He married Swedish TV presenter Mona Nörklit in November 1981, and had a son, Ludvig ( born January 1982 ).

On January 8, 1982, just before the case was to be heard by the U. S. Supreme Court, President Ronald Reagan authorized his Treasury and Justice Departments to ask that the BJU case be dropped and that the previous court decisions be vacated.

The most rainfall in 24 hours was on January 4, 1982.

He entered the USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer program in 1982, and was scheduled to fly on mission STS-71-B in December 1986, but the mission was cancelled after the Challenger Disaster in January 1986.

Public support for unilateralism in September 1982 was 31 %, falling to 21 % in January 1983, but it is hard to say whether this decline was a result of the contemporary propaganda campaign against CND or not.

On 4 January 1982, Reagan signed the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 ( NSDD-17 ), giving the CIA the authority to recruit and support the contras with $ 19 million in military aid.

He played " Faceman " from 1982 to 1986 ( although the series didn't air until January 1983, and the final episode wasn't shown until 1987 re-runs ).

* ( Reprinted with corrections, January 1982 )

Early plans saw it being launched by Space Shuttle Columbia on what was then codenamed STS-23 in January 1982, but delays in the development of the Space Shuttle allowed more time for development of the probe.

Hans Hugo Bruno Selye, CC () ( January 26, 1907 — October 16, 1982 ) was a pioneering Hungarian endocrinologist.

The perceived threat to Iraq in the summer of 1982 thus was serious enough to force Saddam Hussein to request the Nonaligned Movement to change the venue of its scheduled September meeting from Baghdad to India ; nevertheless, since the fall of 1982, the ground conflict has generally been a stalemated war of attrition — although Iran made small but demoralizing territorial advances as a result of its massive offensives in the reed marshes north of Basra in 1984 and in 1985, in Al Faw Peninsula in early 1986, and in the outskirts of Basra during January and February 1987.

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.

On January 7, 1982, brothers Karl and Walter Bernhard LaGrand bungled an armed bank robbery in Marana, Arizona, United States, killing a man and severely injuring a woman in the process.

The most notable instance of this was in January 1982, when Patrick Hillery instructed an aide, Captain Anthony Barber, to ensure that no telephone calls from the opposition were to be passed on to him.

He was held for 42 days until January 28, 1982, when an Italian anti-terrorist team rescued him from an apartment in Padua.

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.

* Red Rabbit ( 1982, summer, the KGB operation reference is 15 8 1982-666 and it is mentioned that this is the date the first message was sent about killing the Pope, also there is an inconsistency since Suslov is alive in the book, but he died in January 1982 )

Up to version 3. 7 of vi, created in October, 1981, UC Berkeley was the development home for vi, but with Bill Joy's departure in early 1982, to join Sun Microsystems, and AT & T's UNIX System V ( January, 1983 ) adopting vi, changes to the vi codebase happened more slowly and in a more dispersed and mutually incompatible ways.

* January 24 – John Belushi, American actor and comedian ( d. 1982 )

* January 3 – John Sturges, American film director ( d. 1982 )

* January 1 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician ( d. 1982 )

* January 28 – Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist and conductor ( d. 1982 )

* January 5 – John A. Costello, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland ( b. 1891 )

* January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.

John Aloysius Costello (; 20 June 1891 – 5 January 1976 ), a successful barrister, was one of the main legal advisors to the government of the Irish Free State after independence, Attorney General of Ireland from 1926 – 1932 and Taoiseach from 1948 – 1951 and 1954 – 1957.

His reputation rose further when opposition leaders under parliamentary privilege alleged that Taoiseach Charles Haughey, who in January 1982 had been Leader of the Opposition, had not merely rung the President's Office but threatened to end the career of the army officer who took the call and who, on Hillery's explicit instructions, had refused to put through the call to the President.

In the interview Lenihan confirmed what he had previously confirmed to other writers over eight years, that on 27 January 1982 he, along with party leader Charles Haughey and a colleague, Sylvester Barrett, had repeatedly phoned Áras an Uachtaráin, the residence of the President of Ireland, to try to put pressure on the President, Patrick Hillery, to refuse a dissolution of parliament to the Taoiseach ( prime minister ), Dr Garret FitzGerald.

On 15 January 2011, Harney tendered her resignation as Minister for Health and Children to Taoiseach Brian Cowen.

In January 1965 O ' Neill invited the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, Seán Lemass, for talks in Belfast.

Brian Cowen ( born 10 January 1960 ) is a former Irish politician who served as Taoiseach of Ireland from 7 May 2008 to 9 March 2011.

On 22 January 2011, just days after winning a vote of confidence, Brian Cowen announced that he was stepping down as leader of Fianna Fáil but would remain as Taoiseach.

A new Taoiseach and government were not appointed until 12 January 1993.

* The former Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, was born in Clara, County Offaly on 10 January 1960.

The final report, the Tenth interim report of the committee, was launched by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern on 24 January 2006.

After meeting with the Taoiseach Brian Cowen on 6 January 2009, she stated that she would no longer claim the allowance.

On 16 January 2009, the Taoiseach Brian Cowen stated that is was " business as usual " at Anglo Irish Bank and that people should be reassured that the bank is solvent.

* whether substantial payments which might not have been ethical to receive were made to Charles Haughey ( Taoiseach during part of the time concerned ) and Michael Lowry between 1 January 1979 and 31 December 1996,

* January 12-Albert Reynolds is elected Taoiseach in Dáil Éireann.

* January 30-Charles Haughey resigns as Taoiseach and as leader of Fianna Fáil.

* January 5-Former Taoiseach, John A. Costello, dies in Dublin aged 84.

* January 21-Nationalist leader Eddie McAteer visits Taoiseach Seán Lemass in Dublin.

* January 7-Dáil Éireann debates a motion that Éamon de Valera's position as controlling director of the Irish Press could be regarded as incompatible with his duties as Taoiseach.

* 18 January – Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, begins a trade mission to China.

The funeral was held on 5 January 2010 and attended by the President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Brian Cowen.

It was also used in January 2010 for talks between British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen and representatives of the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin over the crisis over Northern Irish policing which threatened to derail the Northern Irish government.

On 14 January 1993, the Taoiseach announced that the Government had appointed the other Ministers of State.