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  • Mesa, Arizona, U.S.
    1982
    Microprocessor

    WDC 65C02

    Mesa, Arizona, U.S.
    1982

    The Western Design Center, Inc (WDC) introduced the CMOS WDC 65C02 in 1982 and licensed the design to several firms. It was used as the CPU in the Apple IIe and IIc personal computers as well as in medical implantable grade pacemakers and defibrillators, automotive, industrial and consumer devices.




  • California, U.S.
    1982
    Microprocessor

    The First Commercial, Single Chip, Fully 32-bit Microprocessor

    California, U.S.
    1982

    The first commercial, single chip, fully 32-bit microprocessor available on the market was the HP FOCUS.




  • Sunnyvale, California, United States
    1982
    Virtual reality

    Arari

    Sunnyvale, California, United States
    1982

    Atari founded a research lab for virtual reality in 1982, but the lab was closed after two years due to the Atari Shock (North American video game crash of 1983). However, its hired employees, such as Tom Zimmerman, Scott Fisher, Jaron Lanier, Michael Naimark, and Brenda Laurel, kept their research and development on VR-related technologies.




  • U.S.
    1982
    Computer animation

    First film using Fractals

    U.S.
    1982

    In 1979–80, the first film using fractals to generate the graphics was made by Loren Carpenter of Boeing. Titled Vol Libre, it showed a flight over a fractal landscape and was presented at SIGGRAPH 1980. Carpenter was subsequently hired by Pixar to create the fractal planet in the Genesis Effect sequence of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan in June 1982.




  • San Francisco, California, U.S.
    1982
    Christopher Paul Gardner

    Unemployment breakthrough

    San Francisco, California, U.S.
    1982

    Gardner worked to become a top trainee at Dean Witter Reynolds. He arrived at the office early and stayed late each day, persistently making calls to prospective clients with his goal being 200 calls per day. His perseverance paid off when, in 1982, Gardner passed his Series 7 Exam on the first try and became a full employee of the firm. Eventually, Gardner was recruited by Bear Stearns & Company in San Francisco.




  • U.S.
    1982
    Computer animation

    Tron

    U.S.
    1982

    The first cinema feature movie to make extensive use of solid 3D CGI was Walt Disney's Tron, directed by Steven Lisberger, in 1982. The film is celebrated as a milestone in the industry, though less than twenty minutes of this animation were actually used—mainly the scenes that show digital "terrain", or include vehicles such as Light Cycles, tanks, and ships.




  • U.S.
    1982
    Donald Trump

    Trump was listed on the initial Forbes list of wealthy individuals in 1982

    U.S.
    1982

    In 1982, Trump was listed on the initial Forbes list of wealthy individuals as having a share of his family's estimated $200 million net worth. His financial losses in the 1980s caused him to be dropped from the list between 1990 and 1995.


  • Macomb County, Michigan, U.S.
    1982
    Eminem

    Bullied

    Macomb County, Michigan, U.S.
    1982

    Friends and family remember Eminem as a happy child, but "a bit of a loner" who was often bullied. One bully, D'Angelo Bailey, severely injured Eminem's head in an assault; Debbie filed a lawsuit against the school in 1982, which was dismissed the following year because the Macomb County, Michigan judge said the schools were immune from lawsuits.


  • San Francisco, U.S.
    1982
    Christopher Paul Gardner

    Homelessness

    San Francisco, U.S.
    1982

    Meanwhile, none of Gardner's co-workers knew that he and his son were homeless in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco for nearly a year. Gardner often scrambled to place his child in daycare, stood in soup kitchens and slept wherever he and his son could find safety—in his office after hours, at flophouses, motels, parks, airports, on public transport, and even in a locked bathroom at a BART station.


  • Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, California, United States
    Friday Mar 5, 1982
    Robin Williams

    Wake up call

    Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, California, United States
    Friday Mar 5, 1982

    He was a casual friend of John Belushi, and the Saturday Night Live comic's death in 1982 from a drug overdose, which happened the morning after the two had partied together, along with the birth of his own son Zak, prompted him to quit drugs and alcohol: "Was it a wake-up call? Oh yeah, on a huge level. The grand jury helped, too." Williams later said of Belushi's death, "It sobered the shit out of me." Williams turned to exercise and cycling to help alleviate his depression shortly after Belushi's death; according to bicycle shop owner Tony Tom, Williams said, "cycling saved my life."


