1982 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1982?
- 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 12, 1982 – 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”.
- May 25, 1982 – HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
- June 14, 1982 – The Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
- June 21, 1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
- 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.
- July 4, 1982 – Iranian diplomats kidnapping (1982): four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
- August 17, 1982 – The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany.
- August 27, 1982 – 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.
- August 29, 1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
- August 31, 1982 – Anti-government demonstrations are held in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement.
- September 1, 1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
- November 13, 1982 – 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.
- 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 2, 1982 – At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
- December 7, 1982 – In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
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