| January 1 | Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213 |
| January 1 | President Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909 |
| January 1 | "Your Arm's Too Short..." closes at Lyceum New York City after 429 performances |
| January 2 | Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey |
| January 2 | Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania" |
| January 3 | Chandrasekar takes 6-52 and 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win |
| January 6 | 1st postage stamp copyrighted by U.S. (Carl Sandburg stamp) |
| January 6 | U.S. hand over St. Stephan crown to Hungary |
| January 7 | Angola revises its constitution |
| January 8 | Israeli government votes to 'strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai |
| January 9 | Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established |
| January 10 | Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched |
| January 11 | Governor Askew dedicates RCUC solar office building |
| January 11 | Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 and Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link) |
| January 14 | Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, SF) |
| January 15 | Superbowl XII: Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10 in N Orleans Superbowl MVP: Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE and Randy White, Dallas, DT |
| January 15 | Theodore Bundy kills Florida State University coeds Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman |
| January 16 | 5th American Music Award: Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac and C Twitty |
| January 16 | Soyuz 27 returns to Earth |
| January 18 | Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, vs. Pak Karachi |
| January 18 | Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses (no injuries) |
| January 18 | Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB |
| January 19 | Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame |
| January 19 | Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI |
| January 20 | Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie" |
| January 21 | Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks |
| January 23 | Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris |
| January 23 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 14-13 |
| January 24 | 31st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at Buffalo |
| January 24 | Carter Executive Order on Intelligence |
| January 25 | Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat |
| January 25 | Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin and $125,000 to Rangers for Gaylord Perry (He wins 1978 Cy Young Award) |
| January 26 | Frank Herbert completes his novel "Destination: Void" |
| January 26 | International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit |
| January 26 | Mario Soares forms Portuguese government |
| January 26 | Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40 |
| January 28 | "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV |
| January 28 | Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders |
| January 28 | Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife |
| January 29 | Joanne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship |
| January 30 | Addie Joss and Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| January 30 | Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio |
| January 31 | "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 101 performances |
| January 31 | Israel turns 3 military outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements |
| February 1 | Director Roman Polanski skips bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl |
| February 1 | Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a U.S. postage stamp |
| February 3 | Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test |
| February 3 | India needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445 |
| February 5 | Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded |
| February 6 | Muriel Humphrey, Senator-D-Minnesota 1978, wife of late Hubert Humphrey takes his office |
| February 6 | Snowstorm hits New England, parts of RI (54" (137cm)) |
| February 7 | Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert |
| February 8 | Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes Prime Minister of Kuwait |
| February 10 | Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA |
| February 11 | 16 Unification church couples wed in New York City |
| February 11 | 25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin |
| February 11 | China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Dickens |
| February 11 | EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus |
| February 12 | Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic |
| February 12 | "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 96 performances |
| February 12 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
| February 12 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
| February 13 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 14 | 1st "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments |
| February 14 | In girls' High School basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St. George |
| February 15 | England all out 64 for 1st loss to New Zealand in cricket (Boycott captain) |
| February 15 | Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Florida |
| February 15 | Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| February 15 | Zaire revises constitution |
| February 16 | 1st Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward and Randy's CBBS, Chicago) |
| February 18 | 1st Iron Man Triathlon held, Kona, Hawaii |
| February 19 | Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 m indoor (2:34.8) |
| February 19 | Coleman, Comden and Green's musical premieres in New York City |
| February 19 | "On the 20th Century" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 460 performances |
| February 20 | 4th People's Choice Awards: Star Wars, Carol Burnett and Bob Hope |
| February 20 | Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ |
| February 20 | Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus |
| February 20 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| February 22 | 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tennessee |
| February 23 | 20th Grammy Awards: Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac, Debbie Boone wins |
| February 24 | Kevin Porter, New Jersey, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game |
| February 25 | Botham scores 1st Test Cricket century, 103 vs. New Zealand Christchurch |
| February 26 | Ira Levin's "Deathtrap," premieres in New York City |
| February 26 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
| February 27 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| March 1 | Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery |
| March 1 | "Timbuktu!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 243 performances |
| March 2 | 1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV |
| March 2 | Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6 |
| March 3 | 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI vs. Australia) |
| March 3 | Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland |
| March 4 | Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue |
| March 5 | "Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 152 performances |
| March 5 | Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California |
| March 7 | Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped |
| March 7 | Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders |
| March 7 | Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb |
| March 9 | Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk and Karponosov |
| March 9 | Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Rodnina and Zaitsev (URS) |
| March 9 | Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (GDR) |
| March 9 | Men's Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA) |
| March 10 | Soyuz 28 returns to Earth |
| March 11 | Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed |
| March 11 | USF-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust NC |
| March 12 | Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99) |
| March 12 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic |
| March 13 | Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house |
| March 14 | Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead) |
| March 14 | NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge) |
| March 15 | A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players and $390,000 |
| March 15 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| March 15 | Operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon |
| March 16 | Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast |
| March 16 | Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed |
| March 16 | Soyuz 26 returns to Earth |
| March 16 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 16 | U.S. Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty |
| March 17 | Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast |
| March 17 | Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," premieres in Stockholm |
| March 17 | Reds don green uniforms for St. Patricks Day |
| March 18 | 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario California |
| March 18 | Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death |
| March 19 | 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb |
| March 19 | Sally Little wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic |
| March 20 | Flyers' Rick MacLeash scores on 6th penalty shot against Islanders |
| March 21 | Padres fire Al Dark (2nd manager ever fired during spring training) |
| March 22 | France performs nuclear test |
| March 22 | Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm and Market, SF, dedicated |
| March 22 | Rutle's "All You Need is Cash" is show on NBC-TV |
| March 23 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 24 | Wings release "With a Little Luck" |
| March 27 | 40th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Duke 94-88 |
| March 27 | Bob Fosse's "Dancin'" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 1,774 performances |
| March 27 | Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV |
| March 30 | "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 21 performances |
| March 31 | Red Rum wins 3rd consecutive Grand National and retires |
| March 31 | U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite |
| March 31 | Wings release "London Town" album |
| April 2 | 7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post |
| April 2 | Basil Williams scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, vs. Australia Georgetown |
| April 2 | TV show "Dallas" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series) |
| April 2 | Velcro was 1st put on the market |
| April 3 | 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall," Rich Dreyfuss and Diane Keaton win |
| April 3 | European market and China signs trade agreement |
| April 3 | Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington D.C. |
| April 6 | Karnataka beat Uttar Pradesh by inn and 193 to win Ranji Trophy |
| April 7 | Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in New York City |
| April 7 | President Carter defers production of neutron bomb |
| April 7 | U.S. Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976 |
| April 9 | 42nd Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 277 |
| April 9 | Brewers sweep Orioles 11-3, 16-3, and 13-5 (each with a grand slam) |
| April 9 | David Thompson scores ties 3rd highest total in the NBA - 73 |
| April 9 | Denver's David Thompson scores 73 points and San Antonio's George Gervin scores 63 points in separate NBA games (33 in 1 quarter) |
| April 10 | Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced |
| April 13 | Jackson slugs a 3-run home run in the 1st inning, and the field is showered |
| April 13 | New York Yankees defeat White Sox 4-2 in home opener on Reggie Candy Bar Day |
| April 14 | David Hare's "Plenty," premieres in London |
| April 14 | Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia |
| April 14 | WRR-AM in Dallas Texas changes call letters to KAAM |
| April 15 | 43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy |
| April 15 | Great Britain performs nuclear test |
| April 16 | "History of the American Film" closes at ANTA New York City after 21 performances |
