1982

1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar

Years: 1979 1980 1981 - 1982 - 1983 1984 1985
Decades: 1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Contents

1 Events

1.1 January-February
1.2 March-April
1.3 May
1.4 June
1.5 July
1.6 August-September
1.7 October
1.8 November
1.9 December
1.10 Unknown dates

Events

January-February

January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer".
January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions
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 3. It is the system's first fatal accident.
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 1 - Senegal and Gambia form a loose confederation.
February 2 - Hama Massacre begins in Syria
February 5 - Laker Airways collapses leaving 6000 passengers stranded and with debts of £270 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 23 - The Spanish Socialist government of Felipe González and Miguel Boyer nationalizes Rumasa , a holding of José María Ruiz Mateos.

March-April

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).
April 2 - Falklands War begins: Argentina invades the British-owned Falkland Islands.
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 - Mayor of Key West, Florida, Dennis Wardlow, declares independent Conch Republic for a day
April 25 - Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty.

May

May 1 - Falklands War: A Royal Air Force Vulcan bomber takes off from Ascension Island and bombs Port Stanley Airport.
May 2 - Falklands War: Nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano.
May 2 - The Weather Channel goes on the air.
May 12 - Spanish priest Juan Hernandes tries to stab the Pope 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 24 - Iranian troops retake Khorramshar
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 Port Stanley

June

June 2- First bomb later attributed to Unabomber injures professor Diogenes Angelokos in the University of Berkeley in California
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 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 Port 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 17 - The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.

July

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 lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet.
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 - The Italy football (soccer) team wins its third FIFA Football World Cup against West Germany.
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-September

August 4 - United Nations Security Council votes to censure Israel because its troops are still in Lebanon
August 12 - A Japan Airlines passenger plane crashes near Tokyo - 520 dead
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 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 29 to October 1 - The Tylenol scare is sparked after seven people in the Chicago area die after ingesting capsules laced with potassium cyanide

October

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 - Channel 4 launches - the first show aired was Countdown with Richard Whiteley and Carol Vorderman
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 Walesa, is released from 11 months of internment near the Soviet border
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 17 - IRA's Harrods bomb kills 5 and injures 80
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.
First computer virus, written by Rich Skrenta, escapes into the wild.
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.