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1982 (
MCMLXXXII ) was a
common year starting on Friday of the
Gregorian calendar .
Contents
1 Events
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Unknown dates
2 Births
2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December
3 Unknown date 4 Deaths
4.1 January 4.2 February 4.3 March 4.4 April 4.5 May 4.6 June 4.7 July 4.8 August 4.9 September 4.10 October 4.11 November 4.12 December
5 Nobel prizes 6 Fields Medalists 7 Templeton Prize 8 1982 in fiction
Events January January 1 - Central Independent Television , Television South and Television South West start broadcasting in the United Kingdom .
January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the Freeway Killer .
January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself into 22 subdivisions.
January 10 - The lowest ever United Kingdom 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 the 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, D.C. 's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River , killing 78. On the same day, a Washington Metro train derails to the north, killing 3 (the system's first, and worst, fatal accident).
January 17 - Cold Sunday sweeps over the northern United States .
January 26 - Mauno Koivisto is elected President of Finland .
January 26 - Unemployment in the United Kingdom increases by 129,918 to 3,070,621, a post-war record.
January 27 - The Garret Fitzgerald government of the Republic of Ireland was defeated 82-81 on its budget; Fitzgerald announced his resignation.
January 28 - U.S. Brigadier General 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 - The Hama Massacre begins in Syria .
February 3 - Syrian president Hafez al-Assad orders the army to purge the city of Harran of the Muslim Brotherhood .
February 5 - London -based Laker Airways collapses, leaving 6,000 passengers stranded, with debts of £270 million.
February 15 - The oil platform Ocean Ranger Newfoundland , killing 84 rig workers.
February 18 - The Republic of Ireland general election gives a boost to Fianna Fáil .
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.
February 24 - In South Africa , 22 National Party MPs led by Andries Treurnicht voted no confidence in P. W. Botha .
February 25 - The European Court of Human Rights ruled that teachers who caned, belted or tawsed children against the wishes of their parents were in breach of the Human Rights Convention.
February 27 - In Atlanta, Georgia , Wayne Williams is convicted of murdering 2 children, and given 2 consecutive life terms.
March 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 5 - Falklands War : The Royal Navy task force sails to recapture the Falklands.
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 12 - Falklands War : A 200-mile 'total exclusion zone' around the Falklands proclaimed by the United Kingdom comes into effect.
April 17 - By Proclamation of the Queen of Canada on Parliament Hill , Canada patriates 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 24 - The German singer Nicole wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 for Germany , with the song Ein Bisschen Frieden .
April 25 - Israel completes withdrawing from the Sinai peninsula per the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty .
May May 1 - Falklands War : A Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan bomber takes off from Ascension Island and bombs Stanley Airport.
May 2 - Falklands War : The nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano May 2 - The Weather Channel (United States) airs on cable television for the first time.
May 4 - Falklands War : HMS Sheffield is hit by an Exocet missile, and burns out of control; 20 sailors are killed. The ship sank on May 10 .
May 5 - A 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, Portugal shrine.
May 12 - Braniff International Airways was declared bankrupt and ceased all flights.
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 22 - Falklands War : HMS Ardent is sunk by Argentine aircraft, killing 22 sailors.
May 23 - Falklands War - HMS Antelope Royal Navy explodes.
May 24 - Iranian troops retake Khorramshahr .
May 24 - KGB head Yuri Andropov is appointed to the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .
May 25 - Falklands War : Atlantic Conveyor is sunk by an Argentine Exocet missile, killing 12 and depriving British forces of the helicopters intended to be used in the later stages of the conflict.
May 26 - Aston Villa win the European Cup beating Bayern Munich 1-0 after a 69 minute goal by Peter Withe in Rotterdam
May 26 - Kielder Water , an artificial lake in Northumberland , is opened.
May 27 - Tottenham Hotspur win the FA Cup beating QPR 1-0 in a replay.
May 27 - Conservative candidate Tim Smith held the seat of Beaconsfield in a by-lection . The Labour Party candidate was Tony Blair .
May 28 - British troops reach Darwin, 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 : 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 10 laps.
May 30 - Cal Ripken starts the first game of what will eventually become his record-breaking consecutive games played streak of 2,632.
May 31 - Falklands War : The Battle of Stanley is fought.
June June 5 - The first Rubik's Cube World Championships is held in Budapest , Hungary .
June 6 - The 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 - The United Nations Security Council votes to demand that Israel withdraw its troops from Lebanon .
June 8 - President Reagan becomes the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament .
June 8 - Falklands War , British RFA Sir Galahad destroyed
June 12 - A rally against nuclear weapons draws 750,000 to New York City 's Central Park . Jackson Browne , James Taylor , Bruce Springsteen , and Linda Ronstadt attend.
June 13 - In Alberta , Canada 15 members of the Black Leopards Karate Club demolish a house with bare hands and feet with the owner's consent.
June 13 - The 1982 FIFA World Cup is opened in Spain.
June 13 - Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid .
June 14 - The Falklands War ends: A formal surrender is agreed that day.
June 18 - Argentine military dictator Leopoldo Galtieri resigns, in the wake of his country's defeat in the Falklands War .
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 is born at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington , West London .
June 22 - British Airways Flight 9 suffers 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 .
June 25 - The Institute for Puerto Rican Policy is founded in New York City to research and advocate for Puerto Rican and Latino community issues. In 2006, it changes it name to the National Institute for Latino Policy .
June 30 - The Equal Rights Amendment falls short of the 38 states needed to pass; Phyllis Schlafly and other leaders of the
