WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1982
Find out what all happened March to December 1982

Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport. (13. November 1982)

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

Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4. (27. June 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)

Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground. (9. July 1982)

The 1982 Lebanon War begins. Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut. (6. June 1982)

Poland bans Solidarity and all trade unions. (8. October 1982)

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

"The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines. (24. June 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)

In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev. (12. November 1982)

The General Union of Ecuadorian Workers (UGTE) is founded. (20. November 1982)

Anti-government demonstrations are held in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement. (31. August 1982)

EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States. (1. October 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)

Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces. (14. June 1982)

Chinese American Vincent Chin dies in a coma after being beaten in Highland Park, Michigan on June 19, by two auto workers who had mistaken him for Japanese and who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies. (23. June 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)

In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped. (19. June 1982)

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