Timeline 1982
Return to home
1982 Jan 1, Cecil
Williams (b.1929), the pastor of San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church,
married Janice Mirikitani (b.1941). Both had children from previous
marriages.
(SSFC, 12/6/09, p.A9)
1982 Jan 2, The Somali National
Movement (SNM) launched its first military operation against the Somali
government. Operating from Ethiopian bases.
(www.onwar.com/aced/data/sierra/somalia1982b.htm)
1982 Jan 3, A small plane crashed
into the peak of White Mountain in northern California. Donnie Priest
(10), the only survivor, was rescued 5 days later but lost both legs
due to frostbite. His mother and stepfather were killed in the crash.
(SSFC, 11/25/07, p.A1)
1982 Jan 6, Truck driver William
G. Bonin was convicted in Los Angeles of being the "freeway killer" who
had murdered 14 young men and boys.
(AP, 1/6/02)
1982 Jan 8, American Telephone and
Telegraph settled the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against it
by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies. The ATT
Bell System was ordered to be subdivided into 7 Baby Bells by the US
government. The case was led by William F. Baxter (d.1998 at 69),
anti-trust chief for the Reagan administration.
(I&I, Penzias, p.190)(HFA, '96, p.22)(AP,
1/8/98)(SFC, 11/28/98, p.C2)
1982 Jan 8, The US Justice Dept
withdrew an antitrust suit against IBM.
(http://tinyurl.com/3e2guh)
1982 Jan 9, A 5.9 earthquake hit
New England & Canada; the 1st since 1855.
(http://tinyurl.com/32vvon)
1982 Jan 11, Dwight Clark made
"The Catch" and the SF 49ers won against Dallas in the NFC title game.
In Super Bowl XVI San Francisco played against Cincinnati.
(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.B13)(SFC, 1/28/97, p.E1)
1982 Jan 11, The Reagan
Administration announced that it will continue to help Taiwan produce
F-5E fighter planes, but will not sell more advanced models.
(www.cedmagic.com/home/ced-digest/ced-digest-vol-07/ced-digest0701.html)
1982 Jan 12, Peking protested the
sale of U.S. planes to Taiwan. The sale set an annual process that
continued to 2001.
(HN, 1/12/99)(SFC, 4/25/01, p.A9)
1982 Jan 13, An Air Florida 737
crashed into the capital's 14th Street Bridge after takeoff and fell
into the Potomac River, killing 78 people.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1982 Jan 15, Walter W. Smith
(b.1905), NY sports writer, died in Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1976 and in 2000 a collection of 167 essays (1941-1981) was
published: "Red Smith on Baseball: The Game’s Greatest Writer on the
Game’s Greatest Years."
(SFEM, 4/9/00,
p.18)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Smith_(sportswriter))
1982 Jan 18, Four Thunderbird USAF
pilots died when their T-38 Talon jets crashed at Indian Springs
Auxiliary Airfield, Nv. Mechanical failure was cited as the cause.
Shortly after, the precision flying team began flying F-16 fighter
jets. It was the worst accident in the Thunderbirds' history. In all,
18 pilots and one crew member have died in Thunderbird crashes.
(www.reviewjournal.com)(SFC, 8/30/03, p.A22)
1982 Jan 19, Thomas Kean (b.1935)
began serving as the 48th governor of New Jersey. In 2002 President
George W. Bush appointed him as Chairman of the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, widely known as the 9/11
Commission, which was responsible for investigating the causes of the
September 11, 2001 attacks and providing recommendations to prevent
future terrorist attacks.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kean)
1982 Jan 21, Convict-turned-author
Jack Henry Abbott was found guilty in New York City of first-degree
manslaughter in the stabbing death of waiter Richard Adan in 1981.
Abbott was later sentenced to 15 years to life in prison; he committed
suicide in 2002.
(AP, 1/21/07)
1982 Jan 22, President Reagan
formally linked progress in arms control to Soviet repression in
Poland.
(HN, 1/22/99)
1982 Jan 22, Eduardo Frei Montalva
(b.1911), former Chilean President (1964-1970), died from septic shock
as he recovered from stomach surgery at a Santiago clinic. In 2007 his
family filed a court complaint claiming that Frei had been assassinated
by poisoning after a Belgian university investigation found mustard gas
in the body of the former Christian Democratic leader. In 2009 a
Chilean judge ruled that Montalva was assassinated and that his killing
was covered up by people linked to the dictatorship of Gen. Pinochet.
Six people were charged in the case.
(AP, 1/24/07)(AP, 12/7/09)
1982 Jan 24, A draft of Air Force
history reported that the U.S. secretly sprayed herbicides on Laos
during the Vietnam War.
(HN, 1/24/99)
1982 Jan 27, "Joseph & the
Amazing Dreamcoat" opened at Royale NYC for 747 performances.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_and_the_Amazing_Technicolor_Dreamcoat)
1982 Jan 27, Civilian rule resumed
in Honduras.
(www.heritage.org/Research/LatinAmerica/bg264.cfm)
1982 Jan 28, Italian
anti-terrorism forces rescued U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier,
42 days after he had been kidnapped by the Red Brigades.
(AP, 1/28/98)
1982 Jan, The cow named Ubre
Blanca (10), crossed from a Holstein and a Zebu, produced 241 pounds of
milk in a single day. The town of Nueva Geron, Cuba, erected a marble
statue for her after her death in 1985.
(WSJ, 5/21/02,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubre_Blanca)
1982 Jan, In Chicago Lloyd
Wickliffe, a security guard, was killed in a McDonald's restaurant.
Later Andrew Wilson (d.2008) told his lawyers that he, and not Alton
Logan, had killed the guard. On March 17 Lawyers Kunz, Coventry and
Miller signed a notarized affidavit: "I have obtained information
through privileged sources that a man named Alton Logan ... who was
charged with the fatal shooting of Lloyd Wickliffe ... is in fact not
responsible for that shooting...” In 2008 Logan was still in jail
waiting for a new trial.
(AP, 4/12/08)
1982 Jan, In Haiti journalist
Richard Brisson was murdered. He was part of a small group of
guerrillas attempting to overthrow dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier.
Brisson died in detention between Jan. 11 and March 26 after
interrogation by the military. The manager of his station, he was
arrested with two others on Jan. 11 and charged with attempting to
topple the government of then-President Jean-Claude Duvalier.
(SFC, 10/20/98,
p.C12)(www.newseum.org/scripts/Journalist/Detail.asp?PhotoID=465)
1982 Feb 1, Top hits included: I
Can’t Go for That (No Can Do), Daryl Hall and John Oates; Waiting for a
Girl Like You, Foreigner; Hooked on Classics, The Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra; The Sweetest Thing I’ve Ever Known, Juice Newton.
(440 Int'l, 2/1/1999)
1982 Feb 1, The "Late Night with
David Letterman" premiered on NBC TV.
(AP, 2/1/02)
1982 Feb 2, Pres. Hafez Assad
ordered the Syrian army under his brother, Rifaat Assad, to crush a
fundamentalist Muslim revolt in Hama. At least 10,000 residents were
massacred.
(WSJ, 6/13/00,
p.A26)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_Massacre)(Econ, 10/27/07, p.33)
1982 Feb 4, Musical "Pump Boys
& Dinettes," premiered in NYC for 573 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4161)
1982 Feb 4, President Reagan
announced a plan to eliminate all medium-range nuclear missiles in
Europe.
(AP, 2/4/02)
1982 Feb 5, Laker Airways, founded
in 1966 by Sir Freddie Laker, collapsed owing $351M.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laker_Airways)
1982 Feb 6, Civil rights workers
began a march from Carrolton to Montgomery, Alabama.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1982 Feb 6, In Concord, Ca., Tara
Burke (2 3/4 years old) was kidnapped by Luis "Tree Frog" Johnson (33)
and Alex Cabarga (17). She was molested and held captive in a van for
ten months before being freed on Dec 18. Johnson was sentenced to 527
years in prison and Cabarga served 25 years.
(SFC,10/27/97, p.A1,4)
1982 Feb 8, John Hay Whitney
(b.1904), oil and tobacco heir, died. He was a publisher of the New
York Herald Tribune and served as an ambassador to Britain. His wife of
40 years was Betsy Cushing Whitney (d.1998).
{USA, Oil, Smoking}
(WSJ, 8/7/98,
p.W12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hay_Whitney)
1982 Feb 9, On approach to Haneda
Airport a Japan Airlines DC-8 plunged into Tokyo Bay killing 24 people.
141 survived the crash caused when the captain pushed the nose down
prematurely and engaged in a struggle with the co-pilot.
(WSJ, 3/10/98,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_350)
1982 Feb 13, In Guatemala 73 men
and women from Rio Negro were ordered by the local military commander
to report to Xococ, a village upstream from the reservoir zone which
had a history of land conflicts and hostility with Rio Negro. Only one
woman out of the 73 villagers returned to Rio Negro, the rest were
raped, tortured and then murdered by Xococ's Civil Defense Patrol, or
PAC, one of the notorious paramilitary units used by the state as death
squads. The Guatemalan army invaded Santa Maria Tzeja and massacred 13
people. Villagers fled their homes following the massacre. In 2004
Beatriz Manz authored "Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of
courage, Terror and Hope."
(http://tinyurl.com/34hubh)(SSFC, 2/14/04,
p.M3)(www.rightsaction.org/articles/1095a.htm)
1982 Feb 14, Blas Cabrera,
physicist at Stanford Univ., announced the recording of an event that
may well have been the first detection of a magnetic monopole.
(JST-TMC,1983, p.185)
1982 Feb 15, The Ocean Ranger
oil-drilling platform sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a
fierce storm and 84 men were killed.
(AP, 2/15/98)(WSJ, 10/3/01, p.A20)
1982 Feb 16, In France Magdalena
Kopp, lover of Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, was
captured by French officials.
(www.colin-smith.info/pages/books/extracts/carlos/extract_03.htm)(SFC,12/11/97,
p.C2)
1982 Feb 17, Thelonious S. Monk
(b.1917), US, jazz pianist, composer (Blue Monk), died. Monk, one of
the early bebop musicians of the 1940s, stopped touring and recording
in the early 70s, leaving such jazz standards as "Straight, No Chaser"
and " ‘Round Midnight." In 2009 Robin D. G. Kelley authored “Thelonious
Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original.”
(HNQ,
2/28/01)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk)(SFC, 11/26/09,
p.F7)
1982 Feb 17, Zimbabwe’s Robert
Mugabe dismissed Joshua Nkomo (1917-1999) for plotting a coup. A rebel
insurrection that professed loyalty to Nkomo followed and was crushed.
Nkomo fled the country.
(www.keesings.com/search?kssp_a_id=31550n01zwe&kssp_selected_tab=article)
1982 Feb 18, Mexico devalued the
peso by 30 percent to fight an economic slide.
(HN, 2/18/98)
1982 Feb 18, Edith Ngaio Marsh
(b.1895), New Zealand detective writer, producer, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngaio_Marsh)
1982 Feb 20, Carnegie Hall in New
York began $20 million renovations.
(HN, 2/20/98)
1982 Feb 21, "Ain't Misbehavin'"
closed at Longacre Theater, NYC, after 1604 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4058)
1982 Feb 21, Murray Kaufman
(b.1922), NYC DJ also known as Murray the K, died. During the early
days of Beatlemania, he was frequently referred to as "the Fifth
Beatle."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_the_K)
1982 Feb 22, Alan C. Nelson
(1933-1997) became US Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization
(INS) and served to 1989. In 1994 he co-authored California’s
Proposition 187, an initiative to deny health and education benefits to
illegal immigrants.
(http://149.101.23.2/graphics/aboutus/history/commrs/nelson.html)(SFC,
2/1/97, p.A23)
1982 Feb 23, Michael Frayn's
"Noises Off" premiered in London.
(www.qsulis.demon.co.uk/Website_Louise_Gold/Noises_Off.htm)
1982 Feb 23, In SF nearly 3,500
people applied for the lottery for 162 apartments at Mei Lun Yuen, the
newly completed, federally subsidized housing development in Chinatown.
(SSFC, 2/18/07, DB p.58)
1982 Feb 23, Tucapel Jimenez, a
Chilean labor leader, was found with his throat cut and face shot in
his car. Gen. Humberto Gordon Rubio (d.2000), secret police chief, was
implicated in the killing.
(SFC, 6/17/00,
p.A20)(www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/single.pl?query=0319822171117)
1982 Feb 23, In a consultative
referendum, Greenland, which became a member of the European Community
as part of Denmark, opted for withdrawal from the Community.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1982/index_en.htm)
1982 Feb 26, Gabor Szabo (b.1936),
Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A1bor_Szab%C3%B3)
1982 Feb 27, Wayne B. Williams was
found guilty of murdering two of the 28 young blacks whose bodies were
found in the Atlanta area over a 22-month period.
(AP, 2/27/99)
1982 Feb 28, The FALN, a Puerto
Rican Nationalist Group, bombed Wall Street. 4 powerful bombs detonated
in front of business institutions in New York's financial district.
(http://judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/91599drw.htm)
1982 Mar 1, Russian spacecraft
Venera 13 landed on Venus and sent back data.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_13)
1982 Mar 2, Philip K. Dick (53),
science fiction writer, died. His work included dozens of novels and
over 100 short stories. His novel "Valis" (Vast Active Living
Intelligence System) was an autobiographical work. In 1989 Lawrence
Sutin wrote the biography: "Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K.
Dick." The 1982 film Blade Runner was loosely based on his novel: "Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep." The 2003 film "Paycheck" was based
on his 1953 same name novel. In 2004 Emmanuel Carrere authored “I Am
Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey Into the Mind of Philip K. Dick.
(WSJ, 4/27/99, p.A20)(SFC, 6/25/02, p.D1)(SFC,
12/27/03, p.D1)(Econ, 4/17/04, p.83)
1982 Mar 2, In Peru over 50
Shining Path terrorists attack the prison of Ayacucho, releasing drug
traffickers and 54 terrorists held there. The leader of the attack,
Edith Lagos, was killed in the battle.
(www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2246_sendero.html)
1982 Mar 3, US Dist. Judge Harold
Greene, who was immersed in an AT&T antitrust case, surprised
broadcasters and Justice with an order declaring that limits on TV
commercials violated antitrust laws.
(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3169/is_33_40/ai_64160619)
1982 Mar 4, NASA launched Intelsat
V.
(www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/main/this_month_march.html)
1982 Mar 5, John Belushi
(33), comedian (Sat Night Live), was found dead of a drug overdose at
the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Strip, a rented bungalow in Hollywood.
(SFEC, 3/16/97, Z1 p.4)(AP,
3/5/98)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0000004/)
1982 Mar 5, Russian spacecraft
Venera 14 landed on Venus and sent back data.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_14)
1982 Mar 6, Ayn Rand (b.1905),
author and founder of the Objectivist philosophy, died in NY. Her
novels included "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead." In 1987
Barbara Branden wrote the biography titled "The Passion of Ayn Rand."
In 1999 Nathaniel Branden published "My Years With Ayn Rand," an
account of his 18-year relationship with Rand. In 1999 the US Postal
Service issued a 33 cent stamp in her honor. In 2009 Anne Heller
authored “Ayn Rand and the World She Made,” and Jennifer Burns authored
“Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.”
(http://tinyurl.com/2nl7hk)(http://tinyurl.com/3a34t9)(SFEC, 8/18/96,
PM p. 2)(SFC, 10/25/98, p.D8)(Econ, 10/24/09, p.95)
1982 Mar 8, The U.S. accused the
Soviets of killing 3,000 Afghans with poison gas.
(HN, 3/8/98)
1982 Mar 9, The seizure of 3,906
pounds of cocaine, valued at over $100 million wholesale, from a Miami
International Airport hangar permanently altered US law enforcement's
approach towards the drug trade. They realize Colombian traffickers
must be working together because no single trafficker could be behind a
shipment this large.
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/cron/)
1982 Mar 9, Charles J. Haughey was
chosen as Premier of Ireland.
(HN, 3/9/98)
1982 Mar 10, Pres Reagan
proclaimed economic sanctions against Libya and banned Libyan oil
imports, because of the continued support of terrorism.
(HN,
3/10/98)(www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=38082)
1982 Mar 11, Protesting his
innocence, Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr., D-N.J., resigned after 23
years in the Senate, rather than face expulsion in the wake of his
ABSCAM conviction.
(AP,
3/11/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_A._Williams)
1982 Mar 13, In Guatemala at the
Massacre of Rio Negro 177 Achi Maya women and children were killed by
Xococ patrolmen. On Nov 30, 1998, three Xococ pro-government fighters,
Carlos Chen, Pedro Gonzalez and Fermin Lajuj, were sentenced to death
for their war crimes in the massacre. In 2003 the PBS documentary
"Discovering Dominga" told the story of a Mayan girl who survived the
massacre and her struggle to discover what happened to her family. In
2008 5 former paramilitary members were sentenced to 780 years each in
prison for massacring 26 people at Rio Negro.
