| January 1 | Liberty Bell moves to new home behind Independence Hall |
| January 1 | "Musical Jubilee" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 92 performances |
| January 1 | NBC replaces the peacock logo |
| January 1 | Venezuela nationalizes oil fields |
| January 3 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| January 4 | "Candide" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 740 performances |
| January 4 | "Home Sweet Homer" opens and closes at Palace Theater New York City |
| January 5 | Cambodia is renamed "Democratic Kampuchea" |
| January 5 | Greg Chappell scores 182* at SCG against West Indies |
| January 5 | MacNeil-Lehrer Report premieres on PBS |
| January 6 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| January 6 | Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million |
| January 8 | Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles |
| January 9 | Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot |
| January 9 | CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts |
| January 9 | Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK |
| January 11 | Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consec national figure skating champions |
| January 11 | Military coup in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lara leaves |
| January 11 | "Pacific Overtures" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 193 performances |
| January 11 | Stephen Sondheim's musical "Pacific Overtures," premieres in New York City |
| January 11 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
| January 11 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Terry Kubicka |
| January 12 | U.N. Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine Liberation Org |
| January 13 | Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at New York's Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata" |
| January 14 | "Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC) |
| January 14 | Ted Turner becomes CEO of Atlanta Braves |
| January 15 | Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford |
| January 15 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| January 15 | US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit |
| January 16 | "Donny and Marie" [Osmond] musical variety show premieres on ABC TV |
| January 16 | Peter Frampton released platinum live album "Frampton Comes Alive" |
| January 17 | Hermes rocket launched by European Space Agency |
| January 17 | "I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow hits #1 |
| January 18 | Superbowl X: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 21-17 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Lynn Swann, Pittsburgh, WR |
| January 20 | 29th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-5 at Philadelphia |
| January 21 | Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain and France |
| January 22 | Bank robbery in Beirut nets a record $20-50 million |
| January 23 | Ian Redpath hits his only 2 sixes in Cricket Tests, vs. WI Adelaide |
| January 23 | Washington Caps end 25 game winless streak (0-22-3) beat New York Rangers 7-5 |
| January 24 | Cleveland Cavaliers biggest margin victory-43 pts (beat Milwaukee 132-89) |
| January 24 | George Foreman KOs Ron Lyle in 5th round of a real slugfest |
| January 25 | Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut Ind vs. New Zealand Auckland |
| January 26 | 6th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 23-20 |
| January 26 | Belgium catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals |
| January 26 | David Mamet's "American Buffalo," premieres in New York City |
| January 26 | Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon |
| January 26 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 23-20 |
| January 27 | 9th ABA All-Star Game: Denver 144 beats ABA 138 at Denver |
| January 27 | "Laverne and Shirley" spinoff from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV |
| January 27 | Morocco-Algeria battles in Westerly Sahara |
| January 27 | Viv Richards scores his 1st Test century against Australia |
| January 28 | Erapalli Prasanna takes 8-76 to rip through New Zealand at Eden Park |
| January 28 | NBA Atlanta Hawks begin a 28 game road losing streak |
| January 29 | Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire |
| January 30 | 1st-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg |
| January 30 | George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977) |
| January 30 | William E. Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA |
| January 31 | Lance Gibbs becomes highest Test wicket-taker at 308 |
| January 31 | "Love Rollercoaster" by Ohio Players hits #1 |
| February 1 | East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Michigan State University after he is warned not to |
| February 1 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| February 1 | "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV |
| February 1 | Sonny and Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce |
| February 2 | "Honeymooners Second Honeymoon" airs on TV |
| February 2 | "Rich Little Show," debuts on NBC-TV |
| February 2 | Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom and ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame |
| February 3 | 26th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-109 at Philadelphia |
| February 4 | 12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria |
| February 4 | 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala and Honduras |
| February 4 | Judge Oliver upholds Seitz's decision on Andy Messersmith free agency |
| February 4 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 5 | Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies |
