October 1982 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1982 Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
• 02 Oct 1982 Bomb attack in Teheran, kills 60, injures 700
• 03 Oct 1982 Milwaukee whips Baltimore 10-2 to win AL East championship
• 04 Oct 1982 Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of German FR
• 05 Oct 1982 Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed President of Bolivia
• 07 Oct 1982 Olof Palme forms Swedish government
• 08 Oct 1982 Poland bans Solidarity after having suspended it on 13 December 1981.
• 09 Oct 1982 Attack on synagouge in Rome, 1 dead
• 10 Oct 1982 Brewers beat Angels in ALCS
• 11 Oct 1982 16th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson and Ricky Skagg
• 12 Oct 1982 38.6 cm (15.2 inches) of rainfall, Angoon, Alaska (state record).
• 13 Oct 1982 IOC restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe
• 14 Oct 1982 President Reagan proclaims war against drugs
• 15 Oct 1982 The Garn - St Germain Depository Institutions Act deregulates the U.S. savings and loan industry.
• 16 Oct 1982 Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins
• 17 Oct 1982 1st live orchestra on commerical network since 1954 (National Symphony)
• 19 Oct 1982 Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty)
• 20 Oct 1982 Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler
• 22 Oct 1982 Gene Mauch resigns as manager of Angels
• 24 Oct 1982 13th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:29
• 26 Oct 1982 US budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982
• 27 Oct 1982 IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics
• 28 Oct 1982 NASA launches RCA-E.
• 29 Oct 1982 Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release Girl is Mine
• 30 Oct 1982 Portugal revises constitution
• 31 Oct 1982 Pope John Paul II becomes first pontiff to visit Spain.

Famous Birthday

• Chimène Badi
• Ian Thorpe

  Australian swimmer, an Olympic-2000 hopeful in the 100m, 200m and 400m freestyle events.

• Frédéric Michalak

  French international rugby union player of Polish descent.

• Patrick Fugit

  American actor and producer.

• Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• Clémence Poésy

  French actress widely known for the roles of Fleur Delacour in the Harry Potter film series.

• Matt Smith (actor)
• Matt Dallas

  American actor.

• Thierry Amiel

  French singer-songwriter.

• Ilan Halimi
• Ana Mihajlovski
• Dan Stevens

  Movie Actor.

• Justin Chatwin

  Canadian actor.

• Juliette Chêne
• Sofia Marikh
• Nicolas Gob

  Belgian actor with a love of sports like tennis and karate.

• Gillian Jacobs

  TV Actress.

• Nick Riewoldt

  Australian footballer.

• Levon Aronian

  Armenian chess Grandmaster.

• Erik von Detten

  American actor.

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Famous Deaths

• Fernando Lamas

  Argentinian-American actor singer and director (d. 1982).

• Peterus van Doorne

  Dutch industrialist, dies at 47.

• Roger J J Claessen

  Belgian soccer star, dies at 41.

• Vivien Merchant

  Actress (Accident, Offense), dies at 53.

• Glenn H Gould

  Canadian pianist, dies at 50.

• Philip J Noel-Baker

  English Minister (Nobel 1959), dies at 92.

• Chris[tiaan R] Reumer

  Dutch opera singer, dies at 73.

• Jacov Gotovac

  Composer, dies at 86.

• Mario del Monaco

  Italian opera singer (Verdi / Puccini), dies at 67.

• Jock Ewing

  Dies in an aircrash on TV show "Dallas".

• Jacques Klein

  Brazilian pianist, dies at 52.

• Giovanni Benelli

  Archbishop of Florence / Pope candidate.

• James Philbrook

  Actor (Islanders, Investigators), dies at 58.

• Anna Freud in London

  England (born in Vienna, Austria), youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud, elementary school teacher, founder of child psychoanalysis.

• Maurice Gilliams

  Belgian writer, poet, essayist, novelist, librarian, wrote autobiography.

• Bess Truman

  American First Lady, wife of President Harry Truman whom she married 6/28/1919.

• Pierre Mendes-France

  French politician (Born 1907).

• John Robarts

  Canadian lawyer and politician 17th Premier of Ontario (d. 1982).

• William Bernbach

  American advertiser, co-founder of Dyle, Dane, and Bernbach (now DDB) (d. 1982).

• Ahmad H al-Bakr

  Iraqi Field Marshal / President / Premier.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. John Cougar - Jack & Diane
2. Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now?
3. The Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
4. Chicago - Hard To Say I'm Sorry
5. The Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie
2. Eddy Grant - I Don't Wanna Dance
3. Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?
4. Dionne Warwick - Heartbreaker
5. Fat Larry's Band - Zoom