1982 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1982?
- January 8, 1982 – The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
- January 13, 1982 – 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.
- January 25, 1982 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
- February 13, 1982 – Río Negro massacre in Guatemala.
- March 5, 1982 – Soviet probes Venera 14 landed on Venus.
- March 29, 1982 – 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.
- March 30, 1982 – Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
- April 6, 1982 – Estonian Communist Party bureau declares “fight against bourgeois TV” — meaning Finnish TV — a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR
- April 26, 1982 – 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
- May 1, 1982 – Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.
- May 25, 1982 – HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
- June 19, 1982 – The body of God’s Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
- June 20, 1982 – The Argentine base (Corbeta Uruguay) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
- June 23, 1982 – Chinese American Vincent Chin is beaten to death in Highland Park, Michigan, by two auto workers who had mistaken him for Japanese and who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies.
- September 14, 1982 – President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
- October 28, 1982 – The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party wins elections, leading to the first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe Gonzalez becomes Prime Minister-elect.
- November 14, 1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland’s outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
- December 2, 1982 – At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
- December 6, 1982 – Droppin Well bombing: The Irish National Liberation Army detonate a bomb in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven British soldiers and six civilians.
- December 12, 1982 – Women’s peace protest at Greenham Common – 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km perimeter fence.
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