23 mei 1982 was een zondag onder het sterrenbeeld ♊. Het was de 142e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Ronald Reagan.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 44 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zaterdag 23 mei 2026, 52 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zondag 23 mei 2027, in 312 dagen. Je hebt 16.123 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 386.962 uur, of ongeveer 23.217.759 minuten, of ongeveer 1.393.065.540 seconden.
Date: 23 May 1982
By Michael Oreskes
Michael Oreskes
Michael J. O'Neill resigned yesterday as editor of The Daily News and was replaced by James G. Wieghart, who had been executive editor. The shift in editorial leadership at The News, the nation's largest general-circulation newspaper, was announced by the paper's publisher, Robert M. Hunt.
Date: 23 May 1982
By Arnold H. Lubasch
Arnold Lubasch
A Federal appeals court has decided that McGraw-Hill Inc. was not required to disclose confidential news sources in an antitrust case. Reversing a ruling that held the publishing company in contempt of court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit stressed the importance of confidentiality in ''the pivotal function of reporters to collect information for public dissemination.''
Date: 23 May 1982
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
Some $1.3 million in cash was missing from the state treasury in Ohio, along with pertinent records, and a former cashier who had charge of the money was reported to have amnesia.
Date: 23 May 1982
By Richard J. Meislin, Special To the New York Times
Richard Meislin
The British assault had been under way for more than four hours when Brig. Gen. Mario Benjamin Menendez, the new Argentine Governor of the Falkland Islands, picked up the telephone and called President Leopoldo Galtieri.
Date: 23 May 1982
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
Each year, according to the Federal Government, drunken driving causes half of the country's 50,000 car deaths, 800,000 crashes and 750,000 serious injuries. California got tough last Jan. 1.
Date: 23 May 1982
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
There were buoyant hopes at the University of Arizona in January 1981 that within five years an Arid Lands Studies project at the school could be turning tons of desert plants into oil. Jack Johnson, director of the project, said a 40-acre biofuels facility being developed in Tucson would extract the oil from such plants as buffalo gourd, guayule and gopher weed.
Date: 23 May 1982
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
When the United States Navy took two beluga whales, male and female, to British Columbian waters for advanced training in retrieving sunken torpedoes, an environmentalist group slashed the netting of their pen last Oct. 30. The male whale swam out.
Date: 24 May 1982
By Robert A. Bennett
Robert Bennett
Until last week, morale had never been better at the Chase Manhattan Corporation, the nation's third-largest bank holding company. Bank-stock analysts as well as the company's executives had been ebullient about
Date: 23 May 1982
By States News Service, Washington
States Service
IN THE legislative thicket that the House of Representatives must negotiate in the rest of the current session, three issues - the budget, the Clean Air Act and ocean dumping - promise to rank among the most controversial.
Date: 23 May 1982
International Britain widened its bridgehead on East Falkland Island to 10 square miles and more troops reinforced those already ashore. Defense Minister John Nott announced in London that a British missile frigate, the 3,250-ton Ardent, was sunk in Falkland Sound with the presumed loss of 20 men. British sources said that 5,000 British marines and paratroopers had moved into the bridgehead around San Carlos Bay on the northwestern coast of East Falkland. (Page 1, Column 6.)