1982
1982 (
MCMLXXXII) was a
common year starting on Friday of the
Gregorian calendar.
January
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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, and the record would be equalled again at
Altnaharra in
1995.
*
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-
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 £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 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 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
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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.
*
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.
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
Northumberland, opened.
*
May 27 -
Tottenham Hotspur win the
FA Cup beating
QPR 1-0 in a replay.
*
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 30 -
Indianapolis 500-Mile Race: In what
Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian
Donald Davidson and Speedway
public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history,
1973 winner
Gordon Johncock wins his second race over
1979 winner
Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds, the closest finish to that date, after Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final ten laps.
*
May 30 -
Cal Ripken starts in the first game of what would eventually become his record-breaking consecutive games played streak of 2,632.
*
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. The
1982 FIFA World Cup is opened.
*
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 21 -
Prince William was born at
St Mary's Hospital in
Paddington, West
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
*
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 the
1982 FIFA World Cup 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
* (Unknown date)
Commodore 64 is released. The Commodore 64 goes on to sell over 20 million computers until 1994.
*
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
*
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 of Palestinians in the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in West Beirut.
*
September 23 -
Amin Gemayel elected president of
Lebanon.
*
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-
October 1 - The
Tylenol scare is sparked after seven people in the
Chicago, Illinois 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 1 - The
Epcot theme park at
Walt Disney World opens to the public for the first time.
*
October 8 -
Poland bans
Solidarity.
*
October 11 - The
Mary Rose, flagship of
Henry VIII of England that sank in
1545 is raised.
*
October 13 - The
Ford Sierra was launched in
Europe.
*
October 19 -
John De Lorean is arrested for selling
cocaine for undercover
FBI agents. He was later found "
not guilty", due to
entrapment.
*
October 27 - In Canada,
Dominion Day is officially renamed to
Canada Day.
*
October 28 - The
Socialist Party wins the election in Spain -
Felipe González is elected Prime Minister.
November
*
November 1 - The
Welsh language station,
S4C, launches in
Wales.
*
November 2 - The fourth
terrestrial television channel launched in the
England, Scotland and Northern Ireland known as
Channel 4 with the first programme broadcast being the game show
Countdown, which is still in production.
*
November 3 - A gasoline tanker explodes in the
Salang Tunnel in
Afghanistan, killing at least 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 should withdraw from
Afghanistan.
December
*
December 1 - Pop singer
Michael Jackson releases his second adult solo album,
Thriller.
*
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 20 -
Super Bowl XX is awarded to the
Louisiana Superdome in
New Orleans.
*
December 23 - The US
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.
*
Toyota Camry introduced.
*
Dorling Kindersley begins publishing.
January-February
*
January 1 -
David Nalbandian, Argentine tennis player
*
January 2 -
Cyrus Farivar, American journalist
*
January 4 -
Richard Logan, English footballer
*
January 5 -
Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier
*
January 6 -
Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player
*
January 12 -
Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player
*
January 13 -
Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
*
January 14 -
Victor Valdes, Spanish football player
*
January 15 -
Benjamin Agosto, American skater
*
January 17 -
Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
* January 17 -
Alex Varkatzas, Greek-American lead vocalist (
Atreyu)
*
January 19 -
Jodie Sweetin, American actress
*
31 January -
Elena Paparizou, Greek-Swedish singer
*
February 4 -
Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist
*
February 9 -
Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer
*
February 10 -
Mon Redee Sut Txi, Malaysian athlete
*
February 10 -
Justin Gatlin, American athlete
*
February 12 -
Onil Joseph, American baseball player
*
February 16 -
Lupe Fiasco, American rapper
*
February 17 -
Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer (soccer player)
*
February 22 -
Jenna Haze, American actress
*
February 25 -
Chris Baird, Northern Irish footballer
*
February 28 -
Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (d.
