1982

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1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a Common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer".
January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself into twenty-two subdivisions.
January 10 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire. This equals the record set in the same place in 1895.
January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara during Paris-Dakar rally. He is rescued January 14.
January 11 to January 17 - A brutal cold snap sends temperatures to all-time record lows in dozens of cities throughout the Midwestern United States.
January 13 - Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78. Half an hour later, a Washington Metro train derails, killing three. It is the system's first fatal accident.
January 17 - Cold Sunday sweeps over northern United States.
January 26 - Mauno Koivisto elected the President of Finland.
January 28 - James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-Terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the Red Brigades.

February

February 1 - Senegal and Gambia form a loose confederation.
February 2 - Hama massacre begins in Syria.
February 3 - Syrian president Hafez al-Assad orders army to purge the city of Harran of the Muslim Brotherhood.
February 5 - Laker Airways collapses, leaving 6,000 passengers stranded and with debts of Ł270 million.
February 15 - The Oil platform Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 rig workers.
February 19 - The DeLorean Car factory in Belfast is put into receivership.
February 24 - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scores his 77th goal of the National Hockey League season, breaking the previous record of 76. He would go on to score 92 goals that season, which remains the record.

March

March 1 - Jimmy Page's soundtrack album Death Wish II is released by Swan Song Records
March 10 - The United States places an Embargo on Libyan oil imports, alleging Libyan support of terrorist groups.
March 10 - Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun.
March 18 - An Argentinean scrap metal dealer raises the Argentinean flag in South Georgia
March 19 - Falklands War approaches: Argentines land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war.
March 26 - A ground breaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, DC
March 29 - Royal Assent in London to the Canada Act 1982 sets the stage for the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution (see April 17 below).
March 30 - Pakistan in Karachi Adeel Mansoor is born.

April

April 2 - Falklands War begins: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
April 4 - Falklands War: the British Falkland Islands government surrenders, placing the islands in Argentinean control
April 6 - A Blizzard unprecedented in size for April dumps 1-2 feet of snow on the northeastern U.S., closing schools and businesses, snarling traffic, and canceling several major league baseball games.
April 17 - By Proclamation of the Queen of Canada on Parliament Hill, Canada repatriates its Constitution, granting full political independence from the United Kingdom; included is the country's first entrenched bill of rights, called the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
April 23 - Dennis Wardlow, Mayor of Key West, Florida, declares the independent Conch Republic for a day.
April 25 - Israel completes withdrawing from the Sinai Peninsula per the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty.
April 28 - South Korea - Woo Bum Kong, a drunken policeman, goes on a rampage. Armed with rifles and grenades, he kills 57 people, the worst gun massacre in history.

May

May 1 - Falklands War: A Royal Air Force Vulcan bomber takes off from Ascension Island and bombs Stanley Airport.
May 2 - Falklands War: Nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano.
The Weather Channel airs on Cable television for the first time.
May 5 - Unabomber bomb explodes in the Computer science department at Vanderbilt University; secretary Janet Smith is injured.
May 12 - Spanish priest Juan Hernandes tries to stab Pope John Paul II with a Bayonet during the latter's pilgrimage to the Fatima shrine.
May 21 - Falklands War: Royal Marines and paratroopers from the British Task Force land at San Carlos Bay on the Falkland Islands and raise the Union Jack.
May 23 - Falklands War - HMS Antelope of the Royal Navy explodes.
May 24 - Iranian troops retake Khorramshahr.
May 26 - Kielder Water, artificial lake in Northumbria, opened.
May 28 - British troops reach Darwin in the Falkland Islands
May 29 - Falklands War: In the Battle of Goose Green, British Paratroopers defeat a larger force of Argentine troops in the first land battle of the war.
May 30 - Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.
May 31 - Falklands War: Battle of Stanley.

June

June 6 - 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
June 6 - United Nations Security Council votes to demand that Israel withdraw its troops from Lebanon
June 8 - President Reagan became the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament.
June 12 - 750,000 people rally against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt are in attendance
June 13 - In Alberta, Canada 15 members of the Black Leopards Karate Club demolish a house with bare hands and feet with owner's consent
June 13 - Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
June 14 - Falklands War ends: British forces reach the outskirts of Stanley after "yomping" across East Falkland from San Carlos Bay. They arrive to find the Argentine forces flying white flags of surrender. A formal surrender is agreed that day.
June 19 - The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi, chairman of Banco Ambrosiano is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
June 22 - A British Airways Boeing 747 suffered a temporary four-engine flameout and damage to the exterior of the plane after flying through the otherwise undetected ash plume from Indonesia's Galunggung.

