| January 1 | Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Mardian convicted of Watergate crime |
| January 1 | International Women's Year begins |
| January 1 | Sweden adopts constitution |
| January 2 | U.S. Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species |
| January 4 | Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the U.S. (No 11828) |
| January 4 | "Good News" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| January 4 | "Gypsy" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 120 performances |
| January 4 | Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica |
| January 4 | Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 10-0 |
| January 4 | "Over Here" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 341 performances |
| January 5 | 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent and Hobart, Tasmania and ship sinks |
| January 5 | Charlie Smalls' "Wiz," premieres in New York City |
| January 5 | Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days |
| January 5 | "Wiz" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 1672 performances |
| January 6 | "AM America," premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host |
| January 6 | "Wheel Of Fortune," debuts on NBC-TV |
| January 7 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere) |
| January 7 | Gary Geld and Peter Udell's musical "Shenandoah," premieres in New York City |
| January 7 | Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage |
| January 7 | "Shenandoah" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 1050 performances |
| January 8 | Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison |
| January 9 | 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike |
| January 9 | Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes |
| January 11 | Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4 |
| January 12 | Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates |
| January 12 | Superbowl IX: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Minnesota Vikings, 16-6 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Franco Harris, Pittsburgh, RB |
| January 14 | Anita Wold (Norway) sets women's ski jump distance record-98 m |
| January 14 | U.S.S.R. breaks trade agreement with US |
| January 15 | Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence |
| January 15 | Space Mountain opens at Disneyland |
| January 18 | "Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS |
| January 19 | 4 mail truck assault on El Al B-747 in Paris, escape to Iraq |
| January 19 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Colgate Golf Triple Crown |
| January 20 | 5th NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-10 |
| January 20 | Terrence McNally's "Ritz," premieres in New York City |
| January 21 | 28th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montreal |
| January 22 | Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched |
| January 23 | "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV |
| January 23 | Ralph Kiner elected to baseball's Hall of Fame |
| January 24 | Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England |
| January 24 | "Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV |
| January 25 | 10th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin's 1st |
| January 25 | Parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman |
| January 26 | Edward Albee's "Seascape," premieres in New York City |
| January 28 | 8th ABA All-Star Game: East 151 beats West 124 at San Antonio |
| January 29 | 1st Annual Comedy Awards of the Year hosted by Alan King |
| January 29 | "Men on the Moon" opens at Little Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| January 29 | W I win Fifth Test against India to take exciting series 3-2 |
| January 31 | Barry Manilow's "Mandy" goes gold |
| January 31 | John Lennon releases "#9 Dream" |
| January 31 | UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship |
| February 1 | 1st successful Washington Capitals penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks |
| February 1 | "Hoppy, Gene and Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65 |
| February 1 | Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot |
| February 1 | "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| February 1 | Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department |
| February 2 | Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea Ethiopia |
| February 2 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| February 2 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
| February 2 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr |
| February 3 | Billy Herman, Earl Averill, and Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame |
| February 6 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 7 | NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game road losing streak |
| February 8 | 1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea |
| February 8 | Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders |
| February 9 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic |
| February 9 | Soyuz 17 returns to Earth |
| February 10 | William "Judy" Johnson selected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| February 11 | Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership |
| February 13 | Cyprus premier Denktash procliams Turkish-Cypriot Federation |
| February 14 | Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station |
| February 16 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL shutout, beating Kansas City Scouts 3-0 |
| February 18 | 2nd American Music Awards |
| February 18 | Italy broadens abortion law |
| February 20 | Leonard Baichan scores 105* on Test Cricket debut, vs. Pakistan Lahore |
| February 20 | Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party |
| February 20 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| February 21 | John Lennon releases "Rock 'n' Roll" album |
