| January 1 | International Year of the Child begins |
| January 1 | Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established |
| January 1 | U.S. and China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic relations |
| January 2 | 30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver |
| January 2 | Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI) |
| January 2 | Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins |
| January 7 | Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge |
| January 8 | 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up |
| January 8 | Argentina and Chile sign Beagle Canal accord |
| January 8 | Today Show gets a new theme song |
| January 8 | Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge and occupy Phnom Penh |
| January 9 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin |
| January 9 | High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws |
| January 9 | K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste" |
| January 9 | Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) Pennsylvania law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses |
| January 10 | 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks |
| January 10 | Entertainer of the Year Awards |
| January 11 | "Grand Tour" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 61 performances |
| January 12 | 6th American Music Award: Barry Manilow, Linda Ronstadt win |
| January 12 | LA's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, arrested in Bellingham |
| January 12 | Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100 |
| January 13 | Charlie Daniels hosts Volunteer Jam |
| January 13 | YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song |
| January 14 | President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday |
| January 16 | Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt |
| January 17 | New York Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against New York Rangers |
| January 17 | Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran |
| January 17 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| January 18 | Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America," Florence Oregon |
| January 19 | John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison |
| January 21 | Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer) |
| January 21 | Price of gold increases to record $875 troy oz |
| January 21 | Superbowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, quarterback |
| January 23 | Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| January 24 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| January 25 | 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan |
| January 25 | Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff |
| January 26 | "Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS |
| January 26 | Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht, Netherlands |
| January 27 | 36th Golden Globes: Midnight Express, Jon Voight and Jane Fonda |
| January 27 | Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8) |
| January 28 | Arthur Kopit's "Wings," premieres in New York City |
| January 28 | "Wiz" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 1672 performances |
| January 29 | 9th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 13-7 |
| January 29 | Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays" |
| January 29 | Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, D.C. |
| January 29 | Emerson, Lake and Palmer disband after 10 years together |
| January 29 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 13-7 |
| January 29 | President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years |
| January 30 | Rhodesia agrees to new constitution |
| February 1 | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile |
| February 1 | Patricia Hearst is released from a San Francisco prison for bank robbery |
| February 1 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| February 3 | Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players |
| February 3 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
| February 3 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
| February 3 | "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart |
| February 4 | "Co-Ed Fever," TV Comedy, debut and cancelled that outing on CBS |
| February 4 | End of last 3+day D/N game for 15 years (WSC, SCG) |
| February 4 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament |
| February 5 | Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time |
| February 5 | Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS |
| February 6 | Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto |
| February 7 | Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds President Boumedienne in Algeria |
| February 7 | Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for WI vs. India at Kanpur |
| February 7 | Pink Floyd premiered their live version of "The Wall" in Los Angeles |
| February 7 | "Supertrain," TV Anthology, Superbomb of 1979, debuts on NBC |
| February 8 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 9 | 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey |
| February 9 | ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special |
| February 9 | Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind" |
| February 9 | Nigeria amends constitution |
| February 10 | Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed |
| February 10 | "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart peaks at #1 |
| February 11 | 43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC |
| February 11 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| February 11 | Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power |
| February 11 | Musical "They're Playing Our Song," premieres in New York City |
| February 11 | "They're Playing Our Song" opens at Imperial New York City for 1082 performances |
| February 12 | Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched |
| February 13 | 2nd Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| February 13 | Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm |
| February 14 | "Whoopee!" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 204 performances |
| February 15 | 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey wins |
| February 15 | Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hours 40 minutes |
| February 15 | Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show |
| February 15 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 16 | George Harrison releases "Blow Away" |
| February 16 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| February 17 | China invades Vietnam |
