| January 1 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| January 1 | "Company" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 690 performances |
| January 1 | International Book Year begins |
| January 1 | KDSD TV channel 16 in Aberdeen, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 1 | "On the Town" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 65 performances |
| January 1 | "Promises Promises" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 1281 performances |
| January 2 | Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco '49ers 14-3 in NFC championship game |
| January 2 | Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars |
| January 2 | Miami Dolphins beat Baltimore Colts 21-0 in AFC championship game |
| January 2 | "Rothschilds" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 505 performances |
| January 5 | Largest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Lakers-11,178) |
| January 5 | NASA announces development of space shuttle |
| January 5 | New York City transit fare rises from 30 cents to 35 cents |
| January 5 | President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle |
| January 5 | West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed |
| January 6 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
| January 6 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley |
| January 6 | Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from U.S.S.R. |
| January 7 | Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die |
| January 7 | Lewis F. Powell, Jr. becomes a Supreme Court Justice |
| January 7 | Los Angeles Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record) |
| January 7 | William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
| January 8 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow |
| January 8 | NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall |
| January 9 | Billionaire Howard Hughes says Clifford Irving's bio is a fake |
| January 9 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| January 9 | Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire |
| January 10 | Los Angeles Lakers 33 straight win streak snapped, losing to Bucks 120-104 |
| January 10 | Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan |
| January 10 | Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK |
| January 11 | Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes president and sheik Mujib ur-Rahman premier |
| January 11 | East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh |
| January 12 | Tigers sign a lease to build a $126M domed stadium (doesn't happen) |
| January 13 | Former umpire, now housewife Bernice Gera wins her suit against baseball, initiated on March 15, 1971 to be allowed to umpire |
| January 14 | "Sanford and Son" starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV |
| January 14 | WMAH TV channel 19 in Biloxi, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 14 | WMAU TV channel 17 in Bude, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 14 | WMAW TV channel 14 in Meridian, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 15 | Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels |
| January 16 | Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes European all-round lady skating champ |
| January 16 | Super Bowl VI: Dallas Cowboys-24, Miami-3 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Roger Staubach, Dallas, QB |
| January 17 | Section of Memphis' Highway 51 South renamed Elvis Presley Blvd |
| January 19 | Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, and Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame |
| January 21 | Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh terr |
| January 21 | Belgium government of Eyskens-Cools forms |
| January 21 | Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become separate states of Indian union |
| January 21 | Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory |
| January 22 | 22nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 112-110 at LA |
| January 22 | "Emergency" with Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV |
| January 23 | 2nd AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 26-13 |
| January 23 | Ard Schenk becomes European all-round skating champ |
| January 23 | Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party-100 die-New Delhi |
| January 23 | Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest |
| January 23 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 26-13 |
| January 24 | WRIP (now WDSI) TV channel 61 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (IND) 1st broadcast |
| January 25 | 25th NHL All-Star Game: East beats West 3-2 at Minnesota |
| January 25 | 7' Ohio State center Luke Witte is stomped in face during a brawl in a game with Minnesota |
| January 26 | Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute |
| January 28 | Oral Roberts' Eddie Woods grabs 30 rebounds for 2nd consecutive game |
| January 29 | 5th ABA All-Star Game: East 142 beats West 115 at Louisville |
| January 30 | Bloody Sunday: British soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die |
| January 30 | Pakistan withdraws from the British Commonwealth |
| January 31 | Aretha Franklin sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral |
| January 31 | Birenda, becomes leader of Nepal |
| January 31 | Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana |
| January 31 | U.S. launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations (396/244,998) |
| February 1 | 1st scientific hand-held calculator, the HP-35, introduced for $395 |
| February 1 | Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK |
| February 2 | Lefty Gomez, Ross Youngs and William Harridge selected for Hall of Fame |
| February 2 | Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers," premieres in London |
| February 3 | 11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia) |
| February 3 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 4 | 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria |
| February 4 | Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported |
| February 5 | "Another Puff" by Jerry Reed peaks at #65 |
| February 5 | Bob Douglas is 1st black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame |
| February 5 | U.S. airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage |
| February 8 | Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame |
