What happened onFebruary 18, 1982Thursday Week 7

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February 18 is a Thursday again in 1988.

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The World in 1982 the year sound went digital

Americans dropped about 8 billion dollars into arcade machines in 1982. In quarters, that is 32 billion coins, or roughly 140 quarters for every person in the country.

Life back then

Rubik's Cube, invented in Hungary, was still the toy everyone owned and almost nobody solved. British families followed the Falklands war on the evening news, and the pictures often arrived days late because they had to travel 8,000 miles by ship and plane. Music came on vinyl and cassette, since the shiny new compact disc was sold only in Japan at first. Home computers like the Commodore 64 and Britain's ZX Spectrum loaded games from tape decks, slowly, with a screech.

The year in 8 events

• ⚔️Apr 2 Argentine troops land on the Falkland Islands. Britain sends a fleet, and the fighting ends in June.
• 📜Apr 17 Canada gets its own constitution. From now on it can change its rules without asking Britain.
• 🕯️Jun 6 Israeli forces invade Lebanon.
• 👽Jun 11 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial opens and becomes the biggest movie of the year.
• ⚽Jul 11 Italy beats West Germany 3 to 1 in the World Cup final in Madrid.
• 💿Oct 1 The first CD players and compact discs go on sale in Japan.
• 🕯️Nov 10 Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies after 18 years in power.
• 🎤Nov 30 Michael Jackson releases Thriller, which goes on to sell tens of millions of copies.

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