| February 17 | Eric Heiden equals skating world record 1000m (1:14.99) |
| February 18 | -52 degrees F (-47 degrees C), Old Forge, New York (state record) |
| February 18 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| February 18 | Miniseries "Roots: Next Generations" premieres on ABC TV |
| February 18 | NASA launches space vehicle S-202 |
| February 18 | President Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh |
| February 18 | Snow falls in Sahara Desert |
| February 20 | "Comin' Uptown" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| February 21 | 2 Iowa girls High School basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters game was won 4-2 in 4th overtime period |
| February 21 | Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite and Corsa-B (550/580 km) |
| February 22 | Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's |
| February 22 | Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate and Cat Building is dedicated |
| February 22 | St. Lucia gains independence from Britain |
| February 23 | Frank Peterson, Jr. named 1st black general in Marine Corps |
| February 23 | George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album |
| February 23 | "Sarava" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 140 performances |
| February 24 | Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas |
| February 24 | War between North and South Yemen begins |
| February 25 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| February 25 | Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched |
| February 26 | Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US |
| February 28 | Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond," premieres in New York City |
| March 1 | "Sweeney Todd" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 557 performances |
| March 4 | 200th episode of "All in the Family" |
| March 4 | "Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 61 performances |
| March 4 | Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
| March 4 | U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings |
| March 5 | Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles) |
| March 7 | Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro and amateur umpires |
| March 7 | Warren Giles and Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| March 8 | 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered on Io, a satellite of Jupiter |
| March 8 | 5th People's Choice Awards |
| March 8 | China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam |
| March 8 | Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale |
| March 9 | Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters |
| March 9 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| March 11 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic |
| March 11 | Randy Hold receives 67 minutes in penalties in a 60 minutes NHL hockey game |
| March 13 | European Monetary System is established, ECU created |
| March 13 | Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement |
| March 13 | Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick |
| March 15 | Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80 |
| March 15 | Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick |
| March 15 | Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test |
| March 16 | CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney |
| March 17 | Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov U.S.S.R. |
| March 17 | Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia and R Gardner USA |
| March 17 | Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (U.S.S.R.) |
| March 17 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne |
| March 18 | Battles between Kurds and Iranians break in Sananday Iran |
| March 18 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic |
| March 18 | "On the 20th Century" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 460 performances |
| March 19 | House of Representatives begins live television broadcasts via C-SPAN |
| March 20 | Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center |
| March 21 | Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel |
| March 22 | Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt |
| March 22 | NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques and Whalers) |
| March 23 | Larry Holmes TKOs Osvaldo Ocasio in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
| March 23 | Wings release "Goodnight Tonight" |
| March 24 | 10 rebounds and 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 pts |
| March 24 | 1st appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes |
| March 24 | "Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 116 performances |
| March 24 | Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center |
| March 25 | Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest |
| March 25 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
| March 26 | 41st NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Michigan State beats Indiana State. 75-64 |
| March 26 | Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt |
| March 26 | Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington D.C. |
| March 26 | Michigan State Spartans snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak |
| March 26 | Padres and Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it |
| March 27 | Supreme Court rules, 8-1, police can't randomly stop cars |
| March 28 | British government of Callaghan falls |
| March 28 | Lazarus and Vosburgh's "Day in Hollywood and night in Ukraine," premieres |
| March 28 | Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pennsylvania (no deaths) |
| March 29 | Andrew Hilditch given out handled the ball vs. Pakistan at WACA |
| March 29 | Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine," premieres in London |
| March 29 | Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy |
| March 29 | Last day of Test cricket for Mushtaq Mohammad |
| April 1 | Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah |
| April 1 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| April 2 | Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Sadat in Cairo |
| April 3 | Belgium's Martens government forms |
| April 3 | Jane Byrne, elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois |
| April 5 | Baltimore manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper |
| April 5 | Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia |
| April 6 | Rod Stewart and Alana Collins wed |
| April 7 | Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water |
| April 7 | Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0 |
| April 7 | Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers |
| April 8 | 204th and final episode of "All in the Family" |
| April 8 | 8th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post |
| April 8 | "Carmelina" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 17 performances |
| April 8 | People's Republic of China joins IOC |
| April 9 | 51st Academy Awards - "Deer Hunter," Jon Voight and Jane Fonda win |
| April 9 | Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hours, begins |
| April 10 | J. R. Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome |
| April 10 | Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian and a Bulgarian |
| April 11 | Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala |
| April 12 | Soyuz 33 returns to Earth |
| April 13 | Christian Turks occupy St. Jansbasiliek |
| April 13 | Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours |
| April 13 | Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda |
| April 14 | Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year |
| April 15 | 43rd Golf Masters Championship: Fuzzy Zoeller wins, shooting a 280 |
| April 16 | 15th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees and Mets tie 1-1 |
| April 16 | 83rd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:09:27 |
| April 16 | 8th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:35:15 |
| April 16 | Failed Palestinian attack on Zaventem Airport in Belgium |
| April 16 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child" |
| April 17 | Brian Clark's "Whose Life is it Anyway?," premieres in London |
| April 18 | Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent |
| April 18 | "Real People" premieres on NBC TV |
| April 19 | Following a 6-3 loss to the Orioles, Yankees Goose Gossage and Cliff |
| April 19 | Johnson brawl, Gossage sustains a sprained ligament in his left thumb |
| April 21 | "Carmelina" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 17 performances |
| April 22 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf Tournament |
| April 22 | Mick Jaggar and Keith Richards give a benefit concert in Canada |
| April 24 | Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election |
| April 25 | Peace treaty between Israel and Egypt goes into effect |
| April 25 | "Rock 'n Roll High Schools" premieres |
| April 27 | George Harrison releases "Love Comes to Everyone" |
| April 29 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Otey Crisman Golf Classic |
| April 30 | Mary Therese Friel, New York, crowned 28th Miss USA |
| May 1 | Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel |
| May 1 | Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) |
| May 1 | Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing |
| May 2 | 14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers and Barbara Mandrell |
| May 2 | "Quadrophenia" premieres in London |
| May 3 | Bobby Bonds hits his 300th home run (2nd to have 300 home runs and 300 stolen bases) |
| May 3 | Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain |
| May 3 | Martin Sherman's "Bent," premieres in London |
| May 4 | Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st |
| May 4 | NASA launches Fltsatcom-2 |
| May 5 | 105th Kentucky Derby: Ron Franklin on Spectacular Bid wins in 2:02.4 |
| May 5 | Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting |
| May 5 | Voyager 1 passes Jupiter |
| May 6 | Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 kph over 200 m |
| May 6 | Louis LaRusso II's "Knockout," premieres in New York City |
| May 6 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament |
| May 6 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| May 7 | 5th UNCTAD-conference opens in Manila |
| May 7 | Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland) |
| May 8 | Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3 |
| May 9 | U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons |
| May 10 | Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing |
| May 10 | John McMullen becomes CEO of Houston Astros |
| May 10 | Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) completes nonstop cycle ride of 187 hours, 28 minutes, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| May 12 | Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end |
| May 13 | Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament |
| May 13 | Shah and family sentenced to death in Teheran |
| May 13 | "Utter Glory... Morrissey Hall" opens and closes at Mark Hellinger New York City |
| May 16 | FC Barcelona wins 19th Europe Cup II in Basel |
| May 16 | NL approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M |
| May 17 | 12 degrees F, on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record) |
| May 17 | Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation |
| May 17 | Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 home runs |
| May 19 | 105th Preakness: Ron Franklin aboard Spectacular Bid wins in 1:54.2 |
| May 19 | Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd |
| May 19 | "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3 |
| May 20 | "I Love My Wife" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 864 performances |
| May 20 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic |
| May 21 | Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of San Francisco mayor Moscone |
| May 21 | Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in U.S.S.R. |
| May 21 | National Volksraad installed in Namibia |
| May 21 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 1 |
| May 22 | Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Pierre Trudeau |
| May 22 | Commencement of 1st ICC Trophy (PNG vs. E Afr and Singapore vs. Arg) |
| May 23 | 1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly" |
| May 23 | Borussia Monchengladbach wins 8th UEFA Cup at Dusseldorf |
| May 23 | "Kids Are All Right" premieres |
| May 23 | Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy |
| May 23 | West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president |
| May 24 | Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar |
| May 24 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| May 25 | American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275 |
| May 25 | Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt |
| May 25 | Raul Gonzales of Mexico completes 50,000 m walk in record 3:41:38.4 |
| May 26 | Dancin' Fool by Frank Zappa hits #45 |
| May 27 | Penny Pulz wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| May 27 | Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop |
| May 28 | European Market accepts Greece as member |
| May 29 | Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's 1st black PM |
| May 29 | Radio's 1st rock network "Source" premieres |
