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1/1/1982 |
Clemson wins the Orange Bowl for college football championship |
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1/1/1982 |
Pope John Paul II prays for an end to martial law in Poland |
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1/4/1982 |
Bryant Gumbel becomes co-host of the Today Show |
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1/7/1982 |
"Fame" premiers on NBC TV |
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1/8/1982 |
AT&T agrees to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies |
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1/10/1982 |
Paul Lynde, comedian (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched), dies at 55 |
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1/22/1982 |
75% of North America is covered by snow |
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1/23/1982 |
World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2 |
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1/31/1982 |
12th AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 16-13 |
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2/2/1982 |
"Late Night with David Letterman" premiers on NBC |
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2/3/1982 |
John Sharples of England finishes disco dancing 371 hours |
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2/12/1982 |
Wayne Gretsky scores 153rd point of season, tieing NHL record |
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2/13/1982 |
Dark Side of the Moon, is on charts for 402nd week |
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2/14/1982 |
"Night of 100 Stars" takes place at NY's Radio City Music Hall |
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2/16/1982 |
Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce |
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2/22/1982 |
NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for NY governor (unsuccessful) |
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2/24/1982 |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono's "Double Fantasy" wins Grammy |
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2/24/1982 |
Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92 |
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2/25/1982 |
Record speed for a snowmobile-239 kph |
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2/27/1982 |
Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw |
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2/27/1982 |
Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million |
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2/28/1982 |
AT & T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day |
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3/2/1982 |
60th hat trick in Islander history-Bryan Trottier |
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3/5/1982 |
John Belushi, comedian (Sat Night Live), dies of drug overdose at 32 |
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3/10/1982 |
Pres Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya |
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3/18/1982 |
Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident |
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3/21/1982 |
Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard |
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3/21/1982 |
Movie "Annie" premiers |
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3/22/1982 |
3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched |
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3/25/1982 |
Wayne Gretsky becomes 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season |
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3/28/1982 |
Lousiana Tech wond 1st NCAA women's basketball title |
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3/29/1982 |
"Chariots of Fire" wins the 54th Academy Award |
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3/31/1982 |
Rock group Doobie Brothers split up |
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4/1/1982 |
US formally transfers Canal Zone to Panam |
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4/6/1982 |
21øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC |
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4/19/1982 |
Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery |
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4/19/1982 |
Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut |
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4/25/1982 |
In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawl |
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4/26/1982 |
Rod Stewart is mugged, gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche |
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5/1/1982 |
1982 World's Fair in Knoxville Tennessee opens |
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5/6/1982 |
Seattle Mariner Gaylord Perry becomes 15th pitcher to win 300 games |
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5/7/1982 |
IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1 |
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5/13/1982 |
Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy |
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5/23/1982 |
Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles |
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5/28/1982 |
Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain |
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5/30/1982 |
Closest Indy 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds |
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6/11/1982 |
Larry Holmes defeats Gerry Cooney, retains WBC heavyweight crown |
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6/13/1982 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA title |
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6/17/1982 |
Pres Reagan 1st UN Gen Assembly address ("evil empire" speech) |
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6/20/1982 |
Tom Watson wins US Open golf tournament |
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6/21/1982 |
William of Wales, Prince Chuck & Lady Di's baby |
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6/21/1982 |
Wash DC jury finds John Hinckley Jr innocent by insanity |
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6/24/1982 |
Mary Hart's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight |
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6/25/1982 |
Sec of State Alexander Haig Jr resigns, replaced by Schultz |
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6/29/1982 |
Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended |
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7/4/1982 |
Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe for his last Wimbledon championship |
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7/9/1982 |
Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster |
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7/12/1982 |
FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail |
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7/13/1982 |
NL scores 4-1 victory over AL for 11th straight All-Star triumph |
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7/14/1982 |
MS-DOS 1.25 released |
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7/19/1982 |
David S Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon |
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8/1/1982 |
Greg Louganis, US becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives |
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8/8/1982 |
Raymon Floyd wins PGA golf tournament |
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8/12/1982 |
Henry Fonda, actor (On Golden Pond), dies at 77 of heart disease |
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8/14/1982 |
Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron) |
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8/21/1982 |
Rollie Fingers (Brewers) becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300 |
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8/23/1982 |
Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter |
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8/27/1982 |
Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark |
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9/1/1982 |
Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH |
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9/5/1982 |
Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph |
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9/10/1982 |
Decca releases Beatle audition "Complete Silver Beatles" album |
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9/11/1982 |
Chris Evert 6th US open title defeats Hana Mandlikava |
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9/14/1982 |
Grace Kelly, princess of Monaco, dies at 52 in a car crash |
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9/14/1982 |
36" snow (Red Lodge, MT) |
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9/15/1982 |
1st issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc |
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9/20/1982 |
NFL players begin a 57 day strike |
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9/24/1982 |
Tennis great Bjorn Borg retires at 26 |
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9/28/1982 |
1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules |
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10/4/1982 |
Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of German FR |
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10/8/1982 |
Poland bans Solidarity |
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10/9/1982 |
Madonna releases her 1st record (Everybody) |
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10/12/1982 |
Milwaukee Brewer Paul Molitor getrs world sereis record 5 hits |
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10/18/1982 |
Bess Truman, 1st lady (1945-53), dies in Independence, Mo at 97 |
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10/19/1982 |
Jock Ewing, dies in an aircrash on TV show "Dallas" |
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10/19/1982 |
Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty) |
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10/20/1982 |
Billy Martin fired as manager of Oakland A's |
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10/20/1982 |
St Louis Cards beat Mil Brewers, 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series |
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10/26/1982 |
Steve Carlton became 1st pitcher to win 4 Cy Young awards |
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11/5/1982 |
Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record) |
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11/7/1982 |
Liz Taylor's 7th divorce (John Warner) |
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11/9/1982 |
Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time |
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11/10/1982 |
Leonid I Brezhnev, Soviet 1st sect, dies of a heart attack at 75 |
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11/11/1982 |
Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is let out of jail in Poland |
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11/13/1982 |
Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC |
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12/5/1982 |
Herschel Walker of Georgia wins Heisman Trophy |
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12/9/1982 |
Leon Jaworski, Watergate special prosecutor dies at 77 in Texas |
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12/12/1982 |
$9,800,000 in cash stolen from cash machine in NYC |
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12/13/1982 |
Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die |
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12/15/1982 |
Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of NY Giants |
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12/31/1982 |
TV soap "Doctors" ends 19 year run |