✦ History

Explore May 2, 1982 – May 2, 1982

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Martial law in Poland 1981-12-13 - 1983-07-22
Falklands War 1982-04-02 - 1982-06-14
Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 1982-04-24 - 1982-05-24
Sinking of ARA General Belgrano 1982-05-02 - 1982-05-02

People

Malcolm Fraser age 51
Prime Minister - Australia
Dries van Agt age 51
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 46
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 56
Prime Minister - Spain
Wilfried Martens age 46
Prime Minister - Belgium
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 56
Prime Minister - Sweden
Eugenia Charles age 63
Prime Minister - Dominica
Anker Jørgensen age 59
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kåre Willoch age 53
Prime Minister - Norway
Dom Mintoff age 65
Prime Minister - Malta
Kalevi Sorsa age 51
Prime Minister - Finland
Pierre Werner age 68
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 40
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Maurice Bishop age 37
Prime Minister - Grenada
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 52
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 44
Prime Minister - Portugal
Kamisese Mara age 62
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 81
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 57
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Edward Seaga age 51
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Cleopa Msuya age 51
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 69
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Julius Chan age 42
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 58
Prime Minister - Guinea
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 71
Prime Minister - Iceland
Ilie Verdeț age 57
Prime Minister - Romania
Lynden Pindling age 52
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mohamed Mzali age 56
Prime Minister - Tunisia
György Lázár age 57
Prime Minister - Hungary
Bülent Ulusu age 59
Prime Minister - Turkey
Adil Çarçani age 60
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 52
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Robert Muldoon age 60
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Òscar Ribas Reig age 45
Prime Minister - Andorra
Vere Bird age 71
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Habib Thiam age 49
Prime Minister - Senegal
Walter Lini age 40
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Mudar Badran age 48
Prime Minister - Jordan
Maati Bouabid age 54
Prime Minister - Morocco
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 55
Prime Minister - Algeria
Tomasi Puapua age 43
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Tom Adams age 50
Prime Minister - Barbados
Léon Mébiame age 47
Prime Minister - Gabon
Milton Cato age 66
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Kennedy Simmonds age 46
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Cesar Virata age 51
Prime Minister - Philippines
Chan Sy age 50
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 43
Prime Minister - Libya
Solomon Mamaloni age 39
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Mabandla Dlamini age 51
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Tu'i Pelehake age 60
Prime Minister - Tonga
Shafik Wazzan age 57
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Peter Colotka age 57
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Michael Pilgrim age 35
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Ali Mroudjaé age 42
Prime Minister - Comoros
Nalumino Mundia age 54
Prime Minister - Zambia
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 59
Prime Minister - Peru
Henry Neijhorst age 42
Prime Minister - Suriname
Momčilo Cemović age 53
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Elmira Minita Gordon age 51
Governor-General - Belize
Zelman Cowen age 62
Governor-General - Australia
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 70
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 72
Governor-General - Jamaica
David Beattie age 58
Governor-General - New Zealand
Gerald Cash age 64
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tore Lokoloko age 51
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 20
Donald Trump age 35
Michael Jackson age 23
Vladimir Putin age 29
Nelson Mandela age 63
George W. Bush age 35
Bill Gates age 26
Pope Francis age 45
Steve Jobs age 27
Bill Clinton age 35
Angela Merkel age 27
Neil Armstrong age 51
François Hollande age 27
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 4
Gabriel García Márquez age 55
Mikhail Gorbachev age 51
Elon Musk age 10
Stephen Hawking age 40
Jimmy Carter age 57
Emmanuel Macron age 4
Benedict XVI age 55
Mother Teresa age 71
Hillary Clinton age 34
Kamala Harris age 17
Nicolas Sarkozy age 27
Richard Nixon age 69
Xi Jinping age 28
Naruhito age 22
Hugo Chávez age 27
Simone de Beauvoir age 74
Muammar Gaddafi age 39
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 28
Muhammad Ali age 40
Kofi Annan age 44
Charles III age 33
Osama bin Laden age 25
Lech Wałęsa age 38
Gerald Ford age 68
Leo XIV age 26
Diego Maradona age 21
Narendra Modi age 31
Rafael Correa age 19
Aung San Suu Kyi age 36
Benjamin Netanyahu age 32
Dmitry Medvedev age 16
14th Dalai Lama age 46
Silvio Berlusconi age 45
Shinzo Abe age 27
Tim Berners-Lee age 26
Boris Yeltsin age 51
Jacques Chirac age 49
Guillermo Lasso age 26
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 63
Alexander Lukashenko age 27
Tony Blair age 29
Yasser Arafat age 52
David Cameron age 15
Linus Torvalds age 12
Ban Ki-moon age 37
Boris Johnson age 17
Diana, Princess of Wales age 20
Bashar al-Assad age 16
Benazir Bhutto age 28
Jair Bolsonaro age 27
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 36
Theresa May age 25
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 25
Henry Kissinger age 58
Václav Havel age 45
Rishi Sunak age 1
Justin Trudeau age 10
Nicolás Maduro age 19
Dilma Rousseff age 34
Milton Friedman age 69
Valentina Tereshkova age 45
Pol Pot age 56
Ilham Aliyev age 20
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 43
António Guterres age 33
Akihito age 48
Helmut Kohl age 52
Rosa Parks age 69
Gordon Brown age 31
Shimon Peres age 58
Giorgia Meloni age 5
Olaf Scholz age 23
Keir Starmer age 19
Willy Brandt age 68
Gerhard Schröder age 38
Hassan Rouhani age 33
Hu Jintao age 39
Evo Morales age 22
Joko Widodo age 20
Petro Poroshenko age 16
Mikheil Saakashvili age 14
Liz Truss age 6
Ursula von der Leyen age 23
Mike Pence age 22
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 29
Michelle Bachelet age 30
Ariel Sharon age 54
Felipe VI of Spain age 14
Desmond Tutu age 50
Viktor Yanukovych age 31
Mohamed Morsi age 30
Viktor Orbán age 18
Sergio Mattarella age 40
Manmohan Singh age 49
Pervez Musharraf age 38
Yuri Andropov age 67
Julia Gillard age 20
Abdullah Gül age 31
Lech Kaczyński age 32
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 26
Jeff Bezos age 18
Buzz Aldrin age 52
Mohammad Khatami age 38
Yitzhak Rabin age 60
Tsai Ing-wen age 25
Mariano Rajoy age 27
Andrei Sakharov age 60
Condoleezza Rice age 27
Raúl Castro age 50
Sheikh Hasina age 34
Giorgio Napolitano age 56
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 41
Mark Rutte age 15
Idi Amin age 57
Yulia Tymoshenko age 21
Rodrigo Duterte age 37
Abdullah II of Jordan age 20
Stephen Harper age 23
Donald Tusk age 25
Corazon Aquino age 49