| January 1 | 30 Something stars Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig meet, later they marry |
| January 1 | Clemson wins the Orange Bowl for college football championship |
| January 1 | Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes Secretary-General of UN |
| January 1 | Metropolitan Transportation Authority launches a 5 year plan to upgrade the New York City subway system |
| January 1 | Pope John Paul II prays for an end to martial law in Poland |
| January 1 | TA launches 5 year capital program to overhaul New York City subway system |
| January 2 | 70th Australian Mens Tennis: Johan Kriek beats S Denton (62 76 67 64) |
| January 2 | "Camelot" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| January 2 | Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins |
| January 2 | San Diego Chargers beat Miami Dolphins, 41-38 in 13:52 of OT |
| January 4 | ABC Direction Network (57 affiliates) and ABC Rock Network (40 affiliates) become the 5th and 6th ABC radio network |
| January 4 | Bryant Gumbel became co-host of NBC's "Today Show" |
| January 4 | Chris Wallace becomes co-anchor of the Today Show |
| January 4 | Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm |
| January 5 | Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation |
| January 7 | "Fame" premieres on NBC TV |
| January 7 | Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick |
| January 8 | AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies |
| January 8 | Johnny Cash Parkway opens in Hendersonville Tennessee |
| January 8 | Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM |
| January 9 | 5.9 earthquake in New England and Canada; 1st since 1855 |
| January 9 | Steve D'Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 sec in Mass HS game |
| January 10 | -17 degrees F (27.2 degrees C) in Braemar Grampian (equals U.K. record) |
| January 10 | Bengals beat Chargers in -59 degrees F (-51 degrees C) to win AFC championship |
| January 10 | Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 m freestyle (15:43.31) |
| January 11 | Atlanta Ga's temperature goes below zero F |
| January 11 | Honduras adopts constitution |
| January 13 | Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into 14th St. Bridge in Washington, D.C., and falls into Potomac River, killing 78 |
| January 13 | Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame |
| January 15 | "Forbidden Broadway" by/with Gerard Alessandrini premieres in New York City |
| January 19 | Aust-WI one-day game that produced a Privy Council libel case |
| January 19 | Heater explodes at Star Elementary School-Okla, kills 6 kids and teacher |
| January 20 | 7 miners killed in an explosion in Craynor, Kentucky |
| January 20 | Honduras constitution goes into effect |
| January 20 | Piet Dankert elected chairman of European Parliament |
| January 21 | "Little Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 36 performances |
| January 21 | New York Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak |
| January 22 | 75% of North America is covered by snow |
| January 23 | Urbe Blanca (cow) produces record 110 kg of milk, Cuba (approx date) |
| January 23 | World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2 |
| January 24 | Superbowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, quarterback |
| January 24 | Superbowl XVI: San Francisco 49ers beat Cincinnati Bengals, 26-21 in Pontiac, Michigan |
| January 25 | 9th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers win |
| January 26 | Islanders score 4 goals within 1:38, 5 within 2:37 vs Penguins |
| January 26 | Mauno Koivisto elected president of Finland |
| January 27 | "Joseph and the Amazing Dreamcoat" opens at Royale New York City for 747 performances |
| January 27 | Mauno Koivisto installed as president of Finland |
| January 27 | Philadelphia trades Larry Bowa and Ryne Sandberg to Cubs for Ivan DeJesus |
| January 27 | Roberto S. Cordova installed as president of Honduras |
| January 27 | West Indies beat Australia 3-1 to win World Series Cup |
| January 28 | U.S. General Dozier freed from Red Brigade of Padua Italy |
| January 28 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| January 29 | Old Dominion ends La Tech's women's basketball rec 54-game win streak |
| January 29 | Wayne Garland, baseball 1st millionaire free agent, waived by Indians |
| January 30 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners |
| January 31 | 10 Arabian oryx, extinct except in zoos, released in Oman |
| January 31 | 12th AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 16-13 |
| January 31 | 32nd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 120-118 at New Jersey |
| January 31 | Gustafson skates world record 10 km (14:26.59) |
| January 31 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek |
| January 31 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 16-13 |
| January 31 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton |
| February 1 | "Late Night With David Letterman," debuts on NBC-TV |
| February 1 | Senegal and Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia) |
| February 2 | Government troops and Moslem-fundamentalists battle in Hamah Syria |
| February 2 | "Late Night with David Letterman" premieres on NBC |
| February 2 | San Diego beats Miami 41-38 in OT after blowing a 24-0 lead |
| February 3 | Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission |
| February 3 | Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, U.S.S.R. |
| February 3 | John Sharples of England finishes disco dancing 371 hours |
| February 4 | Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47m) Tacoma Wash |
| February 4 | Musical "Pump Boys and Dinettes," premieres in New York City |
| February 4 | "Pump Boys and Dinettes" opens at Princess Theater New York City for 573 performances |
| February 4 | Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees |
| February 5 | DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people |
| February 5 | Laker Airways collapse owing 270M pounds ($351M) |
| February 5 | Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns and flees to Netherlands |
| February 6 | "Centerfold" by J Geils Band hit #1 on pop chart |
| February 7 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| February 7 | Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica |
| February 8 | Dodgers trade Davey Lopes to A's breaking up the longest-playing infield (Cey-Russell-Lopes-Garvey) |
| February 9 | 34th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-2 at Washington |
| February 10 | 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Quebec |
| February 11 | Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through |
| February 12 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 12 | Wayne Gretzky scores 153rd point of season, tieing NHL record |
| February 13 | Dark Side of the Moon, is on charts for 402nd week |
| February 13 | Islander's Bryan Trottier scores 5 goals against Flyers |
| February 14 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
| February 14 | "Night of 100 Stars" takes place at New York's Radio City Music Hall |
| February 15 | Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw |
| February 15 | Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die |
| February 16 | Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta |
| February 16 | Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad |
| February 16 | Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce |
| February 17 | Commencement of Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket match, vs. England |
| February 19 | Hanneke Jelgersma installed as Netherlands 1st Communist mayor |
| February 19 | Sharie Langford, California, sets women's bowling series record of 853 |
| February 19 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| February 20 | New York Islanders wins then NHL record 15th straight game |
| February 21 | "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 1604 performances |
| February 21 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic |
| February 21 | "Little Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 36 performances |
| February 22 | New York City Mayor Koch announces he will run for New York governor (unsuccessful) |
| February 23 | Michael Frayn's "Noises Off," premieres in London |
| February 24 | 24th Grammy Awards: Betty Davis Eyes, Double Fantasy wins |
| February 24 | Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92 |
| February 25 | Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs |
| February 25 | Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph) |
| February 26 | Test Cricket debut of Martin Crowe, vs. Australia Wellington, run out 9 |
| February 27 | Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw |
| February 27 | Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million |
| February 27 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| February 27 | Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta |
| February 28 | AT and T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day |
| February 28 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic |
| February 28 | FALN (Puerto Rico Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street |
| March 1 | 5 dies as ski lift malfunctions a Luz-Ardiden in Pyrenees |
| March 1 | 5th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| March 1 | New York Times raises it's price from 25 cents to 30 cents |
| March 1 | Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data |
| March 2 | 60th hat trick in Islander history - Bryan Trottier |
| March 2 | Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru |
| March 3 | Senate begins debate on expulsion of Senator Harrison Williams D-New Jersey |
| March 4 | 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy and D Potvin |
| March 4 | NASA launches Intelsat V |
| March 5 | Gaylord Perry (with 297 wins) signs with Seattle Mariners |
| March 5 | Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands and sends back data from Venus |
| March 6 | NBA highest scoring game: San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 (3 OT) |
| March 6 | Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB) |
| March 7 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf Classic |
| March 7 | Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 m indoor (49.59 sec) |
| March 7 | NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time |
| March 10 | President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya |
| March 10 | Salim Malik scores 100 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket debut (v SL) |
| March 10 | Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun |
| March 10 | Travis Jackson and Happy Chandler elected to Hall of Fame |
| March 11 | Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname |
| March 11 | Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington D.C. |
| March 12 | 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica vs. Leeward Islands |
| March 12 | PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline" |
| March 13 | Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship |
| March 13 | Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Torvill and Dean (GRB) |
| March 13 | Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess and Thierbach (GDR) |
| March 13 | Men's Figure Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA) |
| March 13 | Worlds Ladies Fig Skate Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA) |
| March 14 | Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic |
| March 14 | Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century |
| March 15 | Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan |
| March 15 | KGB-AM in San Diego, California changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP) |
| March 15 | Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days |
| March 17 | 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador |
| March 18 | Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident |
| March 19 | National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27 |
| March 20 | 1st-class debut of Richie Richardson, Leeward Is vs. Barbados |
| March 20 | France performs nuclear test |
| March 20 | Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" goes #1 for 7 wks |
| March 20 | Reverend A Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa |
| March 21 | Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard |
| March 21 | "Little Johnny Jones" opens and closes at Alvin Theater New York City |
| March 21 | Movie "Annie" premieres |
| March 21 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
| March 22 | 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched |
| March 22 | Iran offensive against Iraq |
| March 23 | Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees |
| March 23 | Isle's Mike Bossy's 20th career hat trick-4 goals |
| March 24 | U.S. submarine Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia |
| March 25 | Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season |
| March 26 | Ground-breaking in Washington, D.C. for Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
| March 26 | Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder release "Ebony and Ivory" in the U.K. |
| March 26 | Soap opera "Capitol" premieres |
| March 27 | "Best Little Whorehouse..." closes at 46th St. New York City after 1577 performances |
| March 27 | Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match vs. Sri Lanka at Lahore |
| March 27 | Randy Holt sets Washington Capitals record of 34 penalty minutes |
| March 28 | 12th Easter Seal Telethon raises $19,500,000 |
| March 28 | 1st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: LA Tech beats Cheney 76-62 |
| March 28 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| March 28 | JN Duartes christian-democrats win elections in El Salvador |
| March 29 | 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Mommie Dearest wins |
| March 29 | 44th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Georgetown 63-62 |
| March 29 | 54th Academy Awards - "Chariots of Fire," Henry Fonda and K Hepburn win |
| March 29 | Delhi 707 beat Karnataka 705 on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy |
| March 30 | 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands, NM |
| March 30 | John Pielmeier's "Agnes of God," premieres in New York City |
| March 31 | Arkas tanker at Montz La, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil |
| March 31 | Rock group Doobie Brothers split up |
| April 1 | Anguilla, dependent territory of U.K., adopts constitution |
| April 1 | U.S. formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama |
| April 2 | Argentina seizes Malvinas, also known as the Falkland Islands |