| May 30 | Nottingham Forrest wins 24th Europe Cup 1 at Munich |
| May 30 | Pat Underwood makes his pitching debut for Detroit beats brother Tom |
| May 30 | Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80 |
| May 30 | Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to New York City |
| May 31 | "I Remember Mama" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 108 performances |
| May 31 | Radio City Music Hall (New York City) reopens |
| May 31 | Zimbabwe proclaims independence |
| June 1 | 33rd NBA Championship: Sea Supersonics beat Washington Bullets, 4 games to 1 |
| June 1 | Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier |
| June 1 | Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to New York City |
| June 1 | Wings release "Old Siam, Sir" |
| June 2 | John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland) |
| June 2 | NASA launches space vehicle S-198 |
| June 2 | Pope John Paul II visits Poland |
| June 3 | 33rd Tony Awards: Elephant Man and Sweeny Todd win |
| June 3 | Ex-president Idi Amin of Uganda flees to Libya |
| June 3 | Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled, world's worst oil spillage |
| June 3 | "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens on Broadway |
| June 3 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship |
| June 4 | South African President Vorster resigns due to scandal |
| June 4 | Sri Lanka forfeit ICC Trophy game vs Israel for political reasons |
| June 5 | Seychelles adopts constitution |
| June 6 | 200th running of horse's Derby in England |
| June 6 | Royal Air force receives 1st F-16 |
| June 6 | Willie Horton becomes 43rd player to hit 300 home runs in the majors |
| June 7 | 52nd National Spelling Bee: Katie Kerwin wins spelling maculature |
| June 7 | Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched |
| June 7 | Portugal government of Mota Pinto resigns |
| June 7 | Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion |
| June 8 | Mariners draft Al Chambers #1 |
| June 8 | "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line |
| June 8 | Wings release "Back to the Egg" album |
| June 9 | 111th Belmont: Ruben Hernandez aboard Coastal wins in 2:28.6 |
| June 9 | 49th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Wendy Turnbull (62 60) |
| June 9 | Michael Cairney topples a record row of 169,713 dominoes |
| June 9 | Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for 1st and last time |
| June 9 | Willie Horton is honored at Seattle's Kingdome |
| June 10 | 25th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young |
| June 10 | 49th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Victor Pecci (63 61 67 64) |
| June 10 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 8th triple play, 5-4-3 vs. Cleveland |
| June 10 | Pope John Paul II visits Poland |
| June 11 | Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months |
| June 12 | Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hours, 49 minutes |
| June 12 | Kevin St. Onge throws a playing card a record 185' |
| June 12 | Opening ceremony at Cambridge Buddhist Association meditation in Boston |
| June 12 | Sanista occupies parts of Managua |
| June 12 | Tigers fire manager Les Moss, hiring Sparky Anderson |
| June 13 | "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens at 22 Steps New York City for 86 performances |
| June 13 | Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota |
| June 14 | Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup vs. England, in 40 3 overs |
| June 14 | New York Giants Willie McCovey 513th home run is an NL lefty record |
| June 14 | Rock group "Little Feat" disbands |
| June 15 | 1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds |
| June 16 | Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit |
| June 16 | "Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6 |
| June 16 | Moslem Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo, Syria |
| June 17 | 79th U.S. Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 284 at Inverness Club in Toledo |
| June 17 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament |
| June 17 | "Sarava" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 140 performances |
| June 18 | Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon |
| June 18 | President Carter and Leonid I Brezhnev sign SALT 2 treaty |
| June 18 | Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in Cricket World Cup upset |
| June 19 | In New York 36,211 show up to witness return of Billy Martin as Yank manager |
| June 19 | Mali's constitution goes into effect |
| June 21 | Sri Lanka beat Canada by 60 runs to win the 1st ICC Trophy |
| June 22 | Larry Holmes TKOs Mike Weaver in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| June 22 | Little Richard quits rock and roll for religious pursuit |
| June 22 | Pro Football Researchers Association forms, Canton, Ohio |
| June 23 | Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia" |
| June 23 | Rock group, the Knack releases "My Sharona" |
| June 23 | West Indies beat England by 92 runs to win Cricket World Cup |
| June 24 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| June 24 | Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland and steals his 1st base |
| June 25 | Failed attack on NATO commander Haig in Obourg, Belgium |
| June 25 | "Got Tu Go Disco" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| June 26 | Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final |
| June 26 | Rocker Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, crashes and kills a driver |
| June 27 | Muhammad Ali retires as boxing champ |
| June 27 | Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities |
| June 28 | OPEC raises oil prices 24 percent |
| June 29 | "Moonraker" premieres in U.S. |
| June 29 | San Diego Chicken reborn at Jack Murphy Stadium |
| June 30 | "Got To Go Disco" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| June 30 | Johnny Rotten and Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury |
| July 1 | Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6" of snow |
| July 1 | Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open |
| July 2 | Susan B. Anthony dollar is issued, 1st U.S. coin to honor a woman |
| July 4 | Algerian ex-president Ben Bella freed |
| July 6 | 86th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (64 64) |
| July 6 | IRA-bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp |
| July 7 | 93rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats R Tanner (67 61 36 63 64) |
| July 7 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 8 | Congo adopts constitution |
| July 8 | Don Martina's MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles |
| July 8 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
