| January 1 | Lee MacPhail takes over as AL president, succeeding Joe Cronin |
| January 1 | NBC radio begins on the hour news 24 hours a day (following CBS lead) |
| January 1 | World Population Year begins |
| January 2 | 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon |
| January 2 | Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres |
| January 3 | Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain |
| January 3 | Burma accepts its constitution |
| January 3 | Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London |
| January 3 | Miguel Pinero's "Short Eyes," premieres in New York City |
| January 3 | New York Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager |
| January 4 | Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee |
| January 5 | Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Oh, Brother" |
| January 6 | "CBS Mystery Theater," premieres on radio |
| January 6 | England begins 3 day work week during mine strike |
| January 7 | Dutch rations gasoline |
| January 8 | E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come," premieres in New York City |
| January 8 | Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London |
| January 8 | Loch Ness Monster photographed |
| January 8 | Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York |
| January 11 | ABC airs final episode of "Love, American Style" |
| January 12 | "Joker" by Steve Miller Band peaks at #1 |
| January 12 | Libya and Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic" |
| January 13 | Superbowl VIII: Miami Dolphins beat Minnesota Vikings, 24-7 in Houston Superbowl MVP: Larry Csonka, Miami, RB |
| January 14 | World Football League founded |
| January 15 | 24th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 134-123 at Seattle |
| January 15 | Expert panel reports 18 -m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures |
| January 15 | "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC |
| January 16 | "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published |
| January 16 | L A Landslide kills 9, Canyonville, Oregon |
| January 16 | New York Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford elected to Hall of Fame |
| January 17 | Styne, Comdem and Green's musical "Lorelei," premieres in New York City |
| January 18 | "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV |
| January 18 | Israel and Egypt sign weapons accord |
| January 19 | Belgium government of Leburton falls |
| January 19 | Notre Dame beats UCLA, ends NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak |
| January 20 | 4th NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-13 |
| January 20 | 7th ABA All-Star Game: East 128 beats West 112 at Virginia |
| January 20 | A college basketball game ends 210-67 |
| January 20 | Essex Comm College beats Englewood Cliffs 210-67 in basketball |
| January 21 | Gold hits record $161.31/silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London |
| January 23 | 1st edition of women's magazine "Story" |
| January 25 | Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey |
| January 25 | Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old |
| January 25 | Ray Kroc, CEO of McDonald's, buys San Diego Padres for $12 million |
| January 27 | "Lorelei" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 320 performances |
| January 28 | Sam Thompson, Jim Bottomley, and Jocko Conlan elected to Hall of Fame |
| January 29 | 27th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 6-4 at Chicago |
| January 30 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| January 31 | McDonald's founder Ray Kroc buys San Diego Padres |
| February 1 | "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV |
| February 2 | Barbra Striesand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were" |
| February 2 | Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary" |
| February 2 | Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Golden State-1,641) |
| February 3 | "Pajama Game" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 65 performances |
| February 3 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| February 4 | Benzine rationing ends in Netherlands |
| February 4 | Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2 months |
| February 4 | Gas rationing ends in Netherlands |
| February 4 | Patricia Hearst (19) kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army |
| February 5 | British mine strike |
| February 5 | Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win |
| February 5 | Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph |
| February 5 | Patty Hearst kidnapped |
| February 5 | U.S. Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure |
| February 6 | 3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 |
| February 6 | Dutch speed limit set at 100km due to oil crisis |
| February 6 | U.S. House of Representatives begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon |
| February 7 | Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| February 7 | Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theaters |
| February 8 | "Good Times," debuts on CBS TV |
| February 8 | Ringo releases "You're 16" |
| February 8 | Skylab 4's astronauts land |
| February 8 | Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run |
| February 9 | "Daddy What If" by Bobby Bare peaks at #41 |
| February 9 | "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24 |
| February 9 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
| February 9 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr |
| February 10 | Gail Denenber wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic |
| February 10 | "Gigi" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 103 performances |