| April 2 | In exhibition game A's pitcher Steve McCatty comes to bat using a 15" toy bat (under Billy Martins orders), protesting disallowing of DH |
| April 3 | Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point |
| April 3 | U.N. Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands |
| April 4 | 11th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sally Little |
| April 5 | British fleet sails to Falkland Islands |
| April 5 | Cards' Jim Kaat, pitches in record 24th consecutive season |
| April 5 | Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war |
| April 6 | Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands |
| April 6 | Largest crowd ever to see a baseball game in Minnesota 52,279 |
| April 7 | Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested |
| April 7 | Penguins 1-Isles 8-Preliminary-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
| April 8 | Penguins 2-Isles 4-Preliminary-Isles hold 2-0 lead |
| April 8 | Tracy Caulkins, 19, wins her 36th U.S. swimming title |
| April 9 | Los Angeles Lakers block 21 Denver shots setting NBA regulation game record |
| April 10 | Los Angeles Kings losing 5-0 to Edmonton in 3rd period, win in OT 6-5 |
| April 10 | Penguins 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Preliminary- Isles hold 2-1 lead |
| April 11 | 46th Golf Masters Championship: Craig Stadler wins, shooting a 284 |
| April 11 | Penguins 5-Isles 2-Preliminary-Series tied at 2-2 |
| April 12 | 3 CBS employees shot to death in New York City parking lot |
| April 13 | Penguins 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Preliminary-Isles win series (3-2) |
| April 15 | Apollo Computer announces DN400, DN420, and landscape display |
| April 16 | Queen Elizabeth proclaims Canada's new constitution |
| April 17 | Canada adopts its constitution |
| April 17 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 18 | Atlanta Braves win record 11th straight opening game (beat Astros) |
| April 18 | Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act |
| April 18 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International |
| April 18 | Zimbabwe capital Salisbury renamed Harare |
| April 19 | 11th Boston Women's Marathon won by Charlotte Teske of Germany in 2:29:33 |
| April 19 | 86th Boston Marathon won by Alberto Salazar of Oreg in 2:08:51 |
| April 19 | Guinon Bluford announced as 1st black astronaut |
| April 19 | Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery |
| April 19 | Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut |
| April 19 | U.S.S.R. Salyut 7 space station put into orbit |
| April 20 | Atlanta Braves become 1st team to win 1st 12 games of the season |
| April 21 | Atlanta Braves win their 13th straight game |
| April 21 | Dr. Michael E. Bakey performs 1st successful heart implant |
| April 21 | Dutch Queen Beatrice addresses U.S. Congress |
| April 22 | Atlanta Braves lose after winning 1st 13 games of season |
| April 22 | Launch of STS-3-Lousma and Fullerton |
| April 24 | 150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany |
| April 24 | Cards win 12th game in a row; 7-4 over Phillies |
| April 24 | Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Durbin |
| April 25 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 25 | In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawal |
| April 25 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Orlando Lady Golf Classic |
| April 25 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| April 25 | Yankees fire manager Bob Lemon and replaces him with Gene Michael |
| April 26 | Argentina surrenders to Britain on S Georgia near Falkland Island |
| April 26 | CBS radio begins youth oriented broadcast Radio Radio |
| April 26 | Gene Michael becomes New York Yankee manager for 2nd time |
| April 26 | Rod Stewart is mugged, gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche |
| April 27 | Nordiques 1-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
| April 27 | Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. attempted assassin of Reagan, begins |
| April 29 | 17th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, Barbara Mandrell |
| April 29 | Alfredo Magana elected President of El Salvador |
| April 29 | Nordiques 2-Isles 5-Semifinals-Isles hold 2-0 lead |
| April 30 | Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as President of El Salvador |
| April 30 | Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season |
| April 30 | Iranian offensive in Khusistan |
| May 1 | 108th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Gato Del Sol wins in 2:02.4 |
| May 1 | 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee opens |
| May 1 | Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT)-semifinals-Isles hold 3-0 lead |
| May 2 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
| May 2 | Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men |
| May 3 | ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations) |
| May 3 | New York Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget |
| May 3 | President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts |
| May 4 | British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket |
| May 4 | Nordiques 2-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles win series 4-0 |
| May 4 | Twins rookie outfielder Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, removes himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans |
| May 6 | Seattle Mariner Gaylord Perry becomes 15th pitcher to win 300 games |
| May 7 | Federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing |
| May 7 | IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1 |
| May 7 | "Is There Life after High School?" opens at Barrymore New York City for 12 performances |
| May 7 | Oakland Raiders to move to Los Angeles |
| May 7 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 8 | Canucks 5-Isles 6 (OT)-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
| May 9 | "9" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 739 performances |
| May 9 | Arthur Kopit's musical "Nine," premieres in New York City |
| May 9 | Sally Little wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| May 10 | WABC joins ABC's All Talk radio network |
| May 10 | WABC New York City plays its last record, John Lennon's Imagine |
| May 11 | Canucks 4-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead |
| May 12 | FC Barcelona wins 22nd Europe Cup II |
| May 12 | In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior to his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II |
| May 12 | Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike for 'Rabbit is Rich' |
| May 12 | U.S. Football League forms |
| May 13 | Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy |
| May 13 | Canucks 0-Isles 3-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead |
| May 13 | Chicago Cubs win their 8,000th (beat Astros) |
| May 13 | Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi and Lebedev for 211 days in space |
| May 13 | Terri Lea Utley, 20, (Arkansas), crowned 31st Miss USA |
| May 14 | Guinea adopts constitution |
| May 15 | 108th Preakness: Jack Kaenel aboard Aloma's Ruler wins in 1:55.4 |
| May 16 | "Barnum" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 854 performances |
| May 16 | Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation for STS-4 |
