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Year '1982' ('
MCMLXXXII') was a
common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982
Gregorian calendar).
Events of 1982
January
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January 1 -
ITV companies
Central Independent Television,
Television South and
Television South West start broadcasting, replacing
ATV,
Southern Television and
Westward Television respectively.
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January 6 -
William Bonin is convicted of being the
Freeway Killer.
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January 8 -
AT&T agrees to divest itself into 22 subdivisions.
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January 10 - The lowest ever
United Kingdom temperature of -27.2°C is recorded at
Braemar, in
Aberdeenshire. This equals the record set in the same place in
1895, and the record would be equalled again at
Altnaharra in
1995.
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January 11 -
Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the
Sahara during the
Paris-Dakar rally. He is rescued
January 14.
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January 11-
January 17 - A brutal cold snap sends temperatures to all-time record lows in dozens of cities throughout the
Midwestern
United States.
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January 13 - Shortly after takeoff,
Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into
Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the
Potomac River, killing 78. On the same day, a
Washington Metro train derails to the north, killing 3 (the system's first, and worst, fatal accident).
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January 17 -
Cold Sunday sweeps over the northern
United States.
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January 24 - The
San Francisco 49ers defeat the
Cincinnati Bengals 26-21 in
Super Bowl XVI at the
Pontiac Silverdome in
Pontiac,
Michigan.
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January 26 -
Mauno Koivisto is elected President of
Finland.
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January 26 - Unemployment in the
United Kingdom increases by 129,918 to 3,070,621, a post-war record.
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January 27 - The
Garret Fitzgerald government of the
Republic of Ireland was defeated 82-81 on its budget; Fitzgerald announced his resignation.
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January 28 - U.S.
Brigadier General James L. Dozier is rescued by
Italian anti-
terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the
Red Brigades.
February
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February 1 -
Senegal and
Gambia form a loose confederation.
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February 2 - The
Hama Massacre begins in
Syria.
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February 3 -
Syrian president
Hafez al-Assad orders the army to purge the city of
Harran of the
Muslim Brotherhood.
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February 5 -
London-based
Laker Airways collapses, leaving 6,000 stranded passengers and debts of $270 million.
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February 15 - The
oil platform ''
Ocean Ranger'' sinks during a storm off the coast of
Newfoundland, killing 84 rig workers.
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February 18 - The
Republic of Ireland general election gives a boost to
Fianna Fáil.
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February 19 - The
DeLorean Car factory in
Belfast is put into
receivership.
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February 24 -
Wayne Gretzky of the
Edmonton Oilers scores his 77th goal of the
National Hockey League season, breaking the previous record of 76. He would go on to score 92 goals that season, which remains the record.
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February 24 - In
South Africa, 22
National Party MPs led by
Andries Treurnicht voted no confidence in
P. W. Botha.
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February 25 - The
European Court of Human Rights ruled that teachers who caned, belted or tawsed children against the wishes of their parents were in breach of the Human Rights Convention.
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February 27 - In
Atlanta, Georgia,
Wayne Williams is convicted of murdering 2 children, and given 2 consecutive life terms.
March
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March 3 - The
Queen opens the
Barbican Centre in
London.
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March 9 -
Charles Haughey became
Taoiseach of the
Republic of Ireland.
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March 10 - The
United States places an
embargo on
Libyan
oil imports, alleging Libyan support of
terrorist groups.
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March 10 -
Syzygy: all 9
planets align on the same side of the
Sun.
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March 16 - In
Newport, Rhode Island,
Claus von Bülow is found guilty of the attempted murder of his wife.
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March 18 - An
Argentinean scrap metal dealer raises the Argentinean flag in
South Georgia.
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March 18 -
Mary Whitehouse's private prosecution of ''
The Romans in Britain'' collapses.
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March 19 - The
Falklands War approaches:
Argentines land on
South Georgia Island, precipitating war.
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March 25 -
Roy Jenkins wins the
Glasgow Hillhead by-election for the
Social Democratic Party.
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March 26 - A ground breaking ceremony for the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in
Washington, DC.
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March 29 -
Royal Assent in
London to the
Canada Act 1982 sets the stage for the repatriation of the
Canadian Constitution (see
April 17 below).
April
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April 2 -
Falklands War begins:
Argentina invades the
Falkland Islands.
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April 4 -
Falklands War: The British Falkland Islands government surrenders, placing the islands in Argentinean control.