| April 16 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
| April 16 | St. Louis Card Bob Forsch no-hits Phillies, 5-0 |
| April 17 | 63,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record) |
| April 17 | 7th Boston Women's Marathon won by Gayle Barron of Georgia in 2:44:52 |
| April 17 | 82nd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:10:13 |
| April 17 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sagan for "Dragons of Eden" |
| April 18 | Senate votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999 |
| April 19 | Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel |
| April 22 | Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony |
| April 23 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic |
| April 23 | Reds Joe Morgan ends record streak of 91 cons errorless games at 2nd |
| April 23 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| April 24 | Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners, 20th time he has 15 in game |
| April 25 | Phillie Phanatic makes 1st appearance |
| April 25 | Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more |
| April 26 | France sends troops to Chad |
| April 26 | NASA launches space vehicle S-201 |
| April 27 | 14th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 4-3 in 11 |
| April 27 | Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup |
| April 30 | "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" closes at Palace New York City after 101 performances |
| April 30 | Janet Coles wins LPGA Natural Light Lady Tara Golf Classic |
| May 1 | 1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated |
| May 1 | MVV soccer team forms in Maastricht |
| May 1 | Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone |
| May 2 | NBA championship: Portland Trailblazers win in 4 games |
| May 3 | Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II |
| May 3 | Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston |
| May 3 | "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US |
| May 3 | WI all set to lose cricket test vs. Australia at Kingston till riots end game |
| May 4 | Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany |
| May 5 | Cincinnati Red Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits |
| May 6 | 104th Kentucky Derby: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:01.2 |
| May 6 | South Africa military goes into Angola |
| May 8 | ABC TV airs "Stars Salute Israel at 30" |
| May 8 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament |
| May 9 | "Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 1604 performances |
| May 9 | Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found |
| May 9 | Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage |
| May 9 | Musical "Ain't Misbehavin'," premieres in New York City |
| May 9 | PSV beats Bastica, 3-0, to win UEFA Cup in Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| May 10 | "Angel" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| May 10 | Liverpool wins 23rd Europe Cup I |
| May 11 | Margaret A. Brewer is 1st female general in the U.S. Marine Corps |
| May 12 | Commerce Department says hurricane names will no longer be only female |
| May 13 | "Angel" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| May 13 | Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m steeplechase (8:05.4) |
| May 13 | Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels |
| May 13 | Musical "Runaways" with Elizabeth Swados premieres in New York City |
| May 13 | "Runaways" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 199 performances |
| May 14 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic |
| May 14 | "Working" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 25 performances |
| May 17 | Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit home run |
| May 18 | Italy legalizes abortion |
| May 18 | Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work |
| May 20 | 104th Preakness: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 1:54.4 |
| May 20 | 3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris |
| May 20 | U.S. launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces 1st global radar map of Venus |
| May 21 | 118 Unification church couples wed in England |
| May 21 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic |
| May 21 | Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect |
| May 23 | AL approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15M |
| May 23 | General strike in Peru |
| May 24 | Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect |
| May 25 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2 |
| May 26 | 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City |
| May 28 | Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times |
| May 29 | 1st class postage now 15 cents (13 cents for 3 years) |
| May 29 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship |
| May 29 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| June 1 | Cricket Test debut of David Gower, vs. Pakistan, Edgbaston, scores 58 |
| June 1 | High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten |
| June 3 | Phillies Dave Johnson is 1st to hit 2 pinch hit grand slams in a year |
| June 4 | 32nd Tony Awards: Da and Ain't Misbehavin' win |
| June 4 | 6th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner |
| June 4 | Liberal Julio Turbay Ayola wins Colombia elections |
| June 4 | "Working" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 25 performances |
| June 6 | Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57 percent |
| June 7 | 32nd NBA Championship: Washington Bullets beat Sea Supersonics, 4 games to 3 |
| June 7 | Emmy 5th Daytime Award presentation |
| June 8 | 51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification |
| June 8 | Braves draft Bob Horner #1 |
| June 8 | Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes "Mormon Will" is a forgery |
| June 9 | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood |
| June 9 | Gutenberg Bible, 1 of 21, sells for $2.4 million, London |
| June 9 | Larry Holmes beats Ken Norton in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| June 10 | 110th Belmont: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:26.8 |
| June 10 | Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis |
