Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization’s withdrawal from Lebanon. The war ended…
Tag: 1982
8 October 1982
Poland bans Solidarity and all other trade unions. Solidarity, also known as “Solidarno??” in Polish, was a historic trade union and social movement in Poland…
13 June 1982
Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War. The Falklands War, also known as the Falklands Conflict or the Guerra de las Malvinas…
2 April 1982
Argentina invades the Falkland Islands. The Falklands War was fought between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over the disputed Falkland Islands, South Georgia,…
14 June 1982
Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces.
7 June 1982
Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
14 March 1982
The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London
30 November 1982
Michael Jackson’s sixth solo studio album, Thriller, is released worldwide, ultimately to become the best-selling record album in history.
8 October 1982
After its London premiere, Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.