February 1982 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1982 Late Night With David Letterman, debuts on NBC-TV
• 02 Feb 1982 Late Night with David Letterman premieres on NBC
• 03 Feb 1982 Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission
• 04 Feb 1982 Pump Boys & Dinettes opens at Princess Theater NYC for 573 performances
• 05 Feb 1982 Chin A Sen ends term as President of Suriname
• 06 Feb 1982 Centerfold by J Geils Band hit #1 on pop chart
• 07 Feb 1982 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic.
• 09 Feb 1982 34th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-2 at Washington.
• 11 Feb 1982 Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through
• 12 Feb 1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 13 Feb 1982 Dark Side of the Moon, is on charts for 402nd week
• 14 Feb 1982 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic.
• 15 Feb 1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw
• 16 Feb 1982 Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad
• 19 Feb 1982 The DeLorean Car factory in Belfast is put into receivership.
• 20 Feb 1982 New York Islanders wins then NHL record 15th straight game
• 21 Feb 1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic.
• 22 Feb 1982 New York City Mayor Koch announces he will run for New York Governor (unsuccessful)
• 24 Feb 1982 Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scores his 77th goal of the National Hockey League season, breaking the previous record of 76.
• 25 Feb 1982 Final episode of The Lawrence Welk Show airs
• 27 Feb 1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta
• 28 Feb 1982 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic.

Famous Birthday

• Élodie Frégé

  French singer, winner of the TV show "Star Academy" in 2004, her grandfather was a professional accordeonist.

• Natalia Vodianova

  Russian-French model and actress.

• Natalie Dormer

  TV Actress.

• Amandine (IVF)
• Alice Eve

  English actress.

• Lupe Fiasco

  American hip hop artist.

• Lupe Fiasco

  American hip hop artist.

• Maria Kanellis

  American model and professional wrestler.

• Nate Ruess

  Pop Singer.

• Kimberly Wyatt

  American singer and dancer (Pussycat Dolls).

• Bridget Regan

  TV Actress.

• Luci Victoria
• Flavia Pennetta

  Italian professional tennis player, she retired just after having won the 2015 US open.

• Jenna Haze

  American porn actress and director.

• Justin Gatlin

  Runner.

• Leito Adriano
• Romain Dauriac

  French journalist, he was the editor of the French magazine Clark, which covers urban and world.

• Tatiana Laurens
• Laurence Arné
• Aurélien Capoue
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Famous Deaths

• Thelonious Monk

  American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the world’s most important and eccentric jazz figures and sometimes referred to...

• Lee Strasberg

  Austria -- Acting coach / actor (Somewhere in the Night).

• Alex Harvey

  Scottish musician, a singer, songwriter, performer and player of the guitar and banjo.

• Eleanor Powell

  American tap dancer/wife of Glenn Ford, dies of cancer at age 69 (born 1912).

• John Hay Whitney

  US newspaper magnate, dies at age 76.

• Virginia Bruce

  Actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71.

• Edith Ngaio Marsh

  New Zealand detective writer/producer, dies at age 82.

• Murray "the K" Kaufman

  New York City disc jockey (The 5th Beatle), dies at age 60.

• Gabor Szabo

  Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle), dies at age 45.

• Malika A Sabirova

  Russian dancer, dies at age 39.

• Ben Nicholson

  English painter/sculptor (Circle), dies at age 87.

• Takashi Shimura

  Japanese actor (Rashomon, 7 Samurais), dies at age 76 (born 1905).

• Georg Konrad Morgen

  German judge (Born 1909).

• Nestor Chylak

  American baseball umpire (Born 1922).

• Murray the K

  American impresario and disc jockey (Born 1922).

• Gershom Scholem

  German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian, born and raised in Germany.

• Ngaio Marsh

  New Zealand author and director (d. 1982).

• Paul Desruisseaux

  French Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician (d. 1982).

• Victor Jory

  Actor (Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1st Lady, Jigsaw), dies at 79.

• Josh Malihabadi

  Indian-Pakistani poet and translator (d. 1982).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The J. Geils Band - Centerfold
2. Daryl Hall & John Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
3. Journey - Open Arms
4. Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You
5. Quarterflash - Harden My Heart

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Jam - A Town Called Malice / Precious
2. Tight Fit - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
3. The Stranglers - Golden Brown
4. Toni Basil - Mickey
5. Kraftwerk - The Model / Computer Love