1982 Jan 5, A Federal judge voided an Arkansas state law requiring
balanced classroom treatment of evolution and creationism.
(HN, 1/5/99)(MC, 1/5/02)
1982 Jan 6, Truck driver William G. Bonin was convicted in Los
Angeles of being the "freeway killer" who had murdered 14 young men and
boys.
(AP, 1/6/02)
1982 Jan 8, American Telephone and Telegraph settled the Justice
Department's antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself
of the 22 Bell System companies. The ATT Bell System was ordered to be
subdivided into 7 Baby Bells by the US government. The case was led by
William F. Baxter (d.1998 at 69), anti-trust chief for the Reagan administration.
(I&I, Penzias, p.190)(HFA, '96, p.22)(AP, 1/8/98)(SFC, 11/28/98,
p.C2)
1982 Jan 8, Justice Dept withdrew an antitrust suit against IBM.
(MC, 1/8/02)
1982 Jan 9, A 5.9 earthquake hit New England & Canada; the
1st since 1855.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1982 Jan 11, Dwight Clark made "The Catch" and the SF 49ers won
against Dallas in the NFC title game. In Super Bowl XVI San Francisco played
against Cincinnati.
(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.B13)(SFC, 1/28/97, p.E1)
1982 Jan 12, Peking protested the sale of U.S. planes to Taiwan.
(HN, 1/12/99)
1982 Jan 13, An Air Florida 737 crashed into the capital's 14th
Street Bridge after takeoff and fell into the Potomac River, killing 78
people.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1982 Jan 15, Red Smith (76), sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk),
died.
(MC, 1/15/02)
1982 Jan 18, Four Thunderbird pilots died when their T-38 Talon
jets crashed at Indian Springs Auxiliary Airfield, Nv. Mechanical failure
was cited as the cause. Shortly after, the precision flying team began
flying F-16 fighter jets. It was the worst accident in the Thunderbirds'
history. In all, 18 pilots and one crew member have died in Thunderbird
crashes.
(www.reviewjournal.com)(SFC, 8/30/03, p.A22)
1982 Jan 22, President Reagan formally linked progress in arms
control to Soviet repression in Poland.
(HN, 1/22/99)
1982 Jan 24, A draft of Air Force history reported that the U.S.
secretly sprayed herbicides on Laos during the Vietnam War.
(HN, 1/24/99)
1982 Jan 27, "Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" opened at Royale
NYC for 747 performances.
(MC, 1/27/02)
1982 Jan 28, Italian anti-terrorism forces rescued U.S. Brigadier
General James L. Dozier, 42 days after he had been kidnapped by the Red
Brigades.
(AP, 1/28/98)
1982 Jan, In Haiti journalist Richard Brisson was murdered. He
was part of a small group of guerrillas attempting to overthrow dictator
Jean-Claude Duvalier.
(SFC, 10/20/98, p.C12)
1982 Feb 1, Top hits included: I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do),
Daryl Hall and John Oates; Waiting for a Girl Like You, Foreigner; Hooked
on Classics, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; The Sweetest Thing I’ve
Ever Known, Juice Newton.
(440 Int'l, 2/1/1999)
1982 Feb 1, 20 years ago, "Late Night with David Letterman" premiered
on NBC TV.
(AP, 2/1/02)
1982 Feb 4, Musical "Pump Boys & Dinettes," premiered in NYC
for 573 performances.
(MC, 2/4/02)
1982 Feb 4, President Reagan announced a plan to eliminate all
medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe.
(AP, 2/4/02)
1982 Feb 5, DEA announced the seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana
and 495 people.
(MC, 2/5/02)
1982 Feb 5, Laker Airways collapsed owing $351M.
(MC, 2/5/02)
1982 Feb 6, Civil rights workers began a march from Carrolton
to Montgomery, Alabama.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1982 Feb 6, In Concord, Ca., Tara Burke (2 3/4 years old) was
kidnapped by Luis "Tree Frog" Johnson (33) and Alex Cabarga (17). She was
molested and held captive in a van for ten months before being freed on
Dec 18. Johnson was sentenced to 527 years in prison and Cabarga served
25 years.
(SFC,10/27/97, p.A1,4)
1982 Feb 8, John Hay Whitney, US newspaper magnate, died.
(MC, 2/8/02)
1982 Feb 14, Blas Cabrera, physicist at Stanford Univ., announced
the recording of an event that may well have been the first detection of
a magnetic monopole.
(JST-TMC,1983, p.185)
1982 Feb 15, Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), began a streak of 63 consecutive
free throws.
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)
1982 Feb 15, 84 men were killed when the Ocean Ranger oil-drilling
platform sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a fierce storm.
(AP, 2/15/98)(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)(WSJ, 10/3/01, p.A20)
1982 Feb 17, Thelonious S. Monk (b.1917), US, jazz pianist, composer
(Blue Monk), died. Monk, one of the early bebop musicians of the 1940s,
stopped touring and recording in the early 70s, leaving such jazz standards
as "Straight, No Chaser" and " ‘Round Midnight."
(HNQ, 2/28/01)(MC, 2/17/02)
1982 Feb 18, Mexico devalued the peso by 30 percent to fight an
economic slide.
(HN, 2/18/98)
1982 Feb 18, Edith Ngaio Marsh (82), New Zealand detective writer,
producer, died.
(MC, 2/18/02)
1982 Feb 20, Carnegie Hall in New York began $20 million renovations.
(HN, 2/20/98)
1982 Feb 21, "Ain't Misbehavin'" closed at Longacre Theater, NYC,
after 1604 performances.
(MC, 2/21/02)
1982 Feb 22, NYC Mayor Koch announced he will run for NY governor
(unsuccessful).
(MC, 2/22/02)
1982 Feb 22, Murray "the K" Kaufman (60), NYC DJ (5th Beatle),
died.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1982 Feb 23, Michael Frayn's "Noises Off," premiered in London.
(MC, 2/23/02)
1982 Feb 26, Gabor Szabo (45), Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect
Circle), died.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1982 Feb 27, Wayne B. Williams was found guilty of murdering two
of the 28 young blacks whose bodies were found in the Atlanta area over
a 22-month period.
(AP, 2/27/99)
1982 Feb 28, ATT lost a record $7 billion for fiscal year ending
on this day.
(MC, 2/28/02)
1982 Feb 28, The FALN, a Puerto Rican Nationalist Group, bombed
Wall Street.
(MC, 2/28/02)
1982 Feb, In Guatemala over 100 men from Rio Negro were killed
by Xococ patrolmen.
(SFC, 1/18/99, p.A11)
1982 Mar 1, New York Times raised its price from 25˘ to 30˘.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1982 Mar 1, Russian spacecraft Venera 14 landed on Venus and
sent back data.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1982 Mar 1, 5 died as ski lift malfunctioned at Lúz-Ardiden
in Pyrenees.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1982 Mar 2, In Peru the "Illuminated Path" terror group freed
260 prisoners.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1982 Mar 3, The US Senate began debate on expulsion of Senator
Harrison Williams (D-NJ).
(SC, 3/3/02)
1982 Mar 4, NASA launched Intelsat V.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1982 Mar 5, John Belushi (33), comedian (Sat Night Live),
was found dead of a drug overdose at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Strip,
a rented bungalow in Hollywood.
(SFEC, 3/16/97, z1 p.4)(AP, 3/5/98)(MC, 3/5/02)
1982 Mar 6, Ayn Rand (77), author-philosopher (Atlas Shrugged),
died in NY.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1982 Mar 8, The U.S. accused the Soviets of killing 3,000 Afghans
with poison gas.
(HN, 3/8/98)
1982 Mar 9, Charles J. Haughey was chosen as Premier of Ireland.
(HN, 3/9/98)
1982 Mar 10, Pres Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against
Libya and banned Libyan oil imports, because of the continued support of
terrorism.
(HN, 3/10/98)(MC, 3/10/02)
1982 Mar 11, Protesting his innocence, Sen. Harrison A. Williams
Jr., D-N.J., resigned after 23 years in the Senate, rather than face expulsion
in the wake of his ABSCAM conviction.
(AP, 3/11/02)
1982 Mar 12, PLO chief Yasser Arafat appeared on "Nightline."
(MC, 3/12/02)
1982 Mar 13, At the Massacre of Rio Negro 130 [177] Achi Maya
women and children were killed by Xococ patrolmen. On Nov 30, 1998, three
Xococ pro-government fighters, Carlos Chen, Pedro Gonzalez and Fermin Lajuj,
were sentenced to death for their war crimes in the massacre. In 2003 the
PBS documentary "Discovering Dominga" told the story of a Mayan girl who
survived the massacre and her struggle to discover what happened to her
family.
(SFC, 12/1/98, p.A11)(SFC, 1/18/99, p.A11)(SFC, 7/14/00, p.A11)(SFC,
7/4/03, p.E3)
1982 Mar 14, In Guatemala in Cuarto Pueblo 309 villagers were
killed over three days by government troops.
(SFC, 12/9/96, p.A18)
1982 Mar 16, Claus Von Bulow was found guilty in Newport, R.I.,
of trying to kill his now-comatose wife, Martha, with insulin. Von Bulow
was acquitted in a retrial.
(AP, 3/16/02)
1982 Mar 20, U.S. scientists returned from Antarctica with the
first land mammal fossils found there.
(HN, 3/20/98)
1982 Mar 21, The movie "Annie" premiered.
(MC, 3/21/02)
1982 Mar 23, Gen’l. Efrain Rios Montt seized power from Pres.
Lucas Garcia. Under his 17-month rule the army burned Indian villages and
killed thousands of suspected leftists. Montt established the Guatemalan
Republican Front (FRG).
(SFC, 7/31/98, p.D3)(SFC, 11/8/99, p.A10)(SFC, 6/14/01, p.A15)
1982 Mar 24, The US submarine Jacksonville collided with a Turkish
freighter near Virginia.
