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Date	Event
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 8, 1982	Breakup of the Bell System: In the United States, AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
January 13, 1982	Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
January 28, 1982	US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
January 30, 1982	Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
February 2, 1982	Hama massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.
February 9, 1982	Japan Air Lines Flight 350 crashes near Haneda Airport in an attempted pilot mass murder-suicide, killing 24 of the 174 people on board.
February 15, 1982	The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers.
March 5, 1982	Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus.
March 11, 1982	Fifteen people are killed when Widerøe Flight 933 crashes into the Barents Sea near Gamvik, Norway.
March 14, 1982	The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London.
March 19, 1982	Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
March 22, 1982	NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
March 23, 1982	Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
March 24, 1982	Bangladeshi President Abdus Sattar is deposed in a bloodless coup led by Army Chief Lieutenant general Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who suspends the Constitution and imposes martial law.
March 26, 1982	A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.
March 29, 1982	The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
March 30, 1982	Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
April 2, 1982	Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
April 7, 1982	Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh is arrested.
April 17, 1982	Constitution Act, 1982 Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
April 21, 1982	Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.
April 25, 1982	Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
April 26, 1982	Fifty-seven people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
April 30, 1982	The Bijon Setu massacre occurs in Calcutta, India.
May 1, 1982	Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.
May 2, 1982	Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
May 4, 1982	Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
May 12, 1982	During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan María Fernández y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet.
May 21, 1982	Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.
May 24, 1982	Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
May 25, 1982	Falklands War: HMS Coventry is sunk by Argentine Air Force A-4 Skyhawks.
May 29, 1982	Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
May 29, 1982	Falklands War: the British Army defeats the Argentine Army at the Battle of Goose Green.
May 30, 1982	Cold War: Spain joins NATO.
June 3, 1982	The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street; he survives but is left paralysed.
June 6, 1982	The Lebanon War begins. Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
June 7, 1982	Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
June 8, 1982	Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
June 8, 1982	VASP Flight 168 crashes in Pacatuba, Ceará, Brazil, killing 128 people.
June 10, 1982	Lebanon War: The Syrian Arab Army defeats the Israeli Defense Forces in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub.
June 12, 1982	Nuclear disarmament rally and concert, New York City.
June 13, 1982	Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
June 13, 1982	Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.
June 14, 1982	Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces.
June 18, 1982	Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.
June 20, 1982	The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide opens in Tel Aviv, despite attempts by the Turkish government to cancel it, as it included presentations on the Armenian genocide.
June 20, 1982	The Argentine Corbeta Uruguay base on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
June 21, 1982	John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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 27, 1982	Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
June 28, 1982	Aeroflot Flight 8641 crashes in Mazyr, Belarus, killing 132 people.
July 4, 1982	Three Iranian diplomats and a journalist are kidnapped in Lebanon by Phalange forces, and their fate remains unknown.
July 6, 1982	While attempting to return to Sheremetyevo International Airport, an Ilyushin Il-62 operating as Aeroflot Flight 411 crashes near Mendeleyevo, Moscow Oblast, killing all 90 people on board.
July 8, 1982	A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein results in the Dujail Massacre over the next several months.
July 9, 1982	Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
July 11, 1982	The Italy National Football Team defeats West Germany at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium to capture the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
July 18, 1982	Two hundred sixty-eight Guatemalan campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre.
July 19, 1982	In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
July 20, 1982	Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.
July 23, 1982	Outside Santa Clarita, California, actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed when a helicopter crashes onto them while shooting a scene from Twilight Zone: The Movie.
July 24, 1982	Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
August 2, 1982	The Helsinki Metro, the first rapid transit system of Finland, is opened to the general public.[4]
August 11, 1982	A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.
August 21, 1982	Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon.
August 27, 1982	Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim to be avenging the massacre of 1.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:r
August 29, 1982	The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
September 1, 1982	The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
September 11, 1982	The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by Phalange forces.
September 13, 1982	Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 50 of the 394 people on board.
September 14, 1982	President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated.
September 16, 1982	Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes place.
September 18, 1982	The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon comes to an end.
September 19, 1982	Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.
September 20, 1982	NFL season: American football players in the National Football League begin a 57-day strike.
October 1, 1982	Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a constructive vote of no confidence.
October 1, 1982	EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) opens at Walt Disney World in Florida.
October 1, 1982	Sony and Phillips launch the compact disc in Japan; on the same day, Sony releases the model CDP-101 compact disc player, the first player of its kind.
October 5, 1982	Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.
October 8, 1982	Poland bans Solidarity and all other trade unions.
October 8, 1982	After its London premiere, Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
October 14, 1982	U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
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.
October 23, 1982	A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a religious cult in Arizona. The shootout leaves two cultists dead and dozens of cultists and police officers injured.
October 28, 1982	The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
November 1, 1982	Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio; a Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
November 3, 1982	The Salang Tunnel fire in Afghanistan by kills 150–2000 people.[7]
November 12, 1982	USSR: Yuri Andropov becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
November 13, 1982	Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.
November 13, 1982	The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
November 14, 1982	Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
December 2, 1982	At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
December 3, 1982	A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri, that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
December 4, 1982	The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.
December 6, 1982	The Troubles: The Irish National Liberation Army bombs a pub frequented by British soldiers in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven soldiers and six civilians.
December 7, 1982	In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
December 7, 1982	The Senior Road Tower collapses in less than 17 seconds. Five workers on the tower are killed and three workers on a building nearby are injured.[9]
December 13, 1982	The 6.0 Ms  North Yemen earthquake shakes southwestern Yemen with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 2,800, and injuring 1,500.