WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO OCTOBER 1982
Find out what all happened June to October 1982

Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System. (19. September 1982)

Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war. (23. August 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)

EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States. (1. October 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)

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

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

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)

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

The Sentosa Musical Fountain was officially opened as part of the second phase of construction on the island of Sentosa, Singapore. (11. June 1982)

The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany. (29. August 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 National Football League players begin a 57-day strike. (20. September 1982)

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

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

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

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