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November 2 – United States elections, 1982. The Republican Party loses 27 seats to the majority Democratic Party in the House . November 3 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43.41 points, or 4.25%, to close at 1,065.49, its first all-time high in more than 9 years.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 January 2025. 1982 January February March April May June July August September October November December This article is about the year 1982. For other uses, see 1982 (disambiguation). Clockwise from top-left: the Syrian Arab Army and the Defense Companies besiege the city of Hama, killing 350–400 ...
1982 events in the United States by month (12 C) / 1982 disestablishments in the United States (39 C, 16 P) 1982 establishments in the United States (58 C, 153 P) 0–9.
January 1982 events in the United States (1 C, 14 P) February 1982 events in the United States (1 C, 5 P) March 1982 events in the United States (1 C, 6 P)
By early 1982, Reagan's economic program was beset with difficulties as the recession that had begun in 1979 continued. In the short term, the effect of Reaganomics was a soaring budget deficit . Government borrowing, along with the tightening of the money supply, resulted in sky high interest rates (briefly hovering around 20 percent) and a ...
December 1982 events in North America (3 C) C. 1982 events in Canada by month (10 C) M. 1982 events in Mexico by month (4 C)
1981–1982 — The killing of 6-year-old Adam Walsh (1981), and the disappearance of Johnny Gosch, a 12-year-old newspaper carrier from Des Moines, Iowa (1982), raise awareness of missing children cases in the United States. 1983 – 241 U.S. Marines are killed by a suicide bomb in Lebanon. 1983 – The United States invades Grenada.
Israeli ambassador to the UK Shlomo Argov is shot in London, [28] an event which provokes the 1982 Lebanon War; he dies in 2003 in Israel without regaining full consciousness. The Mitcham and Morden by-election is held as a result of the sitting Labour MP (Bruce Douglas-Mann) transferring his allegiance to the new SDP.