| June 11 | 24th LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez |
| June 11 | Bjorn Borg wins French Open Title |
| June 11 | Christa Tybus of London sets record of 24 hours of hula-hoop |
| June 11 | "Grease" starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John opens |
| June 11 | Joseph Freeman, Jr. is 1st black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
| June 12 | David Berkowitz sentenced in New York Supreme Court to 25 years to life |
| June 12 | U.S. House of Representatives allows live radio coverage |
| June 14 | Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yankees Paul Blair hits a 3 run home run |
| June 14 | Sierra Leone adopts constitution |
| June 15 | Italy's President Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair |
| June 15 | Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American |
| June 15 | Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days |
| June 16 | Cincinnati Red Tom Seaver no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0 |
| June 16 | Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough" |
| June 17 | "Cheeseburger In Paradise" by Jimmy Buffett peaks at #32 |
| June 17 | Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs |
| June 18 | 78th U.S. Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 285 at Cherry Hill CC in Denver |
| June 18 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic |
| June 18 | Victor de la Torre wins Peru election |
| June 19 | "Best Little Whorehouse..." opens at 46th St. New York City for 1577 performances |
| June 19 | Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip |
| June 19 | Ian Botham takes 8-34 vs. Pakistan, his best Test cricket bowling |
| June 20 | 1st 6 teams of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa, New Jersey, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota and Dayton |
| June 21 | Andrew Lloyd Webber and Rice's musical "Evita," premiers in London |
| June 22 | James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced |
| June 22 | Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois |
| June 23 | 33rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy |
| June 25 | Argentina beats Holland 3-1 in soccer's 11th World Cup at Buenos Aires |
| June 25 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| June 26 | Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France |
| June 26 | First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched |
| June 27 | Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m, 7:32.1 |
| June 27 | Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station |
| June 27 | U.S. Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit |
| June 28 | Supreme Court orders California medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected |
| June 28 | UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as ambassadors of goodwill |
| June 29 | Vice President Walter F. Mondale begins trip to Mid-East |
| June 30 | English prince Michael marries baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz |
| June 30 | Giants' Willie McCovey becomes 12th to hit 500 home runs |
| June 30 | Larry Doby becomes manager of Chicago White Sox |
| July 1 | "Act" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 233 performances |
| July 1 | Former President Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974 |
| July 1 | Northern Territory of Australia becomes self-governing |
| July 2 | Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start |
| July 3 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
| July 3 | Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand New York radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words" |
| July 4 | Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order |
| July 5 | Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan |
| July 5 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 6 | Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut |
| July 7 | 85th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (26 64 75) |
| July 7 | Solomon Islands declares independence from U.K. |
| July 8 | 92nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Jimmy Connors (62 62 63) |
| July 8 | Alessandro Pertini elected President of Italy |
| July 8 | Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus |
| July 9 | "Hello, Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 152 performances |
| July 9 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic |
| July 9 | Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Washington D.C. for ERA |
| July 10 | Bloodless military coup in Mauritania, president Moktar flees |
| July 11 | 49th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at San Diego Stadium |
| July 11 | All star MVP: Steve Garvey, Los Angeles Dodgers |
| July 11 | Auto with liquid gas crashes and explodes in Spain, 160 killed |
| July 12 | Sun Bank Building opens |
| July 12 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 13 | Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR |
| July 13 | Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years |
| July 13 | BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent" |
| July 13 | Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor President by chairman Henry Ford II |
| July 13 | Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp |
| July 13 | Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida |
| July 14 | Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado |
| July 14 | Anatoly Scharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation |
| July 14 | Ump Doug Harvey ejects Don Sutton after discovering 3 scuffed balls |
| July 15 | 107th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at St. Andrews |
| July 16 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
| July 17 | Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes manager Billy Martin to suspend him |
| July 18 | Egyptian and Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks |
| July 19 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| July 19 | Yankees start 14 game comeback with 2-0 win |
| July 21 | Bolivia military coup under general Juan Pereda, President Hugo Banzer flees |
| July 21 | U.S. Postal Service and unions agree on a contract averting mail strike |
| July 21 | World's strongest dog, 80-kg St. Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m |