| February 9 | British Government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike |
| February 10 | BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings |
| February 10 | Ras al Khaima joins United Arab Emirates |
| February 10 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| February 13 | 11th Winter Olympic games close at Sapporo, Japan |
| February 13 | "1776" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 1,217 performances |
| February 13 | "Grease" opens on Broadway |
| February 14 | John and Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week |
| February 14 | Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit and soft landing on Moon |
| February 15 | Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager |
| February 15 | Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos |
| February 15 | President Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time |
| February 16 | 1st NBA to score 30,000 points (Wilt Chamberlain in 940 games) |
| February 16 | German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed |
| February 16 | Test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe WI vs. New Zealand Kingston, 214 and 100 |
| February 16 | Wilt Chamberlain hit 30,000 point mark during a game with Phoenix Suns |
| February 17 | British Parliament votes to join European Common Market |
| February 17 | President Nixon leaves Washington D.C. for China |
| February 18 | California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty |
| February 18 | Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy |
| February 18 | John and Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show |
| February 19 | Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223* vs. WI at Kingston |
| February 20 | 1st time Cleveland Cavaliers beat New York Knicks (111-109) |
| February 20 | Ard Schenk becomes world champ skater |
| February 20 | Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee |
| February 21 | Michael Weller's "Moonchildren," premieres in New York City |
| February 21 | Richard Nixon becomes 1st U.S. president to visit China |
| February 22 | Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir and Prime Minister of Qatar |
| February 22 | President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing |
| February 25 | Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise |
| February 25 | Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single |
| February 26 | Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, kills 125 |
| February 27 | President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique |
| February 28 | George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident |
| February 28 | President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China |
| February 29 | Hank Aaron becomes 1st baseball player to sign for $200,000 a year |
| February 29 | Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to Republican Party |
| March 1 | Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth" |
| March 1 | David Rabe's "Sticks and Bones," premieres in New York City |
| March 1 | KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma, LA (IND) begins broadcasting |
| March 1 | Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points |
| March 2 | Jean-Bedel Bokassa appoints himself President for life of Cent African Rep |
| March 2 | Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby |
| March 3 | Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia |
| March 4 | Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5) |
| March 4 | Last train run between Penrith to Keswick United Kingdom |
| March 4 | Libya and U.S.S.R. signs cooperation treaty |
| March 5 | Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves Communist Party |
| March 6 | Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner |
| March 6 | Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes |
| March 8 | 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa) |
| March 8 | 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp |
| March 9 | Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary |
| March 10 | 1st black U.S. political convention opens in Gary, Indiana |
| March 10 | General Lon Nol becomes President and prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia |
| March 10 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| March 11 | "Inner City" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 97 performances |
| March 12 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open |
| March 12 | NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons |
| March 14 | NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to KC |
| March 15 | Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112 |
| March 15 | NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle |
| March 16 | John and Yoko are served with deportation papers |
| March 17 | Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK |
| March 18 | AIAW 1st basketball champs, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48 |
| March 18 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| March 18 | Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for 1st time in 225 games (Boston U) |
| March 18 | Memphis' Larry Miller sets ABA record of 67 pts in a game |
| March 19 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| March 19 | India and Bangladesh sign friendship treaty |
| March 19 | Los Angeles Lakers beat Golden State Warriors, 162-99, by then record 63 pts |
| March 19 | "To Live Another Summer" closes at Helen Hayes New York City after 173 performances |
| March 20 | 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche |
| March 20 | S Mansholt succeeds Malfatti as chairman of European Committee |
| March 21 | U.S. Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-yr residency to vote |
| March 22 | Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified) |
| March 22 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP |
| March 22 | Nick Mileti purchases Cleveland Indians for $9 million |
| March 22 | "Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| March 22 | Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle |
| March 23 | Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars |
| March 23 | New York Yankees agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx |
| March 24 | Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland |
| March 25 | 34th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Florida 81-76 |
| March 25 | America's LP "America" goes #1 |
| March 25 | Bobby Hull becomes the 2nd NHLer to score 600 goals |
| March 25 | "Selling of the President" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| March 25 | UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title |
| March 26 | Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic |
| March 26 | Los Angeles Lakers broke NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13) |
| March 26 | "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 144 performances |
| March 27 | Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching University of Kentucky |
| March 27 | Venera 8 launched to Venus |
| March 28 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| March 28 | Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game |
| March 30 | "Funny Thing Happened..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne New York City for 156 performances |
| March 30 | North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam |
| March 30 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 31 | Official Beatles Fan Club, closes down |
| April 1 | 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico |
| April 1 | Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike |
| April 2 | 44th Academy Awards - "French Connection," G Hackman and Jane Fonda win |
| April 2 | Tennessee Williams' "Small Craft Warnings," premieres in New York City |
| April 4 | 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating |
| April 5 | Baseball season is delayed due to a strike |
| April 5 | Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub |
| April 6 | Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan |
| April 8 | Alvin Kallicharran scores 100* in his 1st Test Cricket innings vs. New Zealand |
| April 9 | 36th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286 |
| April 9 | Glenn Turner (259) and Terry Jarvis make 387 opening cricket stand vs. WI |
| April 9 | "Sugar" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 506 performances |
| April 9 | U.S.S.R. and Iraq sign friendship treaty |
| April 10 | 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars |
| April 10 | U.S., U.S.S.R. and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons |
| April 11 | Benjamin L Hooks, named to FCC |
| April 11 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| April 13 | 1st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days |
| April 14 | "That's Entertainment" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| April 15 | Barbra Striesand, James Taylor, Carole King and Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McGovern for President |
| April 16 | 1st Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jane Blalock |
| April 16 | 2 giants pandas arrive in U.S., from China |
| April 16 | Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands) |
| April 16 | Chicago Cub Burt Hooton no-hits Phillies, 1-0 |
| April 16 | "That's Entertainment" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| April 17 | 1st Boston Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik of New York in 3:10:26 |
| April 17 | 76th Boston Marathon won by Olavi Suomalainen of Finland in 2:15:39 |
| April 17 | Kiteman attempting to throw out 1st ball in Phillie Vet crashes into centerfield seats |
| April 17 | Revised Dutch constitution proclaimed |
| April 18 | "Lost in the Stars" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 39 performances |
| April 19 | Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth |
| April 19 | "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" opens at Playhouse New York City for 1,065 performances |
| April 19 | Hungary revises constitution |
| April 19 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 20 | Apollo 16's Young and Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2 |
| April 20 | Kallicharran scores his 2nd Test century in his 2nd Test Cricket |
| April 21 | John Young and Charles Duke explores Moon (Apollo 16) |
| April 21 | Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched |
| April 22 | Apollo astronauts John Young and Charles Duke ride on Moon |
| April 23 | 26th Tony Awards: Sticks and Bones and 2 Gentlemen of Verona win |
| April 23 | Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface |
| April 23 | Betty Burfeind wins LPGA Birmingham Centennital Golf Classic |
| April 25 | Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12 |
| April 27 | Apollo 16 returns to Earth |
| April 27 | New York City Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported |
| April 28 | Courts awarded Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because winner was given drugs before race |
| April 30 | "Arthur Godfrey Time" ends a 27 year run on radio |
| April 30 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Open |
| May 1 | "Different Times" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 24 performances |
| May 1 | North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee |
| May 1 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose) |
| May 1 | Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres |
| May 2 | Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine. 126 die (Kellogg Idaho) |
| May 2 | Lt. General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| May 2 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 4 | Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam |
| May 5 | Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115 |
| May 6 | 98th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:01.8 |
| May 7 | 26th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 1 |
| May 7 | Betty Burfeindt wins Sealy LPGA Golf Classic |
| May 8 | Sabena aircraft at Lod International, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians |
| May 10 | Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77 |
| May 10 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 11 | Giants trade Willie Mays to Mets for pitcher Charlie Williams and cash |
| May 11 | John Lennon says his phone is tapped by FBI on Dick Cavett Show |
| May 11 | Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 2 |
| May 11 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 12 | Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13) |
| May 12 | Paul McCartney and Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb" |