| February 21 | John Mitchell, HR Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman sentenced to 2-8 yrs |
| February 23 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| February 25 | Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever and seriously injured |
| February 26 | 1st televised kidney transplant on the Today Show |
| February 26 | "Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore New York City for 75 performances |
| February 27 | CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin |
| February 27 | House of Representatives pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill |
| February 28 | 41 killed in London Underground, as train speeds past final stop |
| February 28 | EG signs accord of Lome with 46 developing countries |
| February 28 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 1 | 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win |
| March 1 | Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1 |
| March 3 | "Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 104 performances |
| March 3 | Linda McCartney is charged in U.S. with possession of marijuana |
| March 7 | Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate |
| March 7 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 8 | Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba |
| March 9 | "Lieutenant" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 9 performances |
| March 10 | Dog spectacles patented in England |
| March 10 | "Rocky Horror Show" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| March 11 | Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails |
| March 11 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| March 12 | Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam |
| March 13 | Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in New York City |
| March 15 | Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec) |
| March 16 | "Lieutenant" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 9 performances |
| March 16 | U.S. Mariner 10 makes 3rd and final fly-by of Mercury |
| March 17 | Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92) |
| March 18 | Kurds end fight against Iraqi army |
| March 19 | "Dr. Jazz" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| March 19 | Penn is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports |
| March 21 | Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years |
| March 22 | Delta State beats Immaculata for the women's AIAW championship |
| March 22 | "Dinge-competed" wins Eurovisie Song festival |
| March 22 | "Dr. Jazz" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| March 22 | "Letter for Queen Victoria" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 18 performances |
| March 22 | Teach-In wins Eurovision Song Festival with "Dinge-Dong" |
| March 22 | Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens |
| March 23 | Sue Roberts wins LPGA Bing Crosby International Golf Classic |
| March 24 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| March 25 | Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arab (1964-75), shot by nephew |
| March 26 | "Tommy" premieres in London |
| March 26 | Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win and NHL record of 17 straight loses |
| March 28 | Washington Caps win 1st game on road after 37 straight road loses also |
| March 29 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Karsten-Ping Golf Open |
| March 29 | Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers |
| March 30 | Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital |
| March 31 | 37th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Kentucky 92-55 |
| March 31 | John Wooden's final game, UCLA, wins 10th NCAA championship in 12 yrs |
| April 1 | Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer |
| April 3 | Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it |
| April 3 | James Rupers kills his family to inherit |
| April 4 | Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes |
| April 4 | USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155 |
| April 5 | "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 18 performances |
| April 5 | Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely |
| April 6 | Fastest hat trick by a Washington Capitals 3 minutes 26 seconds (Stan Gilbertson) |
| April 6 | "Night... Made America Famous" closes at Barrymore New York City after 75 performances |
| April 6 | "Rocky Horror Show" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| April 8 | 47th Academy Awards - "Godfather II," Ellen Burstyn and Art Carney win |
| April 8 | Frank Robinson debuts as 1st black baseball manager (Cleveland, beats New York 5-3) |
| April 10 | Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs |
| April 11 | Hank Aaron returns as a Milwaukee player (Brewer) |
| April 11 | JP Parise 11 sec OT goal-Isles 1st playoff advance eliminates Rangers |
| April 12 | Linda Ronstadt releases "When Will I Be Loved" |
| April 13 | 39th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 276 |
| April 13 | Chad military coup by General Odingar |
| April 13 | Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war |
| April 13 | Penguins 5-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 1-0 lead |
| April 15 | 1st appearance of San Diego Chicken |
| April 15 | Gabon amends constitution |
| April 15 | Penguins 3-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 2-0 lead |
| April 16 | Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh |
| April 17 | Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea National Day) |
| April 17 | Penguins 6-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-0 lead |
| April 18 | John Lennon releases "Stand by Me" |
| April 19 | India launches 1st satellite with help of U.S.S.R. |
| April 20 | 29th Tony Awards: Equus and Wiz win |
| April 20 | 4th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer |
| April 20 | Penguins 1-Isles 3-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-1 lead |