| July 23 | 33rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy |
| July 23 | Israeli government rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas |
| July 23 | Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 78th pitcher to win 200 |
| July 23 | Reggie Jackson returns and helps Yankees win their 5th straight |
| July 24 | Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson |
| July 24 | Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe |
| July 24 | Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games |
| July 24 | "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premieres in New York City |
| July 25 | Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager |
| July 25 | Cincinnati Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games |
| July 25 | John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image |
| July 26 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| July 26 | Johnny Bench hits his 300th career home run |
| July 27 | Indians Duane Kuiper is 3rd to hit 2 bases-loaded triples (vs Yankees) |
| July 27 | Portuguese President Eanes fires premier Soares |
| July 28 | 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in New York |
| July 28 | At Old Timer's Game it's announced Martin will again manage Yankees |
| July 28 | Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for 1st time |
| July 28 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 29 | 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, New York |
| July 29 | On Old Timer's Day, New York Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as New York Yankee manager in 1980 and Bob Lemon will become General Manager |
| July 29 | Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h 40m |
| July 29 | Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings |
| July 30 | Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits and NL-record-tying 8 home runs |
| July 30 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic |
| July 31 | Gunman shoots his way into Iraqi Embassy in Paris |
| July 31 | New York Yankees now 7 out of 1st, picked up 7 games in previous 2 weeks |
| July 31 | Pete Rose ties NL record hitting streak at 44 |
| August 1 | Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games |
| August 1 | Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead |
| August 1 | Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL) |
| August 5 | New Orlean Saints beat Phil Eagles 14-7 in Mexico City (NFL expo) |
| August 6 | 60th PGA Championship: John Mahaffey shoots a 276 at Oakmont CC PA |
| August 6 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Europea Golf Open |
| August 7 | Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, and Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame |
| August 7 | Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI |
| August 8 | Pioneer-Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus |
| August 9 | U.S.S.R. performs (underground) nuclear test |
| August 9 | Yankees score 5 in bottom of 9th beat Brewers 8-7 |
| August 10 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| August 11 | Funeral of Pope Paul VI |
| August 11 | Legionnaire's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta |
| August 12 | Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours |
| August 12 | China and Japan sign peace treaty |
| August 13 | Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed |
| August 13 | Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin |
| August 13 | Yankees score 5 runs in top of 7th. but rain causes game to be halted and thus score goes back to previous inning, Baltimore wins 3-0 |
| August 14 | French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%) |
| August 15 | House of Representatives approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA |
| August 17 | 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans) |
| August 18 | Memphis, Tennessee settles with striking police officers and firefighters |
| August 19 | 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran |
| August 20 | Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London |
| August 20 | Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds |
| August 20 | Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open |
| August 20 | Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6) |
| August 21 | 1st gay theme telefilm - Matlovich vs U.S. Air Force |
| August 22 | Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua Nicaragua |
| August 23 | Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar |
| August 24 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| August 25 | Baseball umps stage a 1 day strike |
| August 26 | Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I |
| August 26 | Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6 |
| August 27 | Gerrie Knetemann becomes world cyclist champion |
| August 27 | Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 home runs and have 500 stolen bases |
| August 27 | Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
| August 27 | Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978 |
| August 28 | Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph |
| August 28 | Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran |
| August 29 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| August 29 | USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing, New York |
| August 31 | Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka |
| August 31 | Emily and William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst |
| August 31 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 1 | #4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid and #8064 |
| September 1 | Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia |
| September 1 | Last broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC TV |
| September 2 | George Harrison marries Olivia |
| September 2 | Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine) |
| September 2 | Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man |
| September 2 | John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston |
| September 2 | Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 home run in 11 straight years |
| September 3 | Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29 |
