Navy warship in Gibraltar, fails. The Weather Channel airs on cable television in the United States as the first 24-hour all weather network. May 4 – Falklands War: is hit by an Argentine Exocet missile and burns out of control; 20 sailors are killed. The ship sinks on May 10. May 8 – French-Canadian racing driver Gilles Villeneuve is killed during qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix. May 12 – Spanish priest Juan María Fernández y Krohn tries to stab Pope John Paul II with a bayonet during the latter's pilgrimage to the shrine at Fátima. May 16 – The New York Islanders sweep the Vancouver Canucks in four games to win the 1982 Stanley Cup Finals in ice hockey. May 18 – Falklands War: The British Special Air Service launches Operation Plum Duff, a reconnaissance mission preliminary to Operation Mikado, which is planned to destroy three Argentinean Exocet missiles and five Super Étendard fighter-bombers. Both Operation Plum Duff and Operation Mikado are called off after the Plum Duff insertion is revealed by a helicopter landing in Chile. May 21 Falklands War: is sunk by Argentine aircraft, killing 22 sailors. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is established. May 23 – Falklands War: is lost. May 24 Iranian troops retake Khorramshahr. KGB head Yuri Andropov is appointed to the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. May 25 – British ships and are sunk during the Falklands War; Coventry by two A-4C Skyhawks and Atlantic Conveyor by two Exocets. May 26 – Aston Villa F.C. wins the European Cup, beating Bayern Munich 1–0 after a 69th-minute goal by Peter Withe in Rotterdam. May 28 – 29 – Falklands War: Battle of Goose Green: British forces defeat a larger Argentine force. May 30 Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955. Indianapolis 500: 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds. Leading to the closest finish to this date, Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps, in what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history. June June 6 – The 1982 Lebanon War begins: Israeli forces