Clockwise from top-left: theSyrian Arab Army and theDefense Companies besiege the city ofHama , killing 350–400 civilians; thecompact disc (CD) is introduced; during the filming ofTwilight Zone: The Movie Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicoptercrashes atIndian Dunes , killing actorVic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen;Steven Spielberg releasesE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 FIFA World Cup is held inSpain and is won byItaly ;Michael Jackson releases his sixth studio album,Thriller best-selling album of all time ; Israelinvades Lebanon again;Argentina invadesFalkland Islands , which starts theFalklands War . Calendar year
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1982 (MCMLXXXII ) was acommon year starting on Friday of theGregorian calendar , the 1982nd year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 82nd year of the20th century , and the 3rd year of the1980s decade.
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January 1 – InMalaysia andSingapore , clocks are adjusted to the same time zone,UTC+8 (GMT+8.00).January 13 –Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the14th Street Bridge inWashington, D.C. , United States, then falls into thePotomac River , killing 78 people.[ 1] January 14 – AnEthiopian Air Force Antonov An-26 with an unknown registration crashed nearAddis Ababa , Ethiopia, killing all 73 occupants on board.[ 2] January 18 –1982 Thunderbirds Indian Springs Diamond Crash : FourNorthrop T-38 aircraft of theUnited States Air Force crash atIndian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field , Nevada, killing all 4 pilots.January 26 –Mauno Koivisto is electedPresident of Finland .January 27 – The government ofGarret FitzGerald inIreland is defeated 82–81 on its budget; the22nd Dáil is dissolved.January 30 – The firstcomputer virus , theElk Cloner , written by 15-year oldRich Skrenta , is found.[ 3] Apple II computers viafloppy disk .July 4 – FourIranian diplomats are kidnapped uponIsrael 's invasion ofLebanon .July 6 – A lunar eclipse (umbral duration 236 min and total duration 106 min, the longest of the 20th century) occurs.July 9 –Pan Am Flight 759 (Boeing 727 ) crashes inKenner, Louisiana , killing all 146 on board and 8 on the ground.July 11 –Italy beatsWest Germany 3–1 to win the1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.July 16 – In New York City, the ReverendSun Myung Moon is sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $25,000 for tax fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice.July 20 –Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings : theProvisional IRA detonates 2 bombs in central London, killing 8 soldiers, wounding 47 people, and leading to the deaths of 7 horses.July 23 July 31 –Beaune coach crash : InBeaune , France, 53 persons, 46 of them children, die in a highway accident (France's worst).Helsinki Metro train in 1982November 3 November 6 –Cameroon presidentAhmadou Ahidjo resigns, replaced byPaul Biya who rules the country for more than 40 years.November 8 –Kenan Evren becomes the seventh president ofTurkey as a result of the constitution referendum. His former title was "head of state".November 11 – InLebanon , the firstTyre headquarters bombing kills between 89 and 102 people.November 12 – In theSoviet Union , formerKGB headYuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the lateLeonid I. Brezhnev who had died two days earlier.November 14 – The leader of Poland's outlawedSolidarity movement,Lech Wałęsa , is released from 11 months of internment near theSoviet border.November 20 November 24 – Representatives from 88 countries gather inGeneva to discussworld trade and ways to work toward aspects offree trade .