Historical Events in 1982 (Part 4)

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• Nov 16 5th NASA Space Shuttle Mission Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base after 5 days in space, completing its 1st operational flight
• Nov 16 Agreement reached ending 57 day football strike

• Nov 18 South Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim dies from injuries sustained during a 14-round beating by Ray Mancini in Las Vegas; WBC shortens title bouts to 12 rounds; WBA and WBO follow in 1988, and IBF in 1989

• Nov 22 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas
• Nov 23 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida), for mating in preparation for STS-6
• Nov 23 FCC drops limits on duration & frequency of TV ads

• Nov 25 The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day Fire destroys an entire city block, including the Northwestern National Bank building and the recently closed Donaldson's Department Store.
• Nov 26 Clyde King named New York Yankee manager

• Nov 27 Kepler Wessels scores century in 1st Test Cricket (162 v England)
• Nov 27 Yasuhiro Nakasone elected Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki

• Nov 29 USSR performs underground nuclear test

• Nov 30 Ottumwa, Iowa, declared "Video Game Capital of the World" by mayor Jerry Parker
• Nov 30 STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad
• Nov 30 US submarine Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in South China Sea
• Nov 30 USSR performs nuclear test

• Dec 1 Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart
• Dec 1 Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of Mexico
• Dec 2 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart
• Dec 2 American track and field record holder Steve Scott sets record for fastest round of golf played on a regulation course; posts a 95, completing 18 holes in 29:33.05s at Miller Golf Club in Anaheim, California; he used only two clubs, and ran between holes

• Dec 3 35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork, Arkansas (state record)
• Dec 3 77°F highest December temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio

• Dec 4 48th Heisman Trophy Award: Herschel Walker, Georgia (RB)
• Dec 4 China adopts its constitution
• Dec 4 Police and racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp
• Dec 5 Dutch judoka Ingrid Berghmans retains judo's world championship
• Dec 5 Mel Gray ends NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions
• Dec 5 NFL Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 33 pass completions
• Dec 5 Seattle Univ Baptist Ch declares sanctuary for Cen Am refugees
• Dec 5 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Dec 6 Droppin Well bombing: 11 British soldiers and 6 civilians are killed by an Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) time bomb at the Droppin’ Well Bar in Ballykelly, County Londonderry
• Dec 7 Dos Erres massacre in Guatemala during country's civil war, 171 people killed led by Santos López Alonzo
• Dec 7 In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the US.
• Dec 7 Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building

• Dec 8 Norman Mayer holds Washington Monument hostage, demanding an end to nuclear weapons. Is killed by police after 10 hrs (he had no explosives)
• Dec 8 Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse orders the murders 15 opponents to his military regime
• Dec 9 World Boxing Council first to reduce the length of championship fights from 15 to 12 rounds, and allows referees to order standing 8-count for fighters in trouble
• Dec 10 CDC report on a transfusion recipient who developed AIDS symptoms

• Dec 10 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
• Dec 12 $9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in NYC
• Dec 12 The "Snowplow Game": when a snowstorm holds a New England vs Miami game scoreless, Mark Henderson, a convict on work release, on Patriots coach Ron Meyer order, clears the path for John Smith's attempt, which wins the game for the Patriots, 3-0
• Dec 13 Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die

• Dec 15 Sao Tome & Principe constitution approved
• Dec 15 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
• Dec 15 Teamsters president Roy Williams and 4 others convicted of bribery
• Dec 16 The Federal Reserve announces that the operating capacity of factories has gone down to 67.8%.
• Dec 18 Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds
• Dec 22 William Mastrosimone's play "Extremities" premieres in NYC
• Dec 23 The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
• Dec 24 Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic

• Dec 26 TIME's Man of the Year is a computer
• Dec 26 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Dec 27 Pakistani bowler Imran Khan's 8-60 to brings about innings victory v India at Karachi
• Dec 28 Ballon d'Or: Juventus striker Paolo Rossi is named best European football player; beats Bordeaux midfielder Alain Giresse and Juventus' Polish midfielder Zbigniew Boniek

• Dec 30 Anthony Shaffer's "Whodunnit" premieres in NYC
• Dec 30 England defeat Australia by three runs at cricket MCG
• Dec 30 US Assay Office in New York City, NY closes
• Dec 31 CBS Mystery Theater final episode on radio after 8 years
• Dec 31 NBC radio cancels almost all of its network daily features
• Dec 31 TV soap "Doctors" ends 19 year run

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