WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1982
Find out what all happened September to December 1982

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

In Suriname, several opponents of the military government are killed. (8. December 1982)

The General Union of Ecuadorian Workers (UGTE) is founded. (20. November 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 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 People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution. (4. December 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 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago. (29. September 1982)

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

Time's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer. (26. December 1982)

The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri. (23. December 1982)

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

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

At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart. (2. December 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)

Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000. (8. October 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)

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

President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated. (14. September 1982)