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 25, 1982 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
- April 25, 1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
- May 1, 1982 – The 1982 World’s Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee.
- May 2, 1982 – Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
- May 21, 1982 – Falklands War: British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton lead to the Battle of San Carlos.
- June 6, 1982 – 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 19, 1982 – The body of God’s Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
- July 4, 1982 – Iranian diplomats kidnapping (1982): four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
- July 24, 1982 – Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
- August 31, 1982 – Anti-government demonstrations are held in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement.
- September 19, 1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
- October 11, 1982 – The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth.
- November 17, 1982 – 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.
- November 30, 1982 – Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, is released.
- December 4, 1982 – The People’s Republic of China adopts its current constitution.
- 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 8, 1982 – In Suriname, several opponents of the military government are killed.
- December 23, 1982 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
- December 26, 1982 – Time’s Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.
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