WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO JULY 1982
Find out what all happened March to July 1982

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

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

Four Iranian diplomats are abducted by Lebanese militia in Lebanon. (4. July 1982)

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

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

Priscilla Presley opened Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier was kept off-limits. (7. June 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)

Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid. (13. June 1982)

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

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

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

The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed. (3. June 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)

Bijon Setu massacre (30. April 1982)

The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86. (23. July 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)

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

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