1983 crimes

1983 suicide bombing in Beirut, Lebanon

1983 car bomb attack in Pretoria, South Africa, perpetrated by Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the ANC

car bomb that exploded outside Harrods department store in central London on 17 December 1983

Shergar (3 March 1978 – ) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. After a very successful season in 1981 he was retired to the Ballymany Stud in County Kildare, Ireland. In 1983 he was stolen from the stud, and a ransom of £2 million was demanded; it was not paid, and negotiations were soon broken off by the thieves. In 1999 a supergrass, formerly in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), stated they stole the horse. The IRA has never admitted any role in the theft.

Massacre in Punjab, India

terror attacks across Kuwait in 1983–1988