Historical Events In 1982

Mar 01 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data

Mar 26 Ground-breaking in Washington DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Mar 02 Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru

Mar 20 France performs nuclear test

Mar 29 54th Academy Awards: "Chariots of Fire", Henry Fonda & Katharine Hepburn win

Mar 23 Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees

Mar 31 Rock group Doobie Brothers split up

Mar 10 Sygyzy all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun

Mar 29 54th Academy Awards "Chariots of Fire", Henry Fonda & Katharine Hepburn win

Mar 01 New York Times raises its price from 25¢ to 30¢

Mar 07 IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1

Mar 10 Salim Malik scores 100 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket debut (v SL)

Mar 28 Near Coast of Peru a 6.1 earthquake killed 3 people and extensive damage (VI) at Lunahuana.

Mar 21 Movie "Annie" premieres

Mar 25 Wayne Gretzky becomes first NHL to score 200 points in a season

Mar 03 Statistics Canada confirms that Canada entered a recession in 1982. Gee all they had to do was ask me I could have told them

Mar 26 Paul McCartney &Stevie Wonder release "Ebony &Ivory" in the UK

Mar 03 Senate begins debate on expulsion of Senator Harrison Williams (D-NJ)

Mar 27 Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match vs Sri Lanka at Lahore

Mar 27 "Best Little Whorehouse..." closes at 46th St NYC after 1577 performances

Mar 22 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched

Mar 10 Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun

Mar 10 President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya

Mar 11 Menachem Begin &Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington DC

Mar 24 US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia

Mar 11 Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname

Mar 01 5 die as ski lift malfunctions a Lúz-Ardiden in Pyrenees

Mar 12 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica vs Leeward Islands

Mar 19 Following the failure of Argentinean diplomatic efforts to reclaim the Falkland Islands from the British, an Argentine warship lands a party of "scrap dealers" on South Georgia Island, a dependency of the Falkland Islands British crown colony

Mar 20 Reverend A Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa

Mar 07 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 06 Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)

Mar 28 JN Duartes christian-democrats win elections in El Salvador

Mar 29 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards Mommie Dearest wins

Mar 01 5th Emmy Sports Awards presentation

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