| January 1 | Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established |
| January 1 | Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League |
| January 1 | Netherlands Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms |
| January 1 | Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect |
| January 1 | "The Epoch" (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT) |
| January 2 | Dutch premiere of musical "Hair" in Amsterdam |
| January 2 | U.S. population is 203,302,031 |
| January 3 | "Jimmy" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 84 performances |
| January 3 | "Mame" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 1508 performances |
| January 3 | Marxist government takes over in Congo |
| January 3 | WHAG TV channel 25 in Hagerstown, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| January 4 | Beatles last recording session at EMI studios |
| January 4 | New York City transit fare rises from 20 cents to 30 cents, new larger tokens used |
| January 4 | Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary |
| January 5 | 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike |
| January 5 | KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 5 | Soap Opera "All My Children," premieres on ABC |
| January 7 | Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock" |
| January 9 | Constitution of Singapore enacted |
| January 10 | Preview Center Opens |
| January 11 | Superbowl IV: Kansas City Chiefs beat Minnesota Vikings, 23-7 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Len Dawson, Kansas City, QB |
| January 12 | Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria |
| January 12 | Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage |
| January 15 | Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland A's) |
| January 15 | Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria |
| January 16 | AAU player Steve Myers makes a basketball field goal of 92'3 " from out of bounds, Tacoma-it shouldn't have counted, but was allowed |
| January 16 | Col Kadhaffi becomes premier of Libya |
| January 16 | Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball's reserve clause |
| January 16 | NFL realigns into 3 divisions (down from 4) |
| January 17 | 357 baseball players are available in the free-agent draft |
| January 17 | AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-3 |
| January 17 | John M Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Mass) |
| January 17 | Sporting News names Willie Mays as Player of the Decade for the 1960s |
| January 18 | Hasse Borjes skates world record 500m in 38.9 sec |
| January 18 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 16-13 |
| January 19 | Dutch bishops says he is in favor of married priest |
| January 19 | Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails) |
| January 19 | UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist |
| January 20 | 20th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 142-135 at Philadelphia |
| January 20 | 23rd NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 4-1 at St. Louis |
| January 20 | Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali and Marciano |
| January 21 | Panama Boeing 747 1st flight NY-London |
| January 21 | World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight |
| January 22 | 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, New York to London in 6 hours |
| January 22 | Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa vs. Australia, Cape Town |
| January 23 | Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (Calif) |
| January 23 | Dolle Mina's burns her bra in Amsterdam |
| January 23 | U.S. launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1 |
| January 23 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| January 24 | 3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana |
| January 24 | Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec) |
| January 25 | Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H," premieres |
| January 26 | Pendleton, Ford and Cryer's "Last Sweet Days of Isaac," premieres in New York City |
| January 27 | Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG" |
| January 28 | Lubomir Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia |
| January 29 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| January 31 | Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges |
| February 1 | Ford Frick, Earle Combs and Jesse Haines elected to Hall of Fame |
| February 1 | Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die |
| February 1 | West-Germany and U.S.S.R. sign gas contract |
| February 1 | WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 2 | Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points |
| February 4 | "Charles Aznavour" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 23 performances |
| February 4 | "Gantry" opens at George Abbott Theater New York City for 1 performance |
| February 4 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 5 | 1st Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six |
| February 5 | Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa vs. Australia, Durban |
| February 5 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 5 | WSCV TV channel 51 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (IND) suspends broadcasting |
| February 6 | Graeme Pollock completes 274 vs. Australia at Durban |
| February 6 | NBA expands to 18 teams with Buffalo, Cleveland, Houston and Portland |
| February 7 | "Hollywood Palace," last airs on ABC TV |
| February 7 | "Jingle Jangle" hits #10 on the pop singles chart by Archies |
| February 7 | LSU's "Pistol" Pete Marovich scores 69 pts in losing cause |
| February 7 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
| February 7 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood |
| February 10 | 26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington, New Hampshire a state record |
| February 10 | Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, and German youths (Val d'Isere, France) |
| February 11 | 26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mount Washington, New Hampshire (state 24-hour rec) |
