February 5- London-based Laker Airways collapses, leaving 6,000 stranded passengers and debts of $270 million.
March 19- Argentines land on South Georgia Island, sparking the Falklands War.
March 29- Chariots of Fire wins Best Picture in the 54th Academy Awards.
April 25- Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty.
May 2- The Weather Channel airs on cable television for the first time.
May 5- Unabomber detonates bomb in the computer science department at Vanderbilt University.
June 5- The first Rubik's Cube World Championships is held in Budapest, Hungary.
July 2- "Lawn Chair Larry" flies 16,000 feet above Long Beach, California in a lawn chair with weather balloons attached.
September 21- The first International Day of Peace (United Nations).
October 1- Walt Disney World opens Epcot.
October 1- Sony releases the first consumer CD player.
November 3- A gasoline tanker explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing at least 2,000 people.
November 3- The Dow Jones Industrial Average 4.25% to reach its first all-time high in more than 9 years.
November 30- Michael Jackson releases Thriller, the biggest selling album of all time.
December 2- Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart. (Fire is associated with the heart meridian).
1982 (9 Fire Year / 6 Metal 9-Year Cycle / 9 Fire 81-Year Cycle)
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