(MC, 3/24/02)
1982 Mar 26, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder released "Ebony
& Ivory" in the UK.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1982 Mar 26, Soap opera "Capitol" premiered.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1982 Mar 26, Ground was broken in Washington D.C. for the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial designed by Maya Lin of Yale. It was dedicated Nov 13.
(NG, May 1985, p.554, 557)(AP, 3/26/97)(HN, 3/25/98)
1982 Mar 27, "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" closed at 46th
St in NYC after 1577 performances.
(MC, 3/27/02)
1982 Mar 28, Voters in El Salvador went to the polls for a constituent
assembly election that resulted in victory for the Christian Democrats,
led by President Jose Napoleon Duarte.
(AP, 3/28/97)
1982 Mar 29, 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Mommie Dearest won.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1982 Mar 29, 54th Academy Awards "Chariots of Fire," Henry Fonda
and K. Hepburn won.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1982 Mar 29, In New Orleans, Michael Jordan’s 16-foot jump shot
with 15 seconds remaining gave North Carolina a thrilling 63-62 victory
over Georgetown and the NCAA basketball championship before 61,612 at the
Superdome tonight. Six players in that game: Floyd, Ewing, Anthony Jones,
Michael Jordan, James Worty and Sam Perkins, became NBA first-round draft
choices.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/gtown/longterm/1999/thompson/archives/thomp033082b.htm
1982 Mar 29, Carl Orff (86), German composer (Carmina Burana),
died.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1982 cMar, At the Academy Awards "Chariots of Fire" won for best
picture, Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn the best actor and best actress
awards for their roles in "On Golden Pond." Warren Beatty won best director
for "Reds."
(SFC, 12/14/99, p.D7)
1982 Apr 1, The U.S. transferred the Canal Zone to Panama.
(HN, 4/1/98)
1982 Apr 2, Several thousand troops from Argentina seized the
disputed Falkland Islands, located in the south Atlantic, from Britain
but Lady Thatcher had Britain take them back the following June. Britain
fought with Argentina in the Falkland Islands War, also known as the Falklands
War, the Malvinas War and the South Atlantic War. The short, undeclared
war between the two nations was fought over claims to the Falkland Islands
(Islas Malvinas) and neighboring islands. Argentina had laid claims to
the territories since the 19th century, but spurred by a related dispute
on South Georgia island and political expediency, the military government
of Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. A British naval task force was
assembled and headed towards the war zone by late April. British forces
established a beachhead on the Falklands in late May. With the surrender
of the Argentine garrison at Stanley on June 14, the conflict was essentially
over.
(TMC, 1994, p.1982)(WSJ, 12/12/95, p.A-15)(AP, 4/2/99)(HNQ, 1/10/01)
1982 Apr 3, Britain dispatched a naval task force to the south
Atlantic to reclaim the disputed Falkland Islands from Argentina. The UN
Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands.
(AP, 4/3/02)(MC, 4/3/02)
1982 Apr 5, Abe Fortas (71), Supreme court justice, died.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1982 Apr 7, Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh was arrested
and later executed.
(MC, 4/7/02)
1982 Apr 9, Robert H.G. Havemann, German chemist, dissident, died.
(MC, 4/9/02)
1982 Apr 11, In Israel Alan Goodman, opened fire on Palestinians
praying at the Temple Mount, the site of Islam’s third-holiest shrine.
He killed 2 and was sentenced to life in prison. He was released to the
US in 1997 after agreeing to spend the next 8 years in the US.
(SFC,10/27/97, p.A9)
1982 Apr 12, 3 CBS employees were shot to death in NYC parking
lot.
(MC, 4/12/02)
1982 Apr 19, Astronauts Sally K. Ride and Guion S. Bluford Jr.
became the first woman and first African-American to be tapped by NASA
for U.S. space missions.
(AP, 4/19/97)(HN, 4/19/97)
1982 Apr 21, Dr. Michael E. Bakey performed the 1st successful
heart implant.
(MC, 4/21/02)
1982 Apr 22, Melville Bell Grosvenor (80), president of the Natl.
Geographic Society, died.
(MC, 4/22/02)
1982 Apr 23, The Unabomber mailed a pipe bomb from Provo, Utah,
to Penn state Univ. It was forwarded to Vanderbilt Univ. scientist Patrick
C. Fisher. It was later attributed to the Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski.[see
May 5]
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A3)(SFEC,11/9/97, Z1 p.4)
1982 Apr 24, 150 Khomeini followers assaulted a student dormitory
in West Germany.
(MC, 4/24/02)
1982 Apr 25, In accordance with Camp David agreements, Israel
completed Sinai withdrawal.
(HN, 4/25/98)
1982 Apr 25, E. Bowell discovered asteroids #2688: Halley, #3275:
Oberndorfer & #3692.
(SS, 4/25/02)
1982 Apr 25, Don Wilson (81), TV announcer (Jack Benny Show),
died.
(SS, 4/25/02)
1982 Apr 26, Popular music of the day included: "I Love Rock ‘n’
Roll" Joan Jett and the Blackhearts; "We Got the Beat" by the Go-Go’s"
"Chariots of Fire" by Vangelis; and "Crying My Heart Out over You" by Ricky
Scaggs.
(440 Int’l. Internet, 4/26/97, p.1)
1982 Apr 26, Rod Stewart was mugged. A gunman stole his $50,000
Porsche.
(MC, 4/26/02)
1982 Apr 27, The trial of John W. Hinckley Jr., who had shot four
people, including President Reagan, began in Washington. The trial ended
with Hinckley's acquittal by reason of insanity.
(AP, 4/27/97)
1982 Apr 29, The Dance Committee of the International Theatre
Institute, UNESCO, created International Dance Day to be celebrated every
year on the 29th of April. The aim of International Dance Day is to celebrate
dance as an art form and to bring people together in peace and friendship
through the shared language of dance. The date was chosen in commemoration
of the death of the greatly influential dancer, choreographer and innovator
Jean-Georges Noverre (1727-1810).
http://www.pch.gc.ca/arts/dance/danse_e.htm
1982 Apr 29, Alfredo Magana was elected president of El Salvador.
(Maggio, 4/29/00)
1982 Apr, Robert Maurice Bloom (18) killed his father, stepmother
and stepsister in a savage murder spree. He was convicted and sentenced
to death until appellate attorneys uncovered documents that he was mentally
ill and likely did not understand the consequences of his actions. Bloom
was ordered released in 1997 pending a new trial.
(SFC,12/25/97, p.A22)
1982 Apr, In South Africa Nelson Mandela left his jail cell on
Robben Island.
(SFC, 12/19/96, p.C1)
1982 May 2, Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano
was sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men. [see
May 3]
(MC, 5/2/02)
1982 May 3, The British sank Argentina's only cruiser in
Falkland Islands War. Some 600 Argentine sailors were killed when the Belgrano
was sunk. Lord Terence Thornton Lewin (d.1999 at 78), British military
commander, was regarded as the one who persuaded Margaret Thatcher to order
the sinking. [see May 2]
(HN, 5/3/98)(SFC, 1/25/99, p.A20)
1982 May 4, British torpedo boat Sheffield was hit by Exocet rocket
off Falkland.
(MC, 5/4/02)
1982 May 5, Janet Smith, a secretary, was injured when a bomb
package was opened.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A3)(SFEC,11/9/97, Z1 p.4)
1982 May 10, Peter Weiss (65), German playwright (Marat-Sade),
died.
(MC, 5/10/02)
1982 May 12, In Fatima, Portugal, security guards overpowered
a Spanish priest armed with a bayonet who was trying to reach Pope John
Paul II.
(AP, 10/12/97)(SC, Internet, 10/12/97)
1982 May 13, Chicago Cubs won their 8,000th game (beat Astros).
(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1982 May 13, In hockey Canucks 0-Isles 3-Stanley Cup-Isles
held 3-0 lead.
(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1982 May 13, Braniff Airlines filed for bankruptcy.
(MC, 5/13/02)
1982 May 13, Soyuz T-5 was launched. Berezovoi & Lebedev
spent the next 211 days in space.
(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1982 May 18, Unification Church founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon
was convicted of tax evasion. Moon (b.1920) was convicted and later imprisoned
on tax evasion charges. He claimed to be the second coming of Jesus Christ
and that his purpose was "to unite Christianity and bring families back
to God." "Moonies in America" [by Shupe et al] is a book critical of the
Unification Church. [see Jul 16]
(SFC, 10/31/96, p.A1,8)(SC, 5/18/02)
1982 May 19, Sophia Loren was jailed in Naples for tax evasion.
(MC, 5/19/02)
1982 May 21, British troops landed on the Falkland Islands.
(MC, 5/21/02)
1982 May 23, BBC warned that Britain will bomb Argentina.
(MC, 5/23/02)
1982 May 25, Larry J. Blake (68), character actor (Earth vs. the
Flying Saucers), died.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1982 May 25, Iranian troops reconquered Khorramshahr.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1982 May 29, Pentagon planned 1st strategy to fight a nuclear
war.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1982 May 29, 1st papal visit to Britain since 1531.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1982 May 29, Romy Schneider (43), actress (Cardinal), died of
cardiac arrest.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1982 May 30, Spain became NATO's 16th member, the
first country to enter the Western alliance since West Germany in 1955.
[see Dec 7, 1981]
(AP, 5/30/97)
1982 May 31, Jack Dempsey (86), former heavyweight boxing champ,
actor, died.
(MC, 5/31/02)
1982 Jun 1, The Rolling Stones released their "Still Life" album.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1982 Jun 2, An Abu Nidal hit team shot Israeli Ambassador Shlomo
Argov in the head in London. Argov survived.
