Historical Events In 1982

Apr 19 Alberto Salazar wins the Boston Marathon in a record 2:8:51

Apr 27 Tom Tully actor (Line-up, Shane), dies at 85

Apr 01 US formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama

Apr 12 Ottawa bans imports from Argentina, to protest invasion of Falkland Islands.

Apr 20 Businessman Peter Pocklington held hostage in his home for almost 12 hours by a gunman demanding $1 million

Apr 15 Apollo Computer announces DN400, DN420, & landscape display

Apr 19 Alberto Salazar wins the Boston Marathon in a record 2 8 51

Apr 12 3 CBS employees shot to death in NYC parking lot

Apr 25 Don Wilson TV announcer (Jack Benny Show), dies at 81

Apr 02 Argentina seizes Malvinas (Falklands) Islands the start of the war with England

Apr 21 M Watt discovers asteroid #2991

Apr 22 Launch of STS-3-Lousma & Fullerton [03/23]

Apr 02 Argentinian forces invade the British run Falkland Islands

Nov 11 Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is let out of jail in Poland

Nov 26 Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki

Nov 16 The space shuttle Columbia returns to earth after its first ever commercial mission, deploying two satellites

Nov 23 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB and mated for STS-6

Nov 16 5th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 5-lands at Edwards AFB

Nov 30 US sub Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in So China Sea

Nov 30 STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad

Nov 05 George Harrison releases "Gone Troppo" album

Nov 10 Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75.

Nov 10 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens to visitors in Wahsington, D.C.

Nov 10 Leonid I Brezhnev Soviet first sect, dies of a heart attack at 75

Nov 26 Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by the Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch

Nov 12 Yuri Andropov becomes soviet leader, succeeding Mr Brezhnev

Nov 05 Jacques Tati actor/director, dies of pulmonary embolism

Nov 22 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas

Nov 13 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC

Nov 12 Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader, but not for long

Nov 30 The Dow Jones industrial average jumped a mighty 36.43 points. It was the fourth largest gain in the stock market’s 87-year history.

Nov 15 Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev

Nov 13 Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini

Nov 10 Leonid Brezhnev Russian leader of the Communist Party died

Nov 16 Agreement reached ending 57 day football strike

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