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

The Governments of the FSM and the U. S. signed the final version of the Compact of Free Association on October 1, 1982.

Palau, the westernmost cluster of the Caroline Islands, instead opted for independent status in 1978, approved a new constitution and became the Republic of Palau in 1981, and signed a Compact of Free Association with the United States in 1982.

Copal collaborated with Nippon Kogaku to improve the Compact Square shutter for the Nikon FM2 ( Japan ) of 1982 by using honeycomb pattern etched titanium foil, stronger and lighter than plain stainless steel, for its blade sheaves.

* 1982 – 1988 K-body Compact LeBaron sedan, coupé, convertible, and wagon

* 1982: Minimal Compact, Blurt, Marc Minelli

* LPCM is used for the lossless encoding of audio data in the Compact disc Red Book standard ( informally also known as Audio CD ), introduced in 1982.

* Diff ' rent Strokes at Metromedia Square ( 1978 – 1982 ), Universal Studios By Compact Video ( 1982 – 1985 ) and ABC Television Center ( 1985 – 1986 )

* Silver Spoons at Metromedia Square for pilot and Universal Studios By Compact Video thereafter until 1985 ( 1982 – 1987 )

* The Facts of Life at Metromedia Square ( 1979 – 1982 ), Universal Studios By Compact Video ( 1982 – 1985 ) and Sunset-Gower Studios ( 1985 – 1988 )

* The Jeffersons at CBS Television City ( 1975 ), Metromedia Square ( 1975 – 1982 ) and Universal Studios by Compact Video ( 1982 – 1985 )

*" Night Shift " ( 1982 )-flexi-disc with Vinyl magazine, split with Minimal Compact

Disc film was a still-photography film format aimed at the consumer market, and introduced by Kodak in 1982.

* 1982 Bap Bap / Right Here In My World ( Disc ' AZ )

Disc two comprises performances from the summer 1982 tour of Europe.

The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, that reached the market alongside Sony's CD player CDP-101 on October 1, 1982 in Japan.

Other chart hits during this period included Parton's chart-topping cover of the 1969 First Edition hit " But You Know I Love You " and " The House of the Rising Sun " ( both 1981 ), " Single Women ", " Heartbreak Express " and " Hard Candy Christmas " ( 1982 ) and 1983's " Potential New Boyfriend ", which was accompanied by one of Parton's first music videos, and which also reached the U. S. dance charts.

As early as March 1982 ECMA TC24 with its corporate members reached agreement on a standard for CSMA / CD based on the IEEE 802 draft.

This was the first time the Brewers reached the playoffs since 1982.

Porsche introduced a refreshed 928 S into the European market in 1979 model year, although it was summer of 1982 and MY 1983 before the model reached North America.

Tor Nørretranders graduated at " Det frie gymnasium " in 1973 and reached a cand. techn. soc-degree from Roskilde University ( Roskilde ) in 1982, specialized in environment planning and its scientific theoretic basis.

It is estimated that alcoholism peaked in 1982 – 1984, when consumption reached 11. 2 litres of absolute alcohol per person per annum.

In January 1982, when the lake reached its lowest level of, the salinity had nearly doubled to 99 g / l.

By 1989, home video game sales in the United States had reached $ 5 billion, surpassing the 1982 peak of $ 3 billion during the previous generation.

By 1982, the number reached 50, 000.

In 1982 QPR, still playing in the Second Division, reached the FA Cup Final for the only time in the club's history, facing holders Tottenham Hotspur.

The team finished second in the First Division in the 1982 – 83 season, competed in the UEFA Cup in 1983 – 84, and also reached the 1984 FA Cup Final.

* All five albums released by the band between 1982 and 1991 reached the Top 30 on the Billboard 200 album chart and have been certified either Gold, Platinum, or Multi-platinum.

The value of livestock reached $ 1. 25 million by 1969 but dropped to $ 1 million by 1982.

Baseball teams from 1977, 1981 and 1982 and the 1997 girls basketball team reached the state playoffs.

In the US, where synthpop is considered a sub genre of New Wave and was described as " technopop " by the press at the time, the genre became popular due to the cable music channel MTV, which reached the media capitals of New York City and Los Angeles in 1982.

The population of Martindale reached a high of 600 in 1957 but subsequently fell to 250 in 1969 and 210 in 1982, when only three businesses were active.

The club reached the semi-finals of the 1982 – 83 European Cup, defeating Víkingur of Iceland, Celtic FC of Scotland and Sporting Lisbon pf Portugal before losing 3-2 on aggregate to eventual champions Hamburger SV of Germany.

In 1980, the city reached a population of 2, 920, and in 1982 the library was opened.

In November, 1982 the Motown influenced electro pop single " Mirror Man " reached No. 2 in the UK chart, just missing another Christmas No. 1, which was taken by a novelty record by Renée and Renato.

The first single, " The Celtic Soul Brothers ", reached number 45 on the UK charts but the follow-up, " Come On Eileen ", became a Number One hit not only in the UK, but also in the United States, where it became the biggest-selling single of 1982.

In 1982, Kristofferson participated ( with Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, and Brenda Lee ) on The Winning Hand, a double album consisting of remastered and updated performances of recordings the four artists had made for the Monument label during the mid-1960s ; the album reached the top-ten on the U. S. country album charts.

In late 1982 the band found major success in their home country with " Wishing ( If I Had a Photograph of You )" ( first single from their next album ) which reached the top 10.

From San Francisco Night Ranger's first album Dawn Patrol ( 1982 ), reached the top 40 in the US, but their breakthrough album was 1983's Midnight Madness, which included the top five single " Sister Christian ".

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.

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.

* 1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public ; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.

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 ".

* 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.

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.