55 events found for 1982
Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in…
Outside Santa Clarita, California, actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed when a helicopter crashes onto them…
Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
The Helsinki Metro, the first rapid transit system of Finland, is opened to the general public.
A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and…
Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation…
Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa. Justice Commandos of the Armenian…
Meitnerium, a synthetic chemical element with the atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für…
The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of…
Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 50 of the 394 people on board.
President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated.
Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes place.
Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.
NFL season: American football players in the National Football League begin a 57-day strike.