| July 8 | Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14) |
| July 9 | Dr. Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab |
| July 9 | Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter |
| July 10 | Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion |
| July 11 | U.S. Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia and disintegrates |
| July 12 | "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild and causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers |
| July 12 | Ian Palce joins Whitesnake |
| July 12 | Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands) declares independence from U.K. |
| July 13 | California's Nolan Ryan and Boston's Steve Renko each lose no-hitters in 9th |
| July 13 | George Harrison releases "Faster" |
| July 14 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test |
| July 15 | 34th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jerilyn Britz |
| July 15 | Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India |
| July 16 | Premier/president al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein |
| July 17 | 50th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-6 at Kingdome, Seattle |
| July 17 | All star MVP: Dave Parker (Pittsburgh Pirates) |
| July 17 | David Gower 200* in England score of 5-633 vs. India at Edgbaston |
| July 17 | Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza flees to Miami |
| July 17 | Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo |
| July 17 | Simone Veil becomes chairman of European Parliament |
| July 18 | Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London |
| July 18 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 19 | 2 supertankers collide off Tobago - 260,000 TONS of oil spill |
| July 19 | Maritza Sayalero, 18, of Venezuela, crowned 28th Miss Universe |
| July 19 | Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza |
| July 20 | 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash |
| July 21 | 108th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 283 at Royal Lytham |
| July 21 | National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, New York) dedicated |
| July 22 | Pat Meyers wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic |
| July 23 | George Brett gets his 1,000th hit |
| July 24 | President Carter names Paul Volcker, President of Federal Reserves |
| July 24 | Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th home run |
| July 25 | 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record) |
| July 26 | Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, Texas (national record) |
| July 27 | "Broadway Opry '79" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 6 performances |
| July 27 | France performs nuclear Test |
| July 28 | Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 home run game |
| July 28 | France performs nuclear Test |
| July 29 | 7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott |
| July 31 | "But Never Jam Today" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| August 1 | Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms government in Portugal |
| August 2 | "Broadway Opry '79" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 6 performances |
| August 2 | Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway |
| August 3 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 4 | Italian government of Cossiga begins |
| August 4 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| August 5 | "But Never Jam Today" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| August 5 | Government of Mauretania signs peace treaty with Polisario |
| August 5 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate European Golf Open |
| August 5 | Phillies Pete Rose collects NL record 2,427th career single |
| August 5 | Varetta Shankle (Miss), crowned 12th Miss Black America |
| August 5 | Willie Mays, Warren Giles, and Hack Wilson inducted in Hall of Fame |
| August 6 | 61st PGA Championship: David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills, Michigan |
| August 6 | Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel |
| August 8 | Iraqi president Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents |
| August 9 | English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach |
| August 10 | Ecuador adopts its constitution |
| August 10 | Wings release "Getting Closer" and "Baby's Request" |
| August 11 | 28 degrees F in Embarrass Minnesota |
| August 11 | Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year |
| August 12 | Iran press censors start massive book burnings |
| August 12 | Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin |
| August 12 | "Whoopee!" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 204 performances |
| August 13 | Lou Brock, is 14th to get 3,000 hits |
| August 14 | Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hours duration |
| August 15 | Andrew Young resigns as United Nations ambassador |
| August 17 | 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed |
| August 17 | Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres |
| August 18 | Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds |
| August 18 | Nick Lowe marries singer Carlene Carter |
| August 18 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| August 19 | Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight |
| August 19 | "My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days) |
| August 19 | Sally wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic Little |
| August 19 | Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov and Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after a record 175 days in space |
| August 20 | India premier Charan Singh resigns |
| August 20 | Singer Vikki Carr and Michael Nilsson wed |
| August 21 | Mets win a protested game against Astros, 5-0 |
| August 22 | 200 black leaders, meet in New York, to support Andrew Young |
| August 23 | Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in New York City |
| August 23 | Iran army opens offensive against Kurds |
| August 24 | Cars play concert in New York Central Park |
| August 24 | NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new |
| August 24 | U.N.'s Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps |
| August 25 | California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2 |
| August 25 | "Madwoman of Central Park West" closes at 22 Steps New York City after 86 performances |
| August 25 | Somali adopts constitution |
| August 26 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
| August 27 | 18 British militia die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland |
| August 28 | IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market |
| August 28 | Train crash at Nijmegen, 7 die |
| August 29 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 29 | Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network |
| August 30 | 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs) |
| August 30 | Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match |
| August 30 | Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in U.S. Tennis Open, she loses |
| August 30 | President Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga |
| August 30 | Wildest U.S. Tennis Open match, McEnroe defeats Ilie Nastase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Nastase was defaulted by the umpire then reinstated |
| August 31 | 16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at U.S. Open |
| August 31 | Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun |
| August 31 | Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as United Nations ambassador |
| August 31 | Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green |
| September 1 | Debbie Boone and Gabriel Ferrer wed in Los Angeles |
| September 1 | L.A. Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask |
| September 1 | Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings |
| September 2 | 79th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O'Meara |
| September 2 | "I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 108 performances |
| September 3 | Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000 |
| September 3 | Iran army conquerors Mahabad |
| September 3 | Jerry Lewis' 14th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,000,000 |
| September 3 | Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| September 4 | India need 438 to win vs. England, game ends at 8-429 |
| September 4 | Iran army conquerors Baneh |
| September 5 | A's Matt Keough A's beats Brewers 6-1 for 1st win after 14 straight losses, ended 1978 with 4 loses (1 shy of the record 19) |
| September 5 | Canada puts its 1st gold bullion coin on sale |
| September 5 | Earl of Mountbatten funeral held in Burma |
| September 5 | Iran army occupies Piranshahr |
| September 5 | Roscoe Tanner fires 11 aces, breaks the net with his bullet serve and upsets top-seeded Bjorn Borg in U.S. Tennis Open quarterfinals |
| September 6 | "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 578 performances |
| September 7 | 5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at MSG, New York |
| September 8 | Cheryl Prewitt of Mississippi, 22, crowned 52nd Miss America 1980 |
| September 8 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 9 | 31st Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman and Ruth Gordon |
| September 9 | 93rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats C E Lloyd Mills (64 63) |
| September 9 | 99th U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis (75 63 63) |
| September 9 | Sally Little wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic |
| September 9 | Sid Bernstein offers $ billion for a Beatle reunion |
| September 9 | Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque |
| September 10 | 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed |
| September 12 | Carl Yastrzemski, is 15th to get 3,000 hits |
| September 12 | Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die and $23 million damage |
| September 12 | Indiana Pacers cut Ann Meyers, 1st woman on an NBA club |
| September 13 | China performs nuclear test |
| September 13 | South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of South Africa) |
| September 14 | Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to New York City and back to Yates Center, Ks |
| September 14 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| September 15 | Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in AL and NL (Astros) |
| September 15 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| September 16 | 23rd Ryder Cup: U.S., 17-11 at Greenbrier |
| September 16 | Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium |
| September 16 | Coup in Afghanistan under Hafizullah Amin |
| September 16 | KC's Willie Wilson hits 5th inside-the-park home run (most since 1925) |
| September 16 | Nancy Lopez/JoAnn Washam wins Portland- Ping Team Golf Championship |
| September 16 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| September 17 | Pietro Mennea runs world record 200 m (19.72") |
| September 17 | Royals George Brett is 6th to have 20 doubles/triples/home runs in a season |
| September 18 | Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid and Valentina Kozlov defect |
| September 18 | Steven Lachs, appointed California's 1st admittedly gay judge |
| September 18 | The Who opens New York City concerts at MSG |
| September 19 | No Nukes Concert at MSG includes Springsteen and Crosby, Stills and Nash |
| September 20 | Coup in Central African Rep: David Dacko overthrows emperor Bokassa I |
| September 20 | Jose E dod Santos becomes president of Angola |
| September 20 | NASA launches HEAO |
| September 22 | Israel performs nuclear test at Indian Ocean |
| September 22 | Larry Parrish (Expos) home runs off Rawly Eastwick (Phillies) in DH |
| September 23 | Jane Fonda and 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, New York City |
| September 23 | Sandra Post wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic |
| September 23 | Somali constitution approved by president |
| September 23 | St. Louis legend Lou Brock steals 938th and final base of his career |
| September 24 | CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service |
| September 24 | Ghana adopts constitution |
| September 24 | Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time |
| September 24 | Russian ice skaters Protopopov and Beloussova ask for asylum in Switzerland |
| September 24 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 25 | California Angels win their 1st NL West pennant |
| September 25 | "Evita" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 1568 performances |
| September 26 | 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million |
| September 26 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 27 | Congress' final approval to create Department of Education |
| September 27 | Elton John, sick with flu, collapses at the Hollywood Universal Ampitheater |
| September 27 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| September 28 | Larry Holmes TKOs Earnie Shaver in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| September 29 | "Ain't That A Shame" by Cheap Trick peaks at #35 |
| September 29 | Astros' J R Richard strikes out NL season righty record of 313 |
| September 29 | "Bad Case Of Loving You" by Robert Palmer peaks at #14 |
| September 29 | "Boom Boom (Out Go Lights)" by Pat Travers peaks at #56 |
| September 29 | "Born To Be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez peaks at #16 |
| September 29 | "Cruel To Be Kind" by Nick Lowe peaks at #12 |
| September 29 | "Different Worlds" by Maureen McGovern peaks at #18 |
| September 29 | "Driver's Seat" by Sniff 'n' the Tears peaks at #15 |
| September 29 | "Girls Talk" by Dave Edmunds peaks at #65 |
| September 29 | Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong |
| September 29 | John Huston's "Wine Blood" premieres at New York Film Festival |
| September 29 | "Lonesome Loser" by Little River Band peaks at #6 |
| September 29 | Los Angeles Dodger Manny Mota hits record 146th pinch hit |
| September 29 | "Message In A Bottle" by Police peaks at #1 in UK |
| September 29 | Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland |
| September 29 | "What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin'" by Stephanie Mills peaks at #22 |
| September 30 | Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-0 ending 213 straight games without a shutout |
| September 30 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic |
| October 1 | Nigeria adopts constitution, Alhaji Shagari becomes president |
| October 1 | Pope John Paul II begins visit of US |
| October 1 | RKO radio network begins operation |
| October 1 | U.S. returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years |
| October 4 | Hugh Leonards "Life," premieres in Dublin |
| October 4 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| October 6 | Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yards 1'9" |
| October 6 | Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House |
| October 7 | "1940's Radio Hour" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 105 performances |
| October 7 | Cleveland Browns' Dino Hall sets club records with 9 kickoff returns |
| October 7 | Debbie Massey wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic |
| October 7 | "Eubie!" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 439 performances |
| October 7 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| October 8 | J McHugh and A Malvin's musical "Sugar Babies," premieres in New York City |
| October 8 | "Sugar Babies" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 1208 performances |
| October 9 | Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut |
| October 10 | Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood |
| October 10 | Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game |
| October 10 | Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone) |
| October 10 | Recorded trace of snow in Central Park New York City |
| October 11 | Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan |
| October 11 | East Germany frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro and Nico Hubner |
| October 11 | "Most Happy Fella" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 53 performances |
| October 12 | Pressure in nucleus of tropical cyclone at Guam hits record 870 hpa |
| October 14 | 100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy |
| October 14 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| October 14 | Flyers start 35 game unbeaten streak beating Toronto 4-3 |
| October 14 | NHL's greatest scorer Wayne Gretzky scores his 1st NHL goal |
| October 15 | 1st Monday night game from New York City, Jets beat Vikings 14-7 (Shea Stad) |
| October 15 | Chinese premier Hwa Kwofeng visits Paris |
| October 15 | Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees |
| October 15 | New York Knicks retire 2nd number, # 10, Walt Frazier |
| October 17 | "Beatlemania" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 920 performances |
| October 17 | D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8 |
| October 17 | Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
| October 17 | Pittsburgh Pirates beat Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 76th World Series |
| October 17 | President Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education |
| October 18 | "Beatlemania" opens in London |
| October 18 | Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop |
| October 18 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 18 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 20 | Bob Dylan appears on SNL |
| October 20 | John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston |
| October 20 | John Tate beats Gerrie Coetze in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| October 21 | 10th New York City Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:42 |
| October 21 | 9th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:33 |
| October 21 | Greta Weitz wins woman participation in New York City marathon (02:27:33) |
| October 21 | Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns |
| October 21 | Ozzie Newsome begins NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions |
| October 22 | Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in New York for medical treatment |
| October 22 | "One Mo' Time" with Vernel Bagners premieres in New York City |
| October 22 | Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest |
| October 23 | Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minnesota marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches |
| October 24 | Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy |
| October 24 | Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc |
| October 25 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| October 27 | Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds |
| October 27 | St. Vincent and Grenadines becomes independent of U.K. (National Day) |
| October 27 | Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide |
| October 28 | Dick Howser (best Yank manager win-lost percentage .636) replaces Billy Martin |
| October 28 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 29 | Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time) |
| October 29 | Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open |
| October 30 | NASA launches space vehicle S-203 |
| October 30 | Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham |
| October 31 | Mike Flanagan, wins AL Cy Young Award |
| October 31 | U.S. DC-10 crashes at Mexico-City, 74 killed |
| November 1 | A. L. Webber musical "Joseph and Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," premieres |
| November 1 | Bolivia military coup under General Busch, President Guevara flees |
| November 1 | Edward Bennett Williams buys Orioles from Hoffberger for $12.3 million |
| November 1 | Federal government makes a $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler |
| November 1 | Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster |
| November 2 | Peter Shaffers musical "Amadeus," premieres in London |
| November 3 | 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC |
| November 3 | 63 Americans taken hostage at U.S. Embassy (Teheran, Iran) |
| November 3 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mizuno Japan Golf Classic |
| November 3 | Marocco offensive against Polisario |
| November 4 | 500 Iranian "students" seize U.S. embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days) |
| November 5 | Iran government of Bazargan resigns |
| November 5 | Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares U.S. The Great Satan |
| November 6 | Ayatolla Khomeini takes over in Iran |
| November 7 | Cub reliever Bruce Sutter wins NL Cy Young Award |
| November 8 | ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to "Nightline") |
| November 8 | Bernard Slade's "Romantic Comedy," premieres in New York City |
| November 11 | Boston Court issues occupancy permit for Cambridge Buddhist Center |
| November 12 | President Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil |
| November 12 | Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal |
| November 12 | U.S. halts Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets |
| November 13 | British newspaper "Times" resumes publishing after 1 year |
| November 13 | Ronald Reagan in New York announces his candidacy for president |
| November 13 | Willie Stargell and Keith Hernandez share NL MVP Award NL |
| November 14 | California's Don Baylor, wins AL MVP |
| November 15 | ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage |
| November 15 | British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring |
| November 16 | Paul McCartney releases "Wonderful Christmas" |
| November 17 | Daniel Okrent sketches out 1st draft rules for Rotisserie Baseball |
| November 17 | Khomeini frees most black and female U.S. hostages |
| November 17 | New York Stars (WBL) home opener at MSG in New York City |
| November 17 | On a flight to Austin, TX, Daniel Okrent sketches out the first |
| November 18 | Ayatollah Khomeini charges U.S. ambassador/embassy espionage |
| November 19 | Astros sign Nolan Ryan, to record 4 year, $4.5 million contract |
| November 20 | Sji'ieten occupies great mosque of Mecca, 100s killed |
| November 20 | U.S.'s 1st artificial blood transfusion occurs at University of Minnesota Hospital |
| November 21 | Crowd at Islamabad, Pakistan attack U.S. embassy, 1 dies |
| November 23 | Pink Floyd's "The Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks |
| November 24 | Kings' Charley Simmer fails on 8th penalty shot against Islanders |
| November 24 | U.S. admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange |
| November 25 | 67th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 17-9 |
| November 25 | American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275 |
| November 25 | Israel returns Alma oilfields in Gulf of Suez to Egypt |
| November 25 | "Most Happy Fella" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 53 performances |
| November 25 | Pittsburgh gains 606 net yards against Cleveland, winning 33-30 |
| November 26 | International Olympic Committee votes to readmit China |
| November 26 | Twins John Castino and Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of Year |
| November 27 | 1st day-night one-day cricket international, Australia vs. WI at SCG |
| November 28 | Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on Antarctica kills 257 |
| November 28 | "King of Schnorrers" opens at Playhouse Theater New York City for 63 performances |
| November 28 | Los Angeles Dodger Rick Sutcliffe wins NL Rookie of Year |
| November 29 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 30 | Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC) |
| November 30 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 2 | Crowds attack U.S. embassy at Tripoli Libya |
| December 2 | Foots Walker becomes 1st Cleveland Cavalier to score a triple-double |
| December 2 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 3 | 45th Heisman Trophy Award: Charles White, Southern California (RB) |
| December 3 | Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400 |
| December 3 | Iran accepts constitution |
| December 4 | Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 7, Bingo Smith |
| December 4 | Liza Minnelli's 3rd marriage (Mark Gero) |
| December 5 | Ireland premier Jack Lynch resigns |
| December 9 | Murle Breer/Dave Eichelberger wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| December 10 | Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament |
| December 11 | Geoff Boycott scores cricket century in a limited-over international |
| December 11 | Great Britain grants independence to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) |
| December 12 | Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce |
| December 12 | Rhodesia becomes independent nation of Zimbabwe |
| December 13 | "Oklahoma!" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 301 performances |
| December 13 | Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland |
| December 14 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 15 | Deposed Shah of Iran leaves U.S. for Panama |
| December 15 | World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all U.S. hostages |
| December 16 | 68th Davis Cup: USA beats Italy in San Francisco (5-0) |
| December 16 | Quarterback Roger Staubach's last regular season game with the Dallas Cowboys |
| December 17 | Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph |
| December 18 | Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH) |
| December 21 | Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game |
| December 21 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 21 | Zimbabwe adopts constitution |
| December 23 | New York Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks |
| December 23 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 24 | 1st Ariane-rocket launched |
| December 25 | Opening day of 4th Test Cricket, India 8-112 vs. Pakistan at Kanpur |
| December 25 | U.S.S.R. airlifts invasionary army to Afghanistan |
| December 27 | "Knots Landing," premieres on CBS-TV |
| December 27 | Red Army beats New York Rangers 5-2 at MSG |
| December 27 | Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, President Hafizullah Amin overthrown |
| December 29 | Red Army beats New York Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum |
| December 30 | Rock group, Emerson, Lake and Palmer break up |
| December 30 | Togo adopts constitution |
| December 31 | Winterland Rock Concert Hall in San Francisco closes after 556 concerts |
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