1982

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1982 () was a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar. It was declared:

International Year of Mobilization for the Imposition of Sanctions against South Africa by the United Nations.

Events
January

1 January: New York, Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar takes over as Secretary General of the United Nations.
7 January: In Vatican City, Pope John Paul II condemns the Israeli annexation of the Golan territories.
7 January: In Aachen, Germany, the king of Spain, John Charles I, is awarded the Carlomagno Prize, first awarded to a sovereign.
11 January: the statutes of the Spanish autonomous communities of Asturias, Andalusia and Cantabria are promulgated.
January 13: In Washington D.C., Air Florida Flight 90 is on a highway and falls to the Potomac River: 74 occupants die, 4 people are on the ground and 4 other occupants survive.
January 14: In Andorra, the first Andorran government, chaired by Óscar Ribas Reig, took office.
January 16: The first chapter of the Colombian television program Don Chinche is broadcast.
22 January: In Chile, the politician Eduardo Frei Montalva (president between 1964 and 1970) is killed. A cable from the American embassy in Santiago de Chile - filtered by WikiLeaks - noted the complicity of doctors from the Department of Pathological Anatomy of the Pontifical Catholic University, who - by orders of the Pinochet military dictatorship - poisoned the former with sulfuric mustard and talum.
27 January: In Honduras, the civilian Roberto Suazo Córdova is granted the presidency after a decade of military dictatorship.

February
4 February: in Suriname, Desi Bouterse, head of the National Military Council, dismissed Hendrick Chin A Sen.
February 5: In Vizcaya, Basque businessman Lipperheide is released by the terrorist band ETA after paying 20 million pesetas of rescue.
February 7: In Costa Rica, Social Democrat Luis Alberto Monge wins the country's presidential elections.
8 February: In Suriname, Desi Bouterse (military leader of the army) appoints L. F. Ramdat Misier as interim president.
10 February: the regulations governing the functioning of the Congress of Deputies are approved in Spain.
February 14: In the United States, Stanford University physicists claim to have managed to detect a magnetic monopoly.
15 February: On the coast of Newfoundland Island, Canada, a violent storm boosts an oil platform, resulting in 84 deaths.
15 February: the cave of Altamira is reopened in Spain.
February 16: In Colombia, the MAS rescues Martha Nieves Ochoa (kidnapped by the M-19 guerrilla movement since November 12, 1981).
February 17: The I Feria- Exhibition of Contemporary Art, ARCO-82, is closed in Madrid (Spain).
18 February: in Spain the trial of those involved in the