✦ History

Explore December 13, 1981 – July 22, 1983

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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
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
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
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
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 Wireless Ridge 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Battle of Mount Tumbledown 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Operation Ramadan 1982-07-13 - 1982-08-03
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985
1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut 1983-04-18

People

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 68
President - India
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 43
President - Maldives
Agatha Barbara age 58
President - Malta
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 45
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 30
President - Haiti
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 74
President - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 46
President - Senegal
Hissène Habré age 39
President - Chad
Isaac Navon age 60
President - Israel
Reynaldo Bignone age 53
President - Argentina
Quett Masire age 56
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 60
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Canaan Banana age 45
President - Zimbabwe
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 66
President - Austria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 65
President - Djibouti
Sobhuza II age 82
King - Eswatini
Chadli Bendjedid age 52
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 58
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 45
President - Mali
Fernando Belaúnde age 69
President - Peru
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 57
President - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 55
Emir - Kuwait
Shehu Shagari age 56
President - Nigeria
Souphanouvong age 72
President - Laos
Didier Ratsiraka age 45
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 63
King - Tonga
Gaafar Nimeiry age 50
President - Sudan
António Ramalho Eanes age 46
President - Portugal
France-Albert René age 46
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 44
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 55
President - Dominican Republic
Patrick Hillery age 58
President - Ireland
Belisario Betancur age 58
President - Colombia
Amine Gemayel age 39
President - Lebanon
Devan Nair age 58
President - Singapore
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 75
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 48
Emir - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 35
President - Burundi
Hilla Limann age 47
President - Ghana
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 49
Emir - Qatar
Amata Kabua age 53
President - Marshall Islands
André Kolingba age 45
President - Central African Republic
Siaka Stevens age 76
President - Sierra Leone
Ahmed Abdallah age 62
President - Comoros
Haxhi Lleshi age 68
President - Albania
Julio César Turbay age 65
President - Colombia
Spiros Cyprianou age 49
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 43
King - Lesotho
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 56
President - Uruguay
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 67
President - Bolivia
Forbes Burnham age 58
President - Guyana
Hammer DeRoburt age 59
President - Nauru
Luis Herrera Campins age 56
President - Venezuela
Marais Viljoen age 66
State President - South Africa
Haruo Remeliik age 48
President - Palau
Carlos Lacoste age 52
President - Argentina
Saye Zerbo age 49
President - Burkina Faso
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 39
President - Burkina Faso
Tosiwo Nakayama age 50
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Goukouni Oueddei age 39
President - Chad
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 55
President - Costa Rica
Osvaldo Hurtado age 42
President - Ecuador
Anton Buttigieg age 69
President - Malta
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 55
President - Argentina
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 70
President - Dominican Republic
Luis Alberto Monge age 55
President - Costa Rica
Guido Vildoso age 44
President - Bolivia
Elias Sarkis age 57
President - Lebanon
Henk Chin A Sen age 47
President - Suriname
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 54
President - Honduras
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 41
President - Mauritania
Abdus Sattar age 75
President - Bangladesh
Fred Ramdat Misier age 55
President - Suriname
Kurt Furgler age 57
President - Switzerland
Celso Torrelio age 48
President - Bolivia
Álvaro Magaña age 56
President - El Salvador
Ieremia Tabai age 32
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 63
President - Myanmar
Pierre Aubert age 54
President - Switzerland
Ellis Clarke age 64
President - Trinidad and Tobago
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 66
President - Bangladesh
Fritz Honegger age 64
President - Switzerland
Ati George Sokomanu age 45
President - Vanuatu
Arístides Royo age 41
President - Panama
Policarpo Paz García age 49
President - Honduras
Viktor Avbelj age 67
President - Slovenia
Aurelius Marie age 77
President - Dominica
Ubaldo Biordi age 43
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giuseppe Maiani age 57
Captain Regent - San Marino
Joseph James Tombura age 52
President - South Sudan
Marino Venturini age 37
Captain Regent - San Marino
Libero Barulli age 34