2004)
March-April
*
March 2 -
Henrik Lundqvist, Swedish hockey goaltender
*
March 2 -
Ben Roethlisberger, American football player (
Pittsburgh Steelers)
*
March 3 -
Jessica Biel, American actress
*
March 4 -
Landon Donovan, American soccer player
*
March 5 -
Daniel Carter, New Zealand rugby player
*
March 9 -
Paul Ballard, English television presenter
*
March 10 -
Kwame Brown, American basketball player
*
March 10 -
Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress
*
March 11 -
Thora Birch, American actress
*
March 23 -
Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish football (soccer) goalkeeper
*
March 25 -
Danica Patrick, American race car driver
*
March 25 -
Sean Faris, American actor
*
March 30 -
Jason Dohring, American actor
*
March 30 -
Javier Garcia Portillo, Spanish footballer (soccer player)
*
April 1 -
Sam Huntington, American actor
*
April 2 -
Shandi Sullivan, American model
*
April 8 -
Judy Star, American actress
*
April 22 -
Kaká, Brazilian footballer (soccer player)
*
April 24 -
Kelly Clarkson, American singer
*
April 24 -
Shayna Nackoney, Canadian synchronized swimmer
*
April 30 -
Kirsten Dunst, American actress
*
April 30 -
Lloyd Banks, African American/ Puertorican Rapper
May-June
*
May 9 -
Rachel Boston, American beauty queen and actress
*
May 10 -
Adebayo Akinfenwa, English footballer
*
May 13 -
Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol
*
May 15 -
Veronica Campbell, Jamaican athlete
*
May 17 -
Tony Parker, French basketball player
*
May 18 -
Eric West, American actor and singer
*
May 19 -
Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer
*
May 20 -
Petr Čech, Czech footballer (soccer player)
*
May 22 -
Apolo Anton Ohno, American short track speed skater
*
May 26 -
Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model
*
June 1 -
Justine Henin-Hardenne, Belgian tennis player
*
June 3 -
Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian athlete
*
June 7 -
Amy Nuttall, British actress and opera singer
*
June 8 -
Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
*
June 9 -
Aaron Mannino, American singer
*
June 10 -
Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
*
June 10 -
Princess Madeleine of Sweden*
June 11 -
Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
*
June 11 -
Eldar Rønning, Norwegian cross-country Skier
*
June 21 -
Prince William of Wales*
June 25 -
Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
*
June 30 -
Lizzy Caplan, American actress
July-August
*
July 1 -
Hilarie Burton, American actress and VJ
*
July 8 -
Sophia Bush, American actress
*
July 8 -
Hakim Warrick, American basketball player
*
July 9 -
Sakon Yamamoto, Japanese racecar driver
*
July 10 -
Alex Arrowsmith, American musician
* July 10 -
Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
*
July 12 -
Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer (soccer player)
*
July 13 -
Simon Clist, English footballer
*
July 18 -
Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress and beauty queen
* July 18 -
Ryan Cabrera, American musician
*
July 19 -
Jared Padalecki, American actor
*
July 23 -
Claudette Ortiz, American soul singer
*
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 9 -
Tyson Gay, American athlete
*
August 13 -
Shani Davis, American speed skater
*
August 19 -
Erika Christensen, American actress
*
August 28 -
LeAnn Rimes, American singer
*
August 28 -
Karo Parisyan, Armenian MMA Fighter
*
August 30 -
Andy Roddick, American tennis player
*
August 31 -
José Manuel Reina Páez, Spanish footballer (soccer player)
September-October
*
September 1 -
Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater
*
September 3 -
Fearne Cotton, British television presenter
*
September 3 -
Kaori Natori, Japanese singer and model
*
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 -
Nenê, Brazilian basketball player
*
September 22 -
Billie Piper, English singer and actress
*
September 27 -
Lil Wayne, American rapper
*
September 29 -
Ariana Jollee, American porn actress and director
*
September 29 -
Rob Smith Irish musician and singer/songwriter
*
September 30 -
Lacey Chabert, American actress
*
September 30 -
Michelle Marsh, British model
*
October 3 -
Erik Von Detten, American actor
*
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, Qatari athlete
*
October 22 -
Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball Player
*
October 25 -
Eman Lam, Hong Kong Chinese Singer
*
October 27 -
Patrick Fugit, American actor
*
October 28 -
Anthony Lerew, American baseball player
November-December
*
November 2 -
Kyoko Fukada,Japanese actress, model and singer
*
November 10 -
Heather Matarazzo, American actress
*
November 11 -
Brittny Gastineau, American model and socialite
*
November 12 -
Anne Hathaway, American actress
*
November 13 -
Kumi Koda, Japanese singer
*
November 22 -
Charlene Choi, Hong Kongist singer and actress
*
November 29 -
Ashley Force, American race car driver
*
November 30 -
Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
*
December 3 -
Michael Essien, Ghanaian soccer player
*
December 13 -
Anthony Callea, Australian singer
*
December 30 -
Kristin Laura Kreuk, Canadian actress
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 for Ozzy Osbourne (plane crash) (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 12 -
Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1886)
*
June 14 -
Arthur Coles, Australian businessman and philanthropist (b.
1892)
*
June 18 -
Curt Jurgens, German actor (b.
1915)
July-December
*
July 4 -
Terry Higgins, early British casulty of
AIDS*
July 29 -
Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-born inventor (b.
1889)
*
August 15 -
Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1903)
*
August 21 - King
Sobhuza II of Swaziland, at the time the longest reigning living
monarch, (b.
1899)
*
August 23 -
Stanford Moore, American biochemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1913)
*
August 29 -
Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b.
1915)
*
September 2 -
Tom Baker, American actor (b.
1940)
*
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 18 -
Dwain Esper, Director (b.
1892)
*
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 8 -
Marty Robbins, American singer (b.
1925)
*
December 24 -
Louis Aragon, French writer (b.
1897)
*
December 27 -
John Swigert, American astronaut (b.
1931)
*
Physics -
Kenneth G. Wilson*
Chemistry -
Aaron Klug*
Medicine -
Sune K. Bergström,
Bengt I. Samuelsson,
John R. Vane*
Literature -
Gabriel García Márquez*
Peace -
Alva Myrdal,
Alfonso García Robles*
Alain Connes,
William Thurston,
Shing-Tung Yau*
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