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April 5 -
Falklands War: The
Royal Navy task force sails to recapture the Falklands.
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April 6 - A
blizzard unprecedented in size for April dumps 1-2 feet of snow on the northeastern U.S., closing schools and businesses, snarling traffic, and canceling several major league baseball games.
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April 12 -
Falklands War: A 200-mile 'total exclusion zone' around the Falklands proclaimed by the
United Kingdom comes into effect.
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April 17 - By Proclamation of the
Queen of Canada on
Parliament Hill,
Canada patriates its
constitution, granting full political independence from the
United Kingdom; included is the country's first entrenched bill of rights.
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April 23 -
Dennis Wardlow, Mayor of
Key West, Florida, declares the independent
Conch Republic for a day.
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April 24 - The German singer Nicole wins the
Eurovision Song Contest 1982 for
Germany, with the song ''Ein Bisschen Frieden''.
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April 25 -
Israel completes withdrawing from the
Sinai peninsula per the
Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty.
May
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May 1 -
Falklands War: A
Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan bomber takes off from
Ascension Island and bombs
Stanley Airport.
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May 1 - A crowd of over 100,000 attends the first day of
The 1982 World's Fair in
Knoxville, Tennessee. The fair is kicked off with an address by
President Ronald Reagan. Over 11 million people attend the fair during its six month run.
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May 2 -
Falklands War: The nuclear submarine
HMS ''Conqueror'' sinks the Argentine cruiser
''General Belgrano'' killing 323 sailors.
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May 2 -
The Weather Channel (United States) airs on
cable television for the first time.
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May 4 -
Falklands War:
HMS Sheffield is hit by an
Exocet missile, and burns out of control; 20 sailors are killed. The ship sank on
May 10.
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May 5 - A
Unabomber bomb explodes in the
computer science department at
Vanderbilt University; secretary Janet Smith is injured.
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May 8 - French-Canadian racing driver Gilles Villeneuve is killed during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix.
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May 12 - Spanish priest Juan Hernandes tries to stab
Pope John Paul II with a
bayonet during the latter's pilgrimage to the
Fatima, Portugal shrine.
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May 12 -
Braniff International Airways was declared bankrupt and ceased all flights.
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May 21 -
Falklands War:
Royal Marines and
paratroopers from the British Task Force land at San Carlos Bay on the
Falkland Islands and raise the
Union Flag.
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May 22 -
Falklands War:
HMS Ardent is sunk by Argentine aircraft, killing 22 sailors.
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May 23 -
Falklands War - ''
HMS Antelope'' of the
Royal Navy explodes.
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May 24 -
Iranian troops retake
Khorramshahr.
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May 24 -
KGB head
Yuri Andropov is appointed to the Secretariat of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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May 25 -
Falklands War:
Atlantic Conveyor is sunk by an Argentine
Exocet missile, killing 12 and depriving British forces of the helicopters intended to be used in the later stages of the conflict.
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May 26 -
Aston Villa win the
European Cup beating
Bayern Munich 1-0 after a 69 minute goal by
Peter Withe in
Rotterdam
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May 26 -
Kielder Water, an artificial lake in
Northumberland, is opened.
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May 27 -
Tottenham Hotspur win the
FA Cup beating
QPR 1-0 in a replay.
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May 27 -
Conservative candidate
Tim Smith held the seat of
Beaconsfield in a
by-election. The
Labour Party candidate was
Tony Blair.
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May 28 - British troops reach
Darwin, Falkland Islands.
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May 29 -
Falklands War: In the
Battle of Goose Green, British paratroopers defeat a larger force of Argentine troops in the first land battle of the war.
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May 30 -
Spain becomes the 16th member of
NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in
1955.
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May 30 -
Indianapolis 500: In what
Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian
Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history,
1973 winner
Gordon Johncock wins his second race over
1979 winner
Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds, the closest finish to that date, after Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps.
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May 30 -
Cal Ripken starts the first game of what will eventually become his record-breaking consecutive games played streak of 2,632.
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May 31 -
Falklands War: The Battle of Stanley is fought.
June
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June 5 - The first
Rubik's Cube World Championships is held in
Budapest,
Hungary.
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June 6 - The
1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under
Israeli Defense Minister
Ariel Sharon invade southern
Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital
Beirut.
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June 6 - The
United Nations Security Council votes to demand that
Israel withdraw its troops from
Lebanon.