(SFC, 12/1/98, p.A11)(SFC, 1/18/99, p.A11)(SFC,
7/14/00, p.A11)(SFC, 7/4/03, p.E3)(AP, 5/30/08)
1982 Mar 14, In Guatemala in
Cuarto Pueblo 309 villagers were killed over three days by government
troops.
(SFC, 12/9/96, p.A18)
1982 Mar 14, South African police
bombed the London offices of the African National Congress. Gen'l.
Johann Coetzee commander of apartheid police and 8 officers received
amnesty in 1999. Col. Eugene de Kock testified in 1998 that he blew up
a building belonging to the African National Congress in London and
received a Star of Excellence medal approved by Pres. Botha.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A12)(SFC, 10/16/99,
p.A16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_in_South_Africa)
1982 Mar 15, Actress Theresa
Saldana (b.1954) was stalked and stabbed by Arthur Jackson. She had
starred in Martin Scorsese’s 1980 film "Raging Bull." Jackson was
convicted of 2nd degree attempted murder and served 12 years. He was
then extradited to England for wounding 2 tellers and killing a man who
tried to stop a bank robbery in the Chelsea section of London in 1966.
In 1994 Ronald Markman and Ron Labrecque authored “Obsessed: The
Stalking of Theresa Soldana.”
(SFC, 6/22/96, p.E3)(http://tinyurl.com/2sz4cq)
1982 Mar 16, Claus Von Bulow was
found guilty in Newport, R.I., of trying to kill his now-comatose wife,
Martha, with insulin. Von Bulow was acquitted in a retrial.
(AP, 3/16/02)
1982 Mar 20, U.S. scientists
returned from Antarctica with the first land mammal fossils found
there.
(HN, 3/20/98)
1982 Mar 22, The US submarine
Jacksonville collided with a Turkish freighter near Virginia.
(http://navysite.de/ssn/ssn699.htm)
1982 Mar 23, Gen’l. Efrain Rios
Montt seized power from Pres. Lucas Garcia. Under his 17-month rule the
army burned Indian villages and killed thousands of suspected leftists.
Montt established the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG).
(SFC, 7/31/98, p.D3)(SFC, 11/8/99, p.A10)(SFC,
6/14/01, p.A15)
1982 Mar 24, In Bangladesh Hussein
Mohammed Ershad overthrew Justice Abdus Sattar and seized power in a
bloodless coup.
(SFC,11/27/97,
p.B5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begum_Khaleda_Zia)
1982 Mar 24, In Mexico a fire
burned down the National Film Archive.
(www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC29folder/MexFilmBook.html)
1982 Mar 25, The TV show “Cagney
and Lacey” featured Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly as female police
detectives. The show continued to 1988.
(LSA, Spring, 2009,
p.44)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0083395/)
1982 Mar 26, Paul McCartney and
Stevie Wonder released "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1982 Mar 26, The American soap
opera "Capitol" premiered and ran for 1270 episodes.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_(TV_series))
1982 Mar 26, Ground was broken in
Washington D.C. for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial designed by Maya Lin
of Yale. It was dedicated Nov 13.
(NG, May 1985, p.554, 557)(AP, 3/26/97)(HN, 3/25/98)
1982 Mar 27, The musical "Best
Little Whorehouse in Texas" closed at 46th St in NYC after 1577
performances.
(www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/albm94.html)
1982 Mar 28, Voters in El Salvador
went to the polls for a constituent assembly election that resulted in
victory for the Christian Democrats, led by President Jose Napoleon
Duarte.
(AP, 3/28/97)
1982 Mar 29, In the 2nd annual
Golden Raspberry Awards “Mommie Dearest” won as the worst picture.
(http://razzies.com/asp/content/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=21)
1982 Mar 29, In the 54th Academy
Awards "Chariots of Fire," won for best picture. Henry Fonda and
Katherine Hepburn the best actor and best actress awards for their
roles in "On Golden Pond." Warren Beatty won best director for "Reds."
(http://tinyurl.com/2jsexb)(SFC, 12/14/99, p.D7)
1982 Mar 29, In New Orleans,
Michael Jordan’s 16-foot jump shot with 15 seconds remaining gave North
Carolina a thrilling 63-62 victory over Georgetown and the NCAA
basketball championship before 61,612 at the Superdome tonight. Six
players in that game: Floyd, Ewing, Anthony Jones, Michael Jordan,
James Worty and Sam Perkins, became NBA first-round draft choices.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_NCAA_Men's_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament)
1982 Mar 29, The Paris-Toulouse
express train was bombed. 5 people were killed and 15 injured. The
attack was attributed to Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez.
(SFC,12/11/97,
p.C2)(www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27801114.htm)
1982 Mar 29, Carl Orff (86),
German composer (Carmina Burana), died.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1982 Mar 31, In California an
avalanche at the Alpine Meadows ski resort killed 7 people. In 2009
Jennifer Woodlief authored “A Wall of White: The True Story of Heroism
and Survival in the Face of a Deadly Avalanche.”
(http://tinyurl.com/7gjkf)(SFC, 2/27/09, p.F4)
1982 Mar 31, In South Africa
Nelson Mandela and 3 others were transferred from Robben Island to
Pollsmoor Prison on the mainland. Mandela had spent 18 years on Robben
Island.
(www.sabcnews.com/features/walter_sisulu/timeline.html)
1982 Mar, In Mexico the El Chichon
volcano began erupting.
(http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/north_america/mexico/elch2.html)
1982 Apr 1, The U.S. transferred
the Canal Zone to Panama.
(HN, 4/1/98)
1982 Apr 2,
Several thousand troops from Argentina seized the disputed Falkland
Islands, located in the south Atlantic, from Britain but Lady Thatcher
had Britain take them back the following June. Britain fought with
Argentina in the Falkland Islands War, also known as the Falklands War,
the Malvinas War and the South Atlantic War. The short, undeclared war
between the two nations was fought over claims to the Falkland Islands
(Islas Malvinas) and neighboring islands. Argentina had laid claims to
the territories since the 19th century, but spurred by a related
dispute on South Georgia island and political expediency, the military
government of Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. A British naval
task force was assembled and headed towards the war zone by late April.
British forces established a beachhead on the Falklands in late May.
With the surrender of the Argentine garrison at Stanley on June 14, the
conflict was essentially over.
(TMC, 1994, p.1982)(WSJ, 12/12/95, p.A-15)(AP,
4/2/99)(HNQ, 1/10/01)
1982 Apr 3, Britain dispatched a
naval task force to the south Atlantic to reclaim the disputed Falkland
Islands from Argentina. The UN Security Council demanded Argentina
withdraw from Falkland Islands.
(AP, 4/3/02)
1982 Apr 5, Abe Fortas (b.1910),
former Supreme court justice (1965-1969), died. He had resigned on May
14, 1969, under pressure for the acceptance of an allegedly illegal
payment from a former business associate.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Fortas)
1982 Apr 5, Lord Carrington
(b.1919) resigned as Britain’s foreign secretary.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Carington,_6th_Baron_Carrington)
1982 Apr 7, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
(b.1936), Iran’s minister of foreign affairs, was arrested. He was
convicted of plotting against the government and executed on Sep 15.
(www.cedmagic.com/home/ced-digest/ced-digest-vol-07/ced-digest0714.html)
1982 Apr 9, Robert H.G. Havemann
(b.1910), East German chemist and dissident, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Havemann)
1982 Apr 11, Ronald Allen (32), a
member of Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland, Ca., was found shot to
death on Easter morning near the Berkeley dump. A day earlier the
father of 5 had gone out for a meal with his bakery brethren.
(SFC, 12/24/07, p.A1)
1982 Apr 11, In Israel Alan
Goodman opened fire on Palestinians praying at the Temple Mount, the
site of Islam’s third-holiest shrine. He killed 2 and was sentenced to
life in prison. He was released to the US in 1997 after agreeing to
spend the next 8 years in the US.
(SFC,10/27/97, p.A9)
1982 Apr 12, In Manhattan 3 CBS
employees were shot to death on a rooftop parking lot. Donald Nash (47)
was charged with using a .22 caliber handgun kill Margaret Barbera, who
was cooperating with a Federal investigation into a $6 million fraud,
and Leo Kuranuki, Robert Schulze and Edward Benford, three CBS
technicians who the police believe were coming to her aid. Mr. Nash was
convicted in 1983 and sentenced to four consecutive 25-year terms in
prison.
(http://tinyurl.com/2jvq2q)
1982 Apr 17, Canada adopted a new
Constitution to replace the 1867 British North America Act. It
enshrined special rights for indigenous peoples. Pierre Trudeau added a
Charter of Rights and Freedoms to Canada’s constitution. Quebec did not
sign the 1982 Constitution.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Canada)(WSJ, 10/3/00,
p.A26)
1982 Apr 19, Astronauts Sally K.
Ride and Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first woman and first
African-American to be tapped by NASA for U.S. space missions.
(AP, 4/19/97)(HN, 4/19/97)
1982 Apr 22, Robert Maurice Bloom
(18) killed his father, stepmother and stepsister in a savage murder
spree in southern California. He was convicted and sentenced to death
until appellate attorneys uncovered documents that he was mentally ill
and likely did not understand the consequences of his actions. Bloom
was ordered released in 1997 pending a new trial.
(SFC,12/25/97, p.A22)(http://tinyurl.com/34nse2)
1982 Apr 22, Melville Bell
Grosvenor (b.1901), president of the Natl. Geographic Society, died.
(http://161.253.158.31/gwencyclopedia/index.php/Bell-Grosvenor_Families)
1982 Apr 22, A bombing in Paris
killed a pregnant woman and injured 63 people. The attack was
attributed to Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez.
(SFC,12/11/97,
p.C2)(http://lists.jammed.com/IWAR/1997/12/0117.html)
1982 Apr 23, The Unabomber mailed
a pipe bomb from Provo, Utah, to Penn state Univ. It was forwarded to
Vanderbilt Univ. scientist Patrick C. Fisher. It was later attributed
to the Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski [see May 5].
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A3)(SFEC,11/9/97, Z1 p.4)
1982 Apr 23, Key West, Fla., under
Mayor Dennis Wardlow declared that it was seceding from the US and
would rename itself the Conch Republic. The move was in response to a
state roadblock and inspection on all cars heading out of the Florida
Keys. In 1997 Gregory King authored “The Conch That Roared.”
(WSJ, 1/19/05, p.B1)
1982 Apr 25, In accordance with
Camp David agreements, Israel completed the Sinai withdrawal. Ariel
Sharon, as defense minister, directed the dismantling of Israeli
settlements in the Sinai Peninsula. Nearly 5,000 residents and many
more sympathizers were dragged off roofs and bundled onto buses.
(HN, 4/25/98)(AP, 2/21/04)
1982 Apr 25, E. Bowell discovered
asteroids #2688: Halley, #3275: Oberndorfer & #3692.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asteroids/2601%E2%80%932700)
1982 Apr 25, Don Wilson (b.1900),
TV announcer (Jack Benny Show), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Wilson_(announcer))
1982 Apr 26, Popular music of the
day included: "I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll" Joan Jett and the Blackhearts; "We
Got the Beat" by the Go-Go’s" "Chariots of Fire" by Vangelis; and
"Crying My Heart Out over You" by Ricky Scaggs.
(440 Int’l. Internet, 4/26/97, p.1)
1982 Apr 26, Rod Stewart was
mugged. A gunman stole his $50,000 Porsche.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_in_music)
1982 Apr 27, The trial of John W.
Hinckley Jr., who had shot four people, including President Reagan,
began in Washington. The trial ended with Hinckley's acquittal by
reason of insanity.
(AP, 4/27/97)
1982 Apr 29, The Dance Committee
of the International Theatre Institute, UNESCO, created International
Dance Day to be celebrated every year on the 29th of April. The aim of
International Dance Day is to celebrate dance as an art form and to
bring people together in peace and friendship through the shared
language of dance. The date was chosen in commemoration of the death of
the greatly influential dancer, choreographer and innovator
Jean-Georges Noverre (1727-1810).
(http://www.pch.gc.ca/arts/dance/danse_e.htm)
1982 Apr 29, Alfredo Magana was
elected president of El Salvador.
(www.cedmagic.com/museum/press/ced-timeline-1982.html)
1982 Apr, In southern Italy the
Grotta delle Formelle chapel in Caserta, was looted. In 2009 two
precious Byzantine-era frescos were recovered as part of investigations
into Marion True, a former curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los
Angeles. The frescos, which date from the 11th to the 13th centuries
and depict saints, were found in the home of Greek shipping heiress
Despoina Papadimitriou.
(AP, 5/20/09)
1982 May 1, The 1982 World's Fair
opened in Knoxville, Tenn.
(SFC, 6/9/97, p.A3)(AP, 5/1/07)
1982 May 2, A project to produce
oil from shale rock in Colorado's Roan Plateau collapsed due to
technical hurdles and falling oil prices. Exxon Mobil laid off 2,200
workers and cancelled its $5 billion Colony Oil Shale project near
Parachute.
(USAT, 3/5/04, p.6A)(Econ, 8/20/05, p.27)(SFC,
9/4/06, p.A8)
1982 May 2, In the Falklands War
the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano was sunk by the British
submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men. Some 600 Argentine
sailors were killed when the Belgrano was sunk. Lord Terence Thornton
Lewin (d.1999 at 78), British military commander, was regarded as the
one who persuaded Margaret Thatcher to order the sinking.
(SFC, 1/25/99, p.A20)(http://tinyurl.com/gbplz)
1982 May 3, Sinbad the Sailor, the
star horse of Ronald Reagan’s “Death Valley Days” TV series, died when
he was struck by lightning at Kanab, Utah.
(SSFC, 5/3/09, p.C12)
1982 May 4, The British destroyer
HMS Sheffield was hit by Exocet rocket off the Falkland Islands. 20 men
died and a further 24 were injured in the sinking of the Sheffield, the
first British warship to be lost in 37 years.
(http://tinyurl.com/htt3d)
1982 May 5, Janet Smith, a
secretary, was injured when a bomb package was opened at Vanderbilt
Univ.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A3)(SFEC,11/9/97, Z1p.4)
1982 May 10, Peter Weiss (b.1916),
German playwright (Marat-Sade), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Weiss)
1982 May 12, Braniff Airlines,
based in Dallas, ceased operations. N601BN "747 Braniff Place" made the
very last Braniff flight from Hawaii to Dallas/Fort Worth on May 13.
Harding Lawrence (d.2002 at 81) led the company from 1965-1980.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braniff_Airways)(SFC,
1/21/02, p.B5)
1982 May 12, In Fatima, Portugal,
security guards overpowered a Spanish ex-priest armed with a bayonet
who was trying to reach Pope John Paul II.
(AP,
10/12/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II)
1982 May 13, Soyuz T-5 was
launched at Baikonur. Berezovoi & Lebedev spent the next 211 days
in space.
(http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/machines/st5.sht)
1982 May 16, In the Dominican
Republic the Revolutionary Party, under the leadership of Jose Pena
Gomez (1937-1998), won the presidential elections. The PRD's
presidential candidate, Salvador Jorge Blanco, won, and the PRD gained
a majority in both houses of Congress. Jose Pena Gomez served as the
mayor of Santo Domingo from 1982-1986.
(http://tinyurl.com/32jvel)(www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35639.htm)
1982 May 18, Unification Church
founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon was convicted of tax evasion. Moon
(b.1920) was convicted and later imprisoned on tax evasion charges. He
claimed to be the second coming of Jesus Christ and that his purpose
was "to unite Christianity and bring families back to God." "Moonies in
America" [by Shupe et al] is a book critical of the Unification Church.
Moon served 13 months in prison.
(SFC, 10/31/96, p.A1,8)(AP, 5/18/07)
1982 May 19, Sophia Loren (b.1934)
began serving 18 days in an Italian prison for failing to pay her
taxes.
(www.answers.com/topic/sophia-loren?cat=entertainment)
1982 May 21, During the Falklands
War, British amphibious forces landed on the beach at San Carlos Bay.
(AP, 5/21/07)
1982 May 23, The British HMS
Antelope was attacked. It sank the next day after an unexploded bomb
detonates. Ten Argentine aircraft were destroyed.
(www.yendor.com/vanished/falklands-war.html)
1982 May 24- 1982 May 25, Iranian
troops reconquered Khorramshahr.
(www.iran-daily.com/1384/2279/html/art.htm)
1982 May 25, Larry J. Blake
(b.1914), character actor (Earth vs. the Flying Saucers), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0086627/)
1982 May 28, Pope John Paul II
became the 1st Pontiff to visit Britain.