| September 3 | Leonid Mossejev becomes European marathon champ (2:11:57.5) |
| September 3 | Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff |
| September 4 | Jerry Lewis' 13th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $29,074,405 |
| September 4 | New York Yankee pitcher Ron Guidry wins his 20th (on way to 25-3 season) |
| September 4 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| September 5 | Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md |
| September 6 | Begin and Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace |
| September 6 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| September 7 | 1st game of Boston Massacre, Yankees beat Red Sox 15-3 |
| September 8 | 2nd game of Boston Massacre; Yankees beat Red Sox 13-2 |
| September 8 | Irani army shoots on Khomeini followers in Teheran, 100s killed |
| September 9 | 3rd game of Boston Massacre; Yankees beat Red Sox 7-0 |
| September 9 | 92nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats Pam Shriver (75 64) |
| September 9 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto) |
| September 9 | Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army |
| September 9 | Kylene Barker (Virginia), crowned 51st Miss America 1979 |
| September 10 | 4th game of Boston Massacre; Yankees beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yankees out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9 |
| September 10 | 98th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 62 62) |
| September 10 | Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yards and 30") |
| September 10 | Jimmy Connors is 1st player to win U.S. Open on 3 different surfaces |
| September 10 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
| September 10 | "Timbuktu!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 243 performances |
| September 12 | Fidel Castro visits Addis Abba |
| September 12 | Situation comedy "Taxi" premieres on ABC television |
| September 13 | 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet |
| September 13 | New York Yankees win to gain sole possession of 1st place from 14 games back |
| September 14 | Braves' Jim Bouton, 38, beats Giants, his 1st win since 1970 |
| September 14 | Portugal government of Da Costa falls |
| September 15 | Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans |
| September 15 | Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| September 15 | Yankees beat Boston 4-0, Guidry wins # 22, Yankees lead 2 games |
| September 16 | 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar Iran |
| September 16 | Filming on Monty Python's Life of Brian, begins |
| September 16 | Grateful Dead perform in Cairo, Egypt |
| September 16 | Yankees beat Red Sox for 6th time in 2 weeks, 3-2 |
| September 17 | 30th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Ed Asner and Sada Thompson win |
| September 17 | Begin, Sadat and Carter sign Camp David accord |
| September 17 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament |
| September 17 | Red Sox finally beat Yankees in Sept 1978, 7-3 |
| September 20 | "Eubie!" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 439 performances |
| September 20 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| September 20 | Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany |
| September 22 | Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit |
| September 23 | 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit |
| September 24 | Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ping Team Golf Classic |
| September 24 | Dutch women hockey team wins world championship |
| September 24 | Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74 |
| September 24 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| September 25 | PSA Boeing 727 and a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die |
| September 26 | NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms |
| September 26 | RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service |
| September 27 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 27 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 28 | Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord |
| September 28 | Pieter Botha succeeds Vorster as premier of South Africa |
| September 28 | Syrians and Lebanese engage in heavy fighting in Lebanon |
| September 29 | "Flying High," debuts on CBS |
| September 29 | "For Richer, For Poorer," TV Daytime Soap; last airs on NBC-TV |
| September 30 | Cleveland, Houston, New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title |
| September 30 | Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati, |
| September 30 | Phillies clinch NL East title |
| October 1 | Comoros adopts constitution |
| October 1 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship |
| October 1 | Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) declares independence from U.K. |
| October 1 | Yankees lose 9-2 to Indians forcing a playoff game with Red Sox |
| October 2 | Syrian and Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed |
| October 2 | Yankees win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer and Pinella's fielding |
| October 3 | Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London |
| October 4 | Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I |
| October 5 | Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature |
| October 5 | Sweden's Falldin government falls |
| October 6 | Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of U.S. university (Chic) |
| October 6 | Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person |
| October 6 | Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls" |
| October 6 | Royals' George Brett hits 3 home runs, Yankees win championship game 3, 6-5 |
| October 7 | Los Angeles Dodgers win the pennant |
| October 7 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| October 8 | Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph) |
| October 8 | Yankees win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City |
| October 9 | 12th Country Music Association Award |
| October 9 | John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical "Ballroom," premieres in New York City |
| October 10 | Aerosmith's Steve Tyler and Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb |
| October 10 | British pop magazine "Smash Hits," 1st published |
| October 10 | Congress approves Susan B. Anthony Dollar |
| October 10 | Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya |
| October 10 | Steve Perry joins Journey |
| October 10 | Yankees and Dodgers play in World Series # 75 |
| October 11 | Aristides Royo elected president of Panama |
| October 11 | Belgium government of Tindemans resigns |
| October 11 | Dodgers Bob Welch dramatically strikes out Reggie Jackson in 9th |
| October 12 | Representatives of Israel and Egypt open talks in Washington |
| October 12 | Sid Vicious charged in murder of girlfriend Nancyh Spungen |
| October 13 | Graig Nettles at 3rd makes many spectactular plays in WS game 3 as Guidry beats Dodgers, after trailing 2 games to 0 Yankees win next 4 |
| October 13 | James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu |
| October 13 | President Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio |
| October 13 | Swaziland's new constitution promulgated bans political parties |
| October 13 | Tiros N, U.S.'s 1st 3rd generation weather satellite, is launched |
| October 14 | 1st TV movie from a TV series - "Rescue from Gilligan's Island" |
| October 14 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| October 14 | Despite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 Islanders lose 7-10 making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-22-2-1 |
| October 14 | New York Yankee Reggie Jackson causes World Series controversy by getting in the way of a throw to 1st and deflects the ball away |
| October 15 | Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open |
| October 15 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 16 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon |
| October 16 | Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II |
| October 16 | Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs. Pakistan at Faisalabad |
| October 17 | New York Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8) |
| October 17 | New York Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2 in 75th World Series |
| October 17 | President Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship |
| October 17 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| October 17 | Yankees win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year |
| October 18 | 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F. Vance |
| October 18 | New York Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs Los Angeles Kings |
| October 20 | Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government |
| October 20 | Police's 1st U.S. concert (NY's CBGBs) |
| October 22 | 8th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:32:30 |
| October 22 | 9th New York City Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:12:12 |
| October 22 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Houston Exchange Golf Classic Clubs |
| October 22 | Grete Weitz runs female world record marathon (2:32:29.8) |
| October 22 | "King of Hearts" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 48 performances |
| October 22 | Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession |
| October 22 | Pope John Paul II installed |
| October 23 | CBS raises LP prices to $8.98 |
| October 23 | China and Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension |
| October 23 | Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in New York City |
| October 24 | Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto |
| October 24 | NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs New York Islanders |
| October 25 | Israeli Government approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace |
| October 25 | Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues (NL) |
| October 26 | Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize |
| October 27 | Begin and Sadat win Nobel Peace prize |
| October 27 | President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill |
| October 28 | Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (6:10:20) |
| October 30 | Uganda troops attack Tanzania |
| October 31 | Iranian oil workers go on strike |
| October 31 | People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South) adopts constitution |
| November 1 | New York Yankee Ron Guidry unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award |
| November 2 | Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31 |
| November 2 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| November 2 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 3 | 1st broadcast of "Diff'rent strokes" on NBC TV |
| November 3 | Dominica gains independence from U.K. and adopts constitution |
| November 3 | Michiko Okada wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic |
| November 3 | U.S.S.R. and Vietnam sign peace and friendship treaty |
| November 4 | 3rd annual reentry free-agent draft, Pete Rose, Tommy John, and Darrell Evans, available |
| November 4 | Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U |
| November 4 | Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) |
| November 4 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| November 5 | Iranian Prime Minister Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi |
| November 5 | Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran |
| November 5 | Oakland Raider's John Madden becomes 13th coach to win 100 NFL games |
| November 6 | Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government |
| November 6 | Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule |
| November 7 | Boston Red Sox Jim Rice wins AL MVP |
| November 7 | CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past |
| November 8 | Tom Stoppard's "Night and Day," premieres in London |
| November 9 | NASL realligns its 24 teams into 6 divisions |
| November 10 | Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks |
| November 10 | Larry Holmes KOs Alfredo Evangelist in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
| November 10 | Yankees trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath and Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison and Griffin |
| November 11 | Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes president of Maldives |
| November 12 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open |
