WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO AUGUST 1982
Find out what all happened May to August 1982

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

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)

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

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

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)

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 Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed. (3. June 1982)

The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany. (29. August 1982)

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

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

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

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

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