| January 1 | 47th Australian Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beats Goolagong (64 75) |
| January 1 | Britain, Ireland and Denmark become 7th - 9th members of Common Market |
| January 1 | West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta) |
| January 3 | George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million |
| January 5 | Mali and Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel |
| January 5 | Netherlands recognizes East Germany |
| January 6 | "Schoolhouse Rock," premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock |
| January 7 | British Darts Organisation founded in North London |
| January 7 | Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| January 7 | Johnny Watkins bowls six overs 0-21 vs. Pakistan Never again |
| January 7 | "Purlie" closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City after 14 performances |
| January 7 | U.S. poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize |
| January 7 | WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 8 | Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 vs. Pakistan at SCG |
| January 8 | Secret peace talks between U.S. and North Vietnam resumed near Paris |
| January 8 | "Tricks" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| January 8 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 21 for Moon landing |
| January 9 | Luna 21 launched, to Moon |
| January 10 | Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die |
| January 11 | American League adopts designated hitter rule |
| January 11 | Famous victory at the SCG Pakistan chasing 158 all out 106 |
| January 11 | Trial of Watergate burglars begins in Washington D.C. |
| January 13 | Efskind skates world record 1000m (1:17.6) |
| January 13 | "Tricks" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| January 14 | Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted on drugs in California |
| January 14 | Superbowl MVP: Jake Scott, Miami, S |
| January 14 | Superbowl VII: Miami Dolphins beat Washington Red Skins, 14-7 in LA |
| January 14 | Tap dancer Ray Castle measured at 1440 taps/minute on BBC TV |
| January 15 | 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court |
| January 15 | Gene Shalit joins Today Show panel |
| January 15 | Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican |
| January 15 | President Nixon suspends all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam |
| January 16 | NBC presents 440th and final showing of "Bonanza" |
| January 16 | U.S.S.R.'s Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of Moon |
| January 17 | City of Amsterdam decides to support Hanoi |
| January 17 | New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life |
| January 18 | Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH |
| January 18 | Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak |
| January 18 | John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC |
| January 21 | 3rd NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 33-28 |
| January 21 | Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger" |
| January 22 | George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| January 22 | Roe vs Wade: U.S. Supreme Court legalizes some abortions |
| January 22 | US, North and South Vietnam and Vietcong sign boundary accord |
| January 23 | 23rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 104-84 at Chicago |
| January 23 | Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs |
| January 23 | Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims |
| January 23 | President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War |
| January 24 | Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| January 26 | Belgium government of Leburton forms |
| January 27 | U.S. and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest U.S. war and military draft |
| January 27 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
| January 27 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr |
| January 27 | UCLA's basketball team wins 61st consecutive game (NCAA record) |
| January 27 | William Rogers and Nguyen Duy Trinh sign U.S. - North Vietnam treaty |
| January 28 | "Barnaby Jones" premieres on CBS TV |
| January 28 | Henry Boucha, Detroit Red Wings, scores 6 sec into a game vs Mont |
| January 28 | Mickey Welch, George Kelly and Billy Evans elected to Hall of Fame |
| January 28 | Ron Howard appears on M*A*S*H in "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet" |
| January 30 | 1st Kiss concert (Queens New York) |
| January 30 | 26th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at New York Rangers |
| January 30 | Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy and McCord guilty on all counts |
| January 30 | KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens New York) |
| February 1 | Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| February 2 | James R. Schlesinger, becomes 9th director of CIA |
| February 2 | "Midnight Special" rock music show debuts on NBC-TV |
| February 2 | Richath Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA |
| February 2 | Test Cricket debut of Richard John Hadlee, New Zealand vs. Pakistan, Wellington |
| February 3 | Dr. Hook's "Cover of "Rolling Stone"" enters Top 40 and peaks at #6 |
| February 3 | President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law |
| February 4 | Islanders and Sabres had a penalty free game |
| February 4 | Manfred Kokot runs world record 50m indoor (5.61 sec) |
| February 4 | "No, No Nanette" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 861 performances |
| February 4 | Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled |
| February 5 | Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuted |
| February 5 | Funeral for LC William Nolde, last U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam War |
| February 5 | Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders |
| February 6 | 40,000 civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution |
| February 6 | 6th ABA All-Star Game: West 123 beats East 111 at Utah |
| February 6 | Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edm |
| February 6 | "Shelter" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 31 performances |
| February 7 | 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 |
| February 7 | Senate createse Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities |
| February 8 | Jean Kerrs "Finishing Touches," premieres in New York City |
| February 8 | Mushtaq and Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket vs. New Zealand |
| February 8 | Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal |
| February 10 | 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 |
