| January 1 | Cigarette advertisements banned on television |
| January 2 | A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66 |
| January 3 | Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders 27-17 in AFC championship game |
| January 3 | Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco '49ers 17-10 in NFC championship game |
| January 3 | "President's Daughter" closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City after 72 performances |
| January 4 | Congressional Black Caucus organizes |
| January 4 | Dr. Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected governor of Virgin Is |
| January 4 | Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium dedicated |
| January 5 | 1st one-day international, Australia vs. England at the MCG |
| January 5 | Globetrotters lose 100-99 to New Jersey Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak |
| January 5 | U.S. heavyweight "Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse found |
| January 6 | Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones |
| January 6 | Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate |
| January 7 | -40 degrees F (-40 degrees C), Hawley Lake, Ariz (state record) |
| January 8 | 29 pilot whales beach themselves and die at San Clemente Island, California |
| January 8 | Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota established |
| January 9 | "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" closes at Majestic New York City after 19 perf |
| January 10 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur |
| January 10 | "Light, Lively and Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 87 performances |
| January 11 | 1st "Quickie" Divorce granted in UK |
| January 11 | Tigers ace reliever John Hiller, 27, sufferes a heart attack, but later makes a remarkable comeback to record 38 saves |
| January 12 | "All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring 1st toilet flush on TV |
| January 12 | Congressional Black Caucus organizes |
| January 12 | Federal grand jury indicts Reverend Philip Berrigan and 5 others, including a nun and 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger |
| January 12 | "Soon" opens at Ritz Theater New York City for 3 performances |
| January 13 | "Soon" closes at Ritz Theater New York City after 3 performances |
| January 14 | John Snow takes 7-40 for England to beat Australia by 299 runs |
| January 15 | "Ari" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 19 performances |
| January 15 | Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt |
| January 15 | George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" |
| January 16 | Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (1:58.7) |
| January 17 | Super Bowl V: Baltimore Colts-16, Dallas Cowboys-13 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Chuck Howley, Dallas, LB |
| January 18 | Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in New York, to become WWF champ |
| January 19 | 24th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 2-1 at Boston |
| January 19 | Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is played at Charles Manson trial |
| January 19 | NHL Writers' Association renamed Professional Hockey Writers' Association |
| January 19 | "No, No Nanette" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 861 performances |
| January 20 | Ard Schenk skates world record 1000m (1:18.8) |
| January 20 | John Lennon meets Yoko Ono's parents in Japan |
| January 21 | "Alias Smith and Jones" premieres on ABC TV |
| January 22 | John and Yoko record "Power to the People" |
| January 23 | 4th ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 122 at Carolina |
| January 23 | -80 degrees F (-62 degrees C) in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska (U.S. record) |
| January 23 | UCLA loses to Notre Dame, UCLA then wins next 88 games in a row |
| January 24 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-6 |
| January 25 | Charles Manson and 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders |
| January 25 | Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state |
| January 25 | Military coup in Uganda under General Idi Amin Dada |
| January 25 | Philadelphia mint's 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar |
| January 25 | WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting |
| January 26 | Charles Manson convicted of murder |
| January 26 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes |
| January 27 | Montgomery St. Station, last link in BART, 'holed thru' |
| January 29 | Test debut of Dennis Keith Lillee, vs. England at Adelaide |
| January 30 | "Ari" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 19 performances |
| January 30 | Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, vs. England |
| January 30 | UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak |
| January 31 | & Dave Bancroft and George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| January 31 | Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands |
| January 31 | Jake Beckley, Joe Kelley, Harry Hooper, Rube Marquard, Chick Hafey |
| January 31 | "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit #1 on United Kingdom pop chart |
| January 31 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
| January 31 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by John Misha Petkevich |
| February 2 | Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote to become dictator of Uganda |
| February 3 | KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| February 4 | Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard and Mitchell) |
| February 4 | Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks |
| February 4 | British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt |
| February 4 | Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil |
| February 4 | National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC |
| February 5 | Apollo 14, 3rd U.S. manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard and Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hours |
| February 7 | Swiss men accept female suffrage |
| February 8 | Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ |
| February 8 | South Vietnamese troops invade Laos |
| February 9 | Apollo 14 returns to Earth |
| February 9 | Probably 1st gay theme TV episode - All in the Family |
