop" Jackson, and in 1988 he lost to Slade Gorton, also a Republican, in a close race.

Moses Kiprono arap Keino

Moses Kiprono arap Keino served as a Member of Parliament representing Kericho East for 15 years on a KANU ticket 1969 - 1983.

Northern Territory general election, 1983

The only independent of the Legislative Assembly, Dawn Lawrie, lost her seat of Nightcliff at this election to the CLP.

Pepe Soriano

A return to democracy in 1983 allowed Argentine artists to create works critical of the climate of abuses prevalent during the preceding dictatorship and Soriano was cast as the lead in Mercedes Frutos' 1984 film version of Adolfo Bioy Casares' Otra esperanza ("Another Hope"), a horror narrative set in a factory with secrets - a timely metaphor for much of the repression that had targeted industrial workers.

Pete Bowler

His enthusiasm and energy impressed his fellow activists, and in the 1983 General Election, Pete Bowler was invited to stand as the Liberal candidate for Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

Queensland state election, 1983

As a result, the coalition between the Liberal and National Parties was dissolved, and the Liberal Party elected Terry White as its new leader.

Roy Galley

Roy Galley (born 8 December 1947) is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as Member of Parliament for Halifax in the 1983 general election, defeating the sitting Labour MP Dr Shirley Summerskill.

Ryan McDonagh

On June 30, 2009, his rights were traded along with Christopher Higgins, Pavel Valentenko, and Doug Janik to the New York Rangers for Scott Gomez, Tom Pyatt, and Michael Busto.

South Tyrolean Homeland Federation

It was launched in 1983 as Election Association of Homeland Federation (Wahlverband des Heimatbundes, Heimatbund) and won 4.2% in the 1983 general election and 2.6% in the 1983 provincial election, enough for granting Eva Klotz a seat in the Provincial Council.

Susan Thomas, Baroness Thomas of Walliswood

She contested for the Liberal Alliance Mole Valley in the 1983 and 1987 general elections but failed to be elected.

Ted Rowlands, Baron Rowlands

Rowlands served as Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil until the constituency boundaries were redrawn and renamed for the 1983 general election, when he was returned for the new Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney constituency.

Terry Riordan

Riordan was also in the 2007 Broadway revival, The Ritz.

United Nations Security Council election, 1983

The United States, supported by several other delegations, formally objected to the presence of the Grenadian delegate, stating that Sir Paul Scoon Governor-General of Grenada had informed the Secretary-General that no one was authorised to represent Grenada before the UN and that no credentials for the Thirty-eighth session of the General Assembly had been presented by Grenada.

Vilmundur Gylfason

The party won four seats in the elections that year.

Woolwich West by-election, 1975

The result of the contest was a victory for the Conservative candidate, Peter Bottomley, who held the seat until its abolition for the 1983 general election; he had contested the seat in both 1974 general elections.


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