WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 1982
Find out what all happened May to October 1982

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

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

Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000. (8. October 1982)

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

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

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

Four Iranian diplomats are abducted by Lebanese militia in Lebanon. (4. July 1982)

In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped. (19. June 1982)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19, 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth. (11. October 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 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)

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)