✦ History

Explore November 20, 1975 – October 28, 1982

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Soweto uprising 1976-06-16
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Birth of Louise Brown 1978-07-25
Camp David Accords 1978-09-17 - 1978-09-17
Chinese economic reform 1978-12-18
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Sino-Vietnamese War 1979-02-17 - 1979-03-16
Egypt–Israel peace treaty 1979-03-26
Taiwan Relations Act 1979-04-10
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Operation Storm-333 1979-12-27 - 1979-12-27
Eradication of smallpox 1980-05-08
Gdańsk Agreement 1980-08-31
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27
Operation Morvarid 1980-11-29 - 1980-11-29
HIV/AIDS epidemic 1981-06-05
IBM Personal Computer 1981-08-12
Assassination of Anwar Sadat 1981-10-06
Operation Tariq al-Quds 1981-11-29 - 1981-12-07
Martial law in Poland 1981-12-13 - 1983-07-22
Operation Fath ol-Mobin 1982-03-22 - 1982-03-28
Falklands War 1982-04-02 - 1982-06-14
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands 1982-04-02 - 1982-04-03
Invasion of South Georgia 1982-04-03 - 1982-04-03
Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 1982-04-24 - 1982-05-24
Operation Paraquet 1982-04-25 - 1982-04-25
Sinking of ARA General Belgrano 1982-05-02 - 1982-05-02
Battle of San Carlos (1982) 1982-05-21 - 1982-05-25
Battle of Goose Green 1982-05-28 - 1982-05-29
Bluff Cove air attacks 1982-06-08 - 1982-06-08
Battle of Mount Harriet 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Longdon 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Two Sisters 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Tumbledown 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Battle of Wireless Ridge 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Operation Ramadan 1982-07-13 - 1982-08-03