| February 11 | Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite, Osumi, in orbit |
| February 11 | John Lennon pays 1,344 pounds fine for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland |
| February 12 | Anthony Shaffers "Sleuth," premieres in New York City |
| February 13 | Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi |
| February 13 | NL offices begins move from Cincinnati to San Francisco (completed February 23) |
| February 14 | "Gantry" closes at George Abbott Theater New York City after 1 performance |
| February 15 | Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater |
| February 15 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| February 15 | Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102 |
| February 15 | KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 15 | Nationalists disrupt United Nations session on Congo |
| February 16 | Joe Frazier TKOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| February 17 | Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife and daughter |
| February 17 | Joni Mitchell's final concert at Royal Albert Hall |
| February 17 | Robert Marasco's "Child's Play," premieres in New York City |
| February 18 | Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of inciting to riot |
| February 18 | U.S. president Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine" |
| February 19 | AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking |
| February 19 | U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 52 and Molniya 1-13 communications satellite |
| February 21 | Jackson 5 make TV debut on American Bandstand |
| February 21 | Pathet Lao conquerors Xieng Khuang and Muong Suy |
| February 22 | "Charles Aznavour" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 23 performances |
| February 23 | Guyana becomes a republic (National Day) |
| February 23 | Holy Eucharist given by women for 1st time in Roman Catholic service |
| February 24 | 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland) |
| February 24 | Heintje Simons (14) wins 7 gold records |
| February 24 | KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem, OR (IND) begins broadcasting |
| February 26 | Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album |
| February 26 | "Georgy" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| February 27 | New York Times falsely reports U.S. Army has ended domestic surveillance |
| February 28 | Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge |
| February 28 | Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53) |
| February 28 | "Georgy" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| February 28 | KIIN (now KUN) TV channel 12 in Iowa City, IA (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| February 28 | WUTR TV channel 20 in Utica-Rome, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| March 1 | Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater |
| March 1 | Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released |
| March 1 | Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election |
| March 1 | White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain |
| March 2 | American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747 |
| March 2 | Rhodesia becomes independent republic |
| March 2 | Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years |
| March 4 | French submarine "Eurydice" explodes |
| March 4 | Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game |
| March 4 | New York Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out |
| March 5 | Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St. New York City |
| March 5 | Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect |
| March 5 | SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St. in New York City |
| March 6 | Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK |
| March 7 | Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov (URS) |
| March 7 | Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina and Ulanov (URS) |
| March 7 | Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR) |
| March 7 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA) |
| March 7 | WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| March 8 | WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 10 | Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" and "I Can Do It" |
| March 10 | South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia |
| March 11 | 12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius, Crosby Stills and Nash, Peggy Lee win |
| March 11 | Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation |
| March 12 | U.S. lowers voting age from 21 to 18 |
| March 13 | 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam |
| March 13 | Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer |
| March 13 | SF city employees begin 4-day strike |
| March 15 | Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan |
| March 15 | Gary Geld and Peter Udell's "Purlie," premieres in New York City |
| March 15 | "Purlie" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 689 performances |
| March 16 | New English Bible published |
| March 16 | WNIN TV channel 9 in Evansville, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 17 | Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of Los Angeles Dodgers |
| March 17 | U.S. casts their 1st United Nations Security Council veto (Support England) |
| March 18 | Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees |
| March 18 | KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, Texas (ABC) suspends broadcasting |
| March 18 | Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike |
| March 18 | NFL selects Wilson as official football and scoreboard as official time |
| March 19 | West German chancellor and East German premier Willy Brandt meet |
| March 21 | 32nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Jacksonville 80-69 |
| March 22 | "Blood Red Roses" opens and closes at John Golden Theater New York City |
| March 22 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| March 23 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 24 | Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors and Sjimmie" strip |