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June 8 -
President Reagan becomes the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the
British Parliament.
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June 8 -
Falklands War, British
RFA Sir Galahad destroyed
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June 8 -
VASP Flight 168, a
Boeing 727 passenger jet, crashes into forest
Fortaleza, killing 137.
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June 12 - A rally against
nuclear weapons draws 750,000 to
New York City's
Central Park.
Jackson Browne,
James Taylor,
Bruce Springsteen, and
Linda Ronstadt attend.
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June 13 - In
Alberta,
Canada 15 members of the Black Leopards Karate Club demolish a house with bare hands and feet with the owner's consent.
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June 13 - The
1982 FIFA World Cup is opened in Spain.
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June 13 -
Fahd becomes
King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother,
Khalid.
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June 14 - The
Falklands War ends: A formal surrender is agreed that day.
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June 18 - Argentine military dictator
Leopoldo Galtieri resigns, in the wake of his country's defeat in the
Falklands War.
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June 19 - The body of "God's Banker",
Roberto Calvi, chairman of
Banco Ambrosiano, is found hanging beneath
Blackfriars Bridge in
London.
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June 21 -
Prince William is born at
St Mary's Hospital in
Paddington, West
London.
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June 24 -
British Airways Flight 9 suffers a temporary four-engine flameout and damage to the exterior of the plane, after flying through the otherwise undetected
ash plume from Indonesia's
Galunggung.
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June 25 - The Institute for Puerto Rican Policy is founded in New York City to research and advocate for Puerto Rican and Latino community issues. In 2006, it changes it name to the
National Institute for Latino Policy.
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June 30 - The
Equal Rights Amendment falls short of the 38 states needed to pass;
Phyllis Schlafly and other leaders of the
Religious Right take credit for its defeat.
July
★
July 2 - Larry Walters, a.k.a.
Lawn Chair Larry, flies 16,000 feet above
Long Beach, California in lawn chair with
weather balloons attached.
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July 2 -
Roy Jenkins was elected Leader of the
Social Democratic Party.
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July 3 -
ASLEF train drivers in the
United Kingdom went on strike over hours of work; they returned to work on
July 18.
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July 4 - Four
Iranian diplomats are kidnapped upon
Israel's invasion of
Lebanon.
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July 6 - Lunar Eclipse - Umbral duration 236min and total duration 106min, the longest of the 20th century
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July 7 A man in the UK climbs over the fences of Buckingham Palace and reaches the window of the Queen where he sits and speaks with the queen, even asking for a cigarette before security takes him away.
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July 9 -
Pan Am Flight 759 (
Boeing 727) crashes in
Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 146 on board and 8 on the ground.
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July 9 - Intruder
Michael Fagan visits
Queen Elizabeth II in her bedroom for a chat.
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July 11 -
Italy beats
West Germany 3-1 to win the
1982 FIFA World Cup in
Spain.
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July 12 -
Checker Motors Corporation ceases production of automobiles.
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July 15 -
Geoffrey Prime, a
GCHQ civil servant, was remanded in custody on charges under the
Official Secrets Act 1911.
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July 16 - In
New York City, The Reverend
Sun Myung Moon is sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $25,000 for tax fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
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July 19 -
William Whitelaw,
Home Secretary, announced that Michael Trestrail (the Queen's bodyguard) had resigned from the
Metropolitan Police Service over a relationship with a male prostitute.
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July 20 - The
Provisional IRA detonates 2
bombs in central
London, killing 8 soldiers, wounding 47 people, and leading to the deaths of 7 horses.
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July 21 -
HMS ''Hermes'', the
Royal Navy flagship during the
Falklands War, returns home to
Portsmouth to a hero's welcome.
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July 23 - The
International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial
whaling by
1985-
1986.
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July 23 - A coroner's jury returned a verdict of
suicide on
Roberto Calvi, who had been found hanging under
Blackfriars Bridge.
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July 31 - 53 persons, 46 of them children, die in a highway accident in
Beaune in
France's worst road accident.
August
★
August 4 - The
United Nations Security Council votes to
censure Israel because its troops are still in Lebanon.
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August 7 - Italian Prime Minister
Giovanni Spadolini resigns.
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August 12 -
Mexico announces it is unable to pay its large foreign debt, triggering a debt crisis that quickly spread throughout Latin America.
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August 13 - In
Hong Kong, health warnings on
cigarette packets are made statutory.
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August 17 - The first
compact discs (CDs) are released to the public in
Germany.
