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1982 (MCMLXXXII) is the current year, and is 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 982nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 82nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1980s decade.
Events
[edit]January
[edit]- 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
- Mauno Koivisto is elected President of Finland.
- 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
[edit]- February 1 – Senegal and The Gambia form a loose Senegambia Confederation.
- February 2 – The Hama massacre begins in Syria.
- February 3 – Syrian president Hafez al-Assad orders the army to purge the city of Harran of the Muslim Brotherhood.
- February 5 – London-based Laker Airways collapses, leaving 6,000 stranded passengers and debts of $270 million.
- February 7 – Iraqi club Al-Shorta win the 1982 Arab Club Champions Cup with a 4–2 aggregate win over Al-Nejmeh in the final.
- February 9 – Japan Airlines Flight 350 crashes in Tokyo Bay due to thrust reversal on approach to Tokyo International Airport, killing 24 among the 174 people on board.
- February 15 – The oil platform Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing all 84 rig workers aboard.
- February 18 – The Ireland general election gives a boost to Fianna Fáil.
- February 24 – In South Africa, 22 National Party MPs, led by Andries Treurnicht, vote for no confidence in P. W. Botha.
- February 25 – The European Court of Human Rights rules that teachers who cane, belt or tawse children against the wishes of their parents are in breach of the Human Rights Convention.[3]
March
[edit]- March 2 – Decentralisation in France: the Law of Decentralisation creates the administrative regions of France (régions).[4]
- March 9 – Charles Haughey becomes Taoiseach of Ireland.
- March 10
- March 16 – Claus von Bülow is found guilty of the attempted murder of his wife by a court in Newport, Rhode Island.[6]
- March 18 – A legal case brought by Mary Whitehouse against the National Theatre of Britain concerning alleged obscenity in the play The Romans in Britain ends after the Attorney General intervenes.[7][8]
- March 19 – Argentine scrap metal workers (infiltrated by marines) raise the flag of Argentina on South Georgia and the Falkland Islands, two British overseas territories.
- March 24 – Hussain Muhammad Ershad seizes power in Bangladesh.[9]
- March 29
- Royal Assent is given to the Canada Act 1982, setting the stage for the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution on April 17.
- The 54th Academy Awards, hosted by Johnny Carson, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Chariots of Fire wins Best Picture and 3 other Academy Awards.
- March 30 – Space Shuttle Columbia ends an eight-day mission, STS-3, by landing at White Sands Space Harbor near Alamogordo, New Mexico. It was the only time a Space Shuttle has landed at White Sands. The orbiter was forced to land at White Sands due to flooding at its originally planned landing site, Edwards Air Force Base in California.
April
[edit]- April 1 – The 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands begins when Argentine forces land near Stanley, beginning the Falklands War.[10]
- 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.[11]
- 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.[12]
- April 24 – German singer Nicole wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 (held in Britain) with the song Ein Bisschen Frieden.[13]
- 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.[14]
- April 30 – The Bijon Setu massacre takes place in broad daylight at a railway crossing in India.[15]
- ^ Trivers, R. L. & Newton, H. P. "The crash of flight 90: doomed by self-deception?" Science Digest (November 1982): pp. 66–67, 111.
- ^ "Elk Cloner". SearchSecurity. June 2004. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
- ^ Human Rights Law Journal: HRLJ. N.P. Engel. 1982. p. 221.
- ^ 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. Simon and Schuster. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-671-54462-1.
- ^ "1982: Judge halts 'obscenity' trial". BBC News. March 18, 1982. Retrieved November 30, 2007.
- ^ Brenton, Howard (January 28, 2006). "Look back in anger". The Guardian. London. Retrieved November 30, 2007.
- ^ U.S. Library of Congress. "Bangladesh - THE ERSHAD PERIOD". Retrieved September 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. Symposium Books Ltd. pp. 60–. ISBN 978-1-873927-33-5.
- ^ Kurt Pätzold; Manfred Weissbecker (2002). Schlagwörter und Schlachtrufe: aus zwei Jahrhunderten deutscher Geschichte (in German). Militzke. p. 136. ISBN 978-3-86189-270-0.
- ^ J.B.A Bailey (September 2, 2003). Field Artillery And Fire Power. Routledge. p. 149. ISBN 1-135-47811-2.
- ^ The Illustrated Weekly of India. Published for the proprietors, Bennett, Coleman & Company, Limited, at the Times of India Press. 1985. p. 14.