| February 10 | Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out |
| February 10 | Judy Ikenberry wins 1st U.S. women's marathon (2:55:17) |
| February 10 | Silver futures hit record $4.81 an ounce in London |
| February 11 | 1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins, Twins offered $23,000 |
| February 11 | Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball's new arbitration rule |
| February 11 | Titan-Centaur Test launch fails |
| February 13 | Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from U.S.S.R. |
| February 13 | James "Cool Papa" Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame |
| February 13 | "Rainbow Jones" opens and closes at Music Box Theater New York City |
| February 17 | 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt |
| February 17 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic |
| February 18 | NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km) |
| February 18 | U.S. ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan present $2,046,700,000 check |
| February 20 | Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono |
| February 20 | Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1M from Houston Aeros, WHA |
| February 21 | Israeli forces leave western Suez |
| February 21 | Silver hits record $5.96 an ounce in London |
| February 21 | Yugoslavia adopts constitution |
| February 22 | Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators |
| February 23 | Patty Hearst, daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by SLA |
| February 23 | Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Confessions of an Orth" |
| February 24 | Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champ all-round skater |
| February 24 | Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh |
| February 25 | Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975 |
| February 26 | Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris |
| February 27 | "People" magazine begins sales |
| February 27 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 28 | Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms |
| February 28 | Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
| February 28 | Taiwan police shoots into crowd |
| February 28 | U.S. and Egypt re-form diplomatic relations after 7 years |
| March 1 | George Harrison announces his concert tour of U.S. in November |
| March 1 | Ian and Greg Chappell make 264 partnership vs. New Zealand cricket at Wellington |
| March 1 | Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides |
| March 2 | 16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly, Bette Midler wins |
| March 2 | 1st class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents |
| March 2 | Grand jury concludes President Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up |
| March 2 | Greg Chappell makes 247* vs. New Zealand, 410 minutes, 29 fours 1 six |
| March 3 | Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4 |
| March 3 | George Foreman KOs Ken Norton |
| March 3 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| March 3 | "Sextet" opens at Bijou Theater New York City for 9 performances |
| March 3 | World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die) |
| March 4 | David Hares' "Knuckle," premieres in London |
| March 4 | Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier |
| March 5 | "Candide" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 740 performances |
| March 5 | Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot |
| March 6 | An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo |
| March 6 | Ian and Greg Chappell score cricket |
| March 6 | "Over Here" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 341 performances |
| March 7 | 1st general striking in Ethiopia |
| March 7 | "Monitor" (U.S. Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras North Carolina |
| March 8 | Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris |
| March 9 | Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended |
| March 10 | Carol Mann wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic |
| March 10 | Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election |
| March 10 | Lawrence Rowe completes 302 vs. England Bridgetown, 36 fours 1 six |
| March 10 | "Sextet" closes at Bijou Theater New York City after 9 performances |
| March 11 | Mount Etna in Sicily erupted |
| March 11 | Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album |
| March 13 | Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris |
| March 13 | Glenn Turner scores twin tons for New Zealand's 1st win against Australia |
| March 15 | Brazilian president Garastazu Medici resigns |
| March 16 | 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville |
| March 17 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International |
| March 18 | Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US |
| March 19 | Jefferson Starship begins their 1st tour |
| March 21 | Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall |
| March 24 | 36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Marquette 76-64 |
| March 25 | Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly" |
| March 26 | George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| March 26 | Romanian Communist Party names party leader Ceausescu president |
| March 28 | Rock group Raspberries breakup |
| March 29 | Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos |
| April 1 | Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran |
| April 1 | Pioneer Hall opens |
| April 1 | Yourdon, Inc forms |
| April 2 | 46th Academy Awards - "Stng," Glenda Jackson and Jack Lemmon win |
| April 2 | Arganat Commission publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War |
