Explore 6636 historical events from 1980–1989.
The 1982 NFL season was the 63rd regular season of the National Football League. A 57-day-long players' strike reduced the 1982 season from a 16-game schedule per team to an abbrev…
NFL season: American football players in the National Football League begin a 57-day strike.
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl was a German politician who served as chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998. He was leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998 and…
Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a constructive vote of no confidence.
Epcot is a theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. Epcot is owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company through its Disney Experiences division. The park ope…
EPCOT Center (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) opens at Walt Disney World in Florida.
The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. It employs the Compact Disc Digital…
Sony and Phillips launch the compact disc in Japan; on the same day, Sony releases the model CDP-101 compact disc…
Saheed Adebayo Akinfenwa is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. Nicknamed "The Beast", he was renowned for his huge physical prowess and goalscoring …
Adebayo Akinfenwa, English footballer
Larry Alexander Nacua Fonacier is a Filipino former professional basketball player. He previously served as the team manager for the NLEX Road Warriors of the Philippine Basketball…
Larry Fonacier, Filipino basketball player
Oguchialu Chijioke Onyewu is an American former soccer player who is the Vice President of Sporting for the United States Soccer Federation. He was previously the sporting director…
Oguchi Onyewu, American footballer
Veronica Campbell Brown is a Jamaican retired track and field sprinter, who specialized in the 100 and 200 meters. An eight-time Olympic medalist, she is the second of three women…
Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican sprinter
Tylenol is a brand of medication, advertised for reducing pain, reducing fever, and relieving the symptoms of allergies, cold, cough, headache, and influenza. An active ingredient …
Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.
FC Spartak Moscow is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow. Having won 12 Soviet championships and 10 Russian championships, it is the country's most successful club…
During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki…
The Mary Rose was a carrack in the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII. She was launched in 1511 and served for 34 years in several wars against France, Scotland, and Brittany. A…
The hull of the Mary Rose is recovered, over four hundred years after her sinking during the battle of the Solent.
The Miracle Valley shootout was a confrontation between members of the Christ Miracle Healing Center and Church (CMHCC) and Cochise County law enforcement that occurred in Miracle…
A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a religious cult in Arizona. The shootout leaves two…
Antonio Cruz, known professionally as Tony Sunshine, is an American R&B singer of Puerto Rican descent. He is best known as a member of Fat Joe's hip hop group Terror Squad in the …
Tony Sunshine, American singer-songwriter
Segundo Alejandro Castillo Nazareno is an Ecuadorian football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He was recently the manager of Barcelona SC.
Segundo Castillo, Ecuadorian footballer
Rafael Jerome Pérez is a Dominican former left-handed professional baseball relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians from 2006 to 2012, an…
Rafael Pérez, Dominican baseball player
Layal Mounir Abboud is a Lebanese pop singer, folk music entertainer, sound-lyric poet, concert dancer, fit model and Muslim humanitarian.
Layal Abboud, Lebanese singer
Daniel Mark Hardy is an English former mixed martial artist who fought in the welterweight division. During his professional MMA career, which began in 2004, Hardy fought in multip…
Dan Hardy, English mixed martial artist
Reiko Nakamura is a Japanese Olympic and Asian record-holding swimmer.
Reiko Nakamura, Japanese swimmer
Chloe Rebecca Smith is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich North from 2009 to 2024. She previously served as Secretary o…
Chloe Smith, English politician
Kelly Brianne, known professionally as Kelly Clarkson, is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality. Rising to fame after winning the first season of American Idol…
Kelly Clarkson, American singer-songwriter, talk show host
Nicola Rachele-Beth Grahame was an English television personality and author. She was a contestant on the seventh series of the reality show Big Brother in 2006, which she finished…
Nikki Grahame, English model and journalist (died 2021)
Brian Joseph McCook, known by his drag persona Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova or Katya, is an American drag queen, actor, author, recording artist, podcaster, and comedian. Kat…
Katya Zamolodchikova, American drag queen
Christopher Jason Witten is an American football coach and former player who is currently the tight ends coach for the Oklahoma Sooners. He played as a tight end in the National Fo…
Jason Witten, American football player
Matthew Brennan Cassel is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons. He was a member of seven NFL teams, …
Matt Cassel, American football player