Historical Events in 1982 (Part 4)

Events 601 - 793 of 793

• Sep 27 Jan Wolkers awarded but refuses Constantine Huygens-prize
• Sep 27 John Palmer becomes news anchor of Today Show

• Sep 28 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
• Sep 28 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 505
• Sep 29 1st broadcast of comedy "Cheers" on NBC-TV starring Ted Danson and Shelley Long
• Sep 29 Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago
• Sep 29 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 30 National railroad strike in Belgium
• Sep 30 12th Commonwealth Games open in Brisbane, Australia
• Oct 1 EPCOT Center opens in Orlando, Florida
• Oct 1 USSR performs underground nuclear test

• Oct 1 The Sony CDP-101, world's first commercially released Compact Disc player released in Japan for 168,000 yen ($730)

• Oct 2 Bomb attack in Tehran, kills 60, injures 700

• Oct 3 Centre fielder Robin Yount homers twice as Milwaukee whips Baltimore, 10-2 at Memorial Stadium to win the Brewers only AL East Championship
• Oct 4 West German parliament officially confirms Helmut Kohl as the country's new Chancellor
• Oct 5 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• Oct 5 Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia
• Oct 5 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, NM
• Oct 5 First regular season NHL game is played in New Jersey (Newark; NJ Devils play a 3-3 tie against Pittsburgh Penguins at Brendan Byrne Arena; Don Lever scores first Devils' goal
• Oct 5 Pakistan cricket leg-spin bowler Abdul Qadir takes 7-142 as Australia is dismissed for 330 in 2nd Test in Faisalabad; Greg Ritchie scores maiden Test century (106 no) but home side prevails by an innings & 3 runs
• Oct 6 Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals
• Oct 6 Fokker Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk Neth, 17-22 die
• Oct 7 Olof Palme forms Swedish government
• Oct 7 Musical "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater on Broadway NYC and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
• Oct 8 New Jersey Devils 1st NHL victory; beat New York Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands
• Oct 8 Poland bans Solidarity & all labor unions
• Oct 9 Attack on synagogue in Rome leaves 1 dead
• Oct 10 Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia

• Oct 10 US imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union
• Oct 10 MLB National League Championship: St. Louis Cardinals beat Atlanta Braves, 3 games to 0
• Oct 10 MLB American League Championship: Milwaukee Brewers beat California Angels, 3 games to 2

• Oct 11 English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England
• Oct 11 Riot in Amsterdam as tram catches fire
• Oct 12 38.6 cm (15.2") of rainfall, Angoon Alaska (state record)
• Oct 12 Milwaukee Brewer Paul Molitor gets World series record 5 hits

• Oct 14 6,000 Unification church couples wed in Korea
• Oct 14 Islanders assessed 108 penalty minutes, Penguins 125 (233 total)
• Oct 14 NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins

• Oct 16 Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return

• Oct 16 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Oct 17 1st live orchestra on a US commercial network since 1954 (National Symphony)
• Oct 17 Robin Yount is 1st to have 2 4-hit games in a World Series
• Oct 17 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Oct 19 Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty)

• Oct 20 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to George Stigler
• Oct 20 Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected
• Oct 20 St Louis Cards beat Milwaukee Brewers, 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series
• Oct 20 During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.

• Oct 22 Gene Mauch resigns as manager of Angels
• Oct 24 "Rock 'n Roll!: The 1st..." opens at St James Theater NYC for 9 performances
• Oct 24 12th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:14
• Oct 24 13th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:29

• Oct 25 David Hookes scores Cricket century in 34 balls 43 mins, SA v Victoria

• Oct 26 US budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982
• Oct 27 China announces its population has reached 1 billion plus people
• Oct 27 IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics
• Oct 28 NASA launches RCA-E
• Oct 28 Spain's socialists win/communists lose elections
• Oct 29 Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted

• Oct 30 Portugal revises constitution
• Oct 31 "Rock 'n Roll!: The 1st..." closes at St James NYC after 9 performances
• Oct 31 Pope John Paul II becomes first pontiff to visit Spain

• Nov 1 Andrew "Dice" Clay & George Wendt appear in "Trick or Treatment"

• Nov 1 Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
• Nov 2 Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die

• Nov 3 San Diego guard Randy Smith plays his 845th consecutive game in Clippers' 130-111 loss in Philadelphia; passes Johnny “Red” Kerr's NBA record; goes on to play in 906 straight games
• Nov 4 Ruud Lubbers becomes Dutch premier
• Nov 5 Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record)

• Nov 7 "Your Arms are Too Short to Box" closes at Alvin NYC after 69 performances
• Nov 7 Turkey adopts constitution
• Nov 9 Brewers' Robin Yount wins AL MVP unanimously

• Nov 10 IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankruptcy
• Nov 10 Susan Cooper/Hume Cronyn's "Foxfire" premieres in NYC


• Nov 11 5th space shuttle mission: Columbia makes the first officially "operational" shuttle mission
• Nov 11 Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters near Tyre; kills 60
• Nov 11 Joe Altobelli succeeds retiring Earl Weaver as Baltimore Orioles manager
• Nov 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Nov 12 Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket for Pakistan v India, goes to 215
• Nov 12 Aaron Pryor scores a 14th round KO of Alexis Argüello in Miami to retain his WBA super lightweight boxing title in the first of 2 meetings between the Hall of Famers; The Ring’s 'Fight of the Decade'
• Nov 13 Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens in Washington, D.C., featuring the names of over 58,000 US soldiers killed or missing in the Vietnam War
• Nov 13 WBA lightweight champion Ray Mancini beats South Korean challenger Duk Koo Kim by TKO in 14th round in Las Vegas; Kim collapses, falls into a coma and dies 4 days later; as a result, WBC shortens title bouts to 12 rounds; WBA & WBO follow in 1988, and IBF in 1989

