WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MAY 1982
Find out what all happened February to May 1982

HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War. (25. May 1982)

Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands. (2. April 1982)

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

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

Bijon Setu massacre (30. April 1982)

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

The Río Negro massacre takes place in Guatemala. (13. February 1982)

Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano. (2. May 1982)

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

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

The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers. (15. February 1982)

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

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)

57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. (26. April 1982)

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

The 1982 World's Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee. (1. May 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)

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