11th » A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo e.g Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu known as Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.
12th » Mexico announces that it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spreads to all of Latin America and the Third World.
17th » The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany.
23rd » Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
29th » The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
31st » August 31, 1982 demonstrations in Poland named Anti-government demonstrations are held in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement.