WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO SEPTEMBER 1982
Find out what all happened April to September 1982

John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. (21. June 1982)

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

During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan María Fernández y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an "agent of Moscow". (12. May 1982)

Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid. (13. June 1982)

The Argentine base (Corbeta Uruguay) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War. (20. June 1982)

The 1982 Lebanon War begins. Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut. (6. 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)

Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War. (1. May 1982)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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