* 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

**** Priscilla García y Wittig ( b. 1982, Marbella, Spain )

In 1982, Priscilla Rhoades, a journalist with the gay newspaper The Sentinel, wrote a feature story on " Lesbians for Lipstick ".

Originally marketed in 1982 with Linda Evans as its spokesperson, the company later had celebrities Raquel Welch and Priscilla Presley as spokeswomen.

* Priscilla Lopes-Schliep ( born 1982 ), Canadian track and field hurdler

Following the release of his first solo album Lone Rhino in 1982, Belew recorded a 1983 follow-up called Twang Bar King which once again featured Gaga as backing band ( now augmented by former Elvis Presley drummer Larry Londin ).

In 1982, three guys from Concepción, Álvaro Henríquez, Roberto Titae Lindl, and " Pancho " Molina started a band called Los Dick Stones, whose set list was based on songs by Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, and Gene Vincent.

* 1982 – Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.

* October 1, 1982: EPCOT Center opens to the public along with Spaceship Earth, Universe of Energy, World of Motion, Journey Into Imagination ( Magic Journeys and ImageWorks only ), The Land, CommuniCore, and nine of the eleven current World Showcase countries.

( 1982 ) Lettuce Lake Park opens on the river just north of Temple Terrace

* 1982: Pepsi IMAX theater opens, New entrance marquee

* 1982: First store opens in Wairau Park, Auckland.

Tony Conran's Poem ' Elegy for the Welsh Dead, in the Falklands Islands, 1982 ' opens with the line ' Men went to Catraeth ', using the original poem to comment on a contemporary conflict.

* 1982: Obayashi Corporation opens office in New York

In 1982 the Danilack Middle School opens on Leslie.

Graceland was officially opened to the public on June 7, 1982.

* 1982 – The first Compact Discs ( CDs ) are released to the public in Germany.

Chile pressed ahead with privatizations, including public utilities plus the re-privatization of companies that had returned to the government during the 1982 – 1983 crisis.

With what can crudely be summed up as a clash of ideologies between an expansion of ITV's commercial ethos and a public service approach more akin to the BBC, it was ultimately something of a compromise that eventually led to the formation of Channel 4 as launched in 1982.

" In 1982, the Compact Disc reached the public market in Asia, and early the following year in other markets.

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

A new advertising campaign was aired in time for the 1982 Christmas season, and the ECS itself was shown to the public at the January 1983 Consumer Electronic Show ( CES ) in Las Vegas.

MIDI's development was announced to the public by Robert Moog, in the October 1982 edition of Keyboard magazine.

It emerged during the campaign that what Lenihan had told friends and insiders in private flatly contradicted his public statements on a controversial effort in 1982 by the then opposition Fianna Fáil to pressure President Hillery into refusing a parliamentary dissolution to then Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald ; Hillery had resolutely rejected the pressure.

Depressed by the death of his wife Aliza in November 1982, he gradually withdrew from public life, until his resignation in October 1983.

The Public Relations Society of America ( PRSA ) defined public relations in 1982 as: " Public relations helps an organization and its publics adapt mutually to each other.

* Ralph C. Merkle, Secrecy, authentication, and public key systems ( Computer science ), UMI Research Press, 1982, ISBN 0-8357-1384-9.

The term " supply chain management " entered the public domain when Keith Oliver, a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, used it in an interview for the Financial Times in 1982.

The first action plan of the CEPT Group GSM, approved in December 1982, requested " The services and facilities offered in the public switched telephone networks and public data networks ... should be available in the mobile system ".

The Wrath of Khan had its first public screening at a science-fiction convention in Overland Park, Kansas on May 8, 1982, almost a month before general release.

Although the tribunals had been established in 1982, the law providing for the creation of a national public tribunal to hear and determine appeals from, and decisions of, regional public tribunals was not passed until August 1984.

After retiring from his show and from the road in 1982, Welk continued to air reruns of his shows, which were repackaged first for syndication and, starting in 1986, for public television.

The film has been released on video in its entirety in various European, Latin American, and Asian countries — in the UK it was released on PAL VHS tape in 1982 and again in 1991, and in Japan ( where under Japanese copyright law it is in the public domain ) it appeared on NTSC VHS, BETA and laserdisc with subtitles, while a NTSC laserdisc was bootlegged in Hong Kong from the UK PAL videotape.

* Marietta Shaginyan ( 1888 – 1982 ), Soviet writer and public activist

Known for his enigmatic personality and relationship with the public, Van Vliet made few public appearances after his retirement from music ( and from his Beefheart persona ) in 1982.

Projects such as Mental Handicap ( 1976 ), Old Age ( 1979 ) and Death ( 1982 ) followed the one on vagrancy as Lenkiewicz continued to examine the lives of ostracised, hidden sections of the community and bring them to the attention of the general public.