What Happened in May 1982

Historical Events

Radio Premiere

May 3 President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts

May 4 British destroyer HMS Sheffield hit by Exocet rocket off Falkland Islands: 20 of her crew died.
May 4 NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final: New York Islanders beat Quebec Nordiques, 4 games to 0
May 4 Twins rookie outfielder Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, removes himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans
May 6 NHL Clarence Campbell Conference Final: Vancouver Canucks beat Chicago Black Hawks, 4 games to 1

Sports History

May 6 Seattle Mariners Gaylord Perry becomes 15th pitcher to win 300 games

May 7 "Is There Life after High School?" opens at Barrymore Theatre, NYC; runs for 12 performances
May 7 Californian federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing Oakland Raiders move to Los Angeles Coliseum
May 7 IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
May 7 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Nine

May 9 Arthur Kopit's musical "Nine" premieres in NYC

May 10 WABC joins ABC's All Talk radio network

Radio History

May 10 WABC radio (NYC) plays its last record - John Lennon's "Imagine" - and switches to all-talk format

May 12 FC Barcelona of Spain win 22nd European Cup Winner's Cup against Standard Liège of Belgium 2-1 in Barcelona

Assassination Attempt on John Paul II

May 12 In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish Traditionalist priest who opposed Vatican II reforms and saw Pope John Paul II as a perpetrator of them, is stopped prior to his attempt to attack the Pope with a bayonet

May 12 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is awarded to John Updike for novel 'Rabbit Is Rich'
May 12 US Football League forms
May 13 Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy
May 13 Chicago Cubs win their 8,000th (beat Astros)
May 13 Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space
May 13 Terri Lea Utley, 20 (Arkansas) crowned 31st Miss USA
May 14 Guinea adopts constitution
May 15 107th Preakness: Jack Kaenel aboard Aloma's Ruler wins in 1:55.4
May 16 "Barnum" closes at St James Theater NYC after 854 performances
May 16 "Is There Life After High School?" closes at Barrymore after 12 performances
May 16 Columbia moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating in preparation for STS-4
May 16 Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep
May 16 Stanley Cup Final, Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC: 3-peat for NY Islanders; sweep Vancouver Canucks in 4 games with a 3-1 Game 4 win
May 18 Tigers outfielder Larry Herndon is 14th to hit 4 consecutive HRs
May 18 Unification Church founder Rev Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion

Film & TV History

May 19 Sophia Loren jailed in Naples, Italy for tax evasion

May 21 "WKRP in Cincinnati", an ensemble TV sitcom created by Hugh Wilson and set in a struggling radio station, 90th and final episode airs on CBS
May 21 British troops land on Falkland Islands, in the South Atlantic, to repel Argentine military invasion
May 23 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina
May 23 Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
May 23 Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders a saint
May 24 Liberation of Khorramshahr; Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran-Iraq War

Baseball Record

May 25 Ferguson Jenkins becomes 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters

Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and Coach Ferguson Jenkins

May 25 Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar
May 25 STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad
May 26 26th European Cup: Aston Villa beats Bayern Munich 1-0 at Rotterdam
May 26 35th Cannes Film Festival: "Missing" directed by Costa Gavras and "Yol" directed by Serif Goren and Yilmaz Güney jointly awarded the Palme d'Or
May 26 British ship Atlantic Conveyor carrying Chinook helicopters and destroyer HMS Coventry hit in Falkland war: 39 crew members die
May 27 Musical "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?", after successful runs in Chicago and Philadelphia, opens at Alvin Theatre, NYC; runs for 5 performances
May 27 New owners headed by John McMullen buy NHL's Colorado Rockies and move the team to the New Jersey Meadowlands under the new name NJ Devils
May 28 Leonard Maltin's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
May 28 Pope John Paul II is 1st reigning pope to visit Great Britain (Adrian IV was born in England, as Nicholas Breakspear)
May 29 "I Know What Boys Like" by The Waitresses hits #62
May 29 1st papal visit to Britain since 1531
May 29 Pentagon plans 1st strategy to fight a nuclear war
May 30 Indianapolis 500: Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds; closest finish in Indy 500 history to that point
May 30 Musical "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?", after successful runs in Chicago and Philadelphia, closes at Alvin Theatre, NYC, after 5 performances
May 30 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO
May 31 "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 63 performances

