Editing 1982 (section)

===May===
{{Main article|May 1982}}
* [[May 1]] – A crowd of over 100,000 attends the first day of the [[1982 World's Fair]] in [[Knoxville, Tennessee]], which is kicked off with an address by President [[Ronald Reagan]]. Over 11&nbsp;million people attend during its 6-month run.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.knoxnews.com/advertising/worldsfair/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206170055/http://web.knoxnews.com/advertising/worldsfair/ |archive-date=6 February 2010 |author=East Tennessee Historical Society |author-link=East Tennessee Historical Society |title=20th Anniversary of the 1982 World's Fair |year=2002 |publisher=[[The Knoxville News-Sentinel Co.]] |access-date=9 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.knoxnews.com/advertising/worldsfair/history.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091205015518/http://web.knoxnews.com/advertising/worldsfair/history.html |archive-date=5 December 2009 |title=20th Anniversary of the 1982 World's Fair |department=History |year=2002 |publisher=The Knoxville News-Sentinel Co. |access-date=9 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/knoxville-worlds-fair-of-1982/ |last=Wheeler |first=W Bruce |title=Knoxville World's Fair of 1982 |encyclopedia=[[Tennessee Encyclopedia]] |date=1 March 2018 |publisher=[[Tennessee Historical Society]] |access-date=9 September 2021}}</ref>
* [[May 2]]
** [[Falklands War]]: The British nuclear submarine {{HMS|Conqueror|S48|6}} sinks the Argentine cruiser ''[[ARA General Belgrano|General Belgrano]]'', killing 323 sailors.<ref name="Timeline">{{cite web |url=http://web.knoxnews.com/advertising/worldsfair/timeline.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100101212405/http://web.knoxnews.com/advertising/worldsfair/timeline.html |archive-date=1 January 2010 |title=20th Anniversary of the 1982 World's Fair |department=Timeline |year=2002 |publisher=The Knoxville News-Sentinel Co. |access-date=9 September 2021}}</ref><ref name="Golowanow">{{cite web |url=https://www.konflikty.pl/historia/czasy-najnowsze/pocisk-ktory-nie-wybuchl-zatopienie-hms-sheffield/ |last=Golowanow |first=Łukasz |title=Pocisk, który nie wybuchł – czyli zatopienie HMS Sheffield |trans-title=The missile that did not explode – the sinking of HMS Sheffield |date=4 May 2012 |website=Konflikty.pl |language=pl |access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref> [[Operation Algeciras]], an attempt to destroy a [[Royal Navy]] warship in [[Gibraltar]], fails.
** [[The Weather Channel]] airs on [[cable television]] in the United States as the first 24-hour all-weather network.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://weatherboy.com/weather-channel-celebrates-38th-birthday/ |author=Weatherboy Team Meteorologist |title=Weather Channel Celebrates 38th Birthday |date=2 May 2020 |website=Weatherboy |publisher=Isarithm LLC |access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref>
* [[May 4]] – [[Falklands War]]: {{HMS|Sheffield|D80|6}} is hit by an Argentine [[Exocet]] missile and burns out of control; 20 sailors are killed.<ref name="Golowanow"/><ref>{{cite news |title=BBC ON THIS DAY <nowiki>|</nowiki> 4 <nowiki>|</nowiki> 1982: Argentines destroy HMS Sheffield |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/4/newsid_2504000/2504155.stm |year=2008 |publisher=[[BBC]] |access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref> The ship sinks on [[May 10]].<ref name="Golowanow"/>
* [[May 8]] – French-Canadian racing driver [[Gilles Villeneuve]] is killed during qualifying for the [[1982 Belgian Grand Prix]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/05/09/The-horrifying-crash-that-snapped-the-life-from-race/4136389764800/ |title=The horrifying crash that snapped the life from race... |date=9 May 1982 |publisher=[[United Press International, Inc.]] |access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref>
* [[May 12]] – Spanish priest [[Juan María Fernández y Krohn]] tries to stab [[Pope John Paul II]] with a [[bayonet]] during the latter's pilgrimage to the shrine at [[Fátima, Portugal|Fátima]].<ref name="Timeline"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Pope John Paul 'wounded' in 1982 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7673443.stm |date=16 October 2008 |website=[[BBC News]] |department=Europe |access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref>
* [[May 16]] – The [[New York Islanders]] sweep the [[Vancouver Canucks]] in four games to win the [[1982 Stanley Cup Finals]] in [[ice hockey]].<ref name="Timeline"/><ref>{{cite book |title=Total Stanley Cup: 2008 Playoff Media Guide |editor-last=Diamond |editor-first=Dan |chapter=This Date in Stanley Cup History |url=http://www.stanleycupplayoffs2008.com/assets/pdfs/totalstanleycup2008.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326001907/http://www.stanleycupplayoffs2008.com/assets/pdfs/totalstanleycup2008.pdf |archive-date=26 March 2009 |page=95 |year=2008 |publisher=Dan Diamond and Associates, Inc. |access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref>