| May 13 | 115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi department store (Osaka Japan) |
| May 13 | Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (started 5/12) |
| May 14 | 24th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Carrol O'Conner and Jean Stapleton |
| May 14 | In Willie Mays 1st game as a New York Met his homer beats San Francisco Giants, 5-4 |
| May 15 | Assassination attempt on governor George Wallace of Alabama |
| May 15 | Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt) |
| May 15 | George Wallace shot and left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland |
| May 15 | "Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 6 performances |
| May 15 | Ryukyu Is and Daito Is returned to Japan after 27 years of U.S. control |
| May 16 | "Don't Play Us Cheap" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 164 performances |
| May 16 | Greg Luzinski's 500' HR hits Liberty Bell monument in Philadelphia Vet |
| May 16 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationale |
| May 17 | Netherlands and China exchange ambassadors |
| May 17 | Tottenham Hotspur wins 1st UEFA Cup in London |
| May 18 | John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded |
| May 18 | "Me and The Chimp," last airs on CBS-TV |
| May 19 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 19 | WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| May 20 | 5th ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat New York Nets, 4 games to 2 |
| May 20 | 98th Preakness: Eldon Nelson aboard Bee Bee Bee wins in 1:55.6 |
| May 20 | "Different Times" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 24 performances |
| May 20 | "Hard Job Being God" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 6 performances |
| May 20 | Republic of Cameroon declared as constitution is ratified |
| May 21 | "Heathen!" opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 1 performance |
| May 21 | Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
| May 21 | "Lost in the Stars" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 39 performances |
| May 22 | Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified |
| May 22 | Ton Sijbrands becomes world checker champion |
| May 22 | U.S. president Nixon begins visit Moscow |
| May 24 | Glasgow Rangers wins 12th Europe Cup II at Barcelona |
| May 24 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 25 | Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander |
| May 25 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 26 | Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| May 26 | Nixon and Brezhnev signs SALT accord |
| May 26 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 27 | "Applause" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 900 performances |
| May 27 | "Jimmy Castor Bunch's Troglodyte" (Cave Man) hits #6 |
| May 28 | White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate |
| May 29 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| May 30 | 3 Japanese PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod International airport |
| May 31 | Ajax wins Europe Cup 1 in Rotterdam |
| June 1 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin |
| June 1 | Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa |
| June 1 | West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader |
| June 3 | 1st female U.S. rabbi installed, Sally J Priesand at 25 |
| June 3 | "Hot Rod Lincoln," by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9 |
| June 3 | Sally J Priesand becomes 1st female U.S. rabbi |
| June 3 | Yankees score 8 times in 13th beating White Sox 18-10 |
| June 4 | Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard |
| June 4 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| June 4 | Record 8 shutouts pitched in 16 major league games (AL=5, NL=3) |
| June 5 | "If You Had Wings" opens |
| June 5 | U.N. Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm |
| June 5 | Yugoslav president Tito visits U.S.S.R. |
| June 6 | David Bowie releases "Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust" |
| June 6 | Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie Rhodesia) |
| June 6 | Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London |
| June 6 | U.S. bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed |
| June 7 | German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel |
| June 7 | "Grease" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 3,388 performances |
| June 7 | Hsan Hua, Zen teacher, conducted 1st ordination ceremony in America |
| June 7 | Pirate's Gene Alley bases-loaded walk, beats Padres 1-0 in 18th |
| June 8 | Padres draft Dave Roberts #1, Indians draft Rick Manning #2 |
| June 8 | Test Cricket debut of Tony Greig, vs. Australia at Old Trafford (57/62) |
| June 9 | 14" of rain in 6 hours burst Rapid City, South Dakota dam, drowns 237 |
| June 9 | Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia |
| June 10 | 104th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:28 |
| June 10 | Elvis Presley records a live album at New York's Madison Square Garden |
| June 10 | Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges and moves him ahead of Willie Mays as #2 HR hitter (649) |
| June 11 | 18th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Ahern |
| June 11 | 31 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June |
| June 11 | KPAT-AM in Berkeley, California returns from KRE |
| June 12 | John Lennon's political "Sometime in New York City" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" and "Luck of the Irish" |
| June 14 | Hurricane Agnes kills 117 |
| June 15 | Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die |
| June 15 | West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof |
| June 17 | 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate |
| June 17 | Chile president Allende forms new government |
| June 17 | "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" by Little Jimmy Osmond peaks at #38 |
| June 17 | Looking Glass releases "Brandy" |
| June 18 | 72nd U.S. Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 290 at Pebble Beach California |
| June 18 | BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118 |
| June 18 | U.S. Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws |
| June 18 | West Germany wins soccer world championship |
| June 19 | 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer |
| June 19 | Hurricane Agnes, kills 118 in New York and Florida |
| June 22 | "Man of La Mancha" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 140 performances |
| June 23 | Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history |
| June 23 | Nixon and Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate |
| June 23 | President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports |
| June 24 | "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6 |
| June 24 | Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of U.S., U.S. Air Force |
| June 24 | Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair in Dem convention |
| June 25 | Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball |
| June 25 | Juan Peron elected president of Argentina |
| June 26 | Bob Massie takes 16 wickets (8-84 and 8-53) on Test cricket debut vs. Eng |
| June 26 | IRA proclaims resistant in North-Ireland |
| June 29 | Supreme Court rules (5-4) that Death Penalty is cruel and unusual |
| June 29 | U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km) |
| June 30 | 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 |
| June 30 | Cincinnati Reds are 11 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant |
| July 1 | "Follies" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 524 performances |
| July 1 | "Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 1750 performances |
| July 1 | Ms. magazine begins publishing |
| July 2 | 27th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning |
| July 2 | Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m |
| July 2 | "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 3242 performances |
| July 2 | India and Pakistan sign peace accord |
| July 5 | Pierre Messmer appointed French premier |
| July 7 | 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley and Joanne E Pierce) |
| July 7 | 79th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (63 63) |
| July 7 | Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage |
| July 8 | English prince Richard marries Birgitte of Deurs (Henriksen) |
| July 8 | U.S. sells grain to U.S.S.R. for $750 million |
| July 9 | 1st tour of Paul McCartney and Wings, France |
| July 9 | 86th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: S Smith beats I Nastase (46 63 63 46 75) |
| July 9 | Kathy Ahern wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
| July 9 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| July 10 | Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida, McGovern |
| July 10 | Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India |
| July 13 | Los Angeles Rams (Irsay) and Baltimore Colts (Rosenbloom) swap owners |
| July 14 | Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee |
| July 14 | Plate ump and catcher in a game are brothers. Bill Haller is ump and Tom Haller is Tigers catcher, Kansas City Royals win 1-0 |
| July 14 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test |
| July 15 | 101st British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots 278 at Muirfield Gullane |
| July 15 | Sandra Palmer/Jane Blalock wins Angelo's Four-Ball Golf Championship |
| July 16 | Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes 269th patriarch of Constantinople |
| July 16 | Smokey Robinson and Miracles final live performance |
| July 18 | 200,000 attend Mount Pocono rock festival in Pennsylvania |
| July 18 | Egypt president Sadat throws 20,000 Russian military aids out |
| July 18 | Mike Procter 8-73 with hat-trick, plus 51 and 102, Gloucs vs. Essex |
| July 20 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 21 | 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76, Seville, Spain |
| July 21 | 27.5 cm rainfall at Fort Ripley, Minnesota, state record |
| July 21 | Bloody Friday: 22 IRA-bombs explode in Belfast |
| July 21 | Dodgers release and end career of pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm |
| July 21 | In New York, 57 murders occur in 24 hours |
| July 22 | 10.84" (27.53 cm) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record) |
| July 22 | Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus |
| July 23 | 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched |
| July 23 | Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France |
| July 23 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic |
| July 24 | Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16 |
| July 25 | 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad |
| July 25 | All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cincinnati Reds) |
| July 27 | NHL star Maurice "Rocket" Richard signs with WHL Quebec Nordiques |
| July 28 | 39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162) |
| July 29 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| July 30 | "Ain't Supposed to Die Death" closes at Barrymore New York City after 325 performances |
| July 30 | Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open |
| July 31 | Dick Allen is 7th to hit 2 inside-the-park homers in a game |
| July 31 | Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic Vice Presidential candidate |
| August 1 | 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward) |
| August 1 | Nate Colbert of San Diego Padres hits record tying 5 home runs in a double header |
| August 2 | Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London |
| August 3 | British premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike |
| August 4 | Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Governor Wallace |
| August 5 | Detroit shortstop Ed Brinkman errors ends record streak of 72 games and 331 total chances without a miscue |
| August 5 | Moody Blues release "Nights in White Satin" |
| August 5 | Uganda president Idi Amin throws out all 80,000 Asians |
| August 6 | Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament |
| August 6 | Hank Aaron hits 660th and 661st home runs for Braves, record for 1 team |
| August 6 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Knoxville Ladies Golf Classic |
| August 7 | Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez and Early Wynn |
| August 8 | New York Yankees sign 30-year lease to play in remodeled Yankee Stadium |
| August 9 | Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle |
| August 10 | 1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada |
| August 10 | Paul and Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession |
| August 11 | "Cheech and Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas |
| August 12 | "Funny Thing Happened..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 156 performances |
| August 12 | Ian and Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings |
| August 12 | Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam |
| August 12 | "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 1316 performances |
| August 13 | Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th and last "Bonanza" |
| August 13 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic |
| August 14 | Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13 |
| August 14 | East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156 |
| August 16 | 54th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills, Michigan |
| August 16 | Morocco King Hassan II's B727 shot at |
| August 16 | Philip Potter appointed Secretary-General of World council of Churches |
| August 16 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| August 17 | Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game |
| August 18 | Police fine Paul and Linda McCartney 800 pounds in Sweden cannabis possession |
| August 20 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open |
| August 20 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| August 21 | 1st hot air balloon flight over Alps |
| August 21 | British harbor strike ends |
| August 21 | Grace Slick maced by police when a band official called cops, pigs |
| August 21 | Republican convention opens in Miami Beach, Florida |
| August 21 | U.S. orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched |
| August 22 | International Olympic Committee exspells Rhodesia |
| August 23 | Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Alex Johnson) to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers |
| August 23 | Republican convention (Miami Beach, Florida) renominates Vice President Agnew but not unanimous - 1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley |
| August 24 | 8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 2-1 |
| August 24 | Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 vs. Australia |
| August 24 | Gordie Howe and Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame |
| August 26 | 20th Olympic games open at Munich, West Germany |
| August 26 | Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros |
| August 26 | N.Y. Cosmos beat St. Louis Stars, 2-1 to win NASL championship |
| August 26 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| August 27 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
| August 27 | U.S. bombs Haiphong North Vietnam |
| August 28 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| August 29 | San Francisco Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for record 41 in a row |
| August 30 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden |
| August 31 | Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4) |
| August 31 | Olga Korbut, U.S.S.R., wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics |
| September 1 | Bobby Fischer (U.S.) defeats Boris Spassky (U.S.S.R.) for world chess title |
| September 1 | Egypt and Libya form federation |
| September 2 | Chicago White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits San Diego Padres, 1-0 |
| September 2 | Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec) |
| September 2 | Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well) |
| September 2 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| September 4 | U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals |
| September 4 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| September 5 | 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics by terrorists |
| September 5 | Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium |
| September 5 | Jerry Lewis' 7th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, John and Yoko appear |
| September 6 | John and Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon |
| September 6 | Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre |
| September 8 | Chicago Cub Ferguson Jenkins wins his 20th game for 6th straight year |
| September 8 | Jim Ryan (U.S.) and Billy Fordjour (Ghana) collide and fall in qualifying competitions for 1,500m finals, ending Ryan's chances for gold |
| September 9 | 86th U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats K Melville (63 75) |
| September 9 | Terry Anne Meeuwsen (Wisc), 23, crowned 45th Miss America 1973 |
| September 10 | 20th Olympic games close at Munich, West Germany |
| September 10 | 92nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Arthur Ashe (36 63 67 64 63) |
| September 10 | Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship |
| September 10 | Frank Shorter wins 17th Olympic marathon (2:12:19.8) |
| September 10 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| September 10 | U.S. Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to U.S.S.R. (disputed) |
| September 10 | WKAR TV channel 23 in East Lansing, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 11 | BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont |
| September 12 | Lord Michael Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as head of Olympics |
| September 13 | 1st TV broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS |
| September 14 | Jason Miller's "That Championship Season," premieres in New York City |
| September 14 | "Waltons" TV program premieres |
| September 14 | West Germany and Poland establish diplomatic relations |
| September 15 | WMAO TV channel 23 in Greenwood, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 16 | 1st TV series about mixed marriage-Bridgit Loves Bernie |
| September 16 | Penny Marshall appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Fly Unfriendly Skies" |
| September 17 | "M*A*S*H," premieres on NBC TV |
| September 17 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Quality First Golf Classic |
| September 17 | Tanzania troops march in to Uganda |
| September 18 | 1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego) |
| September 20 | Police find cannabis growing on Paul and Linda McCartney's farm |
| September 21 | Marcos declares martial law in Philippines |
| September 21 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| September 22 | Dictator Idi Amin throws 8,000 Asians out of Uganda |
