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1982
1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar
Events
January-February
March-April
May
June
July
August-September
October
November
December
Unknown dates
Year in topic
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1982 in film
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1982 in literature
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1982 in music
- Age To Age" by Christian artist Amy Grant is released. By December 1983, it will have become the first Christian album by a solo artist to be certified gold. By 1985 it will have gone platinum, another first for the Christian music industry.
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1982 in sports
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January 24 - Super Bowl XVI San Francisco 49ers (26) def. Cincinnati Bengals (21)
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July 13 - Montreal hosts the first baseball All-Star Game outside the United States.
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Commonwealth Games is held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Italy wins Football World Cup in Spain.
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May 30 - Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr plays the first of 2,632 consecutive games. His streak would finish September 20, 2000.
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June 11 - After a racially filled build up, the WBC world Heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, a Black, defeats challenger Gerry Cooney, a White, by a knockout in round 13 at Las Vegas to retain the world championship.
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November 12 - The Battle of The Champions, Aaron Pryor defeats Alexis Arguello in boxing contest at the Orange Bowl.
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November 13 - Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a Lightweight championship bout that forever changes the landscape of boxing.
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December 3 - Carnival of Champions, Wilfredo Gomez defeats Lupe Pintor in grueling 14 round bout to retain his world Jr Featherweight title and Thomas Hearns beats Wilfredo Benitez in 15 rounds in historic New Orleans boxing card.
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1982 in television
Births
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January 1 - David Nalbandian, Argentinian tennis player
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January 3 - Eli Manning, American football quarterback
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January 3 - Lauren Pope , English model
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January 4 - Holly McGuire , model
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January 5 - Janica Kostelic, Croatian alpine skier
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January 12 - Dontrelle Willis, baseball pitcher
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January 13 - Guillermo Coria, Argentinian tennis player
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January 15 - Benjamin Agosto, American skater
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January 17 - Dwyane Wade, NBA basketball player
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January 19 - Jodie Sweetin, actress
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February 1 - Pablo Paredes , poet
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February 17 - Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian soccer player
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February 22 - Jenna Haze, erotic actress.
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March 2 - Ben Roethlisberger, American football quarterback
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April 8 - Judy Star, pornographic film actress
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April 30 - Kirsten Dunst, actress
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May 9 - Rachel Boston, actress, former Miss Teen Tennessee (Miss Teen USA pageant)
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May 17 - Tony Parker, French NBA player
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May 26 - Yoko Matsugane, Japanese idol and bikini model
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June 1 - Justine Henin-Hardenne, Belgian tennis player
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June 8 - Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
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June 10 - Tara Lipinski, figure skater
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June 11 - Diana Taurasi, WNBA player
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June 21 - Prince William of Wales
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June 25 - Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
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July 18 - Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress, Miss World 2000
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August 2 - Hélder Postiga, football player
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August 28 - LeAnn Rimes, singer
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August 30 - Andy Roddick, US tennis player
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September 7 - Lorne Berfield, US actor
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September 13 - Nenê, Brazilian NBA player
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September 22 - Billie Piper, singer turned actress
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October 13 - Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer
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November 3 - Evgeni Plushenko, figure skater
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November 5 - Jeremy Lelliott , actor
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November 29 - Ashley Force, NHRA drag racer
- November 29 - Krystal Steal, pornographic actress
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November 30 - Elisha Cuthbert, actress
Deaths
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January 19 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer
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January 30 - Lightning Hopkins , blues musician
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February 5 - Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, (suicide)
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February 11 - Eleanor Powell, American tap dancer, wife of Glenn Ford
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February 11 - Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor
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February 12 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (b. 1902)
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February 17 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist
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February 17 - Lee Strasberg, acting teacher, actor
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March 2 - Philip K. Dick, science fiction author
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March 5 - John Belushi, actor
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March 6 - Ayn Rand, American author
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March 19 - Randy Rhoads, guitarist
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April 5 - Abe Fortas, American jurist
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April 15 - Arthur Lowe, British actor
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May 1 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1903)
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May 8 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian Formula One race car driver (racing accident)
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May 29 - Romy Schneider, actress (cardiac arrest)
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June 2 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician
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June 8 - Satchel Paige, baseball player
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June 14 - Arthur Coles, Australian businessman and philanthropist
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June 18 - Curt Jurgens, Austrian actor
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July 6 - Bob Johnson ("Indian Bob"), Major League Baseball player (b. 1905)
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July 29 - Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-born inventor of television
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August 12 - Salvador Sanchez, world champion boxer
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August 21 - Sobhuza II of Swaziland
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August 23 - Alfred S. Bloomingdale, department store heir
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September 7 - Ken Boyer, baseball player (b. 1931)
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September 11 - Wilfredo Lam, Cuban artist
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September 14 - Grace Patricia Kelly, former United States actress and Princess of Monaco
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September 29 - Monty Stratton, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1912)
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October 4 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
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October 18 - Bess Truman, First Lady, wife of President Harry S. Truman (b.1885)
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October 20 - Jimmy McGrory, Scottish footballer, prolific goalscorer (b.1904)
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November 4 - Dominique Dunne, actress (b. 1959)
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November 10 - Leonid Brezhnev, premier of the Soviet Union
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November 15 - Vinoba Bhave, Indian educator
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November 29 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete
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December 9 - Leon Jaworski, Watergate special prosecutor
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December 16 - Colin Chapman, engineer, founder of Lotus Cars (b. 1928)
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December 20 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist (b. 1887)
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December 24 - Louis Aragon, French writer (b. 1897)
Last updated: 10-18-2005 14:25:28
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