Capac High School - Capacian Yearbook (Capac, MI)

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1. Fireworks light up the sky at the 100 th birthday of the Brooklyn Bridge on May 25, 1983. 2. Vanessa Williams is crowned as the first black Miss America by the outgoing Miss America, Debra Maffett. 3. After twenty years of playing for the Cincinatti Reds, baseball’s great Johnny Bench tips his hat to fans after playing his final games. 4. Space history was made in 1983 by Sally Ride and Guion Bluford, the first woman and the first black man to go up in space. 5. The first test-tube twins ever born in the US are held by parents Todd and Nancy Tilton. World Events 5

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For many, 1983 was a year with many accomplishments and much progress in the US. The first set of test tube twins was born in the US on March 24, 1983. Many felt this is a giant step in the future well-being of this country. What could be next in medical science’s future? Sex and race discrimination appeared on a definite decline ift 1983. Vanessa Williams was crowned as the first black Miss America in September. Guion Blaford was the first black man to go in space and Sally Ride was America’s first woman astronaut. Also in 1983, Jessie Jackson became the first black man ever to run for Democratic nomination for President of the US. Other important happenings in ’83 were events like the Brooklyn Bridge’s 100th birthday, the Russian shooting of a Korean jetliner which killed 269 people, the US invasion on the island of Grenada which forced many US medics to return to the states, and of course, Lebanon. Many people were starting to compare Lebanon with Vietnam or Korea. The US has sent and lost many Marines there. Terrorists have killed hundreds and hundreds of people. A great number of people want to help, but all anyone can do is wait and pray. 4 World Events We’ve Come a Long Way in ’83

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1. Four year old Lee Woo and 7 year old Ahn Gi Sook seem very tired after the long trip from Korea. The children were brought here by Mrs. Reagan for heart surgery. 2. Some 5,000 Koreans gathered for an anti-Soviet rally to protest the shooting down of a Korean jetliner. 3. Mishleen Abi Ghanem Earle weeps on the casket of her husband, Navy Medic Bryal L. Earle, who was killed in the Oct. 23rd bombing of Marine Headquarters in Beirut. The 17- year-old married him just 6 days before the attack. 4. Colleen Robbins seems very intrigued by the article in Time. 5. Rescue workers sort through the ruins of the American Embassy in Beirut after being hit by a terrorist bomb.