| February 5 | Last day of Test Cricket for Lance Gibbs and Ian Redpath |
| February 6 | George Harrison releases "This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)" |
| February 7 | Larry Groce's "Junk Food Junkie" peaks at #9 |
| February 7 | World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (U.S.S.R.) |
| February 8 | Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR |
| February 8 | Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic |
| February 8 | Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130) |
| February 9 | Oscar Charleston selected to baseball's the Hall of Fame |
| February 11 | Clifford Alexander, Jr. confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army |
| February 12 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 13 | Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria |
| February 13 | Peter Casserly of New Zealand hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes |
| February 14 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 15 | 12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria |
| February 15 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| February 17 | Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau) |
| February 17 | New Zealand scores their 1st innings win in Test Cricket, vs. India |
| February 17 | Richard Hadlee takes 7-23 vs. India, his 1st match-winning spell |
| February 17 | "Rockabye Hamlet" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| February 19 | Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara |
| February 20 | Muhammad Ali KOs Jan Pierre Coopman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| February 21 | Cardinal Willebrands installed as archbishop of Utrecht |
| February 21 | "Rockabye Hamlet" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| February 22 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
| February 23 | Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract |
| February 24 | Cuba adopts its constitution |
| February 24 | Jules Feiffer's "Knock Knock," premieres in New York City |
| February 24 | Leonid Brezhnev opens 25th congress of CPSU |
| February 26 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 27 | Final meeting between Mao tse Tung and Richard Nixon |
| February 28 | 18th Grammy Awards: Love Will Keep Us Together, Natalie Cole wins |
| February 28 | Ceuta and Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession |
| February 28 | Spain withdraws from Western Sahara |
| March 2 | Bob Lurie becomes CEO of San Francisco Giants |
| March 2 | "Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 766 performances |
| March 2 | Holgate, Kemp and Lopez' musical premieres in New York City |
| March 2 | Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest |
| March 3 | Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia |
| March 4 | John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio |
| March 4 | San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth |
| March 5 | British pounds falls below $2 for 1st time |
| March 6 | Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov (URS) |
| March 6 | Ice Pairs Championship at Gothenburg won by Rodnina and Zaitsev (URS) |
| March 6 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (GRB) |
| March 6 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Gothenburg won by Dorothy Hamill |
| March 7 | Morocco and Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria |
| March 8 | 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China |
| March 9 | 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy |
| March 9 | Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0 |
| March 12 | South African troops leave Angola |
| March 14 | Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race |
| March 14 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 15 | Failed coup in Niger |
| March 16 | British premier Harold Wilson resigns |
| March 17 | Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76) |
| March 17 | Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried |
| March 17 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 19 | Princess Margaret separates from the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years |
| March 20 | Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.70) |
| March 20 | Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery |
| March 23 | International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying) |
| March 24 | Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's military |
| March 25 | Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties |
| March 25 | "My Fair Lady" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 384 performances |
| March 25 | "Rex" opens at Lunt-Fontaine Theater New York City for 48 performances |
| March 26 | AL approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M |
| March 26 | Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album |
| March 27 | Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64, for AIWA basketball title |
| March 27 | Washington D.C. underground Metro opens |
| March 29 | 38th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Michigan 86-68 |
| March 29 | 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students |
| March 30 | Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation |
| March 31 | Cleveland Cavaliers clinch their 1st ever NBA playoff bearth |
| March 31 | New Jersey Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator |
| April 1 | Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer |
| April 2 | A's trade prospective free agents Reggie Jackson and Ken Holtzman, to Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez and Paul Mitchell |
| April 2 | Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds prince Sihanouk as premier |