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August 20 -
Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in
Beirut to oversee the
PLO withdrawal from
Lebanon. French troops arrive
August 21, U.S. Marines
August 25.
September
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September 3 - Italian general
Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa is killed in a mafia ambush.
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September 5 -
Iowa paperboy
Johnny Gosch is kidnapped.
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September 8 -
USA [The Greatest Miracle on Earth Created.]
Toni M. Iannuzzi
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September 14 -
Lebanon President
Bachir Gemayel is assassinated in
Beirut.
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September 18 - Lebanese Christian Militia kill hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in West Beirut.
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September 21 - The first
International Day of Peace (
United Nations) ever
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September 23 -
Amin Gemayel is elected president of
Lebanon.
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September 25 - In Israel, 400,000 marchers demand the resignation of Prime Minister
Menachem Begin.
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September 26 -
Thermals take Australian parachutist Rich Collins up to 2,800 meters during a jump; he almost blacks out due to lack of oxygen. He releases his main
parachute to fall to lower altitude and lands by his reserve parachute.
★
September 26 -
Knight Rider makes its first appearance with film
Knight of the Phoenix
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September 29-
October 1 - The
Tylenol scare is sparked when 7 people in the
Chicago area die after ingesting capsules laced with
potassium cyanide.
October
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October 1 -
Helmut Kohl replaces
Helmut Schmidt as
Chancellor of Germany through a
Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
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October 1 - The
Epcot theme park at
Walt Disney World opens to the public for the first time.
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October 1 -
Sony launches the first consumer
compact disc player (model CDP-101).
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October 8 -
Poland bans
Solidarity.
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October 11 - The ''
Mary Rose'', flagship of
Henry VIII of England that sank in
1545, is raised.
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October 13 - The
Ford Sierra is launched in
Europe. It replaces the
Ford Cortina
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October 15 - The
Garn - St Germain Depository Institutions Act deregulates the U.S.
savings and loan industry.
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October 19 -
John De Lorean is arrested for selling
cocaine to undercover
FBI agents (he is later found not guilty due to
entrapment).
★
October 20 - The
St. Louis Cardinals defeat the
Milwaukee Brewers 6-3 in game 7 to win the
World Series
★
October 27 - In Canada,
Dominion Day is officially renamed to
Canada Day.
★
October 28 - The
Socialist Party wins the election in Spain;
Felipe González is elected Prime Minister.
November
★
November 1 - The
Welsh language station,
S4C, launches in
Wales.
★
November 2 - The fourth
terrestrial television channel is launched in the
England, Scotland and Northern Ireland (known as
Channel 4) with the first program broadcast being the game show
Countdown, which is still in production.
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November 3 - A gasoline tanker explodes in the
Salang Tunnel in
Afghanistan, killing at least 2,000 people.
★
November 3 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43.41 points, or 4.25%, to close at 1,065.49, its first all-time high in more than nine years. It last hit a record on
January 11,
1973 when the average closed at 1,051.70. The points gain was the biggest ever up to that point.
★
November 6 -
Camerun president
Ahmadou Ahidjo resigns, replaced by
Paul Biya.
★
November 7 - The
Thames Barrier is first publicly demonstrated.
★
November 12 - In the
Soviet Union, former
KGB head
Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late
Leonid I. Brezhnev.
★
November 13 - The
Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in
Washington, D.C., after a march to its site by thousands of
Vietnam War veterans.
★
November 14 - The leader of
Poland's outlawed
Solidarity movement,
Lech Wałęsa, is released from 11 months of internment near the
Soviet border.
★
November 20 -
University of California, Berkeley executes "
The Play" in a
college football game against
Stanford. Completing a wacky 57-yard kickoff return that includes five laterals, Kevin Moen runs through Stanford band members who had prematurely come onto the field. His touchdown stands and California wins 25-20.
★
November 27 -
Yasuhiro Nakasone becomes Prime minister of
Japan.
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November 28 - Representatives from 88 countries gather in
Geneva to discuss
world trade and ways to work toward aspects of
free trade.
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November 29 -
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: The
United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37, stating that the
Soviet Union should withdraw from
Afghanistan.
December
★
December 1 -
Thriller album by
Michael Jackson is released, becoming the biggest selling album of all time in entertainment history.
★
December 2 - At the
University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist
Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent
artificial heart (he will live for 112 days with the device).