| May 16 | "Is There Life after High School?" closes at Barrymore after 12 performances |
| May 16 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament |
| May 16 | Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep |
| May 16 | Stanley Cup: New York Islanders sweep Vancouver Canucks in 4 games |
| May 18 | Tigers outfielder Larry Herndon is 14th to hit 4 consecutive home runs |
| May 18 | Unification Church founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion |
| May 19 | IFK Goteborg wins 11th UEFA Cup at Goteborg |
| May 19 | Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion |
| May 21 | British troops lands on Falkland Islands |
| May 23 | BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina |
| May 23 | Cathy Morse wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic |
| May 23 | Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles |
| May 23 | Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders divine |
| May 25 | Ferguson Jenkins becomes 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters |
| May 25 | Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar |
| May 25 | STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad |
| May 26 | Aston Villa wins 27th Europe Cup 1 of Rotterdam |
| May 26 | British ship Atlantic Conveyor and Coventry were hit in Falkland war |
| May 27 | "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." opens at Alvin New York City for 5 performances |
| May 27 | John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies and gets approval to move to NJ |
| May 28 | Leonard Maltin's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight |
| May 28 | Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain |
| May 29 | "I Know What Boys Like," by The Waitresses hits #62 |
| May 29 | Pentagon plans 1st strategy to fight a nuclear war |
| May 30 | Closest Indy 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds |
| May 30 | "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." closes at Alvin New York City after 5 perf |
| May 30 | Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| May 30 | Spain becomes 16th member of NATO |
| May 31 | "Best Little Whorehouse in Tx" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City for 63 perf |
| June 1 | Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year |
| June 2 | "Blues in the Night" opens at Rialto Theater New York City for 53 performances |
| June 3 | 55th National Spelling Bee: Molly Dieveney wins spelling psoriasis |
| June 3 | Israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov seriously wounded by Palestinians |
| June 4 | Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon |
| June 4 | "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," released in USA |
| June 5 | 114th Belmont: Laffit Pincay, Jr. aboard Conquistador Cielo wins in 2:28 |
| June 5 | 52nd French Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Andrea Jaeger, 76 61 |
| June 5 | "Murphy's Law" by Cheri hits #39 |
| June 5 | Waterfront streetcar begins operating in Seattle |
| June 6 | 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO |
| June 6 | 36th Tony Awards: Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and Nine win |
| June 6 | 52nd French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats G Vilas (16 76 60 64) |
| June 6 | Bernard Glassman, installed as abbot of Zen Center of NY |
| June 6 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA McDonald 's Golf Classic |
| June 7 | 16th Music City News Country Awards: Barbara Mandrell |
| June 7 | Habres rebel army occupies capital of Chad, N'djamena |
| June 7 | Los Angeles Dodger Steve Garvey is 5th to play in 1,000 consecutive games |
| June 7 | New York Mets draft Dwight Gooden, Roger McDowell and Randy Myers |
| June 7 | President Reagan meets Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth |
| June 7 | Steve Garvey plays in his 1,000th consecutive game and goes 0-for-4 |
| June 8 | 36th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 2 |
| June 8 | Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die |
| June 8 | Emmy 9th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 3rd time |
| June 8 | Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament |
| June 9 | General Efrain Rios Montt declares himself president of Guatemala |
| June 9 | Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley |
| June 10 | Battle of Sultan Yakoub - 3 IDF members captured |
| June 10 | Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut |
| June 10 | John N McMahon replaces Bobby R Inman becomes deputy director of CIA |
| June 10 | "Taxi," last airs on ABC, moves to NBC in the fall |
| June 11 | Israel and Syria stop fighting in Lebanon |
| June 11 | Larry Holmes TKOs Gerry Cooney in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
| June 11 | Movie "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" released (highest grossing film) |
| June 11 | Pope John Paul II visits Argentina |
| June 12 | 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park New York City |
| June 12 | Battle of Mount Longdon, Falkland Islands |
| June 12 | Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel perform in Rotterdam |
| June 13 | 28th LPGA Championship won by Jan Stephenson |
| June 13 | Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69 |
| June 14 | Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict |
| June 15 | Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat |
| June 15 | Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education |
| June 16 | Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners |
| June 17 | President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat |
| June 17 | President Reagan 1st United Nations General Assembly address, "evil empire" speech |
| June 18 | ABC's All Talk radio network expands to 22 stations |
| June 18 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote |
| June 20 | 82nd U.S. Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach GL California |
| June 20 | Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington |
| June 20 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| June 20 | Pete Rose is 5th to appear in 3,000 games (Cobb, Musial, Aaron, Yaz) |
| June 21 | John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity |
| June 21 | Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away" |
| June 21 | Washington D.C. jury finds John Hinckley, Jr. innocent by insanity |
| June 22 | Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes |
| June 22 | Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd hit, moves past Aaron into 2nd place |
| June 22 | Prince Chuck and Lady Di take Prince William home from hospital |
| June 22 | Susan Lea Hammett, of Miss, 18, crowned 25th America's Junior Miss |
| June 23 | -117 degrees F; All time low at South Pole |
| June 23 | "Cleavage" opens and closes at Playhouse Theater New York City |
| June 23 | Himmy, of Australia, weighs in at domestic cat record 20.7 kg (45 lb) |
| June 23 | Intelligence Identities Protection Act (Public Law 97-200) |
| June 23 | Mary Hart joins Entertainment Tonight |
| June 24 | Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat |
| June 24 | Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16) |
| June 24 | Soyuz T-6 Launch (U.S.S.R.) |
| June 24 | Supreme Court rules President can't be sued for actions in office |
