1982 Explained
Events
January
- 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 27 – The government of Garret FitzGerald in Ireland is defeated 82–81 on its budget; the 22nd Dáil 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
March
April
May
See main article: article.
June
July
- 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
September
October
November
December
- 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 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'Océan 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.
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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.[52]
- A global surplus of crude oil causes gasoline prices to collapse.
- Ciabatta bread is invented by a baker in Verona, Italy.
Births and deaths
See main article: Deaths in 1982.
Nobel Prizes
Fields Medal
External links
Notes and References
- [Robert Trivers|Trivers, R. L.]
- Web site: Elk Cloner. SearchSecurity . 2012-01-28 . June 2004.
- Book: Human Rights Law Journal: HRLJ.. 1982. N.P. Engel. 221.
- De Montricher. Nicole. July 1995. Decentralization in France. Governance . 8. 3. 405–418. 10.1111/j.1468-0491.1995.tb00217.x.
- The Jupiter Effect.
- Book: Noguchi, Thomas T.. Coroner at Large. 1985. Simon and Schuster. 978-0-671-54462-1. 23.
- News: 1982: Judge halts 'obscenity' trial. 2007-11-30. BBC News. 1982-03-18.
- News: Look back in anger. 2007-11-30. The Guardian. London. Howard. Brenton. Howard Brenton. 2006-01-28.
- Web site: Bangladesh - THE ERSHAD PERIOD . U.S. Library of Congress . Library of Congress . 10 September 2021.
- Book: Moreno, Isidoro J Ruiz. 1987. Comandos en acción. Emecé editores. es. 21.
- Book: Freedman, Lawrence. Lawrence Freedman. The Official History of the Falklands Campaign: The origins of the Falklands war. Routledge. 2005. 0-7146-5206-7. 13–14.
- Book: Keith Sullivan. Education and Change in the Pacific Rim: meeting the challenges. 1 January 1998. Symposium Books Ltd. 978-1-873927-33-5. 60–.
- Book: Kurt Pätzold. Manfred Weissbecker. Schlagwörter und Schlachtrufe: aus zwei Jahrhunderten deutscher Geschichte. 2002. Militzke. 978-3-86189-270-0. 136. de.
- Book: J.B.A Bailey. Field Artillery And Fire Power. 2 September 2003. Routledge. 1-135-47811-2. 149.
- Book: The Illustrated Weekly of India. 1985. Published for the proprietors, Bennett, Coleman & Company, Limited, at the Times of India Press. 14.
- Web site: 20th Anniversary of the 1982 World's Fair . https://web.archive.org/web/20100206170055/http://web.knoxnews.com/advertising/worldsfair/ . 6 February 2010 . East Tennessee Historical Society . East Tennessee Historical Society . 2002 . . 9 September 2021.
- Web site: 20th Anniversary of the 1982 World's Fair . https://web.archive.org/web/20091205015518/http://web.knoxnews.com/advertising/worldsfair/history.html . 5 December 2009 . History . 2002 . The Knoxville News-Sentinel Co. . 9 September 2021.
- Encyclopedia: Knoxville World's Fair of 1982 . Wheeler . W Bruce . . 1 March 2018 . . 9 September 2021.
- Web site: 20th Anniversary of the 1982 World's Fair . https://web.archive.org/web/20100101212405/http://web.knoxnews.com/advertising/worldsfair/timeline.html . 1 January 2010 . Timeline . 2002 . The Knoxville News-Sentinel Co. . 9 September 2021.
- Web site: Pocisk, który nie wybuchł – czyli zatopienie HMS Sheffield . Golowanow . Łukasz . The missile that did not explode – the sinking of HMS Sheffield . 4 May 2012 . Konflikty.pl . pl . 10 September 2021.
- Web site: Weather Channel Celebrates 38th Birthday . Weatherboy Team Meteorologist . 2 May 2020 . Weatherboy . Isarithm LLC . 10 September 2021.
- News: BBC ON THIS DAY | 4 | 1982: Argentines destroy HMS Sheffield . 2008 . . 10 September 2021.
- News: The horrifying crash that snapped the life from race... . 9 May 1982 . . 10 September 2021.
- News: Pope John Paul 'wounded' in 1982 . 16 October 2008 . . Europe . 10 September 2021.
- Book: Total Stanley Cup: 2008 Playoff Media Guide . Diamond . Dan . This Date in Stanley Cup History . https://web.archive.org/web/20090326001907/http://www.stanleycupplayoffs2008.com/assets/pdfs/totalstanleycup2008.pdf . 26 March 2009 . 95 . 2008 . Dan Diamond and Associates, Inc. . 10 September 2021.
- Web site: The SAS vs The Exocets . Elite UK Forces . 10 September 2021.
- Book: Finlan, Alastair . Special Forces, Strategy and the War on Terror: Warfare By Other Means . 16 October 2009 . . 978-1-134-18043-1 . 41 . 10 September 2021.
- Web site: Report of the Board of Inquiry Into the Loss of HMS Ardent . https://web.archive.org/web/20151010132324/http://www.rna-10-area.co.uk/files/boi_hms_ardent.pdf . 10 October 2015 . 6 August 1982 . 3–4 . 10 September 2021.
- Web site: HMS Ardent Association . https://web.archive.org/web/20050407213506/http://www.hmsardent.org.uk/ . 7 April 2005 . 10 September 2021.
- Web site: LOSS OF HMS ANTELOPE - BOARD OF INQUIRY . https://web.archive.org/web/20110724042320/http://www.rna-10-area.net/files/boi_hms_antelope.pdf . 24 July 2011 . 11 August 1982 . 2–3 . 10 September 2021.
- News: Iran celebrates anniversary of liberating Khorramshahr . 24 May 2014 . . 10 September 2021.
- News: From Brezhnev to Andropov: why the transition has been so smooth . Temko . Ned . Ned Temko . 30 December 1982 . . 10 September 2021.
- Web site: Burke . Damien . 25th May 1982 . HMS Coventry D118 . 10 September 2021.
- Web site: Board of Inquiry (REPORT): Loss of SS Atlantic Conveyor . https://web.archive.org/web/20121012134301/http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/EC14467A-DFAF-4030-BDFB-9E1AAF00205E/0/boi_atlanticconveyorpt1.pdf . 12 October 2012 . 21 July 1982 . 1 - 5-2 - 5 . 10 September 2021.
- Roberts . Maj. Brice . Mission Command During the Falklands War: Opportunities and Limitations . 2016 . Defense Technical Information Center . 27–31 . 21 September 2023.
- Book: Howard Morley Sachar. A History of Israel: Volume II: from the Aftermath of the Yom Kippur War. 1988. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-504623-6. 176.
- Web site: Top Films of All-Time. filmsite.org. 2018-06-16.
- News: Montgomery . Paul L. . THRONGS FILL MANHATTAN TO PROTEST NUCLEAR WEAPONS . The New York Times . June 13, 1982 . 2 November 2023.
- Book: Kerri McCaffety. Lynn Powers. Obituary Cocktail: The Great Saloons of New Orleans. 1999. Winter Books. 978-0-9653145-9-6. 74.
- Book: Tapio Tolmunen . Mutkatonta matkaa vuodesta 1982. Raka spår från år 1982 . 2002 . 43–44 . Helsinki . Helsingin kaupungin liikennelaitos . 951-8926-84-0 . fi.
- Web site: Helsinki City Transport - About HKL - History - A brief history of the metro . Helsinki City Transport . 19 March 2012 . 21 September 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150512153035/http://www.hel.fi/hki/HKL/en/About%2BHKL/History/History%2Bof%2Bmetro%2Btransport . 12 May 2015 . dead .
- Clarence Tsui, South China Morning Post, 12/12/99, "From ads to ashes." (Archive)
- Book: Journal of Meteorology. 2002. Artetech International. 284.
- Book: Michael Curtis. Introduction to Comparative Government. 1993. HarperCollins College Publishers. 978-0-06-500552-3. 209.
- Book: Margaret Rule. Mary Rose Trust. The Mary Rose: A Guide to the Exhibition and Ship. 1993. Mary Rose Trust. 978-0-9511747-2-2. 6.
- Web site: Marotta . David John . Volker's Bear: The Bear Market Of 1982 . Forbes . 11 October 2017.
- News: Brown . Merrill . Dow Industrials Soar to a Record of 1,065.49 . . 4 November 1982.
- Book: Radio Free Europe Research. 1983. Radio Free Europe. 3.
- Web site: 1982 – Edmonton Eskimos 32, Toronto Argonauts 16. August 23, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20131231143927/http://www.cfl.ca/page/his_greycup_recap1982. December 31, 2013. dead.
- News: Bombs Rock I.B.M. Building And Airline Office. December 17, 1982. The New York Times.
- News: Terrorist Claim Bombing of IBM Building. Schenectady Gazette. March 21, 1984.
- Book: China Trade News. 1983. National Council for US-China Trade. 10 .