✦ 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
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
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
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
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
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Gdańsk Agreement 1980-08-31
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
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
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands 1982-04-02 - 1982-04-03
Falklands War 1982-04-02 - 1982-06-14
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

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
Ieremia Tabai age 25
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 57
President - Myanmar
Rudolf Gnägi age 58
President - Switzerland
Georges-André Chevallaz age 60
President - Switzerland
Pierre Graber age 67
President - Switzerland
Ellis Clarke age 57
President - Trinidad and Tobago
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 60
President - Bangladesh
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 57
President - Comoros
Sergej Kraigher age 61
President - Slovenia
Hans Hürlimann age 57
President - Switzerland
Fritz Honegger age 58
President - Switzerland
Ati George Sokomanu age 39
President - Vanuatu
Arístides Royo age 35
President - Panama
Policarpo Paz García age 42
President - Honduras
Lagumot Harris age 36
President - Nauru
Willi Ritschard age 57
President - Switzerland
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini age 21
Captain Regent - San Marino
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 45
President - Honduras
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil age 67
President - Turkey
Francisco Urcuyo age 60
President - Nicaragua
Viktor Avbelj age 61
President - Slovenia
Mohamed Ahmed age 58
President - Comoros
Pak Choong-hoon age 56
Acting President - South Korea
Said Atthoumani age 25
President - Comoros
Aurelius Marie age 70
President - Dominica
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 69
Captain Regent - San Marino
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 57
President - Singapore
Giuseppe Amici age 36
Captain Regent - San Marino
Horacio Liendo age 50
President - Argentina
Ubaldo Biordi age 37
Captain Regent - San Marino
Peter Gatkuoth age 37
President - South Sudan
Giuseppe Maiani age 51
Captain Regent - San Marino
Joseph James Tombura age 46
President - South Sudan
Marino Venturini age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
Víctor González Fuentes
President - Bolivia
Waldo Bernal Pereira age 44
President - Bolivia
Óscar Pammo Rodríguez age 41
President - Bolivia
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 61
President - Portugal
Saulo Musoke age 55
President - Uganda
Yoweri Hunter Wacha-Olwol age 52
President - Uganda
Giovanni Vito Marcucci age 48
Captain Regent - San Marino
Primo Marani age 52
Captain Regent - San Marino
Marino Bollini age 42
Captain Regent - San Marino
Gastone Pasolini age 43
Captain Regent - San Marino
Libero Barulli age 28
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giordano Bruno Reffi age 54
Captain Regent - San Marino
Enrico Andreoli age 54
Captain Regent - San Marino
Antonio Lazzaro Volpinari age 32
Captain Regent - San Marino
Germano De Biagi age 35
Captain Regent - San Marino
Tito Masi age 26
Captain Regent - San Marino
Clelio Galassi age 25
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 54
King - Saudi Arabia
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 62
King - Saudi Arabia
Nicolaas Diederichs age 72
State President - South Africa
Mahathir Mohamad age 50
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Robert Mugabe age 51
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Lee Kuan Yew age 52
Prime Minister - Singapore
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 36
Prime Minister - Norway
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 47
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Olof Palme age 48
Prime Minister - Sweden
Süleyman Demirel age 51
Prime Minister - Turkey
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 59
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Pierre Trudeau age 56
Prime Minister - Canada
Paul Biya age 42
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Bülent Ecevit age 50
Prime Minister - Turkey
Mário Soares age 50
Prime Minister - Portugal
Prem Tinsulanonda age 55
Prime Minister - Thailand
Bruno Kreisky age 64
Chancellor - Austria
Andreas Papandreou age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Babrak Karmal age 46
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Malcolm Fraser age 45
Prime Minister - Australia
Dries van Agt age 44
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 40
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Anerood Jugnauth age 45
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 49
Prime Minister - Spain
Wilfried Martens age 39
Prime Minister - Belgium
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 45
Prime Minister - Portugal
Abdul Razak Hussein age 53
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Joe Clark age 36
Prime Minister - Canada
Michael Somare age 39
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Poul Schlüter age 46
Prime Minister - Denmark
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 49
Prime Minister - Sweden
Leo Tindemans age 53
