Editing 1982 (section)

=== November ===
* [[November 3]]
** A gasoline (petrol) tanker explodes in the [[Salang Tunnel]] in [[Afghanistan]], killing at least 176 people.
** The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] surges 43.41 points, or 4.25%, to close at 1,065.49, its first all-time high in more than 9 years.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Marotta |first1=David John |title=Volker's Bear: The Bear Market Of 1982 |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidmarotta/2017/10/11/volkers-bear-the-bear-market-of-1982/?sh=6335dc0e5a29 |website=Forbes |date=11 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Brown |first=Merrill |title=Dow Industrials Soar to a Record of 1,065.49 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1982/11/04/dow-industrials-soar-to-a-record-of-106549/7e04d522-a607-4104-ad06-0851c3bcea4b/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=4 November 1982}}</ref>
* [[November 6]] – [[Cameroon]] president [[Ahmadou Ahidjo]] resigns, replaced by [[Paul Biya]] who rules the country for more than 40 years.
* [[November 8]] – [[Kenan Evren]] becomes the seventh president of [[Turkey]] as a result of the constitution referendum. His former title was "head of state".
* [[November 11]] – In [[Lebanon]], the first [[Tyre headquarters bombings|Tyre headquarters bombing]] kills between 89 and 102 people.
* [[November 12]] – In the [[Soviet Union]], former [[KGB]] head [[Yuri Andropov]] is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late [[Leonid Brezhnev|Leonid I. Brezhnev]] who had died two days earlier.
* [[November 14]] – The leader of Poland's outlawed [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]] movement, [[Lech Wałęsa]], is released from 11 months of internment near the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] border.
* [[November 20]]
**The [[General Union of Ecuadorian Workers]] (UGTE) is founded.
**[[University of California, Berkeley]] executes "[[The Play (Stanford vs. California)|The Play]]" in a [[college football]] game against [[Stanford University|Stanford]]. Completing a wacky 57-yard kickoff return that includes five laterals, Kevin Moen runs through Stanford band members who have prematurely come onto the field. His touchdown stands and California wins 25–20.
* [[November 24]] – Representatives from 88 countries gather in [[Geneva]] to discuss [[International trade|world trade]] and ways to work toward aspects of [[free trade]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Radio Free Europe Research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pkkpAQAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Radio Free Europe|page=3}}</ref> 
* [[November 27]] – [[Yasuhiro Nakasone]] becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
* [[November 28]] 
** The [[Edmonton Eskimos]] win an unprecedented 5th [[consecutive]] [[Grey Cup]] – a feat yet unaccomplished by any professional football franchise – to win the [[70th Grey Cup]], defeating the [[Toronto Argonauts]] 32–16.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cfl.ca/page/his_greycup_recap1982|title=1982 – Edmonton Eskimos 32, Toronto Argonauts 16|access-date=August 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231143927/http://www.cfl.ca/page/his_greycup_recap1982|archive-date=December 31, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** Al Ahly SC won the African Cup of Champions club (today known as the CAF Champions League) for the first time after defeating Ghanaian Asante Kotoko
* [[November 29]] – [[Michael Jackson]] releases his sixth studio album, ''[[Thriller (Michael Jackson album)|Thriller]]'', in the United States, which will go on to be the best-selling album of all time at 110&nbsp;million units sold worldwide.