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File:1982 Events Collage.jpg and the Defense Companies besiege the city of Hama, killing 350–400 civilians; the compact disc (CD) is introduced; during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie, a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter crashes at Indian Dunes, killing actor Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen; Steven Spielberg releases E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial which becomes the highest-grossing film of the decade; the 1982 FIFA World Cup is held in Spain and is won by Italy; Michael Jackson releases his sixth studio album, Thriller, which becomes the best-selling album of all time; Israel invades Lebanon again; Argentina invades Falkland Islands, which starts the Falklands War.]]

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Events

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  • April 1 – The 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands begins when Argentine forces land near Stanley, beginning the Falklands War.{{cite book|last=Moreno|first=Isidoro J Ruiz|year=1987|title=Comandos en acción|publisher=Emecé editores|language=es|page=21}}
  • April 2 – Rex Hunt, the British governor of the Falkland Islands, surrenders the islands to Argentine forces, leading to their occupation.
  • April 3 – Invasion of the Falkland Islands: Argentine forces begin the invasion of South Georgia.{{cite book|author-link=Lawrence Freedman|last=Freedman|first=Lawrence|title=The Official History of the Falklands Campaign: The origins of the Falklands war|publisher=Routledge|year=2005|isbn=0-7146-5206-7|pages=13–14}}
  • April 17 – Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: By Proclamation of the Queen of Canada on Parliament Hill, Canada patriates its constitution, gaining full political independence from the United Kingdom; included is the country's first entrenched bill of rights.{{cite book|author=Keith Sullivan|title=Education and Change in the Pacific Rim: meeting the challenges|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0I6ZCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA60|date=1 January 1998|publisher=Symposium Books Ltd|isbn=978-1-873927-33-5|pages=60–}}
  • April 24 – German singer Nicole wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 (held in Britain) with the song Ein Bisschen Frieden.{{cite book|author1=Kurt Pätzold|author2=Manfred Weissbecker|title=Schlagwörter und Schlachtrufe: aus zwei Jahrhunderten deutscher Geschichte|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VQZoAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Militzke|isbn=978-3-86189-270-0|page=136|language=de}}
  • April 25 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula in accordance with the Egypt–Israel peace treaty of 1979.
  • April 26 – Falklands War: British troops retake South Georgia Island during Operation Paraquet.{{cite book|author=J.B.A Bailey|title=Field Artillery And Fire Power|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iDGPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT149|date=2 September 2003|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-135-47811-2|pages=149}}
  • April 30 – The Bijon Setu massacre takes place in broad daylight at a railway crossing in India.{{cite book|title=The Illustrated Weekly of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FTHFwKU6IwoC|year=1985|publisher=Published for the proprietors, Bennett, Coleman & Company, Limited, at the Times of India Press|page=14}}

