1982 @ Nostalgia Central

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03 - South Korea lifts its night time curfew after 36 years

13 - 78 people die when an Air Florida Boeing 737 crashes into the icy Potomac River, in sight of the White House

20 - Rock & roller Ozzy Osbourne is hospitalised after biting the head off a bat thrown at him during a concert

20 - A girl dies in Madrid after consuming contaminated cooking oil. Similar oil has previously caused the deaths of 250 people in Spain

26 - In his State of the Union address, President Reagan proposes turning over such federally funded social programs as welfare and food stamps to the individual states. He cites this as an example of "New Federalism"

26 - UK unemployment above three million for first time since the 1930s. Total unemployed is 3,070,621

30 - Bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins dies at the age of 69

31 - Israel agrees to a UN peacekeeping force in Sinai

02 - Chamberlains face trial in Australia over murder of their baby in desert

04 - Sensational Scottish rocker Alex Harvey dies

06 - Reagan's proposed budget for the upcoming year asks for huge cuts in domestic spending, but asks for an 18% increase in military spending

17 - Thelonius Monk dies

17 - In Zimbabwe, Joshua Nkom`o is dismissed from government after caches of arms are found on farms owned by him

23 - Greenland, a Danish territory with home rule, votes to leave the Common Market

25 - The Australian government announces that it is to buy the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible

01 - Venera 13 lands on Venus and collects Venusian soil data

03 - The Barbican Centre for Arts and Conferences is opened in the City of London

05 - John Belushi, of Blues Brothers, Animal House and Saturday Night Live fame, dies aged 33 of an accidental drug overdose

08 - XPT (Express Passenger Train) begins service in NSW, Australia

10 - The US imposes economic sanction on Libya, in response to the country's involvement with terrorist organisations like the PLO

11 - British government announces its intention to buy the US Trident 2 system to replace Polaris

19 - Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist and right-hand man Randy Rhoads dies in a light aircraft crash

23 - A group of army officers overthrow the government in Guatemala

24 - General H M Ershad seizes power in a military coup in Bangladesh

25 - President Ortega suspends the Nicaraguan constitution

29 - A bomb explodes on a train travelling from Paris to Toulouse, resulting in the deaths of five people and injuries to 10 others

02 - Falkland Islands invaded and occupied by Argentine forces

04 - British Royal Navy task force sets sail for Falkland Islands

07 - Britain declares a 200 mile war zone around the Falkland Islands

17 - The capital of Zimbabwe is renamed Harare (formerly Salisbury)

17 - A new Canadian constitution is proclaimed severing links with Britain

24 - British Marines recapture South Georgia in Falklands. There are no casualties

25 - Israel returns the Sinai Peninsular to Egypt after 15 years of occupation

30 - President Reagan pledges US support for Britain against Argentina as diplomatic moves fail

01 - British Task Force land in Falklands

02 - A British submarine torpedoes and severely damages the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano. Of the crew of 1042 there are 800 survivors

13 - Soviet cosmonauts Anatoli Berezovoi and Valentin Lebedev begin a duration record of 211 days aboard the Salyut 7 space station

19 - Sophia Loren jailed in Italy for tax evasion

21 - British troops land at Port San Carlos on the Falkland Islands

21 - The British frigate HMS Ardent is hit by Argentine rockets and sinks with the loss of 22 lives

24 - British frigate HMS Antelope sinks after being hit by a bomb during an Argentine air raid. Eight lives are lost

28 - Argentinean Diego Maradonna becomes the world's most expensive footballer when Spanish club Barcelona buy him for £5 million

29 - Pope John Paul II visits Britain

06 - After the Israeli ambassador to the UK is shot by Palestinian terrorists, Israel invades Lebanon

07 - Elvis Presley's 'Graceland' mansion opens its doors to the public

12 - New York peace march attracts 800,000

14 - Argentine forces surrender to British at Port Stanley, ending the Falkland Islands

16 - James Honeyman-Scott, guitarist with The Pretenders, dies of a drug overdose

17 - President Galtieri of Argentina is ousted after Falklands defeat. He is replaced by General Alfredo Saint Jean

21 - John W. Hinckley, Jr, is found not guilty (because of insanity) in shooting of President Reagan. Hinckley, who was obsessed with actress Jodie Foster, believed that he could impress her by killing the president

21 - Prince William Arthur Philip, first son of Charles and Diana (and heir to the throne of Britain), is born

23 - Vic Morrow and two children die when a helicopter crashes into them during the filming of the Twilight Zone movie

25 - Alexander Haig resigns as Secretary of State following disagreements with Reagan and his cabinet

29 - As Israeli troops encircle Beirut, prime minister Begin offers to allow the PLO to leave with their weapons

30 - Despite the extension granted by Congress in 1978, the Equal Rights Amendment fails to achieve ratification by its final deadline

01 - 2,075 couples wed in mass ceremony by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon at Madison Square Garden, New York

07 - Intruder Michael Fagan gets into Queen's bedroom at Buckingham Palace

11 - Italy wins soccer World Cup for third time, beating West Germany 3 - 1. Their last World Cup win was in 1938

14 - Iran launches first offensive into Iraq

16 - Rev. Sun Myung Moon is sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax fraud and obstructing justice

20 - IRA bombs explode in the Royal Parks in London

08 - Dalai Lama arrives in Australia

12 - Henry Fonda dies

13 - In Poland, clashes between police and demonstrators as thousands of workers march through Gdansk

20 - The US sends 800 Marines to Beirut, Lebanon, to oversee the withdrawal of the PLO from the city

21 - PLO begin to withdraw from Beirut following a US plan

28 - War breaks out in Beirut between the Muslim Druse militia and the Lebanese army

29 - Ingrid Bergman dies

10 - The European rocket Ariane crashes shortly after takeoff on its first operational mission

13 - Princess Grace of Monaco (formerly actress Grace Kelly) suffers a stroke and loses control of her car. The vehicle veers off the road and plunges into a ravine close to where she had filmed a car chase in To Catch A Thief more than a quarter of a century earlier.

14 - Princess Grace dies from injuries sustained in the previous day's car accident

15 - Israeli troops push into West Beirut

15 - The first issue of USA Today hits the newsstands

18 - Over 800 Palestinians die when Christian Phalangist militiamen enter the refugee camps of Sabra and Chatila in West Beirut

21 - US Professional football players strike in mid-season. The strike is the first of its kind in the history of the NFL and will last 57 days. The players association demands a share in television revenues

29 - Tylenol recalls 264,000 bottles of its pain-killer capsules after cyanide placed in the capsules caused seven deaths in Chicago. The killer is never caught but new "safety-sealed" packaging is introduced

01 - Helmut Kohl elected German Chancellor

05 - Queen opens Australian National Gallery in Canberra

11 - The hull of the Mary Rose, Henry VIII's flagship wrecked in the Solent in 1545, is raised to the surface

14 - Liberace's former chauffeur Scott Thorson files a $380 million palimony suit against the flamboyant entertainer. Most of his claims are eventually dismissed and he receives a settlement of $95,000

16 - Australian National Country Party becomes the National Party

19 - In a Los Angeles hotel room, independent carmaker John DeLorean is arrested by FBI agents for possession of a suitcase full of cocaine, which he had hoped to sell to raise money for his struggling company. He will be acquitted in 1984

28 - Socialist Felipe Gonzalez wins Spanish general elections

30 - Paul Weller announces The Jam are splitting up