The year it all began
1982
What was happening?
- Uruguay Political parties held internal elections, signaling democratic reopening.
- Other countries Canada patriated its Constitution.
- Uruguay Uruguay remained under the civic-military dictatorship.
- Geopolitics Argentina and the UK fought the Falklands/Malvinas War.
- Uruguay Peñarol won the Copa Libertadores.
- Politics The Nobel Peace Prize honored nuclear disarmament work.
- Music Michael Jackson released Thriller.
- Cinema Blade Runner redefined sci-fi aesthetics.
- Soccer Italy won the FIFA World Cup in Spain.
- Cinema E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial became a cultural phenomenon.