| April 2 | Tony Greig takes 8-86 vs. WI Port-of-Spain (later 5-70 in 2nd inn) |
| April 3 | 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states |
| April 3 | Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris |
| April 4 | Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th |
| April 5 | Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers and Rohan Kanhai |
| April 5 | Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in New York City (110 stories) |
| April 6 | 200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam" |
| April 6 | Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony 11/16 |
| April 6 | Yankees 1st home game at Shea Stadium, beat Indians 6-1 |
| April 7 | Herb Gardner's "Thieves," premieres in New York City |
| April 8 | Discovery Island opens |
| April 8 | Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th HR, breaks Babe Ruth's record |
| April 9 | Padres owner Ray Kroc, addresses fans "Ladies and gentlemen, I suffer with you I've never seen such stupid baseball playing in my life" |
| April 10 | American Boccaccio Association forms |
| April 10 | Magicians Penn and Teller 1st meet |
| April 10 | Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir |
| April 11 | WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested |
| April 14 | 38th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 278 |
| April 15 | 3rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:47:11 |
| April 15 | 78th Boston Marathon won by Neil Cusack of Ireland in 2:13:39 |
| April 15 | Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed |
| April 16 | 200,000 attend rock concert California Jam I in Ontario California |
| April 16 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| April 16 | "Words and Music" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 127 performances |
| April 17 | Moslem fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis Egypt |
| April 18 | Red Brigade kidnaps Italian attorney general Mario Sossi |
| April 19 | Oriole Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park HR against New York Yankees |
| April 20 | Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" |
| April 21 | 28th Tony Awards: River Niger and Raisin win |
| April 21 | 3rd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jo Ann Prentice |
| April 22 | Barbara Walters becomes news co-anchor of Today Show |
| April 23 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| April 24 | Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion |
| April 24 | NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay Bucaneers |
| April 25 | Chancellor Willy Brandt sect Gunther Guillaume found to be a spy |
| April 25 | Leo Tindemans forms Belgium government |
| April 25 | Marcello Caetano overthrown in Portugal (Carnation revolution) |
| April 25 | NFL moves goal posts and adopts sudden-death playoff |
| April 26 | Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam |
| April 26 | Malta adopts constitution |
| April 26 | Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline and Buskey to Indians for Chambliss, Tidrow and Upshaw |
| April 27 | Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107 |
| April 28 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
| April 29 | President Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House |
| April 30 | President Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings |
| May 2 | Former Vice President Spiro Agnew disbarred |
| May 4 | 100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr. aboard Cannonade wins in 2:04 |
| May 5 | Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic |
| May 6 | A's pitcher Paul Lindblad makes an errant throw in 1st inning of 6-3 loss to Baltimore ends his record streak of 385 consecutive errorless games |
| May 6 | Smallest attendance at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium (4,149) |
| May 6 | Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London |
| May 6 | West German chancellor W. Brandt resigns |
| May 7 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin) |
| May 8 | 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted |
| May 8 | Canada government of Trudeau falls |
| May 8 | FC Magdenburg wins 14th Europe Cup II |
| May 9 | House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment |
| May 10 | 7th ABA championship: New York Nets beats Utah Stars, 4 games to 1 |
| May 11 | "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Frank Sinatra hits #83 |
| May 11 | Steely Dan releases "Rikki Don't Lose that Number" |
| May 11 | "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield hits #7 |
| May 12 | 28th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Milwaukee, 4 games to 3 |
| May 12 | Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic |
| May 14 | Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed |
| May 15 | Mail truck terrorists take school in Maalot, 30 killed |
| May 15 | Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president |
| May 16 | Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor |
| May 16 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| May 17 | Bayern Munchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels |
| May 17 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 15th String quartet |
| May 18 | 100th Preakness: Miguel Rivera aboard Current Little wins in 1:54.6 |
| May 18 | "Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1 |
| May 19 | Joanne Carner Golf Invitational wins LPGA Bluegrass |
| May 19 | Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2 |
| May 19 | Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election |
| May 20 | Soyuz 14 returns to Earth |
| May 22 | Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly and dies 14 months later |