| April 2 | Portuguese constitution assumed |
| April 3 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| April 3 | Philadelphia Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game |
| April 4 | 5th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Judy Rankin |
| April 4 | Seni Pramoj's Democratic Party wins elections in Thailand |
| April 5 | Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of England |
| April 5 | Tom Stoppard's "Dirty Linen," premieres in London |
| April 6 | 1st quadrophonic movie track: "Ladies and Gentlemen the Rolling Stones" |
| April 7 | Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping |
| April 9 | U.S. and Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use |
| April 10 | Brewers' Don Money's grand slammer disallowed - Yankees win 9-7 |
| April 10 | Cleveland Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title |
| April 11 | 40th Golf Masters Championship: Ray Floyd wins, shooting a 271 |
| April 12 | India set 403 to win by WI They get them, 6 wkts 7 overs spare |
| April 13 | 1st NBA playoff game for Cleveland Cavliers, they lose 100-95 to Wash |
| April 13 | Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes |
| April 15 | Yankee stadium reopens, Yankees beat Twins after trailing 4-0 |
| April 17 | NL greatest comeback, trailing 12-1 Phillies win 18-16 in 10, Mike Schmidt hits 4 consecutive home runs |
| April 18 | 30th Tony Awards: Travesties and Chorus Line win |
| April 18 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Karsten- Ping Golf Open |
| April 19 | 5th Boston Women's Marathon won by Kim Merritt of Wis in 2:47:10 |
| April 19 | 80th Boston Marathon won by Jack Fultz of Wash, DC in 2:20:19 |
| April 20 | George Harrison sings lumberjack song with Monty Python |
| April 21 | Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing |
| April 21 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| April 22 | Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor |
| April 25 | Cub centerfielder Rick Monday rescues U.S. flag from 2 fans trying to set it on fire |
| April 25 | Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country |
| April 25 | India all out for 97 vs. West Indies |
| April 25 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
| April 25 | Portugal adopts constitution |
| April 26 | Pan Am begins non-stop flights New York City - Tokyo |
| April 27 | Arabic Monetary Fund established in Abu Dhabi |
| April 27 | "So Long 174th St" opens at Harkness Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| April 29 | Minister Irene Vorrink begins fluoridating Dutch drinking water |
| April 30 | Muhammad Ali beats Jimmy Young in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| April 30 | Royal Canadian Mint opens a branch in Winnipeg Manitoba |
| April 30 | Wings release "Silly Love Songs" |
| May 1 | 102nd Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero, Jr. on Bold Forbes wins in 2:01.6 |
| May 1 | Jos Hermens, runs Dutch record for 20K (57:24.2) |
| May 2 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic |
| May 3 | Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26) |
| May 3 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift) |
| May 4 | "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" opens at Mark Hellinger New York City for 7 performances |
| May 4 | Kiss performs their 1st concert |
| May 5 | Anderlecht wins 16th soccer Europe Cup II |
| May 5 | Train collision at Schiedam Netherlands, kills 24 |
| May 8 | "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" closes at Mark Hellinger New York City after 7 performances |
| May 9 | Sally Little wins LPGA Ladies Masters at Moss Creek Golf Tournament |
| May 9 | "So Long 174th St" closes at Harkness Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| May 11 | Emmy 3rd Daytime Award presentation |
| May 11 | Last broadcast of "Marcus Welby, MD" on ABC-TV |
| May 12 | Bayern Munich wins 21st Europe Cup 1 |
| May 13 | 9th and final ABA championship: New York Nets beat Denv Nuggets, 4 games to 2 |
| May 14 | Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter |
| May 14 | Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast |
| May 15 | 102nd Preakness: John Lively aboard Elocutionist wins in 1:55 |
| May 15 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| May 15 | Fonz Song by Heyettes hits #91 |
| May 15 | Kentucky Moonrunner by Cledus Maggard hits #85 |
| May 16 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Philadelphia Flyers in 4 games |
| May 16 | Sue Roberts wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic |
| May 17 | 28th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson and M Learned |
| May 17 | Earthquake in Uzbekistan: 1000's killed |
| May 19 | Gold ownership legalized in Australia |
| May 19 | Liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge |
| May 19 | Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence |
| May 19 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| May 20 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| May 22 | NASA launches space vehicle S-179 |
| May 22 | St. Louis Cardinal Reggie Smith hits 3 home run |
| May 23 | Amy Alcott wins '76 LPGA Golf Classic |
| May 24 | 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington D.C.) |
| May 24 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Richard Dunn in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| May 25 | Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Richard Dunn in Munich |
| May 27 | "Something's Afoot" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 61 performances |
| May 29 | "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash hits #29 |
| May 29 | Only home run of Joe Niekro's 22-year career, comes off brother Phil |
