* 1982 – Estonian Communist Party bureau declares " fight against bourgeois TV "— meaning Finnish TV — a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR

* 1918 – Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president ( d. 1982 )

* 1937 – Peter Maivia, Samoan wrestler ( d. 1982 )

* 1982 – Alana Austin, American actress

* 1982 – Sofia Boutella, Algerian-French dancer and actress

* 1982 – Michael Guy Chislett, Australian-American guitarist ( The Academy Is ... and Hillsong United )

* 1982 – Herculez Gomez, American soccer player

* 1982 – Ilan Hall, American chef

* 1982 – Bret Harrison, American actor

* 1982 – Travis Moen, Canadian hockey player

* 1982 – Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Spanish actor

* 1982 – Deen, Bosnian singer

* 1982 – Bijon Setu massacre

* 1982 – Lloyd Banks, American rapper ( G-Unit )

* 1982 – Kirsten Dunst, American actress

* 1982 – Cleo Higgins, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress ( Cleopatra )

* 1982 – Drew Seeley, Canadian singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor

* 1982 – Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital.

* 1982 – Damien Monier, French cyclist

* 1908 – Will Lee, American actor ( d. 1982 )

* 1982 – Adrianne Curry, American model, actress, and producer

* 1982 – Karl Davies, English actor

* 1982 – Romola Garai, English actress and model

* 1982 – Danny Lopes, American model and actor

* 1982 – Ryan Sypek, American actor

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* Nimrod NRA / C2-Aston Martin ( 1982 – 1984 )

He defeated four Republican candidates for governor: Lowe ( 1978 ), White ( 1982 and 1986 ), and businessmen Woody Freeman of Jonesboro, ( 1984 ) and Sheffield Nelson of Little Rock ( 1990 ).

Situations can be swapping gender roles, as in Tootsie ( 1982 ); an age changing role, as in Big ( 1988 ); a freedom-loving individual fitting into a structured environment, as in Police Academy ( 1984 ); a rural backwoodsman in the big city, as in " Crocodile " Dundee, and so forth.

( 1982 ) and the Beverly Hills Cop series ( 1984 – 1993 ).

Citizen exhaustion due to the conflict's newfound intensity led to the election of president Belisario Betancur ( 1982 – 1986 ), a Conservative who won 47 % of the popular vote, directed peace feelers at all the insurgents, and negotiated a 1984 cease-fire with the FARC and M-19 after a 1982 release of many guerrillas imprisoned during the previous effort to overpower them.

Released with a catalog of 12 launch titles, with an additional ten games announced for 1982, approximately 145 titles in total were published as ROM cartridges for the system between 1982 and 1984.

The word " cyberspace " ( from cybernetics and space ) was coined by science fiction novelist and seminal cyberpunk author William Gibson in his 1982 story " Burning Chrome " and popularized by his 1984 novel Neuromancer.

Persons who had a notable career in France returned to Corsica to write in Corsican, such as the musical producers, Dumenicu Togniotti, director of the Teatru Paisanu, which produced polyphonic musicals, 1973 – 1982, followed in 1980 by Michel Raffaelli's Teatru di a Testa Mora, and Saveriu Valentini's Teatru Cupabbia in 1984.

In 1982, a radical liberalization of the law on cable was proposed by the Information Technology Advisory Panel, for the sake of promoting a new generation of broadband cable systems leading to the wired society After setting up and receiving the conclusions of the Hunt Inquiry into Cable Expansion and Broadcasting Policy, the Government decided to proceed with liberalization and two pieces of legislation: the Cable and Broadcasting Act and the Telecommunications Act, were enacted in 1984.

Ultimately, the name change campaign lasted for a three year period from 1982 to 1984 ( Datsun badged vehicles had been progressively fitted with small " Nissan " and " Datsun by Nissan " badges from the late 1970s onward ) until the Nissan name was given prominence in 1983-although in some export markets vehicles continued to wear both the Datsun and Nissan badges until 1986.

Key influences include Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force's " Planet Rock " ( 1982 ) and Shannon's " Let the Music Play ," the latter of which was a Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hit as early as 1984.

Botha, he held a succession of ministerial posts, including Posts and Telecommunications and Sports and Recreation ( 1978 – 1979 ), Mines, Energy and Environmental Planning ( 1979 – 1980 ), Mineral and Energy Affairs ( 1980 – 1982 ), Internal Affairs ( 1982 – 1985 ), and National Education and Planning ( 1984 – 1989 ).

8½ inspired among others: Mickey One ( Arthur Penn, 1965 ), Alex in Wonderland ( Paul Mazursky, 1970 ), Beware of a Holy Whore ( Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971 ), Day for Night ( François Truffaut, 1973 ), All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse, 1979 ), Stardust Memories ( Woody Allen, 1980 ), Sogni d ' oro ( Nanni Moretti, 1981 ), Parad Planet ( Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984 ), La Pelicula del rey ( Carlos Sorin, 1986 ), Living in Oblivion ( Tom DiCillo, 1995 ), 8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway, 1999 ), Falling Down ( Joel Schumacher, 1993 ), along with the successful Broadway musical, Nine ( Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, 1982 ).

The perceived threat to Iraq in the summer of 1982 thus was serious enough to force Saddam Hussein to request the Nonaligned Movement to change the venue of its scheduled September meeting from Baghdad to India ; nevertheless, since the fall of 1982, the ground conflict has generally been a stalemated war of attrition — although Iran made small but demoralizing territorial advances as a result of its massive offensives in the reed marshes north of Basra in 1984 and in 1985, in Al Faw Peninsula in early 1986, and in the outskirts of Basra during January and February 1987.

Direct funding of the Contras insurgency had been made illegal through the Boland Amendment, the name given to three U. S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984 aimed at limiting US government assistance to the Contras militants.

His novels were recognized as the best in science fiction in Poland in 1982 ( Limes inferior and in 1984 ( Paradyzja ).

Some major works composed during this period include Wavemaker ( 1977 ), Phrygian Gates for solo piano ( 1977 ), Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), Common Tones in Simple Time ( 1979 ), Harmonium ( 1980 – 81 ), Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ), Light Over Water ( 1983 ), Harmonielehre ( 1984 – 85 ), The Chairman Dances ( 1985 ), Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), and Nixon in China ( 1985 – 87 ).

Chernenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1976, in 1981 and in 1984 he was awarded Hero of the Socialist Labour: on the latter occasion, Minister of Defence Ustinov underlined his rule as an " outstanding political figure, a loyal and unwavering continuer of the cause of the great Lenin "; in 1981 he was awarded with the Bulgarian Order of Georgi Dimitrov and in 1982 he received the Lenin Prize for his " Human Rights in Soviet Society.

Originally conceived in 1982, this Japanese-American co-production had a long and tumultuous history which included a 1984 pilot by Ghibli director Yoshifumi Kondō.

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