| 1982-05-01
Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.
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| 1982-10-01
Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
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| 1982-11-25
The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day Fire destroys an entire city block, including the Northwestern National Bank building and the recently closed Donaldson's Department Store.
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| 1982-05-04
Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield (D80) is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
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| 1982-11-01
Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
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| 1982-04-06
Estonian Communist Party bureau declares "fight against bourgeois TV" — meaning Finnish TV — a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR
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| 1982-03-26
A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C..
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| 1982-05-29
Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
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| 1982-11-14
Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
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| 1982-01-08
The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
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| 1982-06-24
"The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
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| 1982-12-23
The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
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| 1982-05-28
Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
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| 1982-03-30
Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
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| 1982-11-12
In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
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| 1982-08-29
The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
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| 1982-09-01
Canada adopts the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as part of its Constitution.
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| 1982-06-08
Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by Argentine air attack on two landing ships : RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
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| 1982-07-20
Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regents Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.
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| 1982-11-13
Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.
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| 1982-05-02
Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
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| 1982-04-26
57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
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| 1982-08-20
Lebanese Civil War: a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO's withdrawal from Lebanon.
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| 1982-10-07
Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
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| 1982-05-21
Falklands War: British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton lead to the Battle of San Carlos.
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| 1982-12-07
In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
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| 1982-05-12
During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Fernandez Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an "agent of Moscow".
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| 1982-10-28
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party wins elections, leading to first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe Gonzalez becomes Prime Minister-elect.
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| 1982-01-28
US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
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| 1982-12-08
In Suriname, several opponents of the military government are killed.
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| 1982-07-04
Iranian diplomats kidnapping (1982): four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
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| 1982-06-20
The Argentine base (Corbeta Uruguay) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
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| 1982-09-30
Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
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| 1982-06-19
The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
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| 1982-03-23
Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
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| 1982-11-13
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
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| 1982-09-19
Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
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| 1982-09-20
The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
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| 1982-05-25
HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
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| 1982-04-03
The United Kingdom sends a naval task force to the south Atlantic to reclaim the disputed Falkland Islands from Argentina.
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| 1982-01-01
Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary General of the United Nations.
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| 1982-08-11
A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo to Honolulu, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.
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| 1982-12-16
The Federal Reserve announces that the operating capacity of factories has gone down to 67.8%.
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| 1982-10-08
Poland bans Solidarity and all trade unions.
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| 1982-10-20
During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
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| 1982-10-01
EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
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| 1982-03-19
Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
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| 1982-07-23
The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
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| 1982-06-06
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.
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| 1982-03-29
The Telegu Desam Party (India's regional political party) was established by N. T. Rama Rao.
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| 1982-12-26
Time Magazine's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.
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| 1982-08-17
The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany.
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| 1982-09-18
Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
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| 1982-11-17
Duk Koo Kim dies unexpectedly from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, Nevada, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing.
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| 1982-01-17
"Cold Sunday" in the United States would see temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.
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| 1982-06-07
Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
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| 1982-07-18
268 campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt's Guatemala.
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| 1982-08-12
Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spreads to all of Latin America and the Third World.
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| 1982-07-24
Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
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| 1982-03-22
NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
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| 1982-11-12
Lech Wałęsa, a Solidarity leader, is released from a Polish prison after eleven months.
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| 1982-02-13
Río Negro massacre in Guatemala.
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| 1982-12-12
Women's peace protest at Greenham Common – 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 kilometres (9.0 mi) perimeter fence.
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| 1982-03-05
The Soviet probe Venera 14 arrives at the planet Venus.
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| 1982-06-21
John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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| 1982-05-24
Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
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| 1982-06-25
Greece abolishes the head shaving of recruits in the military.
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| 1982-09-01
The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
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| 1982-02-15
The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 rig workers.
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| 1982-02-02
Hama Massacre: Syria attacks the town of Hama.
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| 1982-09-29
The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
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| 1982-04-17
Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
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| 1982-02-01
Senegal and the Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
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| 1982-01-13
Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. Coincidentally, 30 minutes later, a Washington Metrorail train derails at the Federal Triangle station, on the orange and blue lines, killing three and injuring many more. Flight 90 also destroyed part of a Blue line track that ran next to the 14th street bridge. This gridlocked the city.
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| 1982-08-18
Japanese election law is amended to allow for proportional representation.
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| 1982-07-09
Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
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| 1982-04-21
Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.
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| 1982-06-19
In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
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| 1982-09-14
President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
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| 1982-06-13
Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
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| 1982-12-01
At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
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| 1982-11-03
The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2,000 people.
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| 1982-05-26
Aston Villa win the European Cup, defeating Bayern Munich 1-0 in Rotterdam, Netherlands thanks to a Peter Withe goal.
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| 1982-06-14
The Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
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| 1982-12-03
A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
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| 1982-06-03
The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
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| 1982-10-14
U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
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| 1982-03-29
The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
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| 1982-04-25
Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
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| 1982-12-04
The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.
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| 1982-07-08
The Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized.
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| 1982-08-23
Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
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| 1982-09-16
Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon.
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| 1982-05-01
The 1982 World's Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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| 1982-04-02
Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
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| 1982-07-08
Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
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| 1982-06-27
Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
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| 1982-10-01
Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
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| 1982-08-27
Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital. Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they are avenging the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
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| 1982-01-30
Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
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| 1982-12-06
Droppin Well bombing: The Irish National Liberation Army detonate a bomb in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven British soldiers and six civilians.
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| 1982-03-04
NASA launches the Intelsat V-508 satellite.
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| 1982-10-11
The Mary Rose, a Tudor gunship which sank on July 18 1545, is raised from the sea bed in the Solent Channel, near Portsmouth.
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