| May 22 | Soccer team Veendam forms |
| May 22 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 23 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 23 | Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed |
| May 24 | Dean Martin Show, last airs on NBC-TV |
| May 26 | During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled |
| May 26 | Joanne Carner wins Hoosier LPGA Golf Classic |
| May 27 | Pirates Ken Brett no-hits Padres until 9th inning |
| May 28 | 26th Emmy Awards: MASH, Alan Alda and Mary Tyler Moore win |
| May 28 | Emmy 1st Daytime Award presentation |
| May 28 | Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed |
| May 28 | "Magic Show" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 1859 performances |
| May 28 | Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show," premieres in New York City |
| May 29 | Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster |
| May 30 | 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 9-4 |
| May 31 | Israel and Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights |
| May 31 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| June 1 | Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 29 in UK |
| June 1 | "My Girl Bill" by Jim Stafford hits #12 |
| June 2 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Baltimore Golf Classic |
| June 2 | Malta's constitution goes into effect |
| June 3 | Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government |
| June 4 | 10 cents Beer Night at Cleveland, unruly fans stumble onto field and cause Indians to forfeit the game to Rangers with score tied 5-5 in 9th |
| June 4 | Never-to-be-repeated 10 cents Beer Night at Cleveland Stadium occurs |
| June 4 | NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks |
| June 5 | A's Reggie Jackson and Bill North engage in clubhouse fight at Detroit |
| June 6 | 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte |
| June 7 | Padres draft Brown University shortstop Bill Almon #1 |
| June 8 | 106th Belmont: Miguel Rivera aboard Little Current wins in 2:29.2 |
| June 8 | Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group "Yes" |
| June 8 | U.S. and Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract |
| June 9 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Desert Inn Golf Classic |
| June 9 | Supergroup Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert |
| June 10 | Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof |
| June 10 | Rumor's government in Italy resigns |
| June 11 | Mel Stottlemyre's AL record 272nd consecutive start, without relief |
| June 13 | Henry Aaron addresses House of Representatives |
| June 14 | Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings |
| June 15 | "Streak" by Ray Stevens hit #1 on U.K. pop chart |
| June 16 | 74th U.S. Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 287 at Winged Foot Golf Club New York |
| June 16 | Sandra Haynie wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Open |
| June 18 | Gaston Thorn forms Luxembourg government |
| June 19 | Kansas City Royal Steve Busby 2nd no-hitter beats Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0 |
| June 19 | Yemen Arab Republic, North Yemen, suspends constitution |
| June 23 | 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space |
| June 23 | 20th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie |
| June 24 | India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 minutes |
| June 24 | Steve Busby retires 1st 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batters retired |
| June 26 | Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton) |
| June 27 | "Flip Wilson Show," last airs on NBC-TV |
| June 27 | U.S. president Nixon visits U.S.S.R. |
| June 28 | Fall of earth and rocks kill 200 (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Colombia) |
| June 28 | Wings release "Band on the Run" and "Zoo Gang" in UK |
| June 30 | 2nd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Carole Jo Skala |
| June 30 | Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub killing 24 (Port Chester New York) |
| June 30 | Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to west |
| July 1 | 1st Laura Ashley-store in U.S. opens in San Francisco |
| July 1 | General Pinochet becomes president of Chile |
| July 1 | Isabel Peron succeeds husband Juan as President of Argentina |
| July 1 | Monmouthshire renamed Gwent and becomes part of Wales |
| July 2 | Fernando Mameda of Portugal sets record for 10,000 m (27:13.81) |
| July 3 | Mike Marshall saves Tommy John's 4-1 win |
| July 3 | Pitching in major league-record 13th consecutive game for Dodgers |
| July 3 | Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3 |
| July 4 | Mike Marshall goes 9-0 with 3 saves in 20 appearances in 30 days |
| July 5 | 81st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Olga Morzova (60 64) |
| July 6 | 88th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats K Rosewall (61 61 64) |
| July 7 | Brewer Don Money sets record of consec errorless games at 3rd, 78 |
| July 7 | Sue Roberts wins LPGA Niagara Frontier Golf Classic |
| July 7 | West Germany beats Netherlands 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich |
| July 8 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| July 8 | Yank shortstop Jim Mason ties record with 4 doubles in 9 inn game |
| July 9 | Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election |
| July 10 | OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands |
| July 10 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 11 | House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry |
| July 11 | World Football League plays 1st games |
| July 12 | John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights |
| July 13 | 103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham |
| July 13 | India's 1st one-day international (v England, Headingley) |
| July 14 | Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by ump from 2 games in 1 day |
| July 14 | Sharon Miller wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
| July 15 | Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees |
| July 17 | 1st quadrophonic studio in U.K. is open by Moody Blues |
| July 17 | Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 (Cesar Geronimo) |
| July 17 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| July 17 | John Lennon is ordered to leave U.S. in 60 days |
| July 18 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 18 | World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed |
| July 19 | Cleveland Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0 |
| July 19 | David Bowie's "Diamond Dog" tour ends in New York City |
| July 19 | Soyuz 14 lands |
| July 20 | Heng Yo and Heng Ju, completes 1,000 mile (SF-Seattle) pilgrimage |
| July 20 | Turkey invades Cyprus |
| July 21 | 29th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Haynie |
| July 21 | Eddy Merckx wins his 5th Tour de France |
| July 21 | House Judiciary approves 2 Articles of Impeachment against President Nixon |
| July 23 | 45th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-2 at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pitts |
| July 23 | All star MVP: Steve Garvey (Los Angeles Dodgers) |
| July 23 | Greek military dictatorship collapses |
| July 24 | Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes |
| July 26 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| July 26 | U.S.S.R.'s Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3 |
| July 27 | House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment |
| July 27 | Kanhai and Jameson add 465 for 2nd wicket, Warwickshire vs. Gloucs |
| July 28 | 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck, Belem, Brazil |
| July 28 | Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic |
| July 29 | 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee |
| July 29 | Episcopal Church ordained female priests |
| July 29 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| July 29 | St. Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base |
| July 30 | House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd and last charge of "high crimes and misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up |
| August 1 | Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr. J" Erving to New York Nets |
| August 3 | Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan and joins Doobie Brothers |
| August 3 | "Little Night Music" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 601 performances |
| August 3 | "Words and Music" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 127 performances |
| August 4 | Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor |
| August 4 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
| August 5 | Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways |
| August 5 | President Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in |
| August 6 | 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice |
| August 6 | Explosion and fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Washington |
| August 7 | Actress Faye Dunaway weds Peter Wolf of J Geils Band |
| August 7 | Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers |
| August 8 | President Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9 |
| August 9 | Richard Nixon resigns presidency, Vice President Gerald Ford becomes 38th president |
| August 10 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-European American Golf Open |
| August 11 | 56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood NC |
| August 11 | Coup in East-Timor under UDT |
| August 11 | Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey) |
| August 12 | Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 and walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2 |
| August 12 | Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same day |
| August 14 | Congress authorizes U.S. citizens to own gold |
| August 14 | Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus |
| August 14 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 14 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| August 15 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| August 15 | Hurricane/floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed |
| August 15 | Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days)) |
| August 15 | South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination |
| August 16 | Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs) |
| August 18 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA St. Paul Keller Golf Open |
| August 20 | Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat |
| August 20 | Nelson Rockefeller becomes V.P. |
| August 20 | Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph) |
| August 20 | President Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation |
| August 23 | John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in New York City |
| August 23 | Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan vs. England at The Cricket Oval |
| August 24 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
| August 25 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| August 25 | L.A. Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup |
| August 26 | Guinee-Bissau becomes independent of Portugal |
| August 26 | Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3 |
| August 27 | New York Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat |
| August 28 | Soyuz 15 returns to Earth |
| August 29 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| August 30 | Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153 |
| August 30 | Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg |
| August 30 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 1 | Jane Blalock/Sue Roberts wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open |
| September 1 | Train accident at Zagreb Yugoslavia, 121 killed |
| September 2 | Jerry Lewis' 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| September 2 | Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act |
| September 3 | Giants John Montefusco makes his major league debut |
| September 3 | NBA guard Oscar Robinson retires |
| September 3 | U.S. and East Germany establish diplomatic relations |
| September 4 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| September 7 | "Irene" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 605 performances |
| September 7 | Shirley Cothran (Texas), 21, crowned 47th Miss America 1975 |
| September 8 | 88th U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Evonne Goolagong (36 63 75) |
| September 8 | 94th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ken Rosewall (61 60 61) |
| September 8 | Ian Thompson wins marathon (2:13:18.8) |
| September 8 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| September 8 | President Gerald Ford pardons former President R Nixon of all federal crimes |
| September 9 | 88th U.S. Womens Tennis: B J M King beats E Goolagong Cawley (36 63 75) |
| September 10 | Lou Brock ties (104) and then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark |
| September 10 | New York Dolls disband |
| September 10 | Portugal recognizes independence of Rep of Guinea-Bissau |
| September 10 | Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hours |
| September 11 | Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan and John Milner come to bat 12 times each |
| September 12 | Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day) |
| September 12 | Jeff "Skunk" Baxter joins Doobie Brothers |
| September 13 | 1st broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC-TV |
| September 13 | 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague |
| September 13 | Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St. Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils win 7-3 in 17 |
| September 13 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| September 14 | Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter |
| September 15 | Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens |
| September 15 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic |
| September 16 | BART begins regular transbay service |
| September 16 | Bob Dylan records Blood on the Tracks |
| September 16 | President Ford announces conditional amnesty for U.S., Vietnam War deserters |
| September 16 | U.S. General Haig becomes NATO-supreme commander in Europe |
| September 17 | Courageous (U.S.) beats Southern Cross (Australia) in 23rd America's Cup |
| September 18 | Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die |
| September 19 | Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras; about 5,000 die |
| September 21 | U.S. Mariner 10 makes 2nd fly-by of Mercury |
| September 23 | BBC Ceefax begins 1st teletext service |
| September 23 | "Gypsy" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 120 performances |
| September 24 | Al Kaline, Detroit Tiger, is 12th to get 3,000 hits |
| September 24 | Clarence Jones of Kintetsu Buffaloes hits his 38th HR, 1st American to win a Japanese HR title |
| September 25 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 26 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 27 | Austr National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000 |
| September 28 | 1st Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy |
| September 28 | "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing" by Aretha Franklin peaks at #47 |
| September 28 | California Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minnesota Twin, 4-0 |
| September 28 | "I'm A Ramblin' Man" by Waylon Jennings peaks at #75 |
| September 28 | John Lennon appears as guest dj on WNEW-FM (New York City) |
| September 28 | "Live It Up Part 1" by Isley Brothers peaks at #52 |
| September 28 | Mick Ronson joins Mott the Hoople |
| September 28 | "Papa Don't Take No Mess Part 1" by James Brown peaks at #31 |
| September 28 | "Rock Me Gently" by Andy Kim peaks at #1 |
| September 28 | "Surfin' USA" by Beach Boys reenters chart and peaks at #36 |
| September 29 | 4th New York City Women's Marathon won by Katherine Switzer in 3:07:29 |
| September 29 | 5th New York City Marathon won by Norbert Sander in 2:26:30 |
| September 29 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic |
| September 30 | General Francesco da Costa Gomez succeeds General Spinola as President of Portugal |
| October 1 | Watergate cover-up trial opens in Washington D.C. |
| October 2 | Hank Aaron's 733rd career HR on his last NL at bat |
| October 3 | Frank Robinson becomes baseball's 1st black manager (Cleveland Indians) |
| October 3 | Pele retires as soccer player |
| October 4 | John Lennon releases "Walls and Bridges" album |
| October 6 | Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic |
| October 6 | "Mack and Mabel," opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 66 performances |
| October 7 | East Germany amends constitution |
| October 9 | Frank Robinson became 1st Black baseball manager, Cleveland Indians |
| October 9 | Race riot in Boston due to "busing" |
| October 9 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to New York Rangers at MSG Washington Caps begin a 37 game road losing streak |
