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1982
(
MCMLXXXII
) was a
common year starting on Friday
of the
Gregorian calendar
, the 1982nd year of the
Common Era
(CE) and
Anno Domini
(AD) designations, the 982nd year of the
2nd millennium
, the 82nd year of the
20th century
, and the 3rd year of the
1980s
decade.
Calendar year
Events
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January
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- January 1
? In
Malaysia
and
Singapore
, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone,
UTC+8
(GMT+8.00).
- January 13
?
Air Florida Flight 90
crashes shortly after takeoff into the
14th Street Bridge
in
Washington, D.C.
, United States, then falls into the
Potomac River
, killing 78 people.
[1]
- January 18
?
1982 Thunderbirds Indian Springs Diamond Crash
: Four
Northrop T-38
aircraft of the
United States Air Force
crash at
Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field
, Nevada, killing all 4 pilots.
- January 26
- January 27
? The government of
Garret FitzGerald
in
Ireland
is defeated 82?81 on its budget; the
22nd Dail
is dissolved.
- January 30
? The first
computer virus
, the
Elk Cloner
, written by 15-year old
Rich Skrenta
, is found.
[2]
It infects
Apple II
computers via
floppy disk
.
February
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March
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April
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June
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July
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- July 4
? Four
Iranian
diplomats are kidnapped upon
Israel
's invasion of
Lebanon
.
- 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 in
Kenner, Louisiana
, killing all 146 on board and 8 on the ground.
- July 11
?
Italy
beats
West Germany
3?1 to win the
1982 FIFA World Cup
in Spain.
- July 16
? In New York City, the Reverend
Sun 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
: the
Provisional 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
: In
Beaune
, France, 53 persons, 46 of them children, die in a highway accident (France's worst).
August
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September
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October
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November
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- November 3
- November 6
?
Cameroon
president
Ahmadou Ahidjo
resigns, replaced by
Paul Biya
who has ruled Cameroon ever since.
- 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 Wał?sa
, is released from 11 months of internment near the
Soviet
border.
- November 20
- November 24
? Representatives from 88 countries gather in
Geneva
to discuss
world trade
and ways to work toward aspects of
free trade
.
[48]
- 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.
[49]
- 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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- December 1
?
Miguel de la Madrid
takes office as
President of Mexico
.
- December 2
? At the
University of Utah
, 61-year-old retired dentist
Barney Clark
becomes the first person to receive a permanent
artificial heart
(he lives for 112 days with the device).
- December 4
? The People's Republic of China adopts its
current constitution
.
- December 7
? The first U.S.
execution
by
lethal injection
is carried out in
Texas
.
- December 8
? The
December murders
occur in Suriname.
- December 11
? Swedish pop group
ABBA
make their final public performance on the British TV programme
The Late, Late Breakfast Show
.
- December 13
? The 6.2 M
w
North Yemen earthquake
shakes southwestern
Yemen
with a maximum
Mercalli intensity
of VIII (
Severe
), killing 2,800.
- December 16
? The
United Freedom Front
bombs an office of
South African Airways
in Elmont, NY and an
IBM
office in Harrison, NY.
[50]
Two police officers suffer hearing damage. In March 1984, the UFF claims responsibility for the IBM building bombing, stating that the company was targeted because of its business in South Africa under
Apartheid
.
[51]
- December 22
? The
Indian Ocean Commission
(Commission de l'Ocean Indien, COI) is created by the
Port Louis
Agreement.
- December 26
?
Time
magazine's
Man of the Year
is given, for the first time to a non-human, the computer.
Date unknown
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Births and deaths
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Nobel Prizes
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Fields Medal
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References
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&
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September 10,
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"The SAS vs The Exocets"
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"Report of the Board of Inquiry Into the Loss of HMS Ardent"
(PDF)
. August 6, 1982. pp. 3?4. Archived from
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. Retrieved
September 10,
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. August 11, 1982. pp. 2?3. Archived from
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September 10,
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.
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. July 21, 1982. pp. 1 - 5-2 - 5. Archived from
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on October 12, 2012
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2021
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.
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.
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. March 21, 1984.
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. National Council for US-China Trade. 1983. p. 10.
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