Events in 1982

Famous Birthdays

May 1 Ambrose Akinmusire, American avant-garde jazz trumpeter and composer (The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint), born in Oakland, California
May 1 Beto, Portuguese soccer goalkeeper (16 caps; Sevilla, Göztepe S.K.), born in Lisbon, Portugal
May 1 Darijo Srna, Croatian soccer defender (134 caps; Shakhtar Donetsk 339 games), born in Metković, Croatia

Jamie Dornan (41 years old)

May 1 Irish actor (Fifty Shades of Grey), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland

May 1 Justė Janulytė, Lithuanian contemporary classical composer (Observation Of Clouds; The Color of Water), born in Vilnius, Lithuania
May 1 Katya [Brian McCook] American drag queen, comedian and TV performer (The Trixie and Katya Show), born in Boston, Massachusetts
May 1 Tommy Robredo, Spanish tennis player (12 ATP titles), born in Hostalric, Spain
May 2 Lorie [Laure Pester], French singer, born in Le Plessis-Bouchard, Île-de-France
May 3 Danielle Deadwyler, American actress (Till), born in Atlanta, Georgia
May 3 Igor Olshansky, Ukrainian-American football player, born in Dnipro, Ukraine
May 3 Rebecca Hall, British stage and screen actress (Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Frost/Nixon; Christine), and filmmaker (Passing), born in London, England m.
May 4 Hector King, Mexican singer and songwriter, born in Culiacán, Mexico
May 4 Markus Rogan, Austrian swimmer (World C'ship [SC] gold 200m backstroke 2008; Olympic silver 100m/200m backstroke 2004), born in Vienna, Austria
May 5 Jay Bothroyd, English footballer (striker for J1 League club Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo), born in London
May 5 Randall Gay, American NFL player (New Orleans Saints), born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
May 5 Wouter D'Haene, Belgian flatwater canoer, born in Kortrijk, Belgium
May 6 David Vencl, Czech free-diver (record ice dive without a wetsuit), born in Vrchlabí, Czechoslovakia
May 7 Akos Buzsaky, Hungarian Football player
May 7 Matt Gaetz, American politician (Rep-R-Fla 2017-), born in Hollywood, Florida
May 8 Adrian Gonzalez, American-Mexican baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers), born in San Diego, California
May 8 Anthony Roth Costanzo, American operatic countertenor (Akhnaten), actor, and educator, born in Durham, North Carolina
May 9 Rachel Boston, American actress
May 10 Daniel Harris, Australian rules footballer
May 10 Despina Caldis, Greek-Australian actress
May 10 Jeremy Gable, American playwright
May 11 Andrew Walter, American football player

Cory Monteith (1982-2013)

May 11 Canadian actor and singer (Glee; Monte Carlo), born in Calgary, Alberta

May 11 Jonathan Jackson, actor (Lucky-General Hospital), born in Orlando Florida
May 13 Ana Cabrera, American journalist and TV news anchor (CNN), born in Denver, Colorado
May 13 Drew Holcomb, American singer-songwriter, and bandleader (Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors), born in Memphis, Tennesee
May 13 Oguchi Onyewu, American footballer, born in Washington D.C.
May 13 Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol
May 14 Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
May 14 BeardyMan, English beatboxer
May 15 Alex Breckenridge, American actress
May 15 Jessica Sutta, American dancer, singer-songwriter, and actress (The Pussycat Dolls), born in Miami, Florida
May 15 Segundo Castillo, Ecuadorian soccer midfielder (87 caps; CD El Nacional, Red Star Belgrade, FC Barcelona), born in San Lorenzo, Ecuador
May 15 Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor
May 15 Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican athlete (Olympic gold 200m 2004, 08; 4×100m relay 2004; silver 4×100m relay 2000, 12, 16; bronze 100m 2004, 12), born in Clarks Town, Jamaica
May 16 Hanna Mariën, Belgian athlete
May 16 Joo Ji Hoon, Korean actor and model
May 16 Łukasz Kubot, Polish tennis player
May 17 Hunter Mahan, American golfer (World Matchplay 2012; Ryder Cup 2014), born in Orange, California
May 17 Tony Parker, French basketball guard (NBA C'ship 2003, 05, 07, 14; NBA Finals MVP 2007; 6 × NBA All-Star; San Antonio Spurs), born in Bruges, Belgium
May 18 Jason Brown, English-born footballer, born in London, England
May 19 Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer
May 19 Pål Steffen Andresen, Norwegian footballer
May 20 Imran Farhat, Pakistani cricketer
May 20 Petr Čech, Czech footballer
May 21 Ma'a Nonu, New Zealand rugby union player and All Black, born in Wellington, New Zealand
May 21 Tay Zonday [Adam Bahner], American singer-songwriter ("Chocolate Rain"), and YouTube personality, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 22 Apolo Anton Ohno, American short track speed skater
May 22 John Bobek, American actor
May 23 Cyrill Gloor, Swiss footballer
May 23 Malene Mortensen, Danish jazz and pop singer and songwriter, born in Denmark
May 23 Tristan Prettyman, American singer-songwriter, born in Del Mar, California
May 24 Bill Haas, American golfer (6 PGA Tour titles), born in Charlotte, North Carolina
May 24 DaMarcus Beasley, American footballer (Houston Dynamo), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana
May 24 Issah Ahmed, Ghanaian football player, born in Dawu, Ghana
May 25 Adam Boyd, English footballer, born in Hartlepool, England
May 25 Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer, born in Oslo, Norway
May 25 Rasheeda [Buckner-Frost], American hiphop singer, born in Decatur, Illinois
May 25 Ryan Gallant, American professional skateboarder, born in Southboro, Massachusetts
May 26 David Reed, British writer and comedian
May 26 Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model
May 28 Alexa Davalos, American actress
May 28 Jhonny Peralta, Dominican MLB baseball shortstop, 2003-17, 3X All-Star (Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Cardinals), born in Santiago, Dominican Republic
May 29 Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model (Sports Illustrated), born in Itabira, Brazil
May 29 Joanne Borgella, American plus-sized model and singer, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2014)
May 29 Kim Tae-kyun, South Korean baseball 1st baseman (KBO Triple Crown 2005, 08), born in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province
May 29 Nataliya Dobrynska, Ukrainian heptathlete (Olympic gold 2008), born in Yakushyntsi, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine
May 31 Jonathan Tucker, American actor (Kingdom), born in Boston, Massachusetts

Born in 1982

Famous Weddings

Kate Jackson

May 1 Actress Kate Jackson (33) weds business executive David Greenwald in Beverly Hills, California

Akira Toriyama

May 2 Akira Toriyama marries Yoshimi Katō

Famous Deaths

May 1 Gene Sheldon, actor (Bernardo-Zorro), dies at 72
May 1 William Primrose, Scottish violist (Method for Violin & Viola), dies at 77
May 2 Helmut Dantine, Austrian-American actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies of a heart attack at 64
May 2 Hugh Marlowe [Hipple], American actor (All About Eve, Ellery Queen), dies from a heart attack at 71
May 5 Cal Tjader, American Latin jazz vibraphonist, dies of a heart attack at 56
May 6 Sam Baker, American silent film actor (The Missing Link; The Lost City; The Sea Beast), dies at 75
May 7 Alfred Adam, French character actor, dies at 72
May 8 Al Leader, Canadian-American Hockey Hall of Fame player, referee and administrator (Western Hockey League), dies at 78
May 8 Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian auto racer (World F1 runner-up 1979; Ferrari), dies in a practice accident prior to Belgian GP, at 32
May 8 Neil Bogart, American record executive (b. 1943)
May 9 Ab Visser, Dutch poet and writer (Man Without a Head), dies at 69
May 10 Jean Picart le Doux, French artist and tapestry designer, dies at 80
May 10 Peter Weiss, German author and playwright (Marat/Sade), dies at 65
May 11 Leigh Snowden [Martha Lee Estes], American actress (All That Heaven Allows), dies of cancer at 51
May 11 Piet van Egmond, Dutch organist and conductor (Netherlands Chamber Orchestra), dies at 70
May 12 Humphrey Searle, British composer and musicologist (Twentieth Century Counterpoint; The Music of Franz Liszt), dies at 66
May 13 Gara Garayev [Kara Karayev], Soviet-Azerbaijani composer (Seven Beauties), dies at 64
May 13 Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer, dies at 74
May 14 Hugh Beaumont, American actor (The Mole People, Leave it to Beaver), dies from a heart attack at 73
May 14 Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister who unsuccessfully attempted to establish a Belgian government in London during World War II, dies at 80
May 25 Larry J. Blake, American actor (Earth vs the Flying Saucers), dies at 68
May 26 Nanny Larsén-Todsen, Swedish opera singer, dies at 97
May 28 Lt Col 'H'. Jones VC, Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment (British Army) (Falklands War) (b. 1940)
May 29 Romy Schneider, actress (Cardinal), dies of cardiac arrest at 43

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