| October 10 | A's Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against Charlie Finley |
| October 10 | Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles |
| October 10 | Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
| October 10 | U.S. General George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in U.S. over his treatment during the 1973 World Series |
| October 11 | A's Catfish Hunter charge owner Charlie Finley with breach of contract |
| October 12 | 1st time Washington Caps are shutout as they are beat 6-0 by Minnesota |
| October 14 | 8th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Rich |
| October 15 | National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing |
| October 15 | Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules) |
| October 15 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL tie, playing Los Angeles Kings to 1-1 tie |
| October 16 | A's Ken Holtzman, who hasn't batted all season, belts 3rd inning home run in Game 4 and gets the win, 5-2 |
| October 17 | "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" closes at Playhouse New York City after 1065 per |
| October 17 | NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak |
| October 17 | Oakland A's beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 71st World Series makes A's only team other than Yankees to win 3 straight series |
| October 17 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL home victory, beating Chicago 4-3 |
| October 18 | 1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121 |
| October 18 | Andre van de Louw appointed mayor of Rotterdam |
| October 18 | Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 pts, 14 rebounds, 13 assists and 12 blocks |
| October 18 | Wings (Country Hams) release "Walking in the Park with Eloise" |
| October 19 | Det Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores 1st hat trick against Washington Caps |
| October 19 | Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90) |
| October 20 | 1st broadcast of "Derrick" on ZDF |
| October 20 | Bard's presentation of "Richard III" opens at Lincoln Center New York City |
| October 21 | 1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps |
| October 21 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cubic Corp Golf Classic |
| October 22 | Yankees trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds |
| October 23 | Cubs trade Billy Williams to A's for Manny Trillo, Knowles and Locker |
| October 23 | Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks' Big Creek Reservation dedicated |
| October 24 | Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Texas Rangers) |
| October 25 | Air Force fires 1st ICBM |
| October 25 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad |
| October 25 | Wings release "Junior's Farm" |
| October 26 | Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBA's Cavaliers and MISL's Crunch |
| October 27 | Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24) |
| October 28 | 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian and Westfall |
| October 28 | Luna 23 launched (landing on Moon) |
| October 28 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 29 | Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application |
| October 30 | California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH) |
| October 30 | Catfish Hunter is named AL Cy Young Award |
| October 30 | Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire |
| November 1 | Fire kills 189 in less than 25 minutes (Sao Paulo Brazil) |
| November 1 | U.N. affirms independence of Cyprus |
| November 2 | Art Modell gets snowed in and misses his 1st Cleveland Brown game in 33 yrs |
| November 2 | Braves trade Hank Aaron to Milwaukee Brewers for OF Dave May |
| November 2 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| November 3 | Chako Higuchi wins Japan LPGA Golf Classic |
| November 3 | "Lorelei" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 320 performances |
| November 5 | Dmitri Sjotakovitch completes Michelangelo-liederen |
| November 5 | Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman U.S. Governor not related to previous gov |
| November 5 | Walter E. Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Washington D.C. |
| November 6 | Dodger Mike Marshall is 1st relief pitcher to win Cy Young Award |
| November 7 | 63rd Davis Cup: South Africa beats India in (w/o) |
| November 8 | British Lord Lucan disappears |
| November 10 | 2nd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets even series at 1 with 26-20 OT win |
| November 10 | Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 11-0 |
| November 12 | South Africa suspended from United Nations General Assembly over racial policies |
| November 13 | Dodgers Steve Garvey wins NL MVP |
| November 15 | Ringo releases "Goodnight Vienna" and "Only You" in UK |
| November 16 | 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away |
| November 16 | John Lennon's only solo #1 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" |
| November 16 | Milwaukee Bucks lose their 11th straight NBA game (team record) |
| November 17 | Bonnie Bryant wins Bill Branch LPGA Golf Classic |
| November 17 | Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms |
| November 20 | Rangers' Jeff Burroughs wins AL MVP |
| November 20 | The U.S. files antitrust suit to break-up AT&T |
| November 21 | Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto |
| November 22 | Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge and Viv Richards, at Bangalore |
| November 22 | U.N. General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty |
| November 23 | 60 Ethiopia government officials executed |