(www.popejohnpaulii.org.uk/)
1982 May 29, Romy Schneider
(b.1938), Austrian-born actress, died in Paris of cardiac arrest. Her
many films included “The Cardinal” (1963).
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0002769/)
1982 May 30, Spain became
NATO's 16th member, the first country to enter the Western alliance
since West Germany in 1955.
(AP,
5/30/97)(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1982/index_en.htm)
1982 May, Drysdale Government
Securities, officially started in February 1982, defaulted on $160
million it owed to Chase Manhattan and ultimately cost the bank $270
million.
(WSJ, 9/24/98, p.A16)(http://tinyurl.com/2pwj48)
1982 May, Dr. Robert Gallo and Max
Essex first proposed that AIDS was probably caused by a new human
retrovirus and suggested that it was in the HTLV family. Isolates from
AIDS patients in 1983 were first named HTLV-3 and later HIV.
(Econ, 11/29/08, p.18)
1982 Jun 1, The Rolling Stones
released their "Still Life" album.
(www.amazon.com/Still-Life-Rolling-Stones/dp/B0000084AS)
1982 Jun 3, Israel's ambassador to
Britain, Shlomo Argov (1929-2003), was shot and critically wounded
outside a London hotel. Israel's invasion of Lebanon followed the
assassination attempt. The attack was blamed on Abu Nidal’s Palestinian
Fatah group.
(WSJ, 8/20/02, p.A18)(NYT, 10/8/04, p.A12)(AP,
6/3/07)
1982 Jun 4, A 4-day storm began in
New England. It deluged Connecticut with 14 inches of rain, breaking 23
dams and destroying two. Damages were estimated at close to $276
million.
(SFC, 6/4/09, p.D10)
1982 Jun 4, Israel attacked
targets in south Lebanon one day after the attempted assassination of
the Israeli ambassador in London.
(www.adl.org/israel/advocacy/glossary/lebanon_war.asp)
1982 Jun 6, Israeli Defense
Minister Ariel Sharon ordered his forces to invade southern Lebanon to
drive Palestine Liberation Organization fighters out of the country.
Israeli Gen. Rafael Eitan (d.2004) had convinced defense minister Ariel
Sharon to invade southern Lebanon to clean out the PLO bases there. A
70-day siege by 30,000 Israeli troops left up to 14,000 Lebanese and
Palestinian civilians dead. Islamic radicals, including Naim Qassem,
formed Hezbollah (Hizbullah) in response to Israel’s attack. The
Israelis withdrew in June 1985. Hezbollah was formed with Iranian help
as a radical offshoot of Amal, a Shiite Muslim movement. In 2005 Naim
Qassem authored “Hizbullah: The Story from Within.”
(WSJ, 11/17/95, p.A-10)(SFC, 4/17/96, p.A-10)(AP,
6/6/97)(SFC, 6/15/98, p.A10)(SFC, 5/24/00, p.A15)(Econ, 12/4/04,
p.88)(Econ, 4/23/05, p.79)
1982 Jun 7, Pres. Reagan met with
Pope John Paul II at the Vatican and later with Queen Elizabeth in
England.
(www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/trvl/pres/12800.htm)
1982 Jun 7, Hissene Habre (b.1942)
deposed PM Goukouni Oueddei and became dictator of Chad until 1990.
Under Habre the secret police allegedly killed tens of thousands of
people and tortured as many as 200,000. Habre received US support
because he opposed Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy. Habre was deposed on
Dec 1, 1990, by Idriss Deby and fled to Senegal with $11 million.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiss%C3%A8ne_Habr%C3%A9)(WSJ, 5/31/00,
p.A26)
1982 Jun 8, President Reagan
became the first American chief executive to address a joint session of
the British Parliament.
(AP, 6/8/97)
1982 Jun 8, Leroy Satchel Paige
(b.1906), US baseball pitcher, died.
(www.nlbpa.com/8june1982.html)
1982 Jun 8, In Brazil a Vasp 747
crashed in the northeastern city of Fortaleza, killing 137 people.
(AP, 9/30/06)(www.airdisaster.com/photos/1980.shtml)
1982 Jun 9, Israel wiped out
Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley.
(www.adl.org/ISRAEL/Record/lebanon.asp)
1982 Jun 10, The play "Torch Song
Trilogy," by Harvey Fierstein, opened on Broadway.
(AP, 6/10/08)
1982 Jun 10, The Jos. Schlitz
Brewing Company and the Old Milwaukee brand was acquired by Stroh
Brewing Company of Detroit. The Old Milwaukee brand was first brewered
by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company.
(http://tinyurl.com/rvxp4)
1982 Jun 10, Rainer Werner
Fassbinder (b.1945), German film director, died.
(WSJ, 1/14/97,
p.A16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Werner_Fassbinder)
1982 Jun 11, Movie "E.T. the
Extra-Terrestrial" was released in the US and became the highest
grossing film to date.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial)
1982 Jun 11, Mauritius became the
1st African country to vote an opposition party into office. Anerood
Jugnauth (b.1930) became prime minister.
(SFC, 6/24/96, p.A8)(Econ, 9/27/03,
p.46)(www.eisa.org.za/WEP/mau1982results.htm)
1982 Jun 12, Some one million
anti-nuclear demonstrators rallied in Central Park, NYC.
(www.thenation.com/doc/20070702/schell)
1982 Jun 13, King Khalid of Saudi
Arabia died at the age of 69; he was succeeded by a half brother, Crown
Prince Fahd.
(AP, 6/13/02)
1982 Jun 14, Argentine forces
surrendered to British troops on the disputed Falkland Islands. 970
people were killed including 255 British soldiers. Argentine dictator
Leopaldo Galtieri led the initial attack in the 72-day war. The dead in
the ten-week war included 712 Argentines, 255 Britons and 3 islanders.
In 2003 it was revealed that some British ships carried nuclear depth
charges. In 2005 Lawrence Freedman authored “The Official History of
the Falklands Campaign, Volumes I and II.
(AP, 6/14/97)(SFC, 4/3/02, p.A7)(WSJ, 12/8/03,
p.A1)(Econ, 7/16/05, p.81)
1982 Jun 17, Pres. Reagan
addressed the UN General Assembly in NYC.
(www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1982/61782a.htm)
1982 Jun 17, Pres. Galtieri
resigned after leading Argentina to defeat in Falkland Islands War.
(www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/B189501.htm)
1982 Jun 18, John Cheever
(b.1912), American Pulitzer Prize winning writer, died. His work
included "the Wapshot Chronicle" and "the World of Apples." In 2009
Blake Bailey authored “Cheever: A Life.”
(BS, 5/3/98,
p.13E)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cheever)(WSJ, 3/7/09, p.W8)
1982 Jun 18, The body of Roberto
Calvi (1920–1982), an Italian banker, was found hanging from
scaffolding beneath Blackfriars Bridge in the financial district of
London. Calvi, director of Banco Ambrosiano, allegedly hanged himself
following the fraudulent bankruptcy of the bank. Calvi's clothing was
stuffed with building bricks, and he was carrying around $15,000 of
cash in three different currencies. Calvi, dubbed by the press as
"God's Banker" due to his close association with the Vatican, had gone
missing on June 10. In 1992 Carlo De Benedetti, the chairman of
Olivetti SpA, was convicted for contributing to the bankruptcy of Banco
Ambrosiano. In 1996 courts upheld his conviction and that of 30 others.
In 2003 RAI state television said prosecutors believed the Mafia killed
Roberto Calvi because he lost their money and knew too much about their
operations. In 2005 a trial began for 5 people in the murder of Calvi.
In 2007 a jury acquitted all 5 defendants charged with the murder of
Calvi.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Calvi)(WSJ,
6/11/96, p.A10)(AP, 7/24/03)(AP, 10/6/05)(AP, 6/6/07)
1982 Jun 19, Asia's first album
topped the album charts.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number-one_albums_of_1982_(U.S.))
1982 Jun 19, In a case that
galvanized Asian-Americans, Vincent Chin (27), a Chinese-American
engineering student, was beaten to death outside a nightclub in
Highland Park, Mich., by autoworker Ronald Ebens. Two unemployed auto
workers mistook Chin for being Japanese. Each one was sentenced to 3
years probation.
(AP, 6/19/97)(SFEC, 2/6/00, Rp.10)
1982 Jun 21, A jury in Washington,
D.C., found John Hinckley Jr. innocent by reason of insanity in the
shootings of President Reagan and three other men. In 2003 a federal
judge granted Hinckley (48) unsupervised day trips.
(AP, 6/21/97)(HN, 6/21/98)(SFC, 12/18/03, p.A4)
1982 Jun 21, Prince William,
eldest son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_William_of_Wales)
1982 Jun 24, Supreme Court ruled
that the president cannot be sued for actions while in office.
(http://supreme.justia.com/us/457/731/)
1982 Jun 27, The Broadway show
"Dancin'" closed at the Ambassador Theater after 1,774 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4051)
1982 Jun 27, The 4th Space
Shuttle, Mission-Columbia 4, was launched.
(http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-4/mission-sts-4.html)
1982 Jun 27, Jack Mullaney
(b.1929), actor (My Living Doll, It's About Time), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0611955/)
1982 Jun 30, Federal Equal Rights
Amendment failed with 3 states short of ratification.
(www.now.org/issues/economic/cea/history.html)
1982 Jun, "Farewell," a C.I.A.
campaign of computer sabotage, stayed secret because the blast,
estimated at three kilotons, took place in the Siberian wilderness,
with no casualties known. "The pipeline software that was to run the
pumps, turbines and valves was programmed to go haywire," writes Reed,
"to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far
beyond those acceptable to the pipeline joints and welds. The result
was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from
space." "At the Abyss," by Thomas C. Reed, was published by Random
House in 2004.
(http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/02/opinion/02SAFI.html)
1982 Jun, In Guatemala the village
of Chacalte was attacked by guerrillas and an estimated 120 people were
killed. The attack was for apparent collaboration by the village with
the military’s armed civil patrols.
(SFC, 9/3/97, p.C3)
1982 Jun, The Lebanese poet Khalil
Hawi committed suicide. His most celebrated poem was titled "The
Bridge." It offered a hopeful vision for the Arab people, but the
author was later embarrassed by the poem’s optimism.
{Lebanon, Poet, Suicide}
(WSJ, 2/20/98, p.A16)(http://tinyurl.com/2sugvf)
1982 Jul 1, In NYC Sun Myung Moon
wed 2,075 Unification Church couples at Madison Square Garden.
(http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php/Madison_Square_Garden)
1982 Jul 1, Cal Ripken (b.1960),
drafted as a pitcher in 1981, began playing his shortstop position for
the Baltimore Orioles. By Sep 20, 1998 he had played a record 2,632
consecutive games.
(http://tinyurl.com/2um6o6)(SFC, 9/21/98, p.A1)
1982 Jul 1, General Reynaldo
Bignone (b.1928) was sworn in as president of Argentina following the
Falklands War.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynaldo_Bignone)(SFC,
1/21/99, p.A14)
1982 Jul 2, Larry Walters
(1949-1993), a Los Angeles truck driver, flew 16,000 feet into the air
with 42 helium balloons attached to a lawn chair. Walters surprised an
airline pilot, who radioed the control tower that he had just passed a
guy in a lawn chair with a gun. The weapon was to shoot balloons and
descend. Walters paid a $1,500 penalty for violating air traffic rules.
Eleven years later, he committed suicide at age 44.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters)(SFC,
7/3/02, p.A17)(AP, 7/10/07)
1982 Jul 2, A bomb exploded
in the hands of Prof. Diogenes Angelakos (d.1997 at 77) in Berkeley. It
was later attributed to the Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski.
(SFEC,11/9/97, Z1 p.4)
1982 Jul 2, DeFord Bailey
(b.1899), harmonica wizard and star of the Grand Ole Opry, died. He was
the first black musician to join the Opry’s regular cast.
(AH, 10/07,
p.74)(www.pbs.org/deford/timeline/index.html)
1982 Jul 2, Soyuz T-6 returned to
Earth.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_T-6)
1982 Jul 3, Mumia Abu-Jamal
(b.1954), radio reporter and former Black Panther, was convicted for
the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner in Pittsburgh. Jamal
supporters said he was framed. Prosecutors said Jamal shot Faulkner
after seeing the officer struggling with Jamal’s brother, William Cook,
who had been stopped for a traffic violation. In 1996 Jamal was still
on death row. In 1999 Gov. Tom Ridge signed a 2nd death warrant for
lethal injection on Dec 2. In December, 2001, a federal judge affirmed
his murder conviction but ordered that Abu-Jamal should either receive
a new sentencing hearing or have his sentence commuted to life in
prison because of an error by the trial judge in presenting rules of
sentencing to the jury (see March 27, 2008).
(SFC, 10/14/99,
p.A3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Mumia_Abu-Jamal)
1982 Jul 4, The space shuttle
Columbia 4 concluded its fourth and final test flight with a landing at
Edwards AFB.
(http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-4/mission-sts-4.html)(AP,
7/4/02)
1982 Jul 4, Antonio Guzman
(b.1911), president of the Dominican Rep., committed suicide by a
gunshot wound to his head while still in office. Vice president Jacobo
Majluta Azar served out the remainder of the term.
(http://tinyurl.com/2qsrx7)(http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/20th/dominican.html)
1982 Jul 4, Four Iranians, charge
d'affaires Mohsen Musavi, diplomat Ahmad Motovasselian, photographer
Kazem Akhavan and driver Mohammad Taqi Rastgar Moghaddam, were seized
at a Lebanese Forces checkpoint north of Beirut. In 2006 Samir Geagea,
former head of the disbanded Lebanese Forces, said that they were
killed by Christian militiamen.
(AP, 5/19/06)
1982 Jul 4, Miguel de la Madrid
Hurtado (b.1934) was elected president of Mexico. Madrid was chosen by
Pres. Portillo as his successor. De la Madrid took office in a year
when inflation had surpassed 100 percent and Mexico had a foreign debt
of $87 billion, much of it short-term.
(SFC, 11/28/98,
p.C2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_la_Madrid)(AP, 3/9/04)
1982 Jul 4, USSR performed nuclear
test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR.
(www.iss.niiit.ru/ksenia/catal_nt/3_9.htm)
1982 Jul 5, Penn Square Bank of
Oklahoma went bankrupt as wildcat oil well loans went bad. More than $2
billion in oil and gas participations were held by five major US banks:
Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company, Chicago, Illinois
held $1 billion in those participations. Most of the remaining
participations were held by Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York;
Michigan National Bank, Lansing, Michigan; Seattle First National Bank,
Seattle, Washington; and Northern Trust Company, Chicago, Illinois.
(WSJ, 1/14/07,
p.A4)(www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/managing/Chron/1982/index.html)
1982 Jul 6, President Ronald
Reagan agreed to contribute U.S. troops to the peacekeeping unit in
Beirut.
(HN, 7/6/98)
1982 Jul 6, Crossan Hoover (17)
beat and killed Richard Baldwin (36), the owner of a car restoration
shop in San Rafael, Ca. Hoover and 2 accomplices robbed Baldwin’s home
and dumped his body into the SF Bay. Mark Richards (29), a contractor
who employed Hoover and another youth, was one of the three involved in
the murder plot and had told his employees that he planned to take
control of Marin County in a paramilitary coup that came to be called
Pendragon. Richards was convicted of murder and sentenced to life
without parole. Hoover was sentenced 26 years to life. In 2007 Hoover’s
murder verdict was overturned and a new trial was scheduled. In 2008 a
federal appeals court reinstated Hoover’s murder conviction.
(http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/lsf/29-2/murderincamelot.html)(SFC,
9/14/07, p.B6)(SFC, 1/7/09, p.B3)
1982 Jul 8, In Dujail, Iraq, 17
Islamic militants, furious over the execution of a Shiite leader,
opened fire on a presidential convoy and killed several people, but
Saddam Hussein escaped. In retaliation 247,000 acres of orchards and
palm groves, the town's primary source of income, were destroyed in
retribution. 386 people were locked up until 1986. Some 900 people were
taken away and about 380 were killed. 148 residents of Dujail were
sentenced to death.
(AP, 5/28/03)(SFC, 3/8/05, p.A10)(Econ, 11/11/06,
p.52)
1982 Jul 9, A Pan Am Boeing 727
crashed in Kenner, La., killing all 145 people aboard and eight people
on the ground.
(AP, 7/9/07)
1982 Jul 10, Pope John Paul II
named Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati to succeed the late
Cardinal John Cody as head of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
(AP, 7/10/02)
1982 Jul 10, Maria Jeritza
[Jedlicka] (b.1887), Moravia-born-US, singer (Metropolitan Opera), died
in New Jersey.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Jeritza)
1982 Jul 11, The Italian soccer
team won its first World Cup in 44 years.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_FIFA_World_Cup)
1982 Jul 14, The US made
assurances to Taiwan regarding arms sales.