★
December 3 - A final soil sample is taken from the site of
Times Beach, Missouri. It is found to contain 300 times the safe level of
dioxin.
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December 4 - The
People's Republic of China adopts its current
constitution.
★
December 7 - The first U.S.
execution by
lethal injection is carried out in
Texas.
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December 8 - The
December murders in Suriname.
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December 12 - Women's peace protest at
Greenham Common: 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence.
★
December 20 -
Super Bowl XX is awarded to the
Louisiana Superdome in
New Orleans.
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December 23 - The
United States Environmental Protection Agency recommends the evacuation of
Times Beach, Missouri due to dangerous levels of
dioxin contamination.
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December 26 - ''
Time Magazine's''
Man of the Year is given for the first time to a non-human, the
computer.
Undated
★ A brief but severe
recession begins in the
United States.
★
Seattle is officially dubbed the ''
Emerald City'' after a contest held to choose a new city slogan.
★
George Stigler is awarded
The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
★ The car brand
Toyota Camry introduced.
★
Dorling Kindersley, formerly a
book packager, begins publishing.
★
Commodore 64 is released. The Commodore 64 goes on to sell over 20 million computers until
1994.
★ A global surplus of
crude oil causes
gasoline prices to collapse.
★ 51% of
Americans do not accept
homosexuality as normal in a
Gallup Poll.
Ongoing
★
Cold War.
Fictional
The references to 1982 in popular fiction are:
Computer games
★ (2002)
Births
January-February
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January 1 -
David Nalbandian, Argentine tennis player
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January 4 -
Kang Hye-jeong, South Korean actress
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January 4 -
Richard Logan, English footballer
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January 5 -
Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier
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January 6 -
Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player
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January 7 -
Francisco Rodriguez, Venezualan baseball player
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January 9 -
David Barrett, American festival player
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January 11 -
Ashley Taylor Dawson, British actor
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January 12 -
Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player
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January 13 -
Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
★
January 13 -
Ruth Wilson, English actress
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January 14 -
Victor Valdes, Spanish football player
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January 15 -
Benjamin Agosto, American skater
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January 17 -
Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
★
January 17 -
Alex Varkatzas, Greek-American lead vocalist (
Atreyu)
★
January 18 -
Joanna Newsom, American harpist/singer-songwriter
★
January 19 -
Jodie Sweetin, American actress
★
January 19 -
Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer and actress
★
January 22 -
Liane Bahler, German professional cyclist (d.
2007)
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January 31 -
Elena Paparizou, Greek-Swedish singer
★
February 2 -
Kelly Mazzante, American basketball player
★
February 4 -
Mandisa Stevenson, American basketball player
★
February 4 -
Kimberly Wyatt, singer The Pussycat Dolls
★
February 4 -
Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist
★
February 9 -
Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer
★
February 10 -
Mon Redee Sut Txi, Malaysian athlete
★
February 10 -
Justin Gatlin, American athlete
★
February 11 -
Neil Robertson, Australian snooker player
★
February 12 -
Onil Joseph, American baseball player
★
February 14 -
Marian Gaborik, Czechosovakian (now
Slovakia) hockey player
★
February 17 -
Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer (soccer player)
★
February 22 -
Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress
★
February 25 -
Chris Baird, Northern Irish footballer
★
February 25 -
Maria, WWE superstar
★
February 28 -
Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (d.