| February 9 | Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 64 and causes over $ B damage |
| February 9 | Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| February 10 | American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in NY |
| February 10 | Bill White becomes 1st black baseball announcer (New York Yankees) |
| February 10 | John Guares "House of Blue Leaves," premieres in New York City |
| February 10 | Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa |
| February 11 | Montreal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal |
| February 11 | U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R., others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons |
| February 12 | Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 and 0 Australia vs. England |
| February 13 | 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos |
| February 13 | Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd, injuring 2 |
| February 14 | Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television |
| February 14 | Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House |
| February 15 | After 1,200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal |
| February 17 | England regains cricket Ashes with a 2-0 series win |
| February 19 | Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK |
| February 19 | Walt Wesley becomes 1st Cleveland Cavalier to score 50 pts in a game |
| February 20 | Bruin Phil Esposito is NHL's quickest to score 50 goals in a season |
| February 20 | General Idi Amin Dada appointed president of Uganda |
| February 20 | National Emergency Center erroneously orders U.S. radio and TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes |
| February 21 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic |
| February 21 | Series of tornadoes cuts through Mississippi and Louisiana killing 117 |
| February 22 | Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria |
| February 23 | Boston Bruins begin 13 NHL game win streak |
| February 23 | George Harrison is fined and his driving license is suspended for 1 year |
| February 23 | Lt. Calley confessed and implicates Captain Medina |
| February 24 | Algeria nationalizes French oil companies |
| February 25 | "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 1,316 performances |
| February 25 | P Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little," premieres in New York City |
| February 28 | 53rd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA National Florida Jack Nicklaus wins his 2nd golf grand slam |
| February 28 | WDRB TV channel 41 in Louisville, Kentucky (IND) begins broadcasting |
| March 1 | Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington D.C. |
| March 1 | Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM |
| March 3 | South African Broadcasting lifts its ban on the Beatles |
| March 3 | Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa |
| March 4 | "City Command" kidnaps 4 U.S. military men at Ankara, Turkey |
| March 6 | Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, vs. West Indies at Port-of-Spain |
| March 7 | Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire |
| March 8 | Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title |
| March 8 | Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record) |
| March 8 | Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner" |
| March 9 | J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI vs. India at Port-of-Spain |
| March 10 | Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18 |
| March 12 | Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias |
| March 12 | Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president |
| March 12 | Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army |
| March 13 | Live at Fillmore East recorded |
| March 14 | Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV |
| March 14 | Rolling Stones left England for France to escape taxes |
| March 14 | South Vietnamese troops flee Laos |
| March 14 | The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes |
| March 15 | CBS TV announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show" |
| March 15 | Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet |
| March 16 | 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win |
| March 16 | KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, Texas (IND) suspends broadcasting |
| March 18 | 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru |
| March 19 | Philadelphia 76ers outscore Cincinnati Royals 90-8 in 1 half |
| March 20 | Boston Bruins win 13th straight NHL game |
| March 21 | Gavaskar scores 1st of his 34 Test Cricket tons, 116 at Georgetown |
| March 21 | Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| March 21 | Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2" |
| March 21 | WCPB TV channel 28 in Salisbury, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 22 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| March 23 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce |
| March 23 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| March 25 | Boston Patriots become New England Patriots |
| March 25 | European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers |
| March 25 | Tom Jones, "She's a Lady," goes gold |
| March 26 | Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence |
| March 26 | "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings |
| March 26 | "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV |
| March 27 | 33rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Villanova 68-62 UCLA wins their 5th consecutive NCAA basketball title |
| March 28 | 25th Tony Awards: Sleuth and Company win |
| March 29 | 1st Lt William L Calley, Jr. found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre |
| March 29 | Chile president Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines |
| March 29 | Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor |
| March 29 | Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced |
| March 29 | Royal Albert Hall opens |
| March 29 | WSVN (now WSBN) TV channel 47 in Norton, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 31 | South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion |
| March 31 | William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre |
| April 1 | U.S. and Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere |
| April 1 | United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership |
| April 2 | Sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost 5 year run |
| April 4 | "Follies" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 524 performances |
| April 4 | Marine clay under houses liquefies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Quebec) |
| April 5 | Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole |
| April 5 | Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy |
| April 5 | U.S. Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life |
| April 5 | WNJT TV channel 52 in Trenton, New Jersey (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 7 | Dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by |
| April 7 | President Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free |
| April 7 | WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, Florida (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals |
| April 8 | 1st legal off-track betting system begins (OTB-New York) |
| April 9 | Ringo releases "It Don't Come Easy" in UK |
| April 10 | 1st baseball game at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, Phils beat Expos 4-1 |
| April 10 | U.S. table tennis team arrives in China PR |
| April 11 | 35th Golf Masters Championship: Charles Coody wins, shooting a 279 |
| April 11 | "Johnny Johnson" opens/closes at Edison Theater New York City for 1 performance |
| April 11 | WBFF TV channel 45 in Baltimore, MD (IND) begins broadcasting |
| April 14 | Fort Point, San Francisco dedicated as a national historic site |
| April 14 | President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China |
| April 14 | Stephen Sondheim's musical "Follies," premieres in New York City |
| April 14 | Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation |
| April 15 | 43rd Academy Awards - "Patton," George C Scott and Glenda Jackson win |
| April 15 | "70, Girls, 70" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 35 performances |
| April 17 | Egypt, Libya and Syria form federation (FAR) |
| April 17 | People's Republic Bangladesh forms, under sheik Mujib ur-Rahman |
| April 18 | Gavaskar makes 220 in 2nd inning vs. WI after 124 in 1st |
| April 18 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic |
| April 19 | 75th Boston Marathon won by Alvaro Mejia of Colombia in 2:18:45 |
| April 19 | Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder) |
| April 19 | Sierra Leone becomes a republic (National Day) |
| April 19 | U.S.S.R. Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit |
| April 20 | Barbra Streisand records "We've Only Just Begun" |
| April 20 | U.S. Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation |
| April 21 | Original Codex Reguis (with Edda-liederen) returns to Iceland |
| April 22 | Soyuz 10 launched |
| April 23 | Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike |
| April 23 | Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station |
| April 24 | "Frank Merriwell" opens/closes at Longacre Theater New York City for 1 perf |
| April 24 | Soyuz 10 returns to Earth |
| April 25 | About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington |
| April 25 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| April 25 | U.S. canal rights in Nicaragua and rights to Corn Islands expire |
| April 25 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| April 26 | Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hours |
| April 26 | Turkey state of siege proclaimed |
| April 27 | Curt Flood resigns Senators after 13 games and departs for Denmark |
| April 28 | Dutch social democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election |
| April 28 | Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. becomes 1st black Admiral in U.S. Navy |
| April 29 | Bill Graham closes down Fillmore and Fillmore East |
| April 29 | Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration |
| April 29 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 30 | 25th NBA Championship: Milwaukee beat Baltimore Bullets in 4 games |
| May 1 | 97th Kentucky Derby: Gustavo Avila on Canonero II wins in 2:03.2 |
| May 1 | Amtrak Railroad begins operation |
| May 1 | Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar" |
| May 2 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| May 3 | All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations |
| May 3 | Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader |
| May 3 | Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days |
| May 3 | Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun) |
| May 5 | "Earl of Ruston" opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| May 5 | Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (New York City) |
| May 8 | "Earl of Ruston" closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| May 8 | Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden |
| May 9 | 23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman and Jean Stapleton |
| May 9 | Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42) |
| May 9 | Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes |
| May 9 | Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Baltimore Oriole history |
| May 9 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA San Antonio Alamo Golf Open |
| May 10 | U.S. special delivery rates go from 45 cents to 60 cents |
| May 11 | Cleveland's Steve Dunning becomes last AL pitcher to hit grand slam |
| May 12 | Rolling Stone Mick Jagger weds Bianca Macias at St. Tropez Town Hall |
| May 13 | Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident |
| May 15 | "70, Girls, 70" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 35 performances |
| May 15 | 97th Preakness: Gustavo Avila aboard Canonero II wins in 1:54 |
| May 15 | Radio Nordsee International's ship bombed |
| May 16 | 1st class postage now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents) |
| May 16 | Benjamin Britten's opera "Owen Wingrave," premieres in Aldwych |
| May 16 | Bulgaria adopts it's constitution |
| May 17 | Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell," premieres off-Broadway |
| May 17 | Washington State bans sex discrimination |
| May 18 | 4th ABA Championship: Utah Stars beat Kentucky Colonels, 4 games to 3 |
| May 18 | Bulgarian constitution goes into effect |