| February 10 | 83m wide gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die |
| February 10 | Mushtaq Mohammad follows up 201 to take 5-49 vs. New Zealand Dunedin |
| February 11 | 1st one-day international for Pakistan and New Zealand |
| February 11 | 1st sub 17-minute 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s) |
| February 11 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Naples-Lely Golf Classic |
| February 11 | Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row |
| February 12 | 1st U.S. POWs in North Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine |
| February 13 | Musical "El Grande de Coca-Cola," premieres in New York City |
| February 13 | U.S. dollar devalues 10 percent |
| February 15 | Friendsville Academy (Tennessee) ends 138-game basketball losing streak |
| February 15 | U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km) |
| February 16 | WI vs. Australia at Kingston, 1st time since 1955 without Sobers |
| February 17 | Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut vs. Pakistan, his only Test Cricket |
| February 18 | 54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Wash |
| February 18 | Belgian Emiel Puttemans runs 3000m indoor record 7:39.2 |
| February 18 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Pompano Beach Golf Classic |
| February 20 | 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins |
| February 21 | Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out |
| February 21 | Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108 |
| February 22 | U.S. and China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington D.C. |
| February 23 | Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London |
| February 25 | Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders |
| February 25 | "Little Night Music" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 601 performances |
| February 25 | Steven Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music," premieres in New York City |
| February 26 | Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m |
| February 27 | American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota |
| February 27 | Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-yr contract with White Sox |
| February 27 | Members of American Indian Movement begin occupation of Wounded Knee |
| February 27 | Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius |
| February 27 | White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs 3-year $750,000 contract |
| February 28 | Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders |
| March 1 | Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens |
| March 1 | Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race |
| March 2 | "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum |
| March 3 | "Shelter" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 31 performances |
| March 3 | White Sox Dick Allen signs 3 year contract for record $750,000 |
| March 4 | 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America |
| March 5 | Yankee pitchers Peterson and Kekich announce they swapped wives |
| March 6 | In an exhibition game with the Pirates, Twins Larry Hisle becomes the 1st designated hitter (he hits 2 home runs and knocks in 7 RBIs) |
| March 7 | Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory |
| March 7 | Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh |
| March 8 | Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/U.S. longest, opens |
| March 8 | Paul and Linda McCartney are fined 100 pounds for growing cannabis |
| March 8 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 10 | BPAA U.S. Open by Mike McGrath |
| March 10 | Morocco adopts constitution |
| March 11 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic |
| March 13 | "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 605 performances |
| March 13 | Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St. New York City |
| March 13 | Syria adopts constitution |
| March 14 | Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland |
| March 17 | Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge |
| March 17 | St. Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday |
| March 18 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| March 18 | "Seesaw" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 296 performances |
| March 19 | Dean tells Nixon, "There is a cancer growing on the Presidency" |
| March 20 | Roberto Clemente elected to Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death |
| March 21 | Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHLer to score 500 goals |
| March 23 | After a 5 year run soap "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" ends |
| March 23 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 23 | Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in U.S. |
| March 24 | Harley Race beats Dory Funk, Jr. in Kansas City, to become NWA champ |
| March 24 | Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52 to win AIAW Basketball title |
| March 24 | Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile |
| March 24 | San Francisco 49er President Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams |
| March 25 | 27th Tony Awards: That Championship Season and Little Night Music win |
| March 25 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic |
| March 25 | Majid Khan and Mushtaq Mohammad both out for 99 in Test vs. Eng |
| March 26 | 35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76 |
| March 26 | Soap "Young and Restless" premieres |
| March 26 | Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange |
| March 26 | UCLA wins their 7th straight NCAA basketball title |
| March 27 | 45th Academy Awards - "Godfather," Marlon Brando and Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians |
| March 27 | Dennis Amiss out for 99 vs. Pakistan, 3rd 99 in Test Cricket |
| March 27 | Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding and LSD possession |
| March 29 | Dave Cowens, wins NBA MVP |
| March 29 | U.S. troops leave Vietnam, 9 years after Tonkin Resolution |
| March 30 | Ellsworth Bunker resigns as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam |
| March 31 | Flyers score 8 goals in 1 period vs. Islanders, on 60 shots |
| March 31 | Ken Norton defeats Muhammad Ali in a 12 round split decision |
| April 1 | Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Classic |
| April 1 | Japan allows its citizens to own gold |
| April 1 | John and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence |
| April 2 | CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day |
| April 2 | Ed Kemper stuffs mother's throat in disposal |