(WSJ, 8/20/02, p.A18)
1982 Jun 4, Israel attacked targets in south Lebanon.
(MC, 6/4/02)
1982 Jun 6, Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon ordered his
forces to invade southern Lebanon to drive Palestine Liberation Organization
fighters out of the country. Islamic radicals formed Hezbollah in response
to Israel’s attack. The Israelis withdrew in June 1985. Hezbollah was formed
with Iranian help as a radical offshoot of Amal, a Shiite Muslim movement.
A 70-day siege by 30,000 Israeli troops left up to 14,000 Lebanese and
Palestinian civilians dead.
(WSJ, 11/17/95, p.A-10)(SFC, 4/17/96, p.A-10)(AP, 6/6/97)(SFC,
6/15/98, p.A10)(SFC, 5/24/00, p.A15)(MC, 6/6/02)
1982 Jun 7, Pres. Reagan met with Pope John Paul II and Queen
Elizabeth.
(SC, 6/7/02)
1982 Jun 8, President Reagan became the first American chief executive
to address a joint session of the British Parliament.
(AP, 6/8/97)
1982 Jun 8, [Leroy] Satchel Paige (75), US baseball pitcher,
died.
(MC, 6/8/02)
1982 Jun 9, Israel wiped out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley.
(MC, 6/9/02)
1982 Jun 11, Movie "ET The Extra-Terrestrial" was released and
became the highest grossing film to date.
(SC, 6/11/02)
1982 Jun 11, Israel & Syria stopped fighting in Lebanon.
(SC, 6/11/02)
1982 Jun 12, Some 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators rallied in
Central Park, NYC.
(MC, 6/12/02)
1982 Jun 13, King Khalid of Saudi Arabia died at the age of 69;
he was succeeded by a half brother, Crown Prince Fahd.
(AP, 6/13/02)
1982 Jun 14, Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on
the disputed Falkland Islands. 970 people were killed including 255 British
soldiers. Argentine dictator Leopaldo Galtieri led the initial attack in
the 72-day war. The dead in the ten-week war included 712 Argentines, 255
Britons and 3 islanders.
(AP, 6/14/97)(SFC, 10/23/98, p.D5)(SFC, 4/3/02, p.A7)
1982 Jun 15, Riots took place in Argentina after Falklands-Malvinas
defeat.
(MC, 6/15/02)
1982 Jun 17, Pres. Reagan made his 1st UN General Assembly address:
his "evil empire" speech.
(MC, 6/17/02)
1982 Jun 17, Pres. Galtieri resigned after leading Argentina
to defeat in Falkland Islands War.
(MC, 6/17/02)
1982 Jun 18, John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author, died.
(MC, 6/18/02)
1982 Jun 18, In Italy Roberto Calvi, director of Banco Ambrosiano,
hanged himself following the fraudulent bankruptcy of the bank. In 1992
the chairman of Olivetti SpA Carlo De Benedetti was convicted for contributing
to the bankruptcy. In 1996 the courts upheld his conviction and that of
30 others. In 2003 RAI state television said prosecutors believed the Mafia
killed Roberto Calvi because he lost their money and knew too much about
their operations.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A10)(MC, 6/18/02)(AP, 7/24/03)
1982 Jun 19, Asia's first album topped the album charts.
(DTnet, 6/19/97)
1982 Jun 19, R.C., "Dance Wit' Me part 1" by Rick James peaked
at #64 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 6/19/97)
1982 Jun 19, R.C., "Crimson & Clover" by Joan Jett &
the Blackhearts peaked at #7 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 6/19/97)
1982 Jun 19, R.C., "Body Language" by Queen peaked at #11 on
the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 6/19/97)
1982 Jun 19, In a case that galvanized Asian-Americans, Vincent
Chin (27), a Chinese-American engineering student, was beaten to death
outside a nightclub in Highland Park, Mich., by autoworker Ronald Ebens.
Two unemployed auto workers mistook Chin for being Japanese. Each one was
sentenced to 3 years probation.
(AP, 6/19/97)(SFEC, 2/6/00, Rp.10)
1982 Jun 21, A jury in Washington, D.C., found John Hinckley Jr.
innocent by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Reagan and
three other men.
(AP, 6/21/97)(HN, 6/21/98)
1982 Jun 21, Prince William, eldest son of Prince Charles and
Princess Diana, was born.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1982 Jun 24, A US Equal Rights Amendment went down to defeat.
(MC, 6/24/02)
1982 Jun 24, Supreme Court ruled that the president cannot be
sued for actions while in office.
(MC, 6/24/02)
1982 Jun 27, "Dancin'" closed at Broadhurst Theater in NYC after
1,774 performances.
(MC, 6/27/02)
1982 Jun 27, The 4th Space Shuttle, Mission-Columbia 4, was launched.
(SC, 6/27/02)
1982 Jun 27, Jack Mullaney (49), actor (My Living Doll, It's
About Time), died.
(SC, 6/27/02)
1982 Jun 29, Israel invaded Lebanon. [see June 6]
(HN, 6/29/98)
1982 Jun 30, Federal Equal Rights Amendment failed with 3 states
short of ratification.
(MC, 6/30/02)
1982 Jun, In Guatemala the village of Chacalte was attacked by
guerrillas and an estimated 120 people were killed. The attack was for
apparent collaboration by the village with the military’s armed civil patrols.
(SFC, 9/3/97, p.C3)
1982 Jul 1, In NYC Sun Myung Moon wed 2,075 Unification Church
couples at Madison Square Garden.
(MC, 7/1/02)(Internet)
1982 Jul 1, Cal Ripken's 1st pro baseball game.
(MC, 7/1/02)
1982 Jul 1, General Reynaldo Bignone was sworn in as president
of Argentina.
(MC, 7/1/02)
1982 Jul 2, Larry Walters, a Los Angeles truck driver, flew 16,000
feet into the air with 42 helium balloons attached to a lawn chair.
(SC, 7/2/02)(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A17)
1982 Jul 2, A bomb exploded in the hands of Prof. Diogenes Angelakos
(d.1997 at 77) in Berkeley. It was later attributed to the Unabomber Theodore
Kaczynski.
(SFEC,11/9/97, Z1 p.4)
1982 Jul 2, Soyuz T-6 returned to Earth.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1982 Jul 4, The space shuttle Columbia 4 concluded its fourth
and final test flight with landing at Edwards AFB.
(Maggio, 98)(AP, 7/4/02)
1982 Jul 4, Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado was elected president
of Mexico. Madrid was chosen by Pres. Portillo as his successor.
(SFC, 11/28/98, p.C2)(Maggio)
1982 Jul 4, USSR performed nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk
USSR.
(Maggio)
1982 Jul 6, President Ronald Reagan agreed to contribute U.S.
troops to the peacekeeping unit in Beirut.
(HN, 7/6/98)
1982 Jul 8, Porn star John Homes was convicted of receiving stolen
property.
(MC, 7/8/02)
1982 Jul 8, In Dujail, Iraq, 17 Islamic militants opened fire
on a passing convoy and killed several people, but Saddam Hussein escaped.
247,000 acres of orchards and palm groves, the town's primary source of
income, were destroyed in retribution and 386 people were locked up until
1986.
(AP, 5/28/03)
1982 Jul 9, A Pan Am Boeing 727 crashed in Kenner, La., killing
all 146 people aboard and eight people on the ground.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1982 Jul 9, Margaret Thatcher began her 2nd term as British prime
minister.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1982 Jul 10, Samuel Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" sold for $3,250,000.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1982 Jul 10, Pope John Paul II named Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin
of Cincinnati to succeed the late Cardinal John Cody as head of the Archdiocese
of Chicago.
(AP, 7/10/02)
1985 Jul 10, Bowing to pressure from irate customers, the Coca-Cola
Company said it would resume selling old-formula Coke, while continuing
to sell New Coke.
(AP, 7/10/00)
1982 Jul 10, Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], Austria-US, singer (Metropolitan
Opera), died.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1982 Jul 11, Italian soccer team won its first World Cup in 44
years.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1982 Jul 12, Britain announced it was returning 593 Argentine
POWs.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1982 Jul 16, Sun Myung Moon was sentenced to 18 months for tax
fraud.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1982 Jul 18, In Guatemala soldiers and paramilitary troops massacred
267 people in the remote hamlet of Plan de Sanchez. In 2001 local communities
filed genocide charges against congressional head Efrain Rios Montt,
who was the dictator at the time of the massacre.
(SFC, 6/6/01, p.C3)
1982 Jul 20, Irish Republican Army bombs exploded in two London
parks, killing eight British soldiers, along with seven horses belonging
to the Queen’s Household Cavalry.
(AP, 7/20/00)
1982 Jul 21, Dave Garroway (69), former TV host of the "Today
Show" (1952-1961, committed suicide.
(SFC, 1/11/02, p.D19)(MC, 7/21/02)
1982 Jul 23, The Intl. Whaling Commission voted for a total ban
on commercial whaling starting in 1985.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1982 Jul 23, Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors were killed
when a helicopter crashed on top of them during filming of a Vietnam War
scene for "Twilight Zone: The Movie." Director John Landis and four associates
were later acquitted of manslaughter charges in connection with the deaths.
(AP, 7/23/02)
1982 Jul 24, Anna Paquin, Oscar winning actress (Piano), was born.
(MC, 7/24/02)
1982 Aug 12, Henry Fonda (77), film star (On Golden Pond), died
from heart disease.
(TMC, 1994, p.1982)(SC, 8/12/02)
1982 Aug 18, For the first time, volume on the New York Stock
exchange topped the $100 million level as 132.69 million shares were traded.
(AP, 8/18/02)
1982 Aug 21, A group of Palestinian guerrillas left Lebanon by
ship under an evacuation plan mediated by the United States.
(AP, 8/21/02)
1982 Aug 23, Lebanon's parliament elected Christian militia leader
Bashir Gemayel president. Gemayel was assassinated some three weeks later.
(AP, 8/23/97)
1982 Aug 26, The Argentine government lifted a ban on political
parties.
