WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1982
Find out what all happened January to June 1982

Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram. (8. June 1982)

Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. (30. March 1982)

Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War. (1. May 1982)

Bijon Setu massacre (30. April 1982)

The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982. (29. March 1982)

Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations. (1. January 1982)

The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. (8. January 1982)

Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War. (4. May 1982)

The Sentosa Musical Fountain was officially opened as part of the second phase of construction on the island of Sentosa, Singapore. (11. June 1982)

A British Army Air CorpsGazelle helicopter is destroyed in a friendly fire incident, resulting in the loss of four lives. (6. June 1982)

February 1982 Hama massacre: the government of Syria attacks the town of Hama. (2. February 1982)

Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano. (2. May 1982)

"The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines. (24. June 1982)

Priscilla Presley opened Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier was kept off-limits. (7. June 1982)

Estonian Communist Party bureau declares "fight against bourgeois TV"—meaning Finnish TV—a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR (6. April 1982)

NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3. (22. March 1982)

Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus. (5. March 1982)

Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos. (21. May 1982)

The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers. (15. February 1982)

Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral. (29. May 1982)