| April 2 | ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean President election |
| April 5 | NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie quarterbacks, 1-19) |
| April 5 | Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter |
| April 6 | Harbor strike in Gent/Antwerp, Belgium |
| April 6 | Indies troops invade Sikkim |
| April 6 | Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter and Saturn |
| April 6 | Roberto Clemente Day, Pirates retire his number |
| April 6 | Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks |
| April 7 | Cleveland sets day-game and opening-game attendance records of 74,420 |
| April 7 | Doug Walters' best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 vs. WI Georgetown |
| April 9 | 37th Golf Masters Championship: Tommy Aaron wins, shooting a 283 |
| April 9 | Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam |
| April 9 | Otto Kerner, former governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme |
| April 10 | BEA flight to Basel, Switzerland, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143 |
| April 10 | Kansas City opens its new park, Royals Stadium, with 12-1 rout of Rangers |
| April 10 | Pakistan suspends constitution |
| April 12 | France recognizes North Vietnam |
| April 12 | Sudan adopts constitution |
| April 12 | Swaziland suspends constitution |
| April 14 | Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal |
| April 15 | 2nd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright |
| April 15 | Walt Disney Store opens |
| April 17 | 2nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Jacqueline Hansen of CA in 3:05:59 |
| April 17 | 77th Boston Marathon won by Jon Anderson of Oreg in 2:16:03 |
| April 19 | Barbra Streisand records "Between Yesterday and Tomorrow" |
| April 19 | Steinbrenner replaces Mike Burke with Gabe Paul as Yankee president |
| April 19 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| April 20 | Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit |
| April 25 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 26 | "2 Gentlemen of Verona," musical opens in London |
| April 26 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 27 | Kansas City Royal Steve Busby no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0 |
| April 29 | Gloria Ehret wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
| April 30 | Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman |
| April 30 | Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love" |
| April 30 | Women's tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments |
| May 1 | San Francisco Giants score 7 runs with 2 outs in 9th to beat Pirates, 8-7 |
| May 3 | Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building finished |
| May 3 | Kansas City Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit |
| May 4 | 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine |
| May 4 | BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Millie Martorella |
| May 4 | Longest game in Veterans' Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 |
| May 4 | Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope |
| May 4 | Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings |
| May 4 | Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK |
| May 5 | 99th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:59.4 |
| May 6 | 1st WHA championship, New England Whalers beat Win Jets, 4 games to 1 |
| May 6 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic |
| May 7 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter) |
| May 8 | Ernie Banks fills in for Cubs manager Whitey Lockman who is ejected during the game, thus technically becoming baseball's 1st black manager |
| May 8 | Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender |
| May 9 | For 2nd time, Johnny Bench hits 3 home runs in a game |
| May 10 | 27th NBA Championship: New York Knicks beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 1 |
| May 10 | 9th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 8-4 |
| May 10 | Establishment of Frente Polisario in Mauritania |
| May 10 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2 |
| May 11 | Dutch government of Uyl forms |
| May 12 | 6th ABA championship: Indiana Pacers beat Kentucky Colonels, 4 games to 3 |
| May 12 | Dueling Tubas by Martin Mull hits #92 |
| May 13 | Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Smith Court in Mother's Day match in California |
| May 13 | "Cyrano" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 49 performances |
| May 13 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| May 14 | Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London |
| May 14 | Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV |
| May 14 | Skylab launched, 1st Space Station |
| May 14 | U.S. Supreme Court approves equal rights to females in military |
| May 15 | California Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats Kansas City Royals, 3-0 |
| May 16 | ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Dave Soutar |
| May 16 | AC Milan wins 13th Europe Cup II in Saloniki |
| May 17 | Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's |
| May 17 | Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger home run |
| May 17 | "Nash at Nine" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 21 performances |
| May 17 | Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings |
| May 17 | Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love" |
| May 17 | U.S. performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle, Colorado |
| May 18 | Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany |
| May 18 | WIBC Bowling Queens won by Dotty Fothergill |
| May 19 | 99th Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:54.4 |
| May 19 | "Daisy" A Day by Jud Strunk hits #14 |
| May 19 | "Smith" opens at Eden Theater New York City for 17 performances |
| May 20 | "2 Gentlemen of Verona" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 613 performances |
| May 20 | 25th Emmy Awards: Waltons, All in the Family and Mary Tyler Moore |
| May 20 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
| May 22 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| May 22 | President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up |
| May 25 | Argentine Peronist Hector Campora installed as president |
| May 25 | Borussia Monchengladbach wins 2nd UEFA Cup at Monchengladbach |
| May 25 | George Harrison releases "Give Me Love" in the United Kingdom |
| May 25 | U.S. launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz |
| May 26 | Bahrain adopts it's constitution |
| May 26 | Beatles' "Beatles 1967-1970," album goes #1 |