(RTH, 8/26/99)
1982 Aug 28, "Sugar Babies" closed at the Mark Hellinger Theater
NYC after 1208 performances.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1982 Aug, A bull market began on Wall Street. Theorist Robert
S. Prechter predicted that the market would take off from its 800 levels.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, p.B1)
1982 Sep 1, Congress created a 110,000 acre Mount St. Helens National
Volcanic Monument.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, p.A15)
1982 Sep 1, Max speedometer reading was mandated at 85 MPH.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1982 Sep 1, Palestinian Liberation Organization left Lebanon.
[see Aug 21]
(MC, 9/1/02)
1982 Sep 8, Abu Nidal gunmen made a machine gun attack on diners
at the Jo Goldenberg restaurant on rue de Rosiers in Paris. 6 people were
killed and 22 wounded.
(WSJ, 8/20/02, p.A18)
1982 Sep 9, Frederic Dannay, [Ellery Queen], US detective writer,
died at 76.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1982 Sep 10, Pete Rose played in his 3,077th baseball game, breaking
Hank Aaron's record for the most games played in the National League.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1982 Sep 14, The grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan's Invisible
Empire of Florida announced that he was moving the group's headquarters
from Orlando to Gainesville. He said, it's "a progressive community, and
we think we can fit in."
(MC, 9/14/01)
1982 Sep 14, John C. Gardner, US, writer (Life & Times of
Chaucer High), died at 49.
(MC, 9/14/01)
1982 Sep 14, Lebanon's president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was killed
by a bomb.
(AP, 9/14/97)
1982 Sep 14, Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace
Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries from a car crash the day before. Her
daughter Stephanie survived the crash. Kelly rose to prominence in film
with 1952's 'High Noon', and she worked with Alfred Hitchcock in several
films including 'Rear Window'. Her movie career was a brief six years where
she did win an Oscar for 'The Country Girl'. In 1956 she retired from film
following her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco.
(AP, 9/14/97)(MC, 9/14/01)(AP, 10/10/02)
1982 Sep 15, The 1st issue of "USA Today" was published by Gannett
Co., Inc.
(MC, 9/15/01)
1982 Sep 15, Pope John Paul II received PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
(MC, 9/15/01)
1982 Sep 15, The Israeli army occupied Beirut.
(SFC, 5/24/00, p.A15)
1982 Sep 15, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister,
was executed after he was convicted of plotting against the government.
(AP, 9/15/97)
1982 Sep 16-18, The massacre of hundreds of Palestinian men, women
and children by Lebanese Christian militiamen began in west Beirut's Sabra
and Chatilla (Shatilla) refugee camps. Up to 2,000 Palestinian civilians
were killed. Israel’s defense minister, Ariel Sharon, was held responsible
and lost his top post. In 2001 survivors lodged a complaint in Belgium
against Sharon. Elie Hobeika (d.2002), Christian militia chieftain, led
the massacre of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Chatilla camps.
(AP, 9/16/97)(SFC, 10/10/98, p.A8)(SFC, 5/24/00, p.A15)(SFC,
6/19/01, p.A8)(SFC, 1/25/02, p.A10)
1982 Sep 19, In the 34th Emmy Awards the winners included Hill
St Blue, Barney Miller, Alan Alda & Carol Kane.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1982 Sep 20, NFL players began a 57 day strike. [see Sep 21]
(MC, 9/20/01)
1982 Sep 21, National Football League players began a 57-day strike,
their first regular-season walkout ever.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1982 Sep 21, Amin Gemayel, brother of Lebanon's assassinated
president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was himself elected president.
(AP, 9/21/02)
1982 Sep 22, San Francisco's famous cable cars made a final run
before closing down for a 20-month, $60 million renovation.
(AP, 9/22/02)
1982 Sep 24, US, Italian and French peacekeeping troops began
arriving in Lebanon.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1982 Sep 24, Sarah Churchill, actress (Royal Wedding, Spring
Meeting), died at 67.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1982 Sep 25, Pennsylvania prison guard George Banks killed 13
people. 5 were his own children.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1982 Sep 27, Filming began on "Never Say Never Again."
(MC, 9/27/01)
1982 Sep 28, The 1st reports appeared of death from cyanide-laced
Tylenol capsules. [see Sep 29]
(MC, 9/28/01)
1982 Sep 29, Seven people in the Chicago area died after unwittingly
taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide.
(AP, 9/29/97)
1982 Oct 1, West Germany's Parliament ousted Helmut Schmidt for
Helmut Kohl. Kohl became Chancellor following the collapse of the Social
Democratic led coalition. He served until 1998. [see Oct 4]
(Hem., 3/97, p.121)(WSJ, 9/3/98, p.A6)(WSJ, 1/19/00, p.A18)(MC,
10/1/01)
1982 Oct 2, A bomb attack in Teheran killed 60 and injured 700.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1982 Oct 4, Helmut Kohl was elected chancellor of Germany. [see
Oct 1]
(MC, 10/4/01)
1982 Oct 4, Glenn H. Gould (b. 1932), eccentric Canadian pianist,
died in Toronto of a cerebral hemorrhage. In 1997 Peter F. Ostwald wrote
a biography titled: "Glenn Gould."
(WSJ, 8/5/97, p.A16)(MC, 10/4/01)
1982 Oct 7, The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical "Cats," featuring
the popular song "Memory," opened on Broadway at Winter Garden Theater.
The show closed Sept. 10, 2000 after a record 7,485 performances.
(AP, 10/7/01)(MC, 10/7/01)
1982 Oct 7, Olaf Palme formed Swedish government.
(MC, 10/7/01)
1982 Oct 8, All labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity,
were banned.
(AP, 10/8/97)
1982 Oct 9, Anna Freud, Austrian-English psychoanalyst and daughter
of Sigmund, died at 86.
(MC, 10/9/01)
1982 Oct 10, Pope John Paul II canonized Rev M. Kolbe, a controversial
racist priest who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz
concentration camp.
(MC, 10/10/01)
1982 Oct 10, US imposed sanctions against Poland for banning
Solidarity trade union.
(MC, 10/10/01)
1982 Oct 11, English ship Mary Rose, which sank after launching
in 1545, was raised at Portsmouth, England.
(MC, 10/11/01)
1982 Oct 13, IOC restored 2 gold medals post mortem from the 1912
Olympics to Jim Thorpe.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1982 Oct 14, Some 6,000 Unification church couples were wed in
Korea.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1982 Oct 15, The federal Centers for Disease Control warned that
a new epidemic was impacting Americans and that over 200, mostly gay young
men, had died from AIDS. In 2001 Jon Cohen authored "Shots in the Dark:
The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine."
(SSFC, 2/4/01, BR p.4)
1982 Oct 16, The Mt. Palomar Observatory was the 1st to detect
Halley's comet on its 13th return.
(MC, 10/16/01)
1982 Oct 16, Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi and
Puccini), died at 67 of kidney disease.
(MC, 10/16/01)
1982 Oct 17, Sam Shepard's "True West" premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/17/01)
1982 Oct 18, Former first lady Bess Truman died at her home in
Independence, Mo., at age 97.
(AP, 10/18/97)
1982 Oct 18, Pierre Mendes-France, premier France from 1954-55,
died. "Let them drink milk!"
(MC, 10/18/01)
1982 Oct 19, Carmaker John DeLorean was arrested in Los Angeles
and charged in a 24-million-dollar cocaine scheme aimed at salvaging his
bankrupt sports car company. He was tried and acquitted.
(MC, 10/19/01)
1982 Oct 25, The TV show "Newhart" with Mary Frann (born Mary
Luecke in St. Louis) and Bob Newhart, made its premier. It lasted to 1990.
Frann died in 1998 at age 55.
(SFC, 9/24/98, p.C4)
1982 Oct 27, China announced its population at 1 billion people
plus.
(MC, 10/27/01)
1982 Oct 28, Spain's socialists won and the communists lost elections.
(MC, 10/28/01)
1982 Oct 29, Car maker John DeLorean was indicted for drug trafficking.
He was later acquitted.
(MC, 10/29/01)
1982 Oct 31, Pope John Paul II became the 1st pontiff to visit
Spain.
(MC, 10/31/01)
1982 Oct, Betty Ford, former first lady, founded the Betty Ford
Center in Rancho Mirage for drug-treatment after admitting her own problems
with substance abuse.
(SFEC,12/797, Par p.2)
1982 Nov 4, Jacques Tati[scheff] (74), French mime and director,
died.
(MC, 11/4/01)
1982 Nov 10, Susan Cooper's and Hume Cronyn's "Foxfire," premiered
in NYC.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1982 Nov 10, The newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial was
opened to its first visitors in Washington, D.C.
(AP, 11/10/97)
1982 Nov 10, IMF lent Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankruptcy.
The Mexican economy began to be run under the guidance of the World Bank
and the Int’l. Monetary Fund.
(SFC, 9/16/96, p.A21)(MC, 11/10/01)
1982 Nov 10, In Russia Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died
at age 75 and the Kremlin command passed to Yuri Andropov. He had suffered
from arteriosclerosis of the brain. See the 1997 book by Michel Dobbs "Down
with Big Brother, The Fall of the Soviet Empire."
(TMC, 1994, p.1982)(SFEC, 2/2/97, BR. p.1)(AP, 11/10/97)
1982 Nov 11, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa was let out of jail
in Poland.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1982 Nov 12, Space shuttle Columbia launched for its first operational
flight. The crew successfully used a remote manipulator arm.
(SSFC, 2/2/03, p.A6)
1982 Nov 12, Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the late
Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's
Central Committee.
(AP, 11/12/97)
1982 Nov 13, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated after
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund had chosen Maya Ying Lin's design. Lin
was an architecture student at Yale University when she submitted her proposal
for the memorial, to be built in Washington D.C.'s Constitution Gardens
as a tribute to those who served in the Vietnam War. In her proposal, shown
above, Lin described "a long, polished, black stone wall, emerging from
and receding into the earth," which would include the names of all the
military personnel who had died or remained missing. According to Lin,
"these names, seemingly infinite in number, [would] convey the sense of
overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.
