a $2 million bribe from Lockheed, and sentenced to 4 years in jail. October 13 – The world's first commercial mobile cellular telephone call is made, in Chicago, United States. October 19 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, and 40 others are assassinated in a military coup. October 21 – At the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures, the metre is defined in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. October 23 – Beirut barracks bombing: Simultaneous suicide truck-bombings destroy both the French Army and United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians. October 25 Invasion of Grenada by United States troops at the behest of Eugenia Charles of Dominica, a member of the Organization of American States. Word processor software Multi-Tool Word, soon to become Microsoft Word, is released in the United States. It is primarily the work of programmers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi. Free demonstration copies on disk are distributed with the November issue of PC World magazine. October 30 – Argentine general election: The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held. November November 2 – South Africa approves a new constitution granting limited political rights to Coloureds and Asians as part of a series of reforms to apartheid. November 3 – Commencement of the battle of Tripoli between Arafat loyalists and PLO dissidents. November 5 – Byford Dolphin rig diving bell accident: Off the coast of Norway, 5 divers are killed and 1 severely wounded in an explosive decompression accident. November 7 Able Archer 83: Many Soviet officials misinterpret this NATO exercise as a nuclear first strike, causing the last nuclear scare of the Cold War. 1983 U.S. Senate bombing A bomb explodes in the United States Senate with the intent to kill Republican senators; no one is injured. The perpetrators are members of the May 19th Communist Organization. November 11 – Ronald Reagan becomes the first U.S. president to address the National Diet, Japan's national legislature. November 13 – The first United States cruise missiles arrive at RAF Greenham Common in the UK amid protests from peace campaigners. November 14 – The immunosuppressant cyclosporine is approved by the FDA, leading to a revolution in the field of transplantation. November 15 – The Turkish part of