| April 21 | 4th Boston Women's Marathon won by Liane Winter of W Germ in 2:42:24 |
| April 21 | 79th Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:09:55 |
| April 21 | Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years |
| April 21 | Liane Winter wins world record female Boston marathon (2:42:24) |
| April 22 | Penguins 2-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-2 lead |
| April 23 | Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land," premieres in London |
| April 24 | Penguins 1-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3 |
| April 24 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 25 | 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao |
| April 25 | Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins Portugal's free election |
| April 25 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| April 25 | West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm, Sweden |
| April 26 | Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal |
| April 26 | Penguins 0-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Isles win series 4-3 |
| April 26 | Phillies Mike Schmidt's 2 home runs ties NL record of 11 home runs in April |
| April 27 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic |
| April 27 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| April 28 | John Lennon appears on "Tonight" and Ringo on "Smother Brothers" |
| April 28 | South-Vietnam General Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30 |
| April 29 | Ethiopia nationalizes all ground/earth |
| April 29 | Flyers 4-Isles 0-Semifinals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead |
| April 30 | Last U.S. helicopter leaves U.S. embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders |
| May 1 | Islander Parise and Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs Flyers 5-Isles 4-semifinals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead |
| May 2 | Apple records closes down |
| May 3 | 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02 |
| May 3 | Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8) |
| May 4 | Ed Bullins' "Taking of Miss Jane," premieres in New York City |
| May 4 | Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots |
| May 4 | Houston's Bob Watson scores baseball's one-millionth run of all time |
| May 4 | Maria Astrologes wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
| May 5 | A's release pinch runner Herb Washington (played 104 games without batting, pitching, or fielding He stole 30 bases, and scored 33 runs) |
| May 5 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels) |
| May 6 | 3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska |
| May 7 | Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead |
| May 7 | President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era" |
| May 7 | Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays |
| May 9 | Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record) |
| May 9 | Flyers 1-Isles 5-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-2 lead |
| May 10 | Brian Oldfield of U.S. put shot 75', an unofficial record |
| May 11 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic |
| May 11 | Flyers 1-Isles 2-Semifinals-Series tied at 3 games |
| May 11 | Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market |
| May 12 | U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces |
| May 13 | Flyers 4-Isles 1-Semifinals-Flyers win semifinals 4-3 |
| May 13 | Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville, Tennessee |
| May 13 | "Rodgers and Hart" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 108 performances |
| May 14 | Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II |
| May 14 | French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia |
| May 14 | U.S. forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship |
| May 14 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 15 | 11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 9-4 |
| May 15 | Emmy 2nd Daytime Award and Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| May 16 | India annexes Principality of Sikkim |
| May 16 | Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mount Everest's summit |
| May 16 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| May 16 | Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK |
| May 17 | 101st Preakness: Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4 |
| May 17 | 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love" |
| May 17 | "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79 |
| May 17 | Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches |
| May 17 | NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time |
| May 19 | 27th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake and Jean Marsh |
| May 19 | Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India |
| May 19 | Junko Tabei is 1st woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest |
| May 21 | Borussia Monchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede |
| May 21 | Lowell W. Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm |
| May 21 | Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart |
| May 22 | 8th ABA Championship: Kentucky Colonels beat Ind Pacers, 4 games to 1 |
| May 24 | Dutch Government of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16 |
| May 25 | 29th NBA Championship: Golden Warriors sweep Washington Bullets in 4 games |
| May 25 | Cleveland's Dennis Eckersley, debuts shuting out the A's 6-0 |
| May 25 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA American DefenderGolf Classic |
| May 26 | Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes |
| May 27 | Paul McCartney releases "Venus and Mars" |
| May 27 | Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres, 4 games to 2 |
| May 27 | Worst motor vehicle disaster in U.K.; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38 |
| May 28 | Bayern Munchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 in Paris |