(www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/hl808.cfm)
1982 Jul 14, Virginia Hall
(b.1906), a Baltimore native who had worked in France for British
intelligence during WW II, died. In 1942 the Gestapo circulated posters
offering a reward for the capture of "the woman with a limp. She is the
most dangerous of all Allied spies and we must find and destroy her."
Hall’s left leg had been amputated below the knee about a decade
earlier after she stumbled and blasted her foot with a shotgun while
hunting in Turkey.
(AP,
12/11/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Hall)
1982 Jul 14, Iran launched a
"Ramadan-offensive" in Iraq.
(http://tinyurl.com/3xp9jz)
1982 Jul 16, George Shultz
(b.1920) was sworn in as the US Sec. of State under Ronald Reagan. He
served until Jan 20, 1989.
(SFEM,11/2/97,
p.8)(www.state.gov/secretary/former/40807.htm)
1982 Jul 16, In NYC the Rev. Sun
Myung Moon, Korean founder of the Unification Church, was sentenced to
18 months for tax fraud.
(www.cedmagic.com/home/ced-digest/ced-digest-vol-07/ced-digest0728.html)
1982 Jul 18, In Guatemala soldiers
and paramilitary troops massacred 267 people in the remote hamlet of
Plan de Sanchez. In 2001 local communities filed genocide charges
against congressional head Efrain Rios Montt, who was the
dictator at the time of the massacre. In 2005 Guatemala apologized for
the government-directed massacre of 226 people in Plan de Sanchez.
(SFC, 6/6/01, p.C3)(SFC, 6/14/01, p.A15)(AP, 7/19/05)
1982 Jul 20, Irish Republican Army
bombs exploded in two London parks, killing eight British soldiers,
along with seven horses belonging to the Queen’s Household Cavalry.
(AP, 7/20/00)
1982 Jul 21, Dave Garroway
(b.1913), former TV host of the "Today Show" (1952-1961, committed
suicide.
(SFC, 1/11/02, p.D19)(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Garroway)
1982 Jul 23, The Intl. Whaling
Commission (IWC) voted for a total ban on commercial whaling starting
in 1985.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling)
1982 Jul 23, Actor Vic Morrow and
two child actors were killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them
during filming of a Vietnam War scene for "Twilight Zone: The Movie."
Director John Landis and four associates were later acquitted of
manslaughter charges in connection with the deaths.
(AP, 7/23/02)
1982 Jul 24, Anna Paquin, Oscar
winning actress (Piano), was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Paquin)
1982 Jul 27, Menken and Ashman's
musical "Little Shop of Horrors" premiered in NYC.
(www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/albm42.html)
1982 Jul 29, It was announced that
the painting "Gallery of the Louvre" by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) had
sold for $3,250,000.
(www.cedmagic.com/home/ced-digest/ced-digest-vol-07/ced-digest0730.html)
1982 Jul 31, Jai Alai executive
John B. Callahan (45) was fatally shot in Miami by mob hit man John
Martorano. Callahan’s body was found Aug 2 in the trunk of his
Cadillac. In 2008 former FBI agent John Connolly was convicted of 2nd
degree murder for leaking information to mobsters that led to the
shooting death of Callahan. In Jan, 2009, Connolly was sentenced to 40
years in prison.
(SFC, 11/6/08,
p.A9)(http://mafiatoday.com/?p=442)(SFC, 1/16/09, p.A2)
1982 Jul, Bernard Webster (18) was
identified as a rapist in Towson, Md. He denied the charges but was
convicted in March, 2003. Webster was freed in 2002 following DNA tests
that proved him innocent. He became the first person to be exonerated
under Maryland's postconviction DNA statute.
(www.innocenceproject.org/Content/290.php)
1982 Jul, The Timex Sinclair 1000
(TS1000), the first computer produced by Timex Sinclair, a
joint-venture between Timex Corporation and Sinclair Research, was
launched.
(http://oldcomputers.net/ts1000.html)
1982 Aug 1, In Kenya there was a
coup attempt against Pres. Daniel arap Moi. Oginga Odinga, Kenya’s 1st
vice-president, was implicated in the coup along with his son Raila
Odinga, who was put into solitary confinement for 6 years for his
alleged involvement.
(Econ, 12/22/07,
p.77)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Kenyan_coup)
1982 Aug 4, Ronald Smith of Canada
killed two Americans in Montana during a drunken road trip. In March
1893 Smith was convicted and sentenced to death.
(Econ, 5/24/08,
p.55)(http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/914/914.F2d.1153.88-4115.html)
1982 Aug 9, A federal judge in
Washington ordered John W. Hinckley Jr., who had been acquitted of
shooting President Ronald Reagan and three others by reason of
insanity, committed to a mental hospital.
(AP, 8/9/07)
1982 Aug 11, Pan Am flight 830
from Tokyo to Honolulu was bombed. One boy was killed and 15 people
were injured. In 1998 Mohammed Rashid, a Palestinian national, was
turned over to the US by Egypt on charges related to the bombing.
(SFC, 6/4/98,
p.A4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_830)
1982 Aug 12, The US stock market
bottomed and rose 35% by the end of the year. Theorist Robert S.
Prechter predicted that the market would take off from its 800 levels.
(SFEC, 8/16/98,
p.B1)(www.wealtheffect.com/stocks/b8j.asp)
1982 Aug 12, Henry Fonda (77),
film star (On Golden Pond), died from heart disease. Fonda was married
5 times and his wives included actress Margaret Sullavan (1931-1933),
Frances Brokaw (1936-1950), Susan Blanchard (1950-1956), Afdera
Franchetti (1957-1961) and Shirlee Adams (1965-1982).
(TMC, 1994, p.1982)(SC, 8/12/02)(SSFC, 7/3/05, Par
p.2)
1982 Aug 12, Israel staged heavy
bombardment of Beirut. The UN Security council expressed its most
serious concern about continued military activities in Lebanon,
particularly in and around Beirut.
(www.pierretristam.com/Bobst/Archives/CN072106.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/3ddtqm)
1982 Aug 17, A jury in South Bend,
Ind. acquitted self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin, for the 1980
attempted assassination of Vernon Jordan Jr, National Urban League
president.
(http://tinyurl.com/2nzrco)
1982 Aug 17, Barney Phillips (68),
American actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0680237/)
1982 Aug 17, Ruth First, an exiled
anti-apartheid activist, was killed in Mozambique from a letter bomb
sent by agents of the Nationalist South African government. In
1997 her daughter, Gillian Slovo, published "Every Secret Thing: My
Family, My Country."
(SFEC, 5/11/97, BR p.5)(SSFC, 2/10/02,
p.M6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_First)
1982 Aug 18, For the first time,
volume on the New York Stock exchange topped the $100 million level as
132.69 million shares were traded.
(AP, 8/18/02)
1982 Aug 19, Soviet cosmonaut
Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to be launched into space.
(AP, 8/19/07)
1982 Aug 20, In Washington, DC,
Mexican Secretary of Finance, Jesus Silva Herzog, declared that “Mexico
did not have means to pay its due foreign debt and thus his Country was
assuming a moratorium.” US Fed Chairman Paul Volcker immediately
established a severe control upon money flow and practically the
immobilization of domestic or external credits. The crisis lasted 1,717
days. Volcker lent money to Mexico and arranged a moratorium on
repayment of bank loans.
(http://tinyurl.com/37xdmy)(WSJ, 8/30/07, p.A3)
1982 Aug 21, A group of
Palestinian guerrillas left Lebanon by ship under an evacuation plan
mediated by the United States.
(AP, 8/21/02)
1982 Aug 22, Alfonso Portillo, a
Guatemalan professor at Mexico’s Guerrero Autonomous Univ., shot and
killed 2 political adversaries outside a party. In 1999 Portillo ran as
a presidential candidate for the Guatemalan Republican Front and said
he had acted in self defense.
(SFC, 9/8/99,
p.A15)(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3335/is_200001/ai_n8048120)
1982 Aug 23, Lebanon's parliament
elected Christian militia leader Bashir Gemayel president. His
inauguration was scheduled for 23 September. Gemayel was assassinated
some three weeks later.
(AP, 8/23/97)(http://tinyurl.com/2nba4o)
1982 Aug 24, Some 800 US Marines
landed in Beirut, Lebanon, as part of a joint US-French peacekeeping
force.
(www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/usmnf.htm)
1982 Aug 26, The Argentine
government lifted a ban on political parties.
(RTH, 8/26/99)
1982 Aug 28, LeAnn Rimes, country
pop singer, was born in Jackson, Miss.
(SSFC, 1/23/05, Par p.14)
1982 Aug 28, The burlesque musical
"Sugar Babies" closed at the Mark Hellinger Theater in NYC after 1208
performances.
(www.historyforsale.com/html/prodetails.asp?source=froogle&documentid=266183)
1982 Aug 29, Ingrid Bergman
(b.1915), Swedish film star, died in England. In 1997 Donald Spoto
wrote a biography of Ingrid Bergman: "Notorious, The Life of Ingrid
Bergman." Bergman’s own autobiography was titled "My Story."
(SFEC, 7/20/97, BR p.6)(SFC, 5/31/00,
p.A22)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Bergman)
1982 Aug 30, Palestinian
Liberation Organization left Beirut, Lebanon, and moved to Tunis,
Tunisia.
(SFC, 11/11/04, p.A18)
1982 Aug, Commodore Business
Machines (CBM) released the Commodore 64 for $595.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64)
1982 Sep 1, The US Congress
created the 110,000 acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, p.A15)
1982 Sep 1, The evacuation of the
PLO from Lebanon ended.
(www.mideastweb.org/timeline.htm)
1982 Sep 1, Mexico’s President
Lopez Portillo nationalized the private banks. There was an economic
catastrophe that has been labeled the Mexican debt crisis. Mexicans
sent hundreds of millions of dollars abroad amid devaluations and bank
nationalization.
(WSJ,
7/8/96,p.A1)(http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=330)
1982 Sep 3, Frederic Dannay
(b.1905), US detective writer, died. He collaborated with Manfred Lee
under the joint pseudonym Ellery Queen.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0200366/)
1982 Sep 5, Johnny Gosch (12)
disappeared while delivering newspapers in Des Moines, Iowa. His was
one of the first faces of missing children to appear on milk cartons.
In 1997 he briefly contacted his mother, but feared for his life and
declined to give details about his location.
(SFC, 9/2/06, p.A5)
1982 Sep 5, In San Francisco a van
crashed into a taxi carrying actress Janet Gaynor (75), her husband
Paul Gregory, actress Mary Martin and manager Ben Washer. Washer was
killed and the others were injured. Gaynor never fully recovered and
died in 1984.
(SSFC, 9/13/09, DB p.46)
1982 Sep 8, Abu Nidal gunmen made
a machine gun attack on diners at the Jo Goldenberg restaurant on rue
de Rosiers in Paris. 6 people were killed and 22 wounded.
(WSJ, 8/20/02, p.A18)
1982 Sep 11, Wilfredo Lam
(b.1902), Cuban artist, died in Paris, France. He is best known for
“The Jungle” (1943), later acquired by NYC’s MOMA.
(WSJ, 4/29/08, p.D7)
1982 Sep 13, In Sweden
Marcus Wallenberg Jr. (b.1899), former tennis champion and banker, died.
(http://tinyurl.com/yebq39)
1982 Sep 14, John C. Gardner
(b.1933), US, writer (Life & Times of Chaucer High), was killed in
a motorcycle accident. In 2004 Barry Silesky authored "John Gardner:
Literary Outlaw."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gardner)(WSJ,
2/13/04, p.W8)
1982 Sep 14, Lebanon's
president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was killed by a bomb.
(AP, 9/14/97)
1982 Sep 14, Princess Grace of
Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries from a
car crash the day before. Her daughter Stephanie survived the crash.
Kelly rose to prominence in film with 1952's 'High Noon', and she
worked with Alfred Hitchcock in several films including 'Rear Window'.
Her movie career was a brief six years where she did win an Oscar for
'The Country Girl'. In 1956 she retired from film following her
marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco.
(AP, 9/14/97)(AP, 10/10/02)
1982 Sep 15, The 1st issue of "USA
Today" was published by Gannett Co., Inc.
(www.usatoday.com/media_kit/pressroom/pr_justfacts_usatoday.htm)
1982 Sep 15, Pope John Paul II
received PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
(http://religion-cults.com/pope/religions.htm)
1982 Sep 15, The Israeli army
reoccupied Beirut.
(SFC, 5/24/00,
p.A15)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre)
1982 Sep 15, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh,
Iran's former foreign minister, was executed after he was convicted of
plotting against the government.
(AP, 9/15/97)
1982 Sep 16-1982 Sep 18, The
massacre of some 1,500 Palestinian men, women and children by Lebanese
Christian militiamen began in west Beirut's Sabra and Chatilla
(Shatilla) refugee camps. Elie Hobeika (d.2002), Christian militia
chieftain, led the massacre of Palestinian refugees in the camps.
Israel’s defense minister, Ariel Sharon, was held responsible and lost
his top post. The massacre triggered peace rallies in Israel with some
400,000 demonstrating in Tel Aviv. In 2001 survivors lodged a complaint
in Belgium against Sharon.
(AP, 9/16/97)(SFC, 10/10/98, p.A8)(SFC, 5/24/00,
p.A15)(SFC, 6/19/01, p.A8)(SFC, 1/25/02, p.A10)(WSJ, 8/1/06, p.A10)
1982 Sep 19, In the 34th Emmy
Awards the winners included Hill Street Blues, Barney Miller, Alan Alda
& Carol Kane.
(http://tinyurl.com/2u6ww4)
1982 Sep 19, Prof. Scott E.
Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon Univ. posted an emoticon, the first online
smiley face, in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at
11:44 a.m., during a discussion about the limits of online humor and
how to denote comments meant to be taken lightly.
(AP, 9/18/07)
1982 Sep 21, National Football
League players began a 57-day strike, their first regular-season
walkout ever.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1982 Sep 21, Amin Gemayel, brother
of Lebanon's assassinated president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was himself
elected president. He stayed in office until 1988.
(WSJ, 9/12/96, p.A16)(AP,
9/21/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_Gemayel)
1982 Sep 22, San Francisco's
famous cable cars made a final run before closing down for a 20-month,
$60 million renovation. The SF cable car system was shut down for an
overhaul. Gripman Raymond M. McCann (d.1997 at 47) was assigned to
write the first manual on operating cable cars. The system was
overhauled under the Feinstein administration for $59 million, in
mostly private and federal funds. Cable car prices were raised to $1.00.
(AP, 9/22/02)(SFC, 6/3/97, p.A22)(SFC, 12/2/97,
p.A16)
1982 Sep 24, US, Italian and
French peacekeeping troops began arriving in Lebanon. Some 400,000
Israelis gathered at the first of many demonstrations to protest the
Lebanon War.
(www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/usmnf.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/2o8vkl)
1982 Sep 24, British PM Margaret
Thatcher visited Beijing. Deng refused her request for continued
British administration of Hong Kong after 1997, but agreed to open
negotiations on handover.
(www.china.org.cn/english/China/213898.htm)
1982 Sep 24, Sarah Churchill
(b.1914), actress (Royal Wedding, Spring Meeting), died. She was the
2nd daughter of Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill: the third
of the couple's five children.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Churchill_(actress))
1982 Sep 25, Pennsylvania prison
guard George Banks killed 13 people including 4 that were his own
children.
(www.internationaljusticeproject.org/illnessGBanks.cfm)
1982 Sep 29, Extra-Strength
Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide claimed the first of seven victims
in the Chicago area. As of 2008 the case remained unsolved.
(http://judicial-inc.biz/t_tylenol_murders_supplement.htm)(AP, 9/29/08)
1982 Sep 30, The situation comedy
"Cheers" premiered on NBC-TV.
(AP, 9/30/07)
1982 Sep 30, The London
International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) opened for
trading. It provided a range of products designed to help manage equity
investment risk. In 2002 Euronext, a Paris-based exchange, took over
LIFFE.
(www.futuresindustry.org/fi-magazine-home.asp?a=607)
1982 Oct 1, EPCOT Center opened in
Orlando, Florida.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epcot)
1982 Oct 1, West Germany's
Parliament ousted Helmut Schmidt for Helmut Kohl. Kohl, head of the
Christian Democratic Union, became Chancellor following the collapse of
the Social Democratic led coalition. He served until 1998.
