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- Apr 20 Atlanta Braves become 1st team to win 1st 12 games of the season
- Apr 20 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode bombs in Belfast, Derry, Armagh, Ballymena, Bessbrook and Magherafelt; 2 civilians are killed and 12 injured
- Apr 21 Atlanta Braves win their 13th straight game
- Apr 21 Dr Michael E Bakey performs 1st successful heart implant
- Apr 21 Dutch Queen Beatrice addresses US Congress
- Apr 22 Atlanta Braves lose after winning 1st 13 games of season
- Apr 23 Conch Republic is established - secession of the Florida Keys from the United States of America
- Apr 23 The 8-bit personal home computer the Sinclair ZX Spectrum is released (goes on to sell 5 million worldwide)
- Apr 24 Cards win 12th game in a row; 7-4 over Phillies
- Apr 24 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Durbin
- Apr 25 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Apr 25 In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawal
- Apr 25 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- Apr 25 Yanks fire manager Bob Lemon & replaces him with Gene Michael
Argentina Surrenders South Georgia Island
Apr 26 Argentina surrenders to British forces on South Georgia Island, near the Falkland Islands
- Apr 26 Gene Michael becomes NY Yankee manager for 2nd time
Music History
Apr 26 Rod Stewart is mugged, gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche on Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California
- Apr 27 NFL Draft: University of Texas defensive end Kenneth Sims first pick by New England Patriots
Ronald Reagan is Shot
Apr 27 Trial of John Hinckley begins for the attempted assassination of US President Ronald Reagan
- Apr 29 Alfredo Magana elected President of El Salvador
Murder of Interest
Apr 29 American mafia hitman Richard Kuklinski murders pharmacist Paul Hoffman by beating him with a tire iron
- Apr 30 Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as President of El Salvador
- Apr 30 Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season
- Apr 30 Iranian offensive in Khusistan
- May 1 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville Tennessee opens
- May 2 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano is sunk by British submarine HMS Conqueror, killing more than 350 men
- May 3 ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)
- May 3 NY Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget
Radio Premiere
May 3 President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
- May 4 British destroyer HMS Sheffield hit by Exocet rocket off Falkland Islands: 20 of her crew died.
- May 4 Twins rookie outfielder Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, removes himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans
Sports History
May 6 Seattle Mariners Gaylord Perry becomes 15th pitcher to win 300 games
- May 7 Californian federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing Oakland Raiders move to Los Angeles Coliseum
- May 7 IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
- May 7 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Nine
May 9 Arthur Kopit's musical "Nine" premieres in NYC
- May 10 WABC joins ABC's All Talk radio network
Radio History
May 10 WABC radio (NYC) plays its last record - John Lennon's "Imagine" - and switches to all-talk format
Assassination Attempt on John Paul II
May 12 In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish Traditionalist priest who opposed Vatican II reforms and saw Pope John Paul II as a perpetrator of them, is stopped prior to his attempt to attack the Pope with a bayonet
- May 12 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is awarded to John Updike for novel 'Rabbit Is Rich'
- May 12 US Football League forms
- May 13 Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy
- May 13 Chicago Cubs win their 8,000th (beat Astros)
- May 13 Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space
- May 14 Guinea adopts constitution
- May 16 Columbia moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating in preparation for STS-4
- May 16 Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep
- May 16 Stanley Cup Final, Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC: 3-peat for NY Islanders; sweep Vancouver Canucks in 4 games with a 3-1 Game 4 win
- May 18 Tigers outfielder Larry Herndon is 14th to hit 4 consecutive HRs
Event of Interest
May 18 Unification Church founder Rev Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion
Film & TV History
May 19 Sophia Loren jailed in Naples, Italy for tax evasion
- May 21 "WKRP in Cincinnati", an ensemble TV sitcom created by Hugh Wilson and set in a struggling radio station, 90th and final episode airs on CBS
- May 21 British troops land on Falkland Islands, in the South Atlantic, to repel Argentine military invasion
- May 23 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina
- May 23 Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
- May 23 Pope John Paul II beatifies Dutch priest and missionary Peter Donders
- May 24 Liberation of Khorramshahr; Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran-Iraq War
Baseball Record
May 25 Ferguson Jenkins becomes 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters
- May 25 Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar
- May 25 STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad
- May 26 35th Cannes Film Festival: "Missing" directed by Costa Gavras and "Yol" directed by Serif Goren and Yilmaz Güney jointly awarded the Palme d'Or
- May 26 British ship Atlantic Conveyor carrying Chinook helicopters and destroyer HMS Coventry hit in Falkland war: 39 crew members die
- May 27 New owners headed by John McMullen buy NHL's Colorado Rockies and move the team to the New Jersey Meadowlands under the new name NJ Devils
- May 28 Leonard Maltin's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
- May 28 Pope John Paul II is 1st reigning pope to visit Great Britain (Adrian IV was born in England, as Nicholas Breakspear)
- May 29 "I Know What Boys Like" by The Waitresses hits #62
- May 29 1st papal visit to Britain since 1531
- May 29 Pentagon plans 1st strategy to fight a nuclear war
- May 30 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO
Baseball Record
Jun 1 Oakland A's left fielder Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases in 3-2 win over Boston Red Sox to become fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a MLB season
- Jun 3 55th National Spelling Bee: Molly Dieveney wins spelling psoriasis
