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November 2 – United States elections, 1982. The Republican Party loses 27 seats to the majority Democratic Party in the House . November 3 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43.41 points, or 4.25%, to close at 1,065.49, its first all-time high in more than 9 years.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 November 2024. This article is about the year 1982. For other uses, see 1982 (disambiguation). 1982 January February March April May June July August September October November December Clockwise from top-left: the Syrian Arab Army and the Defense Companies besiege the city of Hama, killing 350–400 ...
1982 events in the United States by month (12 C) 1982 disestablishments in the United States (39 C, 16 P) 1982 establishments in the United States (58 C, 153 P)
1981–1982 — The killing of 6-year-old Adam Walsh (1981), and the disappearance of Johnny Gosch, a 12-year-old newspaper carrier from Des Moines, Iowa (1982), raise awareness of missing children cases in the United States. 1983 – 241 U.S. Marines are killed by a suicide bomb in Lebanon. 1983 – The United States invades Grenada.
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March 3 – Elizabeth II opens the Barbican Centre in London. [1]July 20 – Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings [2]; December 12 – Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp: 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence of RAF Greenham Common in England in a protest against nuclear weapons.
January. 7 – A bomb damages the office of the West Rand Administration Board in Soweto.; 8 – Umkhonto we Sizwe guerrillas attack Koeberg nuclear power plant in Cape Town. 11 – The United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid launches the International Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa.