1982

Current Events: Weather Channel airs for the first time in the U.S Luna Eclipse of the 20th century took place on July 6, lasting 106 min.  The first International day od peace on sept 21 The Tylenol scare is sparked when 7 people in the Chicago area die after ingesting capsules laced with potassium cyanide. The Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World opens to the public for the first time. Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).  Michael Jacksons album thriller released and was the biggest selling album of all time At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart (he will live for 112 days with the device).

Medical: Dr. William DeVries implants the  Jarvik artificial heart into patient Barney Clark. Clark lives 112 days. the government selects AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, as the formal name for the deadly disease then known as gay-related immune deficiency, or GRID. That same year the first cases were reported in Africa and an alarmed Congress held its first hearings on the new disease. AIDS now afflicts 40 million people worldwide, about 900,000 of them in the USA.

In 1982, Merck & Co. begins human trials of the first successful cholesterol-lowering drug, lovastatin, and learn it can heart risk by about 30%. Since then, companies have developed a whole class of so-called statins, which are among the world's top selling drugs.

TV and Movies: Cheers Fame Family Ties

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Technology and Invention: //smaller and cheaper electronic gadgets appearing including the first CD player and a new industry is just beginning with the use of Genetic Engineering human insulin produced by bacteria is sold for the first time.// How Much things cost in 1982 Yearly Inflation Rate **USA**//6.16 %// Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average //1046// Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve //11.50%// Average Cost of new house $82,200.00 Average Income per year $21,050.00 Average Monthly Rent $320.00 Cost of a gallon of Gas 91 cents New Car Average price $7,983.00 US Postage Stamp 20 cents Vic 20 $299.95 Satellite Receiver $245.95 Below are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Stirling Average House Price 23,644 Gallon of Petrol 1.59 Yearly Inflation Rate **UK** //8.6%// Interest Rates Year End Bank of England //10.00%//

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