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eugenia Charles age 56
Prime Minister - Dominica
Anker Jørgensen age 53
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kåre Willoch age 47
Prime Minister - Norway
Nuon Chea age 49
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Ange-Félix Patassé age 38
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Joop den Uyl age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Dom Mintoff age 59
Prime Minister - Malta
Ola Ullsten age 44
Prime Minister - Sweden
Mehmet Shehu age 62
Prime Minister - Albania
Kalevi Sorsa age 44
Prime Minister - Finland
Khieu Samphan age 44
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Trygve Bratteli age 65
Prime Minister - Norway
Odvar Nordli age 48
Prime Minister - Norway
Tufuga Efi age 37
Prime Minister - Samoa
Carlos Arias Navarro age 66
Prime Minister - Spain
Mark Eyskens age 42
Prime Minister - Belgium
Elisabeth Domitien age 50
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Michael Manley age 50
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Pierre Werner age 61
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 34
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 41
Prime Minister - Portugal
George Cadle Price age 56
Premier - Belize
Martti Miettunen age 68
Prime Minister - Finland
Maurice Bishop age 31
Prime Minister - Grenada
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 45
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 38
Prime Minister - Portugal
Kamisese Mara age 55
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 75
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Georgios Rallis age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 34
Prime Minister - Portugal
Thanin Kraiwichian age 48
Prime Minister - Thailand
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 51
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Manea Mănescu age 59
Prime Minister - Romania
Miguel Trovoada age 38
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Edward Seaga age 45
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Hussein Onn age 53
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Seni Pramoj age 70
Prime Minister - Thailand
Kukrit Pramoj age 64
Prime Minister - Thailand
Constantin Dăscălescu age 52
Prime Minister - Romania
Cleopa Msuya age 44
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 63
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Kim Jong-pil age 49
Prime Minister - South Korea
Keijo Liinamaa age 46
Prime Minister - Finland
Geir Hallgrímsson age 49
Prime Minister - Iceland
Salim al-Huss age 45
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Kriangsak Chamanan age 57
Prime Minister - Thailand
Eric Williams age 64
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Julius Chan age 36
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 51
Prime Minister - Guinea
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 51
Prime Minister - Iceland
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 64
Prime Minister - Iceland
Rashid Karami age 53
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Ilie Verdeț age 50
Prime Minister - Romania
Lynden Pindling age 45
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mohamed Mzali age 49
Prime Minister - Tunisia
György Lázár age 51
Prime Minister - Hungary
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 62
Prime Minister - Iceland
John Compton age 50
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Henck Arron age 39
Prime Minister - Suriname
Bülent Ulusu age 52
Prime Minister - Turkey
Tulsi Giri age 49
Prime Minister - Nepal
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 52
Prime Minister - Portugal
Adil Çarçani age 53
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 45
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Francisco Mendes age 36
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Robert Muldoon age 54
Prime Minister - New Zealand
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 58
Prime Minister - Portugal
Hedi Amara Nouira age 64
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Òscar Ribas Reig age 39
Prime Minister - Andorra
Vere Bird age 64
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 48
Prime Minister - Nepal
Carlos Mota Pinto age 39
Prime Minister - Portugal
Habib Thiam age 42
Prime Minister - Senegal
Walter Lini age 33
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Errol Barrow age 55
Prime Minister - Barbados
Penn Nouth age 69
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Mudar Badran age 41
Prime Minister - Jordan
Rashidi Kawawa age 49
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Eric Gairy age 53
Prime Minister - Grenada
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 36
Prime Minister - Libya
Maati Bouabid age 48
Prime Minister - Morocco
Ahmed Osman age 45
Prime Minister - Morocco
Toaripi Lauti age 47
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 65
Prime Minister - Spain
Lopo do Nascimento age 35
Prime Minister - Angola
Bill Rowling age 48
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 48
Prime Minister - Algeria
Zaid al-Rifai age 39
Prime Minister - Jordan
Peter Kenilorea age 32
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tomasi Puapua age 37
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Tom Adams age 44
Prime Minister - Barbados
Pen Sovan age 39
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Léon Mébiame age 41
Prime Minister - Gabon