(AP, 11/13/97)(HNPD, 11/13/98)
1982 Nov 14, Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa was freed.
(MC, 11/14/01)
1982 Nov 15, Funeral services were held in Moscow's Red Square
for the late Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev.
(AP, 11/15/97)
1982 Nov 16, Tom Stoppard's "Real Thing," premiered in London.
(MC, 11/16/01)
1982 Nov 16, The National Football League ended a 57-day strike,
the longest in the history of professional sports.
(AP, 11/1697)(HN, 11/16/98)
1982 Nov 16, A replica, donated by the Vatican, of the original
1850 "Pope’s Stone" was dedicated at the Washington Monument.
(ON, 3/00, p.10)
1982 Nov 16, The Space Shuttle Columbia completed its first operational
flight.
(HN, 11/16/98)
1982 Nov 20, South Africa backed down on a plan to install black
rule in neighboring Namibia.
(HN, 11/20/98)
1982 Nov 22, President Reagan called for defense-pact deployment
of the MX missile.
(HN, 11/22/98)
1982 Nov 23, FCC dropped limits on the duration and frequency
of TV ads.
(MC, 11/23/01)
1982 Nov 26, Yasuhiro Nakasone was elected 71st Japanese prime
minister.
(HN, 11/26/98)
1982 Nov 28, "Pirates of Penzance" closed at Uris Theater, NYC,
after 772 performances.
(MC, 11/28/01)
1982 Nov 28, 15 years ago, the United States led by John McEnroe
beat France 4-1 to win the Davis Cup.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1982 Nov 28, An 88-nation world trade conference meeting in Geneva
agreed on a new set of guidelines for encouraging free trade and halting
a tide of global protectionism.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1982 Nov 30, US submarine Thomas Edison collided with a US Navy
destroyer in the South China Sea.
(MC, 11/30/01)
1982 Dec 1, Dentist Barney B. Clark received the 1st artificial
heart. [see Dec 2]
(MC, 12/1/01)
1982 Dec 2, In the first operation of its kind, doctors at the
University of Utah Medical Center implanted a permanent artificial heart
developed by Dr. Robert K. Jarvik. Barney Clark, a retired dentist, lived
112 days with the Jarvic-7 heart. [see Dec 1]
(AP, 12/2/97)(HN, 12/2/98)
1982 Dec 2, Marty Feldman (49), comedian (Young Frankenstein),
died.
(MC, 12/2/01)
1982 Dec 5, Seattle Univ. Baptist Church declared sanctuary for
Central American refugees.
(MC, 12/5/01)
1982 Dec 6, 11 soldiers and six civilians were killed when a bomb
planted by the Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly,
Northern Ireland.
(AP, 12/6/97)
1982 Dec 6, Turkey began celebrating St. Nicholas day.
(WSJ, 8/31/98, p.B1)
1982 Dec 6-8, In Guatemala a government massacre wiped out the
village of Dos Erres. In 2000 two witnesses gave evidence that some 300
men, women and children were killed, tortured and raped by specialists
called kaibiles.
(SFEC, 4/9/00, p.C14)
1982 Dec 7, Convicted murderer Charlie Brooks Junior became the
first U.S. prisoner to be executed by injection, at a prison in Huntsville,
Texas. Brooks, convicted of murdering an auto mechanic, received an intravenous
injection of sodium pentothal.
(AP, 12/7/99)(MC, 12/7/01)
1982 Dec 8, The Washington, D.C. police shot and killed Norman
Mayer 10 hours after he threatened to blow up the Washington Monument and
found he had no explosives.
(HN, 12/8/98)(MC, 12/8/01)
1982 Dec 9, Leon Jaworski (77), special prosecutor (Watergate),
died.
(MC, 12/9/01)
1982 Dec 13, Sentry Armored Car Company in New York discovered
the overnight theft of 11-million dollars from its headquarters. It was
the biggest cash theft in US history.
(MC, 12/13/01)
1982 Dec 16, Environmental Protection Agency head Anne M. Gorsuch
became the first Cabinet-level officer to be cited for contempt of Congress
for refusing to submit documents requested by a congressional committee.
(AP, 12/16/02)
1982 Dec 18, Tara Burke (3 years old) was freed in SF after being
held captive and molested in a van for ten months. She had been kidnapped
in Concord by Luis "Tree Frog" Johnson (33) and Alex Cabarga (17). Johnson
was sentenced to 527 years in prison and Cabarga served 25 years.
(SFC,10/27/97, p.A1,4)
1982 Dec 19, Four bombs exploded at South Africa's only nuclear
power station in Johannesburg.
(HN, 12/19/98)
1982 Dec 20, Artur Rubinstein (95), pianist (My Young Years),
died in Geneva.
(MC, 12/20/01)
1982 Dec 23, Jack Webb (62), actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet), died
of a heart attack.
(MC, 12/23/01)
1982 Dec 26, TIME magazine’s Man of the Year was a computer.
(MC, 12/26/01)
1982 Dec 28, Nevell Johnson Jr., a black man, was mortally wounded
by a police officer in a Miami video arcade, setting off three days of
race-related disturbances that left another man dead.
(AP, 12/28/97)
1982 Dec 29, Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant ended his career with Alabama.
He logged 323 wins.
(MC, 12/29/01)
1982 Dec 31, NBC radio canceled almost all of its network daily
features.
(MC, 12/31/01)
1982 Dec, The El Nino weather pattern was noticed to have caused
trade winds on the equator to turn around.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A5)
1982 Fernando Botero, Colombian-born artist, painted "The Dancing
Couple."
(WSJ, 7/10/98, p.W12)
1982 Nguyen Thanh Chau, Vietnamese artist, painted "Homeland Fruit"
using watercolor on silk.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.E1)
1982 Francesco Clemente made his color woodcut "I" at Crown Point
Press.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, DB p.37)
1982 Frank Stella painted his "Pergusa Three." Stella has been
dubbed "the father of minimalist art."
(MT, Win. ‘96, p.10)
1982 George Rickey made his sculpture "Double L Eccentric Gyratory."
It was placed outside the new SF Main Library in 1997.
(SFEC, 6/29/97, DB p.37)
1982 William Bronk (d.1999 at 81) won the American Book Award
for his collected poems "Life Supports."
(SFC, 2/26/99, p.A25)
1982 Cid Caesar, TV comic, authored his autobiography "Where Have
I Been."
(SFC, 8/9/02, p.D17)
1982 John Cage wrote a 75-minute play for German radio called
"James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet."
(WSJ, 2/28/02, p.A16)
1982 Mary Ellis (1897-2003), opera singer and actress, authored
her autobiography: "Those Dancing Years."
(SFC, 2/3/03, p.B4)
1982 Sue Grafton published in England her first alphabetical mystery:
"A is for Alibi."
(WSJ, 4/24/98, p.W14)
1982 L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, authored
the sci-fi novel "Battlefield Earth." In 2000 a film version with John
Travolta was produced.
(WSJ, 3/24/00, p.A1)
1982 Australian Thomas Keneally authored "Schindler's List." He
received his information from Leopold Page (d.2001 at 87), No. 173 on Schindler’s
list. "Schindler's List," Steven Spielberg's drama about the Holocaust,
won Golden Globes for best dramatic picture and best director in 1994.
(AP, 1/22/99)(SFC, 3/14/01, p.C2)
1982 Sam Shepard wrote his play "Fool for Love."
(WSJ, 11/8/96, p.A12)
1982 The "Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War" was
published.
(WSJ, 11/19/96, p.A22)
1982 "The Argot Merchant Disaster," collected poetry by George
Starbuck, (1931-1996) was published. He was once described as the
thinking man’s Ogden Nash.
(SFC, 8/17/96, p.A24)
1982 The play "Edmond" by David Mamet was remotely based on Brecht’s
first play "Baal."
(WSJ, 10/3/96, p.A12)
1982 Tom Stoppard wrote his play "The Real Thing."
(SFEM, 1/2/00, p.6)
1982 June Allyson wrote her biography "June Allyson."
(SFC, 8/28/96, E10)
1982 Joani Blank of Good Vibrations in San Francisco published
"Good Vibrations: The Complete Guide to Vibrators."
(SFC, 2/27/98, p.A3)
1982 Iron Eyes Cody (d.1998 at 94), American Indian actor, published
his autobiography: "Iron Eyes: My Life as a Hollywood Indian." In 1970
he played an Indian paddling through a polluted stream in a public service
ad.
(SFC, 1/5/99, p.A20)
1982 Opera star Elizabeth Schwarzkopf wrote a memoir of her record-producer
husband: "On and Off the Record: A Memoir of Walter Legge."
(WSJ, 7/23/96, p.A20)
1982 Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison wrote "The Deindustrialization
of America." They argued that capitalism took a new and mean turn in the
1970s as corporate raiders and speculators purchased prosperous manufacturing
firms, took their assets, and reduced employment or shifted jobs to off-shore
places.
(LSA, Spg/97, p.18)
1982 Dorothy Demming wrote "Cryptography and Data Security."
(Wired, 9/96, p.219)
1982 Carol Gilligan, Harvard psychologist, authored "In a Different
Voice," a study of the social development of girls.
(SFC, 3/3/01, p.A2)
1982 James Michener wrote his novel "Space."
(SFC,10/17/97, p.A17)
1982 Patrick Rance (d.1999) authored "The Great British Cheese
Book."
(SFC, 8/30/99, p.A24)
1982 Dan Richardson wrote "Comintern Army," a historical work
on the Spanish Civil War.
(WSJ, 11/19/96, p.A22)
1982 Maureen (d.2003) and Michael Ryan authored "Kerry: Agent
Orange and an American Family."
