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1982 |
| January 11th |
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In
the Sahara desert, North Africa, British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher's son, Mark, disappeared during the Paris-Dakar rally.
He was found on January 14th. |
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| January 26th |
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In
Finland, Mauno Koivisto was elected the new President. |
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| January 28th |
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James
L. Dozier was rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces after
42 days of captivity under the Red Brigades. |
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| February
2nd |
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Hama
Massacre began in Syria. |
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| February
3rd |
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Syrian
president Hafez al-Assad ordered the army to purge the city
of Harran of the Muslim Brotherhood. |
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| February
5th |
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Laker
Airways collapsed, which left 6,000 passengers stranded and
the company with debts of £270 million. |
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| February
15th |
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The
oil platform Ocean Ranger sank during a storm off the coast
of Newfoundland, 84 rig workers were killed. |
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| February
19th |
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In
Northern Ireland, the DeLorean Car factory in Belfast was put
into receivership. |
|
| March 10th |
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The
United States placed an embargo on Libyan oil imports, and accused
the Libyans of supporting terrorist groups. |
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| March 10th |
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Syzygy
: All 9 planets were aligned on the same side of the Sun. |
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| March 18th |
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In
South Georgia, in the South Atlantic, an Argentinean scrap metal
dealer raised the Argentinean flag. |
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| March 19th |
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Argentine
forces landed on South Georgia Island, in the South Atlantic. |
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| March 26th |
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In
the United States, a ground breaking ceremony for the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial was held in Washington DC. |
|
| April 2nd |
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The
Falklands War. At 4.00am Argentine troops invaded the south
Atlantic Falkland Islands, known as the Malvinas in Argentina.
The Islands had been a British colony since 1833. Falklands
War began. |
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| April 4th |
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In
the South Atlantic, the British Falkland Islands government
surrendered the islands to Argentinean control. |
|
| April 25th |
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In
the Middle-East, Israel completed the withdrawal from the Sinai
peninsula as per the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. |
|
| May 1st |
|
In
Falklands Islands, a British Royal Air Force Vulcan bomber took
off from Ascension Island and bombed the Port Stanley Airport. |
|
| May 1st |
|
The
British task force arrived in the south Atlantic and implemented
a 200 mile exclusion zone around the Islands. The hostilities
started as the British and Argentine armed forces clashed. |
|
| May 2nd |
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At
4.00pm, acting on orders direct from London, the British nuclear
submarine HMS Conquerer fired three torpedos at the Argentine
destroyer the 'General Belgrano'. Two torpedos hit and destroyed
the destroyer with huge loss of life. |
|
| May 5th |
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In
the United States, a 'Unabomber' bomb exploded in the computer
science department at Vanderbilt University and injured the
secretary Janet Smith. |
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| May 12th |
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Spanish
priest Juan Hernandes tried to stab Pope John Paul II with a
bayonet during the Pope's pilgrimage to the Fatima shrine. |
|
| May 21st |
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In
the Falklands, Royal Marines and paratroopers from the British
Task Force landed at San Carlos Bay on the Falkland Islands
and raised the Union Flag. |
|
| May 23rd |
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In
the Falklands War, the British Royal Navy ship HMS Antelope
exploded. |
|
| May 24th |
|
Iranian
troops retook Khorramshahr. |
|
| May 25th |
|
In
the Falklands War, the Argentine air force had already hit HMS
Sheffield and then hit the British ship the Atlantic Conveyor.
Both ships were hit with the French made Exocet missile. |
|
| May 28th |
|
In
the Falklands War, British troops reached the settlement of
Darwin in the Falkland Islands. |
|
| May 29th |
|
In
the Falklands War, British Paratroopers defeated a larger force
of Argentine troops in the 'Battle of Goose Green'. It was the
first land battle of the war. |
|
| May 30th |
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Spain
became the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter
the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955. |
|
| May 31st |
|
In
the Falklands War, the 'Battle of Port Stanley' began. Port
Stanley is the capital of the Falklands Islands and was where
the Argentine HQ was based. |
|
| June 6th |
|
In
Lebanon, Defense Minister Ariel Sharon ordered Israeli forces
to invade southern Lebanon in 'Operation Peace for the Galilee'.
