Major Events of 1982?

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Major Events of 1982?
British overcome Argentina in Falklands war (April 2–June 15).





Israel invades Lebanon in attack on P.L.O. (June 4).





John W. Hinckley, Jr., found not guilty because of insanity in shooting of President Reagan (June 21).





Alexander M. Haig, Jr., resigns as secretary of state (June 25).





Equal Rights Amendment fails ratification (June 30).





Princess Grace, 52, dies of injuries when car plunges off mountain road; daughter Stephanie, 17, suffers serious injuries (Sept. 14).





Lebanese Christian Phalangists kill hundreds of people in two Palestinian refugee camps in West Beirut (Sept. 15).





Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader, dies at 75 (Nov. 10).





Yuri V. Andropov, 68, chosen as successor (Nov. 15).





Permanent artificial heart implanted in human for first time in Dr. Barney B. Clark, 61, at University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City (Dec. 2).








Some things that happened nationally in 1982





* Ma Bell forced to split up


* Tylenol poisoning scare


* The word "Internet" first used to describe the connected pieces of ARPANET


* Commodore-64 released


* Time Magazine names the personal computer its Man of the Year


* Compact Discs introduced


* Falkland Islands War


* John Hinckley found not guilty because of insanity in Reagan shooting


* Liposuction introduced


* Vietnam Memorial erected in Washington D.C.


* First artificial heart transplant takes place, the receipent lives 112 days


* Delorean Motor Company goes bankrupt


* Cats opens on Broadway


* Space shuttle Columbia launched on first mission


* MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machines introduced in Great Britain


* Ozzy does the bat thing


* First genetically-engineered food approved for sale


* Prince William born to Lady Diana


* Unemployment hits 10%, highest since 1940


* Dow breaks 10,000 for first time


* Sun Microsystems founded


* MS-DOS first licensed


* World's Fair held in Knoxville, Tenn.


* USA Today founded


* Graceland opened to the public


* Braniff Airlines goes under
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Sports





NBA: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Philadelphia 76ers Series: 4-2


NCAA Football: Penn State Record: 11-1-0


Heisman Trophy: Herschel Walker, georgia, RB Points: 1,926


Stanley Cup: NY Islanders vs. Vancouver Canucks Series: 4-0


Super Bowl XVI: 49ers vs. Bengals Score: 26-21


US Open Golf: Tom Watson Score: 282 Course: Pebble Beach GL Location: Pebble Beach, CA


World Cup Soccer: Italy vs. West Germany Score: 3-1


World Series: Cardinals vs. Brewers series: 4-3








Popular Music





1."I Can't Go for That" ... Daryl Hall and John Oates


2."Centerfold" ... J. Geils Band


3."I Love Rock n' Roll" ... Joan Jett and the Blackhearts


4."Chariots of Fire" ... Vangelis


5."Ebony and Ivory" ... Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder


6."Don't You Want Me" ... The Human League


7."Eye of the Tiger" ... Survivor


8."Abracadabra" ... Steve Miller Band


9."Hard to Say I'm Sorry" ... Chicago


10."Jack and Diane" ... John Cougar








Popular Movies





1. Absence of Malice


2. Annie


3. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas


4. Chariots of Fire


5. Conan the Barbarian


6. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial


7. Firefox


8. First Blood


9. Friday The 13th, Part III


10. Modern Problems








Most Popular Books





Fiction


1. "ET: The Extraterrestrial Storybook" by William Kotzwinkle


2. "Space" by James Michener


3. "The Parsifal Mosaic" by Robert Ludlum


4. "Master of the Game" by Sidney Sheldon


5. "Mistral's Daughter" by Judith Krantz





Nonfiction


1. "Jane Fonda's Workout Book" by Jane Fonda


2. "Living, Loving, and Learning" by Leo Buscaglia


3. "And More" by Andy Rooney


4. "Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book"