2004)
March-April
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March 2 -
Henrik Lundqvist, Swedish hockey goaltender
★
March 2 -
Ben Roethlisberger, American football player (
Pittsburgh Steelers)
★
March 2 -
Mike Nugent, American football player (
New York Jets)
★
March 3 -
Jessica Biel, American actress
★
March 4 -
Landon Donovan, American soccer player
★
March 4 -
Charity Rahmer, American actress
★
March 5 -
Daniel Carter, New Zealand rugby player
★
March 6 -
Stephen Jordan, English footballer
Manchester City
★
March 7 -
Erika Yamakawa, Japanese talent
★
March 8 -
Nicoleta Onel, Romanian gymnast
★
March 9 -
Paul Ballard, English television presenter
★
March 10 -
Kwame Brown, American basketball player
★
March 10 -
Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress
★
March 11 -
Thora Birch, American actress
★
March 19 -
Matt Littler, British actor
★
March 20 -
Nick Wheeler, American musician (
The All-American Rejects)
★
March 22 -
Pete Bennett, English rock singer (
Daddy Fantastic) and television personality (
Big Brother 2006)
★
March 23 -
Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish football (soccer) goalkeeper
★
March 24 -
Kenichirou Ohashi, Japanese voice actor
★
March 25 -
Danica Patrick, American race car driver
★
March 25 -
Sean Faris, American actor
★
March 30 -
Jason Dohring, American actor
★
March 30 -
Philippe Mexes, French footballer
★
March 30 -
Javier Garcia Portillo, Spanish footballer (soccer player)
★
April 1 -
Sam Huntington, American actor
★
April 1 -
Taran Killam, American actor
★
April 3 -
Kasumi Nakane, Japanese gravure idol
★
April 6 -
Ilan Hall, Israeli-American chef
★
April 7 -
Sonjay Dutt, Indian American professional wrestler
★
April 8 -
Judy Star, American actress
★
April 10 -
Chyler Leigh, American actress
★
April 13 -
Nellie McKay, American singer
★
April 22 -
Kaká, Brazilian footballer (soccer player)
★
April 24 -
Kelly Clarkson, American singer
★
April 24 -
Shayna Nackoney, Canadian synchronized swimmer
★
April 25 -
Monty Panesar, English cricketer
★
April 29 -
Kamran Jawaid, Pakistani film critic and producer
★
April 30 -
Kirsten Dunst, American actress
★
April 30 -
Lloyd Banks, African American/ Puertorican Rapper
May-June
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May 9 -
Rachel Boston, American beauty queen and actress
★
May 10 -
Adebayo Akinfenwa, English footballer
★
May 10 -
Jeremy Gable, American playwright
★
May 12 -
Zoe Lister, British actress
★
May 13 -
Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol
★
May 13 -
Oguchi Onyewu, American soccer player
★
May 15 -
Jessica Sutta, singer The Pussycat Dolls
★
May 15 -
Veronica Campbell, Jamaican athlete
★
May 17 -
Tony Parker, French basketball player
★
May 18 -
Eric West, American actor and singer
★
May 19 -
Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer
★
May 20 -
Petr Čech, Czech footballer (soccer player)
★
May 22 -
Apolo Anton Ohno, American short track speed skater and actor
★
May 25 -
Alexandr Ivanov, Russian javelin thrower
★
May 26 -
Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model
★
June 1 -
Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player
★
June 1 -
Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer and songwriter
★
June 2 -
Jewel Staite, Canadian actress and singer
★
June 3 -
Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian athlete
★
June 4 -
Jin Au-Yeung, Chinese rapper
★
June 7 -
Amy Nuttall, British actress and opera singer
★
June 8 -
Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
★
June 10 -
Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
★
June 10 -
Princess Madeleine of Sweden
★
June 11 -
Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
★
June 11 -
Eldar Rønning, Norwegian cross-country skier
★
June 16 -
Missy Peregrym, American actress
★
June 21 -
Prince William of Wales
★
June 22 -
Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
★
June 23 -
Kenny Techstepper, American music journalist
★
June 24 -
Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player
★
June 24 -
Kevin Kleinberg, American actor
★
June 25 -
Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
★
June 27 -
Takeru Shibaki, Japanese actor
★
June 30 -
Lizzy Caplan, American actress
July-August
★
July 1 -
Hilarie Burton, American actress and VJ
★
July 5 -
Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer
★
July 7 -
Jan Lastuvka, Czech footballer
★
July 8 -
Sophia Bush, American actress
★
July 8 -
Tarah Paige, American actress
★
July 8 -
Hakim Warrick, American basketball player
★
July 9 -
Sakon Yamamoto, Japanese racecar driver
★
July 10 -
Alex Arrowsmith, American musician
★
July 10 -
Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
★
July 12 -
Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer (soccer player)
★
July 13 -
Simon Clist, English footballer
★
July 15 -
Haley Scarnato, American singer and ''
American Idol'' finalist
★
July 18 -
Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress and beauty queen
★
July 18 -
Ryan Cabrera, American musician
★
July 19 -
Jared Padalecki, American actor
★
July 23 -
Claudette Ortiz, American soul singer
★
July 24 -
Anna Paquin, Canadian-born actress
★
July 25 -
Brad Renfro, American actor
★
July 29 -
Allison Mack, American actress
★
July 30 -
James Anderson, English cricketer
★
July 31 -
Melanie Vallejo, Australian TV actress
★
August 2 -
Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer (soccer player)
★
August 6 -
Kevin van der Perren, Belgian figure skater
★
August 7 -
Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer
★
August 9 -
Tyson Gay, American athlete
★
August 10 -
Devon Aoki, American supermodel and actress
★
August 10 -
Shaun Murphy, English snooker player
★
August 10 -
Joleon Lescott, English footballer
★
August 13 -
Shani Davis, American speed skater
★
August 19 -
Erika Christensen, American actress
★
August 24 -
Kim Källström, Swedish footballer
★
August 28 -
LeAnn Rimes, American singer
★
August 28 -
Karo Parisyan, Armenian MMA fighter
★
August 30 -
Andy Roddick, American tennis player
★
August 31 -
José Manuel Reina Páez, Spanish footballer
September-October
★
September 1 -
Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater
★
September 2 -
Mandy Cho, Hong Kong actress
★
September 3 -
Andrew McMahon, American musician
★
September 3 -
Kaori Natori, Japanese singer and model
★
September 4 -
Alessandra Rubi Streignard Villarreal, Spanish actress, model, and singer
★
September 7 -
Race Wong, Hong Kong singer/actress, Member of
2R (Group)
★
Setember 8 -
USA, [GOD's Most Precious Creation born to the world.]