[ 49] November 27 –Yasuhiro Nakasone becomes Prime Minister of Japan.November 28 TheEdmonton Eskimos win an unprecedented 5thconsecutive Grey Cup – a feat yet unaccomplished by any professional football franchise – to win the70th Grey Cup , defeating theToronto Argonauts 32–16.[ 50] Al Ahly SC won the African Cup of Champions club (today known as the CAF Champions League) for the first time after defeating Ghanaian Asante Kotoko November 29 –Michael Jackson releases his sixth studio album,Thriller December 1 –Miguel de la Madrid takes office asPresident of Mexico .December 2 – At theUniversity of Utah , 61-year-old retired dentistBarney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanentartificial heart (he lives for 112 days with the device).December 4 – The People's Republic of China adopts itscurrent constitution .December 7 – The first U.S.execution bylethal injection is carried out inTexas .December 8 – TheDecember murders occur in Suriname.December 11 – Swedish pop groupABBA make their final public performance on the British TV programmeThe Late, Late Breakfast Show December 13 – The 6.2 Mw North Yemen earthquake shakes southwesternYemen with a maximumMercalli intensity of VIII (Severe ), killing 2,800.December 16 – TheUnited Freedom Front bombs an office ofSouth African Airways in Elmont, NY and anIBM office in Harrison, NY.[ 51] Apartheid .[ 52] December 22 – TheIndian Ocean Commission (Commission de l'Océan Indien, COI) is created by thePort Louis Agreement.December 26 –Time Man of the Year is given, for the first time to a non-human, the computer.^ Trivers, R. L. &Newton, H. P. "The crash of flight 90: doomed by self-deception?"Science Digest ^ Ranter, Harro."Accident Antonov An-26 , Thursday 14 January 1982" .asn.flightsafety.org . RetrievedMarch 6, 2025 . ^ "Elk Cloner" .SearchSecurity . June 2004. RetrievedJanuary 28, 2012 .^ Human Rights Law Journal: HRLJ ^ De Montricher, Nicole (July 1995). "Decentralization in France".Governance .8 (3):405– 418.doi :10.1111/j.1468-0491.1995.tb00217.x . ^ The Jupiter Effect ^ Noguchi, Thomas T. (1985).Coroner at Large ISBN 978-0-671-54462-1 ^ "1982: Judge halts 'obscenity' trial" .BBC News . March 18, 1982. RetrievedNovember 30, 2007 .^ Brenton, Howard (January 28, 2006)."Look back in anger" .The Guardian . RetrievedNovember 30, 2007 .^ U.S. Library of Congress ."Bangladesh - THE ERSHAD PERIOD" . RetrievedSeptember 10, 2021 .^ Moreno, Isidoro J Ruiz (1987).Comandos en acción (in Spanish). Emecé editores. p. 21. ^ Freedman, Lawrence (2005).The Official History of the Falklands Campaign: The origins of the Falklands war .Routledge . pp. 13– 14.ISBN 0-7146-5206-7 ^ Keith Sullivan (January 1, 1998).Education and Change in the Pacific Rim: meeting the challenges ISBN 978-1-873927-33-5 ^ Kurt Pätzold; Manfred Weissbecker (2002).Schlagwörter und Schlachtrufe: aus zwei Jahrhunderten deutscher Geschichte ISBN 978-3-86189-270-0 ^ J.B.A Bailey (September 2, 2003).Field Artillery And Fire Power ISBN 1-135-47811-2 ^ The Illustrated Weekly of India ^ East Tennessee Historical Society (2002)."20th Anniversary of the 1982 World's Fair" .The Knoxville News-Sentinel Co. Archived fromthe original on February 6, 2010. RetrievedSeptember 9, 2021 .^ "20th Anniversary of the 1982 World's Fair" . History. The Knoxville News-Sentinel Co. 2002. Archived fromthe original on December 5, 2009. RetrievedSeptember 9, 2021 .^ Wheeler, W Bruce (March 1, 2018)."Knoxville World's Fair of 1982" .Tennessee Encyclopedia Tennessee Historical Society . RetrievedSeptember 9, 2021 . ^a b c d e "20th Anniversary of the 1982 World's Fair" . Timeline. The Knoxville News-Sentinel Co. 2002. Archived fromthe original on January 1, 2010. RetrievedSeptember 9, 2021 .