(Hem., 3/97, p.121)(WSJ, 9/3/98, p.A6)(WSJ, 1/19/00,
p.A18)
1982 Oct 2, The Indian guru Swami
Muktananda (b.1908) died. He had opened meditation centers in the US
during the 1970s and attracted some 20,000 devotees. In 1983 he was
charged posthumously with seducing young girls and stashing funds in a
Swiss bank account.
(SFC, 6/15/05,
p.A1)(www.leavingsiddhayoga.net/secret.htm)
1982 Oct 2, A truck bomb in Tehran
killed 60 and injured 700. Authorities blamed ''American mercenaries.''
(http://tinyurl.com/2j23lb)
1982 Oct 4, Frank Rosenthal
(1929-2008), Las Vegas casino operator, survived a car bomb when his
Cadillac exploded as he turned the key. He ran the mob-owned Stardust,
Fremont, Hacienda and Marina casinos. In 1995 Martin Scorsese made his
film “Casino,” based on the life of Frank Rosenthal.
(SFC, 10/17/08, p.B8)(Econ, 11/1/08, p.99)
1982 Oct 4, Glenn H. Gould
(b.1932), eccentric Canadian pianist, died in Toronto of a cerebral
hemorrhage. In 1997 Peter F. Ostwald wrote a biography titled: "Glenn
Gould."
(WSJ, 8/5/97,
p.A16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Gould)
1982 Oct 7, The Andrew Lloyd
Webber-Tim Rice musical "Cats," featuring the popular song "Memory,"
opened on Broadway at Winter Garden Theater. The show closed Sept. 10,
2000 after a record 7,485 performances.
(AP,
10/7/01)(www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/cats.htm)
1982 Oct 7, Olaf Palme was sworn
in as Sweden’s prime minister.
(www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/swedhis/swed1980.htm)
1982 Oct 8, All labor
organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, were banned.
(AP, 10/8/97)
1982 Oct 9, Anna Freud (b.1895),
Austrian-English psychoanalyst and daughter of Sigmund Freud, died in
London.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Freud)
1982 Oct 10, In Bolivia Hernan
Siles Zuazo (1914-1996) became president again and served to 1985. His
presidency restored democracy after 18 years of harsh military rule.
(SFC, 8/8/96, p.A22)(AP,
12/17/05)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Siles_Zuazo)
1982 Oct 10, Pope John Paul II
canonized Rev. M. Kolbe (1894-1941), a Polish Franciscan friar. The
controversial racist priest had volunteered to die in place of another
inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe)
1982 Oct 10, US imposed sanctions
against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union.
(www.cnn.com/almanac/9810/10/)
1982 Oct 11, The Mary Rose,
English Tudor flagship of Henry VIII, was raised at Portsmouth,
England. It had sank after launching in 1545.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rose)
1982 Oct 13, The IOC restored 2
gold medals post mortem from the 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe
(1888-1953).
(http://nomas-nyc.com/2006/10/solid-gold.html)
1982 Oct 13, Guatemala’s army
surrounded the mountain village of Santa Anita Las Canoas. 24 men were
taken inside a church, where they were chained, tied with ropes and
tortured all the night, their screams heard throughout the village. The
following morning, 6 men were taken from the group, tied to the
barbwire fence of the church and executed in front of the community.
{Guatemala, Atrocities}
(SFC, 6/14/01,
p.A14)(www.law.wisc.edu/news/index.php?ID=567)
1982 Oct 14, Some 6,000
Unification church couples were wed in Korea.
(www.tparents.org/library/unification/topics/traditn/history-bless.htm)
1982 Oct 15, The federal Centers
for Disease Control warned that a new epidemic was impacting Americans
and that over 200, mostly gay young men, had died from AIDS. In 2001
Jon Cohen authored "Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS
Vaccine."
(SSFC, 2/4/01, BR p.4)
1982 Oct 16, Mario del Monaco
(b.1915), Italian opera singer, died of kidney disease.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_del_Monaco)
1982 Oct 17, Sam Shepard's "True
West" premiered in NYC.
(www.cherrylanetheatre.org/historyMainstage.htm)
1982 Oct 18, Former first lady
Bess Truman (97) died at her home in Independence, Mo.
(AP, 10/18/97)
1982 Oct 18, Pierre Mendes-France
(b.1907), premier of France (1954-55), died. "Let them drink milk!"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Mend%C3%A8s-France)
1982 Oct 19, Carmaker John
DeLorean was arrested in Los Angeles and charged in a 24-million-dollar
cocaine scheme aimed at salvaging his bankrupt sports car company. He
was found not guilty due to entrapment on August 16, 1984.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_De_Lorean)
1982 Oct 25, The TV show "Newhart"
with Mary Frann (born Mary Luecke in St. Louis) and Bob Newhart, made
its premier. It lasted to 1990. Frann died in 1998 at age 55.
(SFC, 9/24/98, p.C4)
1982 Oct 27, China announced its
population at 1 billion people plus.
(http://tinyurl.com/2l3pta)
1982 Oct 28, The Spanish Socialist
Workers’ Party won the elections and Felipe Gonzalez (b.1942) became
prime minister. He served 4 successive mandates and stepped down as
head of the party in 1997.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_Gonz%C3%A1lez)(WSJ, 11/30/95,
p.A-10)
1982 Oct 31, The Nehemiah housing
plan in New York broke ground in Brownsville. It was fathered by I.D.
Robbins (1910-1996) and consisted of low-cost, 3-bedroom brick
townhouses that sold for $39,000. The plan was helped by the Industrial
Areas Foundation established by the Chicago housing advocate Saul
Alinsky.
(http://tinyurl.com/2tow9q)
1982 Oct 31, Pope John Paul II
became the 1st pontiff to visit Spain.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pastoral_visits_of_Pope_John_Paul_II_outside_Italy)
1982 Oct, Betty Ford, former first
lady, founded the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage for drug-treatment
after admitting her own problems with substance abuse.
(SFEC,12/797, Par p.2)
1982 Oct, In Sri Lanka Junius
Richard Jayewardene (1906-1996) was re-elected for a 6-year term as
premier and president.
(SFC, 11/2/96,
p.A21)(www.bookrags.com/Junius_Richard_Jayewardene)
1982 Nov 3, In Afghanistan a
Soviet tank engine exploded in the Salang Tunnel and 178 Soviet
soldiers were killed along with as many as 800 Afghans.
{Afghan, USSR, Russia}
(SFC, 12/13/01,
p.A10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salang_tunnel_fire)
1982 Nov 4, Dominique Dunne
(b.1959), American actress and daughter of novelist Dominick Dunne,
died in LA following strangulation by her former boyfriend, John Thomas
Sweeney.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Dunne)
1982 Nov 4, Jacques Tati (b.1909),
French mime and director, died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0004244/)
1982 Nov 10, The newly finished
Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its first visitors in
Washington, D.C.
(AP, 11/10/97)
1982 Nov 10, The IMF lent Mexico
$3.8 billion due to threatened bankruptcy. The Mexican economy began to
be run under the guidance of the World Bank and the Int’l. Monetary
Fund.
(SFC, 9/16/96, p.A21)
1982 Nov 10, In Russia Soviet
leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died at age 75 and the Kremlin command passed
to Yuri Andropov. He had suffered from arteriosclerosis of the brain.
See the 1997 book by Michel Dobbs "Down with Big Brother, The Fall of
the Soviet Empire."
(TMC, 1994, p.1982)(SFEC, 2/2/97, BR. p.1)(AP,
11/10/97)
1982 Nov 11, Susan Cooper's and
Hume Cronyn's "Foxfire," premiered in NYC.
(www.thelostland.com/playsfilms.htm)
1982 Nov 11, Space shuttle
Columbia launched for its first operational flight. The 4-man crew
successfully used a remote manipulator arm.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia)
1982 Nov 11, West German
authorities captured Brigitte Mohnhaupt, a member of the Red Army
Faction, as she went to an arms cache in woods near Frankfurt. She was
convicted in 1985 of involvement in nine murders, including those of
West German chief federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and of
Hanns-Martin Schleyer, the head of the country's industry federation.
Mohnhaupt (57) was released in 2007 after serving 24 years of a life
sentence.
(AP, 2/12/07)
1982 Nov 11, Solidarity leader
Lech Walesa (b.1943) was let out of jail in Poland.
(www.answers.com/topic/lech-walesa)
1982 Nov 12, Yuri V. Andropov was
elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of
the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.
(AP, 11/12/97)
1982 Nov 13, The Vietnam Veterans
Memorial was dedicated after the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund had
chosen Maya Ying Lin's design. Lin was an architecture student at Yale
University when she submitted her proposal for the memorial, to be
built in Washington D.C.'s Constitution Gardens as a tribute to those
who served in the Vietnam War. In her proposal, shown above, Lin
described "a long, polished, black stone wall, emerging from and
receding into the earth," which would include the names of all the
military personnel who had died or remained missing. According to Lin,
"these names, seemingly infinite in number, [would] convey the sense of
overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a
whole.
(AP, 11/13/97)(HNPD, 11/13/98)
1982 Nov 13, The Viking 1 Mars
Lander ended communications. The 2 Viking Landers transmitted over 1400
images. Many of these images are also available from NSSDC online and
as photographic products.
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking.html)
1982 Nov 15, Funeral services were
held in Moscow's Red Square for the late Soviet President Leonid I.
Brezhnev.
(AP, 11/15/97)
1982 Nov 16, Tom Stoppard's "Real
Thing," premiered in London.
(www.sondheimguide.com/Stoppard/chronology.html)
1982 Nov 16, The US National
Football League ended a 57-day strike, the longest in the history of
professional sports.
(AP, 11/1697)(HN, 11/16/98)
1982 Nov 16, A replica of the
original 1854 "Pope’s Stone," donated by the Vatican, was dedicated at
the Washington Monument. The original from Pope Pius IX, arrived in
October 1853. It was taken by force in 1854 by unknown men. The common
idea is that the men were part of a group called the Know-Nothings.
(www.nps.gov/archive/wamo/memstone_564.htm)
1982 Nov 16, The Space Shuttle
Columbia completed its first operational flight.
(HN, 11/16/98)
1982 Nov 16, Christian Klar
(b.1952), a leading member of the German Red Army Faction, was arrested
close to Hamburg. In the following trials he was convicted for his
involvement in the 1977 murders of Siegfried Buback, Jurgen Ponto and
Hanns-Martin Schleyer together with fellow RAF member Brigitte
Mohnhaupt. Klar was set for release in Jan, 2009, after serving 26
years in prison.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Klar)(AP,
11/24/08)
1982 Nov 17, In Iraq the Supreme
Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) was created to
increase Iranian control over Iraqi opposition groups belonging to the
same Shiite faith as most Iranians. In 1999 it had 4-8000 fighters in
southern Iraq.
(USAT, 3/24/99,
p.18A)(http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2373425)
1982 Nov 17, Eduard Tubin
(b.1905), Estonian composer, died in Stockholm.
(SFC, 2/13/98,
p.C8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Tubin)
1982 Nov 19, An antenna tower
collapsed during construction in Missouri City, Texas, and 5 riggers
were killed.
(http://ethics.tamu.edu/ethics/tvtower/tv3.htm)
1982 Nov 20, South Africa backed
down on a plan to install black rule in neighboring Namibia.
(HN, 11/20/98)
1982 Nov 21, In Sri Lanka the
first Tiger activist to be killed by security forces was shot and
wounded and died a few days later on November 27.
(AP, 11/3/06)
1982 Nov 22, President Reagan
called for defense-pact deployment of the MX missile.
(HN, 11/22/98)
1982 Nov 24, FCC dropped limits on
the duration and frequency of TV ads.
(http://tinyurl.com/2tcl6k)
1982 Nov 25, Pike (Pee-ka) the
polar bear was born at the SF Zoo on Thanksgiving.
(SFC,11/26/97, p.A16)
1982 Nov 26, Yasuhiro Nakasone of
the LDP was elected 71st Japanese prime minister.
(HN, 11/26/98)(Econ, 10/8/05, Survey p.10)
1982 Nov 28, "Pirates of Penzance"
closed at Uris Theater, NYC, after 772 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4088)
1982 Nov 28, The United States led
by John McEnroe beat France 4-1 to win the Davis Cup.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Davis_Cup)
1982 Nov 29, An 88-nation world
trade conference meeting in Geneva agreed on a new set of guidelines
for encouraging free trade and halting a tide of global protectionism.
(http://tinyurl.com/36ozv8)
1982 Nov 29, US submarine Thomas
Edison collided with a US Navy destroyer in the South China Sea.
(http://aboutsubs.com/edison.htm)
1982 Nov 30, Michael Jackson
(12958-2009) released “Thriller,” his 6th studio album. It became
the best-selling album of all time.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(album))
1982 Dec 2, In the first operation
of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted
a permanent artificial heart developed by Dr. Robert K. Jarvik. Barney
Clark, a retired dentist, lived 112 days with the Jarvic-7 heart, the
first human to survive with a man-made heart.
(TMC, 1994, p.1982)(AP, 12/2/97)(HN,
12/2/98)
1982 Dec 2, Marty Feldman (49),
comedian, writer and actor (Young Frankenstein), died from a heart
attack after suffering food poisoning in Mexico City, Mexico. He
was born July 8, 1933, in London, England.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0001204/)
1982 Dec 4, Guatemalan Pres. Rios
Montt met with US Pres. Ronald Reagan in Honduras. Reagan dismissed
reports of human rights abuses in the region and lifted an arms embargo
to resume sales to military rulers.
(SSFC, 2/14/04,
p.M3)(www.consortiumnews.com/2007/012907.html)
1982 Dec 4, A new version of
China’s constitution dropped the worker’s right to strike.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China)
1982 Dec 5, The Univ. Baptist
Church in Seattle declared itself a sanctuary for Central American
refugees.
(http://tinyurl.com/3axzxr)
1982 Dec 6, Maureen Marder, a
construction worker by day and a dancer by night, signed a release with
Paramount Pictures regarding her interest in the film Flashdance, which
went on to gross over $150 million. The 1983 musical starred Jennifer
Beals and was directed by Adrian Lyne.
(SFEC, 10/11/97, DB p.35)
1982 Dec 6, In Northern Ireland 11
soldiers and six civilians were killed when a bomb planted by the Irish
National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly.
(AP, 12/6/97)
1982 Dec 6, Turkey began
celebrating St. Nicholas day.
(WSJ, 8/31/98, p.B1)
1982 Dec 6-1982 Dec 8, In
Guatemala a government massacre wiped out the village of Dos Erres. In
2000 two witnesses gave evidence that some 300 men, women and children
were killed, tortured and raped by specialists called kaibiles.
(SFEC, 4/9/00, p.C14)
1982 Dec 7, Convicted murderer
Charlie Brooks Junior became the first U.S. prisoner to be executed by
injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas. Brooks, convicted of
murdering an auto mechanic, received an intravenous injection of sodium
pentothal.
(AP, 12/7/99)
1982 Dec 7, In Suriname 15
politicians, journalists, union leaders, lawyers and soldiers, were
rounded up and slain in a hundreds-year-old fort in Paramaribo. In 2007
Desire Bouterse, the former dictator, faced trial for the murders. In
2008 a military tribunal in Suriname ruled that those accused of a 1982
massacre, including the country's former dictator, must stand trial.
(AP, 3/12/07)(WSJ, 10/8/07, p.A6)(AP, 4/5/08)
1982 Dec 8, A man demanding an end
to nuclear weapons held the Washington Monument hostage, threatening to
blow it up with explosives he claimed were inside a van. After a
10-hour standoff, Norman D. Mayer was shot dead by police; it turned
out there were no explosives.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mayer)(AP,
12/8/07)
1982 Dec 8, Marty Robbins,
American singer, died. His songs included “El Paso” (1959), “Devil
Woman,” and “My Woman, My Woman, My Wife” (1970). He was inducted into
the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Robbins)
1982 Dec 9, The Washington, D.C.,
police shot and killed Norman Mayer (b.1916), an American anti-nuclear
weapons activist, 10 hours after he threatened to blow up the
Washington Monument. Police found he had no explosives.
(HN,
12/8/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mayer)
1982 Dec 9, Leon Jaworski
(b.1905), special prosecutor (Watergate), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Jaworski)
1982 Dec 10, Freeman Gosden
(b.1899), white actor, died. He had starred as Amos in the “Amos ‘n’
Andy” radio shows from 1928 to 1960.
(SFC, 3/21/07, p.G2)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0331459/bio)
1982 Dec 10, The UN Law of the Sea
treaty opened for signature. It extended internationally recognized
territorial waters to 200 miles offshore. The convention came into
force on November 16, 1994, one year after the sixtieth state, Guyana,
signed it. The treaty gave countries the power to restrict fishing
within 231 miles of their coasts. The convention created the
International Seabed authority and the International Tribunal for the
Law of the Sea.
