The following events occurred in June 1982:
June 1, 1982 (Tuesday) The U.S. Supreme Court rendered its opinion in United States v. Ross, holding, by a 6 to 3 decision, that the a search without a warrant, of closed containers found inside a vehicle during a legal stop, was acceptable under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Norfolk Southern Railway was created in the United States by the merger of the Norfolk and Western Railway and the Southern Railway. Born: Justine Henin, Belgian professional tennis player, winner of the women's singles at the French Open (2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007) and the Australian Open (2004), and ranked No. 1 in the world by WTA for 117 weeks; in Liege Died: Evelyn Lagu, 41, Ugandan singer and actress, died of kidney failure.
June 2, 1982 (Wednesday) Golden Fleece, ridden by Pat Eddery, won Britain's premier thoroughbred horce race, the Epsom Derby. Born in the U.S. at Lexington, Kentucky, Golden Fleece was sired by the 1970 English Triple Crown winner, Nijinsky. Born: Jewel Staite, Canadian TV actress, known for the starring role in the Global TV series Family Law in White Rock, British Columbia Died: Fazal Chaudhry, 78, President of Pakistan from 1973 to 1978 Emory Collins, 77, American sprint car driver Herbert Quandt, 71, German industrialist and Nazi known for using slave labor from concentration camps to work at the Pertrix GmBH chemical factory, as well as for rescuing the BMW motor company from bankruptcy.
June 3, 1982 (Thursday) In London, an assassination attempt, that would lead to the invasion and bombing of Lebanon by Israel, took place as terrorist Hussein Ghassan Said shot and seriously wounded Shlomo Argov, Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom. Shortly after 11 p.m., Argov had departed a banquet at the Dorchester Hotel and was approached by three men from the Abu Nidal Organization as he walked out onto Park Lane. The would-be assassin, Said, was shot in the head by a member of London's Metropolitan Police Diplomatic Protection Group, assigned to guard Argov. In Kowloon in Hong Kong, at the Un Chau Estate public housing complex, 34 kindergarten students were stabbed, four of them fatally, by a schizophrenic man who had entered the Anne Anne Kindergarten. Earlier in the afternoon, Lee Chi-hang had killed his mother and his sister. The incident prompted an upgrade in security measures at Hong Kong schools, as well as compulsory out-patient treatment for persons discharged from housing institutions. In the U.S., a group of arsonists in Boston set fire to the Spero Toy Company in the South Boston neighborhood and caused $13.5 million in damage, beginning a wave of major arson fires in and around the Massachusetts city. Shortly after the Boston Fire Department had to reduce its workforce from 2,000 to 1,400 and closed 22 of its 77 fire stations, the arsonists had started a pattern of setting fires early on Friday mornings during the summer. The following Friday, 30 fires were started and 101 on June 18. Born: Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter and Olympic gold medalist in 2004 and 2008; in Volgograd, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Died: Robert Gottschalk, 64, American inventor of the first underwater camera, the first wide-screen photography and projection system (the Ultra Panavision MGM Camera 65), and the Panaflex camera, winner of two Academy Awards, was beaten and stabbed to death by his life partner Ronnie Chuman, three weeks after adding Chuman to his will. Sergey Balasanian, 79, Soviet Armenian composer who wrote the first Tajik language opera (The Uprising at Vosse, in 1939), followed by Blacksmith Kova (1941) and Bakhtior and Nisso (1954) Peter Carter, 48, British and Canadian film director known for Klondike Fever (1979), died of a heart attack.
June 4, 1982 (Friday) The films Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Poltergeist premiered across North America on the same day, and would go on to become the sixth and eighth highest-grossing films of 1982, with $97 million worldwide for Star Trek II and $77 million worldwide for Poltergeist. Born: MC Jin (stage name for Jin Au-Yeung), American-born Hong Kong rapper, actor and comedian; in Miami, Florida Died: Jabulile Nyawose, 33, South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, was killed, along with her husband Petrus, by a car bomb placed outside their house in Manzini in Swaziland, where they were living in exile. Sixteen years later, after the fall of apartheid, an investigative commission would conclude that the killings had been approved by the South African government. Kumar (stage name for Syed Ali Hasan Zaidi, 78, Indian and Pakistani film actor and producer known for Al Hilal and Mughal-e-Azam Julius Ashkin, 61, American theoretical physicist
June 5, 1982 (Saturday) The United Nations Security Council voted, 15 to 0, to approve UNSC Resolution 508, calling on both Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization "to cease immediately and simultaneously all military activities within Lebanon and across the Lebanese-Israeli border and not later than 0600 hours, local time, on Sunday, 6 June 1982."
