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

* 1982 – Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon.

* 1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.

Roma have won Serie A three times, first in 1941 – 42 then in 1982 – 83 and again in 2000 – 01, as well as winning nine Coppa Italia titles and two Supercoppa Italiana titles.

The second scudetto did not elude Roma for much longer ; in 1982 – 83 the Roman club won the title for the first time in 41 years, amidst celebrations in the capital.

Morita was awarded the Albert Medal by the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Arts in 1982, the first Japanese to receive the honor.

* 1982 – Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.

The software is developed and sold by Autodesk, Inc., first released in December 1982 by Autodesk in the year following the purchase of the first form of the software by Autodesk founder, John Walker.

Founded first as the Bursa University then renamed to Uludağ University in 1982, the university has a student body of 47, 000, one of the largest in Turkey.

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.

In 1982 / 83 as part of the French national celebration of Jean Philippe Rameau's 300th birthday, Turocy choreographed the first production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Boréades-it was never performed during the composer's lifetime.

In 1982 the first single-authored books in the field appeared.

A second edition of Bunnies & Burrows was printed in 1982 by Fantasy Games Unlimited, although the continuing popularity of the first edition is evidenced by how it was still being actively played in 2008.

In 1982, Vassar College became the first institution in the world to grant an undergraduate degree in Cognitive Science.

After premiering on September 30, 1982, it was nearly canceled during its first season when it ranked last in ratings for its premiere ( 74th out of 77 shows ).

The first voice heard on Channel 4's opening day of Tuesday 2 November 1982 was that of continuity announcer Paul Coia, who intoned, " Good afternoon.

In August 1982 the real pressing was ready to begin in the new factory, not far from the place where Emile Berliner had produced his first gramophone record 93 years earlier.

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.

From this trip, Marker first published the photo-essay Le Dépays in 1982, as well as using the experience for his next film Sans Soleil, released in 1982.

Steve Carlton in 1982 became the first pitcher to win more than three Cy Young Awards, while Greg Maddux in 1994 became the first to win at least three in a row ( and received a fourth straight the following year ), a feat later repeated by Randy Johnson.

The first organization to call themselves all stars and go to competitions were the Q94 Rockers from Richmond, Virginia, founded in 1982.

Geoffrey Crawley, editor of the British Journal of Photography, undertook a " major scientific investigation of the photographs and the events surrounding them ", published between 1982 and 1983, " the first major postwar analysis of the affair ".

The SDP won the support of large sections of the media, and for most of 1981 and early 1982 its opinion poll ratings suggested that it could at least overtake Labour and possibly win a general election, as the Tories were proving unpopular because of the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher, which had seen unemployment reach a postwar high.

She was first elected to the City Council in 1975 as an at large member, she served on the council until 1982.

These battles resulted a large amount of antitrust litigation and ultimately led to the 1982 breakup of the Bell System.

The German Museum of Technology Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin (" German Museum of Technology ") was founded in 1982 in Berlin, Germany, and exhibits a large collection of historical technical artifacts.

He painted on a large scale, usually in themed Projects investigating hidden communities ( Vagrancy 1973, Mental Handicap 1976 ) or difficult social issues ( Suicide 1980, Death 1982 ).

In 1982, 15 Middle Eastern investors bought Financial General Bankshares, a large bank holding company headquartered in Washington, D. C. All the investors were BCCI clients, but the Fed received assurances that BCCI would be in no way involved in the management of the company, which was renamed First American Bankshares.

By 1982 BTR had acquired a large number of companies in the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa and Germany.

In 1982 a large scale alumina extraction plant was built at Aughinish Island.

On 30 May 1982, Hansen, Taylor, and Stewart traveled to Vancouver Island and set off a large bomb at the Dunsmuir BC Hydro substation causing $ 5 million in damages.

In 1982 Ol ' shanskii was able to strengthen his results to establish existence, for any sufficiently large prime number p ( one can take p > 10 < sup > 75 </ sup >) of a finitely generated infinite group in which every nontrivial proper subgroup is a cyclic group of order p. In a paper published in 1996, Ivanov and Ol ' shanskii solved an analogue of Burnside's problem in an arbitrary hyperbolic group for sufficiently large exponents.

Public awareness of the availability of these videos began in early 1982, when Vipco ( Video Instant Picture Company ), the UK distributors of The Driller Killer, a 1979 slasher film, took out full-page advertisements in a number of specialist video magazines, depicting the video's explicit cover ; an action which resulted in a large number of complaints to the Advertising Standards Agency.

By 1982, using the “ unitary thrift ” and “ nonbank bank ” “ loopholes ”, Sears had built the “ Sears Financial Network ”, which combined “ Super NOW ” accounts and mortgage loans through a large California-based savings and loan, the Discover Card issued by a “ nonbank bank ,” securities brokerage through Dean Witter Reynolds, home and auto insurance through Allstate, and real estate brokerage through Coldwell Banker.

By the November 1982 election, it held only five seats fewer than Fianna Fáil ( their closest ever margin until 2011 ; at times Fianna Fáil was nearly twice as large ), with Fine Gael in the Oireachtas bigger than Fianna Fáil, who had been a dominant force in Irish politics for 40 years.

In 1982, the evolutionary biologist Daniel H. Janzen suggested that the avocado may be an example of an ' evolutionary anachronism ', a fruit adapted for ecological relationship with now-extinct large mammals ( such as giant ground sloths or gomphotheres ).

With a healthier balance-sheet ( due in large part to box office hits like Stir Crazy, The Blue Lagoon, and Stripes ) Columbia was bought by Coca-Cola on June 22, 1982 for $ 750 million, after having considered buying the struggling Walt Disney Productions.

By then both normal and large hill competitions had been introduced, and the normal hill competition would be held at Midtstubakken, as they would later also be done in 1982 and 2011.

The 1966 large hill competition was won by Norway's Bjørn Wirkola, while the 1982 event was won by Matti Nykänen of Finland.

Furthermore, Brisbane has hosted many large cultural and sporting events, including the 1982 Commonwealth Games, World Expo ' 88 and the final Goodwill Games in 2001.

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.

The town won the " Wales in Bloom " competition for 27 times in a row between 1982 and 2010 ; won the " large village " category of " Britain in Bloom " four times ; and twice represented the United Kingdom in European competitions.

His more important works include his opera Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern ( 1990 – 96, after Hans Christian Andersen, Leonardo da Vinci and Gudrun Ensslin ), the orchestral pieces Schwankungen am Rand ( 1974 – 75, for eight brass, two electric guitars, two pianos, four thunder sheets, and 34 strings ), Accanto ( 1975 – 76, for clarinet, large orchestra and tape ) and NUN ( 1997 – 99, for flute, trombone, male chorus, and large orchestra ), the ensemble works Mouvement (- vor der Erstarrung ) ( 1982 – 84, for three ad hoc players and 14 players ) and "... zwei Gefühle ...", Musik mit Leonardo ( 1992, ( later incorporated in opera Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern ), after Leonardo da Vinci, for two speakers and 22 players ) and three string quartets ( Gran Torso, 1971, revised 1976, 1988 ; Reigen seliger Geister, 1989 ; Grido, 2001 ), as well as other orchestral, ensemble and chamber works and six piano pieces.

The Ford Cortina is a large family car built by Ford of Britain in various guises from 1962 to 1982.