1982

1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

Years: 1979 1980 1981 - 1982(MCMLXXXII) - 1983 1984 1985
Decades: 1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Template:C20YearInTopic

Events

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January

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

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.
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).

April

April 2 - Falklands War begins: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
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 cancelling 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 - 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

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British troops in the Falkland Islands

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.
The Weather Channel airs on cable television for the first time.
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 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 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-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 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 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 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-October

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 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 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 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.