WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1982
Find out what all happened January to August 1982

Priscilla Presley opened Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier was kept off-limits. (7. June 1982)

US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades. (28. January 1982)

Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom. (19. March 1982)

Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground. (9. July 1982)

Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail. (8. July 1982)

Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves. (21. April 1982)

The Río Negro massacre takes place in Guatemala. (13. February 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)

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)

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

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

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

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

Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations. (1. January 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)

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)

Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces. (14. June 1982)