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1982

1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1982nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 982nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 82nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1980s decade.

Recorded events

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Notable births

30

Notable deaths

30

Decade

1980s

Timeline

Defining events of 1982

  1. 1982 American-Israeli reservist Alan Harry Goodman carries out a mass shooting at the Dome of the Rock, killing two Palestinians and injuring at least seven others.

    Shooting at the Dome of the Rock in 1982

    On 11 April 1982, American-Israeli reservist Alan Harry Goodman targeted the Dome of the Rock in a shooting, killing two Palestinians and wounding at least seven.

  2. 1982 Constitution Act, 1982 Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.

    Primary constitutional document of Canada

    The Constitution Act, 1982 is a part of the Constitution of Canada. The Act was introduced as part of Canada's process of patriating the constitution, introducing several amendments to the British North America Act, 1867, including renaming it the Constitution Act, 1867. In addition to patriating the Constitution, the Constitution Act, 1982 enacted the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; guaranteed rights of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada; entrenched provincial jurisdiction over natural resources; provided for future constitutional conferences; and set out the procedures for amending the Constitution in the future.

  3. 1982 Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.

    1982 undeclared Argentina–United Kingdom war

    The Falklands War was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The conflict began on 2 April 1982, when Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands, followed by the invasion of South Georgia the next day. On 5 April the British government dispatched a naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and Air Force before making an amphibious assault on the islands.

  4. 1982 Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.

    Bat-and-ball game

    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team is to hit the ball into the field of play, away from the other team's players, allowing its players to run the bases, having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called "runs".

  5. 1982 Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.

    Country in West Asia

    Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel's western coast lies on the Mediterranean Sea, its southern tip reaches the Red Sea, and to the east is Earth's lowest point near the Dead Sea.

  6. 1982 The Bijon Setu massacre occurs in Calcutta, India.

    1982 murder of monks and a nun in India

    The Bijon Setu massacre refers to the killing of 16 sadhus and a sadhvi of the Ananda Marga, at Bijon Setu, West Bengal, India, on 30 April 1982. The killings remain unresolved, with no convictions, and continue to be the subject of political controversy.

  7. 1982 Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh is arrested.
  8. 1982 A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.
  9. 1982 The Helsinki Metro, the first rapid transit system of Finland, is opened to the general public.
  10. 1982 Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon.

Arrivals

Born in 1982

Taran Killam 1982– American actor, comedian, and writer (born 1982)
Andreas Thorkildsen 1982– Norwegian javelin thrower
Andre Ethier 1982– American baseball player (born 1982)
Ian Bell 1982– English cricketer (born 1982)
Peeter Kümmel 1982– Estonian cross-country skier (born 1982)
Nellie McKay 1982– American singer and songwriter
Ty Dolla Sign 1982– American rapper and singer (born 1982)
Uğur Boral 1982– Turkish footballer
Larissa França 1982– Brazilian beach volleyball player
Michael Aubrey 1982– American baseball player (born 1982)
Anthony Green 1982– American singer (born 1982)
Albert Riera 1982– Spanish football manager (born 1982)

Farewells

Died in 1982

Arthur Lowe English actor (1915–1982)
Archibald MacLeish American poet and 9th Librarian of Congress (1892–1982)
Ville Ritola Finnish long-distance runner (1896–1982)
Raymond Bussières French actor (1907–1982)
Warren Oates American actor (1928–1982)
Lester Bangs American music critic (1948–1982)
T. Thirunavukarasu Sri Lankan Tamil politician and Member of Parliament
Anderson Bigode Herzer Brazilian transgender writer (1962–1982)
Tom Drake American actor (1918–1982)
Mahasi Sayadaw Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk (1904–1982)
Ernie Bushmiller American cartoonist (1905–1982)
Jock Taylor British sidecar racer

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