=May=

{{Main article|May 1982}}

  • May 1 – A crowd of over 100,000 attends the first day of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, which is kicked off with an address by President Ronald Reagan. Over 11 million people attend during its 6-month run.{{cite web |url=http://web.knoxnews.com/advertising/worldsfair/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206170055/http://web.knoxnews.com/advertising/worldsfair/ |archive-date=6 February 2010 |author=East Tennessee Historical Society |author-link=East Tennessee Historical Society |title=20th Anniversary of the 1982 World's Fair |year=2002 |publisher=The Knoxville News-Sentinel Co. |access-date=9 September 2021}}{{cite web |url=http://web.knoxnews.com/advertising/worldsfair/history.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091205015518/http://web.knoxnews.com/advertising/worldsfair/history.html |archive-date=5 December 2009 |title=20th Anniversary of the 1982 World's Fair |department=History |year=2002 |publisher=The Knoxville News-Sentinel Co. |access-date=9 September 2021}}{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/knoxville-worlds-fair-of-1982/ |last=Wheeler |first=W Bruce |title=Knoxville World's Fair of 1982 |encyclopedia=Tennessee Encyclopedia |date=1 March 2018 |publisher=Tennessee Historical Society |access-date=9 September 2021}}
  • May 2
  • Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine {{HMS|Conqueror|S48|6}} sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, killing 323 sailors.{{cite web |url=http://web.knoxnews.com/advertising/worldsfair/timeline.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100101212405/http://web.knoxnews.com/advertising/worldsfair/timeline.html |archive-date=1 January 2010 |title=20th Anniversary of the 1982 World's Fair |department=Timeline |year=2002 |publisher=The Knoxville News-Sentinel Co. |access-date=9 September 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.konflikty.pl/historia/czasy-najnowsze/pocisk-ktory-nie-wybuchl-zatopienie-hms-sheffield/ |last=Golowanow |first=Łukasz |title=Pocisk, który nie wybuchł – czyli zatopienie HMS Sheffield |trans-title=The missile that did not explode – the sinking of HMS Sheffield |date=4 May 2012 |website=Konflikty.pl |language=pl |access-date=10 September 2021}} Operation Algeciras, an attempt to destroy a Royal Navy warship in Gibraltar, fails.
  • The Weather Channel airs on cable television in the United States as the first 24-hour all-weather network.{{cite web |url=https://weatherboy.com/weather-channel-celebrates-38th-birthday/ |author=Weatherboy Team Meteorologist |title=Weather Channel Celebrates 38th Birthday |date=2 May 2020 |website=Weatherboy |publisher=Isarithm LLC |access-date=10 September 2021}}
  • May 4 – Falklands War: {{HMS|Sheffield|D80|6}} is hit by an Argentine Exocet missile and burns out of control; 20 sailors are killed.{{cite news |title=BBC ON THIS DAY | 4 | 1982: Argentines destroy HMS Sheffield |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/4/newsid_2504000/2504155.stm |year=2008 |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 September 2021}} The ship sinks on May 10.
  • May 8 – French-Canadian racing driver Gilles Villeneuve is killed during qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix.{{cite news |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/05/09/The-horrifying-crash-that-snapped-the-life-from-race/4136389764800/ |title=The horrifying crash that snapped the life from race... |date=9 May 1982 |publisher=United Press International, Inc. |access-date=10 September 2021}}
  • May 12 – Spanish priest Juan María Fernández y Krohn tries to stab Pope John Paul II with a bayonet during the latter's pilgrimage to the shrine at Fátima.{{cite news |title=Pope John Paul 'wounded' in 1982 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7673443.stm |date=16 October 2008 |website=BBC News |department=Europe |access-date=10 September 2021}}
  • May 16 – The New York Islanders sweep the Vancouver Canucks in four games to win the 1982 Stanley Cup Finals in ice hockey.{{cite book |title=Total Stanley Cup: 2008 Playoff Media Guide |editor-last=Diamond |editor-first=Dan |chapter=This Date in Stanley Cup History |url=http://www.stanleycupplayoffs2008.com/assets/pdfs/totalstanleycup2008.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326001907/http://www.stanleycupplayoffs2008.com/assets/pdfs/totalstanleycup2008.pdf |archive-date=26 March 2009 |page=95 |year=2008 |publisher=Dan Diamond and Associates, Inc. |access-date=10 September 2021}}
