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1982 (''' MCMLXXXII ''') was 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 , and the record would be equalled again in 1995 .


• 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 - January 17 - A brutal cold snap sends temperatures to all-time record lows in dozens of Cities throughout the Midwest ern 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 - Syria n 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 10 - The United States places an Embargo on Libya n Oil imports, alleging Libyan support of Terrorist Group s.


• s align on the same side of the Sun .


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


• 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).

April

• 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.


• 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

• Vulcan bomber takes off from Ascension Island and bombs Stanley Airport.


• 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.


• and Paratrooper s 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 - Iran ian troops retake Khorramshahr .


• May 26 - Kielder Water , artificial lake in Northumbria , opened.


• May 28 - British troops reach Darwin in the Falkland Islands


• , 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 .


• 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 an advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final ten laps.


• May 30 - Cal Ripken starts in the first game of what would eventually become his record-breaking consecutive games played streak of 2,632.


• May 31 - Falklands War : Battle of Stanley.

June

• i 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 Weapon s 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. The 1982 FIFA World Cup is opened.


• June 13 - Fahd becomes King Of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid .


• 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

• 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 Iran ian 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 Bomb s 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

• (Unknown date) Commodore 64 is released. The Commodore 64 goes on to sell over 20 million computers until 1994.


• August 4 - United Nations Security Council votes to Censure Israel because its troops are still in Lebanon


• 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 - Thermal s 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 - 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 13 - The Ford Sierra was launched in Europe .


• 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 broadcast was the game show Countdown and is still in production. S4C , the Welsh equivalent 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


• General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37/37 , stating that the Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan .

December

• December 1 - Pop singer Michael Jackson releases his second adult solo album, Thriller .


• 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 20 - Super Bowl XX is awarded to the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans .


• 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 .


• Toyota Camry introduced.


• Dorling Kindersley begins publishing.

BIRTHS


January-February

• January 1 - David Nalbandian , Argentine tennis player


• 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 14 - Victor Valdes , Spanish football 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 12 - Onil Joseph , American baseball player


• February 17 - Adriano Leite Ribeiro , Brazilian footballer (soccer player)


• February 18 - Juelz Santana , rapper


• February 22 - Jenna Haze , American actress


• February 25 - Chris Baird , Northern Irish footballer


• February 28 - Andres Nuiamäe , Estonian soldier (d. 2004 )

March-April

• March 2 - Ben Roethlisberger , American football player ( Pittsburgh Steelers )


• March 3 - Jessica Biel , American actress


• March 4 - Landon Donovan , American soccer player


• March 5 - Daniel Carter , New Zealand rugby player


• 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 2 - Shandi Sullivan , American model


• April 8 - Judy Star , American actress


• April 22 - Kaká , Brazilian footballer (soccer player)


• April 24 - Kelly Clarkson , American singer


• April 24 - Shayna Nackoney , Canadian synchronized swimmer


• April 30 - Kirsten Dunst , American actress


• April 30 - Lloyd Banks , African American/ Puertorican Rapper

May-June

• 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 22 - Apolo Anton Ohno , American short track speed skater


• May 26 - Yoko Matsugane , Japanese model


• June 1 - Justine Henin-Hardenne , Belgian tennis player


• June 3 - Yelena Isinbayeva , Russian athlete


• June 7 - Amy Nuttall , British actress and opera singer


• June 8 - Nadia Petrova , Russian tennis player


• June 9 - Aaron Mannino , American singer


• June 10 - Tara Lipinski , American figure skater


• June 10 - Princess Madeleine Of Sweden


• 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-August

• July 1 - Hilarie Burton , American actress and VJ


• July 8 - Sophia Bush , American actress


• July 8 - Hakim Warrick , American basketball player


• July 10 - Alex Arrowsmith , American musician


• 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 9 - Tyson Gay , American athlete


• August 13 - Shani Davis , American speed skater


• 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-October

• September 1 - Jeffrey Buttle , Olympic Figure Skater


• September 3 - Fearne Cotton , British television presenter


• September 3 - Kaori Natori , Japanese singer and model


• 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 29 - Ariana Jollee , American porn actress and director


• September 30 - Lacey Chabert , American actress


• September 30 - Michelle Marsh , British model


• October 3 - Erik Von Detten , American actor


• 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 , Qatari athlete


• October 22 - Robinson Cano , Baseball Player


• October 28 - Anthony Lerew , American baseball player

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


• November 30 - Elisha Cuthbert , Canadian actress


• 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 for Ozzy Osbourne (plane crash) (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 21 - King Sobhuza II Of Swaziland , at the time the longest reigning living Monarch , (b. 1899 )


• August 23 - Stanford Moore , American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913 )


• August 29 - Ingrid Bergman , Swedish actress (b. 1915 )


• 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 18 - Dwain Esper , Director (b. 1892 )


• 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 8 - Marty Robbins , American singer (b. 1925 )


• 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