  • U.S.
    Thursday Apr 1, 1982
    Computer

    The Grid Compass

    U.S.
    Thursday Apr 1, 1982

    The first mobile computers were heavy and ran from mains power. The first laptops, such as the Grid Compass, removed this requirement by incorporating batteries – and with the continued miniaturization of computing resources and advancements in portable battery life.


  • San Francisco, California, U.S.
    1982
    Christopher Paul Gardner

    Fatherhood

    San Francisco, California, U.S.
    1982

    About four months after Jackie disappeared with their son, she returned and left him with Gardner. By then, he was earning a small salary and was able to afford a room in a flophouse. He willingly accepted sole custody of his child; however, the rooming house where he lived did not allow children. Although he was gainfully employed, Gardner and his son secretly struggled with homelessness while he saved money for a rental house in Berkeley.


  • New York, U.S.
    Saturday Apr 3, 1982
    Falklands War

    The United Kingdom's United Nations ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons put a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council

    New York, U.S.
    Saturday Apr 3, 1982

    On the evening of 3 April, the United Kingdom's United Nations ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons put a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council.


  • U.S.
    Jun, 1982
    Iran–Iraq War

    The National Security Decision

    U.S.
    Jun, 1982

    With Iranian success on the battlefield, the United States increased its support of the Iraqi government, President Ronald Reagan decided that the United States "could not afford to allow Iraq to lose the war to Iran", and that the United States "would do whatever was necessary to prevent Iraq from losing". Reagan formalized this policy by issuing a National Security Decision Directive to this effect in June 1982, and removed Iraq from the list of countries "supporting terrorism" and sold weapons such as howitzers to Iraq via Jordan.


  • Harrison, New York, U.S.
    Jul, 1982
    KFC

    PepsiCo

    Harrison, New York, U.S.
    Jul, 1982

    In July 1982, Heublein was acquired by R. J. Reynolds, the tobacco giant, and sold KFC to PepsiCo for $850 million. PepsiCo made the chain a part of its restaurant division alongside Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.


  • U.S.
    Friday Jul 23, 1982
    Robin Williams

    Leading Character

    U.S.
    Friday Jul 23, 1982

    He stars as the leading character in The World According to Garp (1982), which Williams considered "may have lacked a certain madness onscreen, but it had a great core".


  • U.S.
    1982
    Trivial Pursuit

    The rights to the game were initially licensed

    U.S.
    1982

    The rights to the game were initially licensed to Selchow and Righter in 1982, then to Parker Brothers (now part of Hasbro) in 1988, after initially being turned down by the Virgin Group; in 2008 Hasbro bought the full rights, for US$80 million.


  • U.S.
    Friday Jul 30, 1982
    Jimmy Hoffa

    Legally Dead

    U.S.
    Friday Jul 30, 1982

    Hoffa was declared legally dead on July 30, 1982.


  • Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
    1982
    Angelina Jolie

    Inspired

    Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
    1982

    As a child, Jolie often watched films with her mother and it was this, rather than her father's successful career, that inspired her interest in acting, though she had a bit of part in Voight's Lookin' to Get Out (1982) at age seven.


  • Henderson, Nevada, U.S.
    Wednesday Sep 8, 1982
    Chumlee

    Birth

    Henderson, Nevada, U.S.
    Wednesday Sep 8, 1982

    Russell was born on September 8, 1982 in Henderson, Nevada.


  • Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Saturday Sep 25, 1982
    Mass Shootings in the United States

    Wilkes-Barre Shootings

    Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Saturday Sep 25, 1982

    George Emil Banks was responsible for the 1982 Wilkes-Barre Shootings in the United States. On September 25, 1982, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and Jenkins Township, Banks shot and killed 13 people, including seven children (five of whom were his own), their mothers, some of their relatives, and one bystander. Banks was convicted of 12 counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death after a trial before Allegheny County jurors and presided over by Luzerne County Common Pleas Judge Patrick J. Toole Jr.


  • U.S.
    1982
    Atari, Inc.

    Atari 5200

    U.S.
    1982

    From this platform Atari released their next-generation game console in 1982, the Atari 5200. It was unsuccessful due to incompatibility with the 2600 game library, a small quantity of dedicated games, and notoriously unreliable controllers.


  • U.S.
    Oct, 1982
    Financial crisis of 2007–2008

    Law the Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act

    U.S.
    Oct, 1982

    In October 1982, US President Ronald Reagan signed into , which provided for adjustable-rate mortgage loans, began the process of banking deregulation, and contributed to the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s/early 1990s.


  • California, United States
    1982
    River Phoenix

    Phoenix was cast CBS television series

    California, United States
    1982

    In 1982, Phoenix was cast in the short-lived CBS television series, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, in which he starred as youngest brother Guthrie McFadden. Phoenix arrived at the auditions with his guitar and promptly burst into a convincing Elvis Presley impersonation, charming the show producer. By this age, Phoenix was also an accomplished tap dancer.


  • Southern California, United States
    1982
    Kroger

    Kroger sold the 65-store Market Basket chain

    Southern California, United States
    1982

    In 1982, Kroger sold the 65-store Market Basket chain it had operated for several years in southern California.


  • San Francisco, California, U.S.
    1982
    Christopher Jarrett Medina Gardner

    Father was recruited by Bear Stearns & Company in San Francisco

    San Francisco, California, U.S.
    1982

    Gardner worked to become a top trainee at Dean Witter Reynolds. He arrived at the office early and stayed late each day, persistently making calls to prospective clients with his goal being 200 calls per day. His perseverance paid off when, in 1982, Gardner passed his Series 7 Exam on the first try and became a full employee of the firm. Eventually, Gardner was recruited by Bear Stearns & Company in San Francisco.


  • Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Friday Dec 3, 1982
    Jackie Chan

    1st Child Born

    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Friday Dec 3, 1982

    In 1982, Chan married Joan Lin, a Taiwanese actress. Their son, singer and actor Jaycee Chan was born the day after they got married.


  • Mesa, Arizona, U.S.
    1982
    Microprocessor

    WDC 65C02

    Mesa, Arizona, U.S.
    1982

    The Western Design Center, Inc (WDC) introduced the CMOS WDC 65C02 in 1982 and licensed the design to several firms. It was used as the CPU in the Apple IIe and IIc personal computers as well as in medical implantable grade pacemakers and defibrillators, automotive, industrial and consumer devices.


  • California, U.S.
    1982
    Microprocessor

    The First Commercial, Single Chip, Fully 32-bit Microprocessor

    California, U.S.
    1982

    The first commercial, single chip, fully 32-bit microprocessor available on the market was the HP FOCUS.


  • Sunnyvale, California, United States
    1982
    Virtual reality

    Arari

    Sunnyvale, California, United States
    1982

    Atari founded a research lab for virtual reality in 1982, but the lab was closed after two years due to the Atari Shock (North American video game crash of 1983). However, its hired employees, such as Tom Zimmerman, Scott Fisher, Jaron Lanier, Michael Naimark, and Brenda Laurel, kept their research and development on VR-related technologies.


  • U.S.
    1982
    Computer animation

    First film using Fractals

    U.S.
    1982

    In 1979–80, the first film using fractals to generate the graphics was made by Loren Carpenter of Boeing. Titled Vol Libre, it showed a flight over a fractal landscape and was presented at SIGGRAPH 1980. Carpenter was subsequently hired by Pixar to create the fractal planet in the Genesis Effect sequence of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan in June 1982.


  • San Francisco, California, U.S.
    1982
    Christopher Paul Gardner

    Unemployment breakthrough

    San Francisco, California, U.S.
    1982

    Gardner worked to become a top trainee at Dean Witter Reynolds. He arrived at the office early and stayed late each day, persistently making calls to prospective clients with his goal being 200 calls per day. His perseverance paid off when, in 1982, Gardner passed his Series 7 Exam on the first try and became a full employee of the firm. Eventually, Gardner was recruited by Bear Stearns & Company in San Francisco.


  • U.S.
    1982
    Computer animation

    Tron

    U.S.
    1982

    The first cinema feature movie to make extensive use of solid 3D CGI was Walt Disney's Tron, directed by Steven Lisberger, in 1982. The film is celebrated as a milestone in the industry, though less than twenty minutes of this animation were actually used—mainly the scenes that show digital "terrain", or include vehicles such as Light Cycles, tanks, and ships.


  • U.S.
    1982
    Donald Trump

    Trump was listed on the initial Forbes list of wealthy individuals in 1982

    U.S.
    1982

    In 1982, Trump was listed on the initial Forbes list of wealthy individuals as having a share of his family's estimated $200 million net worth. His financial losses in the 1980s caused him to be dropped from the list between 1990 and 1995.


  • Macomb County, Michigan, U.S.
    1982
    Eminem

    Bullied

    Macomb County, Michigan, U.S.
    1982

    Friends and family remember Eminem as a happy child, but "a bit of a loner" who was often bullied. One bully, D'Angelo Bailey, severely injured Eminem's head in an assault; Debbie filed a lawsuit against the school in 1982, which was dismissed the following year because the Macomb County, Michigan judge said the schools were immune from lawsuits.


  • San Francisco, U.S.
    1982
    Christopher Paul Gardner

    Homelessness

    San Francisco, U.S.
    1982

    Meanwhile, none of Gardner's co-workers knew that he and his son were homeless in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco for nearly a year. Gardner often scrambled to place his child in daycare, stood in soup kitchens and slept wherever he and his son could find safety—in his office after hours, at flophouses, motels, parks, airports, on public transport, and even in a locked bathroom at a BART station.


  • Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, California, United States
    Friday Mar 5, 1982
    Robin Williams

    Wake up call

    Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, California, United States
    Friday Mar 5, 1982

    He was a casual friend of John Belushi, and the Saturday Night Live comic's death in 1982 from a drug overdose, which happened the morning after the two had partied together, along with the birth of his own son Zak, prompted him to quit drugs and alcohol: "Was it a wake-up call? Oh yeah, on a huge level. The grand jury helped, too." Williams later said of Belushi's death, "It sobered the shit out of me." Williams turned to exercise and cycling to help alleviate his depression shortly after Belushi's death; according to bicycle shop owner Tony Tom, Williams said, "cycling saved my life."


  • U.S.
    Thursday Apr 1, 1982
    Computer

    The Grid Compass

    U.S.
    Thursday Apr 1, 1982

    The first mobile computers were heavy and ran from mains power. The first laptops, such as the Grid Compass, removed this requirement by incorporating batteries – and with the continued miniaturization of computing resources and advancements in portable battery life.


  • San Francisco, California, U.S.
    1982
    Christopher Paul Gardner

    Fatherhood

    San Francisco, California, U.S.
    1982

    About four months after Jackie disappeared with their son, she returned and left him with Gardner. By then, he was earning a small salary and was able to afford a room in a flophouse. He willingly accepted sole custody of his child; however, the rooming house where he lived did not allow children. Although he was gainfully employed, Gardner and his son secretly struggled with homelessness while he saved money for a rental house in Berkeley.


  • New York, U.S.
    Saturday Apr 3, 1982
    Falklands War

    The United Kingdom's United Nations ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons put a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council

    New York, U.S.
    Saturday Apr 3, 1982

    On the evening of 3 April, the United Kingdom's United Nations ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons put a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council.


  • U.S.
    Jun, 1982
    Iran–Iraq War

    The National Security Decision

    U.S.
    Jun, 1982

    With Iranian success on the battlefield, the United States increased its support of the Iraqi government, President Ronald Reagan decided that the United States "could not afford to allow Iraq to lose the war to Iran", and that the United States "would do whatever was necessary to prevent Iraq from losing". Reagan formalized this policy by issuing a National Security Decision Directive to this effect in June 1982, and removed Iraq from the list of countries "supporting terrorism" and sold weapons such as howitzers to Iraq via Jordan.


  • Harrison, New York, U.S.
    Jul, 1982
    KFC

    PepsiCo

    Harrison, New York, U.S.
    Jul, 1982

    In July 1982, Heublein was acquired by R. J. Reynolds, the tobacco giant, and sold KFC to PepsiCo for $850 million. PepsiCo made the chain a part of its restaurant division alongside Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.