| June 25 | Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Jr. resigns, replaced by George Schultz |
| June 26 | Carlos Lopes runs Europe record 10k (27:34.39) |
| June 26 | Marie Osmond marries Steve Craig |
| June 26 | U.S. vetos United Nations Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization forces |
| June 27 | "Dancin'" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 1,774 performances |
| June 27 | "Play Me a Country Song" opens and closes at Virginia Theater New York City |
| June 27 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
| June 27 | STS-4 Launch (Columbia) |
| June 28 | Prince Chuck and Lady Di name their baby "William" |
| June 29 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended |
| June 30 | Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification |
| June 30 | "Lena Horne: Lady, Music" closes at Nederlander New York City after 333 performances |
| June 30 | New Jersey NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting, runner-up names are Blades, Meadowlanders and Americans |
| June 30 | Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale |
| July 1 | 2,100 Unification church couples wed in New York City |
| July 1 | ABC national music radio network scheduled premiere (never happened) |
| July 1 | Cal Ripken's 1st game |
| July 1 | Challenger moves overland to Dryden |
| July 1 | General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina |
| July 1 | Kosmos 1383, 1st search and rescue satellite, launched |
| July 1 | Over 2000 Unification Church couples marry at New York MSG |
| July 1 | PEC Swells '82 soccer team forms in Swells |
| July 2 | Larry Walters using lawn chair and 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000' |
| July 2 | Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth |
| July 3 | 89th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (61 36 62) |
| July 4 | 10th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Sandra Haynie |
| July 4 | 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB |
| July 4 | 96th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Connors beats J McEnroe (36 63 67 76 64) |
| July 4 | Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico |
| July 4 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 4 | Yankees bat out of order against Indians in 1st inning |
| July 5 | Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas |
| July 5 | ICC Trophy record p/ship, 257 Schoonheim/Liffman, Hol vs. Malay |
| July 7 | David Moorcroft of U.K. sets record for 5000 m, 13:00.41 |
| July 7 | Steve Scott of U.S. runs mile in a record 3:47.69 |
| July 8 | "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| July 8 | Billy Martin records his 1,000th career win as a manager |
| July 9 | Botham scores 208 in 225 balls, England vs. India at The Oval |
| July 9 | Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster |
| July 9 | Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing 153 |
| July 10 | Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze |
| July 10 | Rangers Larry Parrish hits his 3rd grand slam of the week |
| July 10 | Samuel Morses "Gallery of the Louvre" sells for $3,250,000 |
| July 10 | Zimbabwe beats Bermuda by 5 wickets to win ICC Trophy |
| July 11 | 3rd U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Miller Barber |
| July 11 | "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| July 11 | Hollis Stacy wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic |
| July 11 | Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid |
| July 12 | Britain announces it is returning 593 Argentine POWs |
| July 13 | 53rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Olympic Stadium, Montreal |
| July 13 | All star MVP: Dave Conception (Cincinnati Reds) |
| July 13 | Train crash at Aalter Belgium, 5 killed |
| July 15 | Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas |
| July 15 | Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th sec of state by vote of 97-0 |
| July 16 | George P. Shultz sworn in as minister of Foreign affairs |
| July 16 | NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth |
| July 16 | Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud |
| July 18 | 111th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 284 at Royal Troon |
| July 18 | "Blues in the Night" closes at Rialto Theater New York City after 53 performances |
| July 18 | Sally Little wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
| July 19 | 1st annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot home run off Warren Spahn, AL beats NL 7-2 |
| July 19 | 1st Old Timer's All star classic - AL wins 7-2 in Washington D.C. |
| July 19 | Bolivian government resigns |
| July 19 | David S. Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon |
| July 20 | Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks |
| July 20 | IRA bomb attacks in London |
| July 20 | T Macauly and D Vosburghs musical "Windy City," premieres in London |
| July 21 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| July 22 | Academic Text Processing Service forms in Seattle |
| July 22 | Biggest mass wedding, Reverend Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in New York City |
| July 23 | FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo |
| July 23 | International Whaling Comn votes for total ban on coml whaling (starting 1985) |
| July 24 | "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" closes at E O'Neill New York City after 63 performances |
| July 24 | KHJ (LA) and KFRC (SF) become 2nd and 3rd stereo AM stations |
| July 25 | 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0) |
| July 25 | 37th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson |
| July 25 | France performs nuclear Test |
| July 26 | Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by U.S. Delta rocket |
| July 26 | Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, of Canada, crowned 31st Miss Universe |
| July 27 | California catches A's Rickey Henderson stealing 3 times |
| July 27 | Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 1st visit to U.S. in almost 11 years |
| July 27 | Menken and Ashman's musical "Little Shop of Horrors," premieres in New York City |
| July 29 | Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson |
| July 30 | Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats |
| July 30 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test |
| July 31 | 46 kids and 7 adults die as 2 buses and several cars collide in France |
| July 31 | Car/bus collision near Beaune, France, 53 die |
| July 31 | Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria and France form American European Football Federation (AEFF) |
| July 31 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test |
| August 1 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic |
| August 1 | Greg Louganis, U.S. becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives |
| August 1 | Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut |
| August 1 | Petra Schneider swims world record 400m medley (4:36.10) |
| August 2 | Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of the season |
| August 2 | Roger Ebert's Movie News premieres on ABC FM network |
| August 3 | Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as New York Yankee manager |
| August 4 | New York Met Joel Youngblood singles in Chicago day game, he is traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game |