| May 18 | President Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus |
| May 18 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3 |
| May 19 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars |
| May 20 | Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of U.S. soldiers in SE Asia |
| May 21 | Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens |
| May 21 | National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga, Tennessee |
| May 23 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationalionale |
| May 23 | Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands |
| May 24 | A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard |
| May 25 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| May 26 | Soviet Union's Concorde, TU-144, makes its 1st appearance |
| May 27 | 23rd Walker Cup: Britain - Ireland, 13 - 11 |
| May 27 | UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship |
| May 28 | Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram" |
| May 28 | U.S.S.R. Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars |
| May 29 | Court Room by Clarence Carter hits #61 |
| May 30 | 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice |
| May 30 | Train crash at Duivendrecht, Netherlands, 5 die |
| May 30 | U.S. Mariner 9, 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched |
| May 30 | Willie Mays hits his 638th home run, sets NL record of 1,950 runs scored |
| May 31 | WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| June 1 | Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS |
| June 1 | "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" opens at Golden New York City for 31 performances |
| June 2 | Ajax wins 16th Europe Cup 1 |
| June 3 | Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman 2nd no-hitter beats Cincinnati Reds, 1-0 |
| June 3 | Test Cricket debut of Imran Khan, vs. England at Edgbaston (5, 0-36, 0-19) |
| June 4 | Joseph Luns appointed Secretary-General of NATO |
| June 4 | Oakland A's beat Washington Senators, 5-3, in 21 innings |
| June 4 | Zaheer Abbas scores Cricket 274 at Edgbaston, 544 minutes 38 fours |
| June 5 | 103rd Belmont: Walter Blum aboard Pass Catcher wins in 2:30.6 |
| June 6 | Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die |
| June 6 | "Ed Sullivan Show" last broadcasts on CBS-TV |
| June 6 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono unannounced appearance at Fillmore East in New York City |
| June 6 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| June 6 | Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station |
| June 6 | WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, Georgia (CBN) begins broadcasting |
| June 6 | Willie Mays hits record 22nd and last extra inning home run |
| June 7 | Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut |
| June 8 | North Vietnam demands U.S. end aid to South Vietnam |
| June 8 | White Sox draft Danny Goodwin #1, he refuses to sign |
| June 9 | Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan |
| June 9 | Paul McCartney's album "Ram" goes gold |
| June 10 | 11 die in a train crash in Salem, Illinois |
| June 10 | 44th National Spelling Bee: Jonathan Knisely wins spelling shalloon |
| June 11 | U.S. and Japan sign accord to return Okinawa to Japan |
| June 11 | U.S. ends ban on China trade |
| June 12 | Tricia Nixon and Edward F Cox marry at White House |
| June 13 | 17th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth |
| June 13 | New York Times began publishing "Pentagon Papers" |
| June 15 | Vernon E Jordan, Jr., appointed executive director of National Urban League |
| June 16 | Groningen soccer team forms in Groningen |
| June 16 | Racial disturbance in Jacksonville, Florida |
| June 19 | Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance |
| June 20 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Heritage Golf Open |
| June 21 | 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisiana |
| June 21 | 71st U.S. Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 280 at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania |
| June 21 | Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf |
| June 21 | International Court of Justice asks South Africa to pull out of Namibia |
| June 23 | Phillies Rick Wise no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 4-0 |
| June 23 | WTVP TV channel 47 in Peoria, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| June 25 | Stevie Wonder releases "Where I'm Coming From" |
| June 26 | Angels suspend Alex Johnson (after 5 benchings and 29 fines) |
| June 26 | "Man of La Mancha" closes at ANTA Washington Square Theater New York City after 2329 performances |
| June 27 | 26th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner |
| June 27 | "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" closes at Golden New York City after 31 performances |
| June 28 | Phillies' Rick Wise hits 2 home runs and no-hits Reds |
| June 28 | Supreme Court (8-0) overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali |
| June 29 | Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richards sentenced on drug offense |
| June 29 | Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days |
| June 30 | Biesheuvel government forms |
| June 30 | Ohio becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, thus ratifying 26th amendment |
| July 1 | British and Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands |
| July 1 | Golden Gate Bridge paid for |
| July 1 | State of Washington becomes 1st state to ban sex discrimination |
| July 2 | 78th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats M Smith (64 61) |
| July 2 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| July 3 | 85th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Newcombe beats S Smith (63 57 26 64 64) |
| July 4 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| July 5 | 26th amendment certified, reduces voting age to 18 |
| July 5 | Simon Gray's "Butley," premieres in London |
| July 6 | Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi |
| July 6 | White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks |
| July 8 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 9 | Henry Kissinger visits China PR |
| July 10 | 100th British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 278 at Royal Birkdale |
| July 10 | Failed attempt on King Hassan II Shirat Morocco, 101 killed |