  • May 18 – Falklands War: The British Special Air Service launches Operation Plum Duff, a reconnaissance mission preliminary to Operation Mikado, which is planned to destroy three Argentinean Exocet missiles and five Super Étendard fighter-bombers. Both Operation Plum Duff and Operation Mikado are called off after the Plum Duff insertion is revealed by a helicopter landing in Chile.{{cite web |url=https://www.eliteukforces.info/articles/sas-versus-exocets.php#prof |title=The SAS vs The Exocets |website=Elite UK Forces |access-date=10 September 2021}}{{cite book |first=Alastair |last=Finlan |title=Special Forces, Strategy and the War on Terror: Warfare By Other Means |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_uefXyZuZNwC&pg=PA41 |date=16 October 2009 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-18043-1 |page=41 |access-date=10 September 2021}}
  • May 21
  • Falklands War: {{HMS|Ardent|F184|6}} is sunk by Argentine aircraft, killing 22 sailors.{{cite web |url=http://www.rna-10-area.co.uk/files/boi_hms_ardent.pdf |title=Report of the Board of Inquiry Into the Loss of HMS Ardent |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151010132324/http://www.rna-10-area.co.uk/files/boi_hms_ardent.pdf |archive-date=10 October 2015 |date=6 August 1982 |pages=3–4 |access-date=10 September 2021}}{{cite web |url=http://www.hmsardent.org.uk/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050407213506/http://www.hmsardent.org.uk/ |archive-date=7 April 2005 |title=HMS Ardent Association |access-date=10 September 2021}}
  • The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is established.
  • May 23 – Falklands War: {{HMS|Antelope|F170|6}} is lost.{{cite web |url=http://www.rna-10-area.net/files/boi_hms_antelope.pdf |title=LOSS OF HMS ANTELOPE - BOARD OF INQUIRY |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724042320/http://www.rna-10-area.net/files/boi_hms_antelope.pdf |archive-date=24 July 2011 |date=11 August 1982 |pages=2–3 |access-date=10 September 2021}}
  • May 24
  • Iranian troops retake Khorramshahr.{{cite news |url=http://en.alalam.ir/news/1596930 |title=Iran celebrates anniversary of liberating Khorramshahr |date=24 May 2014 |publisher=Alalam News Network |access-date=10 September 2021}}
  • KGB head Yuri Andropov is appointed to the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.{{cite news |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1982/1230/123030.html |last=Temko |first=Ned |author-link=Ned Temko |title=From Brezhnev to Andropov: why the transition has been so smooth |date=30 December 1982 |journal=The Christian Science Monitor |access-date=10 September 2021}}
  • May 25 – British ships {{HMS|Coventry|D118|6}} and {{SS|Atlantic Conveyor}} are sunk during the Falklands War; Coventry by two A-4C Skyhawks and Atlantic Conveyor by two Exocets.{{cite web |last=Burke |first=Damien |title=25th May 1982 |url=https://www.hmscoventry.co.uk/d118/25th-may-1982/ |website=HMS Coventry D118 |access-date=10 September 2021}}{{cite web |url=http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/EC14467A-DFAF-4030-BDFB-9E1AAF00205E/0/boi_atlanticconveyorpt1.pdf |title=Board of Inquiry (REPORT): Loss of SS Atlantic Conveyor |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012134301/http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/EC14467A-DFAF-4030-BDFB-9E1AAF00205E/0/boi_atlanticconveyorpt1.pdf |archive-date=12 October 2012 |date=21 July 1982 |pages =1 - 5-2 - 5 |access-date=10 September 2021}}
  • May 26 – Aston Villa F.C. wins the European Cup, beating Bayern Munich 1–0 after a 69th-minute goal by Peter Withe in Rotterdam.
  • May 28–29 – Falklands War: Battle of Goose Green: British forces defeat a larger Argentine force.{{cite report |last1=Roberts |first1=Maj. Brice |title=Mission Command During the Falklands War: Opportunities and Limitations |date=2016 |publisher=Defense Technical Information Center |pages=27–31 |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1022241.pdf |access-date=21 September 2023}}
  • May 30
  • Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.
  • Indianapolis 500: 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds. Leading to the closest finish to this date, Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps, in what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history.