| May 28 | Soyuz 18 launches |
| May 30 | European Space Agency, ESA, forms |
| May 30 | Wings release "Venus and Mars" album |
| May 31 | Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition |
| May 31 | "Goodtime Charley" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 104 performances |
| June 1 | 21st LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth |
| June 1 | California Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Baltimore Orioles, 1-0 |
| June 1 | Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts |
| June 1 | "Chicago" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 947 performances |
| June 1 | Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist |
| June 2 | James A. Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine) |
| June 2 | Vice President Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA |
| June 4 | Oldest animal fossils in U.S. discovered in North Carolina |
| June 5 | 48th National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor |
| June 5 | British population agrees to European Common Market membership |
| June 5 | Egypt president Sadat reopens Suez Canal, closed since 1967 |
| June 6 | British voters decide to remain in Common Market |
| June 6 | Nolan Ryan's bid for 2nd no-hitter broken in 6th inning |
| June 6 | Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established |
| June 7 | Dennis Lillee takes 1st one-day 5WI, 5-34 vs. Pakistan World Cup |
| June 7 | Spain's Manuel Orantes wins U.S. Open, beating Jimmy Connors in 3 sets |
| June 7 | Sri Lanka's 1st one-day international, vs. WI Cricket World Cup |
| June 7 | "Thank God I'm a Country Boy," by John Denver hits #1 |
| June 8 | 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35 |
| June 8 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic |
| June 8 | U.S.S.R. launches Venera 9 for Venus landing |
| June 9 | 107th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Avatar wins in 2:28.2 |
| June 9 | Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners and 1 guard (Sanford Fla) |
| June 9 | House of Commons is broadcast live by radio for 1st time |
| June 9 | Tony Orlando and Dawn receives gold record for "He Don't Love You" |
| June 10 | Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans |
| June 10 | Yankees sponsor Army Day at temporary home, Shea Stadium during 21-gun salute, part of fence is blown away, and another part is set afire |
| June 11 | 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield |
| June 11 | Greece adopts constitution |
| June 11 | One-day international cricket debut, Javed Miandad age 17 years 364 days |
| June 12 | Billy Williams's 400th career HR |
| June 12 | Hank Aaron's 1st HR in Milwaukee since 1965 |
| June 14 | 45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61) |
| June 14 | Janis Ian releases "At 17" |
| June 14 | U.S.S.R. launches Venera 10 for Venus landing |
| June 15 | 45th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Guillermo Vilas (62 63 64) |
| June 15 | Carol Mann wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Classic |
| June 16 | Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber and Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players |
| June 16 | Italy's Communist party PCI, wins |
| June 16 | Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD |
| June 16 | Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation |
| June 17 | Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with U.S. |
| June 18 | Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs in a Red Sox 15-1 victory over Tigers |
| June 18 | Gary Gilmour takes 6-14 in Cricket World Cup semi vs. England |
| June 18 | NBC News and Information Service (24 hr news) premieres on radio |
| June 21 | Elton John, Eagles and Beach Boys play Wembley |
| June 21 | "Jaws" by Steven Spielberg opens |
| June 21 | Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow |
| June 21 | Soyuz 19 returns to Earth |
| June 21 | West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs to win Cricket World Cup |
| June 22 | Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic |
| June 23 | 75th U.S. Golf Open: Lou Graham shoots a 287 at Medinah CC ILL |
| June 23 | Rocker Alice Cooper falls off stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs |
| June 24 | Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport New York, kills 113 |
| June 24 | Moon tremor perceived, hit by Taurid meteors |
| June 25 | Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day) |
| June 26 | Cher divorces Sonny Bono |
| June 26 | Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency |
| June 28 | David Bowie releases "Fame" |
| June 28 | Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill) |
| June 29 | 3rd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner |
| June 29 | 8.10" (20.57 cm) of rainfall, Litchville No Dakota (state 24-hr rec) |
| June 30 | Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman |
| June 30 | Heavyweight Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Bugner in Malaysia |
| June 30 | University of California reports galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion light years distance |
| July 1 | Muhammad Ali beats Joe Bugner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| July 1 | Ringo Starr and Maureen, divorce |
| July 1 | WEDway People Mover inaugurated |
| July 4 | 82nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (60 61) |
| July 5 | 89th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats J Connors (61 61 57 64) |
| July 5 | Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule |
| July 6 | Argentine government falls |
| July 6 | Comoros declare independence from France |
| July 6 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes Sonate for alto opus 147 |
| July 6 | Susie McAllister wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic |
| July 7 | TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres |
| July 8 | Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany |
| July 8 | President Ford announced he'll seek Republican nomination for president |
| July 8 | Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated |
| July 10 | Cher files for divorce from Gregg Allman, 10 days after they married |
| July 10 | Gladys Knight and Pips Summer Series premieres on NBC-TV |
| July 10 | Test Cricket debut of Graham Gooch, vs. Australia, out for a pair |
| July 11 | Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC |
| July 12 | 104th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 279 at Carnoustie |
| July 12 | Bob Taylor catches 7 in an innings, Derbyshire vs. Yorkshire |
| July 12 | Sao Tome e Principe gains independence from Portugal (National Day) |
| July 13 | 8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record) |
| July 13 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
| July 14 | Disney EPCOT Center, Florida, plans announced |
| July 15 | 46th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-3 at County Stadium, Milwaukee |
| July 15 | All star MVP: Bill Madlock (Pittsburgh Pirates) and John Matlock (New York Mets) |
| July 15 | Apollo 18 launched (will rendezvous with Soyuz) |
| July 15 | Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later |
| July 16 | Commissioner Bowie Kuhn is reelected for a 7-year term |
| July 17 | Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 make 1st US/U.S.S.R. linkup in space |
| July 17 | Ringo Starr and Maureen Cox divorce |
| July 18 | Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play) |
| July 19 | Apollo and Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate |
| July 19 | New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson's 1st-inning single and RBI are |
| July 20 | 30th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer |
| July 21 | Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager |
| July 21 | New York Met Felix Milan hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays |
| July 22 | House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee |
| July 23 | Alan Ayckbourn's "Absent Friends," premieres in London |
| July 23 | Los Angeles Dodgers W Crawford and Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch home runs |
| July 24 | Apollo 18 returns to Earth |
| July 25 | "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres |
| July 26 | Soyuz 18B returns to Earth |
| July 27 | Carol Mann wins LPGA George Washington Ladies Golf Classic |
| July 29 | Ford became 1st U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz |
| July 29 | Military coup by General Mohammed/President Jakubu Gowon fired |
| July 30 | Simon Gray's "Otherwise Engaged," premieres in London |
| July 30 | Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit |
| August 1 | 38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord |
| August 1 | 41st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 21, All-Stars 14 (54,103) |
| August 1 | Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of New York Yankees |
| August 1 | Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations |
| August 2 | 104 degrees F (40 degrees C) at Providence, Rhode Island (state record) |
| August 2 | 107 degrees F (42 degrees C) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record) |
| August 3 | 500 drown when 2 river boats collide and sink in China's West River |
| August 3 | Louisiana Superdome is dedicated |
| August 3 | Poland and West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans |
| August 3 | Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| August 4 | Robert Plant is involved in a car crash in Rhodes |
| August 5 | Phillies 1st 8 batters get hits for a record, beat Cubs 13-5 |
| August 5 | Stevie Wonder signs $13M contract with Motown |
| August 9 | 1st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7 |
| August 9 | Dodger Davey Lopes steals record 32nd consec base without being caught |
| August 9 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Colgate European Ladies Golf Open |
| August 10 | 57th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 276 at Firestone Akron |
| August 10 | David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon |
| August 11 | Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game |
| August 11 | U.S. vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to U.N. |
| August 13 | Viv Richards out for 291 vs. England at Cricket Oval |
| August 14 | Dmitri Shotakovitch, buried at the Novodevitshi-convent |
| August 14 | Norwegian King Olav V opens Longyearbyen Airport on Spitsbergen |
| August 14 | Pakistani military coup against president Mujib ur-Rahman |
| August 15 | Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed |
| August 15 | Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges |
| August 16 | Peter Gabriel quits Genesis |
| August 16 | "Rodgers and Hart" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 108 performances |
| August 17 | Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
| August 19 | Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager |
| August 20 | Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126 |
| August 20 | Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing |
| August 21 | 3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway |
| August 21 | Rick and Paul Reuschel become 1st brothers to pitch a combined shut out |
| August 21 | U.S. lightens trade embargo against Cuba |
| August 22 | Assassination attempt on president Gerald Ford |
| August 22 | McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens |
| August 23 | Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway |
| August 23 | Communists take over Laos |
| August 23 | Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile |
| August 23 | Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack |
| August 23 | Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland |
| August 23 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| August 24 | Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing |
| August 24 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
