1982
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1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January
February
March
April
May
British troops in the Falkland Islands
June
July-August
- July 1 - The Reverend Sun Myung Moon marries 4,150 of his followers at New York City's Madison Square Garden.
- July 2 - Larry Walters uses 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet.
- July 9 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 on board and eight on the ground
- July 9 - An intruder Michael Fagan visits the Queen in her bedroom for a chat
- July 11 - Italy wins Football World Cup in Spain
- July 16 - 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 - The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding 47 people, and leading to the deaths of 7 horses.
- July 21- HMS Hermes, the Royal Navy flagship during the Falklands War, returns home to Portsmouth to a hero's welcome.
- July 23 - The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
- August 4 - United Nations Security Council votes to censure Israel because its troops are still in Lebanon
- August 20 - Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon. French troops arrive August 21, US marines August 25
September-October
November
December
Unknown dates
Year in topic
- 1982 in film
- 1982 in literature
- 1982 in music
- Age To Age by Christian artist Amy Grant is released. By December 1983, it will have become the first Christian album by a solo artist to be certified gold. By 1985 it will have gone platinum, another first for the Christian music industry.
- 1982 in sports
- January 24 - Super Bowl XVI San Francisco 49ers (26) def. Cincinnati Bengals (21)
- July 13 - Montreal hosts the first baseball All-Star Game outside the United States.
- Commonwealth Games is held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
- May 30 - Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr plays the first of 2,632 consecutive games. His streak would finish September 20, 2000.
- June 11 - After a racially filled build up, the WBC world Heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, a Black, defeats challenger Gerry Cooney, a White, by a knockout in round 13 at Las Vegas to retain the world championship.
- July 11 - The Italy football (soccer) team wins its third FIFA Football World Cup against West Germany.
- November 12 - The Battle of The Champions, Aaron Pryor defeats Alexis Arguello in boxing contest at the Orange Bowl.
- November 13 - Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a Lightweight championship bout that forever changes the landscape of boxing.
- December 3 - Carnival of Champions, Wilfredo Gomez defeats Lupe Pintor in grueling 14 round bout to retain his world Jr Featherweight title and Thomas Hearns beats Wilfredo Benitez in 15 rounds in historic New Orleans boxing card.
- 1982 in television
- 1982 in video gaming and computing
Births
January-May
- January 1 - David Nalbandian, Argentinian tennis player
- January 3 - Eli Manning, American football quarterback
- January 5 - Janica Kostelic, Croatian alpine skier
- January 12 - Dontrelle Willis, baseball pitcher
- January 13 - Guillermo Coria, Argentinian tennis player
- January 15 - Benjamin Agosto, American skater
- January 17 - Dwyane Wade, NBA basketball player
- January 19 - Jodie Sweetin, actress
- February 1 - Pablo Paredes, poet
- February 17 - Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian soccer player
- February 22 - Jenna Haze, erotic actress.
- March 2 - Ben Roethlisberger, American football quarterback
- March 11 - Thora Birch, actress
- March 25 - Danica Patrick, American race car driver
- April 8 - Judy Star, pornographic film actress
- April 22 - Kaká, Brazilian soccer player, AC Milan and Brazil
- April 30 - Kirsten Dunst, actress
- May 9 - Rachel Boston, actress, former Miss Teen Tennessee (Miss Teen USA pageant)
- May 17 - Tony Parker, French NBA player
- May 26 - Yoko Matsugane, Japanese idol and bikini model
June-October
- June 1 - Justine Henin-Hardenne, Belgian tennis player
- June 8 - Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
- June 10 - Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
- June 11 - Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
- June 21 - Prince William of Wales
- June 25 - Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
- July 8 - Hakim Warrick, American basketball player
- July 18 - Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress and beauty queen
- July 24 - Anna Paquin, Canadian-born actress
- July 25 - Brad Renfro, American actor
- August 2 - Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
- August 8 - Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
- August 28 - LeAnn Rimes, American singer
- August 30 - Andy Roddick, American tennis player
- September 3 - Fearne Cotton, British television presenter
- September 7 - Lorne Berfield, American actor
- September 9 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter
- September 13 - Nenê, Brazilian basketball player
- September 22 - Billie Piper, English singer and actress
- September 27 - Lil Wayne, American rapper
- October 13 - Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer
November-December
Deaths
January-June
- January 19 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer
- January 30 - Lightning Hopkins, blues musician
- February 5 - Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, (suicide)
- February 11 - Eleanor Powell, American tap dancer, wife of Glenn Ford
- February 11 - Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor
- February 12 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (b. 1902)
- February 17 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist
- February 17 - Lee Strasberg, acting teacher, actor
- March 2 - Philip K. Dick, science fiction author
- March 5 - John Belushi, actor
- March 6 - Ayn Rand, American author
- March 19 - Randy Rhoads, guitarist
- April 5 - Abe Fortas, American jurist
- April 15 - Arthur Lowe, British actor
- May 1 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1903)
- May 8 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian Formula One race car driver (racing accident)
- May 29 - Romy Schneider, actress (cardiac arrest)
- June 2 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician
- June 8 - Satchel Paige, baseball player
- June 14 - Arthur Coles, Australian businessman and philanthropist
- June 18 - Curt Jurgens, Austrian actor
July-December
- July 6 - Bob Johnson ("Indian Bob"), Major League Baseball player (b. 1905)
- July 29 - Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-born inventor of television
- August 12 - Salvador Sanchez, world champion boxer
- August 21 - Sobhuza II of Swaziland
- August 23 - Alfred S. Bloomingdale, department store heir
- September 7 - Ken Boyer, baseball player (b. 1931)
- September 11 - Wilfredo Lam, Cuban artist
- September 14 - Grace Patricia Kelly, former United States actress and Princess of Monaco
- September 29 - Monty Stratton, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1912)
- October 4 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
- October 18 - Bess Truman, First Lady, wife of President Harry S. Truman (b.1885)
- October 20 - Jimmy McGrory, Scottish footballer, prolific goalscorer (b.1904)
- October 20 - Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor (born 1908)
- November 4 - Dominique Dunne, actress (b. 1959)
- November 10 - Leonid Brezhnev, premier of the Soviet Union
- November 15 - Vinoba Bhave, Indian educator
- November 29 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete
- December 9 - Leon Jaworski, Watergate special prosecutor
- December 16 - Colin Chapman, engineer, founder of Lotus Cars (b. 1928)
- December 18 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, highly decorated German pilot (b. 1916).
- December 20 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist (b. 1887)
- December 24 - Louis Aragon, French writer (b. 1897)
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