Oct 14, 2016 · Historical Events for the Year 1982. 1st January » Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations.; 1st January » ITV (TV network) ITV franchise Associated Television ATV gets replaced by ITV Central Central; 8th January » Bell System divestiture known as The break up of AT&T: AT&T …

Events Pre-1600. 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.; 1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.; 1488 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.

Police in Akron, Ohio, released multiple bodycam videos of events leading up to and including the shooting of 25-year-old Jayland Walker last week. Elise Preston reports. 5H ago

On 19 March 1982, Argentine scrap metal workers illegally arrived at Leith Harbour, South Georgia, on board the transport ship ARA Bahía Buen Suceso and raised the Argentine flag. This move led to a brief, but bitter conflict on the Falkland Islands, a remote UK colony in the South Atlantic. During the ten week battle a total of 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 British …

A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is a (pronounced / ˈ eɪ /), plural aes. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar.

Key events 1890–1895 ... 1982: Antitrust suit. The United States antitrust suit against IBM, filed in 1969, is dismissed as being "without merit." 1982: Trellis-coded modulation. Trellis-coded modulation (TCM) is first used in voice-band modems to send data at higher rates over telephone channels. Today, TCM is applied in a large variety of ...

Bess 1974, Bess 1982, Bilis 2006, Bopha 2012: Chanchu 2006, Chataan 2002: Durian 2006: Fanapi 2010, Fitow 2013, Faxai 2019: ... pressure and the radii of hurricane-force and gale-force winds may also be included as well as other significant events, such as landfall or peak intensity, especially if they occur other than the six-hourly times. ...

Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that some or all elements of the Apollo program and the associated Moon landings were hoaxes staged by NASA, possibly with the aid of other organizations.The most notable claim is that the six crewed landings (1969–1972) were faked and that twelve Apollo astronauts did not actually walk on the Moon.Various groups and …

The Dujail massacre was a mass killing of Shia rebels by the Ba'athist Iraqi government on 8 July 1982 in Dujail, Iraq.The massacre was committed in retaliation to an earlier assassination attempt by the Shia iranian supported Islamic Dawa Party against the then President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein.The town of Dujail had a large Shia population, with 75,000 residents at the time of the …

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. Some pre-existing music is allowed, though, but a contending film must include a minimum of original …