In the Glasgow Hillhead by-election in March 1982, another candidate named Roy Jenkins was nominated by Labour Party activists to contest the seat in order to confuse voters and split his potential vote.

" Harold Jenkins, in his 1982 Arden edition, dismisses this hypothesis, which is also known as the " early start " theory.

* September 25, 1982: George Banks kills 13 people in a shooting rampage in Wilkes-Barre and Jenkins Township.

* Tom Jenkins CBE MCIT ( 1 May 1977-28 August 1982 )

In 1982, uneasy about the Alliance, Owen challenged Jenkins for the leadership of the SDP, but was defeated by 26, 256 votes to 20, 864.

" Harold Jenkins, in his 1982 Arden edition, dismisses this assertion.

The Mall in Bromley appeared on the cover of the 1982 album Sounds Like Bromley by Bromley born Billy Jenkins.

His father was MP for Glasgow Hillhead ( 1948 – 82 ) but died in 1982, triggering the famous by-election won by Roy Jenkins.

Harold Jenkins, ed., 1982.

Significantly, former Cubs star pitcher Ferguson Jenkins returned to the team in 1982, and became a major influence on the young reliever ; Smith credited Jenkins with simplifying his delivery, introducing him to the slider and forkball, and teaching him how to set up hitters.

Politically there was once a parliamentary constituency entitled Glasgow Hillhead which had been held for many years by the Conservatives ( indeed, after the 1979 general election it was the only Conservative seat left in Glasgow ), but at a by-election in 1982 it was won by the Social Democrat candidate Roy Jenkins.

Carty made his first stage appearance at the New London Theatre, Drury Lane, as the young Lionel in Lionel Bart's autobiographical musical Lionel ; however, his television career in his youth was mostly defined by his role as Tucker Jenkins in Phil Redmond's popular BBC drama Grange Hill ( 1978 – 1982 ), and the subsequent spin off series Tucker's Luck ( 1983 – 1985 ).

1982: Roy Jenkins wins Hillhead by-election for the newly-formed Social Democratic Party

In the subsequent by-election of 1982, the Conservatives lost their final seat in Glasgow not to Labour but to the newly-formed SDP, with the former Labour cabinet minister Roy Jenkins becoming the MP.

Her television include P ' tang, Yang, Kipperbang ( 1982 ), Tucker's Luck ( 1985 ) where she played Tucker Jenkins ' cousin, Headless ( for which she also composed music ), and An Audience With Ricky Martin ( singing ' A Little Fall Of Rain ' from Les Misérables ).

Michael Gerard Jenkins ( born June 18, 1982 ) is an American football wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League.

Although he publicly identified as gay rather than bisexual, Russell married his close friend Lori Jenkins in 1982.

BHRA was formed in 1982 to restore the historic tunnel.

* Cinema ( band ), a 1982 band formed by ex-Yes members Alan White and Chris Squire

Although it was not legally recognized until 1982, the CGT was originally formed in 1970 by the Christian Democrats and received external support from the World Confederation of Labour ( WCL ) and the Latin American Workers Central ( Central Latinoamericana de Trabajadores — CLAT ), a regional organization supported by Christian Democratic parties.

In 1982 NOAO was formed to consolidate the management of three optical observatories — Kitt Peak ; the National Solar Observatory facilities at Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak, New Mexico ; and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.

In 1982 the Society for Interactive Literature, a predecessor of the Live Action Roleplayers Association ( LARPA ), formed as the first recorded theatre-style LARP group in the US .< ref name =" OlmsteadDean1998 ">

It was looking certain that the Tories would be re-elected, and the only key issue that the media were still speculating by the end of 1982 was whether it would be Labour or the Alliance who formed the next opposition.

As a result of this journey, which formed a section of the three-year Transglobe Expedition 1979 – 1982, Fiennes and Burton became the first people to complete a circumnavigation of the world via both North and South Poles, by surface travel alone.

The Pogues are a Celtic punk band from London, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan.

Diggle and Maher formed Flag of Convenience, who released several singles between 1982 and 1989.

They Might Be Giants ( sometimes abbreviated as TMBG ) is an American alternative band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell.

The Métis National Council was formed in 1983, following the recognition of the Métis as an aboriginal people in Canada, in Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.

* Federative Radical Movement, a dissenting Italian radical party formed in 1982 and later merged with the Italian Socialist Party

The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982.

The Smiths were formed in early 1982 by Steven Patrick Morrissey, a writer who was a big fan of the New York Dolls and briefly fronted punk rock band The Nosebleeds ; and John Maher, a guitarist and songwriter.

Patrick Codenys and Jean-Luc De Meyer had separately formed a group called Under Viewer at around the same time, and the two duos joined together in 1982.

Beefheart eventually formed a new Magic Band with a group of younger musicians and regained contemporary approval through three final albums: Shiny Beast ( Bat Chain Puller ) ( 1978 ), Doc at the Radar Station ( 1980 ) and Ice Cream for Crow ( 1982 ).

In April 1982 Cain defeated the Liberals and formed the first Labor government in Victoria for 27 years since the one led by his father.

The group formed in Deptford, London in 1974, and first broke up in 1982.

In 1982 a group called Brothers United for Future Foreskins ( BUFF ) was formed, which publicized the use of tape in non-surgical restoration methods.

In 1982 Avalon Hill hired some of the design staff from Simulations Publications, Inc. ( SPI ), which had just been bought by TSR, Inc, and formed them into a subsidiary company, Victory Games.

Earlier typically an " interim cabinet " was formed to arrange for the elections, but this hasn't happened since 1982.

Many works of this and similar style were written especially for him and formed part of his core repertoire: particularly the guitar works of Federico Moreno Torroba ( 1891 – 1982 ), such as the Sonatina, which was first performed by Segovia in Paris in 1925.

Kreator is a thrash metal band from Essen, Germany, formed in 1982 with no name, but decided on Tormentor in 1984.

The band was formed as Tyrant in 1982 in Essen, Germany.