WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO OCTOBER 1982
Find out what all happened March to October 1982

Anti-government demonstrations are held in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement. (31. August 1982)

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

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)

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

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

John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. (21. 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)

Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus. (5. March 1982)

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

Chinese American Vincent Chin dies in a coma after being beaten in Highland Park, Michigan on June 19, by two auto workers who had mistaken him for Japanese and who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies. (23. June 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)

The United States Air Force Space Command is founded. (1. September 1982)

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

Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral. (29. May 1982)

Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regents Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses. (20. July 1982)

Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano. (2. May 1982)

Poland bans Solidarity and all trade unions. (8. October 1982)

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