| September 23 | Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law |
| September 23 | President Marcos ends emergency crisis in Philippines |
| September 24 | Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22 |
| September 24 | Jack Tatum, Oakland, returns a fumble 104 yds vs Green Bay (rec) |
| September 24 | N.Y. Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs. Baltimore Colts (44-34) |
| September 25 | Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber |
| September 25 | KAVT (now KSMQ) TV channel 15 in Austin, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 25 | Norway votes to join common market |
| September 25 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
| September 26 | American Museum of Immigration dedicated |
| September 26 | Norway rejects membership in European Common Market |
| September 27 | 1st game at Nassau Coliseum, Rangers beat Islanders 6-4 (exhibition) |
| September 28 | David Bowie sells out his 1st show in New York Carnegie Hall |
| September 28 | Japan and Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations |
| September 29 | Japan and People's Republic of China begin diplomatic relations |
| September 30 | Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa) |
| September 30 | Roberto Clemente, is 11th to get 3,000 hits |
| October 1 | 1st games of World Hockey Association |
| October 1 | 2nd New York City Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik in 3:08:41 |
| October 1 | 3rd New York City Marathon won by Sheldon Karlin in 2:27:52 |
| October 1 | "Don't Play Us Cheap" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 164 performances |
| October 1 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic |
| October 2 | Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105 |
| October 2 | Bill Stoneman of Montreal pitches his 2nd no-hitter, beating Mets, 7-0 |
| October 2 | Danish population votes for European Common Market membership |
| October 2 | "From Israel with Love" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| October 2 | Mont Expos Bill Stoneman 2nd no-hitter beats New York Mets, 7-0 |
| October 2 | Ron Johnson becomes 1st New York Giant to score 4 touchdowns vs. Philadelphia |
| October 3 | Baltimore Roric Harrison is last AL pitcher to homer until interleague play 25 years later |
| October 3 | Indians set a team record for lowest team batting avg .234 |
| October 3 | Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown |
| October 3 | Steve Carlton wins 27th game for Phillies (almost of their 59 wins) |
| October 3 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| October 4 | Ted Williams manages his final game as Rangers lose to Royals, 4-0 |
| October 6 | 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico |
| October 7 | 1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2 |
| October 8 | "From Israel with Love" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| October 8 | Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions |
| October 8 | In Game 2 of ALCS, A's Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher |
| October 8 | Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined and suspended |
| October 9 | "Dude" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| October 10 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open |
| October 11 | Panama adopts constitution |
| October 11 | Prison uprising at Washington D.C. jail |
| October 11 | Reads beat Pirates in NLCS |
| October 12 | 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk |
| October 12 | Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot |
| October 12 | "Hurry, Harry" opens at Ritz Theater New York City for 2 performances |
| October 12 | Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole |
| October 13 | Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die |
| October 13 | Commish Bowie Kuhn allows Bert Campaneris to play in World Series |
| October 13 | "Hurry, Harry" closes at Ritz Theater New York City after 2 performances |
| October 13 | Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12 of 23 rescue) |
| October 14 | Oakland A Gene Tenace is 1st to homer in 1st 2 World Series at bats |
| October 15 | 61st Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Bucharest (3-2) |
| October 15 | Omni in Atlanta opens - Hawks beat New York Knicks 109-101 |
| October 16 | Creedence Clearwater Revival breaks up |
| October 16 | "Pacific Paradise" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| October 17 | 1st time Islanders shut-out-5-0 vs Penguins |
| October 17 | Bob Randall's "6 Rooms Riv Vu," premieres in New York City |
| October 17 | Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-ling," is #1 |
| October 19 | "Mother Earth" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| October 20 | Queen Juliana visits Yugoslavia |
| October 21 | "Dude" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| October 21 | "Man of La Mancha" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 140 performances |
| October 21 | "Pacific Paradise" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| October 22 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA GAC Golf Classic |
| October 22 | Oakland A's 1st championship; beat Reds, 4 games to 3 in World Series |
| October 23 | Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain |
| October 23 | "Pippin" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 1944 performances |
| October 23 | WNJS TV channel 23 in Camden, New Jersey (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 25 | Eddy Merckx (Belgium) covers 30 miles, 1,258 yards in 1 hr |
| October 25 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow and John R Hicks |
| October 26 | Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin |
| October 26 | Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam |
| October 27 | Golden Gate National Recreation Area created |
| October 28 | "Mother Earth" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| October 29 | Don Cockroft of Cleveland Browns kicks 57-yard field goal |
| October 29 | Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open |
| October 30 | 45 die in a train crash in Chicago, Illinois |
| October 30 | Worst U.S. rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago |
| October 31 | Gaylord Perry wins AL Cy Young award |
| November 1 | 1st gay theme TV movie - "That Certain Summer" |
| November 1 | Germaoin Gagnon scores 1st Islander hat trick |
| November 2 | Construction begins on Kingdome, Seattle |
| November 2 | Phillies' Steve Carlton wins unanimous NL Cy Young Award |
| November 2 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| November 4 | Bangladesh adopts constitution |
| November 4 | Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against Islanders |
| November 5 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic |
| November 7 | President Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D) |
| November 9 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 11 | Dow Jones Index moves above 1,000 for 1st time |
| November 11 | U.S. Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army |
| November 14 | Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for 1st time (1003.16) |
| November 15 | Circle-in the-Square Theater opens at 1633 Broadway New York City |
| November 15 | Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays |
| November 15 | White Sox Dick Allen wins AL MVP |
| November 16 | "Dear Oscar" opens at Playhouse Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| November 17 | Juan Peron returns to Argentina |
| November 19 | "Ambassador" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 9 performances |
| November 19 | "Dear Oscar" closes at Playhouse Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| November 19 | Gershwin Theater (Uris) opens at 1633 Broadway New York City |
| November 19 | KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI suspends broadcasting |
| November 19 | Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election |
| November 21 | Red Sox Carlton Fisk wins AL Rookie of Year, Mets Jon Matlack wins NL |
| November 22 | Belgium government of Eyskens resigns |
| November 22 | Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak |
| November 22 | Pitts Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2:07) |
| November 22 | U.S. ends 22 year travel ban to China |
| November 24 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| November 25 | "Ambassador" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 9 performances |
| November 26 | Pete Gogolak scores New York Giant record 8 pts after a touchdown |
| November 27 | Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government |
| November 27 | Yankees trade Ellis, Torres and Spikes to Indians for Nettles and Moses |
| November 28 | Los Angeles Dodgers trade Frank Robinson to California Angels |
| November 28 | "Via Galactica" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| November 30 | BBC bans Wings "Hi, Hi, Hi" |
| November 30 | Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy) |
| December 1 | Wings release "Hi, Hi, Hi" in UK |
| December 2 | 60th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 13-10 |
| December 2 | "December Giant" largest sinkhole in U.S. collapses (Alabama) |
| December 2 | In 1 of their worst trades Yankees get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen |
| December 2 | "Via Galactica" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| December 3 | Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die |
| December 5 | 38th Heisman Trophy Award: Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska (FL) |
| December 5 | Australia Labour party wins parliamentary election |
| December 5 | Joseph A Walkers "River Niger," premieres in New York City |
| December 7 | Apollo 17 (U.S.), final manned lunar landing mission, launched |
| December 7 | Philippine's 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed and wounded by an assailant |
| December 8 | United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45 |
| December 10 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 11 | Astronauts Cernan and Harrison become 11th and 12th on Moon |
| December 11 | Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632) |
| December 14 | Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt leave the Moon |
| December 14 | Willy Brandt re-elected West German chancellor |
| December 16 | Bangladesh Constitution goes into effect |
| December 16 | Miami Dolphins become 1st undefeated NFL team (14-0-0) |
| December 17 | New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India and Pakistan |
| December 17 | WGVC (now WUCX) TV channel 35 in Grand Rapids, MI (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| December 18 | U.S. begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam |
| December 19 | Apollo 17, last of Apollo Moon landing series, returns to Earth |
| December 20 | Neil Simons "Sunshine Boys," premieres in New York City |
| December 21 | Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany |
| December 22 | 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed |
| December 23 | 16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70d, survived by cannabalism |
| December 23 | 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die |
| December 23 | Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India vs. England at Delhi |
| December 23 | "Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown reception against Raiders to win 13-7 |
| December 23 | Islanders end 15 games winless streak |
| December 25 | England beat India by six wickets in the 1st Test Cricket at Delhi |
| December 27 | Belgium recognizes East Germany |
| December 27 | Los Angeles Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak |
| December 27 | New North Korean constitution comes into effect |
| December 27 | "Purlie" opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 14 performances |
| December 28 | Kim Il-song, becomes president of North Korea |
| December 28 | Martin Bormanns skeleton found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy) |
| December 28 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 29 | Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101 |
| December 29 | Life magazine ceases publication |
| December 29 | Test Cricket debut of Jeff Thomson and Max Walker vs. Pakistan at MCG |
| December 30 | Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam and announces peace talks |
| December 31 | 39th Sugar Bowl: Oklahoma 14 beats Penn State 0 |
| December 31 | Leap second day; also in 1973-79, 1987 |
| December 31 | Miami Dolphins beat Pittsburgh Steelers 21-7 in AFC championship game |
| December 31 | Washington Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys 26-3 in NFC championship game |