* [[May 18]] – [[Falklands War]]: The British [[Special Air Service]] launches [[Operation Plum Duff]], a reconnaissance mission preliminary to [[Operation Mikado]], which is planned to destroy three Argentinean [[Exocet]] [[missile]]s and five [[Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard|Super Étendard]] [[fighter-bomber]]s. Both Operation Plum Duff and Operation Mikado are called off after the Plum Duff insertion is revealed by a helicopter landing in [[Chile]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eliteukforces.info/articles/sas-versus-exocets.php#prof |title=The SAS vs The Exocets |website=Elite UK Forces |access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Alastair |last=Finlan |title=Special Forces, Strategy and the War on Terror: Warfare By Other Means |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_uefXyZuZNwC&pg=PA41 |date=16 October 2009 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-1-134-18043-1 |page=41 |access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref>
* [[May 21]] 
** [[Falklands War]]: {{HMS|Ardent|F184|6}} is sunk by Argentine aircraft, killing 22 sailors.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rna-10-area.co.uk/files/boi_hms_ardent.pdf |title=Report of the Board of Inquiry Into the Loss of HMS Ardent |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151010132324/http://www.rna-10-area.co.uk/files/boi_hms_ardent.pdf |archive-date=10 October 2015 |date=6 August 1982 |pages=3–4 |access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hmsardent.org.uk/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050407213506/http://www.hmsardent.org.uk/ |archive-date=7 April 2005 |title=HMS Ardent Association |access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref>
** The [[International Maritime Organization]] (IMO) is established.
* [[May 23]] – Falklands War: {{HMS|Antelope|F170|6}} is lost.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rna-10-area.net/files/boi_hms_antelope.pdf |title=LOSS OF HMS ANTELOPE - BOARD OF INQUIRY |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724042320/http://www.rna-10-area.net/files/boi_hms_antelope.pdf |archive-date=24 July 2011 |date=11 August 1982 |pages=2–3 |access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref>
* [[May 24]]
** [[Iran]]ian troops retake [[Khorramshahr]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://en.alalam.ir/news/1596930 |title=Iran celebrates anniversary of liberating Khorramshahr |date=24 May 2014 |publisher=[[Alalam News Network]] |access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref>
** [[KGB]] head [[Yuri Andropov]] is appointed to the Secretariat of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1982/1230/123030.html |last=Temko |first=Ned |author-link=Ned Temko |title=From Brezhnev to Andropov: why the transition has been so smooth |date=30 December 1982 |journal=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref>
* [[May 25]] – British ships {{HMS|Coventry|D118|6}} and {{SS|Atlantic Conveyor}} are sunk during the [[Falklands War]]; ''Coventry'' by two [[Douglas A-4 Skyhawk|A-4C Skyhawks]] and ''Atlantic Conveyor'' by two [[Exocet]]s.<ref>{{cite web |last=Burke |first=Damien |title=25th May 1982 |url=https://www.hmscoventry.co.uk/d118/25th-may-1982/ |website=HMS Coventry D118 |access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/EC14467A-DFAF-4030-BDFB-9E1AAF00205E/0/boi_atlanticconveyorpt1.pdf |title=Board of Inquiry (REPORT): Loss of SS Atlantic Conveyor |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012134301/http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/EC14467A-DFAF-4030-BDFB-9E1AAF00205E/0/boi_atlanticconveyorpt1.pdf |archive-date=12 October 2012 |date=21 July 1982 |pages =1 - 5-2 - 5 |access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref>
* [[May 26]] – [[Aston Villa F.C.]] wins the [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]], beating [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]] 1–0 after a 69th-minute goal by [[Peter Withe]] in [[Rotterdam]].
* [[May 28]]–[[May 29|29]] – [[Falklands War]]: [[Battle of Goose Green]]: British forces defeat a larger Argentine force.<ref>{{cite report |last1=Roberts |first1=Maj. Brice |title=Mission Command During the Falklands War: Opportunities and Limitations |date=2016 |publisher=Defense Technical Information Center |pages=27–31 |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1022241.pdf |access-date=21 September 2023}}</ref>
* [[May 30]]
** Spain becomes the 16th member of [[NATO]]<ref name="Timeline"/> and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in [[1955]].
** [[Indianapolis 500]]: [[1973]] winner [[Gordon Johncock]] wins his second race over [[1979]] winner [[Rick Mears]] by 0.16 seconds. Leading to the closest finish to this date,<ref name="Timeline"/> Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps, in what [[Indianapolis Motor Speedway]] historian [[Donald Davidson (historian)|Donald Davidson]] and Speedway public address announcer [[Tom Carnegie]] later call the greatest moment in the track's history.