Page 17: Historical Events In 1982
Monday, 23 February 2026
Nov 13 Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini. 


Nov 13 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC. 


Nov 14 Joachim Stutschewsky, composer, dies at 91. 


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


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


Nov 16 Agreement reached ending 57 day football strike. 


Nov 16 Arthur Askey, British comedian, dies at 82. 


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


Nov 17 Bill Baldwin, announcer (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 69. 


Nov 18 Donald Dillaway, actor (Min and Bill, Platinum Blonde), dies at 78 


Nov 19 Erving Goffman, US, sociologist (Asylums), dies at 60. 


Nov 21 Lee Patrick, actress (Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon), dies at 75. 


Nov 22 Burton Turkus, lawyer/author/TV host (Mr Arsenic), dies at 80 


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


Nov 23 "Reverend" Grady Nutt, actor (Hee Haw), dies at 47. 


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


Nov 25 Robert Coote, actor (MacBeth), dies in NYC of a heart attack at 73 


Nov 26 Dan Tobin, actor (I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian), dies at 73. 


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


Nov 26 Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki. 


Nov 27 Philipp Kutev, composer, dies at 79. 


Nov 30 STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad 


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


Dec 01 Dorothy James, composer, dies on 81st birthday. 


Dec 01 Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of Mexico. 


Dec 02 A 61 year old American dentist, Dr Barney Clark, is the inaugural human to receive an artificial heart 


Dec 02 David Blue, rocker, dies while jogging in Greenwich Village at 41. 


Dec 02 inaugural permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (University of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with the Jarvic-7 heart 


Dec 06 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland. 


Dec 06 Sen Ted and Joan Kennedy divorce 


Dec 07 Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer became 1st US prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas 


Dec 08 Andre Kamperveen, Suriname minister, murdered 


Dec 09 Fritz Usinger, German writer (Song against Death), dies at 87 


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