1983 India sensationally won the limited-overs World Prudential Cup cricket tournament when they pulled off a 43-run victory against all the odds over mighty reigning champions West Indies in the final at the Lord’s cricket ground in London. Rank outsiders India were dismissed for a modest 183 in 54.4 of their 60 stipulated overs after being put in on a good batting pitch, but triumphed in their first-ever final by skittling West Indies for 140 with eight overs remaining. India, who had beaten the West Indies in their opening group match, rocked the holders when they fired out the first six batsmen for 76 runs, with five of the wickets crashing for just 26 runs in 15 overs. West Indies’ astonishing decline which reduced them to 126 for nine in the 45th over was completed when Man-of-the-Match Amarnath had Michael Holding lbw to end a last wicket stand with Joel Garner which delayed the end by a further seven overs.
Other important events
1868 Florida is readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War
1891 The first electric street cars begin operating in Ottawa, Canada.
1924 Britain says it will not abandon Sudan, despite Egyptian demands for complete withdrawal.
1925 Theodoros Pangalos becomes President of Greece after seizing power in a bloodless coup.
1938 Dr Douglas Hyde becomes Ireland’s first president.
1942 British Royal Air Force stages a 1,000-bomber raid on Bremen, Germany, in the Second World War.
1950 Korean War begins with North Korea’s invasion of the Republic of Korea.
1959 The first commercially produced hovercraft makes its maiden flight from Cowes on the Isle of Wight in the UK.
1966 Vatican and Yugoslavia resume diplomatic relations.
1973 Erskine H. Childers becomes President of Ireland.
1975 Mozambique gains independence from Portugal.
1978 Argentina defeat Netherlands to win the football World Cup.
1988 Iraq recaptures the oil-rich Majnoon islands from Iran.
1991 Yugoslav republics of Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence.
1993 Tansu Ciller, Turkey’s first female prime minister, forms a coalition government.
1996 A truck bomb explodes in a US Air Force housing area near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 Americans and injuring 270.
1997 An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
1998 Microsoft releases its Windows 98 operating system.
2000 Umm Al Quwain Museum, housed in a 232-year-old fort, is inaugurated.
2001 The ruling Socialist party in Albania claims victory.
2007 The final British troops withdraw from the Northern Ireland borderland, ending a 37-year mission.
2008 Nepal’s veteran Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala resigns to pave way for a new Maoist-led government.
2009 Pop singer Michael Jackson is found dead at his home in Los Angeles.
2013 Crown Prince Shaikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani becomes emir of Qatar.
2015 First artificial heart transplant successful at Sharjah’s Al Qasimi Hospital.
2016 Britain’s EU commissioner Jonathan Hill steps down after Brexit vote.
2017 157 people are killed in an oil tanker explosion in Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
