The game was played on January 24, 1982, at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

The first one was Super Bowl XVI on January 24, 1982 in Pontiac, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

The Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Portman's first atrium hotel, would lead to many more iconic hotels and multi-use complexes with atria, including the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles ( 1974 – 1976 ), the New York Marriott Marquis ( 1982 – 1985 ), and the Renaissance Center in Detroit ( first phase 1973-1977 ), whose central tower has remained the tallest hotel in the Western Hemisphere.

* Rodney Holman, former tight end for Cincinnati Bengals ( 1982 – 1992 ) and Detroit Lions ( 1993 – 1995 )

* Dick Beardsley, champion marathon runner, motivational speaker and author, 3rd-fastest American born male marathon runner, Grandma's Marathon record holder, Boston Marathon silver medalist ( 1982 ), founder of Dick Beardsley Running Company, formerly resided in Detroit Lakes

The 1983 NHL Entry Draft was the first for Mike and Marian Ilitch, who had purchased the Detroit Red Wings in the summer of 1982.

The first report of CA-MRSA occurred in 1981, and in 1982 there was a large outbreak of CA-MRSA among intravenous drug users in Detroit, Michigan.

1982 saw the inaugural Detroit Grand Prix, making three Formula One races in the United States that year.

Vincent Jen Chin (; May 18, 1955 – June 23, 1982 ) was a Chinese American beaten to death in June 1982, in the enclave of Highland Park, Detroit, Michigan, United States.

In 1982, he returned to Detroit as General Manager of Chevrolet.

* Jhonny Peralta ( born 1982 ), shortstop for the Detroit Tigers

* 1982 Detroit, MI

* Tom Veryzer, former Major League Baseball shortstop who played from 1973 – 1984 with the Detroit Tigers ( 1973 – 1977 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1978 – 1981 ), New York Mets ( 1982 ) and Chicago Cubs ( 1983 – 1984 ).

Twice has a NHL team successfully converted on two penalty shots in a single game-first on February 11, 1982 when Thomas Gradin and Ivan Hlinka of the Vancouver Canucks scored on shots against Detroit Red Wings goaltender Gilles Gilbert, and on December 30, 2009 when Ryane Clowe and Joe Thornton of the San Jose Sharks converted penalty shots against Washington Capitals goalie Michal Neuvirth.

He was a star on the Illinois midget AAA team ( Team Illinois ) that won the 1982 national title against a Detroit Compuware squad that featured future NHL stars Pat LaFontaine and Al Iafrate.

Ford Field was selected to host Super Bowl XL on November 1, 2000, two years before the stadium opened in 2002 ; the only previous Super Bowl held in the Detroit area, Super Bowl XVI, had been played at the Pontiac Silverdome in 1982 ( also between teams from the AFC North and NFC West divisions, though the AFC North was called the Central at that time ).

Switching teams repeatedly as he tried to climb his way up the grid, Cheever had five points-scoring finishes for the Tyrrell team in 1981, and three podiums for Ligier the following year, including a second place at the 1982 Detroit Grand Prix in Detroit.

On February 16, 1982, he was traded to the Detroit Pistons, where he would remain for the rest of his career.

( Until 2009 only one other circuit, Detroit USA in 1982 – 88, featured a tunnel, but the F1 series now includes racing at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, which presents a shorter tunnel at the exit of the pit lane.

Ilitch is an avid sports fan, and in 1982, he and Marian purchased the struggling Detroit Red Wings professional hockey franchise and turned the team into a Stanley Cup champion.

He was signed as a free agent by the Detroit Red Wings in 1981 and rebounded with an 18-goal season, followed by 14 goals in 1982 – 83.

She was a member of the Detroit Region I public school board, 1971 – 1973 ; a member of the Michigan State House of Representatives, from the 21st District, 1975 – 1981 ; and a member of the Detroit City Council, 1982 – 1991.

", ACM Computer Architecture News, 1982 ( archived at the Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation.

A BBC News article about a lack of " mid-career volunteers " in their 20s provided a Generation X age range, which, in 2007, would suggest birth years that fall between 1962 and 1982.

* 1982 Mike Peters ( Dayton Daily News )

* CBC News report ( 8 November 1982 ) on the publication of the Dictionary

It was founded in 1982 by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, and until 2010 was owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the church.

The Washington Times was founded in 1982 by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the Unification Church which also owns newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America, as well as the news agency United Press International.

Some of the definitions originally appeared in the Not the Nine O ' Clock News spin-off book Not 1982 ( ISBN 0-571-11853-4 ), where they were headed " Today's new word from the Oxtail English Dictionary ".

Thomas John " Tom " Brokaw (; born February 6, 1940 ) is an American television journalist and author best known as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004.

On April 5, 1982, Brokaw began co-anchoring NBC Nightly News from New York with Roger Mudd in Washington.

* 1982 – 1983: NBC Nightly News co-anchor

* America This Morning ; formerly ABC World News This Morning ( since 1982 ) — ABC

** Early Today ( since 1982 ; known as NBC News at Sunrise ( 1983 – 1999 )) — NBC

Starting in 1973, before the advent of closed captioning, PBS would air an open captioned version of ABC News five hours after its broadcast on the ABC ; the practice continued until 1982.

* " NBC Nightly News " by Henry Mancini ( September 6, 1977 – April 2, 1982 )

* " NBC News " by Joseph Paul Sicurella, Tony Smythe, and Bob Christianson ( 1979 – 1982 as a bumper ; April 5, 1982 – September 6, 1985 as main theme )

An understandably exhausted Kuralt was relieved of his duties on the weekday broadcasts in March 1982, at a time when a restructuring on the Evening News forced his popular On the Road segments to be gradually phased out.

By the fall of 1982, Captain Kangaroo had disappeared from the daily schedule and the new team of Kurtis and Sawyer were anchoring three hours of news in the morning, as they were also seen on the CBS Early Morning News an hour earlier.

The program first aired in its current format on October 4, 1982 as the CBS Early Morning News, with Bill Kurtis and Diane Sawyer anchoring.

With the launch of Britain's second commercial station Channel 4 in 1982, ITN was given the job of providing Channel 4 News.

Not the Nine O ' Clock News is a television comedy sketch show which was broadcast on BBC 2 from 1979 to 1982.

Not the Nine O ' Clock News became a stage show in Oxford and London in 1982, but the main performers decided to end the project while it was a success: Stephenson began a Hollywood film career, Atkinson recorded the first series of Blackadder in 1983, and Smith and Jones became a double act in Alas Smith and Jones.

In 1982, U. S. News and World Report sued New Solidarity International Press Service and Campaigner Publications for damages, alleging that members were impersonating its reporters in phone calls.

* February 1982 edition of 79 Group News

Brad Hall took over the desk of the retitled Saturday Night News in 1982 through most of the 1983 season.