July 1982

Friday 02:

Larry Walters uses 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet.

Sunday 04:

Four Iranian diplomats have been kidnapped upon Israel invasion of lebanon.

Thursday 08:

Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized.

Friday 09:

A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 people on board and eight others on the ground.

Sunday 11:

Football World Cup 1982: Italy defeats West Germany 3–1 at Santiago Bernabéu stadium, Spain to win the Football World Cup.

Monday 12:

1982 - Italy wins the World Cup for a third time.

Tuesday 13:

Montreal hosts the first baseball All-Star Game outside the United States.

Sunday 18:

268 campesinos ("countryside people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt's Guatemala.

Friday 23:

The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.