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Events from the year 1982 in the United Kingdom.
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- January 10 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire. This equals the record set in the same place in 1895, and the record will be equalled again at Altnaharra in 1995.[1]
- January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara during Paris-Dakar rally.[2][3]
- January 14 - Mark Thatcher is found safe and well in the Sahara Desert, six days after going missing.
- February 5 - Laker Airways collapses, leaving 6,000 passengers stranded, with debts of £270 million.[4]
- February 19 - The DeLorean Car factory in Belfast is put into receivership.
- 25 February - The European Court of Justice rules that schools in Britain cannot allow corporal punishment against the wishes of parents.[5]
- March 3 - The Queen opens the Barbican Centre.[6]
- March 18 - An obscenity trial brought by Mary Whitehouse against the National Theatre concerning the play The Romans in Britain ends after the Attorney General intervenes.[7][8]
- March 18 - An Argentinean scrap metal dealer raises the Argentinean flag in South Georgia, Falkland Islands - a British colony.
- March 19 - Argentines land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war.
- March 29 - Royal Assent in London to the Canada Act 1982 sets the stage for the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution (see April 17 below).
- April 2 - Falklands War begins as Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.[1]
- April 4 - Falklands War: The British Falkland Islands government surrenders, placing the islands in Argentinean control.
- April 17 - By Proclamation of the Queen of Canada on Parliament Hill, Canada repatriates its constitution, granting full political independence from the United Kingdom; included is the country's first entrenched bill of rights.
- April 24 - Eurovision Song Contest is held in Harrogate, Yorkshire.
- May 1 - Falklands War: Operation Black Buck- A Royal Air Force Vulcan bomber takes off from Ascension Island and bombs Port Stanley Airport.
- May 2 - Falklands War: The nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano.
- May 21 - Falklands War: Royal Marines and paratroopers from the British Task Force land at San Carlos Bay on the Falkland Islands and raise the Union Jack.
- May 23 - Falklands War: HMS Antelope of the Royal Navy explodes.
- May 27 - Tottenham Hotspur win the FA Cup beating QPR 1-0 in a replay.
- May 28 - Falklands War: British troops reach Darwin in the Falkland Islands.
- May 29
- May 31 - Falklands War: The Battle of Stanley is fought.
- June 3 - Israeli ambassador to the UK, Shlomo Argov, shot outside the Dorchester Hotel.[10]
- June 8 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan becomes the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament.
- June 14 - The Falklands War ends as British forces reach the outskirts of Stanley after "yomping" across East Falkland from San Carlos Bay. They arrive to find the Argentine forces flying white flags of surrender. A formal surrender is agreed that day.
- June 16 - Welsh miners go on strike to support health workers demanding a 12% pay rise.[11]
- June 19 - The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi, chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
- June 22 - A British Airways Boeing 747 suffers a temporary four-engine flameout and damage to the exterior of the plane, after flying through the otherwise undetected ash plume from Indonesia's Galunggung.
- July 20 - Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in central London, killing 8 soldiers, wounding 47 people, and leading to the deaths of 7 horses.
- July 21 - HMS Hermes, the Royal Navy flagship during the Falklands War, returns home to Portsmouth to a hero's welcome.
- July 22 - Production of the Ford Cortina ends after 20 years and five incarnations (the final two of which were virtually identical). The Cortina's successor, the Sierra, will be built at Dagenham and in Belgium, though in slightly lower volumes as the smaller Escort is now Ford's strongest-selling car.
- 11 October - The Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII of England that sank in 1545, is raised.[12]
- 12 October - A victory parade is held in London to mark the end of the Falklands war.
- 13 October - The Ford Sierra is launched as replacement for the long-running Cortina, and its ultra-modern aerodynamic styling causes controversy among potential buyers who for years had been drawn to the conventional Cortina.
- October 21 - Sinn Féin win first seats on Northern Ireland Assembly, with Gerry Adams winning the Belfast West seat.[13]
- October 27 - Three RUC officers killed by an IRA bomb near Lurgan in Northern Ireland.[14]
- November 1 - The Welsh language station, S4C, launches in Wales.
- November 2 - The fourth terrestrial television channel is launched in the England, Scotland and Northern Ireland (known as Channel 4) with the first programme broadcast being the game show Countdown, which is still in production.
- November 7 - The Thames Barrier is first publicly demonstrated.
- November 30 - A letter bomb explodes in 10 Downing Street sent by Animal rights activists with packages sent to the leaders of the other political parties. One member of Downing Street staff was burnt.[15]
- December 12 - Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp: 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence.
- December 15 - The British colony of Gibraltar gains a pedestrian link to Spain, as the gates which separated the two states were re-opened by the Spanish government after 13 years.
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- 4 January - Richard Logan, footballer
- 16 January – Samuel Preston, singer
- 25 February - Chris Baird, footballer
- 9 March - Paul Ballard, television presenter
- 10 May - Adebayo Akinfenwa, footballer
- 19 May - Kevin Amankwaah, footballer
- 7 June - Amy Nuttall, actress and opera singer
- 21 June - Prince William of Wales, prince
- 13 July - Simon Clist, footballer
- 3 September - Fearne Cotton, television presenter
- 22 September - Billie Piper, singer and actress
- 30 September - Michelle Marsh, model
- 8 October - Glenn Kirkham, field hockey player
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