- Jun 3 Israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov seriously wounded by Palestinians
- Jun 4 "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," released in USA
- Jun 4 Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon
- Jun 5 "Murphy's Law" by Cheri hits #39
- Jun 5 Waterfront streetcar begins operating in Seattle
- Jun 6 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out the PLO
- Jun 6 36th Tony Awards: "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" (play) & "Nine" (musical) win
- Jun 6 Bernard Glassman installed as abbot of Zen Center of NY
Music History
Jun 7 Graceland, Elvis Presley's home, is opened to the public
Event of Interest
Jun 7 Hissène Habré's rebel army occupies N'djamena the capital of Chad
Sports History
Jun 7 LA Dodger Steve Garvey is 5th to play in 1,000 consecutive games
Sports History
Jun 7 NY Mets draft Dwight Gooden, Roger McDowell & Randy Myers
- Jun 7 Steve Garvey plays in his 1,000th consecutive game & goes 0-for-4
- Jun 7 US President Ronald Reagan meets with Pope John Paul II at Vatican City, Rome and later Queen Elizabeth II
- Jun 8 Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die
- Jun 8 Falklands War: Royal Fleet Auxiliary Sir Gahalad attacked in San Carlos Water ("Bomb Alley") by Argentine aircraft: 48 soldiers and crewman were killed.
- Jun 8 US President Ronald Reagan addresses the British Parliament in his "ash heap of history" speech
Event of Interest
Jun 9 General Efraín Ríos Montt declares himself President of Guatemala
- Jun 9 Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley
- Jun 10 American TV sitcom "Taxi" last airs on ABC, cancelled after 4 seasons and 15 Emmy Award wins; moves to NBC in the fall, airing for 1 season and wins 3 more Emmys
- Jun 10 Battle of Sultan Yakoub - Israel raid into Syria result in 30 deaths and capture of Israeli tanks
- Jun 10 Iran-Iraq War: Iran recaptures Khorramshahr, Iran from Iraq
- Jun 10 Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon
- Jun 10 John N. McMahon replaces Bobby R. Inman becomes deputy director of CIA
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Jun 11 "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Henry Thomas and Drew Barrymore, is released
Boxing Title Fight
Jun 11 Defending champion Larry Holmes TKOs Gerry Cooney in 13 for WBC and The Ring heavyweight boxing titles at Caesars Palace, LV, Nevada
- Jun 11 Israel and Syria stop fighting in Lebanon
- Jun 11 Pope John Paul II visits Argentina
- Jun 12 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park, NYC
- Jun 12 Battle of Mount Longdon Falkland Islands
- Jun 13 Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia after King Khalid dies at 69
- Jun 14 Argentina surrenders to the United Kingdom, ending the 74-day Falklands Islands conflict
- Jun 15 Riots occur in Argentina after the country is defeated in the Falklands Island War
- Jun 15 Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education
- Jun 16 Britain makes request to Argentina to arrange for return of prisoners
Somewhere in the Stars
Jun 16 Columbia Records releases "Somewhere in the Stars", the fourth studio album by Rosanne Cash; produced by husband Rodney Crowell, and featuring her father Johnny Cash on one track
- Jun 16 Political party "Official Monster Raving Loony Party" is founded by English rocker Screaming Lord Sutch
Event of Interest
Jun 17 President of Argentina Leopoldo Galtieri resigns as commander in chief of the army and as president after leading Argentina to a disastrous defeat against the British in the Falkland Islands War
- Jun 17 US President Reagan's 1st UN General Assembly address "We must serve mankind through genuine disarmament."
- Jun 18 ABC's All Talk radio network expands to 22 stations
- Jun 18 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
- Jun 19 The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London
Menachem Begin Visits Washington
Jun 20 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington
- Jun 21 John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity
Take It Away
Jun 21 Paul McCartney releases single "Take It Away"
Event of Interest
Jun 22 Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales take their first new-born son Prince William home from hospital
- Jun 22 Susan Lea Hammett (18), of Mississippi, crowned 25th America's Junior Miss
- Jun 23 "Cleavage" opens and closes at Playhouse Theater NYC
- Jun 23 -117°F; All time low at South Pole
- Jun 23 Himmy, of Australia, weighs in at domestic cat record 20.7 kg (45 lb)
- Jun 23 Mary Hart joins Entertainment Tonight
- Jun 23 US pass the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (Public Law 97-200)
- Jun 24 1st spacionaut Jean-Loup Chrétien and 2 Soviet cosmonauts, lift off aboard Soyuz T-16
Event of Interest
Jun 24 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
- Jun 24 Soyuz T-6 Launch (USSR)
- Jun 24 US Supreme Court rules president can't be sued for actions in office
- Jun 25 Greece abolishes headshaving of recruits in the military
- Jun 25 Porn star John Holmes acquitted on murder charges
- Jun 25 San Francisco holds its 1st County Fair
Blade Runner
Jun 25 Science-fiction film "Blade Runner", directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer, is released
Event of Interest
Jun 25 South African President P. W. Botha issues a new Proclamation again placing Ingwavuma under government control
Appointment of Interest
Jun 25 US Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr. resigns, replaced by George P. Shultz
- Jun 26 Carlos Lopes runs European record 10km (27:34.39)
- Jun 26 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
- Jun 27 "Play Me a Country Song" opens & closes at Virginia Theater NYC
- Jun 27 4th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia 4 (STS-4) launches
Event of Interest
Jun 28 Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, name their baby "William"
- Jun 29 US Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
- Jun 30 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
- Jun 30 New Jersey NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting; legend of the Jersey Devil, a creature that allegedly inhabited the Pine Barrens of South Jersey
- Jun 30 Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale
- Jul 1 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC
- Jul 1 ABC national music radio network scheduled premiere (never happened)
Sports History
Jul 1 Cal Ripken Jr. makes the first of his record 2,216 consecutive MLB starts at shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles.
