Soviet Venera 14 Lands on Venus March 5, 1982

NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3. Date: March 22, 1982 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 22 📅 Events on this day in 1982 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1982China Adopts Current Constitution December 4, 1982Yuri Andropov Becomes…

Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War. Date: May 4, 1982 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 4 📅 Events on this day in 1982 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1982Israel Completes Sinai…

Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim to be avenging the massacre of 1+1⁄2 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian genocide. Date: August 27, 1982 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 27 📅 Events on this day in 1982…

Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England. Date: June 18, 1982 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 18 📅 Events on this day in 1982 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1982Senior Road Tower Collapse Kills Five Workers, Injures Three – December…

In Texas, Charles Brooks Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States. Date: December 7, 1982 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 7 📅 Events on this day in 1982 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1982Bluff Cove Air Attacks Kill 56…