WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1982
Find out what all happened January to May 1982

Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords. (25. April 1982)

The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982. (29. March 1982)

Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. (13. January 1982)

Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green. (29. May 1982)

Senegal and the Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia. (1. February 1982)

Estonian Communist Party bureau declares "fight against bourgeois TV"—meaning Finnish TV—a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR (6. April 1982)

Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War. (4. May 1982)

ITV franchise ATV gets replaced by Central (1. January 1982)

Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves. (21. April 1982)

Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt. (23. March 1982)

Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom. (19. March 1982)

Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada. (17. April 1982)

A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.. (26. March 1982)

Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus. (5. March 1982)

Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos. (21. May 1982)

Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations. (1. January 1982)

During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan María Fernández y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an "agent of Moscow". (12. May 1982)

Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. (30. March 1982)

Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War. (1. May 1982)

February 1982 Hama massacre: the government of Syria attacks the town of Hama. (2. February 1982)