WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO SEPTEMBER 1982
Find out what all happened July to September 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 United States Air Force Space Command is founded. (1. September 1982)

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

Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war. (23. 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)

Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all. (30. September 1982)

Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System. (19. September 1982)

The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86. (23. July 1982)

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

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

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

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

The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany. (17. August 1982)

Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299. (24. July 1982)

President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated. (14. September 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)

Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spreads to all of Latin America and the Third World. (12. August 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 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago. (29. September 1982)

The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. (11. September 1982)