Argentina invaded UK's Falkland Islands, Israel invaded Southern Lebanon, Canada became officially independent of the UK, Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the USSR, died, all in what year?
1982 The Falkland Islands war led to a humiliating defeat for Argentina which still rankles; Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon contributed to civil war in Lebanon and its eventual dominance by Syria; Brezhnev's death led within three years to USSR leadership by Mikhail Gorbachev, the end of the Cold War, and his eventual dissolution of the USSR in 1991.
In December 2019 the wreck of what ship was discovered close to the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas); it had sunk in battle almost exactly 105 years earlier carrying down the Vice Admiral of its fleet?
