1982 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1982?
- January 1, 1982 – Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations.
- 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.
- 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”.
- June 19, 1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
- June 24, 1982 – “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.
- June 25, 1982 – Greece abolishes the head shaving of recruits in the military.
- July 23, 1982 – The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
- August 23, 1982 – Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
- September 16, 1982 – Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon.
- September 19, 1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
- October 8, 1982 – Poland bans Solidarity and all trade unions.
- October 20, 1982 – During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
- November 14, 1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland’s outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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