(http://tinyurl.com/2wsq9p)(WSJ, 1/18/07,
p.A13)(Econ, 8/18/07, p.51)
1982 Dec 12, The Sentry Armored
Car Company in NYC was robbed of $11.4 million from its headquarters.
It was the biggest cash theft in US history.
(http://tinyurl.com/36gcc9)
1982 Dec 14, Edward Hagedorn
(b.1902), graphic artist, died in Berkeley, Ca. He incised images into
linoleum for sharp contrasts in black and white. His work included:
"Self Portrait with Cigarette," "You," "Sword Swallower" and "The
Rainbow."
(SFC, 7/10/96,
p.E1,4)(www.rubylane.com/shops/bassfineart/item/0927d?gbase=1)
1982 Dec 16, Anne M. Gorsuch, head
of the Environmental Protection Agency, became the first Cabinet-level
officer to be cited for contempt of US Congress for refusing to submit
documents requested by a congressional committee.
(AP, 12/16/02)
1982 Dec 17, In Venezuela Hugo
Chavez (b.1954) and other junior officers formed a secret group, the
Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement 200 (MBR-200), and vowed to change
their society. They made their 1st coup attempt in 1992.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_career_of_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez)(WSJ,
6/12/03, p.A10)
1982 Dec 18, Tara Burke (3 years
old) was freed in SF after being held captive and molested in a van for
ten months. She had been kidnapped in Concord by Luis "Tree Frog"
Johnson (33) and Alex Cabarga (17). Johnson was sentenced to 527 years
in prison and Cabarga served 25 years.
(SFC,10/27/97, p.A1,4)
1982 Dec 19, Four bombs exploded
at South Africa's only nuclear power station in Johannesburg.
(HN, 12/19/98)
1982 Dec 20, Artur Rubinstein
(b.1887), Polish-born Jewish pianist, died in Geneva. In 1946 he became
a US citizen. In 1973 he authored “My Young Years” and in 1980 “My Many
Years.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rubinstein)
1982 Dec 23, The Golden Gate
Bridge closed for 2 hours as winds reached 70 mph.
(http://goldengatebridge.org/research/facts.php)
1982 Dec 23, Jack Webb (b.1920),
actor, producer and director, died of a heart attack. He was best known
for his role as Joe Friday in Dragnet. The original Dragnet
starring Jack Webb as Sgt. Friday ran on radio from June 3, 1949 to
February 26, 1957 and on television from December 16, 1951 to August
23, 1959, and from January 12, 1967 to April 16, 1970.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Webb)
1982 Dec 26, TIME magazine’s Man
of the Year, in the issue dated January 4, 1983, was a computer.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982)
1982 Dec 28, Nevell Johnson Jr., a
black man, was mortally wounded by a police officer in a Miami video
arcade, setting off 3 days of race-related disturbances that left
another man dead.
(AP, 12/28/97)
1982 Dec 29, Coach Paul "Bear"
Bryant ended his career with Alabama. He logged 323 wins
(http://bryantmuseum.ua.edu/direction.cfm?dir=bio). In 1996 Keith
Dunnavant authored “COACH: The Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant.”
(www.amazon.com/COACH-Life-Paul-Bear-Bryant/dp/0684800411)
1982 Dec 31, In Poland Martial Law
was suspended. It was terminated on July 22, 1983.
(www.videofact.com/english/martial_law.htm)
1982 Dec, The El Nino weather
pattern was noticed to have caused trade winds on the equator to turn
around. The 1982-1983 warming of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean,
was the most severe warming in 50 years. In Peru El Nino weather caused
about $1 billion in damage.
(SFC, 8/14/97, p.A1)(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A5)(SFC,
2/7/98, p.A10)
1982 Fernando Botero,
Colombian-born artist, painted "The Dancing Couple."
(WSJ, 7/10/98, p.W12)
1982 Nguyen Thanh Chau, Vietnamese
artist, painted "Homeland Fruit" using watercolor on silk.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.E1)
1982 Francesco Clemente made his
color woodcut "I" at Crown Point Press.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, DB p.37)
1982 Frank Stella painted his
"Pergusa Three." Stella has been dubbed "the father of minimalist art."
(MT, Win. ‘96, p.10)
1982 George Rickey made his
sculpture "Double L Eccentric Gyratory." It was placed outside the new
SF Main Library in 1997.
(SFEC, 6/29/97, DB p.37)
1982 James Bamford authored “The
Puzzle Palace,” a portrait of the US National Security Agency (NSA).
The NSA attempted to block publication. In 2008 Bamford authored an
update, “The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the
Eavesdropping on America,” which covered the agency’s performance just
before 9/11 and after.
(WSJ, 10/14/08, p.A19)
1982 William Bronk (d.1999 at 81)
won the American Book Award for his collected poems "Life Supports."
(SFC, 2/26/99, p.A25)
1982 Cid Caesar, TV comic,
authored his autobiography "Where Have I Been."
(SFC, 8/9/02, p.D17)
1982 John Cage wrote a 75-minute
play for German radio called "James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie:
An Alphabet."
(WSJ, 2/28/02, p.A16)
1982 Charles F. Ehret (1923-2007),
a scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, released the “Argonne
Anti-Jet-Lag Diet.”
(WSJ, 3/10/07, p.A4)
1982 Mary Ellis (1897-2003), opera
singer and actress, authored her autobiography: "Those Dancing Years."
(SFC, 2/3/03, p.B4)
1982 Historian John Lewis Gaddis
authored” Strategies of Containment,” an American perspective on the
cold war.
(Econ, 1/7/06, p.73)
1982 Sue Grafton published in
England her first alphabetical mystery: "A is for Alibi."
(WSJ, 4/24/98, p.W14)
1982 William Least Heat-Moon
(William Trogdon) authored “Blue Highways,” an account of his back road
journeys around the lower 48 US states.
(WSJ, 11/1/08, p.W12)
1982 L. Ron Hubbard, founder of
the Church of Scientology, authored the sci-fi novel "Battlefield
Earth." In 2000 a film version with John Travolta was produced.
(WSJ, 3/24/00, p.A1)
1982 Australian Thomas Keneally
authored "Schindler's List." He received his information from Leopold
Page (d.2001 at 87), No. 173 on Schindler’s list. "Schindler's List,"
Steven Spielberg's drama about the Holocaust, won Golden Globes for
best dramatic picture and best director in 1994.
(AP, 1/22/99)(SFC, 3/14/01, p.C2)
1982 Psychologists Daniel
Kahneman, Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky authored “Judgment Under
Uncertainty,” revealing many of the hard-wired flaws that shape human
behavior.
(WSJ, 1/24/09, p.W8)
1982 Marc Lappe (1942-2004),
toxics expert, authored “Germs That Won’t Die: Medical Consequences of
the Misuse of Antibiotics.”
(SFC, 5/18/05, p.B7)
1982 Sam Shepard wrote his play
"Fool for Love."
(WSJ, 11/8/96, p.A12)
1982 The "Historical Dictionary of
the Spanish Civil War" was published.
(WSJ, 11/19/96, p.A22)
1982 "The Argot Merchant
Disaster," collected poetry by George Starbuck, (1931-1996) was
published. He was once described as the thinking man’s Ogden Nash.
(SFC, 8/17/96, p.A24)
1982 The play "Edmond" by David
Mamet was remotely based on Brecht’s first play "Baal."
(WSJ, 10/3/96, p.A12)
1982 Tom Stoppard wrote his play
"The Real Thing."
(SFEM, 1/2/00, p.6)
1982 June Allyson wrote her
biography "June Allyson."
(SFC, 8/28/96, E10)
1982 Iron Eyes Cody (d.1998 at
94), American Indian actor, published his autobiography: "Iron Eyes: My
Life as a Hollywood Indian." In 1970 he played an Indian paddling
through a polluted stream in a public service ad.
(SFC, 1/5/99, p.A20)
1982 Opera star Elizabeth
Schwarzkopf wrote a memoir of her record-producer husband: "On and Off
the Record: A Memoir of Walter Legge."
(WSJ, 7/23/96, p.A20)
1982 Barry Bluestone and Bennett
Harrison wrote "The Deindustrialization of America." They argued that
capitalism took a new and mean turn in the 1970s as corporate raiders
and speculators purchased prosperous manufacturing firms, took their
assets, and reduced employment or shifted jobs to off-shore places.
(LSA, Spg/97, p.18)
1982 Dorothy Demming wrote
"Cryptography and Data Security."
(Wired, 9/96, p.219)
1982 Carol Gilligan, Harvard
psychologist, authored "In a Different Voice," a study of the social
development of girls.
(SFC, 3/3/01, p.A2)
1982 Dr. Benoit Mandelbrot
(b.1924) authored "The Fractal Geometry of Nature." He produced the 1st
image of the Mandelbrot set in 1980.
(Econ, 12/6/03, TQp.36)
1982 James Michener wrote his
novel "Space."
(SFC,10/17/97, p.A17)
1982 John Newhouse authored “The
Sporty Game,” a history of the airline business.
(WSJ, 1/24/06, p.D11)
1982 Tom Peters authored “In
Search of Excellence,” a business management book that became a classic.
(USAT, 5/18/04, p.B1)
1982 Patrick Rance (d.1999)
authored "The Great British Cheese Book."
(SFC, 8/30/99, p.A24)
1982 Dan Richardson wrote
"Comintern Army," a historical work on the Spanish Civil War.
(WSJ, 11/19/96, p.A22)
1982 Maureen (d.2003) and Michael
Ryan authored "Kerry: Agent Orange and an American Family."
(SSFC, 9/14/03, p.A27)
1982 Economist Amartya Sen
authored “Poverty and Famines,” in which he showed that some of the
worst famines had taken place without a significant fall in the supply
of food. He used the 1968-1973 famine in the Sahel of North Africa to
illustrate his thesis.
(Econ, 8/20/05, p.57)
1982 Tom Stoddard published "Jazz
on the Barbary Coast," and anthology of oral histories and essays.
(SFEC, 4/12/98, p.D7)
1982 Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote
"The Golem."
(SFEC, 12/22/96, BR p.7)
1982 "Dr. De Soto," a children’s
book by William Steig, was published.
(SFEC, 2/27/00, BR
p.12)(www.williamsteig.com/drdesoto.htm)
1982 Bill Styron authored
"Sophie's Choice."
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.W2)
1982 Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996)
published "Ripening: Selected Work 1927-1980." She was highly praised
for her children’s stories, stories of immigrants and Indian women.
(SFEC, 11/24/96, C12)
1982 Robert Palmer wrote "Deep
Blues," a personal work on blues music.
(NH, 9/96, p.62)
1982 The Broadway show "Eminent
Domain" by Percy Granger (d.1997 at 51) was produced. Granger had
helped found the Manhattan Ensemble Studio Theater. He wrote for Radio
Mystery Theater and daytime television.
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.A22)
1982 The musical "Nine" opened on
Broadway. It was an adaptation of Fellini’s "8½"The music and
lyrics were by Maury Yeston and the book by Arthur Kopit. It was
revived in 2003.
(WSJ, 4/8/03, p.D4)(WSJ, 4/11/03, p.W9)
1982 The Canadian NFB documentary
film "If You Love This Planet" was an anti-nuclear film that won the
best documentary Oscar.
(WSJ, 1/13/00, p.A20)
1982 The TV food show "Yan Can
Cook" began on KQED in SF with Martin Yan.
(SFC, 7/30/01, p.E1)
1982 The TV show Barney Miller
ended its run.
(SFEC, 6/29/97, Par p.22)
1982 The TV medical series "St.
Elsewhere" began and ran until 1988. it was produced by Bruce Paltrow
(d.2002 at 58).
(WSJ, 1/10/00, p.A24)(SFC, 10/4/02, p.A26)
1982 The Gothic rock group
Christian Death recorded their album "Only Theater of pain." Rozz
Williams the founding songwriter and musician died in a suicide hanging
in 1998 at 34.
(SFC, 4/11/98, p.A15)
1982 The work "Rosanna" by Toto
won the Grammy best record of the year.
(SFEC, 2/21/99, DB p.38)
1982 Michael Jackson released his
"Thriller" album.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R34)
1982 Rock star Prince Rogers
Nelson achieved a commercial breakthrough with his album "1999."
(SFC, 7/16/96, p.E3)
1982 Ricky Scaggs achieved country
music industry honors with the Horizon and Male Vocalist of the Year.
(WSJ, 12/30/97, p.A8)
1982 The musical work "Dreams and
Fantasies" by David Sheinfeld (d.2001 at 94) was premiered at the SF
Davies Symphony Hall under Edo de Waart.
(SFC, 6/11/01, p.A17)
1982 The Riders in the Sky Trio
(Woody Paul, Ranger Doug, and Too Slim Fred) were named to the Grand
Ole Opry.
(WSJ, 1/18/00, p.A24)
1982 Joani Blank of San
Francisco’s Good Vibrations published "Good Vibrations: The Complete
Guide to Vibrators."
(SFC, 2/27/98, p.A3)
1982 Tom Stoddard published "Jazz
on the Barbary Coast," an anthology of oral histories and essays in San
Francisco.
(SFEC, 4/12/98, p.D7)
1982 The TV food show "Yan Can
Cook" began on KQED in SF with Martin Yan.
(SFC, 7/30/01, p.E1)
1982 In San Francisco the musical
work "Dreams and Fantasies" by David Sheinfeld (d.2001 at 94) was
premiered at the SF Davies Symphony Hall under Edo de Waart.
(SFC, 6/11/01, p.A17)
1982 In SF the 48-story
silo-shaped office tower at 101 California St., designed by Philip
Johnson (1906-2004), was completed.
(SFC, 8/6/04, p.F2)(SFC, 1/27/05, p.A2,E14)
1982 In San Francisco the 5-story
Levi’s Plaza was built at 1155 Battery St. Architects included HOK and
Richard Friedman.
(SSFC, 12/6/09, p.C3)
1982 In SF the Nieman Marcus
department store chain opened a store on Union Square in a space
formerly occupied by the City of Paris department store.
(SFC, 9/7/01, p.A21)(SSFC, 9/9/07, p.G3)
1982 In SF Sgt. John Macauley Park
opened at Larkin and O’Farrell. It was named after Sgt. John Macauley,
who was shot to death making a traffic stop in 1982.
(SFC, 10/25/00, p.A20)
1982 In SF Dolores Street
Community Services was organized to help the poor and sick in the
Mission and Castro neighborhoods. It was originally a ministry of the
Dolores St. Baptist Church.
(SFC, 9/15/98, p.A9)
1982 In SF the Martin Luther
King-Marcus Garvey Square housing complex at Eddy and Steiner went
co-op.
(SFC, 12/29/98, p.A11)
1982 In SF Bernice Hemphill
(d.1996) retired as director of the Irwin Memorial Blood Bank. She
began work there before the end of WW II and was the first managing
director of this first nonprofit, medically sponsored blood collection
center in the nation.
(SFC, 11/27/96, p.B2)
1982 In SF Tom Waddel founded the
Gay Olympics, later renamed the Gay Games.
(SFC, 6/23/96, BR, p.1)
1982 In SF actors began declaiming
Shakespeare on picnic tables in Golden Gate Park and thus founded the
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival.
(SFC, 8/30/96, p.D1)
1982 In SF the WW II submarine
"Pampanito" was opened to the public at Pier 45, the foot of Taylor St.
under the operation of the National Maritime Museum Association. In
1986 the sub was named a National Historic Landmark by the national
Park Service.
(SFC, 6/19/97, p.A22)(SFC, 5/27/00, p.A17)
1982 A federal consent decree went
into effect that forced SF to release low-level offenders to prevent
severe jail overcrowding.
(SFEC, 10/6/96, A14)
1982 In SF Mary Jane Rathbun
(d.1999), aka Brownie Mary, was arrested on marijuana charges and
ordered to perform 500 hours of social work. She sold her "Magically
Delicious" brownies from a succession of Castro area homes in SF.
(SFC, 4/13/99, p.A19)
1982 In northern California Jess
Jackson (b.1930), real estate lawyer and grape grower, decided to make
his own wine and soon produced a batch of blended chardonney grapes
called Kendall-Jackson Vintner’s Reserve Chardonnay. The wine got an
award and sold out in six weeks.
(AP,
7/4/09)(www.wineanorak.com/california/kendalljackson.htm)
1982 Todd Industries bought the
Bethlehem Iron Works (United Iron Works at Pier 70) in SF. By 1987 Todd
faced bankruptcy, broke its lease with the SF Port Authority, and
abandoned the property.
(SSFC, 7/3/05, p.F2)
1982 Grace Marchant, the SF woman
who maintained the garden on the east face of Telegraph Hill at the
Filbert steps, died. The garden was later named in her honor.
