Historical Events in 1982 (Part 3)

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• Jul 30 Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats
• Jul 30 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
• Jul 31 46 kids & 7 adults die as 2 buses and several cars collide near Beaune, France
• Jul 31 Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria and France form American European Football Federation (AEFF)
• Jul 31 USSR performs nuclear Test
• Aug 1 After the first 13 runnings of the midsummer classic, Darryl Waltrip becomes the first driver the win the Talladega 500 twice

• Aug 1 East German swimmer Petra Schneider breaks her own 400m medley world record by 0:19 (4:36.10) at the World Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador

• Aug 1 Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut

• Aug 2 Roger Ebert's "Movie News" premieres on ABC FM network
• Aug 3 Pitching coach Clyde King becomes NY Yankees 3rd manager of the season replacing Gene Michaels after Yanks swept at home by Chicago White Sox
• Aug 4 Outfielder Joel Youngblood becomes only MLB player to get hits for 2 different teams in 2 different cities on the same day; singles for Mets in Chicago day game; traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game
• Aug 5 Stephabue Hix, of Alabama, 18, crowned Miss National Teen-Ager
• Aug 5 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Aug 6 Three ANC members are sentenced to death in South Africa
• Aug 6 WQXI (Atlanta) is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system
• Aug 11 The South African Defence Force (SADF) raids Southern Angola
• Aug 11 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Aug 14 Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over Padres
• Aug 14 Iran "Ramadan-offensive" in Iraq

• Aug 15 Equatorial Guinea adopts constitution
• Aug 17 First Compact Discs (CDs) released to the public in Germany
• Aug 17 LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)
• Aug 17 South Bend, Ind jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin
• Aug 18 Japanese election law is amended to allow for proportional representation.
• Aug 18 Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago IL, ends after 22 innings - before LA Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th)
• Aug 18 NYSE tops 100m shares traded for the 1st time, sets a new record of 132.69m shares traded
• Aug 18 Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance
• Aug 19 Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec
• Aug 19 Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space
• Aug 20 Don Lever becomes first captain of NHL New Jersey Devils
• Aug 20 US marines land in Beirut Lebanon
• Aug 21 American MLB Milwaukee Brewers' relief pitcher Rollie Fingers becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300
• Aug 21 Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut

• Aug 23 Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president

• Aug 23 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Aug 24 KCs' John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record
• Aug 26 NASA launches Telesat-F satellite
• Aug 27 Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark
• Aug 27 Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
• Aug 28 The first Gay Games are held in San Francisco.
• Aug 28 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Aug 29 38°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August

• Aug 29 The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.

• Aug 31 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Sep 1 Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls" premieres in London
• Sep 1 Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH
• Sep 1 Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks
• Sep 1 Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon
• Sep 1 The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
• Sep 2 Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down
• Sep 3 Anker Jørgensen government in Denmark resigns
• Sep 4 Arson fire engulfs apartment-hotel in LA, 25 die
• Sep 4 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Sep 5 Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph
• Sep 5 US Men's Amateur Golf Championship, The Country Club: Jay Sigel wins 8 & 7 over David Tolley
• Sep 6 Dutch Internal minister Mr M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists

• Sep 6 Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
• Sep 8 Dutch social democratic party wins elections, fascist enters Dutch parliament
• Sep 9 Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank in preparation for STS-5
• Sep 9 Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight
• Sep 10 Decca releases Beatles audition on "Complete Silver Beatles" album, 20 years after label executives rejected them feeling that "guitar groups are on the way out" and "the Beatles have no future in show business"

• Sep 13 50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain
• Sep 13 Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game

• Sep 14 36" snow (Red Lodge, MT)
• Sep 14 Bomb at Lebanese Phalange party HQ kills President-elect Bachir Gemayel and 26 others
• Sep 14 Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel
• Sep 14 Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7"
• Sep 15 First issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc
• Sep 15 Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut

• Sep 16 Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins

• Sep 18 Sabra and Shatila massacres - Christian militia massacre at least 700 Palestinians in retaliation for assassination of Bachir Gemayel

• Sep 19 New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chicago Bears 10-0
• Sep 19 Streetcars stop running on Market St, San Francisco after 122 years of service
• Sep 20 Jalaluddin takes a one-day hat-trick Pakistan v Australia
• Sep 21 2,251 turn out to see Expos play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
• Sep 21 NFL players begin a 57 day strike
• Sep 21 San Francisco cable cars cease operations for 2 years of repairs
• Sep 21 STS-5 vehicle moves to launch pad
• Sep 22 Duleep Mendis completes twin cricket tons for Sri Lanka v India
• Sep 22 San Francisco's cable cars made a final run before closing down for 20-month