5. "Life Extension" by Durk Pearson








Most Popular Television Shows





1. 60 Minutes (CBS)


2. Dallas (CBS)


3. M*A*S*H (CBS)


4. Magnum, P.I. (CBS)


5. Dynasty (ABC)


6. Three's Company (ABC)


7. Simon %26amp; Simon (CBS)


8. Falcon Crest (CBS)


9. The Love Boat (ABC)


10. The A-Team ( NBC)








Academy Awards





Best Picture: "Gandhi"


Best Director: Richard Attenborough ... "Gandhi"


Best Actor: Ben Kingsley ... "Gandhi"


Best Actress: Meryl Streep ... "Sophie's Choice"


Grammy Awards





Record of the Year: "Rosanna" ... Toto


Song of the Year: "Always on My Mind" ... Johnny Christopher, Mark James %26amp; Wayne Thompson


Best Album: "Toto IV" ... Toto


Male Vocalist: Lionel Richie ... "Truly"


Female Vocalist: Melissa Manchester... "You Should Hear How She Talks About You"


Nobel Prizes








Chemistry





KLUG, Sir AARON, Great Britain, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, b. 1926 (in Lithuania): "for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nuclei acid-protein complexes"








Literature





GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL, Colombia, b. 1928: "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts"








Peace





The prize was awarded jointly to: MYRDAL, ALVA, Sweden, b. 1902, d. 1986: former Cabinet Minister, diplomat, delegate to United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament, writer. GARCêA ROBLES, ALFONSO, Mexico, b. 1911: diplomat, delegate to the United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament, former Secretary for Foreign Affairs .








Physiology or Medicine





The prize was awarded jointly to: BERGSTRÉM, SUNE K., Sweden, The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, b. 1916; SAMUELSSON, BENGT I., Sweden, The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, b. 1934; and VANE, Sir JOHN R., Great Britain, The Wellcome Research Laboratories, Beckenham, b. 1927: "for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances"








Physics





WILSON, KENNETH G., U.S.A., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, b. 1936: "for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions"








Pulitzer Prizes





Drama: Charles Fuller ... "A Soldier's Play"


Fiction: John Updike ... "Rabbit is Rich"


History: C. V Woodward, "Mary Chestnut's Civil War"


International Reporting: John Darnton ... "New York Times"


National Reporting: Rick Atkinson ... "Kansas City Times"


Public Service: "Detroit News"








Tony Awards





Best Play: "The Life and Adv. N. Nickleby" David Edgar


Best Musical: "Nine"


Best Actor in a play: R Rees "The Adv Nicholas Nickleby"


Best Actress in a play: Zoe Caldwell ... "Medea"


Best Actor in a musical: Ben Harney ... "Dreamgirls"


Best Actress in a musical: Jennifer Holiday ... "Dreamgirls"
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Events of 1982





January





* January 8 - AT%26amp;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 sinks during a storm off the coast of 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


* March 3 - The Queen opens the Barbican Centre in London.


* March 9 - Charles Haughey became Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.


* 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 16 - In Newport, Rhode Island, Claus von Bülow is found guilty of the attempted murder of his wife.


* March 18 - An Argentinean scrap metal dealer raises the Argentinean flag in South Georgia.


* March 18 - Mary Whitehouse's private prosecution of The Romans in Britain collapses.


* March 19 - The Falklands War approaches: Argentines land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war.


* March 25 - Roy Jenkins wins the Glasgow Hillhead by-election for the S.D.P..


* 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 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 killing 323 sailors.


* 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 Flag.


* May 22 - Falklands War: HMS Ardent is sunk by Argentine aircraft, killing 22 sailors.


* May 23 - Falklands War - HMS Antelope of the 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 29 - Queen Concert: Queen play Elland Road, Leeds.


* 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 8 - VASP Flight 168, a Boeing 727 passenger jet, crashes into forest Fortaleza, killing 137.


* 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 24 - 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 Religious Right take credit for its defeat.