(SFC, 8/7/97, p.A1)
1982 Cardinal Joseph Bernardin
took over the archdiocese of Chicago.
(SFC, 8/31/96, p.A12)
1982 Barbara Wiedner (d.2001 at
72) founded Grandmothers for Peace Int’l.
(SFC, 12/5/01, p.A23)
1982 Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese
Zen master, founded Plum Village, a Buddhist community in southern
France.
(SFC, 10/12/97, Z1 p.3)
1982 Kathleen Carlin (1939-1996)
founded Men Stopping Violence. The organization worked to change the
social norms of male supremacy that were seen as a root cause of female
abuse.
(SFEC, 9/30/96, p.A23)
1982 Jimmy Carter founded the
Carter Center to resolve conflict and promote human rights.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, zone 3 p.3)
1982 Actor Paul Newman (1925-2008)
put up $40,000 to help start a specialty food company with writer A.E.
Hotcher called Newman’s Own. 100% of the profits were directed to
charities.
(SSFC, 9/28/08, p.A17)
1982 Adam Robinson and John
Katzman founded Princeton Review Inc., to help high school students
improve their SAT scores.
(WSJ, 10/18/99, p.A1)
1982 In SF Tom Waddel founded the
Gay Olympics, later renamed the Gay Games.
(SFC, 6/23/96, BR, p.1)
1982 The St. Charles Saloon’s
Poison Oak Show began in Columbia, Ca.
(PacDis, Fall/’96, p.30)
1982 In the US the National
Library of Poetry was founded to promote the artistic accomplishments
of contemporary poets.
(SFC, 7/14/96, Par p.16)
1982 The Fourth Freedom Forum was
formed in Goshen, Indiana, by Howard Brembeck to advocate the use of
economic power instead of military force.
(www.fourthfreedom.org/Applications/cms.php?page_id=75)
1982 The Washington Times was
founded by Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church and the
Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, to be a conservative
alternative to the larger Washington Post. The Times is widely
perceived as maintaining a right-leaning editorial stance. By 2002, the
Unification Church had spent about $1.7 billion in subsidies for the
Times.
(SFC, 12/9/09, p.A6)(http://tinyurl.com/y9r9xd7)
1982 The Oakland Raiders football
team under Al Davis moved to Los Angeles.
(SFC, 10/1/96, p.A24)
1982 "The Play," a five-lateral
scramble was run by the Univ. of California football team against
Stanford.
(SFC, 1/18/97, p.A19)(SFC, 12/14/99, p.D7)
1982 Konishiki, born Salevaa
Atisanoe in American Samoa, began competing in sumo wrestling. He
opened sumo wrestling to international competition and achieved the
2nd-highest rank. The 600-pound wrestler announced his retirement in
1997.
(SFEC,11/23/97, p.A23)
1982 The Microcirculation Society,
founded in 1954, named its top award after Dr. Benjamin Zweibach
(d.1997 at 86), founder of the Journal of Microvascular Research.
(SFC,11/4/97, p.A19)(http://microcirc.org/)
1982 Robert Beasley (d.1997 at
70), a chemist who developed the material used in the space shuttle
heat shield tiles, was awarded the Johnson Space Center achievement
award for his work.
(SFC, 3/15/97, p.A19)
1982 Kenneth Thimann (1904-1997)
received the Balzan Prize worth $110,000, awarded in scientific fields
not covered by the Nobel Prize, for his work on plant hormones. The
English-born Harvard scientist had isolated and purified the universal
growth hormone known as auxin.
(SFC, 1/25/97,
p.A19)(www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/03.13/22-mm.html)
1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(b.1928), Columbian-born novelist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez)
1982 George Stigler (1911-1991) of
the Univ. of Chicago won the Nobel Prize in Economics for studies of
industrial structures and the causes and effects of public regulation.
(Econ, 11/25/06, p.80)(AP, 10/11/09)
1982 Swedish scientists Dr. Sune
Karl Bergstrom (d.2004), Bengt Samuelsson and John R. Vane of Britain
shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or medicine for their work on
natural chemicals involved in birth, blood clotting and pain control.
Samuelson received the Nobel Prize for his work in 1979 when he
identified a natural chemical produced in the body that helps spawn the
severe, breath shortening attacks that are the hallmark of asthma.
(WSJ, 4/5/96, p.B-1)(SFC, 8/19/04, p.B7)
1982 The US Indian Tribal
Governmental Tax Status Act of 1982 allowed tribes to issue tax-exempt
bonds for essential government functions.
(http://tinyurl.com/d4tjl)
1982 The US capital gains tax was
cut to 20%.
(WSJ, 9/29/95, p.A-14)
1982 A US federal law was passed
that prohibited airport revenue from being transferred to local city
general funds.
(SFC, 7/20/96, p.A11)
1982 The US Congress doubled the
federal excise tax on cigarettes to 16 cents per pack.
(WSJ, 1/27/04, p.D12)
1982 US Congress made transfers
between spouses tax free.
(SSFC, 7/28/02, p.A3)
1982 The US government stopped
selling fixed-rate savings bonds just as interest rates were embarked
on a long, steep decline.
(SFC, 4/5/05, p.C6)
1982 The US abandoned shoe quotas.
By 2005 domestically made shoes accounted for only 1.6% of all shoes
sold in the US.
(WSJ, 6/7/05, p.A13)
1982 The Pentagon acknowledged for
the 1st time the existence of a "stealth" aircraft.
(SSFC, 12/14/03, p.D2)
1982 The US Supreme Court ruled in
Nixon vs. Fitzgerald that no sitting president could ever be sued for
official acts. The ruling did not say anything about private acts.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, p.A2)
1982 The US State Dept. added Cuba
to its terror list following US accusations that the Castro government
was aiding Colombian guerrillas.
(WSJ, 9/15/06, p.A10)
1982 In Arkansas former Gov. Bill
Clinton won his election bid for the governor’s office with the help of
political consultant Dick Morris.
(SFC, 1/29/98, p.A3)
1982 A federal consent decree went
into effect that forced SF to release low-level offenders to prevent
severe jail overcrowding.
(SFEC, 10/6/96, A14)
1982 In SF Mary Jane Rathbun
(d.1999), aka Brownie Mary, was arrested on marijuana charges and
ordered to perform 500 hours of social work. She sold her "Magically
Delicious" brownies from a succession of Castro area homes in SF.
(SFC, 4/13/99, p.A19)
1982 In southern California John
Visciotti (26) shot and killed co-worker Timothy Dykstra (22) and
wounded Michael Wolbert. Visciotti’s murder conviction was upheld but
his death sentence was reversed due to a defense lawyer’s incompetence.
In 2002 a penalty-phase retrial was ordered. The Supreme Court
reinstated his death penalty.
(SFC, 4/25/02, p.A6)(SFC, 11/5/02, p.A4)
1982 The city of Berkeley Ca.,
introduced commercial rent control.
(SFC, 4/29/08, p.A1)
1982 Documents obtained in
lawsuits in 2005 indicated that Florida Power and Light had mistakenly
shipped radioactive waste to an ordinary landfill. The documents
indicated that a number of similar shipments were made in the 1970s and
1980s to landfills and municipal sewage treatment plants.
(SSFC, 8/7/05, p.A5)
1982 Maine Indian tribes laid
claim to 60% of the state lands and settled for $81.5 million.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.J7)
1982 Texas reinstated the death
penalty.
(SFC,11/22/97, p.A11)
1982 Texas sent James Curtis Giles
(28) to prison for 10 years for the gang rape of a Dallas woman that he
has long maintained he did not commit. In 2007 more than a decade after
his release from prison, he was expected to become the 13th Dallas
County man on track to be exonerated with the help of DNA evidence.
(AP, 4/9/07)
1982 Virginia banned uranium
mining. It remained legal to process enriched uranium into usable
nuclear fuel. In 2008 it was reported that the largest undeveloped
uranium deposit in the US was in Virginia’s Pittsylvania County.
(www.cleanwateraction.org/publication/keep-ban-uranium-mining-virginia)(WSJ,
7/26/08, p.A7)
1982 Retired Gen. William
Westmoreland (1914-2005) filed a $120 million libel suit against CBS
News for its documentary “The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception.”
The documentary charged that Westmoreland had directed a conspiracy to
suppress and alter critical intelligence on the enemy in 1967 and 1968
in order to deceive Americans into believing the war in Vietnam was
being won. The suit was settled out of court and CBS acknowledged that
the documentary was seriously flawed.
(SFC, 7/19/05, p.B5)
1982 Robert Lee Vesco (b.1935),
who fled the US in 1971 to avoid charges of bilking mutual fund
investors of $224 million, moved to Cuba.
(SFC, 8/21/96,
p.A8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Vesco)
1982 The early telegraph system of
Southern Pacific Railroad grew into the Southern Pacific Communications
Co. that was sold in this year to GTE. It later became Sprint.
(SFC, 7/8/96, p.D1)
1982 In Alaska the White Pass
& Yukon railroad closed after a highway opened between Skagway and
Whitehorse, and a slump in metal prices shut down mines.
(SFEC, 2/8/98, p.T3)
1982 In the US the ratio of
executive pay to that of the average worker was 42 to 1.
(Econ, 11/26/05, p.75)
1982 Alberto Culver introduced
Mrs. Dash, a salt-free seasoning made of dried onion, garlic, lemon
rind, and spices. Its popularity ebbed in the 1990s.
(WSJ, 2/25/05, p.A1)
1982 Honda, the first Japanese
auto maker to start production in the US, began making cars at
Marysville, Ohio.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(F, 10/7/96, p.71)
1982 Mike Bloomberg installed his
first financial terminal and went on to develop the premier electronic
financial information service in the world. He had been fired from
Salomon Brothers in 1981 when it was acquired by Phibro Corp. and
immediately founded Bloomberg L.P.
(Wired, 2/99, p.132)
1982 Ely Callaway (d.2001 at 82)
founded Callaway Golf. The 4-man company became a multi-billion-dollar
corporation and developed the Big Bertha driver in 1991 and ERC II in
2000.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.A26)
1982 Bill Porter, a physicist and
inventor, founded Trade-Plus the predecessor of the E*Trade brokerage
firm. E*Trade Group went public in 1996.
(WSJ, 11/13/07, p.A21)
1982 Budweiser introduced Bud
Light beer.
(WSJ, 5/27/08, p.A18)
1982 Coca-Cola developed Diet Coke.
(Econ, 3/3/07, p.68)
1982 Compaq Computer was founded
by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto. They designed the company’s
product at a local House of Pies.
(SSFC, 10/6/02, p.G1)
1982 The Manville Corp., formerly
Johns Manville, filed for bankruptcy as it faced millions of dollars in
claims over asbestos-related health problems. By 1996 it was operating
as the Schuller Corporation of Denver.
(SFC, 11/11/96, p.A26)
1982 McDonald's Corp. introduced
Chicken McNuggets.
(WSJ, 9/16/99, p.B1)
1982 The sleeping pill Halcion,
made by Upjohn Pharm., was OK'd by the FDA. It later displayed side
effects such as anxiety, behavior changes, and abnormal thinking.
Dosage was reduced and label warning were added and it was banned by
Britain in 1991.
(SFC, 6/1/96, p.A73)
1982 US Steel acquired Marathon
Oil.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R46)
1982 John Walker founded Autodesk.
His AutoCAD computer aided design software was introduced and shipped.
(http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=3235534)
1982 John Warnock and Charles
Geschke founded Adobe Corp., a software company that developed tools
for desktop publishing. In 1993 Adobe introduce the Acrobat software
that allowed documents to appear on computer screen exactly as you
would see them on paper.
(SFC, 5/16/96, p.B1)(Econ, 4/16/05, p.58)
1982 Coca-Cola bought Columbia
Pictures for $750 million.
(SSFC, 1/18/04, p.A14)
1982 Control Video Corp. was
founded as an online video game company. It transformed to Quantum
Computer Services, a private online service for Apple and IBM, and then
became America Online (AOL) in 1989. In 1998 Kara Swisher wrote
"aol.com: How Steve Case beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads, and Made
Millions in the War for the Web.
(SFEC, 8/2/98, BR p.1,8)
1982 The Hearst Corp. acquired
Communications Data Services, a magazine subscription fulfillment
company, KMBC-TV in Kansas City, and Redbook magazine.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A9)
1982 Intel introduced the 286
microprocessor, the first to support general protection and virtual
memory. It ran at speeds of 8-12 Mhz and was 6 times more powerful than
the 8086. IBM used the 286 in its fledgling PC and bought a 12%, $250
million stake in Intel to keep it afloat.
(TAR, 1996, p.26)(SFC, 7/18/08, p.C1)
1982 Microsoft was a company in
one building with about 100 employees.
(WSJ, 12/12/95, p.A-16)
1982 The German Otto family
purchased the Chicago-based Spiegel catalog retailer.
(WSJ, 3/2/04, p.A6)
1982 The discount retailer 99
Cents Only was founded in Southern California. By Feb 2003 it grew to
153 locations.
(SSFC, 9/19/04, p.J5)
1982 Commodore’s VIC-20,
criticized in print as being underpowered, became the first computer to
sell more than 1 million units and was the best-selling computer of
1982.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20)
1982 Orbital Sciences, a
Virginia-based company, was founded by David Thompson, Bruce Ferguson
and Scott Webster. It later built the first private space rocket. In
1990, the company successfully carried out eight space missions,
highlighted by the initial launch of the Pegasus rocket, the world's
first privately-developed space launch vehicle.
(Econ, 8/23/08,
p.69)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_Sciences_Corporation)
1982 Japan’s Sony Corp. introduced
the 1st CD player.
(WSJ, 3/7/05, p.A8)
1982 Silicon Graphics was founded
by Stanford engineering professor James Clark. It made sophisticated
computers for modeling. Its first product, the IRIS graphics terminal
,was released in 1983. The company went public in 1986. Clark left the
company in 1994 to start Netscape. In 2006 the company filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In 2009 the company again filed for Bankruptcy
and sold itself to Rackable systems from $25 million.
(Econ, 7/29/06, p.58)(WSJ, 4/2/09, p.B7)(WSJ,
4/2/09, p.B7)
1982 Sun Microsystems was founded
by tech whiz Andreas Bechtolsheim, CEO Scott McNeally, entrepreneur
Vinod Khosla, and software inventor Bill Joy. The Sun slogan was "the
network is the computer." Khosla later made a fortune as a partner at
the Kleiner Perkins venture capital firm.
(WSJ, 8/11/95, p.B-10)(WSJ, 3/19/97, p.B1)(Econ,
3/25/06, p.72)
1982 Symantec, a provider of
security technology, was founded. It went public in 1989 and was
acquired by Norton in 1990.
(SSFC, 1/4/04, p.I1)
1982 Todd Industries bought the
Bethlehem Iron Works (United Iron Works at Pier 70) in SF. By 1987 Todd
faced bankruptcy, broke its lease with the SF Port Authority, and
abandoned the property.
(SSFC, 7/3/05, p.F2)
1982 John Hopfield, Bell Labs
physicist, reawakened scientific interest in neural networks by finding
a resemblance between their neighbor-pulling-neighbor structure and the
behavior of magnetized atoms in some kinds of crystals.
(I&I, Penzias, p.107)
1982 The computer game "Donkey
Kong" by Nintendo became a hit in America. Nintendo also introduced the
overweight plumber named "Mario."
(SFC, 7/5/97, p.E1)
1982 Rich Skrenta (b.1967), a
freshman in Pennsylvania, developed Elk Cloner as a practical joke. It
was the 1st virus to hit computers worldwide and later became known as
a "boot sector" virus. When it boots, or starts up, an infected disk
places a copy of the virus in the computer's memory. Whenever someone
inserts a clean disk into the machine and types the command "catalog"
for a list of files, a copy gets written onto that disk as well. The
newly infected disk is passed on to other people, other machines and
other locations.
(AP, 9/1/07)(SFC, 9/3/07, p.C3)
1982 James Lovelock's monograph
"Ultrasensitive Chemical Detectors" was in Applied Atomic Collision
Physics 5 (1982): 2-29.
(NOHY, 3/90, p.290)
1982 Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner,
neurologist, reported the discovery of an infectious agent that linked
certain animal and human diseases. His lab identified a tiny molecule
in the membrane of cells that he called a proteinaceous infected
particle, or prion for short. In 1996 it is suspected that this is the
agent involved in the bovine mad-cow disease and the rare human
Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.
(WSJ, 3/25/96, p.B7C)
1982 The bacteria E. coli O157:H7,
a renegade strain of the normally harmless group, was first identified.
People in Michigan and Oregon were sickened by the bacteria that caused
bloody diarrhea and devastating kidney failure. The organism attacks
the lining of the colon, exposing blood vessels and causing them to
bleed. It is believed to reside normally in the stomachs of cattle. It
kills an estimated 61 American each year.