| July 11 | Chilean parliament nationalizes U.S. copper mines |
| July 11 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
| July 11 | Phillies Deron Johnson 3 home runs caps his 4 in a row |
| July 12 | Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders |
| July 13 | 42nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-4 at Tiger Stadium, Detroit |
| July 13 | All star MVP: Frank Robinson for the Baltimore Orioles |
| July 15 | President Nixon announces he would visit China |
| July 16 | Franco points prince Juan Carlos as deputy in Spain |
| July 17 | Kathy Whitworth/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Four-Ball Golf Championship |
| July 18 | Eddy Merckx wins his 3rd Tour de France |
| July 19 | Sudan military coup under Major Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees |
| July 21 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 22 | Sudan military counter coup under premier Numeiry |
| July 24 | WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| July 25 | Judy Kimball wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open |
| July 26 | Apollo 15 launched (Scott and Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon |
| July 28 | 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning |
| July 28 | Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie" |
| July 30 | 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289) |
| July 30 | George Harrison releases "Bangladesh" |
| July 30 | Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162 |
| July 30 | U.S. Apollo 15 (Scott and Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon |
| July 31 | Apollo 15 astronauts take 6 hour electric car ride on Moon |
| July 31 | Deventer Soccer team Go Ahead Eagles forms |
| August 1 | CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII |
| August 1 | George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in New York City |
| August 1 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
| August 3 | Paul McCartney announces formation of his group Wings |
| August 4 | U.S. launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft |
| August 5 | WNPE TV channel 16 in Watertown, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| August 7 | Apollo 15 returns to Earth |
| August 8 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| August 8 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open |
| August 9 | Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame |
| August 10 | 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research |
| August 10 | Twins' Harmon Killebrew is 10th to amass 500 home runs, and adds his 501st |
| August 11 | Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome |
| August 11 | Harmon Killebrew hits home runs #500 and 501 |
| August 12 | Syriam President Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan |
| August 13 | Paul and Linda McCartney release "Back Seat of My Car" |
| August 14 | Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule |
| August 14 | Cards Bob Gibson, 35, no-hits Pirates, 11-0 |
| August 14 | France performs nuclear test |
| August 15 | Charles Lismont wins Helsinki marathon (2:13:09.0) |
| August 15 | KVRL (now KRIV) TV ch 26 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins |
| August 15 | President Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents |
| August 15 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open |
| August 20 | FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr |
| August 22 | Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, President Torres driven out |
| August 22 | Pam Barnett wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open |
| August 23 | WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| August 24 | India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms |
| August 26 | Dutch Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia |
| August 26 | New York Giant football team announces they're leaving Bronx for New Jersey in 1975 |
| August 26 | Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game |
| August 30 | WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| August 31 | Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30) |
| August 31 | Dave Scott becomes 1st person to drive a car on Moon |
| September 1 | John Newcombe is 1st top-seed man to lose in 1st round of U.S. Open |
| September 1 | Qatar declares independence from Britain |
| September 1 | Rolling Stones sue manager Allen Klein |
| September 2 | Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer |
| September 2 | Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors win their 1st U.S. Open tennis matches |
| September 2 | New York's Electric Circus Club goes out of business |
| September 3 | John Lennon leaves U.K. for New York City, never to return |
| September 3 | Manlio Brosio resigns as Secretary-General of NATO |
| September 3 | Qatar regains complete independence from Britain |
| September 3 | Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office |
| September 4 | Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska) |
| September 5 | Astros pitcher J R Richard debut, strikes out 15 Giants in a 5-3 win |
| September 5 | New York Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet |
| September 6 | Jerry Lewis' 6th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises |
| September 8 | John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington D.C. |
| September 9 | 1,000 convicts riot and seize Attica, New York prison |
| September 9 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV) |
| September 9 | John Lennon releases "Imagine" album |
| September 9 | NHL great Gordie Howe retires |
| September 10 | KVUE TV channel 24 in Austin, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 11 | "2 by 2" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 343 performances |
| September 11 | Egypt adopts its constitution |
| September 11 | Laurel Lea Schaefer (Ohio), 22, crowned 44th Miss America 1972 |
| September 12 | 85th U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Rosemary Casals (64 76) |
| September 12 | 91st U.S. Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Jan Kodes (36 63 62 76) |
| September 13 | 11 guards and 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison |
| September 13 | Frank Robinson hits his 500th home run |
| September 13 | Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow |
| September 13 | WIIQ TV channel 41 in Demopolis, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 13 | World Hockey Association forms |
| September 14 | Cleveland Indians and Washington Senators, play 20 innings |
| September 15 | 1st broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC-TV |
| September 16 | 6 Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses |
| September 16 | West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with soviet President Brezhnev |
| September 18 | 19th Ryder Cup: U.S. beats Europe, 18 -13 at Old Warson CC Mo |
| September 19 | 1st New York City Women's Marathon won by Beth Bonner in 2:55:22 |
| September 19 | 2nd New York City Marathon won by Norman Higgins in 2:22:54 |
| September 21 | AL OKs Washington Senator move to Arlington (Texas Rangers) |
| September 21 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono are Dick Cavett's only guest |
| September 22 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 23 | John Vermeers painting "The liefdesbrief" stolen |
| September 24 | 90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying |
| September 24 | Eyskens-Cools disbands Belgium parliament |
| September 24 | Houston Astros beat San Diego Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings |
| September 26 | Jim Palmer is 4th Oriole to win at least 20 games this season |
| September 26 | Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
| September 26 | WGBY TV channel 57 in Springfield, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 27 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 28 | Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges, ends exile and flies to Rome |
| September 28 | Cardinal Josef Mindszenty of Hungary took refuge in U.S. Embassy in |
| September 28 | New York Times reports growing interest of white youth in black gospel music |
| September 29 | Cyclone and tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000 |
| September 29 | "McMillan and Wife," debuts on NBC-TV |
| September 29 | Orbiting Solar Observatory VII launched |
| September 29 | Ron Hunt is hit by a pitch for record 50th time in a season |
| September 29 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 30 | Last Washington Senator home game, New York Yankees win career 5th forfeit game Yankees trailing 4-2 in 9th with 2 outs, fans rush field |
| October 1 | Joseph Luns becomes Secretary-General of NATO |
| October 1 | Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens |
| October 2 | Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race |
| October 3 | Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000 |
| October 4 | Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World |
| October 4 | KMPH TV channel 26 in Visalia-Fresno, California (IND) begins broadcasting |
| October 4 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| October 7 | T McNally's "Where has Tommy Flowers gone?," premieres in New York City |
| October 8 | John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine" |
| October 8 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 9 | Japans emperor Hirohito visits Netherlands |
| October 9 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 10 | 1st game played at Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium, Phils win 4-1 |
| October 10 | 5th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Pride wins |
| October 10 | Fenholt and Webber's musical "Jesus Christ Superstar," premieres in New York City |
| October 10 | Rain washes out Game 2, 1st World Series postponement since 1962 |
| October 11 | 60th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Charlotte (3-2) |
| October 11 | Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times |
| October 11 | Frank McGee becomes news anchor of Today Show |
| October 11 | Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam |
| October 12 | "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Mark Hellinger New York City for 711 performances |
| October 13 | 1st World Series night game (Pittsburgh 4-Baltimore 3) |
| October 13 | WTZH TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (CBS) suspends broadcasting |
| October 14 | 2 killed in Memphis racial disturbances |
| October 14 | John and Yoko appear on "Dick Cavett Show" |
| October 16 | Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in San Francisco |
| October 17 | Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Nature Center opens |
| October 17 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Quality-First Golf Classic |
| October 17 | Pittsburgh Pirates beat Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 68th World Series |
| October 19 | Last issue of "Look" magazine is published |
| October 20 | "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death" opens at Barrymore for 325 per |
| October 20 | West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
| October 21 | Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda |
| October 21 | "To Live Another Summer" opens at Helen Hayes New York City for 173 performances |
| October 21 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 21 | William H Rehnquist and Lewis F Powell nominated to U.S. Supreme Court by Nixon, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black and John Harlan |
| October 22 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| October 23 | WXLT (now WWSB) TV channel 40 in Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida (ABC) begins |
| October 24 | Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yards) |
| October 24 | Texas Stadium opens-Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21 |
| October 25 | Belgium and China establish diplomatic relations |
| October 25 | General Meeting of United Nations agrees to admit China PR |
| October 25 | Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World |
| October 25 | U.N. votes to expel Taiwan and admit Red China |
| October 27 | Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic of Zaire |
| October 27 | Steve Garvey weds Cynthia Truhan |
| October 28 | England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit |
| October 28 | John and Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in New York City |
| October 31 | "On the Town" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 65 performances |
| November 1 | Eisenhower dollar put into circulation |