(SSFC, 9/14/03, p.A27)
1982 Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote "The Golem."
(SFEC, 12/22/96, BR p.7)
1982 "Dr. De Soto" by William Steig was published.
(SFEC, 2/27/00, BR p.12)
1982 Bill Styron authored "Sophie's Choice."
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.W2)
1982 Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996) published "Ripening : Selected
Work 1927-1980." She was highly praised for her children’s stories, stories
of immigrants and Indian women.
(SFEC, 11/24/96, C12)
1982 Robert Palmer wrote "Deep Blues," a personal work on blues
music.
(NH, 9/96, p.62)
1982 The Broadway show "Eminent Domain" by Percy Granger (d.1997
at 51) was produced. Granger had helped found the Manhattan Ensemble Studio
Theater. He wrote for Radio Mystery Theater and daytime television.
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.A22)
1982 The musical "Nine" opened on Broadway. It was an adaptation
of Fellini’s "8˝"The music and lyrics were by Maury Yeston and the
book by Arthur Kopit. It was revived in 2003.
(WSJ, 4/8/03, p.D4)(WSJ, 4/11/03, p.W9)
1982 The TV food show "Yan Can Cook" began on KQED in SF with
Martin Yan.
(SFC, 7/30/01, p.E1)
1982 The TV show Barney Miller ended its run.
(SFEC, 6/29/97, Par p.22)
1982 The TV medical series "St. Elsewhere" began and ran until
1988. it was produced by Bruce Paltrow (d.2002 at 58).
(WSJ, 1/10/00, p.A24)(SFC, 10/4/02, p.A26)
1982 The Gothic rock group Christian Death recorded their album
"Only Theater of pain." Rozz Williams the founding songwriter and musician
died in a suicide hanging in 1998 at 34.
(SFC, 4/11/98, p.A15)
1982 The work "Rosanna" by Toto won the Grammy best record of
the year.
(SFEC, 2/21/99, DB p.38)
1982 Michael Jackson released his "Thriller" album.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R34)
1982 Rock star Prince Rogers Nelson achieved a commercial breakthrough
with his album "1999."
(SFC, 7/16/96, p.E3)
1982 Ricky Scaggs achieved country music industry honors with
the Horizon and Male Vocalist of the Year.
(WSJ, 12/30/97, p.A8)
1982 The Riders in the Sky Trio (Woody Paul, Ranger Doug, and
Too Slim Fred) were named to the Grand Ole Opry.
(WSJ, 1/18/00, p.A24)
1982 The Nehemiah housing plan in New York broke ground in Brownsville.
It was fathered by I.D. Robbins (1910-1996) and consisted of low-cost,
3-bedroom brick townhouses that sold for $39,000. The plan was helped by
the Industrial Areas Foundation established by the Chicago housing advocate
Saul Alinsky.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.B2)
1982 Pope John Paul II declared Rev. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish
priest who died at Auschwitz, a saint.
(SFC, 1/2/99, p.C12)
1982 Cardinal Joseph Bernardin took over the archdiocese of Chicago.
(SFC, 8/31/96, p.A12)
1982 Barbara Wiedner (d.2001 at 72) founded Grandmothers for Peace
Int’l.
(SFC, 12/5/01, p.A23)
1982 Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Zen master, founded Plum Village,
a Buddhist community in southern France.
(SFC, 10/12/97, Z1 p.3)
1982 Kathleen Carlin (1939-1996) founded Men Stopping Violence.
The organization worked to change the social norms of male supremacy that
were seen as a root cause of female abuse.
(SFEC, 9/30/96, p.A23)
1982 Jimmy Carter founded the Carter Center to resolve conflict
and promote human rights.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, zone 3 p.3)
1982 Adam Robinson and John Katzman founded Princeton Review Inc.,
to help high school students improve their SAT scores.
(WSJ, 10/18/99, p.A1)
1982 Tom Waddel founded the Gay Olympics, later renamed the Gay
Games.
(SFC, 6/23/96, BR, p.1)
1982 The St. Charles Saloon’s Poison Oak Show began in Columbia,
Ca.
(PacDis, Fall/’96, p.30)
1982 In Tennessee a World’s Fair was held at Knoxville.
(SFC, 6/9/97, p.A3)
1982 Actors began declaiming Shakespeare on picnic tables in Golden
Gate Park and thus founded the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival.
(SFC, 8/30/96, p.D1)
1982 In the US the National Library of Poetry was founded to promote
the artistic accomplishments of contemporary poets.
(SFC, 7/14/96, Par p.16)
1982 The Fourth Freedom Forum was formed to advocate the use of
economic power instead of military force.
(SFC, 2/18/98, p.C2)
1982 Cal Ripken began playing for the Baltimore Orioles. By Sep
20, 1998 he had played a record 2,632 consecutive games.
(SFC, 9/21/98, p.A1)
1982 The Oakland Raiders football team under Al Davis moved to
Los Angeles.
(SFC, 10/1/96, p.A24)
1982 "The Play," a five-lateral scramble was run by the Univ.
of California football team against Stanford.
(SFC, 1/18/97, p.A19)(SFC, 12/14/99, p.D7)
1982 Argentina again won the soccer World Cup championship.
(SFC, 2/4/97, p.A12)
1982 Konishiki, born Salevaa Atisanoe in American Samoa, began
competing in sumo wrestling. He opened sumo wrestling to international
competition and achieved the 2nd-highest rank. The 600-pound wrestler announced
his retirement in 1997.
(SFEC,11/23/97, p.A23)
1982 The Microcirculation Society named its top award after Dr.
Benjamin Zweibach (d.1997 at 86), founder of the Journal of Microvascular
Research.
(SFC,11/4/97, p.A19)
1982 Robert Beasley (d.1997 at 70), a chemist who developed the
material used in the space shuttle heat shield tiles, was awarded the Johnson
Space Center achievement award for his work.
(SFC, 3/15/97, p.A19)
1982 The Viking 2 mission to Mars also landed on Mars and tested
for evidence of life and found none.
(SFC, 12/8/99, p.A19)
1982 Kenneth Thimann (1905-1997) received the Balzan Prize worth
$110,000, awarded in scientific fields not covered by the Nobel Prize,
for his work on plant hormones. He had isolated and purified the universal
growth hormone known as auxin.
(SFC, 1/25/97, p.A19)
1982 Swedish scientist Bengt Samuelson received the Nobel Prize
for his work in 1979 when he identified a natural chemical produced in
the body that helps spawn the severe, breath shortening attacks that are
the hallmark of asthma.
(WSJ, 4/5/96, p.B-1)
1982 The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization published
a study on global deforestation. A net loss of 10 million hectares of tropical
rain forest was reported.
(NOHY, 3/90, p.186)
1982 The US capital gains tax was cut to 20%.
(WSJ, 9/29/95, p.A-14)
1982 A federal law was passed that prohibited airport revenue
from being transferred to local city general funds.
(SFC, 7/20/96, p.A11)
1982 The US Supreme Court ruled in Nixon vs. Fitzgerald that no
sitting president could ever be sued for official acts. The ruling did
not say anything about private acts.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, p.A2)
1982 US Congress made transfers between spouses tax free.
(SSFC, 7/28/02, p.A3)
1982 The Law of the Sea treaty extended internationally recognized
territorial waters to 200 miles offshore.
(WSJ, 11/25/97, p.A1)
1982 In Arkansas former Gov. Bill Clinton won his election bid
for the governor’s office with the help of political consultant Dick Morris.
(SFC, 1/29/98, p.A3)
1982 In southern California John Visciotti (26) shot and killed
co-worker Timothy Dykstra (22) and wounded Michael Wolbert. Visciotti’s
murder conviction was upheld but his death sentence was reversed due to
a defense lawyer’s incompetence. In 2002 a penalty-phase retrial was ordered.
The Supreme Court reinstated his death penalty.
(SFC, 4/25/02, p.A6)(SFC, 11/5/02, p.A4)
1982 The WW II submarine "Pampanito" was opened to the public
at Pier 45, the foot of Taylor St. under the operation of the National
Maritime Museum Association. In 1986 the sub was named a National Historic
Landmark by the national Park Service.
(SFC, 6/19/97, p.A22)(SFC, 5/27/00, p.A17)
1982 Texas reinstated the death penalty.
(SFC,11/22/97, p.A11)
1982 Mumia Abu-Jamal, radio reporter and former Black Panther,
was convicted for the (1981) murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner in
Pittsburgh. Jamal supporters say he was framed. Prosecutors say Jamal shot
Faulkner after seeing the officer struggling with Jamal’s brother, William
Cook, who had been stopped for a traffic violation. In 1996 Jamal was still
on death row. In 1999 Gov. Tom Ridge signed a 2nd death warrant for lethal
injection on Dec 2.
(SFC, 6/7/96, p.A3)(SFC, 7/7/96, Par, p.16)(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A3)
1982 Claus von Bulow was convicted for trying to kill his heiress
wife. Bulow was acquitted on appeal.
(SFC, 3/30/00, p.C5)
1982 Bernard Webster (19) was identified as a rapist in Towson,
Md. He denied the charges and was freed after 20 years in jail following
DNA tests that proved him innocent.
(SFC, 11/7/02, p.A7)
1982 Robert Lee Vesco, who fled the US in 1971 to avoid charges
of bilking mutual fund investors of $224 million, arrived in Cuba.
(SFC, 8/21/96, p.A8)
1982 Adnan Khashoggi, an arms dealer from Saudi Arabia, settled
divorce proceedings with his wife Soraya for $950 million plus property.
(SFC, 2/14/98, p.E6)
1982 The Drysdale Government Securities firm went bust and cost
Chase Manhattan $135 million.
(WSJ, 9/24/98, p.A16)
1982 The early telegraph system of Southern Pacific Railroad grew
into the Southern Pacific Communications Co. that was sold in this year
to GTE. It later became Sprint.