Toni M. Iannuzzi
★
September 9 -
Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter
★
September 12 -
Nana Ozaki, Japanese gravure idol
★
September 13 -
Nenê, Brazilian basketball player
★
September 13 -
Miha Zupan, Slovenian basketball player
★
September 18 -
Lukas Reimann (Swiss politician)
★
September 19 -
Nicole Voss, American model
★
September 21 -
Rudy Youngblood, American actor
★
September 27 -
Lil Wayne, American rapper
★
September 27 -
Darrent Williams,
Denver Broncos cornerback (d.
2007)
★
September 28 -
Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
★
September 29 -
Ariana Jollee, American porn actress and director
★
September 29 -
Rob Smith - Irish musician and songwriter
★
September 30 -
Lacey Chabert, American actress
★
September 30 -
Michelle Marsh, British model
★
October 3 -
Erik von Detten, American actor
★
October 6 -
MC Lars, American rapper
★
October 7 -
Jermaine Defoe, English footballer
★
October 7 -
Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
★
October 10 -
Jason Oost, Dutch footballer
★
October 11 -
Salim Stoudamire, American basketball player
★
October 13 -
Ian James Thorpe, Australian swimmer
★
October 13 -
Jo Yoon-hee, South Korean actress & model
★
October 15 -
Saif Saaeed Shaheen,
Qatar
★
October 15 -
Jessica Rey, American actress
★
October 17 -
Nick Riewoldt, Australian footballer
★
October 18 or
19th -
Shauntay Henderson, American criminal
★
October 22 -
Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player
★
October 25 -
Eman Lam, Hong Kong singer
★
October 27 -
Patrick Fugit, American actor
★
October 27 -
Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
★
October 27 -
Keri Hilson, American singer
★
October 28 -
Anthony Lerew, American baseball player
★
October 29 -
Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
November-December
★
November 2 -
Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model and singer
★
November 10 -
Heather Matarazzo, American actress
★
November 11 -
Brittny Gastineau, American model and socialite
★
November 12 -
Anne Hathaway, American actress
★
November 13 -
Michael Copon American actor model and singer
★
November 13 -
Kumi Koda, Japanese singer
★
November 14 -
Sailosi Tagicakibau, Samoan rugby player
★
November 22 -
Charlene Choi, Hong Kong singer and actress
★
November 27 -
Aleksandr Kerzhakov, Russian soccer player
★
November 29 -
Ashley Force, American race car driver
★
November 30 -
Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
★
December 3 -
Michael Essien, Ghanaian footballer
★
December 6 -
Ryan Carnes, American actor
★
December 13 -
Anthony Callea, Australian singer
★
December 14 -
Anthony Way, British singer and actor
★
December 16 -
Garnon Davies, British actor
★
December 20 -
David Wright, New York Mets third baseman
★
December 27 -
Terji Skibenæs, Faroese guitarist (
Týr)
★
December 30 -
Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress
Deaths
January - June
★
January 10 -
Paul Lynde, American actor (b.
1926)
★
January 19 -
Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b.
1945)
★
January 26 -
Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician and Politburo member (b.
1902)
★
January 30 -
Lightning Hopkins, American musician (b.