- Jul 1 Challenger moves overland to Dryden
- Jul 1 General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as President of Argentina
- Jul 1 Kosmos 1383, 1st search & rescue satellite, launched
- Jul 1 PEC Zwolle '82 soccer club renamed when purchased by Dutch businessman Marten Eibrink
- Jul 2 In South Africa, the Internal Security Act is passed, giving massive powers to the authorities to investigate any organization or publication
- Jul 2 Larry Walters rises to 16,000 feet over Los Angeles using a lawn chair and 42 helium balloons, [1]
- Jul 2 Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
- Jul 3 Riot at building site of Stopera concert hall in Amsterdam causes Ÿ1 million in damages
- Jul 4 4th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia 4 (STS-4) lands at Edwards AFB
- Jul 4 Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico
- Jul 4 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- Jul 5 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
- Jul 7 English athlete David Moorcroft beats Kenyan Henry Rono's 5000m world record by nearly 5 seconds, 13:00.41 in Oslo, Norway
Sports History
Jul 8 Billy Martin records his 1,000th career win as a manager
- Jul 8 Porn star John Homes convicted of receiving stolen property
- Jul 8 Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized
- Jul 9 Botham scores 208 in 225 balls, England v India at The Oval
- Jul 9 Michael Fagan breaks into Buckingham Palace and enters the Queen's bedroom in Buckingham Palace, London
- Jul 9 Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in a storm in Kenner, Louisiana, shortly after take-off, killing 153
- Jul 10 Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze
- Jul 10 Rangers Larry Parrish hits his 3rd grand slam of the week
Event of Interest
Jul 10 Samuel Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" sells for $3,250,000
- Jul 11 FIFA World Cup Final, Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, Spain: Italy beats West Germany, 3-1 in front of 90,000
- Jul 12 Britain announces it is returning 593 Argentine POWs
- Jul 12 FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail
- Jul 13 Iran launches first attack into Iraq
- Jul 13 Train crash at Aalter Belgium, 5 killed
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Jul 14 Musical film adaptation of "Pink Floyd - The Wall", directed by Alan Parker, starring Bob Geldof, and written by Roger Waters, premieres at the Empire, Leicester Square, in London,
- Jul 15 Body of Wendy Caulfield, 1st Green River victim, found near Seattle
- Jul 15 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas
- Jul 15 Senate confirms George P. Shultz as US 60th Secretary of State by vote of 97-0
- Jul 16 CDC report on AIDS symptoms in three hemophiliacs
- Jul 16 George P. Shultz is sworn in as the 60th US Secretary of State
- Jul 16 NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth
- Jul 16 Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud
Sports History
Jul 19 1st annual Cracker Jack Old-Timers Baseball Classic: 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 275-foot HR off Warren Spahn, as AL beats NL 7-2; participants included Hank Aaron, Lou Brock, Bert Campaneris, Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Don Newcombe, and Early Wynn (RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.)
- Jul 19 Bolivian government resigns
- Jul 19 David S Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon
- Jul 20 Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: 11 British soldiers and 7 military horses killed in Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attacks during military ceremonies in London
- Jul 20 T Macauly & D Vosburghs musical "Windy City," premieres in London
- Jul 21 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
- Jul 22 Academic Text Processing Service forms in Seattle
- Jul 23 FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo
- Jul 23 International Whaling Commission votes for total ban on commercial whaling (starting 1985)
- Jul 24 Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299
- Jul 24 KHJ (LA) & KFRC (San Francisco) become 2nd & 3rd stereo AM stations
- Jul 24 Single "Eye Of The Tiger" by Survivor from "Rocky III" soundtrack starts 6-week run at #1 on US charts (Grammy for Best Rock Performance)
- Jul 25 France performs nuclear Test
- Jul 25 Zail Singh is sworn in as the seventh President of India
- Jul 26 Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket
Film & TV History
Jul 26 Indian film star Amitabh Bachchan is seriously injured filming a fight scene for the movie "Coolie"
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