July


* July 2 - Larry Walters, a.k.a. Lawn Chair Larry, flies 16,000 feet above Long Beach, California in lawn chair with weather balloons attached.


* July 2 - Roy Jenkins was elected Leader of the Social Democratic Party.


* July 3 - ASLEF train drivers in the United Kingdom went on strike over hours of work; they returned to work on July 18.


* July 4 - Four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped upon Israel's invasion of Lebanon.


* July 9 - Pan Am Flight 759 (Boeing 727) crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 146 on board and 8 on the ground.


* July 9 - Intruder Michael Fagan visits Queen Elizabeth II in her bedroom for a chat.


* July 11 - Italy beats West Germany 3-1 to win the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.


* July 12 - Checker Motors Corporation ceases production of automobiles.


* July 15 - Geoffrey Prime, a GCHQ civil servant, was remanded in custody on charges under the Official Secrets Act 1911.


* July 16 - In New York City, 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 19 - William Whitelaw, Home Secretary, announced that Michael Trestrail (the Queen's bodyguard) had resigned from the Metropolitan Police Service over a relationship with a male prostitute.


* July 20 - The Provisional IRA detonates 2 bombs in central London, killing 8 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 1985-1986.


* July 23 - A coroner's jury returned a verdict of suicide on Roberto Calvi, who had been found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge.


* July 31 - 53 persons, 46 of them children, die in a highway accident in Beaune in France's worst road accident.





August


* August 4 - The United Nations Security Council votes to censure Israel because its troops are still in Lebanon.


* August 7 - Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini resigns.


* August 12 - Mexico announces it is unable to pay its large foreign debt, triggering a debt crisis that quickly spread throughout Latin America.


* August 20 - Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon. French troops arrive August 21, U.S. Marines August 25.





September


* September 3 - Italian general Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa is killed in a mafia ambush.


* September 5 - Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch is kidnapped.


* September 14 - Lebanon President Bachir Gemayel is assassinated in Beirut.


* September 18 - Lebanese Christian Militia kill hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in West Beirut.


* September 21 - The first International Day of Peace (United Nations) ever


* September 23 - Amin Gemayel is elected president of Lebanon.


* September 25 - In Israel, 400,000 marchers demand the resignation of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.


* September 26 - Thermals take Australian parachutist Rich Collins up to 2,800 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 when 7 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 1 - The Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World opens to the public for the first time.


* October 1 - Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).


* 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 is launched in Europe. It replaces the Ford Cortina


* October 15 - The Garn - St Germain Depository Institutions Act deregulates the U.S. savings and loan industry.


* October 19 - John De Lorean is arrested for selling cocaine to undercover FBI agents (he is later found not guilty due to entrapment).


* October 20 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-3 in game 7 to win the World Series


* 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 is launched in the England, Scotland and Northern Ireland (known as Channel 4) with the first program 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 3 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43.41 points, or 4.25%, to close at 1,065.49, its first all-time high in more than nine years. It last hit a record on January 11, 1973 when the average closed at 1,051.70. The points gain was the biggest ever up to that point.


* November 6 - Camerun president Ahmadou Ahidjo resigns, replaced by Paul Biya.


* November 7 - The Thames Barrier is first publicly demonstrated.


* 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 - University of California, Berkeley executes "The Play" in a college football game against Stanford. 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 27 - Yasuhiro Nakasone becomes Prime minister of Japan.


* 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, stating that the Soviet Union should withdraw from Afghanistan.








December


* December 1 - Thriller album by Michael Jackson is released, becoming the biggest selling album of all time in entertainment history.


* 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 will live for 112 days with the device).


* December 3 - A final soil sample is taken from the site of Times Beach, Missouri. It is found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.


* December 4 - The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.


* December 7 - The first U.S. execution by lethal injection is carried out in Texas.


* December 8 - The December murders in Suriname.


* 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 U.S. 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 is given for the first time to a non-human, the computer.