People

John Paul I age 63
Pope - Vatican City
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 37
King - Spain
Paul VI age 78
Pope - Vatican City
Augusto Pinochet age 60
President - Chile
Suharto age 54
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 57
President - Romania
Idi Amin age 50
President - Uganda
Margrethe II of Denmark age 35
Queen - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 29
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 37
Queen - Netherlands
Park Chung-hee age 58
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 35
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 69
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 45
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 82
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 53
President - Tanzania
José Eduardo dos Santos age 33
President - Angola
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 54
President - Central African Republic
Hussein I of Jordan age 40
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 72
President - Tunisia
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 44
President - Argentina
Teodoro Obiang age 33
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hastings Banda age 85
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 45
President - Iceland
Omar Bongo age 39
President - Gabon
Jorge Rafael Videla age 50
President - Argentina
Urho Kekkonen age 75
President - Finland
Hassan II age 46
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 51
President - Zambia
Kenan Evren age 58
President - Turkey
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 51
President - Pakistan
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 38
President - Ethiopia
Sandro Pertini age 79
President - Italy
Olusegun Obasanjo age 38
President - Nigeria
Olav V of Norway age 72
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 63
President - Paraguay
Agostinho Neto age 53
President - Angola
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 53
President - Guinea
Mauno Koivisto age 52
President - Finland
Juliana of the Netherlands age 66
Queen - Netherlands
Milton Obote age 49
President - Uganda
Samora Moisés Machel age 42
President - Mozambique
Fahri Korutürk age 72
President - Turkey
Chun Doo-hwan age 44
President - South Korea
Giovanni Leone age 67
President - Italy
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 70
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 51
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 52
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 43
President - Algeria
Mathieu Kérékou age 42
President - Benin
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 70
President - India
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 20
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 56
President - Somalia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 38
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 57
President - United Arab Emirates
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 51
President - Equatorial Guinea
Jerry Rawlings age 28
President - Ghana
Zail Singh age 59
President - India
João Bernardo Vieira age 36
President - Guinea-Bissau
Leopoldo Galtieri age 49
President - Argentina
Seretse Khama age 54
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 51
President - Cameroon
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 62
President - India
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 37
President - Maldives
Agatha Barbara age 52
President - Malta
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 39
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 24
President - Haiti
Hafizullah Amin age 46
President - Afghanistan
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 68
President - Greece
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 66
President - Afghanistan
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 49
President - Nicaragua
Ziaur Rahman age 39
President - Bangladesh
Abdou Diouf age 40
President - Senegal
Hissène Habré age 33
President - Chad
Isaac Navon age 54
President - Israel
Ne Win age 64
President - Myanmar
Reynaldo Bignone age 47
President - Argentina
Quett Masire age 50
President - Botswana
David Dacko age 45
President - Central African Republic
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 54
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Canaan Banana age 39
President - Zimbabwe
Choi Kyu-hah age 56
President - South Korea
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 60
President - Austria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 59
President - Djibouti
Sobhuza II age 76
King - Eswatini
Chadli Bendjedid age 46
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 52
President - Cape Verde
Ephraim Katzir age 59
President - Israel
Moussa Traoré age 39
President - Mali
Fernando Belaúnde age 63
President - Peru
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 54
President - Bolivia
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 51
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 53
President - Venezuela
Kristján Eldjárn age 58
President - Iceland
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 63
President - India
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 49
Emir - Kuwait
Shehu Shagari age 50
President - Nigeria
Souphanouvong age 66
President - Laos
William Richard Tolbert age 62
President - Liberia
Didier Ratsiraka age 39
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 57
King - Tonga
Gaafar Nimeiry age 44
President - Sudan
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 51
President - Argentina
Hugo Banzer age 49
President - Bolivia
Joaquín Balaguer age 69
President - Dominican Republic
Luís Cabral age 44
President - Guinea-Bissau
António Ramalho Eanes age 40
President - Portugal
France-Albert René age 40
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 38
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Juan María Bordaberry age 47
President - Uruguay
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 49
President - Dominican Republic
Patrick Hillery age 52
President - Ireland
Moktar Ould Daddah age 50
President - Mauritania
Michel Micombero age 35
President - Burundi
Belisario Betancur age 52
President - Colombia
Amine Gemayel age 33
President - Lebanon
Marien Ngouabi age 36
President - Republic of the Congo
Devan Nair age 52
President - Singapore
Johan Ferrier age 65
President - Suriname
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 69
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 42
Emir - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 29
President - Burundi
Hilla Limann age 40
President - Ghana
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 76
President - Greece
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 64
President - Ireland
Murtala Muhammed age 37
President - Nigeria
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 43
Emir - Qatar
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 54
President - Peru
Arthur Chung age 57
President - Guyana
Anthony Mamo age 66
President - Malta
Amata Kabua age 47
President - Marshall Islands
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 59
President - Burkina Faso
André Kolingba age 39
President - Central African Republic
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 71
President - Pakistan
James Mancham age 36
President - Seychelles
Siaka Stevens age 70
President - Sierra Leone
Benjamin Sheares age 68
President - Singapore
Alfonso López Michelsen age 62
President - Colombia
Ahmed Abdallah age 56
President - Comoros
Haxhi Lleshi age 62
President - Albania
Julio César Turbay age 59
President - Colombia
Spiros Cyprianou age 43
President - Cyprus
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 44
President - Ghana
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 37
King - Lesotho
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 50
President - Uruguay
Luis García Meza Tejada age 46
President - Bolivia
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 61
President - Bolivia
Forbes Burnham age 52
President - Guyana
Hammer DeRoburt age 53
President - Nauru
Luis Herrera Campins age 50
President - Venezuela
Marais Viljoen age 60
State President - South Africa
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 35
President - Ecuador
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 36
President - Republic of the Congo
Fred Akuffo age 38
President - Ghana
Ibrahim Nasir age 49
President - Maldives
Haruo Remeliik age 42
President - Palau
Godfrey Binaisa age 55
President - Uganda
Carlos Lacoste age 46
President - Argentina
Saye Zerbo age 43
President - Burkina Faso
Tosiwo Nakayama age 44
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Aparicio Méndez age 71
President - Uruguay
William Gopallawa age 78
President - Sri Lanka
Goukouni Oueddei age 33
President - Chad
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 48
President - Costa Rica
Osvaldo Hurtado age 36
President - Ecuador
Anton Buttigieg age 63
President - Malta
Rabah Bitat age 49
President - Algeria
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 49
President - Argentina
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 64
President - Dominican Republic
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 37
President - Timor-Leste
Luis Alberto Monge age 49
President - Costa Rica
Tafari Benti age 54
President - Ethiopia
Suleiman Frangieh age 65
President - Lebanon
Yusuf Lule age 63
President - Uganda
Wálter Guevara age 63
President - Bolivia
David Padilla age 48
President - Bolivia
Guido Vildoso age 38
President - Bolivia
Lol Mahamat Choua age 36
President - Chad
Elias Sarkis age 51
President - Lebanon
Bernard Dowiyogo age 29
President - Nauru
Henk Chin A Sen age 41
President - Suriname
Paulo Muwanga age 51
President - Uganda
Ali Soilih age 38
President - Comoros
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 48
President - Honduras
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 62
Emir - Kuwait
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 35
President - Mauritania
Abdus Sattar age 69
President - Bangladesh
Arturo Armando Molina age 48
President - El Salvador
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly age 32
President - Mauritania
Fred Ramdat Misier age 49
President - Suriname
Kurt Furgler age 51
President - Switzerland
Alberto Demicheli age 79
President - Uruguay
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem age 59
President - Bangladesh
Juan Pereda age 44
President - Bolivia
Mustafa Ould Salek age 39
President - Mauritania
Lúcio Lara age 46
President - Angola
Celso Torrelio age 42
President - Bolivia
Alberto Natusch age 42
President - Bolivia
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 54
President - Costa Rica
Álvaro Magaña age 50
President - El Salvador