{{yearbox| in?= | cp=19th century| c=20th century | cf=21st century | yp1=1979 | yp2=1980 | yp3=1981 | year=1982 | ya1=1983 | ya2=1984 | ya3=1985 | dp3=1950s | dp2=1960s | dp1=1970s | d=1980s | dn1=1990s | dn2=2000s | dn3=2010s | }} {{C20YearInTopic}} '''1982''' '''(MCMLXXXII)''' is a Common_year_starting_on_Friday of the Gregorian_calendar. ==Events== ===January=== * 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. * 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 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_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). * March_30 - Pakistan in Karachi Adeel Mansoor is born. ===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_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, called the Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms. * 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=== {| align=right | Image:ARA_Belgrano_sinking.jpg sinks following attack by Royal_Navy submarine HMS ''Conqueror''.]] |- | Image:Troops_Falklands.jpg |} * 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 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 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 * 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_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-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 lawn chair to propel himself to 16,000 feet and flies from San_Pedro,_California to Long_Beach. * 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 Football_World_Cup_1982 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_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 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_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 to 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_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 - The fourth Terrestrial_television channel launched in the United_Kingdom known as Channel_4 with the first programme broadcasted was the game show Countdown and is still in production. S4C, the Welsh equlvalent of Channel 4 launched the previous day * 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_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 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. ===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. * 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. ==Births== ===January-May=== * January_1 - David_Nalbandian, Argentine tennis player * January_1 - Anna Williams, model * January_2 - Cyrus_Farivar, American journalist * January_5 - Janica_Kostelic, Croatian skier * January_12 - Dontrelle_Willis, American baseball player * January_13 - Guillermo_Coria, Argentine tennis player * January_15 - Benjamin_Agosto, American skater * January_17 - Dwyane_Wade, American basketball player * January_19 - Jodie_Sweetin, American actress * February_9 - Ami_Suzuki, Japanese singer * February_10 - Mon_Redee_Sut_Txi, a Malaysian Athlete * February_10 - Justin_Gatlin, American athlete * February_17 - Adriano_Leite_Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer (soccer player) * February_22 - Jenna_Haze, American actress * February_28 - Andres_Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (d. 2004) * March_2 - Ben_Roethlisberger, American football player * March_3 - Jessica_Biel, American actress * March_11 - Thora_Birch, American actress * 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_8 - Judy_Star, American actress * April_13- Donal_Moynihan, Gaelic Footballer * April_22 - Kaká, Brazilian footballer (soccer player) * April_24- Kelly_Clarkson, American singer * April_30 - Kirsten_Dunst, American actress * May_6 - Chaylon_Brewster, Canadian HipHop Producer and East Coast Music Award Winner * May_9 - Rachel_Boston, American beauty queen and actress * May_15 - Veronica_Campbell, Jamaican athlete * May_17 - Tony_Parker, French basketball player * May_18 - Eric_West, American actor and singer * May_20 - Petr_Čech, Czech footballer (soccer player) * May_26 - Yoko_Matsugane, Japanese model ===June-October=== * June_1 - Justine_Henin-Hardenne, Belgian tennis player * June_3 - Yelena_Isinbayeva, Russian athlete * June_8 - Nadia_Petrova, Russian tennis player * June_10 - Tara_Lipinski, American figure skater * 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_1 - Hilarie_Burton, American actress and VJ * July_8 - Sophia_Bush, American actress * July_8 - Hakim_Warrick, American basketball player * July_12 - Antonio_Cassano, Italian footballer (soccer player) * July_18 - Priyanka_Chopra, Indian actress and beauty queen * July_18 - Ryan_Cabrera, American musician * July_19 - Jared_Padalecki, American actor * 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_8 - Roger_Federer, Swiss tennis player * August_9 - Tyson_Gay, American athlete * August_19 - Erika_Christensen, American actress * August_28 - LeAnn_Rimes, American singer * August_30 - Andy_Roddick, American tennis player * August_31 - José_Manuel_Reina_Páez, Spanish footballer (soccer player) * September_3 - Fearne_Cotton, British television presenter * 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_30 - Lacey_Chabert, American actress * 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, Quatari athlete ===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_29 - Ashley_Force, American race car driver * December_3 - Michael_Essien, Ghanaian soccer player * December_13 - Anthony_Callea, Australian singer * December_30 - Kristin Laura Kreuk, Canadian actress ==Deaths== ===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 (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_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_23 - Stanford_Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) *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_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_24 - Louis_Aragon, French writer (b. 1897) ==Nobel Prizes== * 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 == Fields Medalists== *Alain_Connes, William_Thurston, Shing-Tung_Yau ==Templeton_Prize== * Billy_Graham Category:1982 Af:1982 Ar:1982 Ast:1982 Bg:1982 Be:1982 Bs:1982 Ca:1982 Cs:1982 Cy:1982 Da:1982 De:1982 Et:1982 El:1982 Als:1982 Es:1982 Eo:1982 Eu:1982 Fo:1982 Fr:1982 Fy:1982 Ga:1982 Gl:1982 Ko:1982년 Hr:1982 Io:1982 Id:1982 Ia:1982 Is:1982 It:1982 He:1982 Kn:೧೯೮೨ Ka:1982 Csb:1982 Kw:1982 Ku:1982 La:1982 Lt:1982 Lb:1982 Hu:1982 Mk:1982 Ms:1982 Nl:1982 Nds:1982 Ja:1982年 No:1982 Nn:1982 Os:1982 Pl:1982 Pt:1982 Ro:1982 Ru:1982 Sq:1982 Scn:1982 Simple:1982 Sk:1982 Sl:1982 Sr:1982 Fi:1982 Sv:1982 Tl:1982 Tt:1982 Th:พ.ศ._2525 Tr:1982 Uk:1982 Wa:1982 Zh:1982年