(WSJ, 7/15/96, p.B1)(SFC, 11/1/96, p.A4)(SFC,
10/15/03, p.A25)
c1982 Two Australian doctors,
Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, discovered Helicobacter pylori, a
bacterium that was later shone to cause stomach ulcers.
(SFC, 8/7/97, p.A11)
1982 The American Cancer Society
began a long-term, nationwide study on 1 million Americans who agreed
to reveal details of their lives and family histories for cancer
research. Additional blood samples were drawn in 1998 on remaining
participants.
(SFC, 7/30/98, p.A1)
1982 Oceanographers aboard the
deep submersible Alvin, 1,000 miles off Baja, Ca., located an undersea
volcanic vent that was found to contain a new organism called
Methanococcus jannaschii and classified as Archaea, distinct from
Prokarya and Eukarya.
(SFC, 8/23/96, p.A21)(SFC, 2/17/01, p.A3)
1982 The United Nations Food and
Agricultural Organization published a study on global deforestation. A
net loss of 10 million hectares of tropical rain forest was reported.
(NOHY, 3/90, p.186)
1982 Hurricane Iwa hit Hawaii. It
took away the steeple of the 1850s Waimea United Church of Christ.
(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.C12)
1982 In Arizona Karl LeGrand, a
German citizen, stabbed to death a bank manager during a bungled
robbery attempt with his brother Walter LaGrand. Karl was convicted and
died by lethal injection Feb 24, 1999. Walter was executed a week
later. A UN court in 2001 upheld that the US violated international law
in the case.
(SFC, 2/25/99, p.A3)(SFC, 6/28/01, p.A8)
1982 Larry Frederick, Oakland
police officer, was hit by a passing car and thrown 40 feet while on a
routine traffic stop. His first night in surgery called for 54 pints of
blood and before his ordeal was over he had gone through 9 surgeries
and received 110 pints of blood. In thanks he later organized campaigns
encouraging people to donate blood.
(SFC, 5/16/96, p.A-13)
1982 In the US capsules of Tylenol
laced with cyanide killed 7 people. This brought about a major effort
in safe sealing methods by consumer companies.
(WSJ, 3/13/97, p.A1)
1982 Troy Wicker of Muscle Shoals,
Ala., was shot to death. Judy Wicker later testified that she had
had sex with Thomas Arthur and paid him $10,000 to kill her husband.
Arthur was convicted and sentenced to death. His execution, set for Dec
6, 2007, was delayed because of a pending Supreme Court case involving
lethal injections.
(AP, 11/26/07)
1982 Debra Sue Carter (21), a
cocktail waitress in Ada, Oklahoma, was raped and murdered. For five
years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never
clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The
two were arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no
physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and
the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Fritz was found
guilty and given a life sentence. Williamson was sent to death row.
Both were released 12 years later, when DNA evidence proved their
innocence. In 2006 novelist John Grisham read Williamson's obituary in
The New York Times and made him and Fritz the subject of his first
non-fiction book: “The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small
Town.” The book became a bestseller.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Williamson)
1982 DeFord Bailey, harmonica
player and the first black member of the Grand Ole Opry, died. His
first music album was released in 1998.
(USAT, 6/17/98, p.2D)
1982 Grace Marchant, the SF woman
who maintained the garden on the east face of Telegraph Hill at the
Filbert steps, died. The garden was later named in her honor.
(SFC, 8/7/97, p.A1)
1982 Tony Mirra, mobster friend of
Donnie Brasco (aka FBI agent Joe Pistone), was shot to death.
(SFC, 5/10/04, p.A4)
1982 Ayn Rand, writer and founder
of the Objectivist philosophy, died at age 77. Rand’s novels included
"Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead." In 1987 Barbara Branden wrote
a biography of Rand titled "The Passion of Ayn Rand." In 1999 Nathaniel
Branden published "My Years With Ayn Rand," an account of his 18-year
relationship with Rand.
(SFEC, 8/18/96, PM p. 2)(SFC, 10/25/98, p.D8)
1982 Umberto Romano (b.1905),
Italian born artist, died in NYC.
(http://americanart.si.edu/search/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=4113)
1982 Hugh Shannon (61), New York
cabaret singer, died. A video of his work was made titled: "Hugh
Shannon: Saloon Singer."
(WSJ, 3/12/97, p.A16)
1982 The Friendship Bridge over
the Amu Darya River, connecting Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, was built
by the Soviets during the Soviet occupation of that country. The bridge
was closed in May 1997 when the Taliban forces took control of the city
of Mazari Sharif, forcing Uzbek rebels to retreat back to Uzbekistan.
It reopened on December 9, 2001.
(http://tinyurl.com/2qbrbd)(WSJ, 11/21/01, p.A11)
1982 In Angola a 520-megawatt
hydroelectric plant was inaugurated in Capanda. It was expected to go
online in 2009.
(Econ, 1/5/08, Angola p.4)
1982 The jellyfish-like creature,
Mnemiopsis leidyi, arrived in Black Sea, probably in the ballast water
of a cargo ship, and began to devastate the ecology of the almost
closed ecosystem.
(SFEC,12/797, p.A22)
1982 Leonel Brizola (1922-2004),
former governor of Rio Grande do Sul (1959-1962), was elected governor
of Rio de Janeiro state. He was elected governor again in 1990.
(SFC, 6/24/04,
p.B6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonel_Brizola)
1982 The far right British
National Party (BNP) emerged from the National Front.
(Econ, 4/23/05, p.55)
1982 Sir Oliver Franks, former
British diplomat, led a public inquiry into the Falklands war.
(Econ, 11/12/05, p.78)
1982 In Britain Stephenson Bros.
was founded and produced reproductions of Victorian rocking horses.
(SFC,12/24/97, Z1 p.6)
1982 In Cambodia the Khmer Rouge
and 2 non-Communist groups formed a resistance coalition with Sihanouk
as a figurehead leader. The UN recognized it as the government of
Cambodia.
(SFC, 6/14/97, p.A15)
1982 In Chile an economic crises
caused the establishment of capital controls and a minimum permanence
period for foreign capital of ten years.
(WSJ, 10/1/98, p.A17)
1982 Sterling Seagrave authored
"The Soong Dynasty," a history of China’s rich and powerful Soong
family.
(SFC, 1/27/00, p.E5)
1982 In China Yu Qiuli was made
deputy secretary general of the Central Military Commission, which
controlled the army.
(SFC, 2/6/99, p.A21)
1982 China and Britain began
negotiations on Hong Kong’s future.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_the_sovereignty_of_Hong_Kong)
1982 The China National Offshore
Oil Corp. (CNOOC) was formed to develop offshore oil and gas fields.
(WSJ, 7/31/06, p.B1)
1982 TCL was founded in China to
make magnetic tape in response to the mainland’s hunger for music
coming in from Hong Kong and Taiwan. It soon expanded to television
manufacturing. In 2004 it entered into a joint venture (TTE) with
Thompson Electronics of France. The company suffered heavy losses as
flat screen televisions entered the market.
(Econ, 11/4/06, p.78)
1982 In Colombia the National
Indigenous Organization (ONIC) was set up as a lobbying group for legal
advice to Indians and for representation before national authorities.
(SFC, 3/30/98, p.A10)
1982 Cocos Island was made a
national park of Costa Rica. It is 9-sq. miles and located 300 miles
off the Coast of Central America.
(SFC, 7/29/00, p.E3)
1982 In Denmark the monetary
policy was tied to the German mark.
(WSJ, 2/6/98, p.A1)
1982 Ten goats were abandoned on
Ecuador’s Galapagos Isabella Island and by 2002 increased to over
100,000.
(SSFC, 12/22/02, p.M6)
1982 In El Salvador 3 police
officers arrested 6 university students, held them in a clandestine
prison and tried to kill them. The officers became fugitives in Oct
1996 when faced with the accusations.
(SFC, 1/31/97, p.A14)
1982 In El Salvador 10 police
officers were involved in the killing of a Nicaraguan mechanic and a
Honduran farmer suspected of transporting arms to rebels in El
Salvador. They were charged with the murders in July 1995.
(SFC, 1/31/97, p.A14)
1982 In Egypt the Soviet built
turbine blades of the Aswan High Dam cracked. The US gave the Egyptian
government 85 million dollars to replace the blades. It was expected
that the generators be functional by 1990. Heavy evaporation has caused
Lake Nasser to become more saline.
(NG, May 1985, R. Caputo, p.602)
1982 In Egypt the Multinational
Force and Observers (MFO) was created as part of a peacekeeping mission
on the Sinai Peninsula following the 1979 Camp David Accord between
Egypt and Israel.
(SFEC, 12/19/99, Par p.4)
1982 In El Salvador 3 police
officers arrested 6 university students, held them in a clandestine
prison and tried to kill them. The officers became fugitives in Oct
1996 when faced with the accusations.
(SFC, 1/31/97, p.A14)
1982 In El Salvador 10 police
officers were involved in the killing of a Nicaraguan mechanic and a
Honduran farmer suspected of transporting arms to rebels in El
Salvador. They were charged with the murders in July 1995.
(SFC, 1/31/97, p.A14)
1982 Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese
Zen master, founded Plum Village, a Buddhist community in southern
France.
(SFC, 10/12/97, Z1 p.3)
1982 Holocaust victims filed suit
against Maurice Papon and Bordeaux prosecutors opened investigations.
(AP, 9/18/02)
1982 The French firm JC Decaux
invented the self-cleaning toilet.
(SFC, 8/18/96, p.B5)
1982 Klaus Jacobs (1936-2008),
head of the German coffee dealer Jacobs AG, orchestrated the takeover
of Switzerland’s Interfood SA, maker of the Toblerone candy bar. In
1990 Philip Morris bought Jacobs Suchard for $3.8 billion. Klaus went
on to buy a Swiss staffing firm and in 1996 merged it with France’s
Ecco SA to form Adecco SA, which became one of the world’s largest
staffing firms.
(WSJ, 9/20/08, p.A12)
1982 The Guatemalan civil war
reached its peak. The Civilian Self-Defense Patrol was activated under
dictator Gen’l. Efrain Rios Montt.
(NG, 6/1988, p.776)(SFEC, 10/20/96, A14)
1982 Alfonso Portillo, a
Guatemalan professor at the Guerrero Autonomous Univ. in Mexico, shot
and killed 2 political adversaries outside a party. In 1999 Portillo
ran as a presidential candidate for the Guatemalan Republican Front and
said he had acted in self defense.
(SFC, 9/8/99, p.A15)
1982 In Honduras rebels, during
the height of conflict, kidnapped 104 businessmen and officials.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.A22)
1982 In Israel the Jewish town of
Misgav was built on land seized from the Palestinians over 3 decades.
Its 7,000 Jewish residents have jurisdiction over 183,000 dunams (a
quarter-acre), while the area’s 200,000 Arabs reside on 200,000 dunams.
(MT, Fall. ‘97, p.16)
1982 Beirut burned as Israel
continued smashing the PLO’s forces.
(TMC, 1994, p.1982)
1982 In Japan racketeering by a
sokaiya was outlawed. Extortion of Japanese firms by sokaiya had been
going on for almost a hundred years.
(SFC, 12/3/97, p.D3)
1982 McDonald's, the US fast food
giant, began operations in Malaysia.
(AP, 4/29/09)
1982 Mexico’s oil market collapsed.
(WSJ, 8/22/97, p.A10)
1982 In Monaco an aquarium was
emptied that contained the exotic seaweed Caulerpa taxifolia. It
mutated and thrived in the Mediterranean Sea and by 1997 occupied 8,000
acres and eliminated everything else. Its growth has tripled annually
over the last three years.
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.E4)
1982 In Nepal Elephant polo began
under the direction of Jim Edwards, a jungle safari organizer.
(WSJ, 1/16/98, p.A1)
1982 The Stichting Ingka
Foundation, a Dutch-registered, tax-exempt, non-profit legal entity,
was given the shares of Ingvar Kamprad (b.1926), the Swedish founder of
IKEA. In 2006 Ingka Holding, a private Dutch-registered company, was
the parent of 207 of 235 worldwide IKEA companies, and it belonged to
the Stichting Ingka Foundation.
(Econ, 5/13/06, p.69)(SFC, 4/6/04, p.C3)
1982 In 2005 Karin Linstad, a
leading Norwegian pro-Palestinian activist, said she infiltrated the
Israeli intelligence agency Mossad as a double agent in the 1980s. The
Oslo newspaper Aftenposten said Mossad had been skeptical of Linstad's
offer to act as an agent but was drawn in by her claims of tight
contact with leading Palestinians. The newspaper, without citing
sources, said she provided information about Palestinians in Beirut,
Lebanon, ahead of Israel's 1982 invasion.
(AP, 10/6/05)
1982 Portugal’s economics began a
current account reversal.
(Econ, 8/19/06, p.64)
1982 Adnan Khashoggi, an arms
dealer from Saudi Arabia, settled divorce proceedings with his wife
Soraya for $950 million plus property.
(SFC, 2/14/98,
p.E6)(www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/most_curious/article1516355.ece)
1982 Choi Jung-hwa, a South Korean
taekwondo master, hired two agents to shoot South Korean President Chun
Doo-hwan during a visit to Canada. The plot, however, was detected and
Choi went into hiding in Eastern Europe and North Korea. In 1991, he
surrendered to Canadian authorities and was sentenced to six years in
prison, but was released after one year for good behavior. In 2008 he
returned to South Korea.
(AP, 9/9/08)
1982 In Zambia Lusaka Archbishop
Emmanuel Milingo resigned under pressure for his faith healings and
exorcisms. He was brought to Rome as a functionary and retired in 2000.
In 2001 he (71) married Marie Sung (43) of South Korea in a NYC wedding
conducted by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
(SFC, 5/28/01, p.A7)(SFC, 8/31/01, p.D5)
1982 Zimbabwe granted landowners
proprietorship over wildlife and allowed hunting. Since then the
elephant population has increased from 40 to 50 thousand.
(WSJ, 7/23/96, p.A22)
1982-1983 60 Minutes was again the top ranking
network show on television with a ranking of 25.5%.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)
1982-1983 El Nino, a warming of eastern tropical
Pacific Ocean, was the most severe warming in 50 years. In Peru El Nino
weather caused about $1 billion in damage.
(SFC, 8/14/97, p.A1)(SFC, 2/7/98, p.A10)
1982-1984 Edward J. Malatesta S.J. (d.1998 at 66)
worked on the China Jesuit History Project and then founded the Ricci
Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History as part of the USF
Center for the Pacific Rim.
(SFC, 2/9/98, p.A19)
1982-1984 In Guatemala six people who were abducted
and presumably killed during the country's civil war. In 2009 Felipe
Cusanero was convicted and sentenced to 25 years for each victim who
disappeared during this period from the village of Choatalum.
(AP, 9/2/09)
1982-1987 The Matabeleland atrocities occurred when
the Zimbabwe government of Robert Mugabe sent in its North Korean
trained Fifth Brigade to terrorize the Ndebele-speaking region of
Matabeleland, that supported opponent Joshua Nkomo. Some 200 guerrillas
of the minority Ndebele tribe in Matabeleland province, fought troops
of Pres. Mugabe and as many as 20,000 civilians were killed. The terror
ended in 1987 when Nkomo reconciled with Mugabe. In 1999 Mugabe ordered
provincial officials to prepare compensation claims for the victims of
army atrocities.
(SFC, 5/30/97, p.A15)(SFEC, 11/21/99, p.A14)(WSJ,
3/13/02, p.A16)(AP, 12/10/05)
1982-1988 Terence A. McEwen (d.1998 at 69) directed
the SF Opera.
(SFC, 9/18/98)
1982-1989 Alan C. Nelson (d.1997) served as head of
the federal INS. In 1994 he co-authored California’s Proposition 187,
an initiative to deny health and education benefits to illegal
immigrants.
(SFC, 2/1/97, p.A23)
1982-1989 George Shultz served as the US Sec. of
State under Ronald Reagan.
(SFEM,11/2/97, p.8)
1982-1991 US Army intelligence manuals of the Army
School of the Americas advocated executions, torture, blackmail and
other forms of coercion in "Terrorism and the Urban Guerrilla." The
school was quartered in Panama until 1984 when it was moved to Fort
Benning, Ga.
(SFC, 9/21/96, p.A3)(SFC,11/17/97, p.A3)
1982-1992 An estimated 35,000 Muslim fighters from 43
countries arrived to fight in the Afghan resistance and to train for
fighting in Kashmir.
(WSJ, 10/12/01, p.A6)
1982-1992 India grew at an average annual rate of
5.2%.
(Econ, 12/13/08, SR p.8)
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