The Israeli forces reached as far north as the capital, Beirut. |
|
| June 6th |
|
United
Nations Security Council voted to demand that Israel withdraw
its troops from Lebanon. |
|
| June 8th |
|
In
Britain, United States President Reagan became the first American
chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament
in London. |
|
| June 12th |
|
In
the United States, 750,000 people demonstrated against nuclear
weapons in New York City's Central Park. Stars such as Bruce
Springsteen and Linda Ronstadt were in attendance. |
|
| June 14th |
|
In
the Falklands War, British forces regained control of the Falklands
Islands, as the Argentine forces surrendered in Port Stanley
and ended the hostilities in the Falklands War. |
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| June 19th |
|
In
Britain, the body of 'God's Banker', Roberto Calvi, chairman
of Banco Ambrosiano was found hanged beneath Blackfriars Bridge
in London. |
|
| June 22 |
|
A
British Airways Boeing 747 suffered a temporary four-engine
flameout and damage to the exterior of the plane after flying
through the otherwise undetected ash plume from Indonesia's
Galunggung. |
|
| July 1st |
|
In
the United States, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon married 4,150
of his followers at New York City's Madison Square Garden. |
|
| July 4th |
|
Four
Iranian diplomats have been kidnapped upon Israel invasion of
Lebanon. |
|
| July 9th |
|
A
Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana
killing all 146 on board and eight on the ground. |
|
| July 9th |
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In
Britain, intruder Michael Fagan got into Buckingham Palace in
London and into the Queen's bedroom and sat on her bed for a
chat. |
|
| July 16th |
|
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 20th |
|
In
Britain, the IRA detonated two bombs in central London. The
bombs killed eight soldiers, wounded 47 people and the deaths
of 7 horses. |
|
| July 21st |
|
In
Britain, HMS Hermes, the Royal Navy flagship during the Falklands
War, returned home to Portsmouth to a hero's welcome. |
|
| July 23rd |
|
The
International Whaling Commission decided to end commercial whaling
by 1985-86. |
|
| August 4th |
|
United
Nations Security Council voted to censure Israel because its
troops were still in Lebanon. |
|
| August 20th |
|
In
Lebanon, a multinational force landed in Beirut to oversee the
PLO withdrawal from Lebanon. French troops arrived on August
21st and US marines on August 25th. |
|
| September
14th |
|
A
Bomb killed President-elect of Lebanon, Bashir Gemayel. His
brother was elected President on September 23rd. |
|
| September
15th |
|
Grace
Patricia Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco died
from injuries sustained in a car crash the previous day. |
|
| September
18th |
|
Lebanese
Christian Militia killed hundreds in the Palestinians in Sabra
and Chatila refugee camps in West Beirut. |
|
| September
25th |
|
In
Israel, 400,000 demonstrators marched and demanded the resignation
of the Prime Minister Menachem Begin. |
|
| October 1st |
|
In
West Germany, Helmut Kohl replaced Helmut Schmidt as the new
Chancellor of West Germany through a 'Constructive Vote of No
Confidence'. |
|
| October 8th |
|
In
Poland, the Polish communist government banned the trade union
Solidarity. |
|
| October 11th |
|
In
Britain, the flagship of Henry VIII of England, the 'Mary Rose',
was raised in Solent, off Portsmouth. The 'Mary Rose' sank in
1545. |
|
| October 19th |
|
In
the United States, John De Lorean was arrested for selling cocaine
to FBI undercover agents. He was later found 'not guilty', due
to entrapment. |
|
| October 28th |
|
In
Spain, the Socialist Party won the election in Spain. The victory
elected Felipe González as the new Prime Minister. |
|
| November
2nd |
|
In
Britain, Channel 4 aired for the first time. C4 was the fourth
terrestrial television channel in the United Kingdom. The first
programme to be broadcasted was the quiz show 'Countdown'. |
|
| November
3rd |
|
In
Afghanistan, a Gasoline tanker exploded in the Salang Tunnel,
which killed over 2,000 people. |
|
| November
7th |
|
In
Britain, the first public demonstration of the Thames Barrier
occured in London. Designed to prevent the river Thames from
flooding. |
|
| November
12th |
|
In
the Soviet Union, former KGB head Yuri Andropov was selected
and became the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's
Central Committee. Andropov succeeded the late Leonid I. Brezhnev. |
|
| November
13th |
|
In
the United States, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated
in Washington D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of
Vietnam War veterans. |
|
| November
14th |
|
In
Poland, Lech Walesa, the electrician at the Lenin Shipyard in
Gdañsk and the leader of Poland's outlawed trade union,
Solidarity, was released after an internment of 11 months. |
|
| November
15th |
|
Soviet
leader Leonid Brezhnev died. Yuri Andropov, former head of the
KGB, became the new Party General Secretary in the Soviet Union. |
|
| November
29th |
|
Soviet
forces invaded Afghanistan. In response the United Nations General
Assembly passed United Nations Resolution 37/37, which stated
that the Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan. |
|
| December
2nd |
|
In
the United States, Barney Clark, a 61-year-old retired dentist
became the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
The surgery was perfomed at the University of Utah. Clark lived
for only 112 days with the artificial heart. |
|
| December
4th |
|
The
People's Republic of China adopted its current constitution. |
|
| December
7th |
|
In
the United States, the first execution by lethal injection was
carried out in the state of Texas. |
|
| December
12th |
|
In
Britain, the women's peace demonstration at Greenham Common
created a human chain around the base. 30,000 women held hands
around perimeter fence, which stretched over 9 miles (14.5 km). |
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