July-August

July 1 - The Reverend Sun Myung Moon marries 4,150 of his followers at New York City's Madison Square Garden.
July 2 - Larry Walters uses 45 Helium balloons and a lawn chair to propel himself to 16,000 feet and flies from San Pedro, California to Long Beach.
July 2 - Unabomber bomb injures engineering professor Diogenes Angelakos at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California
July 4 - Four Iranian diplomats have been kidnapped upon Israel invasion of Lebanon.
July 9 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 on board and eight on the ground
July 9 - An intruder Michael Fagan visits the Queen in her bedroom for a chat
July 11 - Italy beat West Germany 3-1 to win Football World Cup 1982 in Spain
July 16 - The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $25,000 for tax fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
July 20 - The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding 47 people, and leading to the deaths of 7 horses.
July 21- HMS Hermes, the Royal Navy Flagship during the Falklands War, returns home to Portsmouth to a hero's welcome.
July 23 - The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial Whaling by 1985-86.
August 4 - United Nations Security Council votes to Censure Israel because its troops are still in Lebanon
August 20 - Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon. French troops arrive August 21, US marines August 25

September-October

September 5 - Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch kidnapped.
September 14 - Bomb kills President-elect of Lebanon, Bashir Gemayel. His brother is elected president on September 23
September 15 - Princess Grace of Monaco dies from injuries sustained in a car crash the previous day
September 18 - Lebanese Christian Militia kill hundreds in the Palestinians in Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in West Beirut
September 25 - 400,000 march in Israel demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Menachem Begin
September 26 - Thermals take Australian parachutist Rich Collins up to 2800 meters during a jump; he almost blacks out due to lack of oxygen. He releases his main Parachute to fall to lower altitude and lands by his reserve parachute
September 29 to October 1 - The Tylenol scare is sparked after seven people in the Chicago, Illinois area die after ingesting capsules laced with Potassium cyanide
October 1 - Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
October 8 - Poland bans Solidarity
October 11 - The Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII of England that sank in 1545 is raised
October 19 - John De Lorean is arrested for selling Cocaine for undercover FBI agents. He was later found "not guilty", due to Entrapment.
October 28 - The Socialist Party win the election in Spain - Felipe González is elected Prime Minister

November

November 2 - The fourth Terrestrial television channel launched in the United Kingdom known as Channel 4 with the first programme broadcasted was the game show Countdown and is still in production.
November 3 - A Gasoline tanker explodes in the Salang tunnel in Afghanistan, killing 2,000+ people.
November 7 - The first public demonstration of the Thames Barrier
November 12 - In the Soviet Union, former KGB head Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid I. Brezhnev.
November 13 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
November 14 - The leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, Lech Wałęsa, is released from 11 months of internment near the Soviet border
November 20 - Completing a wacky 57-yard kickoff return that includes five laterals, Kevin Moen runs through Stanford band members who had prematurely come onto the field. His touchdown stands and California wins 25-20.
November 28 - Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of Free trade
November 29 - Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37/37, stating that the Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.

December

December 2 - At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent Artificial heart (he lived for 112 days with the device)
December 3 - A final soil sample is taken from the site of Times Beach, Missouri. It was found to contain 300 times the safe level of Dioxin.
December 4 - The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.
December 7 - First US execution by Lethal injection is carried out in Texas.
December 12 - Women's peace protest at Greenham Common - 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence
December 23 - The Environmental Protection Agency recommends the evacuation of Times Beach, Missouri due to dangerous levels of Dioxin contamination.
December 26 - Time Magazine's Man of the Year was for the first time given to a non-human, a Computer.

Unknown dates

The Vietnam Memorial is built in Washington D.C.
A brief but severe Recession begins in the United States.
Seattle officially dubbed the Emerald City after a contest held to choose a new city slogan.
George Stigler wins The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
Eric Dammann / Future in Our Hands, Anwar Fazal / Consumer Interpol, Petra Kelly, Participatory Institute for Development Alternatives (PIDA) and Sir George Trevelyan / Wrekin Trust win the Right Livelihood Award.