| August 5 | Stephabue Hix, of Alabama, 18, crowned Miss National Teen-Ager |
| August 5 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 6 | 22nd Curtis Cup: U.S., 14 -3 |
| August 6 | California Doug DeCinces hits 3 home runs again in game |
| August 6 | WQXI, Atlanta, is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system |
| August 8 | 64th PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 272 at Southern Hills Tulsa |
| August 8 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| August 11 | Twins Terry Felton loses and runs career to 0-14 (en route to 0-16) |
| August 11 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 12 | Heavy Israeli bombardement of Beirut |
| August 14 | Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over Padres |
| August 14 | Iran "Ramadan-offensive" in Iraq |
| August 14 | Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron) |
| August 15 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic |
| August 15 | Equatorial Guinea adopts constitution |
| August 17 | Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18) |
| August 17 | South Bend, Indiana jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin |
| August 18 | Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, ends after 22 innings - before Los Angeles Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th) |
| August 18 | Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game started 8/17) |
| August 18 | NYSE sets trading record of 132,690,000 shares traded |
| August 18 | Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance |
| August 19 | Renaldo Nehemiah of U.S. sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec |
| August 19 | Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space |
| August 20 | Don Lever becomes 1st captain of New Jersey Devils |
| August 20 | U.S. Marines land in Beirut, Lebanon |
| August 21 | Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut |
| August 21 | Rollie Fingers (Brewers) becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300 |
| August 22 | General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence |
| August 22 | Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peace |
| August 22 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf |
| August 23 | Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president |
| August 23 | Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter |
| August 23 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| August 24 | KC's John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record |
| August 26 | NASA launches Telesat-F |
| August 27 | Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark |
| August 27 | Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth |
| August 28 | "Sugar Babies" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 1208 performances |
| August 28 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| August 29 | 38 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August |
| August 29 | George Brett gets his 1,500th hit |
| August 29 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
| August 29 | Steve Miller's "Abracadabra" hits #1 |
| August 30 | PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut |
| August 31 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| September 1 | Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls," premieres in London |
| September 1 | Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH |
| September 1 | Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks |
| September 1 | Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon |
| September 2 | Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down |
| September 3 | Jorgensen government in Denmark resigns |
| September 4 | Arson fire engulfs apt-hotel in LA, 25 die |
| September 4 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| September 5 | 82nd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel |
| September 5 | Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph |
| September 6 | Dutch Internal minister Mr. M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists |
| September 6 | Jerry Lewis' 17th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,400,000 |
| September 6 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| September 6 | Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War" |
| September 6 | Pittsburgh Pirates retire Willie Stargell's number |
| September 6 | Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland |
| September 8 | Dutch social dem party wins elections, fascist enters Dutch parliament |
| September 9 | Columbia mated with SRBs and external tank in preparation for STS-5 |
| September 9 | Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight |
| September 9 | "Your Arms are Too Short..." opens at Alvin New York City for 69 performances |
| September 10 | Decca releases Beatle audition "Complete Silver Beatles" album |
| September 11 | 96th U.S. Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats Hana Mandlikova (63 61) |
| September 11 | Chris Evert wins her 6th and final U.S. Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY |
| September 11 | Debbie Maffett (Calif), 25, crowned 55th Miss America 1983 |
| September 12 | 102nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 62 46 64) |
| September 12 | Gerard Nijboer (2:15:16) and Rosa Mota (2:36:04) win marathon |
| September 12 | Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic |
| September 13 | 50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain |
| September 13 | Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game |
| September 14 | 36" snow Red Lodge, Montana |
| September 14 | Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel |
| September 14 | Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7" |
| September 15 | 1st issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc |
| September 15 | Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut |
| September 15 | Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat |
| September 16 | Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila and Sabra begins |
| September 17 | New Jersey Devils 1st exhibition game, beating Caps 3-1 in Hershey Pa |
| September 18 | Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon |
| September 19 | 34th Emmy Awards: Hill St. Blue, Barney Miller, Alan Alda and Carol Kane |
| September 19 | New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chicago Bears 10-0 |
| September 19 | Sandra Haynie/Kathy McMullen wins Portland Ping Team Golf Championship |
| September 19 | Streetcars stop running on Market St. after 122 years of service |
| September 20 | Jalaluddin takes a one-day hat-trick Pakistan vs. Australia |
| September 20 | NFL players begin a 57 day strike |
| September 21 | 2,251 turn out to see Expos play New York Mets at Shea Stadium |
| September 21 | Devils beat Rangers 3-2 in exhibition; 1st hockey in Meadowlands (NJ) |
| September 21 | NFL players begin a 57 day strike |
| September 21 | STS-5 vehicle moves to launch pad |
| September 22 | Duleep Mendis completes twin cricket tons for Sri Lanka vs. India |
| September 22 | SF's cable cars made a final run before closing down for 20-month |
| September 23 | Amin Gemayel sworn in as president of Lebanon |
| September 23 | "Doll's Life" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| September 23 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 24 | Tennis great Bjorn Borg retires at 26 |
