Editing 1982 (section)

=== December ===
* [[December 1]] – [[Miguel de la Madrid]] takes office as [[President of Mexico]].
* [[December 2]] – At the [[University of Utah]], 61-year-old retired dentist [[Barney Clark (patient)|Barney Clark]] becomes the first person to receive a permanent [[artificial heart]] (he lives for 112 days with the device).
* [[December 4]] – The People's Republic of China adopts its [[constitution of the People's Republic of China|current constitution]].
* [[December 7]] – The first U.S. [[capital punishment|execution]] by [[lethal injection]] is carried out in [[Texas]].
* [[December 8]] – The [[December murders]] occur in Suriname.
* [[December 11]] – Swedish pop group [[ABBA]] make their final public performance on the British TV programme ''[[The Late, Late Breakfast Show]]''.
* [[December 13]] – The 6.2 {{M|w}} [[1982 North Yemen earthquake|North Yemen earthquake]] shakes southwestern [[Yemen]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VIII (''Severe''), killing 2,800.
* [[December 16]] – The [[United Freedom Front]] bombs an office of [[South African Airways]] in Elmont, NY and an [[IBM]] office in Harrison, NY.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/17/nyregion/bombs-rock-ibm-building-and-airline-office.html|title=Bombs Rock I.B.M. Building And Airline Office|date=December 17, 1982|website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Two police officers suffer hearing damage. In March 1984, the UFF claims responsibility for the IBM building bombing, stating that the company was targeted because of its business in South Africa under [[Apartheid]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iREhAAAAIBAJ&pg=3707%2C1069528|title=Terrorist Claim Bombing of IBM Building|newspaper=[[The Daily Gazette|Schenectady Gazette]]|date=March 21, 1984}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] – The [[Indian Ocean Commission]] (Commission de l'Océan Indien, COI) is created by the [[Port Louis]] Agreement.
* [[December 26]] – ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's [[Time Person of the Year|Man of the Year]] is given, for the first time to a non-human, the computer.