Births

January-May

January 1 - David Nalbandian, Argentine tennis player
January 2 - Cyrus Farivar, American journalist
January 5 - Janica Kostelic, Croatian skier
January 12 - Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player
January 13 - Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
January 15 - Benjamin Agosto, American skater
January 17 - Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
January 19 - Jodie Sweetin, American actress
February 10 - Justin Gatlin, American athlete
February 17 - Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer (soccer player)
February 22 - Jenna Haze, American actress
February 28 - Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (d. 2004)
March 2 - Ben Roethlisberger, American football player
March 3 - Jessica Biel, American actress
March 11 - Thora Birch, American actress
March 25 - Danica Patrick, American race car driver
March 30 - Javier Garcia Portillo, Spanish footballer (soccer player)
April 8 - Judy Star, American actress
April 22 - Kaká, Brazilian footballer (soccer player)
April 24- Kelly Clarkson, American singer
April 30 - Kirsten Dunst, American actress
May 6 - Chaylon Brewster, Canadian HipHop Producer and East Coast Music Award Winner
May 9 - Rachel Boston, American beauty queen and actress
May 17 - Tony Parker, French basketball player
May 18 - Eric West, American actor and singer
May 20 - Petr Čech, Czech footballer (soccer player)
May 26 - Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model

June-October

June 1 - Justine Henin-Hardenne, Belgian tennis player
June 3 - Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian athlete
June 8 - Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
June 10 - Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
June 11 - Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
June 21 - Prince William of Wales
June 25 - Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
July 8 - Sophia Bush, American actress
July 8 - Hakim Warrick, American basketball player
July 12 - Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer (soccer player)
July 18 - Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress and beauty queen
July 24 - Anna Paquin, Canadian-born actress
July 25 - Brad Renfro, American actor
July 29 - Allison Mack, American actress
August 2 - Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer (soccer player)
August 7 - Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer
August 8 - Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
August 9 - Tyson Gay, American athlete
August 19 - Erika Christensen, American actress
August 28 - LeAnn Rimes, American singer
August 30 - Andy Roddick, American tennis player
August 31 - José Manuel Reina Páez, Spanish footballer (soccer player)
September 3 - Fearne Cotton, British television presenter
September 4- Alessandra Rubi Streignard Villarreal, Spanish actress, model, and singer
September 7 - Lorne Berfield, American actor
September 9 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter
September 13 - Nenę, Brazilian basketball player
September 22 - Billie Piper, English singer and actress
September 27 - Lil Wayne, American rapper
September 30 - Lacey Chabert, American actress
October 7 - Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
October 11 - Salim Stoudamire, American basketball player
October 13 - Ian James Thorpe, Australian swimmer
October 15 - Saif Saaeed Shaheen, Quatari athlete

November-December

November 2 - Kyoko Fukada,Japanese actress, model and singer
November 11 - Brittny Gastineau, American model and socialite
November 12 - Anne Hathaway, American actress
November 13 - Kumi Koda, Japanese singer
November 29 - Ashley Force, American race car driver
December 3 - Michael Essien, Ghanaian soccer player
December 13 - Anthony Callea, Australian singer
December 30 - Kristin Laura Kreuk, American actress

Deaths

January-June

January 19 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
January 30 - Lightning Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
February 5 - Neil Aggett, South African labor leader (suicide)
February 11 - Eleanor Powell, American dancer (b. 1912)
February 11 - Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
February 12 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (b. 1902)
February 17 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (b. 1917)
February 17 - Lee Strasberg, American actor (b. 1901)
March 2 - Philip K. Dick, American author (b. 1928)
March 5 - John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
March 6 - Ayn Rand, Russian-born author (b. 1905)
March 19 - Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (b. 1956)
March 28 - William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
April 5 - Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1910)
April 15 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915)
May 1 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1903)
May 8 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (racing accident) (b. 1950)
May 29 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (cardiac arrest) (b. 1938)
June 2 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, President of Pakistan (b. 1904)
June 8 - Satchel Paige, baseball player (b. 1906)
June 14 - Arthur Coles, Australian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1892)
June 18 - Curt Jurgens, German actor (b. 1915)

July-December

July 29 - Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-born inventor (b. 1889)
August 23 - Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
September 11 - Wilfredo Lam, Cuban artist (b. 1902)
September 14 - Grace Patricia Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)
October 4 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
October 8 - Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1889)
October 18 - Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
October 22 - Savitri Devi, French-born writer and philosopher (b. 1905)
November 10 - Leonid Brezhnev, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
November 15 - Vinoba Bhave, Indian educator (b. 1895)
November 29 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (b. 1908)
December 24 - Louis Aragon, French writer (b. 1897)

Nobel Prizes

Fields Medalists

Alain Connes, William Thurston, Shing-Tung Yau

Templeton Prize

Billy Graham

1983 Index

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