• Sep 23 Amin Gemayel sworn in as President of Lebanon

• Sep 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 24 US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon
• Sep 25 Keke Rosberg becomes the first Fin to win the Formula 1 World Drivers Championship when he finishes 5th in season ending Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas; wins by 5 points from Didier Pironi
• Sep 25 Northwestern ends 34 football game losing streak, beats No Ill 31-6
• Sep 25 Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
• Sep 25 USSR performs underground nuclear test

• Sep 27 Cards clinching NL East title

• Sep 27 Jan Wolkers awarded but refuses Constantine Huygens-prize
• Sep 27 John Palmer becomes news anchor of Today Show
• Sep 28 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
• Sep 28 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 505
• Sep 29 Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago
• Sep 29 Situation comedy "Cheers" premieres on NBC-TV, starring Ted Danson and Shelley Long
• Sep 29 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 30 12th Commonwealth Games open in Brisbane, Australia

• Sep 30 National railroad strike in Belgium
• Oct 1 EPCOT Center opens in Orlando, Florida

• Oct 1 The Sony CDP-101, world's first commercially released Compact Disc player released in Japan for 168,000 yen ($730)
• Oct 1 USSR performs underground nuclear test

• Oct 2 Bomb attack in Tehran, kills 60, injures 700

• Oct 3 Center fielder Robin Yount homers twice as Milwaukee whips Baltimore, 10-2 at Memorial Stadium to win the Brewers only AL East Championship
• Oct 4 West German parliament officially confirms Helmut Kohl as the country's new Chancellor
• Oct 5 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• Oct 5 First regular season NHL game is played in New Jersey (Newark; NJ Devils play a 3-3 tie against Pittsburgh Penguins at Brendan Byrne Arena; Don Lever scores first Devils' goal
• Oct 5 Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia

• Oct 5 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, NM
• Oct 6 Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals
• Oct 7 Musical "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater on Broadway, NYC; runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000, wins 7 Tony and 1 Grammy Award

• Oct 8 New Jersey Devils 1st NHL victory; beat New York Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands
• Oct 8 Poland bans Solidarity & all labor unions
• Oct 9 Attack on synagogue in Rome leaves 1 dead
• Oct 10 Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia
• Oct 10 Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint
• Oct 10 US imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union
• Oct 11 English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England
• Oct 11 Riot in Amsterdam as tram catches fire
• Oct 12 38.6 cm (15.2") of rainfall, Angoon Alaska (state record)

• Oct 14 6,000 Unification church couples wed in Korea
• Oct 14 Islanders assessed 108 penalty minutes, Penguins 125 (233 total)
• Oct 14 NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins

• Oct 16 Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return

• Oct 16 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Oct 17 1st live orchestra on a US commercial network since 1954 (National Symphony)
• Oct 17 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Oct 19 Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty)

• Oct 20 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to George Stigler
• Oct 20 Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected

• Oct 22 Gene Mauch resigns as manager of Angels

• Oct 25 David Hookes scores Cricket century in 34 balls 43 mins, SA v Victoria
• Oct 26 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 1st pitcher to win 4 Cy Young awards
• Oct 26 US budget deficit reaches then record $110.7 billion for fiscal year 1982, the first full year of the Ronald Reagan's presidency
• Oct 27 China announces its population has reached 1 billion plus people
• Oct 27 IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics
• Oct 28 NASA launches RCA-E
• Oct 28 Spain's socialists win/communists lose elections
• Oct 29 Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted

• Oct 30 Portugal revises constitution
• Oct 31 Pope John Paul II becomes first pontiff to visit Spain

• Nov 1 Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.

• Nov 2 Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die

• Nov 3 San Diego guard Randy Smith plays his 845th consecutive game in Clippers' 130-111 loss in Philadelphia; passes Johnny “Red” Kerr's NBA record; goes on to play in 906 straight games
• Nov 4 Ruud Lubbers becomes Dutch premier
• Nov 5 Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record)

• Nov 7 Turkey adopts constitution
• Nov 9 Brewers' Robin Yount wins AL MVP unanimously

• Nov 10 IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankruptcy
• Nov 11 5th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia makes the first officially "operational" shuttle mission
• Nov 11 Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters near Tyre; kills 60

• Nov 12 Aaron Pryor scores a 14th round KO of Alexis Argüello in Miami to retain his WBA super lightweight boxing title in the first of 2 meetings between the Hall of Famers; The Ring’s 'Fight of the Decade'

• Nov 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Nov 12 Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket for Pakistan v India, goes to 215
• Nov 13 Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens in Washington, D.C., featuring the names of over 58,000 US soldiers killed or missing in the Vietnam War

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