A Look Back At

Born in 1983

What Was Life Like in 1983?

Who Was in Charge?

President

Ronald Reagan

Gas (per gallon)

$1.16

Loaf of Bread

$0.59

Average House

$75,300

Weekly Wage

$308

A selection from Wikipedia's '1983 in the United States'. Not a complete list.

March 25 – Rob Lowe's feature film debut The Outsiders is released.
April 11 – The 55th Academy Awards, hosted by Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor and Walter Matthau, are held at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Richard Attenborough's Gandhi receives 11 nominations and wins eight awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
April 18 – The Disney Channel is initiated on American cable TV.
May 25 – Return of the Jedi, the 3rd of the projected 12 Star Wars films produced by George Lucas, is released in the United States. The original Star Wars was released 6 years to the day previously on May 25, 1977.
October 4 – The first Hooters restaurant opens in Clearwater, Florida.
October 25 – Microsoft Word is first released.
November 18 – A Christmas Story is released.
November 20 – ABC showed the most watched and controversial TV movie of what a real nuclear war would look like called The Day After.