Grace Kelly died on 14 September 1982 in Commune of Monaco, aged 52. An American actress who became a princess, Kelly starred in Hollywood in the early 1950s in films such as High Noon, Mogambo, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief, working with Alfred Hitchcock. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Country Girl in 1955. The following year she married Prince Rainier III of Monaco, and left acting to become Princess Grace, devoting herself to charity and the arts. She died after a car accident near Monaco, and her children continue the royal line.
Before and after
- 18 July 1982Birth of Priyanka Chopra
- 29 August 1982Discovery of meitnerium
- 3 September 1982Construction of Olympic Stadium in Athens
- 11 September 1982Birth of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
- 14 September 1982Death of Grace Kelly
- 15 September 1982Launch of USA Today
- 16 September 1982Sabra and Shatila massacre
- 7 November 1982Construction of Itaipu Hydroelectric Power Plant
- 10 November 1982Death of Leonid Brezhnev
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