| March 25 | Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH) |
| March 26 | 500th nuclear explosion announced by the U.S. since 1945 |
| March 26 | Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark |
| March 26 | "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 80 performances |
| March 26 | Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul and Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl |
| March 27 | Ringo releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey" |
| March 27 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| March 28 | 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey) |
| March 29 | "Look to the Lilies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 25 performances |
| March 29 | Manchester City wins 10th Europe Cup II |
| March 30 | "Applause" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 900 performances |
| March 30 | Miles Davis Bitches Brew released |
| March 30 | Soap opera "Somerset" premieres |
| March 30 | Strouse, Adams, Comden and Green's musical "Applause," premieres in New York City |
| March 30 | U.S.S.R. wins its 8th straight world hockey championship |
| March 31 | Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee |
| April 1 | Bud Selig becomes CEO of Milwaukee Brewers |
| April 1 | John and Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations |
| April 1 | Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000 Although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bank |
| April 1 | President Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on January 1, 1971 |
| April 2 | 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world |
| April 2 | Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India's Assam state |
| April 2 | Qatar gains independence from Britain |
| April 3 | Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try |
| April 4 | Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson |
| April 5 | WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, Illinois (IND) begins broadcasting |
| April 7 | 42nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy," John Wayne and Maggie Smith win |
| April 7 | "Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds," premieres in New York City |
| April 7 | Milwaukee Brewers (former Seat Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0 |
| April 8 | "Cry for Us All" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| April 8 | Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court |
| April 9 | Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles |
| April 11 | Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days |
| April 11 | Beatles' "Let It Be," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks |
| April 11 | San Francisco beats Cincinnati 2-1, only day Reds aren't in 1st place in 1970 |
| April 12 | Yankees dedicate plaques to Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio |
| April 13 | 34th Golf Masters Championship: Billy Casper wins, shooting a 279 |
| April 13 | Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon |
| April 13 | Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis freed |
| April 13 | Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation |
| April 14 | "Boy Friend" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 119 performances |
| April 15 | "Cry for Us All" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| April 15 | Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution" |
| April 15 | WMGZ TV channel 16 in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, begins broadcasting |
| April 15 | WPSJ TV channel 14 in Ponce, Puerto Rico, begins broadcasting |
| April 16 | 70 die in a snow crush (France) |
| April 17 | Apollo 13 returns back safely to Earth |
| April 17 | Paul McCartney's 1st solo album "McCartney" is released |
| April 19 | 24th Tony Awards: Borstal Boy and Applause win |
| April 19 | "Look to the Lilies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 25 performances |
| April 19 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational |
| April 20 | 74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30 |
| April 20 | Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria |
| April 20 | Ron Hill's 2:10:30 at Boston, sets new U.S. marathon record |
| April 21 | Reds clout 7 home runs by 6 batters, Braves counter with 3 home runs, 6 for one team and 9 different batters for two teams, all tie or set records |
| April 22 | 1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources |
| April 22 | Flat Earth celebrated |
| April 22 | New York Met Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher |
| April 22 | New York Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres, for a total of 19 |
| April 22 | "Park" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| April 22 | Senators beat Yankees 2-1 in 18 innings |
| April 24 | China launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red" |
| April 24 | Gambia becomes a republic within Commonwealth |
| April 24 | Senegal adopts constitution |
| April 25 | Freda Payne releases "Band of Gold" |
| April 25 | Melanie releases "Lay Down" |
| April 25 | "Park" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| April 26 | "Company" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 690 performances |
| April 29 | 50,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia |
| April 30 | Cubs Billy Williams is 1st NLer to play in 1,000 consecutive games |
| May 2 | 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump) |
| May 2 | 96th Kentucky Derby: Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 2:03.4 |
| May 2 | KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff, Arizona (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| May 3 | 24th NBA Championship: New York Knicks beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
| May 3 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational |
| May 4 | National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio |
| May 4 | Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt |
| May 4 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth) |
| May 5 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site |
| May 6 | Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mount Everest |
| May 7 | "Long and Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release |
| May 8 | Beatles release "Let it Be" album |
| May 8 | Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in New York City's Wall Street |
| May 8 | NBA championship: Knicks beat Lakers, 113-99 |
| May 9 | 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War |
| May 10 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| May 10 | Brave's Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in his 1,000th game, loses to Cards 6-5 |
| May 10 | Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep St. Louis Blues in 4 games |
| May 11 | Sammy Davis, Jr. weds Altovise |
| May 12 | Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run |
| May 12 | Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court |
| May 12 | KTVM TV channel 6 in Butte, Montana (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| May 12 | Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops) |
| May 12 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 13 | Beatles movie "Let it Be" premieres |
| May 14 | Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss) |
| May 14 | Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court |
| May 14 | New York City local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing |
| May 14 | RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin |
| May 15 | Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," is released in US |
| May 15 | Elizabeth Hoisington and Anna Mae Mays named 1st female U.S. generals |
| May 15 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| May 15 | Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College |
| May 15 | South Africa excluded from Olympic play |
| May 16 | 96th Preakness: Eddie Belmonte aboard Personality wins in 1:56.2 |
| May 16 | Grover Henson Feels Forgotten by Bill Cosby hits #70 |
| May 17 | Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits |
| May 17 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament |
| May 17 | Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft |
| May 20 | 100,000 march in New York supporting U.S. policies in Vietnam |
| May 20 | 2 die in a New York City subway accident |
| May 20 | Beatles' "Let it Be" movie premieres in UK |
| May 21 | National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U |
| May 21 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| May 22 | Arab terrorists kill 9 children and 3 adults on a school bus |
| May 22 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| May 22 | Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0 |
| May 23 | Grateful Dead's in England, 1st performance outside of U.S. |
| May 23 | San Diego Padres beat San Francisco Giants 17-16 in 15 innings |
| May 23 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (underground) |
| May 24 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
| May 24 | Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult |
| May 25 | 3rd ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat LA Stars, 4 games to 2 |
| May 27 | British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I |
| May 27 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| May 29 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (underground) |
| May 30 | Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans |
| May 30 | "Minnie's Boys" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 80 performances |
| May 31 | At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die) |
| May 31 | KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| May 31 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies' Golf Open |
| June 1 | Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing "Ball Four" |
| June 1 | "Everything Is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens hits #1 |
| June 1 | Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days |
| June 1 | Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player and swallows his tongue |
| June 3 | 1st artificial gene synthesized |
| June 3 | Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola," (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC coml reference ban |
| June 4 | 43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant |
| June 4 | San Diego Padres draft Mike Ivie #1 |
| June 4 | Tonga, formerly Friendly Islands, declares independence from U.K. |
| June 4 | WSMW TV channel 27 in Worcester, MA (IND) begins broadcasting |
| June 4 | Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 1st of 3 times in 28 days |
| June 5 | KPAX TV channel 8 in Missoula, Montana (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| June 6 | 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34 |
| June 7 | 22nd Emmy Awards: Marcus Welby, Robert Young and Susan Hampshire |
| June 7 | Jockey Willie Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033 win |
| June 7 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| June 7 | The Who's "Tommy" is performed at New York's Lincoln Center |
| June 8 | Players and management end labor dispute up minimum salary to $12,000 |
| June 9 | Argentine military junta under Lieutenant-general Lanusse drives out President Ongania |
| June 9 | Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton |
| June 9 | Harry A. Blackmun, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
| June 11 | U.S. leaves Wheelus AFB Libya |
| June 12 | Pitts Pirate Doc Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0 |
| June 13 | Beatles' "Let It Be," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks |
| June 13 | Beatles' "Long and Winding Road," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks |
| June 13 | "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in UK |
| June 14 | Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight |
| June 15 | 16th LPGA Championship won by Shirley Englehorn |
| June 16 | Kenneth A. Gibson elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey |
| June 16 | Race riots in Miami, Florida |
| June 17 | Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera |
| June 19 | A Nikolayev and V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9 |
| June 19 | Conservatives win British parliamentary election |
| June 19 | Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published |
| June 19 | Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 2nd of 3 times in 28 days |
| June 20 | British government of Edward Heath forms, with Margaret Thatcher |
| June 20 | Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run home run |
| June 20 | "Ray Stevens Show," debuts on NBC-TV |
| June 21 | 70th U.S. Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine National Minn |
| June 21 | Brazil beats Italy, 4-1, to win soccer's World Cup, in Mexico City |
| June 21 | Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892 |
| June 21 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
| June 22 | President Nixon signs 26th amendment, voting age lowered to 18 |
| June 22 | Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional |
| June 22 | WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) suspends broadcasting |
| June 23 | Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell in Democratic primary |
| June 23 | "Red Skelton Show," last airs on CBS-TV, moved to NBC-TV |
| June 23 | Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession |
| June 24 | Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive home runs |
| June 24 | "Catch 22" opens in movie theaters |
| June 24 | Reds play final game at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, beat Giants 5-4 |
| June 24 | Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| June 26 | Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2 |
| June 28 | Mary Mills wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open |
| June 29 | U.S. ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia |
| June 30 | Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City |
| June 30 | Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium opens, Braves beat Reds 8-2 |
| July 1 | Denny McLain returns, (leaves trailiing) Tigers beat Yankees in 11 |
| July 1 | FC Utrecht soccer team forms in Utrecht |
| July 1 | Jimi Hendrix 1st recording session (New York City) |
| July 2 | 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam and Brussels |
| July 2 | New York Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for 3rd time in 28 days |
| July 3 | 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival |
| July 3 | 77th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats King (14-12 11-9) |
| July 3 | British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed |
| July 3 | California Angels Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0 |
| July 4 | 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park, New Jersey |
| July 4 | 84th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Newcombe beats K Rosewall (57 63 62 36 61) |
| July 4 | Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio |
| July 4 | Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons |
| July 5 | 25th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young |
| July 5 | Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109 |
| July 6 | California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law |
| July 6 | Italian Rumor government resigns |
| July 8 | San Francisco Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th) |
| July 9 | In Atlanta, Chief-No-ka-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn |
| July 12 | 99th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at St. Andrews |
| July 12 | Blues-Rock singer Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky |
| July 12 | Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway |
| July 13 | Building begins of Amsterdam metro |
| July 14 | 41st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin |
| July 14 | All star MVP: Carl Yastremski (Boston Red Sox) |
| July 15 | Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship |
| July 16 | Iraq's constitution goes into effect |
| July 16 | Reds spoil Pirates debut in Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium, 3-2 |
| July 17 | 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, New York City |
| July 18 | Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily |
| July 18 | "Boy Friend" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 119 performances |
| July 18 | Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time |
| July 18 | WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, Georgia (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| July 19 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open |
| July 20 | Dodgers Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies 5-0, giving up no walks |
| July 21 | Clay Kirby has a no-hitter going for 8 inn, but is lifted for a pinch hitter, Reliever Jack Baldschun gives up 3 hits and Padres lose, 3-0 |
| July 21 | Huge Aswan Dam opens in Egypt |
| July 21 | Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property |
| July 21 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 24 | International Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule |
| July 24 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 25 | "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1 |
| July 26 | Reds Johnny Bench hits 3 consecutive home runs of Phillies Steve Carlton |
| July 27 | Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game |
| July 27 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| July 27 | L Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, and Jesse Haines enter Hall of Fame |
| July 29 | 6 days of race rioting in Hartford, Connecticut |
| July 30 | 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield, Connecticut |
| July 31 | 37th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Kansas City 24, All Stars 3 (69,940) |
| July 31 | Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report" |
| August 1 | EAA Convention moves from Rockford Illinois to Oshkosh, Wi |
