WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JULY 1982
Find out what all happened January to July 1982

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

The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. (8. January 1982)

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

Riccardo Paletti, was killed when he crashed on the start grid for the Canadian Grand Prix (13. June 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)

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

Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos. (21. May 1982)

Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War. (1. May 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)

Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram. (8. June 1982)

Senegal and the Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia. (1. February 1982)

The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London. (19. June 1982)

A British Army Air CorpsGazelle helicopter is destroyed in a friendly fire incident, resulting in the loss of four lives. (6. 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)

Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. (13. January 1982)

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

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

Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner". (30. January 1982)