| August 24 | Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens |
| August 24 | San Francisco Giant Ed Halick no-hits New York Giants, 6-0 |
| August 24 | Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup |
| August 27 | 1st night match at U.S. Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith) |
| August 27 | Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world |
| August 29 | Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky |
| August 30 | KTW-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX) |
| August 31 | Former Teamsters' president James Hoffa reported missing |
| September 1 | All political parties forbidden in Bangladesh |
| September 1 | Gunsmoke resigns the air |
| September 1 | Jerry Lewis' 10th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| September 1 | KOL-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KMPS |
| September 1 | New York City transit fare rises from 35 cents to 50 cents |
| September 1 | New York Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons |
| September 3 | Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die |
| September 3 | Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak |
| September 5 | Czechoslovakian tennis ace Martina Navratilova asks for political asylum in New York City |
| September 5 | Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate Ford in Sacramento |
| September 5 | Portugal premier Goncalvez resigns |
| September 5 | Wings release "Letting Go" |
| September 6 | 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey |
| September 6 | 89th U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats E G Cawley (57 64 62) |
| September 6 | Heavy earthquake at Lice Turkey; 3,000 killed |
| September 6 | Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976 |
| September 6 | Tennis Star Martina Navratilova requests U.S. political asylum |
| September 6 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 7 | 95th U.S. Mens Tennis: Manuel Orantes beats Jimmy Connors (64 63 63) |
| September 7 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| September 7 | Cincinnati Reds, win earliest NL division title |
| September 7 | Last day of 1st-class cricket for Hanif Mohammad |
| September 7 | Manuel Orantes upsets #1 seed Jimmy Connors to win U.S. Open |
| September 8 | Boston begins court ordered busing of public schools |
| September 8 | Guinee-Bissau declares independence from Portugal |
| September 9 | Viking 2 Mars probe launch |
| September 13 | Hurricane Eloise, kills 71 in Caribbean and U.S. |
| September 14 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open |
| September 14 | Pope Paul VI declares Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton 1st U.S. saint |
| September 14 | Rembrandts "Nightwatch" slashed and damaged in Amsterdam |
| September 14 | Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's record, playing in 242 games as a teen |
| September 15 | Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game |
| September 16 | Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day) |
| September 16 | Pirates beat Cubs 22-0, Rennie Stennett is 3rd to go 7 for 7 |
| September 16 | Rennie Stennett is 2nd to hit 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game |
| September 17 | Rollout of 1st space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101) |
| September 18 | Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF |
| September 19 | Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor |
| September 20 | 21st Ryder Cup: U.S., 21-11 at Laurel Valley Golf Club Pennsylvania |
| September 20 | David Bowie's "Fame," single goes #1 for 2 weeks |
| September 20 | Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28" draw |
| September 21 | Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic |
| September 22 | Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in San Francisco California |
| September 22 | World Football League folds |
| September 26 | Phillies and New York Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM |
| September 27 | Government De Uyl recalls Dutch ambassador from Spain |
| September 28 | 5th New York City Women's Marathon won by Kim Merritt in 2:46:14 |
| September 28 | 6th New York City Marathon won by Tom Fleming in 2:19:27 |
| September 28 | Bill authorizes admission of women to military academies |
| September 28 | Oakland A's Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Linblad and Rollie Fingers, no-hits California Angels 5-0 |
| September 29 | "Three For Money," debuts on NBC-TV |
| September 29 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| September 29 | WGPR-TV Detroit, 1st Black-owned station in U.S., began broadcasting |
| September 30 | 5 drown in flash flood of sewer and water tunnel (Niagara Falls New York) |
| October 1 | Britain grants internal self-government to Seychelles |
| October 1 | Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name "Tuvalu" |
| October 1 | Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Joe Frazier in Manilla |
| October 1 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Joe Frazier in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| October 1 | Reunion Island stops printing stamps, France takes over production |
| October 3 | George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in UK |
| October 3 | Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap |
| October 5 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 7 | Players' Association, files a suit on behalf of Dodgers Andy Messersmith |
| October 7 | U.S. decides John Lennon won't be deported due to U.K. pot conviction |
| October 9 | Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco |
| October 9 | Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| October 10 | Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt |
| October 10 | Liz Taylor's 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton) |
| October 11 | Bill Clinton weds Hillary Rodham |
| October 11 | Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick |
| October 11 | Saturday Night Live premieres with George Carlin as host |
| October 11 | "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin |
| October 12 | Archbishop Oliver Plunkett became 1st Irish-born saint in 7 centuries |
| October 12 | Jacqueline Hansen runs women's world record marathon (2:38:19) |
| October 12 | NASA launches space vehicle S-195 |
| October 13 | 9th Country Music Association Award: John Denver wins |
| October 13 | Rock vocal Neil Young undergoes throat surgery |
| October 14 | President Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside |
| October 15 | Iceland moves International boundary from 50 to 200 miles |
| October 17 | 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Tech Labs, Miss |
| October 17 | Bee Gees Maurice Gibb weds Yvonne Spencely |
| October 17 | U.N. passes resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism" |
| October 18 | Simon and Garfunkel reunite on SNL, sing "My Little Town" |
| October 18 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 19 | "Chorus Line" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 6137 performances |
| October 19 | Cleveland Browns' Don Cockroft kicks club record 5 field goals |
| October 19 | Hamlisch and Klebans musical "Chorus Line" premieres in New York City |
| October 19 | Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Japan Golf Classic |
| October 20 | Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning |
| October 21 | Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll |
| October 21 | Elton John given a star in Hollywood |
| October 21 | Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives |
| October 21 | Red Sox Carlton Fisk's 12th inning HR beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS |
| October 21 | "Treemonisha" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 64 performances |
| October 21 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 21 | Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit planet Venus launched |
| October 22 | Cincinnati Reds beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 72nd World Series |
| October 22 | "Me and Bessie" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 453 performances |
| October 22 | Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus |
| October 22 | Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna |
| October 22 | World Football League disbands |
| October 23 | Battle between Cuba and South Africa troops in Angola |
| October 23 | Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent-Flyers 3-0 |
| October 24 | Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris |
| October 25 | Denv Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St. Louis Spirits |
| October 25 | U.S.S.R.'s Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing |
| October 26 | Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit U.S. |
| October 26 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| October 26 | Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball |
| October 26 | Mary Bea Porter wins LPGA Golf Inns of America |
| October 27 | Covers of both Time and Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen |
| October 28 | Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games |
| October 28 | Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for Zoo |
| October 29 | Boston's Fred Lynn is the overwhelming choice as AL Rookie of Year |
| October 29 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 30 | Giants pitcher John "the Count of" Montefusco wins NL Rookie of Year |
| October 30 | John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals |
| October 30 | Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain |
| October 30 | New York Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead" |
| October 31 | Bob Geldof 1st appearance with Boomtown Rats |
| November 2 | Ed Giacomin as a Red Wing returns to Mad Sq Garden beats Rangers 6-4 |
| November 2 | Summit in Houston opens - Rockets beat Milwaukee Bucks, 104-89 |
| November 4 | Orioles Jim Palmer wins his 2nd Cy Young Award |
| November 5 | British government sends troops to Belize |
| November 5 | Sao Tome and Principe adopts constitution |
| November 6 | 1st appearance of Sex Pistols |
| November 6 | "Hello, Dolly" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 51 performances |
| November 7 | Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland |
| November 8 | Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St. Paul, to become NWA champ |
| November 10 | Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald and crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior |
| November 10 | PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses United Nations in New York City |
| November 10 | Royals release slugger Harmon Killebrew, ending his 22-year career |
| November 10 | U.N. General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism |
| November 11 | Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day) |
| November 11 | Australian Prime Minister removed by crown (1st elected Prime Minister removed in 200 yrs) |
| November 12 | New York Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award |
| November 12 | Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired after 36 years |
| November 13 | "Musical Jubilee" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 92 performances |
| November 14 | Spain, Morocco and Mauretania sign accord about Spanish Sahara |
| November 15 | Miss Teenage America Pageant |
| November 16 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Jacksonville Ladies Golf Open |
| November 18 | Black-Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to U.S. |
| November 18 | Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak of 58 games |
| November 19 | Reds 2nd baseman Joe Morgan is named NL MVP |
| November 20 | Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Rep nomination for president |
| November 21 | Linda McCartney drug charges in U.S. are dropped |
| November 22 | Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain |
| November 23 | 63rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 9-8 |
| November 23 | Bob Thomas of Chicago Bears kicks 55-yard field goal |
| November 23 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Greater Ft. Myers Golf Classic |
| November 24 | "Boccaccio" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| November 25 | Netherlands grants Suriname independence (National Day) |
| November 25 | Portuguese leftist officers occupy 4 airbases |
| November 26 | Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination |
| November 26 | France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
| November 26 | Fred Lynn becomes the 1st rookie to win MVP |
| November 26 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 27 | Red Sox's Fred Lynn is 1st rookie to win MVP (AL) |
| November 28 | Democratic Republic East-Timor proclaimed |
| November 28 | Test Cricket debut of Michael Anthony Holding, WI vs. Australia Brisbane |
| November 28 | Wings release "Venus and Mars/Rock Show" medley |
| November 29 | Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii |
| November 29 | President Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped |
| November 30 | Dahomey becomes Benin |
| December 1 | U.S. president Gerald Ford visits China |
| December 2 | 7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster Drente, 3 killed |
| December 2 | G S Chappell gets ton in each inn of 1st Test Cricket as captain vs. WI |
| December 2 | Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day) |
| December 2 | Laos king Sisavang Vatthana resigns, republic forms |
| December 3 | Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed |
| December 4 | 6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead |
| December 5 | "Me and Bessie" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 453 performances |
| December 5 | NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed |
| December 6 | 41st Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB) |
| December 6 | Senator Robert Dole and Elizabeth Hanford marry |
| December 7 | 10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres |
| December 7 | Archbishop Makarios returns Cyprus |
| December 7 | Indonesian army occupies East Timor |
| December 7 | Pat Bradley wins Colgate-Far East Ladies Tournament Golf Tournament |
| December 8 | "Raisin" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 847 performances |
| December 9 | Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize |
| December 9 | President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for New York City |
| December 10 | Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize |
| December 10 | Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, to become NWA champ |
| December 11 | 1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents |
| December 11 | Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis and Ken Brett from Pirates for George "Doc" Medich |
| December 12 | Gas stove explodes and starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia) |
| December 12 | Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford |
| December 13 | 1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay - Richard Pryor as host |
| December 13 | Australian Conservatives and Liberals win parliamentary election |
| December 13 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA 14 Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament |
| December 13 | Roy Fredericks hits 169 vs. Australia at WACA, hundred in 71 balls |
| December 13 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 14 | 6 So Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days |
| December 14 | "Treemonisha" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 64 performances |
| December 16 | 1st broadcast of "One Day at a Time" on CBS TV |
| December 16 | Bill Veeck buys 80% of White Sox from John Allyn |
| December 17 | 1st time New York Islanders shut-out New York Rangers, 3-0-Billy Smith's 5th |
| December 17 | Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life |
| December 19 | John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice |
| December 19 | Ron Wood joined the Rolling Stones |
| December 20 | Joe Walsh recruited to join Eagles |
| December 20 | Pope Paul VI named J Willebrands archbishop of Utrecht |
| December 21 | 1st New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins) |
| December 21 | 64th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Czechoslovakia in Stockholm (3-2) |
| December 21 | Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Caps 14-2 scoring 5 goals vs Washington Caps in 4:57 |
| December 21 | "Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 51 performances |
| December 21 | Madagascar adopts constitution |
| December 21 | "Very Good Eddie" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 307 performances |
| December 23 | Congress passes Metric Conversion Act |
| December 23 | Peter Seitz makes Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally free agents |
| December 26 | 1st supersonic transport service (U.S.S.R.-Tupolev-144) |
| December 26 | A crowd of 85661 attends the 1st day of the Aust-WI MCG Test Cricket |
| December 27 | Explosion at Chasnala Colliery collapses drowning 350 (Dhanbad India) |
| December 28 | 1st broadcast of radio Hilversum IV (classic music) |
| December 28 | Earthquake in Pakistan, 4,000 die |
| December 28 | Gary Cosier scores 109 vs. West Indies at MCG on Test Cricket debut |
| December 28 | "Hail Mary Pass"-Cowboys beat Vikings 17-14 on last second pass |
| December 28 | Red Army beats New York Rangers 7-3 at MSG |
| December 29 | 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in New York City |
| December 30 | "Boccaccio" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| December 30 | Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force |
| December 31 | 42nd Sugar Bowl: Alabama 13 beats Penn State 6 |
