Historical Events in July 1982

Jul 1 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC
Jul 1 ABC national music radio network scheduled premiere (never happened)

Sports History

Jul 1 Cal Ripken Jr. makes the first of his record 2,216 consecutive MLB starts at shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles.

Jul 1 Challenger moves overland to Dryden
Jul 1 General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as President of Argentina
Jul 1 Kosmos 1383, 1st search & rescue satellite, launched
Jul 1 PEC Zwolle '82 soccer club renamed when purchased by Dutch businessman Marten Eibrink
Jul 2 In South Africa, the Internal Security Act is passed, giving massive powers to the authorities to investigate any organization or publication
Jul 2 Larry Walters rises to 16,000 feet over Los Angeles using a lawn chair and 42 helium balloons, [1]
Jul 2 Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
Jul 3 Riot at building site of Stopera concert hall in Amsterdam causes Ÿ1 million in damages

Jul 4 4th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia 4 (STS-4) lands at Edwards AFB

Jul 4 Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico
Jul 4 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

Jul 4 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In an all-American classic final, Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 for his second and final Wimbledon title

Jul 5 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
Jul 7 English athlete David Moorcroft beats Kenyan Henry Rono's 5000m world record by nearly 5 seconds, 13:00.41 in Oslo, Norway
Jul 8 "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 5 performances
Jul 8 15th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hotel San Diego

Jul 8 Porn star John Homes convicted of receiving stolen property
Jul 8 Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized
Jul 9 Botham scores 208 in 225 balls, England v India at The Oval
Jul 9 Michael Fagan breaks into Buckingham Palace and enters the Queen's bedroom in Buckingham Palace, London
Jul 9 Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in a storm in Kenner, Louisiana, shortly after take-off, killing 153
Jul 10 Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze
Jul 10 Rangers Larry Parrish hits his 3rd grand slam of the week

Jul 11 "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 5 performances
Jul 11 FIFA World Cup Final, Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, Spain: Italy beats West Germany, 3-1 in front of 90,000

Jul 11 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Portland GC: Miller Barber wins by 4 strokes from Dan Sykes & Gene Littler; his first of 3 Senior Open titles

Jul 12 Britain announces it is returning 593 Argentine POWs
Jul 12 FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail
Jul 13 53rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Olympic Stadium, Montreal
Jul 13 All star MVP: Dave Conception (Cincinnati Reds)
Jul 13 Iran launches first attack into Iraq
Jul 13 Train crash at Aalter Belgium, 5 killed

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Jul 14 Musical film adaptation of "Pink Floyd - The Wall", directed by Alan Parker, starring Bob Geldof, and written by Roger Waters, premieres at the Empire, Leicester Square, in London,

Jul 15 Body of Wendy Caulfield, 1st Green River victim, found near Seattle
Jul 15 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas

Jul 16 CDC report on AIDS symptoms in three hemophiliacs
Jul 16 George P. Shultz is sworn in as the 60th US Secretary of State
Jul 16 NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth

Jul 18 "Blues in the Night" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 53 performances

Jul 18 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Troon: American Tom Watson wins his 4th Open Championship, 1 stroke clear of Peter Oosterhuis and Nick Price

Jul 19 Bolivian government resigns
Jul 19 David S Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon
Jul 20 Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: 11 British soldiers and 7 military horses killed in Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attacks during military ceremonies in London
Jul 20 T Macauly & D Vosburghs musical "Windy City," premieres in London
Jul 21 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
Jul 22 Academic Text Processing Service forms in Seattle
Jul 23 FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo
Jul 23 International Whaling Commission votes for total ban on commercial whaling (starting 1985)
Jul 24 Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299
Jul 24 KHJ (LA) & KFRC (San Francisco) become 2nd & 3rd stereo AM stations
Jul 24 Revival of Carol Hall's musical "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" closes at the Eugene O'Neill Theater, NYC after 63 performances
Jul 24 Single "Eye Of The Tiger" by Survivor from "Rocky III" soundtrack starts 6-week run at #1 on US charts (Grammy for Best Rock Performance)
Jul 25 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0)

Jul 25 France performs nuclear test
Jul 25 US Open Women's Golf, Del Paso CC: Janet Anderson shoots final round 68 (−4) to claim her only LPGA Tour win, 6 strokes ahead of Beth Daniel, Donna White, JoAnne Carner and Sandra Haynie
Jul 25 Zail Singh is sworn in as the seventh President of India
Jul 26 Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket

Amitabh Bachchan Injured

Jul 26 Indian film star Amitabh Bachchan is seriously injured filming a fight scene for the movie "Coolie"

Jul 26 Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, of Canada, crowned 31st Miss Universe

Little Shop of Horrors

Jul 27 Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's musical "Little Shop of Horrors" opens Off-Broadway at the Orpheum Theatre in NYC

Gandhi Visit to the US

Jul 27 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's first visit to the US in almost 11 years

Jul 30 Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats
Jul 30 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
Jul 31 46 kids & 7 adults die as 2 buses and several cars collide near Beaune, France
Jul 31 Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria and France form American European Football Federation (AEFF)
Jul 31 USSR performs nuclear Test

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