January 1: The military women departments MARVA, Luva and Milva are disbanded
January 18: The protest group 'Stop the ammo train' blocks the rail at
Roodeschool to stop the American ammunition transport from the
Eemshaven to
Germany. Demonstrators chain themselves to the train and the tracks. Police clear the section after which the train arrives at the
main station in
Groningen. Where an altercation erupts between the police's mobile unit and hundreds of protesters. Many delays were caused the following day by similar protest actions.
March 17: An
IKON TV-crew with Koos Koster, Jan Kuiper, Joop Willemse and Hans Terlaag are ambushed and killed in
El Salvador. They were trying to interview
FMLN rebels because of the upcoming
election that will be held on March 28.
April 24/25:
Table tennis player
Bettine Vriesekoop wins the women's single and mixed doubles at the European championships in
Budapest. Besides those two titles she also became 2nd in women's doubles in that tournament.
May 13: The cabinet-Van Agt II falls, after
Labour ministers keep disagreeing on the cuts for
1983.
CDA and
D66 enter an interim-cabinet Van Agt until the new elections that will be held on September 8, 1982.
May 30: Billiards player Rini van Bracht wins the world title three-cushion in
Guayaquil,
Ecuador.
June 2:
Rudi Koopmans successfully defends his European light heavyweight boxing title in
Italy against challenger Christiano Cavina.
September 24: While proceedings are still ongoing people start with chopping down 475 centuries old trees in Amelisweerd forest for the construction of the A27 road by assignment of minister Zeevalking.
October 1:
Prince Claus, who is suffering from severe depressions is admitted to a psychiatric clinic in
Basel. He would reappear in public in September 1983. Surprisingly this all improved his popularity amongst the Dutch people.
October 11: In
Amsterdam severe riots break out after the Lucky Luyk is cleared.
October 20: A
disaster takes place at the
Luzhniki Stadium during the soccer match
Spartak Moscow vs
HFC Haarlem. At least 66 people die in the crowd jam when a goal is scored in the final stages of the match.
November 15: European light heavyweight boxing champion
Rudi Koopmans successfully defends his title against compatriot Alex Blanchard, who loses on a TKO in the
Ahoy arena in
Rotterdam.
November 26: Toos van der Valk, wife of Gerrit van der Valk CEO of hospitality chain
Van der Valk, is abducted from her house in
Nuland by 3 Italian criminals. She was released after 3 weeks after paying 12 to 13 million
guilders in ransom .
December 3: Jannes van der Wal becomes world champion
checkers in
São Paulo. Rob Clerc and Harm Wiersma become 2nd and 3rd. There were no
Russians active due to visa issues.