| November 24 | 62nd CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 20-7 |
| November 24 | Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev signs SALT-2-treaty |
| November 24 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic |
| November 25 | Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21 |
| November 25 | Rangers' Mike Hargrove wins AL Rookie of Year |
| November 26 | Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal) |
| November 26 | Catfish Hunter and Charlie Finley meet in arbitration |
| November 26 | Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut vs. India |
| November 27 | Cardinals outfielder Bake McBride wins NL Rookie of Year |
| November 28 | Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years |
| November 28 | John Lennon's last concert appearance (Elton John concert in MSG New York City) |
| November 30 | 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks) |
| November 30 | "Good Evening" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 438 performances |
| November 30 | "Mack and Mabel" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 66 performances |
| November 30 | Miss Teenage America Pageant |
| November 30 | Most complete early man skeleton found (Johanson and Gray in Ethiopia) |
| December 1 | Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville Virginia, 92 died |
| December 1 | Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon (2:43:54.5) |
| December 1 | LA Skid Row slasher kills 1st of 8 |
| December 2 | Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs |
| December 2 | Giant Baba beats Jack Brisco in Kagoshimi, to become NWA champ |
| December 2 | Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days |
| December 4 | Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims |
| December 4 | Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison |
| December 5 | 1st Washington Capitals penalty shot, Tom Williams unsuccessful vs Buff Sabres |
| December 5 | 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida |
| December 5 | Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran) |
| December 5 | Monty Python's final episode airs on BBC |
| December 5 | "Monty Python's Flying Circus" last shown on BBC |
| December 5 | NFL's Seattle Seahawks forms |
| December 5 | Oliver Tilden Triangle in the Bronx named |
| December 5 | Tom Williams is unsuccessful on Washington Capitals 1st NHL penalty shot |
| December 6 | George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" |
| December 8 | Greek monarchy rejected by referendum |
| December 8 | Irish Republican Socialist Party forms |
| December 8 | Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open |
| December 8 | Soyuz 16 returns to Earth |
| December 9 | Dow Jones index hits 570.01 |
| December 9 | Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling champ |
| December 9 | Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail |
| December 10 | European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament |
| December 10 | Helios 1 launched by U.S., Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun |
| December 10 | Space probe Helios 1 launched |
| December 13 | Jim "Catfish" Hunter wins free agent claim against A's owner Finley |
| December 13 | Malta becomes a republic |
| December 14 | Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent-Kings 3-0 |
| December 14 | Viv Richards scores 1st Test Cricket ton 192 vs. India 20 fours 6 sixes |
| December 15 | A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees) |
| December 16 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 16 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 18 | SF Visitors Center at City Hall opens |
| December 19 | Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal |
| December 19 | "Man With Golden Gun" premieres in US |
| December 19 | Nelson A. Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st Vice President |
| December 20 | Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state |
| December 20 | George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in UK |
| December 22 | 2nd cease-fire between IRA and British; lasts until approx April 1975 |
| December 22 | Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals |
| December 22 | Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French |
| December 23 | "Good News" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| December 23 | Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjotakovitsj' Michelangelo-liederen |
| December 24 | Cardinals' Lou Brock is named Sportsman of the Year |
| December 25 | Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia |
| December 26 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout |
| December 27 | 40th Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB) |
| December 27 | Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years |
| December 27 | FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party |
| December 27 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 28 | 6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed |
| December 29 | Murray Schisgal's "All Over Town," premieres in New York City |
| December 30 | Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought) |
| December 31 | 41st Sugar Bowl: Nebraska 13 beats Florida 10 |
| December 31 | Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3M 5 year New York Yankees contract |
| December 31 | Gold legal in U.S., Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin |
| December 31 | Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac |
| December 31 | New York Yankees sign Jim "Catfish" Hunter to 5 years for record $3.75 million |
| December 31 | Popular Electronics displays Altair 8800 computer |