| May 26 | Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game complete 5/28) |
| May 26 | Funky Worm by Ohio Players hits #15 |
| May 26 | Super Fly Meets Shaft by John and Ernest hits #31 |
| May 26 | Tippett's 3rd Piano sonata, premieres |
| May 27 | Rick Wohlhuter runs record 880 yards in 1:44.6 |
| May 28 | Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game started 5/26) |
| May 29 | Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records |
| May 29 | Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles, California |
| May 30 | Ajax wins 3rd Europe Cup |
| May 31 | Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th cricket run of English season |
| June 1 | George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" goes gold |
| June 1 | Greek President Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic" |
| June 1 | Paul McCartney and Wings release "Live and Let Die" |
| June 2 | "Nash at Nine" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 21 performances |
| June 3 | At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashes |
| June 3 | Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Sealy-Faberge Golf Classic |
| June 3 | "Smith" closes at Eden Theater New York City after 17 performances |
| June 3 | Tupolev 144 crashes at Paris, 15 killed |
| June 4 | 43rd French Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beats C Evert (67 76 64) |
| June 5 | 43rd French Mens Tennis: Ilse Nastase beats Nikki Pilic (63 63 60) |
| June 7 | Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1 |
| June 8 | Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain |
| June 9 | 105th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 2:24 |
| June 10 | 19th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills |
| June 10 | NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit |
| June 12 | Close finish at Trent Bridge, New Zealand Cricket need 479 to win, all out 440 |
| June 12 | Yankees trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer |
| June 13 | Garvey, Lopes, Cey and Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8 years (Los Angeles Dodgers) |
| June 14 | 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe |
| June 15 | "American Graffiti" opens in New York City |
| June 16 | Leonid I Brezhnev visit U.S. |
| June 17 | 1st du Maurier Golf Classic (La Canadienne): Jocelyne Bourassa |
| June 17 | 73rd U.S. Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC PA |
| June 17 | Russian party leader Brezhnev visits U.S. |
| June 18 | NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants |
| June 19 | Pete Rose and Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000 |
| June 19 | "Rocky Horror Picture Show," stage production opens in London |
| June 20 | Chicago's Cy Acosta is 1st AL pitcher to bat since DH rule (strikeout) |
| June 20 | Juan Peron returns to Argentina |
| June 20 | San Francisco Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off home runs |
| June 22 | Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water |
| June 22 | George Harrison releases "Living in the Material World" |
| June 22 | Skylab 2's astronauts land |
| June 23 | "Cyrano" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 49 performances |
| June 23 | Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game home run in which he pitched |
| June 23 | "Sugar" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 506 performances |
| June 24 | Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8" |
| June 24 | Susie Berning wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open |
| June 25 | John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee |
| June 25 | Russian party leader Brezhnev visits France |
| June 25 | Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m |
| June 26 | London production of "Grease" premieres |
| June 27 | John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list" |
| June 27 | "Live and Let Die" premieres in U.S. |
| June 27 | Uruguay suspends constitution |
| June 28 | Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis and Althea Gibson elected |
| June 28 | Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League's "no girls" rule |
| June 30 | Biggest U.S. tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton) |
| June 30 | "Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour," TV Variety; debut on ABC |
| June 30 | Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-minute solar eclipse |
| July 1 | 1st U.S. - China basketball game, U.S. collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61 |
| July 1 | "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Mark Hellinger New York City after 711 performances |
| July 1 | Mary Mills wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic |
| July 2 | James R. Schlesinger, ends term as 9th director of CIA |
| July 2 | Nation Black Network begins operation on radio |
| July 3 | Brothers Jim and Gaylord Perry face each other for only time, Tigers beat Indians 5-4, as Gaylord loses |
| July 3 | General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA |
| July 4 | Alan Ayckbourne's "Absurd Person Singular," premieres in London |
| July 4 | CARICOM - Caribbean Community and Common Market, forms |
| July 4 | In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who "offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth" |
| July 5 | Isle of Man begins issuing their own postage stamps |
| July 5 | "Live and Let Die," James Bond film premieres |
| July 5 | Major General Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda |
| July 5 | Rwanda military coup under general-major Habyalimana |
| July 5 | Test Cricket umpiring debut of H D "Dickie" Bird vs. New Zealand at Leeds |
| July 7 | 1st all - U.S. women's Wimbledon, Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert |
| July 7 | 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river, India |
| July 7 | 80th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats C Evert, 60 75 |
| July 7 | 87th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jan Kodes beats Alex Metreveli, 61 98 63 |
| July 7 | All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels |
| July 7 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 4th triple play, 5-4-3 vs Oakland |
| July 7 | Glenda Reiser, Canada, sets record women's mile, 4:34.9 |
| July 7 | Shoelace Park in the Bronx named |
| July 8 | Mary Lou Crocker wins LPGA MARC Equity Golf Classic Crocker |
| July 8 | New York Mets are 12 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant |
| July 9 | 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel |
| July 10 | Bahamas declares Independence from U.K. and adopts constitution |
| July 11 | Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed |
| July 13 | Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating Kansas City 5-0 |
| July 13 | Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina |
| July 14 | 102nd British Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon |
| July 14 | Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers |
| July 15 | California Angel Nolan Ryan 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0 |
| July 15 | Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
| July 15 | Paul Getty III kidnapped |
| July 15 | Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide |
| July 15 | Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 home runs |
| July 16 | During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes |
| July 17 | Military coup in Afghanistan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah flees |
| July 19 | Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial) |
| July 20 | Chic's Wilbur Wood starts and loses both games of a doubleheader with New York Yankees, 12-2, and 7-0 |
| July 20 | Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ |
| July 21 | Braves Hank Aaron hits Ken Brett's fastball for his 700th home run |
| July 21 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Atoll un the Pacific |
| July 21 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet |
| July 22 | 28th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning |
| July 23 | Ozark AL plane knocked out of air by lightning, St. Louis-36 die |
| July 23 | President Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation |
| July 23 | Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan and Prime Minister of Oman |
| July 23 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 24 | 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC |
| July 24 | All star MVP: Bobby Bonds for the San Francisco Giants |
| July 25 | George Harrison pays 1,000,000 pounds tax on his Bangladesh concert and album |
| July 25 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 5 |
| July 26 | Peter Shaffers "Equus," premieres in London |
| July 27 | 40th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Miami 14, All Stars 3 (54,103) |
| July 27 | Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners |
| July 28 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| July 28 | Jane Blalock/Sandra Palmer wins Lady Angelo's 4-Ball Golf Tournament |
| July 28 | Skylab 3's astronauts, Bean, Garriott and Lousma, launched |
| July 29 | $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from New York, Hilton |
| July 29 | Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy |
| July 30 | Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0 |
| July 31 | ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to New York Nets |
| July 31 | Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later |
| July 31 | Frank Hayes scores 106 on Test Cricket debut vs. WI as England lose |
| August 1 | H. J. Witteveen appointed as director of IMF |
| August 1 | Munson and Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park |
| August 3 | Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park, Isle of Man, UK |
| August 3 | National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections |
| August 5 | Arab terrorists open fire at Athens airport, kills 3 injures 55 |
| August 5 | Atlanta Braves Phil Niekro no-hits San Diego Padres, 9-0 |
| August 5 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic |
| August 5 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 6 |
| August 6 | Roberto Clemente and Warren Spahn inducted into Hall of Fame |
| August 6 | Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma |
| August 8 | Vice President Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are "damned lies" from government contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign |
| August 9 | Henry McCullough and Denny Seiwell quit Wings |
| August 9 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 7 |
| August 10 | 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St. Station |
| August 12 | 55th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 277 at Canterbury, Cleveland |
| August 12 | Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child and Family Service Golf Opens |
| August 12 | WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris |
| August 14 | Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Baltimore Colts |
| August 14 | U.S. ends secret bombing of Cambodia |
| August 15 | Black September kills 3 wounds 55 Athens |
| August 15 | David Storey's "Cromwell," premieres in London |
| August 15 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| August 17 | Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one |
| August 17 | Willie Mays hits 660th and last home run (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati) |
| August 18 | Gene Krupa, drummer, plays for final time with Benny Goodman Quartet |
| August 18 | Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record |
| August 19 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| August 19 | Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge |
| August 19 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA St. Paul Golf Open |
| August 22 | Chilean parliament accuses President Allende violating laws |
| August 22 | Henry Kissinger succeeds William Rogers as Minister of Foreign affairs |
| August 23 | Intelsat communications satellite launched |
| August 24 | John Adams and his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleveland Stadium |
| August 25 | Butch Trucks drummer of Allman Brothers, breaks leg in a car crash |
| August 25 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| August 25 | Guitarist Henry McCullough quits Wings |
| August 25 | Zambia adopts constitution |
| August 26 | 10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, California, beating a field of 1,500 runners |
| August 26 | David Eisenhower writes his last sports column |
| August 26 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
| August 26 | University of Texas (Arlington) is 1st accredited school to offer belly dancing |
| August 28 | 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527 |
| August 28 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| August 28 | India and Pakistan sign POW accord |
| August 28 | "Monster Mash" goes gold |
| August 28 | "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple goes gold |
| August 28 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| August 30 | Danny Seiwell quits Wings |
| August 31 | 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman) |
| August 31 | PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony |
| September 1 | 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark) |
| September 1 | George Foreman KOs Jose "King" Roman in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| September 2 | Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers |
| September 2 | Netherlands wins hockey world's championship |
| September 2 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic |
| September 3 | General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA |
| September 3 | Jerry Lewis' 8th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| September 4 | William E. Colby, becomes 10th director of CIA |
| September 5 | 1st one-day Cricket international for WI (v Eng) - lose by 1 wicket |
| September 5 | "Desert Song" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 15 performances |
| September 6 | New York Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt and Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed |
| September 7 | Jackie Stewart becomes Formula 1 world champion |
| September 7 | Mike Storen becomes American Basketball Association's 4th commissioner |
| September 8 | 87th U.S. Womens Tennis: M S Court beats E Goolagong Cawley (76 57 62) |
| September 8 | Billy Martin named manager of Texas Rangers |
| September 8 | Hank Aaron sets record of most home runs in 1 league (709) |
| September 8 | Rebecca Ann King (Colorado), 23, crowned 46th Miss America 1974 |
| September 9 | 93rd U.S. Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Jan Kodes (64 16 46 62 62) |
| September 9 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| September 10 | Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton |
| September 10 | New York Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St. Louis |
| September 11 | Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup |
| September 12 | 2 bettors win largest U.S. Daily Double ($19,909.60 in Detroit) |
| September 12 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 13 | ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics |
| September 13 | Congress passes and sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout |
| September 13 | Syrian/Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea |
| September 14 | Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise |
| September 14 | Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s |
| September 14 | President Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout |
| September 15 | Dutch Guilder devalued 5% |
| September 15 | Ohio State's Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing |
| September 15 | Secretariat wins Marlboro Cup in world record 1:45 2/5 for 1 miles |
| September 15 | "Star Trek-Animated" premieres on TV |
| September 16 | Buff Bill OJ Simpson rushes 250 yards (2 TDs), beating NE Pats 31-13 |
| September 16 | "Desert Song" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 15 performances |
| September 16 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open |
| September 18 | West Germany and East Germany admitted to UN |
| September 19 | Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes King of Sweden |
| September 19 | Frank Robinson homers in record 32nd ML park in Arlington, Texas |
| September 19 | NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington D.C. |
| September 19 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| September 20 | Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match |
| September 20 | Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season |
| September 21 | Jackson Pollocks painting "Blue Poles" sold for $2,000,000 |
| September 21 | Nate Archibald signs 7 yr contract with NBA Kansas City Kings for $450,000 |
| September 21 | New York Mets go into 1st place (at .500) after trailing 12 games |
| September 22 | 20th Ryder Cup: U.S., 19-13 at Muirfield, Scotland |
| September 22 | Baltimore Oriole Al Bumbry hits 3 triples vs Milwaukee Brewers |
| September 22 | Henry Kissinger, sworn in as Secretary of State |
| September 22 | "Little Night Music" opens at Majestic Theater on Broadway |
| September 23 | Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power |
| September 23 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Open |
| September 24 | Guinea-Bissau declares independence |
| September 25 | 3-man crew of Skylab 3 make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days |
| September 25 | Mets beat Expos 2-1 on Willie Mays Night at Shea Stadium |
| September 25 | Willie Mays night at Shea Stadium |
| September 26 | Concorde flies from Washington D.C. to Paris in 3h 33m |
| September 26 | Turkey's state of siege ends (after 2 years) |
| September 26 | Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors |
| September 27 | Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 in 11 innings, for record 383 of season |
| September 27 | Soyuz 12 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit (2 days) |
| September 27 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 28 | Palestinian Terrorists hijack Austrian train |
| September 29 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 5th triple play (5-4-3 vs Detroit) |
| September 29 | Insurance industry announces auto racers get into more highway accidents |
| September 29 | "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" by Looking Glass peaks at #33 |
| September 29 | Soyuz 12 returns to Earth |
| September 29 | "We're An American Band" by Grand Funk peaks at #1 |
| September 30 | 3rd New York City Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik in 2:57:07 |
| September 30 | 4th New York City Marathon won by Tom Fleming in 2:21:54 |
| September 30 | Mel Gray begins NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions |
| September 30 | New York Yankees close 50th year at Yankee Stadium losing 8-5, Ralph Houk |
| September 30 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cameron Park Golf Open |
| September 30 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| October 1 | Leo Durocher resigns as Houston Astro manager |
| October 1 | U.S.S.R.-West Germany gas tunnel opens |
| October 3 | Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader |
| October 4 | Hans of Manens ballet "Adagio Hammerklavier" premieres in Amsterdam |
| October 6 | Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel |
| October 7 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
| October 8 | NLCS game 3 brawl between Cincinnatis' Pete Rose and New York Met Bud Harrelson |
| October 8 | Spyris Markezinis forms government in Greece |
| October 9 | 1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942 |
| October 9 | Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years |
| October 9 | Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal |
| October 9 | Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors |
| October 10 | New York Mets beat Cincinnati Reds in Game 5 of the NLCS |
| October 10 | Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and resigns |
| October 11 | Oakland beats Baltimore 3 games to 2 to win AL pennant |
| October 12 | Israeli counter offensive in southern Syria |
| October 12 | Juan Peron elected president of Argentina |
| October 12 | Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as Vice President |
| October 13 | Jordan enters Yom Kippur war |
| October 13 | Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Emily in for Carol" |
| October 14 | Egyptian tanks move further into Israel |
| October 14 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic |
| October 14 | Willie Mays last hit, as Mets beat A's in World Series game 2 A's Mike Andrews makes 2 errors, prompting owner Finley to remove him |
| October 15 | 7th Country Music Association Award: Roy Clark wins |
| October 15 | Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed |
| October 16 | Israeli tanks under General Sharon move through Suez Canal |
| October 16 | Kissinger and Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize |
| October 16 | Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta |
| October 16 | Monks Heng Yo and Heng Ju, start 1000 mile San Francisco to Seattle pilgrimage |
| October 17 | 5-mo oil embargo by Arab states against U.S. and Netherlands begins |
| October 17 | Arabs decrease oil production |
| October 18 | Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar and dollar coin |
| October 18 | Judd Woldon and Robert Brittens musical "Raisin," premieres in New York City |
| October 18 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief |
| October 18 | "Raisin" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 847 performances |
| October 19 | Ringo releases "Photograph" |
| October 20 | Canadian actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Marcy Lafferty |
| October 20 | Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in "Have You Met Miss Dietz" |
| October 20 | OPEC oil embargo begins |
| October 20 | President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athelete of 1st century |
| October 20 | Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House |
| October 20 | Solicitor General Bork, Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General Ruckelshaus resigned |
| October 20 | The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR and moves station from New York City to Scituate Mass |
| October 20 | U.S. president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox |
| October 20 | William Shatner marries Marcy Lafferty |
| October 21 | A's manager Dick Williams quits after A's beat Mets in World Series |
| October 21 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Waco Tribune Herald Ladies Golf Classic |
| October 22 | Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon |
| October 22 | Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to Yom Kippur War |
| October 23 | Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica |
| October 23 | UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted |
| October 23 | Yankee General Manager and President Lee MacPhail named AL president |
| October 24 | Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on New Jersey Turnpike |
| October 24 | John Lennon sues U.S. government to admit FBI is tapping his phone |
| October 24 | Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus |
| October 25 | Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship |
| October 25 | Cubs trade Ferguson Jenkins to Rangers for Bill Madlock and Vic Harris |
| October 25 | San Francisco Giants trade Willie McCovey to San Diego Padres for pitcher Mike Caldwell |
| October 26 | Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army |
| October 26 | President Nixon released 1st White House tapes on Watergate scandal |
| October 26 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 26 | Wings release "Helen Wheels" |
| October 27 | 1st time Islanders beat Rangers-3-2 |
| October 27 | Alabama sets offensive record (828 yards), beats Virginia Tech 77-6 |
| October 28 | Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record) |
| October 28 | Sharon Miller wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open |
| October 30 | Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award |
| October 31 | Tom Seaver wins NL Cy Young Award |
| November 1 | "Molly" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 68 performances |
| November 2 | "Barbra Streisand ...and Other Musical Instruments" airs on CBS TV |
| November 2 | OLADE (Latin American Energy Organization) forms |
| November 3 | Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman and Nancy Dussault) |
| November 3 | Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury |
| November 4 | 1000s commemorates former premier Georgios Papandreou |
| November 4 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic |
| November 4 | M. Medoff's "When you Comin' Back, Red Ryder?," premieres in New York City |
| November 4 | New Orleans Saints 1st shutout victory, 13-0 vs Buffalo Bills |
| November 5 | BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service |
| November 6 | Abe Beame eleceted 1st Jewish mayor on New York City |
| November 6 | Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit |
| November 7 | New Jersey becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league |
| November 7 | U.S. and Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links |
| November 8 | Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai |
| November 9 | Fire at Taiyo department store, kills 101 and injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan) |
| November 9 | Government De Uyl decides Palestijnse fugitives to support |
| November 9 | Ringo releases "Ringo" album |
| November 12 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 14th String Quartet premieres |
| November 13 | "Gigi" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 103 performances |
| November 13 | Oakland A's Reggie Jackson wins AL MVP unanimously |
| November 14 | Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Captain Mark Phillips |
| November 14 | Canada begins production of Olympic coins |
| November 14 | "Good Evening" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 438 performances |
| November 14 | Jim Palmer is named AL Cy Young winner |
| November 15 | Egypt and Israel exchange prisoners of war |
| November 16 | John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album |
| November 16 | President Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline |
| November 16 | Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit |
| November 17 | Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed |
| November 17 | President Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook" |
| November 17 | Teri Garr plays role of a stripper on "The Nurse" |
| November 18 | Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests |
| November 19 | Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair |
| November 21 | Pete Rose wins NL MVP |
| November 21 | President Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18 minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate |
| November 24 | Miss Teenage America Pageant |
| November 25 | 3 Palestinians hijack KLM B747 above Iraq, to Dubai |
| November 25 | 61st CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 22-18 |
| November 25 | Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos |
| November 25 | Maximum speed limit cut to 55 MPH as an energy conservation measure |
| November 26 | Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18 -minute gap in a key Watergate tape |
| November 27 | Gary Matthews wins NL Rookie of Year |
| November 27 | Neil Simon's "Good Doctor," premieres in New York City |
| November 27 | Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as Vice President |
| November 28 | Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes Palestine |
| November 28 | Baltimore Oriole Al Bumbry wins AL Rookie of Year |
| November 30 | M T Ghani scores 104 on FC debut for Commerce Bank (Pak) age 44 |
| December 1 | Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea |
| December 1 | Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year |
| December 1 | Jan Ferraris wins LPGA-Japan Golf Classic |
| December 1 | Stan Stasiak beats Pedro Morales in Philadelphia, to become WWF champ |
| December 2 | 62nd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (5-0) |
| December 2 | Capital Centre (USAir Arena) in Washington D.C. opens |
| December 2 | U.S. Air Arena opens in Landover Maryland, Bullets beat Seattle, 98-96 |
| December 3 | Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) |
| December 4 | Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter |
| December 5 | Cubs' Ron Santo became 1st baseball player to veto his trade |
| December 5 | Dodgers trade Willie Davis to Expos for relief pitcher Mike Marshall |
| December 5 | Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album |
| December 6 | Bahrain's constitution goes into effect |
| December 6 | Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected Vice President, succeeds Spiro T. Agnew |
| December 6 | NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington D.C. (doesn't happen) |
| December 7 | Orioles sell pitcher Eddie Watt to the Phillies |
| December 7 | Phillies sell infielder-outfielder Cesar Tovar to the Texas Rangers |
| December 7 | Wings release "Band on the Run" |
| December 8 | 39th Heisman Trophy Award: John Cappelletti, Penn State (RB) |
| December 8 | "Seesaw" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 296 performances |
| December 9 | Bruno Sammartino beats Stan Stasiak in NY, to become WWF champ |
| December 9 | "Pajama Game" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 65 performances |
| December 9 | Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland |
| December 10 | 1st time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (S Smith and J Connors) |
| December 11 | Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman |
| December 11 | NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle and Vancouver franchises |
| December 11 | Ron Santo becomes 1st to invoke no-trade clause of 10-year-1-club vet |
| December 11 | West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czechoslovakia |
| December 12 | Canada begins selling Olympic coins ($5 and $10 silver coins) |
| December 12 | San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC) |
| December 13 | MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya |
| December 13 | World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit) |
| December 15 | American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness |
| December 15 | Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens |
| December 15 | Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland |
| December 15 | Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year |
| December 15 | Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game |
| December 15 | U.S. Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill |
| December 16 | O. J. Simpson becomes 1st NFLer to rush 2,000 yard in a season |
| December 17 | Arabs terrorists shoot passengers on Boeing 737 to Kuwait |
| December 18 | Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days |
| December 18 | Yankees sign Dick Williams as manager, overturned later by AL president |
| December 19 | Grenada adopts constitution |
| December 19 | "Molly" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 68 performances |
| December 20 | AL President Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees |
| December 20 | Dutch Antillean government of Evertsz forms |
| December 20 | Montreal Canadien Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point |
| December 21 | Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, U.S. and U.S.S.R. meet in Geneva |
| December 23 | 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices |
| December 23 | French Caravelle crashes in Morocco, 106 killed |
| December 23 | "Young and Restless" premieres on TV |
| December 24 | Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200 |
| December 25 | Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405 miles) |
| December 26 | 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours |
| December 26 | "Exorcist," starring Linda Blair and rated X, premieres |
| December 26 | Soyuz 13 returns to Earth |
| December 27 | Los Angeles Dodgers announce night games will start at 7:30 instead of 8 |
| December 28 | Akron Ohio's Chamber of Commerce terminates itself from Soap Box Derby |
| December 28 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes "Gulag Archipelag" |
| December 28 | Comet Kohoutek at perihelion |
| December 30 | 1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab) |
| December 30 | Miami Dolphins beat Oakland Raiders 27-10 in AFC championship game |
| December 30 | Minnesota Vikings beat Dallas Cowboys 27-10 in NFC championship game |
| December 31 | 40th Sugar Bowl: Notre Dame 24 beats Alabama 23 |
| December 31 | 61st Australian Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats O Parun (63 67 75 61) |
| December 31 | Johan Cruyff chosen European soccer Player of year |