| September 24 | U.S., Italian and French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon |
| September 25 | Northwestern ends 34 football game losing streak, beats No Illinois 31-6 |
| September 25 | Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children) |
| September 25 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| September 26 | "Doll's Life" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| September 26 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| September 27 | Cards clinching NL East title |
| September 27 | Filming begins on "Never Say Never Again" |
| September 27 | Jan Wolkers awarded but refuses Constantine Huygens-prize |
| September 27 | John Palmer becomes news anchor of Today Show |
| September 28 | 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules |
| September 28 | NASA launches Intelsat V |
| September 29 | 1st broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV |
| September 29 | Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago |
| September 29 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 30 | National railroad strike in Belgium |
| October 1 | EPCOT Center opens in Orlando, Florida |
| October 1 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| October 1 | West Germany's Parliament ousts Helmut Schmidt for Helmut Kohl |
| October 2 | Bomb attack in Teheran, kills 60, injures 700 |
| October 3 | Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland) |
| October 3 | Milwaukee whips Baltimore 10-2 to win AL East championship |
| October 3 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
| October 3 | Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm |
| October 3 | Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours |
| October 4 | Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of West Germany |
| October 5 | 1st New Jersey Devils game, tie the Pitts Penguins 3-3 at the Meadowlands |
| October 5 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| October 5 | Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia |
| October 5 | Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, New Mexico |
| October 6 | Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals |
| October 6 | Fokker's Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk, Netherlands, 17-22 die |
| October 7 | "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 5000+ performances |
| October 7 | Olof Palme forms Swedish government |
| October 8 | New Jersey Devils 1st victory, beating New York Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands |
| October 8 | Poland bans Solidarity and all labor unions |
| October 9 | Attack on synagouge in Rome, 1 dead |
| October 10 | Brewers beat Angels in ALCS |
| October 10 | Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia |
| October 10 | Pope John Paul II canonizes Reverend M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint |
| October 10 | U.S. imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union |
| October 11 | 16th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson and Ricky Skagg |
| October 11 | English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England |
| October 11 | Riot in Amsterdam as tram catches fire |
| October 12 | 38.6 cm (15.2") of rainfall, Angoon Alaska (state record) |
| October 12 | Milwaukee Brewer Paul Molitor getrs world sereis record 5 hits |
| October 13 | IOC restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe |
| October 13 | New Jersey Devils 1st short handed goal-Don Lever |
| October 14 | 6,000 Unification church couples wed in Korea |
| October 14 | Islanders assessed 108 penality minutes Penguins 125 (233 total) |
| October 14 | New York Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins |
| October 14 | President Reagan proclaims war against drugs |
| October 16 | Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins |
| October 16 | Mount Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return |
| October 16 | Shultz warns U.S. will withdraw from United Nations if they vote to exclude Israel |
| October 16 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| October 17 | 1st live orchestra on commerical network since 1954 (National Symphony) |
| October 17 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| October 17 | Robin Yount is 1st to have 2 4-hit games in a World Series |
| October 17 | Sam Shepard's "True West" premieres in New York City |
| October 17 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 19 | Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty) |
| October 20 | Billy Martin fired as manager of Oakland A's |
| October 20 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler |
| October 20 | Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected |
| October 20 | St. Louis Cardinals beat Mil Brewers, 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series |
| October 22 | Gene Mauch resigns as manager of Angels |
| October 24 | 12th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:14 |
| October 24 | 13th New York City Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:29 |
| October 24 | "Rock 'n Roll!: The 1st..." opens at St. James Theater New York City for 9 performances |
| October 25 | David Hookes scores Cricket century in 34 balls 43 minutes, SA vs. Victoria |
| October 26 | Steve Carlton became 1st pitcher to win 4 Cy Young awards |
| October 26 | U.S. budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982 |
| October 27 | China announces its population at 1 billion people plus |
| October 27 | IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics |
| October 28 | NASA launches RCA-E |
| October 28 | Spain's socialists win/communists lose elections |
| October 29 | Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted |
| October 29 | Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release "Girl is Mine" |
| October 30 | Portugal revises constitution |
| October 31 | Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pontiff to visit Spain |
| October 31 | "Rock 'n Roll!: The 1st..." closes at St. James New York City after 9 performances |
| November 1 | Andrew "Dice" Clay and George Wendt appear in "Trick or Treatment" |
| November 1 | Major leagues vote not to renew Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's contract |
| November 2 | Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die |
| November 2 | Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament |
| November 3 | Detroit blocks 20 Cleveland Cav shots tying NBA regulation game record |
| November 3 | Pete Vuckovich becomes Milwaukee's 2nd consecutive AL Cy Young |
| November 4 | Ruud Lubbers becomes Dutch premier |
| November 5 | Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record) |
| November 5 | George Harrison releases "Gone Troppo" album |
| November 6 | Joe Altobelli succeeds Earl Weaver as Oriole manager |
| November 7 | Liz Taylor's 7th divorce (John Warner) |
| November 7 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| November 7 | Turkey adopts constitution |
| November 7 | "Your Arms are Too Short to Box" closes at Alvin New York City after 69 performances |
| November 9 | Brewers' Robin Yount wins AL MVP, unanimously |
| November 9 | Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time |
| November 10 | IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankrupcy |
| November 10 | Susan Cooper/Hume Cronyns "Foxfire," premieres in New York City |
| November 11 | 30th time Islanders shut-out-2-0 vs North Stars |
| November 11 | 5th space shuttle mission-Columbia 5-launched 1st coml flight |
| November 11 | Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters by Tyrus; kills 60 |
| November 11 | Joe Altobelli succeeds retiring Earl Weaver as Oriole manager |
| November 11 | Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is let out of jail in Poland |
| November 12 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 12 | U.S.S.R. KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as U.S.S.R. leader |
| November 12 | Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket vs. India, goes to 215 |
| November 13 | Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini |
| November 13 | Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington D.C. |
| November 14 | Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa freed |
| November 15 | Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev |
| November 16 | 5th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 5-lands at Edwards AFB |
| November 16 | Aggrement reached ending 57 day football strike |
| November 16 | Space Shuttle Columbia completes its 1st operational flight |
| November 16 | Tom Stoppard's "Real Thing," premieres in London |
| November 17 | Dale Murphy wins NL MVP |
| November 18 | Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic, crowned 32nd Miss World |
| November 20 | Drew Barrymore at age 7 hosts Saturday Night Live |
| November 22 | Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas |
| November 23 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB and mated for STS-6 |
| November 23 | FCC drops limits on duration and frequency of TV ads |
| November 23 | New York Islanders and Minnesota North Stars play to an 8-8 tie |
| November 24 | Orioles Cal Ripken is named AL Rookie of Year |
| November 24 | Yasuhiro Nakasone succeeds Zenko Suzuki as premier of Japan |
| November 26 | Clyde King named Yankee manager |
| November 26 | Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch |
| November 26 | Yasuhiro Nakasone elected Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki |
| November 27 | 5th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 3-0 |
| November 27 | Kepler Wessels scores century in 1st Test Cricket (162 vs. England) |
| November 28 | 70th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Toronto Argonauts, 32-16 |
| November 28 | 71st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Grenoble (4-1) |
| November 28 | "Pirates of Penzance" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 772 performances |
| November 29 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| November 30 | STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad |
| November 30 | U.S. submarine Thomas Edison collides with U.S. Navy destroyer in So China Sea |
| November 30 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| December 1 | Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart |
| December 1 | Michael Jackson releases 'Thriller' |
| December 1 | Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of Mexico |
| December 2 | 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (University of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart |
| December 3 | 1st New Jersey Devil hat-trick (Steve Tambellini) defeat Hartford 5-4 |
| December 3 | 35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork, Arkansas (state record) |
| December 3 | 77 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in December |
| December 3 | New Jersey Devils 1st hat trick (Steve Tambellini) |
| December 3 | Tommy Hearns wins WBC Welterweight title in decision over Benitez |
| December 4 | 48th Heisman Trophy Award: Herschel Walker, Georgia (RB) |
| December 4 | China adopts its constitution |
| December 4 | Police and racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp |
| December 5 | Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 33 pass completions |
| December 5 | Herschel Walker of Georgia wins Heisman Trophy |
| December 5 | Ingrid Berghmans (Netherlands) retains judo's world championship |
| December 5 | Mel Gray ends NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions |
| December 5 | Seattle Baptist Church declares sanctuary for Central American refugees |
| December 5 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 6 | 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland |
| December 6 | Bomb attack on Londonderry, North Ireland disco, 17 killed |
| December 6 | Senator Ted and Joan Kennedy divorce |
| December 7 | Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building |
| December 8 | Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot |
| December 8 | Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hours, police kill him he had no explosives |
| December 8 | "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" opens at Ambassador New York City for 6 performances |
| December 8 | Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents |
| December 9 | Mary-Beth and William Hurt divorce |
| December 10 | Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas |
| December 10 | Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off |
| December 12 | 57th Australian Womens Tennis: C Evert beats M Navratilova (63 26 63) |
| December 12 | $9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in New York City |
| December 12 | "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" closes at Ambassador New York City after 6 perf |
| December 12 | Joanne Carner/John Mahaffey wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| December 13 | 71st Australian Mens Tennis: Johan Kriek beats Steve Denton (63 63 62) |
| December 13 | Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die |
| December 14 | Marcel Dionne, LA, becomes 9th NHLer to score 500 goals |
| December 15 | Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of New York Giants |
| December 15 | Roy Williams, Teamsters president, and 4 others convicted of bribery |
| December 15 | Sao Tome and Principe constitution approved |
| December 15 | Spain reopens border with Gibraltar |
| December 16 | Tom Seaver agrees to new contract with Mets |
| December 18 | Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds |
| December 22 | William Mastrosimones "Extremities," premieres in New York City |
| December 24 | Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic |
| December 25 | Mudassar Nazar scores century, then Imran rips through Indians |
| December 26 | TIME's Man of the Year is a computer |
| December 26 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 27 | Imran Khan 8-60 to bring innings victory vs. India at Karachi |
| December 29 | Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica |
| December 29 | Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant ends his career with Alabama (323 wins) |
| December 30 | Anthony Shaffers "Whodunnit," premieres in New York City |
| December 30 | England defeat Australia by three runs at cricket MCG |
| December 30 | U.S. Assay Office in New York City, New York closes |
| December 31 | CBS Mystery Theater final episode on radio after 8 years |
| December 31 | NBC radio cancels almost all of its network daily features |
| December 31 | TV soap "Doctors" ends 19 year run |