| November 12 | "Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 33 performances |
| November 13 | NASA launches HEAO |
| November 15 | 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| November 15 | Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," premieres in London |
| November 15 | Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins NL MVP |
| November 16 | Major Indoor Soccer League holds its 1st draft |
| November 17 | Gerald Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Elizabeth Colvin |
| November 18 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 19 | Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time |
| November 21 | Bob Horner of Braves wins NL Rookie of Year Award |
| November 26 | 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, New York |
| November 26 | 1st lesbian theme TV movie - "Question of Love" |
| November 26 | 66th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 20-13 |
| November 27 | Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 183 |
| November 28 | 44th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Sims, Oklahoma (RB) |
| November 28 | Reds fire manager Sparky Anderson after 9 years |
| November 29 | U.N. observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," boycotted by U.S. and about 20 other countries |
| November 29 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| November 30 | France performs nuclear test |
| December 1 | Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size |
| December 1 | Test Cricket debut of Rodney Hogg, vs. England at the Gabba |
| December 1 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 2 | Chanting "Allah is great," anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran |
| December 2 | Neil Diamond and Barbra Striesand's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" hits #1 |
| December 2 | Streisand and Diamond's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," goes #1 |
| December 3 | "King of Hearts" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| December 3 | Pat Bradley/Lon Hinkle wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| December 4 | Dianne Feinstein is named San Francisco 1st female mayor |
| December 4 | Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten freed |
| December 4 | Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus |
| December 4 | War criminal Pieter Menten freed |
| December 5 | EG decides establishes EMS, European Monetary System |
| December 5 | Free agent Pete Rose signs 4-year, $32 million contract with Phillies |
| December 5 | Islanders took 28 shots in 1 period vs Penguins Penguins' Ross Lonsberry failed on 7th penalty shot against Islanders |
| December 5 | Phillies Pete Rose becomes highest paid baseball player |
| December 5 | Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus |
| December 5 | Sam Shepard's "Buried Child," premieres in New York City |
| December 6 | Spain adopts constitution |
| December 7 | Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick |
| December 8 | Commencement of the 1st day/night WSC cricket supertest at VFL Park |
| December 9 | 1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does |
| December 9 | Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus |
| December 10 | 67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1) |
| December 10 | In Oslo, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize |
| December 10 | Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians |
| December 10 | "Platinum" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 33 performances |
| December 11 | 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at New York Kennedy Airport and made off with $5.8 M in cash and jewelry |
| December 13 | Susan B. Anthony dollar, 1st U.S. coin to honor a woman, issued |
| December 14 | "Ballroom" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 116 performances |
| December 14 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| December 14 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 15 | Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James |
| December 15 | Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, vs. India at Bangalore |
| December 16 | Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy Carter's recognition of China PR |
| December 17 | OPEC raises oil prices 18% |
| December 17 | Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda |
| December 18 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| December 18 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| December 19 | France performs nuclear test |
| December 19 | Indira Gandhi ambushed in India |
| December 20 | H R Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail |
| December 21 | "Broadway Musical" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City |
| December 21 | Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for murder |
| December 22 | Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer |
| December 22 | Thailand adopts constitution |
| December 23 | Islanders scored 7 goals in 1 period against New York Rangers, Trottier scores 8 points vs Rangers, 5 goals-NHL record 6 pts in 1 period |
| December 26 | India's former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, released from jail |
| December 27 | King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain's 1st democratic constitution |
| December 28 | 30th hat trick in Islander history (Mike Bossy) |
| December 29 | Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government |
| December 29 | Spain constitution goes into effect |
| December 29 | Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border, vs. England at the MCG |
| December 30 | "King and I" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 719 performances |
| December 30 | Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach |
| December 31 | CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy |
| December 31 | Iran shah names Chapour Bakhtiar premier |
| December 31 | "Magic Show" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 1859 performances |
| December 31 | "Runaways" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 199 performances |
| December 31 | Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with US |
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