^a b c Golowanow, Łukasz (May 4, 2012)."Pocisk, który nie wybuchł – czyli zatopienie HMS Sheffield" [The missile that did not explode – the sinking of HMS Sheffield].Konflikty.pl (in Polish). RetrievedSeptember 10, 2021 . ^ Weatherboy Team Meteorologist (May 2, 2020)."Weather Channel Celebrates 38th Birthday" .Weatherboy . Isarithm LLC. RetrievedSeptember 10, 2021 . ^ "BBC ON THIS DAY | 4 | 1982: Argentines destroy HMS Sheffield" .BBC . 2008. RetrievedSeptember 10, 2021 .^ "The horrifying crash that snapped the life from race..." United Press International, Inc. May 9, 1982. RetrievedSeptember 10, 2021 .^ "Pope John Paul 'wounded' in 1982" . Europe.BBC News . RetrievedSeptember 10, 2021 .^ Diamond, Dan, ed. (2008). "This Date in Stanley Cup History".Total Stanley Cup: 2008 Playoff Media Guide (PDF) . Dan Diamond and Associates, Inc. p. 95. Archived fromthe original (PDF) on March 26, 2009. RetrievedSeptember 10, 2021 . ^ "The SAS vs The Exocets" .Elite UK Forces . RetrievedSeptember 10, 2021 .^ Finlan, Alastair (October 16, 2009).Special Forces, Strategy and the War on Terror: Warfare By Other Means Routledge . p. 41.ISBN 978-1-134-18043-1 . RetrievedSeptember 10, 2021 . ^ "Report of the Board of Inquiry Into the Loss of HMS Ardent" (PDF) . August 6, 1982. pp. 3– 4. Archived fromthe original (PDF) on October 10, 2015. RetrievedSeptember 10, 2021 .^ "HMS Ardent Association" . Archived fromthe original on April 7, 2005. RetrievedSeptember 10, 2021 .^ "LOSS OF HMS ANTELOPE - BOARD OF INQUIRY" (PDF) . August 11, 1982. pp. 2– 3. Archived fromthe original (PDF) on July 24, 2011. RetrievedSeptember 10, 2021 .^ "Iran celebrates anniversary of liberating Khorramshahr" .Alalam News Network . May 24, 2014. RetrievedSeptember 10, 2021 .^ Temko, Ned (December 30, 1982)."From Brezhnev to Andropov: why the transition has been so smooth" .The Christian Science Monitor . RetrievedSeptember 10, 2021 .^ Burke, Damien."25th May 1982" .HMS Coventry D118 . RetrievedSeptember 10, 2021 . ^ "Board of Inquiry (REPORT): Loss of SS Atlantic Conveyor" (PDF) . July 21, 1982. pp. 1 - 5-2 - 5. Archived fromthe original (PDF) on October 12, 2012. RetrievedSeptember 10, 2021 .^ Roberts, Maj. Brice (2016).Mission Command During the Falklands War: Opportunities and Limitations (PDF) (Report). Defense Technical Information Center. pp. 27– 31. RetrievedSeptember 21, 2023 . ^ Howard Morley Sachar (1988).A History of Israel: Volume II: from the Aftermath of the Yom Kippur War ISBN 978-0-19-504623-6 ^ "Top Films of All-Time" .filmsite.org . RetrievedJune 16, 2018 .^ Montgomery, Paul L. (June 13, 1982)."THRONGS FILL MANHATTAN TO PROTEST NUCLEAR WEAPONS" .The New York Times . RetrievedNovember 2, 2023 . ^ Kerri McCaffety; Lynn Powers (1999).Obituary Cocktail: The Great Saloons of New Orleans ISBN 978-0-9653145-9-6 ^ Tapio Tolmunen (2002).Mutkatonta matkaa vuodesta 1982. Raka spår från år 1982 (in Finnish). Helsinki: Helsingin kaupungin liikennelaitos. pp. 43– 44.ISBN 951-8926-84-0 ^ "Helsinki City Transport - About HKL - History - A brief history of the metro" . Helsinki City Transport. March 19, 2012. Archived fromthe original on May 12, 2015. RetrievedSeptember 21, 2013 .^ Clarence Tsui,South China Morning Post From ads to ashes ." (Archive ) ^ Journal of Meteorology ^ Michael Curtis (1993).Introduction to Comparative Government ISBN 978-0-06-500552-3 ^ Margaret Rule; Mary Rose Trust (1993).The Mary Rose: A Guide to the Exhibition and Ship ISBN 978-0-9511747-2-2 ^ Marotta, David John (October 11, 2017)."Volker's Bear: The Bear Market Of 1982" .Forbes . ^ Brown, Merrill (November 4, 1982)."Dow Industrials Soar to a Record of 1,065.49" .The Washington Post ^ Radio Free Europe Research ^ "1982 – Edmonton Eskimos 32, Toronto Argonauts 16" . Archived fromthe original on December 31, 2013. RetrievedAugust 23, 2017 .^ "Bombs Rock I.B.M. Building And Airline Office" .The New York Times ^ "Terrorist Claim Bombing of IBM Building" .Schenectady Gazette ^ China Trade News
