Editing 1982 (section)

=== August ===
[[File:Lapset odottavat saapuvaa metrojunaa Hakaniemen metroasemalla - DHKL-147 - hkm.HKMS000005-km0025rm.jpg|thumb|[[Helsinki Metro]] train in 1982]]
* [[August 1]] – [[1982 Kenyan coup d'état attempt|Attempted coup]] against the government of [[Daniel Arap Moi]] in [[Kenya]].
* [[August 2]] – The [[Helsinki Metro]], the first [[rapid transit]] system in Finland, opens to the general public.<ref>{{cite book | author = Tapio Tolmunen | title= Mutkatonta matkaa vuodesta 1982. Raka spår från år 1982 | year= 2002 | pages= 43–44 | location= Helsinki | publisher= Helsingin kaupungin liikennelaitos | isbn= 951-8926-84-0 | language= fi}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hel.fi/hki/HKL/en/About+HKL/History/History+of+metro+transport |title=Helsinki City Transport - About HKL - History - A brief history of the metro |publisher=Helsinki City Transport |date=19 March 2012 |access-date=21 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512153035/http://www.hel.fi/hki/HKL/en/About%2BHKL/History/History%2Bof%2Bmetro%2Btransport |archive-date=12 May 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[August 4]] – The [[United Nations Security Council]] votes to [[censure]] Israel because its troops are still in Lebanon.
* [[August 7]] – Italian Prime Minister [[Giovanni Spadolini]] resigns.
* [[August 12]] – Mexico announces it is unable to pay its large foreign debt, triggering a [[Latin American debt crisis|debt crisis]] that quickly spreads throughout Latin America.
* [[August 13]] – In Hong Kong, health warnings on cigarette packets are made statutory.<ref>Clarence Tsui, ''[[South China Morning Post]]'', 12/12/99, "[http://lists.essential.org/intl-tobacco/msg00330.html From ads to ashes]." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130113021355/http://lists.essential.org/intl-tobacco/msg00330.html Archive])</ref>
* [[August 17]] – The first [[compact disc]]s (CDs) are produced in Germany.
* [[August 20]] – [[Lebanese Civil War]]: A multinational force lands in [[Beirut]] to oversee the [[PLO]] withdrawal from [[Lebanon]].