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'''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===
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* 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
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