1982 Trivia

• (1/04) Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco closes due to storm
  
• (1/04) Bryant Gumbel co-hosts Today Show
  
• (1/07) Fame makes its debut on NBC
  
• (1/08) Federal Judge forces AT&T to break into smaller companies
  
• (1/13) Air Florida Boeing 737 took off during snowstorm, crashes into the 14th St Bridge in Washington, DC, falls into Potomac River, kills 78
  
• (2/01) Late Night With David Letterman appears on NBC
  
• (2/06) Centerfold by J. Geils Band hits #1 on charts
  
• (2/13) Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" is on the charts for 402nd week
  
• (2/16) Lee Majors (The Fall Guy) and Farrah Fawcett get divorced
  
• (2/25) Lawrence Welk show finally ends (miracles do happen)
  
• (2/28) AT&T looses \\$7 billion for fiscal year
  
• (3/05) Actor John Belushi found dead in hotel room after taking cocaine and heroin
  
• (3/20) I Love Rock 'n' Roll by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts goes #1 for 7 weeks
  
• (3/26) Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, DC opens
  
• (3/31) Rock band The Doobie Brothers separate
  
• (4/12) 3 CBS employees are shot and killed in New York City parking lot
  
• (4/19) Sally Ride will become the first female astronaut
  
• (4/26) Singer Rod Stewart is mugged and his \\$50,000 Porsche is stolen
  
• (4/27) John W. Hinckley goes on trial for attempted assassination of President Reagan
  
• (5/03) Hugh Beaumont (father on Leave it to Beaver) dies at 73
  
• (5/03) President Reagan begins making 5 minute radio broadcasts
  
• (5/07) IBM PC-DOS 1.1 is released
  
• (6/11) E.T. (Extra-Terrestrial) opens in theaters (highest grossing movie)
• (6/21) Prince William is born to Charles and Diana
  
• (6/21) John W. Hinckley found innocent by insanity
  
• (7/02) Larry Walters ties weather balloons to lawn chair and flies 16,000 feet
  
• (7/23) Vic Morrow and 2 children killed in helicopter crash filming Twilight Zone: The Movie
  
• (7/29) Andy Taylor of Duran Duran marries Tracy Wilson
  
• (8/12) Actor Henry Fonda dies at 77
  
• (8/29) Actress Ingrid Bergman dies at 67
  
• (9/01) Speedometer reading mandated to be maximum of 85
  
• (9/14) Princess Grace of Monaco (Grace Kelly) is killed in a car accident in Monte Carlo
  
• (9/15) USA Today newspapers start appearing
  
• (9/28) Extra Strength Tylenol laced with cynaide kills 7 in Chicago
  
• (10/01) Disney's Epcot center opens in Orlando, Florida
  
• (10/19) John Delorean (automaker) arrested on cocaine charges (later found innocent)
  
• (10/27) IBM makes new video ROM chips for EGA capable of 16 graphic colors
  
• (10/29) John Delorean indicted for drug trafficking (later acquitted)
  
• (11/07) Elizabeth Taylor has her 7th divorce (busy lady)
  
• (11/09) Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard retires
  
• (11/13) Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington, DC
  
• (12/02) At age 61, Barney Clark receives first artificial heart, and dies 112 days later
  
• (12/23) Jack Webb (Sgt. Joe Friday on Dragnet) dies at 62 from heart attack
  
• Michael Jackson's new album "Thriller" sells 20 million copies
  
• Coca-Cola buys Columbia Pictures for \\$750 million (pocket change)
  
• Reverend Sun Myung Moon marries 2,075 couples in Madison Square Gardens
  
• Britian and United States condemn Argentina for invading Falkland Islands
  
• Israel military invades Lebanon
  
• Intel invents the 16-bit 80286 processor, released with the IBM AT in 2 years
  
• Israel forces over 1,000 Palestinian soldiers from Beirut
  
• Soviet Union leader Leonid Brezhnev dies in Moscow at 78
  
• Japan invents a camera that doesn't use film and stores pictures electronically
  
• Kodak camera use film on a disk