| May 30 | 22nd LPGA Championship won by Betty Burfeindt |
| May 30 | Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds) |
| May 31 | Loudest Pennsylvania (76 KW) for Who's Quadrophenia in London |
| June 2 | East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia |
| June 3 | Queen's "Bhoemian Rhapsody" goes gold |
| June 3 | Test Cricket debut of Mike Brearley vs. West Indies (0 and 17) |
| June 3 | U.S. presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta |
| June 5 | 108th Belmont: Angel Cordero, Jr. aboard Bold Forbes wins in 2:29 |
| June 5 | "Bigfoot" by Bro Smith hits #57 |
| June 5 | Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage, 14 die |
| June 6 | 30th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2 |
| June 6 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic |
| June 7 | NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor and David Brinkley, premieres |
| June 8 | Houston Astros draft Floyd Bannister #1 |
| June 10 | 49th National Spelling Bee: Tim Kneale wins spelling narcolepsy |
| June 10 | 67,000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome |
| June 11 | Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa |
| June 11 | Australian band AC/DC begin their 1st headline tour of Britain |
| June 11 | Beatles "Rock and Roll Music" LP is released in USA |
| June 11 | "Magnificent Marble Machine," last airs on NBC-TV |
| June 13 | 4th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Donna Caponi |
| June 13 | Bob Marley performs in Amsterdam |
| June 13 | Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04) |
| June 14 | 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yankees beat Mets 8-4 |
| June 14 | "Gong Show" premieres on TV, syndication |
| June 15 | Rain out! Astrodome cancels game heavy rains make it difficult for visiting team and umpires to get through flooded streets to the stadium |
| June 15 | Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor and Demsey to Baltimore for Holtzman, Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick and Jim Freeman |
| June 16 | Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa, Soweto Day |
| June 17 | ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets and Spurs) merges into NBA |
| June 17 | Indonesia annexes Portuguese East-Timor |
| June 18 | Bowie Kuhn voids A's sales, totaling $35 million, of Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers to Red Sox, and Vida Blue to Yankees |
| June 18 | Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for 340,000 pounds |
| June 18 | St. Louis Cardinals Lou Brock and Hector Cruz hit inside-the-park home runs |
| June 19 | King Charles XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Dutchess Silvia Sommerlath |
| June 19 | U.S. Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth |
| June 20 | 76th U.S. Golf Open: Jerry Pate shoots a 277 at Atlanta AC in Duluth Ga |
| June 20 | Carl Fugate, Starkwether accomplice, paroled |
| June 20 | Czechoslovakia becomes European soccer champ |
| June 20 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic |
| June 21 | Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy |
| June 22 | "Godspell" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 527 performances |
| June 22 | San Diego Padre pitcher Randy Jones ties record of 68 innings without a walk |
| June 23 | CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure, 555 m, opens |
| June 24 | 1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany |
| June 25 | Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader |
| June 26 | WS shortstop Toby Harrah plays DH without touching a batted ball |
| June 27 | Air France Airbus hijacked in Germany to Uganda |
| June 27 | Israeli raid on Entebbe, Uganda |
| June 27 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Invitational |
| June 27 | "Pacific Overtures" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 193 performances |
| June 27 | Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president |
| June 28 | 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo |
| June 28 | Hijacked French Airbus lands in Entebbe, Uganda |
| June 29 | Seychelles gains independence from Britain |
| June 30 | John Walker of New Zealand sets record for 2000 m, 4:51.4 |
| July 1 | Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of U.S. Conference of Mayors |
| July 2 | 83rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats E Goolagong (63 46 86) |
| July 2 | Formal reunification of North and South Vietnam |
| July 2 | Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual |
| July 3 | 90th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Ilse Nastase (64 62 97) |
| July 3 | Adolfo Suarez becomes premier of Spain |
| July 3 | After 12 years, Brian Wilson performs with the Beach Boys |
| July 3 | Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew and passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers |
| July 4 | Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt., New York |
| July 4 | Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers |
| July 4 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Bloomington Golf Classic Bicentennial |
| July 6 | Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station |
| July 7 | E. Henry Knoche, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| July 7 | Vernon A. Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
| July 7 | Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars |
| July 8 | Randy Jones wins NL record 16 games before All Star break |
| July 9 | England all out for 71 vs. WI at Old Trafford, Holding 14 5-7-17-5 |
| July 9 | Houston Astro Larry Dierker no-hits Montreal Expos, 6-0 |
| July 9 | Uganda asks United Nations to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe |
| July 10 | 105th British Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Royal Birkdale |
| July 10 | Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud) |
| July 11 | 1st U.S. football club in Austria forms (FAAFC-1st Austrian American) |
| July 11 | 31st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner |
| July 11 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| July 11 | In pre-game promo at Atlanta County Stadium, 34 couples wed at home plate followed by Championship Wrestling "Headlocks and Wedlocks" |
| July 12 | Ian Dury and Kilburns disband |
| July 13 | 47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia |
| July 13 | All star MVP: George Foster (Cincinnati Reds) |
| July 13 | Last day of Test Cricket for Brian Close, aged 45 |
| July 14 | Jimmy Carter wins Democratic President nomination in New York City |
| July 14 | U.S.S.R. banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands |
| July 15 | 36-hour kidnap of 26 school children and their bus driver in California |
| July 16 | Rock duo Loggins and Messina break-up after 6 years |
| July 17 | 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal |
| July 17 | Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor |
| July 18 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
| July 18 | Lucien van Impe wins Tour de France |
| July 18 | "Something's Afoot" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 61 performances |
| July 18 | Stockhausens "Sirius," premieres in New York City |
| July 18 | Thiokol conducts 2-minute firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Utah |
| July 19 | Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony |
| July 19 | Rock group Deep Purple disbands |
| July 20 | Last U.S. troops leave Thailand |
| July 20 | U.S. Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing |
| July 21 | 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Philadelphia |
| July 21 | "Guys and Dolls" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 239 performances |
| July 22 | "Let My People Come" opens at Morosco Theater New York City for 106 performances |
| July 23 | 42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895) |
| July 23 | Baltimore Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game |
| July 23 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| July 23 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 23 | Wings release "Let 'em In" |
| July 24 | John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes |
| July 25 | Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01) |
| July 25 | Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| July 27 | 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese |
| July 27 | Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested, Lockheed Affair |
| July 28 | 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake |
| July 28 | 8.2 and 7.4 earthquake devastate Tangsha, China (240-750,000 die) |
| July 28 | Eldon Joersz and Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph |
| July 28 | White Sox John Odom (5 inn) and Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's |
| July 29 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test |
| July 30 | Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy |
| July 30 | Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball |
| July 31 | Seychelles Independence, Independence day |
| July 31 | Waldemar Cierpinski runs Olympic marathon (2:09:55.0) |
| August 1 | 21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada |
| August 1 | Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colorado on Route 34, kills 139 |
| August 1 | Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton) |
| August 1 | Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20) |
| August 4 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| August 7 | Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open |
| August 7 | Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars |
| August 7 | U.S. Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth |
| August 8 | Chicago White Sox suit up in shorts |
| August 9 | Clive Lloyd scores double-ton in 120 minutes, WI vs. Glamorgan |
| August 9 | Pitt Pirate John Candelaria no-hits Los Angeles Dodgers, 2-0 |
| August 9 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth |
| August 11 | Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses and is hospitalized in Miami |
| August 11 | Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die |
| August 12 | Christian militia conquer Palestinian camp Tell al-Za'tar, 2000 killed |
| August 14 | 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast |
| August 15 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic |
| August 16 | 58th PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots a 281 at Congressional MD |
| August 16 | St. Louis Cardinals beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo) |
| August 17 | An earthquake and tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000 |
| August 17 | Big win for WI at The Oval Michael Holding 14-149 for match |
| August 18 | U.S.S.R.'s Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon |
| August 19 | President Gerald R. Ford won Republican President nomination at Kansas City convention |
| August 21 | Al Bumbry hits 17th inside-the-park home run in Oriole history |
| August 21 | Battle East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes 1st British firewoman |
| August 22 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
| August 23 | Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die |
| August 24 | Soyuz 21 returns to Earth |
| August 25 | Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion |
| August 25 | Yankees beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings |
| August 27 | Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in U.S. Tennis Open |
| August 28 | N.Y. Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup |
| August 28 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| August 29 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
| August 30 | Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show |
| August 30 | Turks and Caicos Islands adopts constitution |
| August 31 | George Harrison found guilty of plagurizing "My Sweet Lord" |
| August 31 | Mexican peso devalued |
| August 31 | Trinidad and Tobago adopts constitution |
| August 31 | Waldemar Cierpinski wins 18th Olympics Marathon (2:09:55.0) |
| September 1 | NASA launches space vehicle S-197 |
| September 1 | New Jersey Meadowlands racetrack opens |
| September 1 | Wayne Hays, Representative-D-Ohio 1949 - 1976, resigns after scandal with Elizabeth Ray |
| September 3 | Viking 2 soft lands on Mars and returns photos |
| September 4 | Palestinians hijack KLM DC-9 to Cyprus |
| September 5 | "Rex" closes at Lunt-Fontaine Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| September 5 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic |
| September 5 | "Very Good Eddie" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 307 performances |
| September 6 | Jerry Lewis' 11th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, Dean Martin appears |
| September 6 | Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet |
| September 7 | U.S. courts find George Harrison guilty of plagiarism for 'He's So Fine' |
| September 8 | Fons Rademakers' film "Max Havelaar" premieres in Amsterdam |
| September 10 | 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard |
| September 10 | 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, New York |
| September 11 | 90th U.S. Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats E Goolagong Cawley (63 60) Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight U.S. Open Final (Evert wins) |
| September 11 | Dorothy Kathleen Benham (Minn), 20, crowned 49th Miss America 1977 |
| September 11 | Minnie Minoso bats for White Sox after a 12-year hiatus (hitless) |
| September 12 | 96th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 36 76 64) |
| September 12 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| September 12 | Seattle Seahawks play 1st regular-season game (St. L 30, Sea 24) |
| September 12 | White Sox Minnie Minoso, 53, is oldest to get a hit in majors |
| September 13 | 2nd Enterprise, approach and lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s) |
| September 15 | Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who ...," premieres in New York City |
| September 15 | Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days |
| September 16 | Egypt president Sadat re-elected |
| September 16 | Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests and bishop |
| September 17 | Amnesty International receives Erasmus-prize |
| September 17 | NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, California |
| September 17 | Ringo releases "Ringo's Rotogravure" album |
| September 18 | Cleveland manager Frank Robinson last game as a player |
| September 18 | Dom Mintoff's Labour Party wins Malta election |
| September 18 | Reverend Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention |
| September 19 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Portland Golf Classic |
| September 19 | "Going Up" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 49 performances |
| September 20 | Metroliner official opens in Brussels |
| September 20 | Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women |
| September 20 | Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion |
| September 21 | Wings performs in Zagreb Yugoslavia |
| September 23 | Ford-Carter TV debate |
| September 23 | South Africa decides to allow multi-racial teams to represent them |
| September 23 | Soyuz 22 returns to Earth |
| September 24 | Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter |
| September 24 | "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 5959 performances |
| September 25 | Expo's last game at Montreal's Jarry Park |
| September 25 | "Porgy and Bess" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 122 performances |
| September 26 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| September 26 | Denver's Rick Upchurch returns 2 punts for TDs against Cleveland |
| September 26 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Carlton Golf |
| September 26 | Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title |
| September 28 | A&M sues George Harrison who fails to meet deadline for LP completion |
| September 28 | Congress passes Toxic Substances Control Act |
| September 28 | Muhammad Ali beats Ken Norton in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| September 29 | 2nd Chamber recognizes Dutch Liberals/social democratic abortion law |
| September 29 | "Alice," debuts on CBS-TV |
| September 29 | Boy George expelled from school |
| September 29 | Jerry Lee Lewis, attempting to shoot soda bottles hits his bass player Norman Owens twice in the chest |
| September 29 | San Francisco Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0 |
| September 29 | Syria drives Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon |
| September 29 | Tommy Lasorda replaces Walter Alston as Dodger manager |
| September 29 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 1 | 1st Dutch casino opens |
| October 2 | "Let My People Come" closes at Morosco Theater New York City after 106 performances |
| October 3 | Hank Aaron singles in his last at bat and drives in his 2,297th run |
| October 3 | Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election |
| October 4 | Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke |
| October 4 | Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers |
| October 5 | Seattle and Toronto picks 30 unprotected players on other AL rosters Ruppert Jones (Seattle) and Bob Bailor (Toronto) are picked 1st |
| October 6 | Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack |
| October 6 | "Gang of Four" arrested in Beijing |
| October 6 | John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent |
| October 6 | President Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe" |
| October 8 | Sex Pistols sign with EMI |
| October 9 | Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on debut New Zealand vs. Pak Javed 1st wkt |
| October 9 | "Robber Bridegroom" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 145 performances |
| October 9 | TCricket est debut of Javed Miandad, scores 163 on 1st day |
| October 9 | Yankees 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1 |
| October 10 | Beijing reports arrest of Mao Tse Tung's widow |
| October 10 | Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33 |
| October 10 | New Jersey Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens |
| October 11 | 10th Country Music Association Award: Mel Tillis wins |
| October 11 | Mao Tse-Tung's widow Jiang Qing and "Gang of Four," arrested and charged with plotting a coup |
| October 12 | 4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach and land test (ALT) flight |
| October 12 | Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party |
| October 14 | Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homer gives New York Yankees pennant #30 |
| October 14 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman |
| October 14 | Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6, but returns without docking |
| October 15 | 1st debate of major-ticket Vice President nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R) |
| October 15 | Ringo releases "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll" |
| October 16 | Soyuz 23 returns to Earth |
| October 16 | Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 minutes 54 seconds |
| October 17 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| October 17 | Coldest World Series game Yankees vs Cincinnati, 39 degrees F (until 1997) |
| October 18 | Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr |
| October 20 | 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince |
| October 20 | New York Nets Julius "Dr. J" Erving sold to Philadelphia 76ers |
| October 21 | American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature |
| October 21 | Cincinnati Reds sweep New York Yankees, in 73rd World Series |
| October 21 | New York Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed |
| October 21 | New York Yankee Thurman Munson ties World Series mark of 6 straight singles |
| October 21 | Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow |
| October 22 | Rick Barry (SF), begins then longest NBA free throw streak of 60 |
| October 24 | 1st Jewish film and TV festival |
| October 24 | 6th New York City Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:39:11 |
| October 24 | 7th New York City Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:10:10 |
| October 24 | Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader |
| October 24 | Sadiq and Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings vs. New Zealand |
| October 25 | 5th Enterprise, approach and lands test (ALT) flight |
| October 26 | Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa |
| October 26 | Trinidad and Tobago becomes a republic |
| October 28 | Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (New York Yankees) |
| October 28 | Train collision at Goes, Netherlands, 7 die |
| October 30 | "Going Up" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 49 performances |
| October 30 | Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show |
| October 30 | Reverend Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ |
| October 31 | Javed Miandad, 206 vs. New Zealand, age 19 years 141 days (29 fours 1 six) |
| November 1 | Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule |
| November 1 | "Don't Step on My Olive Branch" opens at Playhouse New York City for 16 performances |
| November 1 | West German Gens Krupinski/Franke admit to being Nazis |
| November 2 | Jimmy Carter defeats Gerald Ford for president |
| November 2 | New Jersey voters approve gambling for Atlantic City |
| November 2 | San Diego Padre Randy Jones wins NL Cy Young |
| November 3 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA/Japan Mizuno Golf |
| November 4 | 1st mass-market free-agent reentry draft, Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi, Gullett, Tenace, Fingers, Baylor, Grich and McCovey, available |
| November 5 | Baltimore Jim Palmer wins AL Cy Young Award |
| November 5 | New AL franchises in Seattle and Toronto fill up their rosters |
| November 5 | Pirates trade Manny Sanguillen and $100,000 to A's for manager Chuck Tanner |
| November 5 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| November 6 | Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP |
| November 6 | Former Twins relief ace Bill Campbell is 1st free-agent to sign with a new team, joining the Red Sox for $1 million over 4 years |
| November 7 | "Gone With the Wind" televised |
| November 9 | Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career |
| November 9 | U.N. General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa |
| November 10 | Utah Supreme Court OKs execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore |
| November 14 | Cleveland Browns' Jerry Sherk sets club record with 4 sacks |
| November 14 | "Don't Step on My Olive Branch" closes at Playhouse New York City after 16 performances |