| August 1 | KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| August 1 | Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game |
| August 2 | Baltimore defeats Kansas City 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win over the Royals |
| August 2 | France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
| August 2 | Songwriter Sammy Cahn marries Tita Curtis in California |
| August 3 | 4 day NFL strike ends |
| August 3 | Christopher Hampton's "Philanthropist," premieres in London |
| August 3 | Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history |
| August 3 | Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try |
| August 4 | Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness |
| August 5 | Robert Morley's "How the Other Half Loves," premieres in London |
| August 5 | U.S. Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail |
| August 6 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| August 7 | 1st computer chess tournament |
| August 7 | 4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons) |
| August 7 | Christine McVie joins Fleetwood Mac |
| August 7 | WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| August 8 | New York Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37 (BTG was there) |
| August 9 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| August 9 | Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 U.S. exchange students explodes |
| August 10 | Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on "lewd and lascivious behavior" |
| August 11 | Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues |
| August 11 | Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a home run in red seats at Riverfront |
| August 12 | Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball |
| August 14 | City University of New York inaugurates open admissions |
| August 14 | Steven Stills arrested for drug possession |
| August 15 | Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando) |
| August 16 | 52nd PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots 279 at Southern Hills OK |
| August 16 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cincinnati Golf Open |
| August 17 | Venera 7 launched, makes 1st softlanding on Venus |
| August 20 | Hurricane Dorothy, kills 42 in Martinique |
| August 23 | Kathy Ahern wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open |
| August 23 | Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game |
| August 24 | Bomb kills 1 at University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison |
| August 25 | Elton John's 1st U.S. appearance, Los Angeles |
| August 28 | Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970 |
| August 29 | Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed) |
| August 31 | 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0) |
| August 31 | Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted |
| August 31 | Molukkers occupy Indonesian ambassador's home in Wassenaar |
| August 31 | Peter Yarrow arrested for taking "immoral liberties" with girl, 14 |
| August 31 | WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 1 | Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian king Hussain |
| September 1 | Jose Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador |
| September 2 | 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (U.S. Open) (9 pt sudden death) |
| September 3 | After NL record 1,117 consec games, Billy Williams asks to sit out |
| September 3 | Bill Halley and Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia |
| September 3 | Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands |
| September 4 | George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single |
| September 4 | Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum |
| September 4 | Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile |
| September 5 | Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record) |
| September 6 | New York Met Tommy Agee hits for the cycle |
| September 6 | Palestinians seize 3 jetliners |
| September 6 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| September 7 | Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado |
| September 7 | Jerry Lewis' 5th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| September 7 | PLO hijacks 4 planes |
| September 7 | White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader and lose both games |
| September 9 | Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun |
| September 12 | 1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport |
| September 12 | Luna 16 Launch (Moon Sample Return) |
| September 12 | Phyllis Ann George (Texas), 21, crowned 43rd Miss America 1971 |
| September 12 | Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for 1st time at Heathrow airport |
| September 12 | U.S. LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail |
| September 12 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility |
| September 13 | 1st New York City Marathon won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38 |
| September 13 | 84th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Smith Court beats Rosemary Casals (62 26 61) |
| September 13 | 90th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Tony Roche (26 64 76 63) |
| September 13 | IBM announces System 370 computer |
| September 13 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open |
| September 13 | Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania |
| September 14 | Stevie Miracle marries Rita Wright |
| September 15 | Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million |
| September 15 | PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan |
| September 15 | Rotterdam harbor strikes end |
| September 16 | Jordan king Hussein forms military government |
| September 17 | Jordanian King Hussein moves against PLO guerrillas |
| September 17 | WSWP TV channel 9 in Grandview, WV (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 19 | "Mary Tyler Moore" show premieres |
| September 20 | Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior |
| September 20 | Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample |
| September 21 | KAPP TV channel 35 in Yakima, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 21 | Luna 16 leaves Moon |
| September 21 | "Monday Night Football" premieres on ABC - Browns 31, Jets 21 |
| September 21 | Oakland A's Vida Blue no-hits Minnesota Twins, 6-0 |
| September 22 | President Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses |
| September 23 | Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes premier of Malaysia |
| September 23 | Gary Muhrcke wins 1st New York Marathon |
| September 24 | Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon |
| September 25 | Ringo releases his "Beaucoups of Blues" album |
| September 26 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
| September 27 | Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games without an error |
| September 28 | Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar |
| September 28 | Intrepid (U.S.) beats Gretel II (Australia) in 22nd America's Cup |
| September 28 | Ringo Starr released his "Beaccups of Blues" album |
| September 28 | "Words and Music," debuts on NBC-TV |
| September 29 | "NET Festival," last aired |
| September 30 | New American Bible published |
| October 1 | 63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy |
| October 1 | Last game at Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium, Phils-2 Expos-1 |
| October 2 | Billy Martin named manager of Detroit Tigers |
| October 2 | Plane carrying Wichita State University football team crashes killing 30 |
| October 3 | Baseball umpires call their 1st strike |
| October 3 | "Coco" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 333 performances |
| October 3 | WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 4 | Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma |
| October 4 | Kansas City Chiefs Jan Stenerud kicks 55-yard field goal |
| October 4 | Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages |
| October 4 | WFYI TV channel 20 in Indianapolis, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 5 | John Creach, joins Jefferson Airplane |
| October 5 | PBS becomes a network |
| October 5 | Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross |
| October 8 | Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature |
| October 9 | Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence |
| October 10 | Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| October 12 | Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East |
| October 13 | Angela Davis arrested in New York City |
| October 13 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| October 14 | 4th Country Music Association Award: Merle Haggard wins |
| October 14 | Cleveland Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92 |
| October 14 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 14 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 15 | Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt |
| October 15 | Baltimore Orioles beat Cincinnati Reds, 4 games to 1 in 67th World Series |
| October 15 | Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35 |
| October 15 | Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey |
| October 16 | Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser |
| October 17 | Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt |
| October 18 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic |
| October 18 | Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp |
| October 19 | Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale California |
| October 19 | John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun |
| October 19 | "Rothschilds" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 505 performances |
| October 20 | American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize |
| October 20 | Zond 8 Launch (Moon Orbit and Return) |
| October 21 | 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea |
| October 21 | Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways |
| October 21 | Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh |
| October 23 | Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,001 kph) |
| October 24 | Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| October 24 | Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile |
| October 25 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Women's Golf Charities Open |
| October 26 | "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers |
| October 26 | Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam |
| October 27 | "Light, Lively and Yiddish" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 87 performances |
| October 28 | NBA Cleveland Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99 |
| October 28 | US/U.S.S.R. sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts |
| October 29 | WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, Georgia (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| October 30 | KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| November 1 | 1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea |
| November 1 | Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked and 142 die |
| November 1 | Fire on Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, 144 die |
| November 1 | KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 2 | Cleveland Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Philadelphia 141-87) |
| November 3 | Bob Gibson wins NL Cy Young Award |
| November 3 | President Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam |
| November 3 | "President's Daughter" opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 72 performances |
| November 3 | Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile |
| November 4 | Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee |
| November 6 | Boog Powell wins AL MVP |
| November 6 | Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award |
| November 7 | "Purlie" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 689 performances |
| November 7 | Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida |
| November 8 | Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal |
| November 9 | Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins |
| November 10 | "2 by 2" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 343 performances |
| November 10 | Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched |
| November 10 | R Rodgers/M Charnins musical "Two by Two," premieres in New York City |
| November 11 | Baltimore Oriole Boog Powell wins AL MVP |
| November 12 | 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die |
| November 12 | Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103 |
| November 12 | Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell |
| November 13 | Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh |
| November 13 | Flooding ravages Ganges delta, 200,000-1 million killed |
| November 13 | Lieutenant General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following military coup |
| November 14 | DC-9 crashes in West Virginia, 75 killed |
| November 17 | British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on pg 3 (Stephanie Rahn) |
| November 17 | Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon |
| November 18 | Joe Frazier KOs Bob Foster in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| November 18 | Johnny Bench wins NL MVP |
| November 18 | Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds |
| November 18 | Netherlands and Albania form diplomatic relations |
| November 18 | Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon |
| November 19 | Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California state historical landmark |
| November 19 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 20 | U.N. General Assembly accepts membership of China PR |
| November 21 | New York Knicks 1st game against Cleveland Cavalier, Knicks win 102-94 at MSG |
| November 23 | KNCT TV channel 46 in Belton/Killeen, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 24 | 36th Heisman Trophy Award: Jim Plunkett, Stanford (quarterback) |
| November 25 | Yankees catcher Thurman Munson wins AL Rookie of Year |
| November 27 | Carl Morton (18-11 for last-place Expos), receives NL Rookie of Year |
| November 27 | George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass" |
| November 27 | Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest |
| November 27 | Test Cricket debut of Rodney "Iron Gloves" Marsh vs. England, Brisbane |
| November 28 | 58th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 23-10 |
| November 29 | Charles Ives' "Yale-Princeton," premieres |
| November 29 | Colin Cowdrey becomes Test Crickets' leading run scorer (7,250) |
| November 30 | George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass" |
| December 1 | Independent People's Republic of South Yemen becomes People Democratic Republic of Yemen |
| December 1 | Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico |
| December 1 | NHL takes control of Pittsburgh Penguins |
| December 2 | Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus) |
| December 2 | Tippetts Opera "Knot Garden," premieres in London |
| December 3 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 4 | Unemployment in U.S. increases to 5.8 percent |
| December 5 | Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy and Bill Masterson trophy stolen from NHL hall of fame |
| December 6 | Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106 |
| December 7 | Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma |
| December 7 | West Germany and Poland normalize relations |
| December 9 | Dutch Antilles: government of Petronia falls |
| December 10 | North American Soccer League awards New York and Toronto franchises |
| December 11 | Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, vs. England |
| December 11 | Test Cricket debut of Gregory Stephen Chappell |
| December 12 | Polish government proclaims price rise |
| December 12 | Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays |
| December 12 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| December 13 | Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut vs. England at the WACA |
| December 13 | Neil Simon's "Gingerbread Lady," premieres in New York City |
| December 15 | Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261 |
| December 15 | S Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed |
| December 15 | Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus) |
| December 16 | 1st successful landing on Venus (U.S.S.R.) |
| December 16 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 17 | Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike |
| December 17 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 17 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 18 | "Me Nobody Knows" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 587 performances |
| December 18 | Polish uprising fails |
| December 18 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 20 | Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's party leader |
| December 21 | WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, New York (IND) begins broadcasting |
| December 22 | Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment |
| December 23 | 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" (record) |
| December 23 | French author Regis Debray freed in Bolivia |
| December 23 | NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m) |
| December 23 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| December 24 | 9 Jews are convicted in Leningrad of hijacking a plane |
| December 24 | Walt Disney's "Aristocats" is released |
| December 27 | "Hello, Dolly!" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 2844 performances |
| December 28 | "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" opens at Majestic New York City for 19 performances |
| December 28 | Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution |
| December 30 | Paul McCartney sues his bandmates to dissolve the Beatles |
| December 31 | Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin |
| December 31 | President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines |
| December 31 | Would have been start of Australia/England Test Cricket at MCG, washed out |
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