May 1982 in History

Events in History

Radio Premiere

May 3 President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts

May 4 British destroyer HMS Sheffield hit by Exocet rocket off Falkland Islands: 20 of her crew died.
May 7 IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
May 7 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 12 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike (Rabbit is Rich)
May 12 US Football League forms

Historic Event

May 12 In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish Traditionalist priest who opposed Vatican II reforms and saw Pope John Paul II as a perpetrator of them, is stopped prior to his attempt to attack the Pope with a bayonet

May 13 Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy
May 13 Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space
May 14 Guinea adopts constitution
May 16 Columbia moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating in preparation for STS-4
May 16 Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep
May 18 Unification Church founder Rev Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion
May 21 British troops land on Falkland Islands
May 23 Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
May 23 Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders a saint
May 24 Liberation of Khorramshahr; Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran-Iraq War
May 25 Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar
May 25 STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad
May 26 British ship Atlantic Conveyor carrying Chinook helicopters and destroyer HMS Coventry hit in Falkland war: 39 crew members die
May 28 Pope John Paul II is 1st reigning pope to visit Great Britain (Adrian IV was born in England, as Nicholas Breakspear)
May 29 1st papal visit to Britain since 1531
May 29 Pentagon plans 1st strategy to fight a nuclear war
May 30 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO

Birthdays in History

May 7 Matt Gaetz, American politician (Rep-R-Fla 2017-), born in Hollywood, Florida
May 10 Daniel Harris, Australian rules footballer
May 10 Jeremy Gable, American playwright
May 13 Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol
May 13 Oguchi Onyewu, American footballer, born in Washington D.C.
May 24 DaMarcus Beasley, American footballer (Houston Dynamo), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana
May 26 Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model

Deaths in History

May 8 Neil Bogart, American record executive (b. 1943)
May 8 Al Leader, Canadian-American Hockey Hall of Fame player, referee and administrator (Western Hockey League), dies at 78
May 10 Jean C M Picart le Doux, French designer, dies
May 10 Peter Weiss, German author and playwright (Marat/Sade), dies at 65
May 14 Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister who unsuccessfully attempted to establish a Belgian government in London during World War II, dies at 80
May 28 Lt Col 'H'. Jones VC, Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment (British Army) (Falklands War) (b. 1940)

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