Cyprus declares independence. November 17 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico. November 19 – An attempted hijacking of Aeroflot Flight 6833 in Soviet Georgia results in several dead and wounded. November 27 – Colombian Avianca Flight 011 crashes near Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain, killing 181 of the 192 on board. December December 4 – General elections are celebrated in Venezuela in which the opposition party, Democratic Action, wins a majority in both chambers of the Venezuelan Congress and the presidency for the 1984–1989 period under Jaime Lusinchi. Voter turn out is 87.3% and Lusinchi obtains 58.4% of the votes. Solar eclipse of December 4, 1983. December 5 – ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal this same year. December 7 – Two Spanish passenger planes collide on the foggy runway at a Madrid airport, killing 90 people. December 9 – The Australian dollar is floated, by Federal treasurer Paul Keating. Under the old flexible peg system, the Reserve Bank bought and sold all Australian dollars and cleared the market at the end of the day. This initiative is taken by the government of Bob Hawke. December 10 – Military rule ends and democracy is restored in Argentina, with the beginning of Raúl Alfonsín's first term as President of Argentina. December 13 – Turgut Özal, of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (45th government); beginning a new civilian regime. December 17 The Alcalá 20 nightclub fire in Madrid, Spain, injuring 47 and killing 83 people. Harrods bombings: a Provisional IRA car bomb kills 6 people and injures 90 outside Harrods department store in London. December 19 – The Jules Rimet Trophy is stolen from the Brazilian Soccer Confederation building in Rio de Janeiro. , the trophy has not been recovered. December 27 – Pope John Paul II visits Rebibbia prison to forgive his would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca. December 31 – Two bombs explode in France: one on a Paris train kills 3 and injures 19; the other at Marseille station kills 2 and injures 34. Date unknown Leopold Kohr, the people of Belau, Amory and Hunter Lovins/Rocky Mountain Institute and Manfred Max Neef/CEPAUR win the Right Livelihood Award. The meteorological 1982–83 El Niño event brings severe weather worldwide. Births January January 2 – Kate Bosworth, American actress January 4 Will