Captain Regent - San Marino
Massimo Roberto Rossini age 36
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 60
King - Saudi Arabia
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 68
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 56
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Robert Mugabe age 57
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Lee Kuan Yew age 58
Prime Minister - Singapore
Thomas Sankara age 32
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Olof Palme age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Pierre Trudeau age 62
Prime Minister - Canada
Felipe González age 39
Prime Minister - Spain
Mário Soares age 57
Prime Minister - Portugal
Bob Hawke age 52
Prime Minister - Australia
Prem Tinsulanonda age 61
Prime Minister - Thailand
Bruno Kreisky age 70
Chancellor - Austria
Andreas Papandreou age 62
Prime Minister - Greece
Ruud Lubbers age 42
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Malcolm Fraser age 51
Prime Minister - Australia
Dries van Agt age 50
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 46
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Anerood Jugnauth age 51
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 55
Prime Minister - Spain
Wilfried Martens age 45
Prime Minister - Belgium
Michael Somare age 45
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Poul Schlüter age 52
Prime Minister - Denmark
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
Eugenia Charles age 62
Prime Minister - Dominica
Anker Jørgensen age 59
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kåre Willoch age 53
Prime Minister - Norway
Dom Mintoff age 65
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 68
Prime Minister - Albania
Kalevi Sorsa age 51
Prime Minister - Finland
Tufuga Efi age 43
Prime Minister - Samoa
Mark Eyskens age 48
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pierre Werner age 68
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 40
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Maurice Bishop age 37
Prime Minister - Grenada
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 53
Prime Minister - Iceland
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 51
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 44
Prime Minister - Portugal
Kamisese Mara age 61
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
Constantin Dăscălescu age 58
Prime Minister - Romania
Cleopa Msuya age 50
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
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 41
Prime Minister - Nepal
Ilie Verdeț age 56
Prime Minister - Romania
Lynden Pindling age 51
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mohamed Mzali age 56
Prime Minister - Tunisia
György Lázár age 57
Prime Minister - Hungary
John Compton age 56
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Bülent Ulusu age 58
Prime Minister - Turkey
Adil Çarçani age 59
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 51
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 48
Prime Minister - Senegal
Walter Lini age 39
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Mudar Badran age 47
Prime Minister - Jordan
Maati Bouabid age 54
Prime Minister - Morocco
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 54
Prime Minister - Algeria
Tomasi Puapua age 43
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Tom Adams age 50
Prime Minister - Barbados
Léon Mébiame age 47
Prime Minister - Gabon
Victor Saúde Maria age 42
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Milton Cato age 66
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 41
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Kennedy Simmonds age 45
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Moustapha Niasse age 42
Prime Minister - Senegal
Cesar Virata age 51
Prime Minister - Philippines
Shah Azizur Rahman age 56
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Chan Sy age 49
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 42
Prime Minister - Libya
Solomon Mamaloni age 38
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Edward Sokoine age 43
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 53
Prime Minister - Chad
Mabandla Dlamini age 51
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Tu'i Pelehake age 59
Prime Minister - Tonga
Bello Bouba Maigari age 34
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Shafik Wazzan age 56
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Winston Cenac age 56
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Peter Colotka age 56
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Mamane Oumarou age 36
Prime Minister - Niger
Michael Pilgrim age 34
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
Errol Alibux age 33
Prime Minister - Suriname
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 65
Prime Minister - Peru
Radivoje Brajović age 46
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Salim Ben Ali age 63
Prime Minister - Comoros
Henry Neijhorst age 41
Prime Minister - Suriname
Momčilo Cemović age 53
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hans Brunhart age 36
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Elmira Minita Gordon age 50
Governor-General - Belize
Ninian Stephen age 58
Governor-General - Australia
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 57
Governor-General - New Zealand
Gerald Cash age 64
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Kingsford Dibela age 49
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Tore Lokoloko age 51
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea