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John Parmenter Robarts was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 17th premier of Ontario from 1961 to 1971. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of On…
John Robarts, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Ontario (born 1917)
Pierre Isaac Isidore Mendès France was a French politician who served as prime minister of France for eight months from 1954 to 1955. As a member of the Radical Party, he headed a …
Pierre Mendès France, French lawyer and politician, 143rd Prime Minister of France (born 1907)
Elizabeth Virginia Truman was First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953 as the wife of President Harry S. Truman. She had previously served as Second Lady of the United Sta…
Bess Truman, American wife of Harry S. Truman, 40th First Lady of the United States (born 1885)
Ellen Radka Toneff was a Norwegian jazz singer, daughter of the Bulgarian folk singer, pilot and radio technician Toni Toneff, she was born in Oslo and grew up in Lambertseter and …
Radka Toneff, Norwegian singer-songwriter (born 1952)
Richard Hugo, born Richard Franklin Hogan, was an American poet. Although some critics regard Hugo as primarily a regionalist, his work resonates broadly across place and time. A p…
Richard Hugo, American poet of the Pacific Northwest (born 1923)
William Eckersley was an English footballer. He played as a fullback, spending his entire playing career at Blackburn Rovers.
Bill Eckersley, English footballer (born 1925)
Arvid Håkan Herbert Carlsson "Fågeln" Wallman was a Swedish diver. He competed in the plain high diving event at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics and finished in first and eighth …
Arvid Wallman, Swedish diver (born 1901)
José Miguel Ramón Ydígoras Fuentes was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as the 32nd president of Guatemala from 1958 to March 1963. He was also the main chal…
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958–1963) (born 1895)
Daryna Polotniuk, better known by her pen name Iryna Vilde, was a Ukrainian and Soviet writer and correspondent. Vilde's works are now considered classics of Ukrainian literature.
Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian author and educator (born 1907)
The Coppergate Helmet is an eighth-century Anglo-Saxon helmet found in York, England. It was discovered in May 1982 during excavations for the Jorvik Viking Centre at the bottom of…
The Coppergate Helmet (pictured), the best preserved of the six known Anglo-Saxon helmets, was discovered
Juan María Fernández y Krohn is a Spanish journalist, lawyer, and traditionalist Catholic former priest who attempted to assassinate of Pope John Paul II in 1982.
Juan María Fernández y Krohn attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II with a bayonet in Fátima, Portugal
Shlomo Argov was an Israeli diplomat. He was the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, whose attempted assassination led to the 1982 Lebanon War.
A failed assassination attempt was made on Shlomo Argov, the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, triggering an Isr
The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit home computer developed and marketed by Sinclair Research. The Spectrum played a pivotal role in the history of personal computers and video games, espe…
The ZX Spectrum (pictured), Britain's best-selling microcomputer, was released
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from…
British prime minister Margaret Thatcher told journalists in Downing Street to "rejoice" upon hearing news of the succes
Ánanda Márga, or officially Ánanda Márga Pracáraka Saḿgha, is a world-wide socio-spiritual organisation founded in Jamalpur, Munger, Bihar, India, in 1955 by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar,…
Sixteen monks and a nun of the Hindu organisation Ananda Marga were beaten to death and set on fire in Calcutta, India
The Falklands War was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands a…
Falklands War: HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano (pictured), the only ship ever to have been del
The Falklands War was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands a…
Falklands War: HMS Sheffield was struck by an Exocet missile, killing 20 sailors and leading to its sinking six days lat
Michael Fagan is a British citizen who intruded into Queen Elizabeth II's bedroom in Buckingham Palace in 1982.
A British man named Michael Fagan broke into Buckingham Palace and entered Queen Elizabeth II's bedroom when she was…
The Falklands War was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands a…
Falklands War: The British War Cabinet, which never considered using nuclear weapons in the conflict, ordered that the n
The Falklands War was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands a…
Falklands War: The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed a British Army helicopter in a friendly-fire i
The Falklands War was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands a…
Falklands War: The Argentine Air Force attacked British transport ships while unloading supplies off Bluff Cove in the F
The Falklands War was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands a…
Falklands War: The Argentine Air Force attacked the neutral oil tanker Hercules while she was traversing the South Atlan
The 1982 Lebanon War, also called the Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon. The invasion followed a series of attacks and …
Lebanon War: The Israeli Air Force carried out Operation Mole Cricket 19, successfully suppressing Syrian air defenses i
The Falklands War was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands a…
Falklands War: British prime minister Margaret Thatcher announced that white flags were flying over Port Stanley, in adv