(SFC, 7/8/96, p.D1)
1982 In Alaska the White Pass & Yukon railroad closed after
a highway opened between Skagway and Whitehorse, and a slump in metal prices
shut down mines.
(SFEC, 2/8/98, p.T3)
1982 Honda, the first Japanese auto maker to start production
in the US, began making cars at Marysville, Ohio.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(F, 10/7/96, p.71)
1982 Mike Bloomberg installed his first financial terminal and
went on to develop the premier electronic financial information service
in the world. He had been fired from Salomon Brothers in 1981 when it was
acquired by Phibro Corp. and immediately founded Bloomberg L.P.
(Wired, 2/99, p.132)
1982 Ely Callaway (d.2001 at 82) founded Callaway Golf. The 4-man
company became a multi-billion-dollar corporation and developed the Big
Bertha driver in 1991 and ERC II in 2000.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.A26)
1982 Compaq Computer was founded by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and
Bill Murto. They designed the company’s product at a local House of Pies.
(SSFC, 10/6/02, p.G1)
1982 The Manville Corp., formerly Johns Manville, filed for bankruptcy
as it faced millions of dollars in claims over asbestos-related health
problems. By 1996 it was operating as the Schuller Corporation of Denver.
(SFC, 11/11/96, p.A26)
1982 McDonald's Corp. introduced Chicken McNuggets.
(WSJ, 9/16/99, p.B1)
1982 The sleeping pill Halcion, made by Upjohn Pharm., was OK'd
by the FDA. It later displayed side effects such as anxiety, behavior changes,
and abnormal thinking. Dosage was reduced and label warning were added
and it was banned by Britain in 1991.
(SFC, 6/1/96, p.A73)
1982 US Steel acquired Marathon Oil.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R46)
1982 John Warnock and Charles Geschke founded Adobe Corp., a software
company that developed tools for desktop publishing. In 1993 Adobe introduce
the Acrobat software that allowed documents to appear on computer screen
exactly as you would see them on paper.
(SFC, 5/16/96, p.B-1)
1982 Braniff Airlines, based in Dallas, ceased operations with
$1 billion in debt. Harding Lawrence (d.2002 at 81) led the company from
1965-1980.
(SFC, 1/21/02, p.B5)
1982 Control Video Corp. was founded as an online video game company.
It transformed to Quantum Computer Services, a private online service for
Apple and IBM, and then became America Online (AOL) in 1989. In 1998 Kara
Swisher wrote "aol.com: How Steve Case beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads,
and Made Millions in the War for the Web.
(SFEC, 8/2/98, BR p.1,8)
1982 The Hearst Corp. acquired Communications Data Services, a
magazine subscription fulfillment company, KMBC-TV in Kansas City, and
Redbook magazine.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A9)
1982 Intel introduced the 286 microprocessor, the first to support
general protection and virtual memory. It ran at speeds of 8-12 Mhz and
was 6 times more powerful than the 8086.
(TAR, 1996, p.26)
1982 Microsoft was a company in one building with about 100 employees.
(WSJ, 12/12/95, p.A-16)
1982 Sun Microsystems was founded by tech whiz Andreas Bechtolsheim,
CEO Scott McNeally, entrepreneur Vinod Khosla, and software inventor Bill
Joy. The Sun slogan was "the network is the computer."
(WSJ, 8/11/95, p.B-10)(WSJ, 3/19/97, p.B1)
1982 John Hopfield, Bell Labs physicist, reawakened scientific
interest in neural networks by finding a resemblance between their neighbor-pulling-neighbor
structure and the behavior of magnetized atoms in some kinds of crystals..
(I&I, Penzias, p.107)
1982 The computer game "Donkey Kong" by Nintendo became a hit
in America. Nintendo also introduced the overweight plumber named "Mario."
(SFC, 7/5/97, p.E1)
1982 James Lovelock's monograph "Ultrasensitive Chemical Detectors"
was in Applied Atomic Collision Physics 5 (1982): 2-29.
(NOHY, 3/90, p.290)
1982 In the US Barney Clark became the first human to survive
with a man-made heart.
(TMC, 1994, p.1982)
1982 Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner, neurologist, reported the
discovery of an infectious agent that linked certain animal and human diseases.
His lab identified a tiny molecule in the membrane of cells that he called
a proteinaceous infected particle, or prion for short. In 1996 it is suspected
that this is the agent involved in the bovine mad-cow disease and the rare
human Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.
(WSJ, 3/25/96, p.B7C)
1982 The bacteria E. coli O157:H7, a renegade strain of the normally
harmless group, was first identified. People in Michigan and Oregon were
sickened by the bacteria that caused bloody diarrhea and devastating kidney
failure. The organism attacks the lining of the colon, exposing blood vessels
and causing them to bleed. It is believed to reside normally in the stomachs
of cattle. It kills an estimated 61 American each year.
(WSJ, 7/15/96, p.B1)(SFC, 11/1/96, p.A4)(SFC, 10/15/03, p.A25)
c1982 Two Australian doctors, Barry Marshall and Robin Warren,
discovered Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that was later shone to cause
stomach ulcers.
(SFC, 8/7/97, p.A11)
1982 The American Cancer Society began a long-term, nationwide
study on 1 million Americans who agreed to reveal details of their lives
and family histories for cancer research. Additional blood samples were
drawn in 1998 on remaining participants.
(SFC, 7/30/98, p.A1)
1982 Oceanographers aboard the deep submersible Alvin, 1,000 miles
off Baja, Ca., located an undersea volcanic vent that was found to contain
a new organism called Methanococcus jannaschii and classified as Archaea,
distinct from Prokarya and Eukarya.
(SFC, 8/23/96, p.A21)(SFC, 2/17/01, p.A3)
1982 Hurricane Iwa hit Hawaii. It took away the steeple of the
1850s Waimea United Church of Christ.
(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.C12)
1982 In Arizona Karl LeGrand, a German citizen, stabbed to death
a bank manager during a bungled robbery attempt with his brother Walter
LaGrand. Karl was convicted and died by lethal injection Feb 24, 1999.
Walter was executed a week later. A UN court in 2001 upheld that the US
violated international law in the case.
(SFC, 2/25/99, p.A3)(SFC, 6/28/01, p.A8)
1982 Larry Frederick, Oakland police officer, was hit by a passing
car and thrown 40 feet while on a routine traffic stop. His first night
in surgery called for 54 pints of blood and before his ordeal was over
he had gone through 9 surgeries and received 110 pints of blood. In thanks
he later organized campaigns encouraging people to donate blood.
(SFC, 5/16/96, p.A-13)
1982 Actress Theresa Saldana was stalked and stabbed by Arthur
Jackson. She had starred in Martin Scorsese’s 1980 film "Raging Bull."
Jackson was convicted of 2nd degree attempted murder and served 12 years.
he was then extradited to England for wounding 2 tellers and killing a
man who tried to stop a bank robbery in the Chelsea section of London in
1966.
(SFC, 6/22/96, p.E3)
1982 In the US capsules of Tylenol laced with cyanide killed 7
people. This brought about a major effort in safe sealing methods by consumer
companies.
(WSJ, 3/13/97, p.A1)
1982 On approach to Haneda Airport a Japan Airlines DC-8 plunged
into Tokyo Bay killing 24 people. 141 survived the crash caused when the
captain pushed the nose down prematurely and engaged in a struggle with
the co-pilot.
(WSJ, 3/10/98, p.A1)
1982 A Pan Am flight from Tokyo to Honolulu was bombed. One boy
was killed and 15 people were injured. In 1998 Mohammed Rashid, a Palestinian
national, was turned over to the US by Egypt on charges related to the
bombing.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A4)
1982 DeFord Bailey, harmonica player and the first black member
of the Grand Ole Opry, died. His first music album was released in 1998.
(USAT, 6/17/98, p.2D)
1982 Ingrid Bergman (b.1915), film star, died. In 1997 Donald
Spoto wrote a biography of Ingrid Bergman: "Notorious, The Life of Ingrid
Bergman." Bergman’s own autobiography was titled "My Story."
(TMC, 1994, p.1982)(SFEC, 7/20/97, BR p.6)(SFC, 5/31/00, p.A22)
1982 John Cheever (b.1912), Pulitzer Prize winning writer, died.
His work included "the Wapshot Chronicle" and "the World of Apples."
(BS, 5/3/98, p.13E)
1982 Philip K. Dick (53), science fiction writer, died. His work
included dozens of novels and over 100 short stories. His novel "Valis"
(Vast Active Living Intelligence System) was an autobiographical work.
In 1989 Lawrence Sutin wrote the biography: "Divine Invasions: A Life of
Philip K. Dick."
(WSJ, 4/27/99, p.A20)(SFC, 6/25/02, p.D1)
1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder (37), German film director, died.
(WSJ, 1/14/97, p.A16)
1982 Princess Grace, film star (Grace Kelly), died.
(TMC, 1994, p.1982)
1982 Edward Hagedorn (1902-1982), graphic artist, died. He incised
images into linoleum for sharp contrasts in black and white. His work included:
"Self Portrait with Cigarette," "You," "Sword Swallower" and "The Rainbow."
(SFC, 7/10/96, p.E1,4)
1982 Ayn Rand, writer and founder of the Objectivist philosophy,
died at age 77. Rand’s novels included "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead."
In 1987 Barbara Branden wrote a biography of Rand titled "The Passion of
Ayn Rand." In 1999 Nathaniel Branden published "My Years With Ayn Rand,"
an account of his 18-year relationship with Rand.
(SFEC, 8/18/96, PM p. 2)(SFC, 10/25/98, p.D8)
1982 Hugh Shannon (61), New York cabaret singer, died. A video
of his work was made titled: "Hugh Shannon: Saloon Singer."
