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1982
 
 
British director Richard Attenborough creates an epic film, Gandhi, from the life of the pacifist Indian leader    
1982
 
   
US fillm actress Grace Kelly is killed in a car accident in Monte Carlo      
1982
 
   
Christian militiamen massacre Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Chatila camps in Lebanon      
1982
 
   
Leaders of Canada's Aboriginal peoples form the Assembly of First Nations (AFN)      
1982
 
     
CDU leader Helmut Kohl follows Helmut Schmidt as chancellor of Germany        
1982
 
   
The trade union movement Solidarnośc (Solidarity) is declared illegal by the Polish government      
1982
 
   
George Segal's bronze monument The Holocaust is unveiled in San Francisco      
1982
 
   
Hezbollah emerges in Lebanon as an Iranian-sponsored resistance movement against the Israeli occupation of the southern part of the country      
1982
 
   
After 18 years as General Secretary of the Communist party in the USSR, Leonid Brezhnev dies in office      
1982
 
    
Michael Jackson's releases the album Thriller, which goes on to sell 40 million copies in ten years