WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1982
Find out what all happened February to October 1982

Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101). (1. October 1982)

NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3. (22. March 1982)

During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster. (20. October 1982)

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

Four Iranian diplomats are abducted by Lebanese militia in Lebanon. (4. July 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)

A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers. (11. August 1982)

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

Greece abolishes the head shaving of recruits in the military. (25. June 1982)

Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram. (8. June 1982)

Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Canada's capital city. Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they are avenging the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide. (27. August 1982)

Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon. (21. August 1982)

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

Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System. (19. September 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)

Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regents Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses. (20. July 1982)

U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs. (14. October 1982)

The Argentine base (Corbeta Uruguay) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War. (20. June 1982)

268 campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt's Guatemala. (18. July 1982)

Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes place. (16. September 1982)