1982

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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Films released 5 Hit songs 6 New books 7 Nobel Prizes

[edit] Events

• January 15 - K.C. and the Sunshine Band's Harry Wayne Casey is seriously injured in an automobile accident in Miami, Florida.
• January 17 - Tommy Tucker, writer of "Hi Heel Sneakers", dies of carbon tetrachloride poisoning sustained while he was finishing floors in his home.
• January 20 - Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off of a live bat thrown at him during a performance. Osbourne is hospitalized with rabies.
• January 21 - B.B. King donates his personal record collection, which includes nearly 7,000 rare blues records, to the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
• February 13 - A 300 pound gravestone from the grave of Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant is stolen from an Orange Park, Florida cemetery. Police found the gravestone two weeks later in a dry river bed.
• February 20 - Pat Benatar marries her guitarist, Neil Giraldo on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
• March 4 - Frank Zappa's son Dweezil and daughter Moon Unit form Fred Zeppelin.
• March 5 - Comedian and Blues Brother John Belushi is found dead of an apparent drug overdose in the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
• March 18 - Teddy Pendergrass is severely injured in a car accident in Philadelphia. Pendergrass' injuries result in him being paralyzed from the waist down.
• March 19 - Ozzy Osbourne's lead guitarist, Randy Rhoads is killed in a freak accident in Leesburg, Florida when the plane he's riding in buzzes Osbourne's tour bus and crashes into a house. The plane's pilot and a female passenger are also killed.
• March 28 - In Los Angeles, California, David Crosby is arrested for possession of Quaaludes and drug paraphernalia, driving under the influence of cocaine and carrying a concealed weapon.
• March 29 - Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney release their single "Ebony and Ivory".
• March 31 - The Doobie Brothers announce that they are breaking up.
• April 2 - The Falklands War begins.
• April 15 - Billy Joel is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in Long Island, New York. Joel spends over a month in the hospital undergoing physical therapy for his hand.
• April - Amy Grant marries Gary Chapman.
• April 26 - Rod Stewart is mugged in Los Angeles, California. Stewart loses his $50,000 Porsche to the mugger, but was not hurt.
• June 20 - The Falklands War ends.
• August 17 - The first mass production of compact discs begins in Langenhagen near Hanover, Germany.
• September 7 - The musical Cats begins its 18 year run on Broadway.
• September 30 - The TV show Cheers premieres.
• November 5 - First broadcast of The Tube was shown on Channel 4 in the UK.
• November 13 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated.

[edit] Births

• June 21 - Prince William of Wales

[edit] Deaths

• January 10 - Paul Lynde, comedian
• February 12- Victor Jory, Canadian actor (born 1902)
• March 5 - John Belushi, actor
• March 29 - Carl Orff, German composer
• August 12 - Henry Fonda, actor
• September 5 - Douglas Bader, RAF Fighter pilot
• November 10 - Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union

[edit] Films released

• 48 Hrs.
• Annie
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
• Blade Runner
• Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
• Conan the Barbarian
• Das Boot
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
• Death Wish II
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Fanny and Alexander
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• First Blood
• Frances
• Friday the 13th, Part 3
• Gandhi
• Grease 2
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch
• Megaforce
• Missing
• My Favorite Year
• An Officer and a Gentleman
• Poltergeist
• Porky's
• Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip
• The Road Warrior
• Rocky III, starring Sylvester Stallone
• The Secret of NIMH
• Sophie's Choice
• Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
• Time Stands Still
• Tootsie
• Tron
• The Verdict
• Veronika Voss
• Victor/Victoria
• The World According to Garp
• Yol

[edit] Hit songs

• "867-5309 Jenny" - Tommy Tutone
• "Always On My Mind" - Willie Nelson
• "Believer" - Ozzy Osbourne
• "Body Language" - Queen
• "The Day Before You Came" - ABBA
• "Don't Talk To Strangers" - Rick Springfield
• "Electric Eye" - Judas Priest
• "Even the Nights are Better" - Air Supply
• "Eye In The Sky" - Alan Parsons Project
• "Flying High Again" - Ozzy Osbourne
• "Freeze Frame" - J. Geils Band
• "Gloria" - Laura Branigan
• "Gypsy" - Fleetwood Mac
• "Head Over Heels" - ABBA
• "Heart Attack" - Olivia Newton-John
• "Heat Of The Moment" - Asia
• "Hold Me" - Fleetwood Mac
• "Hungry Like The Wolf" - Duran Duran
• "Hurts So Good" - John Cougar
• "I'm Afraid of Me" - Culture Club
• "Invisible Sun" - The Police
• "Love Will Turn You Around" - Kenny Rogers
• "Make A Move On Me" - Olivia Newton-John
• "The Message" - Grandmaster Flash
• "Open Arms" - Journey
• "Our Lips Are Sealed" - The Go-Gos
• "Over The Mountain" - Ozzy Osbourne
• "Planet Rock" - Afrika Bambaataa
• "Pressure" - Billy Joel
• "Quiero Ser" - Menudo
• "Rock The Casbah" - The Clash
• "Rosanna" - Toto
• "Shake It Up" - The Cars
• "Since You're Gone" - The Cars
• "Spirits In The Material World" - The Police
• "Still They Ride" - Journey
• "Sube A Mi Motora" - Menudo
• "Time (Clock of the Heart)" - Culture Club
• "TV Party" - Black Flag
• "Twilight Zone" - Golden Earring
• "Vacation" - The Go-Gos
• "Valley Girl" - Frank Zappa
• "We Got The Beat" - The Go-Gos
• "White Boy" - Culture Club
• "You Can't Hurry Love" - Phil Collins
• "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" - Melissa Manchester
• "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" - Judas Priest

[edit] New books

• Jumangi by Chris Van Allsburg

[edit] Nobel Prizes

• Nobel Prize in Physics - Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist
• Chemistry - Aaron Klug
• Medicine - Sune K Bergström, Bengt I Samuelsson, John R Vane
• Literature - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist and journalist
• Peace - Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles
• Economics - George Stigler