* 1982 – 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.

* Masateru Akita ( 秋田政輝 ; born 1982 ), former footballer

Dino Zoff ( born February 28, 1942 in Mariano del Friuli ) is an Italian former football goalkeeper and is the oldest winner ever of the World Cup, which he earned as captain of the Italian team in the 1982 tournament in Spain, at the age of 40 years, 4 months and 13 days.

Features a 1982 conversation between Guattari and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former President of Brazil.

After Brezhnev's death in November 1982, there was speculation the position of General Secretary would fall to Chernenko, however he was unable to rally enough popular support for his candidacy within the Party, and the posting fell to former KGB chief Yuri Andropov.

The song's title adorns the top of the Shankly Gates, which were unveiled on 2 August 1982 in memory of former manager Bill Shankly.

By the end of 1982 it was obvious that the popular former trade union leader Bob Hawke was going to replace Hayden as Labor leader.

In 2003, the Brewers hired Doug Melvin as General Manager, who in turn brought in Ned Yost, coach with the Atlanta Braves and a former member of the 1982 American League Champion Brewers, as manager.

* 2006 – Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi ' as in 1982.

* 1982 – Lynndie England, former U. S. Army reservist, associated with Abu Ghraib

* 1982 – Sam Sparro, Australian producer, songwriter, performer, former child actor

As of December 2010, five former premiers are alive, the oldest being John Cain ( 1982 – 1990, born 1931 ).

Good Trouble ( 1982 ) and Wheels Are Turnin ' ( 1984 ) were follow-up albums which also did well commercially, the former containing the hit singles " Keep the Fire Burnin '" ( U. S. # 7 ), " Sweet Time " ( U. S. # 26 ) and the un-ranked " The Key " and the latter containing the # 1 hit single " Can't Fight This Feeling " plus three more hits: " I Do ' Wanna Know " ( U. S. # 29 ), " One Lonely Night " ( U. S. # 19 ), " Live Every Moment " ( U. S. # 34 ) and the un-ranked " Break His Spell ".

XyQuest was founded in June 1982 by former ATEX employees Dave Erickson and John Hild.

* October 29 – Stanislaw Ostrowski, former President of Poland ( d. 1982 )

* Matthew Asinari, ( MMR 1982 ), former CEO of Dentsu Young & Rubicam, a merger of Dentsu and Young & Rubicam

On November 10, 1982 Leonid Brezhnev died and was succeeded by Yuri Andropov, the former head of the KGB.

Bosom Buddies and a guest appearance on a 1982 episode of Happy Days (" A Case of Revenge ," where he played a disgruntled former classmate of The Fonz ) prompted director Ron Howard to contact Hanks.

" In August 1976, a month after his second divorce from Taylor, Burton married model Susan Hunt, the former wife of Formula 1 Champion James Hunt ; the marriage ended in divorce in 1982.

Two days after Leonid Brezhnev's death, on 12 November 1982, Andropov was elected General Secretary of the CPSU, the first former head of the KGB to become General Secretary.

In 1988, Callaghan's wife Audrey, a former chairman ( 1969 – 1982 ) of Great Ormond Street Hospital, spotted a letter to a newspaper which pointed out that the copyright of Peter Pan, which had been assigned by J. M. Barrie to the hospital, was about to expire.

* Tommy Byrne, former racing driver, raced briefly in Formula 1 in 1982

In January 1982, former US Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and a group of investors acquired Gibson Greetings, a producer of greeting cards, for $ 80 million, of which only $ 1 million was rumored to have been contributed by the investors.

On April 27, 1982, in Jackson's first game back at Yankee Stadium with the Angels, he broke out of a terrible season-starting slump to hit a home run off former teammate Ron Guidry.

The Islamic Republic's effort to spread the revolution is considered to have begun in earnest in March 1982, when 380 men from more than 25 Arab and Islamic nations met at the former Tehran Hilton Hotel for a " seminar " on the " ideal Islamic government " and, less academically, the launch of a large-scale offensive to cleanse the Islamic world of the satanic Western and Communist influences that were seen to be hindering the Islamic world's progress.

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

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

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.

* 1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.

* 1982 – Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.

Bachir Gemayel was succeeded as president by his older brother Amine Gemayel, who served from 1982 to 1988.

He served as president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1982, of the American Anthropological Association in 1983, and of the American Folklore Society-the last person to have held all three positions.

The 1982 revision of the constitution placed the military under strict civilian control, trimmed the powers of the president, and abolished the Revolutionary Council ( a non-elected committee with legislative veto powers ).

P2 became the target of considerable attention in the wake of the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano ( one of Milan's principal banks, owned in part by the Vatican Bank ), and the suspicious 1982 death of its president Roberto Calvi in London, initially ruled a suicide but later prosecuted as a murder.

ESPN president Chet Simmons was named the league's first commissioner in June 1982.

Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq was founded in 1982 during the Iran – Iraq War after the leading Islamist insurgent group, Islamic Dawa Party, was severely weakened by a government crackdown following Dawa's unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

In the past, the prefect was head of the department, however, since 1982, the president of the general council has assumed the role of chief executive of the department.

A great national design competition was launched in 1982 as the initiative of French president François Mitterrand.

In late 1982, the Disney Channel was formed under the leadership of its first president, Alan Wagner.

In 1982, under president Edward J. Bloustein, the faculties were centralized into one college, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but the residential colleges persisted for students, along with disparate standards for admission, good standing, and graduation, as well as a confusing network of bureaucracies.

Two years later, he was appointed director of the Nederlandsche Bank, serving as its president from 1982 to 1997.

* Beckett's Catastrophe – dedicated to then-imprisoned Czech dissident playwright Václav Havel, who became president of Czechoslovakia after the 1989 Velvet Revolution – was first performed at the Avignon Festival on July 21, 1982 ; the film version ( in Beckett on Film ) was directed by David Mamet and performed by Harold Pinter, Sir John Gielgud, and Rebecca Pidgeon.

Clergyman James T. Draper, Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1982 to 1984, was born in Hartford in 1935, where his father, James Draper, Sr., was a pastor.

* Rene J. Bienvenu, president of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches from 1977 to 1982

In 1982, at age 29, he became president of the party.

However it was in 1982 that Hillery's reputation as president was arguably made.

Banzer opposed bitterly the UDP government of Hernán Siles ( 1982 – 85 ), but turned more conciliatory when Víctor Paz Estenssoro was elected president ( by congress, due to the virtual inattainability of the 50 % necessary for direct election ) in 1985.

In 1982 E. Gerald Corrigan, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and a close Volcker colleague, published an influential essay titled “ Are banks special ?” in which he argued banks should be subject to special restrictions on affiliations because they enjoy special benefits ( e. g., deposit insurance and Federal Reserve Bank loan facilities ) and have special responsibilities ( e. g., operating the payment system and influencing the money supply ).