WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO NOVEMBER 1982
Find out what all happened July to November 1982

Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border. (14. November 1982)

Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths. (5. October 1982)

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

Michael Jackson's second solo album, Thriller is released worldwide. It will become the best-selling record album in history. (30. November 1982)

The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany. (29. August 1982)

Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail. (8. July 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)

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)

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

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

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans. (13. November 1982)

The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19, 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth. (11. October 1982)

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

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party wins elections, leading to the first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe Gonzalez becomes Prime Minister-elect. (28. October 1982)

The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike. (20. September 1982)

Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon. (18. September 1982)

The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago. (29. September 1982)