Historical Events In 1982

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

Mar 05 Comedian/actor John Belushi is found dead at age 33 of a drug overdose in Hollywood.

Mar 21 In the Hokkaido, Japan Region a 6.7 earthquake injured 110 and caused extensive damage (VI JMA) in southern Hokkaido

Mar 15 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days

Mar 18 Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident

Mar 22 Iran offensive against Iraq

Mar 20 Joan Jett &Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" goes #1 for 7 weeks

Mar 17 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador

Mar 07 Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf Classic

Mar 17 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 05 Parliament passes Canada Oil and Gas Act; Petro Canada (the peoples oil and gas company) gets automatic 25% of all new offshore finds; to speed offshore oil and gas development

Mar 20 1st-class debut of Richie Richardson, Leeward Islands vs Barbados

Mar 11 Harrison Williams (Senator-Democrat-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion

Mar 31 Arkas tanker at Montz LA, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil

Mar 04 NASA launches Intelsat V

Mar 13 World Ice Dance Championship in Copenhagen won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)

Mar 12 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"

Mar 26 Soap opera "Capitol" premieres

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