WHATYEAR

ISIT

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The EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World in Florida.

Ozzy Osbourne bites off the head of a bat.

Graceland

opens to the public.

At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.

He lives for 112 days.

premieres on Broadway.

Charlie Brooks Jr.

becomes the first to be executed by lethal injection.

CHEERS premieres.

The Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.

TIME Magazine’s Man of the Year is for the first time given to a non-human…

the personal computer.

1982