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1982 Calendar

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•  January 25, 1982 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
•  February 2, 1982 – Hama Massacre: Syria attacks the town of Hama.
•  February 5, 1982 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
•  April 6, 1982 – Estonian Communist Party bureau declares “fight against bourgeois TV” — meaning Finnish TV — a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR
•  April 17, 1982 – Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
•  June 27, 1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
•  July 9, 1982 – Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
•  September 1, 1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
•  September 14, 1982 – President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
•  September 16, 1982 – Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon.

•  February 5, 1982 – Rodrigo Palacio, Argentine footballer
•  February 24, 1982 – Klára Zakopalová, Czech tennis player
•  March 21, 1982 – Jocie Kok, Chinese-Singaporean singer
•  April 3, 1982 – Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress
•  May 2, 1982 – Lorie, French singer
•  May 17, 1982 – Matt Cassel, American football player
•  May 19, 1982 – Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer
•  September 30, 1982 – Kieran Culkin, American actor
•  October 15, 1982 – Paulini Curuenavuli, Fijian/Australian singer
•  December 13, 1982 – Dan Hamhuis, Canadian ice hockey player