(WSJ, 3/12/97, p.A16)
1982 Walter W. Smith, NY sports writer, died. He won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1976 and in 2000 a collection of 167 essays (1941-1981) was published:
"Red Smith on Baseball: The Game’s Greatest Writer on the Game’s Greatest
Years."
(SFEM, 4/9/00, p.18)
1982 Estonian composer Eduard Tubin died in Stockholm.
(SFC, 2/13/98, p.C8)
1982 John Hay Whitney, oil and tobacco heir, died. He was a publisher
of the New York Herald Tribune and served as an ambassador to Britain.
His wife of 40 years was Betsy Cushing Whitney (d.1998).
(WSJ, 8/7/98, p.W12)
1982 In Afghanistan a Soviet tank engine exploded in the Salang
Tunnel and 178 Soviet soldiers were killed along with as many as 800 Afghans.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A10)
1982 In Argentina Gen'l. Reynaldo Bignone was installed a president
following the Falklands War.
(SFC, 1/21/99, p.A14)
1982 In Bangladesh Hussein Mohammed Ershad seized power in a bloodless
coup.
(SFC,11/27/97, p.B5)
1982 In Britain Stephenson Bros. was founded and produced reproductions
of Victorian rocking horses.
(SFC,12/24/97, Z1 p.6)
1982 In Cambodia the Khmer Rouge and 2 non-Communist groups formed
a resistance coalition with Sihanouk as a figurehead leader. The UN recognized
it as the government of Cambodia.
(SFC, 6/14/97, p.A15)
1982 Canada adopted a new Constitution to replace the 1867 British
North America Act. It enshrined special rights for indigenous peoples.
Pierre Trudeau added a Charter of Rights and Freedoms to Canada’s constitution.
(SFC, 12/2/97, p.A12)(SFC, 1/29/99, p.A12)(WSJ, 10/3/00, p.A26)
1982 In Chile an economic crises caused the establishment of capital
controls and a minimum permanence period for foreign capital of ten years.
(WSJ, 10/1/98, p.A17)
1982 In Colombia the National Indigenous Organization (ONIC) was
set up as a lobbying group for legal advice to Indians and for representation
before national authorities.
(SFC, 3/30/98, p.A10)
1982 In Denmark the monetary policy was tied to the German mark.
(WSJ, 2/6/98, p.A1)
1982 In the Dominican Republic the Revolutionary Party, under
the leadership of Jose Pena Gomez, won the presidential elections.
(SFC, 5/12/98, p.A21)
1982 In Egypt the Soviet built turbine blades of the Aswan High
Dam cracked. The US gave the Egyptian government 85 million dollars to
replace the blades. It was expected that the generators be functional by
1990. Heavy evaporation has caused Lake Nasser to become more saline.
(NG, May 1985, R. Caputo, p.602)
1982 In Egypt the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) was
created as part of a peacekeeping mission on the Sinai Peninsula following
the 1979 Camp David Accord between Egypt and Israel.
(SFEC, 12/19/99, Par p.4)
1982 In El Salvador 3 police officers arrested 6 university students,
held them in a clandestine prison and tried to kill them. The officers
became fugitives in Oct 1996 when faced with the accusations. Separately
ten police officers were involved in the killing of a Nicaraguan mechanic
and a Honduran farmer suspected of transporting arms to rebels in El Salvador.
They were charged with the murders in July 1995.
(SFC, 1/31/97, p.A14)
1982 The French firm JC Decaux invented the self-cleaning toilet.
(SFC, 8/18/96, p.B5)
1982 In France Magdalena Kopp, wife of Carlos the Jackal, aka
Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, was captured by French officials.
(SFC,12/11/97, p.C2)
1982 The Paris-Toulouse express train was bombed. Six people were
killed and 15 injured. The attack was attributed to Carlos the Jackal,
aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez.
(SFC,12/11/97, p.C2)
1982 A bombing in Paris killed a pregnant woman and injured 63
people. The attack was attributed to Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich Ramirez
Sanchez.
(SFC,12/11/97, p.C2)
1982 The Guatemalan civil war reached its peak. The Civilian Self-Defense
Patrol was activated under dictator Gen’l. Efrain Rios Montt.
(NG, 6/1988, p.776)(SFEC, 10/20/96, A14)
1982 In Honduras during the height of conflict rebels kidnapped
104 businessmen and officials.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.A22)
1982 In Iraq the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in
Iraq (SCIRI) was created to increase Iranian control over Iraqi opposition
groups belonging to the same Shiite faith as most Iranians. In 1999 it
had 4-8000 fighters in southern Iraq.
(USAT, 3/24/99, p.18A)
1982 In Israel the Jewish town of Misgav was built on land seized
from the Palestinians over 3 decades. Its 7,000 Jewish residents have jurisdiction
over 183,000 dunams (a quarter-acre), while the area’s 200,000 Arabs reside
on 200,000 dunams.
(MT, Fall. ‘97, p.16)
1982 Amine Gemayel became president of Lebanon and stayed
in office until 1988.
(WSJ, 9/12/96, p.A16)
1982 Beirut burned as Israel continued smashing the PLO’s forces.
(TMC, 1994, p.1982)
1982 The Lebanese poet Khalil Hawi committed suicide. His most
celebrated poem was titled "The Bridge." It offered a hopeful vision for
the Arab people, but the author was later embarrassed by the poem’s optimism.
(WSJ, 2/20/98, p.A16)
1982 In Japan racketeering by a sokaiya was outlawed. Extortion
of Japanese firms by sokaiya had been going on for almost a hundred years.
(SFC, 12/3/97, p.D3)
1982 The Maldives gained independence from Britain.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)
1982 In Mauritius Anerood Jugnauth became prime minister.
(SFC, 6/24/96, p.A8)
1982 In Mexico the volcano El Chichon erupted.
(NOHY, 3/90, p.138)
1982 In Mexico a fire burned down the National Film Archive.
(SFC, 4/14/98, p.E3)
1982 Mexico’s oil market collapsed.
(WSJ, 8/22/97, p.A10)
1982 The Mexican banks were nationalized until 1991. There was
an economic catastrophe that has been labeled the Mexican debt crisis.
Mexicans sent hundreds of millions of dollars abroad amid devaluations
and bank nationalization.
(WSJ, 4/1/96, p.A-10)(WSJ, 5/10/96, p.A-11)(WSJ, 7/8/96,p.A1)
1982 In Monaco an aquarium was emptied that contained the exotic
seaweed Caulerpa taxifolia. It mutated and thrived in the Mediterranean
Sea and by 1997 occupied 8,000 acres and eliminated everything else. Its
growth has tripled annually over the last three years.
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.E4)
1982 In Nepal Elephant polo began under the direction of Jim Edwards,
a jungle safari organizer.
(WSJ, 1/16/98, p.A1)
1982 South African police bombed the London offices of the African
National Congress. Gen'l. Johann Coetzee commander of apartheid police
and 8 officers received amnesty in 1999.
(SFC, 10/16/99, p.A16)
1982 Ruth First, an exiled anti-apartheid activist, was killed
in Mozambique from a letter bomb sent by agents of the Nationalist South
African government. In 1997 her daughter, Gillian Slovo, published
"Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country."
(SFEC, 5/11/97, BR p.5)(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.M6)
1982 In Sri Lanka Junius Richard Jayewardene was re-elected for
a 6-year term.
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.A21)
1982 Pres. Hafez Assad ordered the Syrian army under his brother,
Rifaat Assad, to crush a fundamentalist Muslim revolt in Hama and as many
as 20,000 residents were massacred.
(SFEC, 6/11/00, p.A12)(WSJ, 6/12/00, p.A30)(WSJ, 6/13/00, p.A26)
1982 In Venezuela Hugo Chavez and other junior officers formed
a secret group, the Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement 200 (MBR-200), and
vowed to change their society. They made their 1st coup attempt in 1992.
(WSJ, 6/12/03, p.A10)
1982 Zimbabwe granted landowners proprietorship over wildlife
and allowed hunting. Since then the elephant population has increased from
40 to 50 thousand.
(WSJ, 7/23/96, p.A22)
1982-1983 60 Minutes was again the top ranking network show on television
with a ranking of 25.5%.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)
1982-1983 Cagney and Lacey played on TV as a police drama,
(SFEC, 10/20/96, p.C10)
1982-1983 El Nino, a warming of eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, was
the most severe warming in 50 years. In Peru El Nino weather caused about
$1 billion in damage.
(SFC, 8/14/97, p.A1)(SFC, 2/7/98, p.A10)
1982-1985 In Bolivia Hernan Siles Zuazo (1913-1996) became president
again. His presidency restored democracy after 18 years of harsh military
rule.
(SFC, 8/8/96, p.A22)
1982-1989 Alan C. Nelson (d.1997) served as head of the federal INS.
In 1994 he co-authored California’s Proposition 187, an initiative to deny
health and education benefits to illegal immigrants.
(SFC, 2/1/97, p.A23)
1982-1989 George Shultz served as the US Sec. of State under Ronald
Reagan.
(SFEM,11/2/97, p.8)
1982-1990 Hissene Habre was dictator of Chad. His secret police allegedly
killed tens of thousands of people and tortured as many as 200,000. He
fled to Senegal in 1990 with $11 million following a coup. He received
US support because he opposed Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy.
(SFC, 1/27/00, p.C2)
1982-1991 US Army intelligence manuals of the Army School of the Americas
advocated executions, torture, blackmail and other forms of coercion in
"Terrorism and the Urban Guerrilla." The school was quartered in Panama
until 1984 when it was moved to Fort Benning, Ga.
(SFC, 9/21/96, p.A3)(SFC,11/17/97, p.A3)
1982-1994 In South Africa Frederik de Klerk was president.
(SFC, 8/22/96, p.E1)
1982-1996 In Spain the Socialist Party government under prime minister
Felipe Gonzalez was in power. He stepped down as head of the party in 1997.
(WSJ, 11/30/95, p.A-10)