| November 14 | War criminal Pieter Menten captured 1 day after fleeing |
| November 15 | Syrian army conquerors Beirut |
| November 16 | Rene Levesque's "Parti Quebecois" wins elections in Quebec |
| November 16 | Rick Barry (SF), ends then longest NBA free throw streak of 60 |
| November 17 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| November 18 | Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 years of dictatorship |
| November 18 | Yankees sign free agent Don Gullett |
| November 19 | George Harrison releases "This Song" |
| November 19 | Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail |
| November 20 | George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live |
| November 20 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-Hong Kong Golf Open |
| November 22 | Algeria Constitution goes into effect |
| November 22 | Comic strip "Cathy," by Cathy Guisewhite, debuts |
| November 23 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 23 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| November 24 | NBA Atlanta Hawks end a 28 game road losing streak |
| November 24 | Reds Joe Morgan wins his 2nd straight NL MVP Award |
| November 25 | O. J. Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo vs. Detroit |
| November 25 | The Band's farewell concert at SF's Winterland Ballroom |
| November 25 | Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity |
| November 26 | East Germany deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship |
| November 26 | Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single |
| November 26 | Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK" |
| November 26 | Willy Burns elected chairman of Social International |
| November 27 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Colgate-Far East Golf Championship |
| November 27 | Miss Teenage America Pageant |
| November 28 | 64th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 23-20 |
| November 29 | Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with New York Yankees |
| November 30 | 42nd Heisman Trophy Award: Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh (RB) |
| December 1 | Angola admitted to UN |
| December 1 | Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president |
| December 1 | Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks" |
| December 3 | Dr. Patrick J Hillery elected president of Iraq |
| December 4 | Liz Taylor's 7th marriage to John Warner |
| December 5 | Buffalo Bill OJ Simpson rushes 203 yards |
| December 6 | War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich |
| December 7 | U.N. Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General for 2nd 5 yr term |
| December 8 | U.N. General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General |
| December 8 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 10 | Wings release triple album "Wings Over America" |
| December 12 | Quarterback Joe Namath last game as a New York Jet |
| December 13 | Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur |
| December 13 | Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to San Francisco 13h14m) |
| December 14 | Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social dem abortion laws |
| December 15 | Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground |
| December 15 | Jamaica premier Manley wins elections |
| December 16 | Andrew Young named Ambassador and Chief U.S. Delegate to UN |
| December 16 | Charlie Finley's $10 million damage suit against Bowie Kuhn begins |
| December 16 | Government halts swine flu vaccination prog following reports of paralysis |
| December 16 | Liberian tanker stranded at Nantucket, 180,000 barrels oil in sea |
| December 17 | Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national |
| December 18 | "A Star is Born," with Barbra Striesand, premieres |
| December 18 | Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan |
| December 18 | Wonder Woman debuts on ABC |
| December 19 | Jo Ann Washam/Chi Chi Rodriguez wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Champ |
| December 19 | John Lever takes 7-46 in 1st Test Cricket innings, vs. India Delhi |
| December 19 | Piper Cherokee crashes into Baltimore Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt |
| December 19 | President Brezhnev receives his 5th Lenin order |
| December 20 | Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin resigns |
| December 20 | "Music Is" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| December 21 | 20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins |
| December 21 | Patricia R. Harris named secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
| December 21 | U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979 - Year of Child |
| December 21 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 22 | 35 Unification church couples wed in New York City |
| December 22 | East Germany banishes singer Nina Hagen |
| December 22 | "Your Arm's Too Short..." opens at Lyceum New York City for 429 performances |
| December 25 | Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea, about 100 killed |
| December 25 | Takeo Fukuda becomes Japanese premier |
| December 26 | "Music Is" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| December 27 | Albania constitution goes into effect |
| December 28 | "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 167 performances |
| December 28 | Genie Francis joind "General Hospital" as Laura Vining |
| December 28 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 28 | Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa |
| December 30 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 31 | The Cars played their 1st gig |
| December 31 | TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run |
