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What Happened In May 1982 In History

Historical Events for May, 1982

  • 1st » Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.
  • 2nd » Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror S48 6 sinks the Argentina Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano ARA 'General Belgrano'.
  • 4th » Twenty sailors are killed when the United Kingdom British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield D80 6 is hit by an Argentina Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
  • 12th » During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan María Fernández y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spain named Spanish priest opposed to
  • 21st » Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos (1982) called Battle of San Carlos.
  • 24th » Liberation of Khorramshahr: Demography of Iran or Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
  • 25th » HMS Coventry (D118) or HMS 'Coventry' is sunk during the Falklands War.
  • 29th » Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
  • 29th » Falklands War: United Kingdom known as British forces defeat the Argentina called Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1982

  • 1st » Tommy Robredo, Spanish tennis player
  • 1st » Darijo Srna, Croatian footballer
  • 1st » Jamie Dornan, Irish actor and singer
  • 2nd » Lorie (singer) e.g Lorie, French singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
  • 2nd » Timothy Benjamin, Welsh sprinter
  • 2nd » Johan Botha (cricketer) called Johan Botha, South African cricketer
  • 3rd » Igor Olshansky, Ukrainian-American football player
  • 3rd » Nick Stavinoha, American baseball player
  • 4th » Kleopas Giannou, Greek footballer
  • 4th » Hector King, Mexican singer-songwriter
  • 4th » Markus Rogan, Austrian swimmer
  • 4th » Giorgos Tsiaras, Greek basketball player
  • 5th » Ferrie Bodde, Dutch footballer
  • 5th » Jay Bothroyd, English footballer
  • 5th » Randall Gay, American football player
  • 6th » Dilshod Nazarov, Tajikistani hammer thrower
  • 6th » Kyle Shewfelt, Canadian gymnast
  • 6th » Jason Witten, American football player
  • 7th » Ákos Buzsáky, Hungarian footballer
  • 8th » Buakaw Banchamek, Thai kick-boxer
  • 8th » Christina Cole, English actress
  • 8th » Adrian Gonzalez, American baseball player
  • 8th » Ninja Sarasalo, Finnish model and singer
  • 9th » Rachel Boston, American actress
  • 9th » Beatriz Pascual, Spanish race walker
  • 9th » Gu Yuan, Chinese hammer thrower
  • 10th » Jeremy Gable, English-American playwright
  • 10th » Daniel Harris (footballer) called Daniel Harris, Australian footballer
  • 11th » Jonathan Jackson (actor) named Jonathan Jackson, American actor, singer, and guitarist (Enation (band) e.g Enation)
  • 11th » Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer (d. 2013)
  • 11th » Andrew Walter, American football player
  • 12th » David Thaxton, Welsh actor and singer
  • 13th » Albert Crusat, Spanish footballer
  • 13th » Yoko Kumada, Japanese model and singer
  • 13th » Oguchi Onyewu, American soccer player
  • 14th » Beardyman, English singer
  • 14th » Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
  • 14th » Stanimir Todorov, Bulgarian figure skater
  • 15th » Alexandra Breckenridge, American actress
  • 15th » Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican sprinter
  • 15th » Segundo Castillo, Ecuadorian footballer
  • 15th » Bradford Cox, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Deerhunter)
  • 15th » Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor
  • 15th » Jessica Sutta, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (The Pussycat Dolls)
  • 16th » Billy Crawford, Filipino-American singer-songwriter and actor
  • 16th » Ju Ji-hoon, South Korean actor
  • 16th » Łukasz Kubot, Polish tennis player
  • 16th » Hanna Mariën, Belgian sprinter
  • 17th » Matt Cassel, American football player
  • 17th » Reiko Nakamura, Japanese swimmer
  • 17th » Tony Parker, French-American basketball player
  • 17th » Chloe Smith, English politician
  • 18th » Jason Brown (footballer) known as Jason Brown, English footballer
  • 18th » Marie-Ève Pelletier, Canadian tennis player
  • 19th » Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer
  • 19th » Pål Steffen Andresen, Norwegian footballer
  • 19th » Alexandru Găvan, Romanian mountaineer
  • 19th » Rebecca Hall, English actress
  • 19th » Klaas Vantornout, Belgian cyclist
  • 20th » Jack Anthony (musician) or Jack Anthony, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 20th » Candace Bailey, American actress
  • 20th » Sierra Boggess, American actress and singer
  • 20th » Petr Čech, Czech footballer
  • 20th » Imran Farhat, Pakistani cricketer
  • 20th » Natalia Podolskaya, Belarusian singer
  • 20th » Daniel Ribeiro, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 20th » Aleksei Saks, Estonian figure skater
  • 21st » Brian Klemm, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Suburban Legends and Big D and the Kids Table)
  • 22nd » Erin McNaught, Australian model and actress, Miss Australia named Miss Australia 2006
  • 22nd » Fred Murray, Irish footballer
  • 22nd » Apolo Ohno, American speed skater
  • 22nd » Tom Scudamore, English jockey
  • 22nd » Hong Yong-Jo, North Korean footballer
  • 23rd » Cyrill Gloor, Swiss footballer
  • 23rd » Malene Mortensen, Danish singer
  • 23rd » Tristan Prettyman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 24th » Issah Gabriel Ahmed, Ghanaian footballer
  • 24th » DaMarcus Beasley, American soccer player
  • 24th » Rian Wallace, American football player
  • 25th » Adam Boyd, English footballer
  • 25th » Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer
  • 25th » Ryan Gallant, American skateboarder
  • 25th » Roger Guerreiro, Polish footballer
  • 25th » Ezekiel Kemboi, Kenyan runner
  • 25th » Jason Kubel, American baseball player
  • 25th » Stacey Pensgen, American figure skater and meteorologist
  • 25th » Luke Webster, Australian footballer
  • 26th » Monique Alexander, American porn actress and model
  • 26th » Sten Lassmann, Estonian pianist
  • 26th » Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model
  • 26th » David Reed (comedian) known as David Reed, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
  • 27th » Natalya (wrestler) known as Natalya, Canadian-American wrestler
  • 27th » Michael de Grussa, Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (The Kill Devil Hills)
  • 28th » Alexa Davalos, French-American actress
  • 28th » Desiree del Valle, Filipino actress
  • 28th » Jhonny Peralta, Dominican-American baseball player
  • 29th » Ailyn, Spanish singer (Sirenia (band) e.g Sirenia)
  • 29th » Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
  • 29th » Joanne Borgella, American singer and model
  • 29th » Anita Briem, Icelandic actress
  • 29th » Nataliya Dobrynska, Ukrainian heptathlete
  • 29th » Matt Macri, American baseball player
  • 29th » Kim Tae-kyun, South Korean baseball player
  • 30th » Eddie Griffin (basketball) known as Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (d. 2007)
  • 30th » James Simpson-Daniel, English rugby player
  • 31st » Jonathan Tucker, American actor

Famous Deaths for May 1982

  • 1st » William Primrose, Scottish viola player and educator (b. 1903)
  • 8th » Neil Bogart, American record producer, co-founded Casablanca Records (b. 1943)
  • 8th » Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (b. 1950)
  • 10th » Peter Weiss, German painter (b. 1916)
  • 14th » Hugh Beaumont, American actor and director (b. 1909)
  • 15th » Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b. 1946)
  • 25th » Larry J. Blake, American actor (b. 1918)
  • 28th » H. Jones, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1940)
  • 29th » Romy Schneider, Austrian-French actress (b. 1938)
  • 31st » Carlo Mauri, Italian mountaineer and explorer (b. 1930)

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