| November 2 | "Great Harp" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| November 2 | Orioles Pat Dobson no-hits Yomiuri Giants, 2-0 |
| November 3 | "Play Misty For Me" premieres |
| November 5 | Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping |
| November 5 | NBA's Los Angeles Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak |
| November 6 | "Great Harp" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| November 6 | U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians |
| November 9 | David Storey's "Changing Room," premieres in London |
| November 9 | John List kills family and moves to Colorado |
| November 10 | Joe Torre wins NL MVP, Vida Blue wins AL MVP |
| November 10 | U.S. table tennis team arrived in China |
| November 11 | Man-made earthslide at Kawasaki Japan, kills 15 |
| November 11 | Neil Simons "prisoner of Second Avenue," premieres in New York City |
| November 13 | Mariner 9, 1st to orbit another planet, Mars |
| November 15 | Intel advertises 4004-processor |
| November 18 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| November 20 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 21 | New York Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period |
| November 21 | Richard Baker becomes teacher of San Francisco Zen Center |
| November 22 | "Only Fools Are Sad" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 144 performances |
| November 23 | China People's Republic seated in United Nations Security Council |
| November 23 | Danny Murtaugh, manager of world champ Pirates, announces retirement |
| November 24 | Braves catcher-infielder Earl Williams, wins NL Rookie of Year |
| November 24 | Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000 |
| November 24 | Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison, New Jersey |
| November 25 | 37th Heisman Trophy Award: Pat Sullivan, Auburn (quarterback) |
| November 25 | "Dan Cooper" jumps with $200,000 out of plane over Washington |
| November 27 | Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars |
| November 28 | 59th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-11 |
| November 28 | "Me Nobody Knows" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 587 performances |
| November 29 | 1st pro golf championship at Walt Disney World |
| November 29 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| November 30 | TV movie "Brian's Song," airs for 1st time on ABC-TV |
| December 1 | "2 Gentlemen of Verona" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 613 performances |
| December 1 | Cubs release Ernie Banks and sign him as a coach |
| December 1 | Galt MacDermot/John Guare's "2 gentlemen of Verona," premieres in New York City |
| December 1 | John and Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US |
| December 1 | People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself People's Democratic Republic of Yemen |
| December 2 | Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah and Umm ak Qiwain form United Arab Emirates |
| December 2 | Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars |
| December 2 | United Arab Emirates, (Trucial States) declares independence from UK |
| December 2 | Zayid bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan of Abu Dhabi becomes President of UAE |
| December 3 | Miss Teenage America Pageant |
| December 3 | President Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term |
| December 5 | KCBJ (now KMIZ) TV channel 17 in Columbia, MO (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| December 6 | Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice |
| December 7 | "Wild and Wonderful" opens/closes at Lyceum Theater New York City |
| December 7 | Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life" |
| December 9 | Lewis F Powell, Jr. appointed to Supreme Court |
| December 10 | West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace |
| December 10 | William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice |
| December 13 | John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed |
| December 14 | Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure |
| December 14 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 15 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 16 | Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares independence from Pakistan |
| December 16 | Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released |
| December 16 | India's army occupies Dacca, West Pakistani troops surrenders |
| December 17 | Cease fire between India and Pakistan in Kashmir |
| December 17 | "Diamonds are Forever" premieres in US |
| December 17 | Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting |
| December 18 | 1st Candlelight Processional |
| December 18 | CBS radio cancels Saturday morning band concerts |
| December 18 | People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic |
| December 19 | CBS airs "Homecoming A Christmas Story," (introducing the Waltons) |
| December 19 | "Inner City" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 97 performances |
| December 19 | NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp |
| December 19 | Stanley Kubrick's X-rated "A Clockwork Orange" premieres |
| December 20 | Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns |
| December 21 | U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General |
| December 22 | KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| December 22 | U.N. General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General |
| December 22 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| December 24 | Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later |
| December 25 | Longest NFL game (82m40s) as Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24 |
| December 25 | Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson |
| December 25 | Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul |
| December 28 | Hasj falls from now on under(neath) the Opiumwet |
| December 30 | Long Island NHL franchise purchased (New York Islanders) |
| December 30 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 31 | KAID TV channel 4 in Boise, Idaho (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| December 31 | Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman,, Jr., USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
