Space Shuttle Columbia launches from the Kennedy Space Center on STS-5, the first operational mission of the Space Shuttle program. Date: November 11, 1982 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 11 📅 Events on this day in 1982 📅 On This Day (Today)
Colonel Saye Zerbo, president of the military government of Upper Volta, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Colonel Gabriel Yoryan Somé. Date: November 7, 1982 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 7 📅 Events on this day in 1982 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Salang Tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills 150–2000 people. Date: November 3, 1982 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 3 📅 Events on this day in 1982 📅 On This Day (Today)
Channel 4, the British free-to-air public broadcast television channel funded by its commercial activities, starts broadcasting. Date: November 2, 1982 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 2 📅 Events on this day in 1982 📅 On This Day (Today)
Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio; a Honda Accord is the first car produced there. Date: November 1, 1982 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 1 📅 Events on this day in 1982 📅…
The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. Date: October 28, 1982 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 28 📅 Events on this day in 1982 📅 On This Day (Today)
A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a religious cult in Arizona. The shootout leaves two cultists dead and dozens of cultists and police officers injured. Date: October 23, 1982 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 23 📅 Events on this day in 1982 📅 On This Day…
During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster. Date: October 20, 1982 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 20 📅 Events on this day in 1982 📅 On This Day (Today)
U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a war on drugs. Date: October 14, 1982 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 14 📅 Events on this day in 1982 📅 On This Day (Today)
Poland bans Solidarity and all other trade unions. Date: October 8, 1982 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 8 📅 Events on this day in 1982 📅 On This Day (Today)