The first Rubik's Cube World Championship was held in Budapest with challengers from 19 nations competing to be the fastest to solve the 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube. Minh Thai of the United States won the competition with a speed of 22.95 seconds, and was presented the first prize, a gold-plated Rubik's Cube, by inventor Ernő Rubik. Another competition would not be held for 21 years. Born: Zvjezdan Misimović, German-born Bosnian footballer with 84 caps for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team; in Munich, West Germany Achille Emaná, Cameroonian footballer with 42 caps for the Cameroon national team; in Yaoundé
June 6, 1982 (Sunday) Israeli forces invaded southern Lebanon on orders of Israel's Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. At 11:00 in the morning, more than 250 Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers, along with thousands of soldiers, crossed the Israel-Lebanon border and proceeded past the observation posts of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force. "Operation Peace for the Galilee" would eventually reach as far north as the outskirts of Beirut, the Lebanses capital. The first clash between the Israeli Defense Forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization began as the Battle of the Beaufort, an assault by the IDF against the 800-year-old Beaufort Castle. The IDF captured the castle the next day, albeit with the deaths of six of the 88 soldiers of the Golani Brigade, and 24 of the PLO defenders, as well as the capture of an Israeli fighter pilot who was shot down. The new government of Guatemala, led by General Efraín Ríos Montt, implemented its "Victoria 82" plan, changing the government's counterinsurgency program against leftist guerrillas from one of genocide against members of the Mayan minority to a combination of scorched-earth tactics and social welfare programs, along with incentives for Mayan and other rural civilians to join newly created "civilian self-defense patrols"."Plan de campaña Victoria 82, Anexo 'H': Ordenes Permanentes para el Desarrollo de Operaciones Contrasubversivas" (Victoria 82 Campaign Plan, Appendix H: Standing Orders for Conducting Counter-Subversive Operations) In an incident of "friendly fire" in the Falklands War, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff killed all four British Army servicemen who were flying in a Gazelle helicopter. The crew of Cardiff misidentified the British helicopter as an Argentine C-130 Hercules transport airplane and fired a Sea Dart missile to down the British craft.
June 7, 1982 (Monday)
In the African nation of Chad, rebel leader Hissène Habré and his followers from the Forces Armées du Nord (FAN) took control of the capital, N'Djamena, without opposition as President Goukouni Oueddei and much of his coalition government fled. Upon becoming the new chief of state, Habre began a reign of terror against people whom he considered to be his opponents, including supporters of Gpilpimo, and formed a secret police force, the DDS (Directorate of Documentation and Security) to arrest, torture and execute dissidents. Graceland, the mansion owned by the late singer Elvis Presley, was opened as a tourist attraction in Memphis, Tennessee, and would become the second most visited home in the United States, second only to the White House. The government of Uruguay's President, General Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, began a transition from military to civilian rule, allowing the South American nation's three traditional political parties (The Blancos, the Colorados, and the Civic Union) to resume political activities, but continued the ban against leftist parties. Elections would be held on November 28 for party delegates. The tall freestanding broadcasting tower Torrespaña was inaugurated in Madrid by Spain's RTVE television network. Michael Fagan, a 33-year-old British leftist, broke into Buckingham Palace, climbing up a drainpipe to reach the third floor, without interference from the palace security, even after the office was called by a witness. Fagan walked off the scene, but would make an even more brazen invasion of the Palace on July 9. Born:: Aya Shimokozuru, Japanese footballer who appeared in 28 games for the national women's team; in Nagaokakyō, Kyoto
Died: Ferdinand Waldo Demara, 60, American impostor who impersonated various people to obtain employment as a surgeon in the U.S. Navy, a psychologist, a civil engineer, a deputy sheriff, a lawyer, a teacher, and a cancer researcher, died from complications of diabetes. He had been the subject of the Robert Crichton book The Great Impostor, which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Tony Curtis as Demara. Lou DiMuro, American baseball umpire in the American League since 1963, died two hours after being struck by a car in Arlington, Texas, shortly after serving on the officiating crew in a game between the Chicago White Sox and the Texas Rangers.
June 8, 1982 (Tuesday) The bombing of British troop transport ships in the Falklands War, killed 56 British servicemen and wounded more than 150 as two waves of Argentine Air Force A-4 Skyhawk fighter bombers struck British Army troops arriving at East Falkland. At 2:00 in the afternoon local time, the supply ships RFA Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram were hit on the first Argentine strike. The explosions and subsequent fires on Sir Galahad killed 48 men, 32 of whom 32 were soldiers from the Welsh Guards, and 11 other sailors. On the second strike at 4:50 in the afternoon, three of the Argentine Skyhawk jets were shot down during dogfights with Royal Air Force Sea Harrier fighters. All 137 people on VASP Flight 168, were killed when the Boeing 727 passenger jet crashed into a forest hillside in Fortaleza in Brazil. The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Philadelphia 76ers, 114 to 104, to win the NBA championship in six games. The Battle of Jezzine, the first major clash between the armies of Israel and Syria in the Lebanon War, took place near the Lebanese town of Jezzine. The Israeli Defense Force captured Jezzine, with four tanks destroyed and six fighters shot down, while 20 Syrian tanks were destroyed and an undisclosed number of Syrian soldiers killed. U.S. President Ronald Reagan became the first American president to deliver an address to a joint session of Britain's House of Commons and House of Lords. Reagan predicted that the Soviet Union and the Communist parties of Eastern Europe would eventually be gone, and declared that "Freedom and democracy will leave Marxism and Leninism on the ash heap of history." Born: Kelly Brown, Scottish rugby union flanker with 64 caps for the Scotland national team from 2005 to 2017; in Edinburgh Died: