Question: what were major events that happened in 1982?
Answer: Carlos the Jackal. Wave of Terrorist attacks in France by Carlos the Jackal.
Record low temperatures. All time record lows in dozens of cities throughout the Midwestern United States.
Lebanon. ... 
Sinai. ... 
$9,800,000 is stolen. ... 
USA Today. ... 
EPCOT Opens. ... 
IRA bombing campaign in London.