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= August =

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  • August 1 – Attempted coup against the government of Daniel Arap Moi in Kenya.
  • August 2 – The Helsinki Metro, the first rapid transit system in Finland, opens to the general public.{{cite book | author = Tapio Tolmunen | title= Mutkatonta matkaa vuodesta 1982. Raka spår från år 1982 | year= 2002 | pages= 43–44 | location= Helsinki | publisher= Helsingin kaupungin liikennelaitos | isbn= 951-8926-84-0 | language= fi}}{{cite web|url=http://www.hel.fi/hki/HKL/en/About+HKL/History/History+of+metro+transport |title=Helsinki City Transport - About HKL - History - A brief history of the metro |publisher=Helsinki City Transport |date=19 March 2012 |access-date=21 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512153035/http://www.hel.fi/hki/HKL/en/About%2BHKL/History/History%2Bof%2Bmetro%2Btransport |archive-date=12 May 2015 |url-status=dead }}
  • August 4 – The United Nations Security Council votes to censure Israel because its troops are still in Lebanon.
  • August 7 – Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini resigns.
  • August 12 – Mexico announces it is unable to pay its large foreign debt, triggering a debt crisis that quickly spreads throughout Latin America.
  • August 13 – In Hong Kong, health warnings on cigarette packets are made statutory.Clarence Tsui, South China Morning Post, 12/12/99, "[http://lists.essential.org/intl-tobacco/msg00330.html From ads to ashes]." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130113021355/http://lists.essential.org/intl-tobacco/msg00330.html Archive])
  • August 17 – The first compact discs (CDs) are produced in Germany.
  • August 20 – Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon.

=September=

= October =

= November =

  • November 3
  • A gasoline (petrol) tanker explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing at least 176 people.
  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43.41 points, or 4.25%, to close at 1,065.49, its first all-time high in more than 9 years.{{cite web |last1=Marotta |first1=David John |title=Volker's Bear: The Bear Market Of 1982 |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidmarotta/2017/10/11/volkers-bear-the-bear-market-of-1982/?sh=6335dc0e5a29 |website=Forbes |date=11 October 2017}}{{cite news |last=Brown |first=Merrill |title=Dow Industrials Soar to a Record of 1,065.49 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1982/11/04/dow-industrials-soar-to-a-record-of-106549/7e04d522-a607-4104-ad06-0851c3bcea4b/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=4 November 1982}}
  • November 6 – Cameroon president Ahmadou Ahidjo resigns, replaced by Paul Biya who rules the country for more than 40 years.
  • November 8 – Kenan Evren becomes the seventh president of Turkey as a result of the constitution referendum. His former title was "head of state".
  • November 11 – In Lebanon, the first Tyre headquarters bombing kills between 89 and 102 people.
  • November 12 – In the Soviet Union, former KGB head Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid I. Brezhnev who had died two days earlier.
  • November 14 – The leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, Lech Wałęsa, is released from 11 months of internment near the Soviet border.
  • November 20
  • The General Union of Ecuadorian Workers (UGTE) is founded.
  • University of California, Berkeley executes "The Play" in a college football game against Stanford. Completing a wacky 57-yard kickoff return that includes five laterals, Kevin Moen runs through Stanford band members who have prematurely come onto the field. His touchdown stands and California wins 25–20.
  • November 24 – Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade.{{cite book|title=Radio Free Europe Research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pkkpAQAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Radio Free Europe|page=3}}
  • November 27 – Yasuhiro Nakasone becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
  • November 28
  • The Edmonton Eskimos win an unprecedented 5th consecutive Grey Cup – a feat yet unaccomplished by any professional football franchise – to win the 70th Grey Cup, defeating the Toronto Argonauts 32–16.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cfl.ca/page/his_greycup_recap1982|title=1982 – Edmonton Eskimos 32, Toronto Argonauts 16|access-date=August 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231143927/http://www.cfl.ca/page/his_greycup_recap1982|archive-date=December 31, 2013|url-status=dead}}
  • 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, in the United States, which will go on to be the best-selling album of all time at 110 million units sold worldwide.

= December =

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  • The population of the People's Republic of China alone exceeds 1 billion, making China the first nation to have a population of more than a billion.{{cite book|title=China Trade News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CVsqAQAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=National Council for US-China Trade|page=10 }}
  • A global surplus of crude oil causes gasoline prices to collapse.
  • Ciabatta bread is invented by a baker in Verona, Italy.

Births and deaths

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Nobel Prizes

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External links

  • [https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/12/14/Chronology-of-major-events-1982/1005408690000/ Chronology of major events — 1982 - UPI Archives - UPI.com]

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