1912)
★
February 5 -
Neil Aggett, South African labor leader (suicide)
★
February 11 -
Eleanor Powell, American dancer (b.
1912)
★
February 11 -
Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (b.
1905)
★
February 12 -
Victor Jory, Canadian actor (b.
1902)
★
February 17 -
Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (b.
1917)
★
February 17 -
Lee Strasberg, American actor (b.
1901)
★
March 2 -
Philip K. Dick, American author (b.
1928)
★
March 5 -
John Belushi, American actor (b.
1949)
★
March 6 -
Ayn Rand, Russian-born author (b.
1905)
★
March 19 -
Randy Rhoads, American guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne (plane crash) (b.
1956)
★
March 28 -
William Giauque, Canadian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1895)
★
March 31 -
Dave Clement,
Queens Park Rangers footballer - suicide
★
April 5 -
Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b.
1910)
★
April 15 -
Arthur Lowe, British actor (b.
1915)
★
May 1 -
William Primrose, Scottish violist (b.
1903)
★
May 8 -
Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (racing accident) (b.
1950)
★
May 10 -
Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b.
1916)
★
May 15 -
Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (racing accident) (b.
1946)
★
May 29 -
Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (cardiac arrest) (b.
1938)
★
June 2 -
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry,
President of Pakistan (b.
1904)
★
June 6 -
Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b.
1905)
★
June 8 -
Satchel Paige, baseball player (b.
1906)
★
June 12 -
Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1886)
★
June 13 -
Riccardo Paletti, Italian Formula 1 driver (b.
1958)
★
June 14 -
Arthur Coles, Australian businessman and philanthropist (b.
1892)
★
June 18 -
Curt Jurgens, German actor (b.
1915)
July - December
★
July 4 -
Terry Higgins, early British casualty of
AIDS
★
July 23 -
Vic Morrow, American actor (b.
1929)
★
July 28 -
Keith Green, American gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist (b.
1953)
★
July 29 -
Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-born inventor (b.
1889)
★
August 12 -
Henry Fonda, American actor (b.
1905)
★
August 15 -
Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1903)
★
August 18 -
Vladek Spiegelman, father of cartoonist
Art Spiegelman and main character/narrator of
Maus (a
graphic novel of his life during the
Holocaust) (b.
1906)
★
August 21 - King
Sobhuza II of Swaziland, at the time the longest reigning living
monarch (b.
1899)
★
August 23 -
Stanford Moore, American biochemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1913)
★
August 29 -
Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b.
1915)
★
September 2 -
Tom Baker, American actor (b.
1940)
★
September 11 -
Wilfredo Lam, Cuban artist (b.
1902)
★
September 14 -
Bashir Gemayel, President-elect of
Lebanon
★
September 14 -
Grace Patricia Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (b.
1929)
★
September 28 -
Mabel Albertson, American actress (b.
1901)
★
October 4 -
Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b.
1932)
★
October 8 -
Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1889)
★
October 10 -
Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b.
1908)
★
October 18 -
Bess Truman,
First Lady of the United States (b.
1885)
★
October 18 -
Dwain Esper, director (b.
1892)
★
October 22 -
Savitri Devi, French-born writer and philosopher (b.
1905)
★
November 10 -
Leonid Brezhnev,
Premier of the Soviet Union (b.
1906)
★
November 15 -
Vinoba Bhave, Indian educator (b.
1895)
★
November 22 -
Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator (b.
1909)
★
November 29 -
Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (b.
1908)
★
December 7 -
Will Lee, American actor who played
Mr. Hooper on ''
Sesame Street'' (b.
1908)
★
December 8 -
Marty Robbins, American singer (b.
1925)
★
December 16 -
Colin Chapman, British designer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry (b.
1928)
★
December 20 -
Artur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist and conductor (b.
1887)
★
December 24 -
Louis Aragon, French writer (b.
1897)
★
December 27 -
John Swigert, American astronaut (b.
1931)
Fields Medalists
★
Alain Connes,
William Thurston,
Shing-Tung Yau
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Kenneth G. Wilson
★
Chemistry -
Aaron Klug
★
Medicine -
Sune K. Bergström,
Bengt I. Samuelsson,
John R. Vane
★
Literature -
Gabriel García Márquez
★
Peace -
Alva Myrdal,
Alfonso García Robles
Templeton Prize
★
Billy Graham
See also
★
20th century
Notes
1.
Clarence Tsui, ''South China Morning Post'', 12/12/99, webpage:
ITobacco330.
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