• Nov 15 4th ACE Cable Awards: "Bernstein/Beethoven" by Horant H. Hohlfeld and Harry J. Kraut
• Nov 16 5th space shuttle mission: Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base after 5 days in space, completing its 1st operational flight
• Nov 16 Agreement reached ending 57 day football strike

• Nov 17 Dale Murphy wins NL MVP
• Nov 18 Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic, crowned 32nd Miss World
• Nov 18 South Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim dies from injuries sustained during a 14-round beating by Ray Mancini in Las Vegas; WBC shortens title bouts to 12 rounds; WBA and WBO follow in 1988, and IBF in 1989

• Nov 21 32nd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Darrell Waltrip wins
• Nov 22 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas
• Nov 23 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB & mated for STS-6
• Nov 23 FCC drops limits on duration & frequency of TV ads

• Nov 25 The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day Fire destroys an entire city block, including the Northwestern National Bank building and the recently closed Donaldson's Department Store.
• Nov 26 Clyde King named Yankee manager

• Nov 27 Yasuhiro Nakasone elected Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
• Nov 27 Kepler Wessels scores century in 1st Test Cricket (162 v England)

• Nov 27 47th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 23-22 in Birmingham, Auburn's first win in the series in 10 years
• Nov 28 "Pirates of Penzance" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 772 performances
• Nov 28 CFL Grey Cup, CNE Stadium, Toronto: Edmonton Eskimos' record 5th straight Championship; defeat Toronto Argonauts, 32-16

• Nov 29 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Nov 30 STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad
• Nov 30 US submarine Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in South China Sea
• Nov 30 USSR performs nuclear test
• Nov 30 "Thriller", 6th studio album by Michael Jackson is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1984, best-selling album of all time, Billboard Album of the Year 1983)
• Nov 30 Ottumwa, Iowa, declared "Video Game Capital of the World" by mayor Jerry Parker

• Dec 1 Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart
• Dec 1 Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of Mexico

• Dec 2 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart
• Dec 3 35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork, Arkansas (state record)
• Dec 3 77°F highest December temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio
• Dec 3 After losing his world welterweight boxing titles to Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns wins WBC Super Welterweight crown in a majority points decision over Wilfred Benitez at Superdome, New Orleans

• Dec 4 48th Heisman Trophy Award: Herschel Walker, Georgia (RB)
• Dec 4 China adopts its constitution
• Dec 4 Police and racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp
• Dec 5 Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 33 pass completions
• Dec 5 Ingrid Berghmans (Neth) retains judo's world championship
• Dec 5 Mel Gray ends NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions
• Dec 5 Seattle Univ Baptist Ch declares sanctuary for Cen Am refugees
• Dec 5 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Dec 5 15th NAACP Image Awards: "An Officer and a Gentleman" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
• Dec 5 PGA Seniors' Championship Men's Golf, PGA National GC: Don January wins his lone Champions Tour major title by 1 stroke over Julius Boros
• Dec 6 Droppin Well bombing: 11 British soldiers and 6 civilians are killed by an Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) time bomb at the Droppin’ Well Bar in Ballykelly, County Londonderry


• Dec 7 Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building
• Dec 7 In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the US.
• Dec 7 Dos Erres massacre in Guatemala during country's civil war, 171 people killed led by Santos López Alonzo
• Dec 8 "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" opens at Ambassador NYC for 6 performances
• Dec 8 Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
• Dec 8 Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents
• Dec 8 Norman Mayer holds Washington Monument hostage, demanding an end to nuclear weapons. Is killed by police after 10 hrs (he had no explosives)

• Dec 9 World Boxing Council first to reduce the length of championship fights from 15 to 12 rounds, and allows referees to order standing 8-count for fighters in trouble

• Dec 10 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
• Dec 10 CDC report on a transfusion recipient who developed AIDS symptoms
• Dec 12 "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" closes at Ambassador NYC after 6 performances
• Dec 12 $9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in NYC
• Dec 12 The "Snowplow Game": when a snowstorm holds a New England vs Miami game scoreless, Mark Henderson, a convict on work release, on Patriots coach Ron Meyer order, clears the path for John Smith's attempt, which wins the game for the Patriots, 3-0

• Dec 13 Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die
• Dec 13 Australian Open Men's Tennis: South African Johan Kriek wins 2nd straight Australian title; repeats previous year's win over American Steve Denton 6-3, 6-3, 6-2

• Dec 15 Teamsters president Roy Williams and 4 others convicted of bribery
• Dec 15 Sao Tome & Principe constitution approved
• Dec 15 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
• Dec 16 The Federal Reserve announces that the operating capacity of factories has gone down to 67.8%.
• Dec 18 Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds
• Dec 22 William Mastrosimone's play "Extremities" premieres in NYC
• Dec 23 The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
• Dec 24 Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic

• Dec 26 TIME's Man of the Year is a computer
• Dec 26 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Dec 27 Imran Khan 8-60 to bring innings victory v India at Karachi
• Dec 28 Ballon d'Or: Juventus striker Paolo Rossi is named best European football player; beats Bordeaux midfielder Alain Giresse and Juventus' Polish midfielder Zbigniew Boniek

• Dec 29 Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant ends his career with Alabama (323 wins)
• Dec 30 Anthony Shaffer's "Whodunnit" premieres in NYC
• Dec 30 England defeat Australia by three runs at cricket MCG
• Dec 30 US Assay Office in New York City, NY closes
• Dec 31 CBS Mystery Theater final episode on radio after 8 years
• Dec 31 NBC radio cancels almost all of its network daily features
• Dec 31 TV soap "Doctors" ends 19 year run

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