  • U.S.
    Friday Jul 23, 1982
    Robin Williams

    Leading Character

    U.S.
    Friday Jul 23, 1982

    He stars as the leading character in The World According to Garp (1982), which Williams considered "may have lacked a certain madness onscreen, but it had a great core".


  • U.S.
    1982
    Trivial Pursuit

    The rights to the game were initially licensed

    U.S.
    1982

    The rights to the game were initially licensed to Selchow and Righter in 1982, then to Parker Brothers (now part of Hasbro) in 1988, after initially being turned down by the Virgin Group; in 2008 Hasbro bought the full rights, for US$80 million.


  • U.S.
    Friday Jul 30, 1982
    Jimmy Hoffa

    Legally Dead

    U.S.
    Friday Jul 30, 1982

    Hoffa was declared legally dead on July 30, 1982.


  • Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
    1982
    Angelina Jolie

    Inspired

    Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
    1982

    As a child, Jolie often watched films with her mother and it was this, rather than her father's successful career, that inspired her interest in acting, though she had a bit of part in Voight's Lookin' to Get Out (1982) at age seven.


  • Henderson, Nevada, U.S.
    Wednesday Sep 8, 1982
    Chumlee

    Birth

    Henderson, Nevada, U.S.
    Wednesday Sep 8, 1982

    Russell was born on September 8, 1982 in Henderson, Nevada.


  • Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Saturday Sep 25, 1982
    Mass Shootings in the United States

    Wilkes-Barre Shootings

    Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Saturday Sep 25, 1982

    George Emil Banks was responsible for the 1982 Wilkes-Barre Shootings in the United States. On September 25, 1982, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and Jenkins Township, Banks shot and killed 13 people, including seven children (five of whom were his own), their mothers, some of their relatives, and one bystander. Banks was convicted of 12 counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death after a trial before Allegheny County jurors and presided over by Luzerne County Common Pleas Judge Patrick J. Toole Jr.


  • U.S.
    1982
    Atari, Inc.

    Atari 5200

    U.S.
    1982

    From this platform Atari released their next-generation game console in 1982, the Atari 5200. It was unsuccessful due to incompatibility with the 2600 game library, a small quantity of dedicated games, and notoriously unreliable controllers.


  • U.S.
    Oct, 1982
    Financial crisis of 2007–2008

    Law the Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act

    U.S.
    Oct, 1982

    In October 1982, US President Ronald Reagan signed into , which provided for adjustable-rate mortgage loans, began the process of banking deregulation, and contributed to the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s/early 1990s.


  • California, United States
    1982
    River Phoenix

    Phoenix was cast CBS television series

    California, United States
    1982

    In 1982, Phoenix was cast in the short-lived CBS television series, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, in which he starred as youngest brother Guthrie McFadden. Phoenix arrived at the auditions with his guitar and promptly burst into a convincing Elvis Presley impersonation, charming the show producer. By this age, Phoenix was also an accomplished tap dancer.


  • Southern California, United States
    1982
    Kroger

    Kroger sold the 65-store Market Basket chain

    Southern California, United States
    1982

    In 1982, Kroger sold the 65-store Market Basket chain it had operated for several years in southern California.


  • San Francisco, California, U.S.
    1982
    Christopher Jarrett Medina Gardner

    Father was recruited by Bear Stearns & Company in San Francisco

    San Francisco, California, U.S.
    1982

    Gardner worked to become a top trainee at Dean Witter Reynolds. He arrived at the office early and stayed late each day, persistently making calls to prospective clients with his goal being 200 calls per day. His perseverance paid off when, in 1982, Gardner passed his Series 7 Exam on the first try and became a full employee of the firm. Eventually, Gardner was recruited by Bear Stearns & Company in San Francisco.


  • Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Friday Dec 3, 1982
    Jackie Chan

    1st Child Born

    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Friday Dec 3, 1982

    In 1982, Chan married Joan Lin, a Taiwanese actress. Their son, singer and actor Jaycee Chan was born the day after they got married.


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