| January 1 | 1st woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest (Jacqueline Means) |
| January 1 | Belgium reapportions 2,359 communities into 596 |
| January 1 | Czechoslovakian intellects begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77 |
| January 1 | Tony Dorsett runs for record 202 yards in the Sugar Bowl |
| January 2 | Bowie Kuhn suspends Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing |
| January 3 | Apple Computers incorporated |
| January 3 | Lindy McDaniel retires with 2nd most pitching appearances (987 games) |
| January 4 | Mary Shane hired by Chicago White Sox as 1st woman TV play-by-play |
| January 5 | Kenya president Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament |
| January 6 | EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols |
| January 7 | Huyman Rights Charta '77 established in Prague |
| January 9 | "Porgy and Bess" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 122 performances |
| January 9 | Superbowl XI: Oakland Raiders beat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, WR |
| January 10 | 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom |
| January 11 | Bollingen Prize awarded to David Ignatow |
| January 11 | Cubs trade outfielder Rick Monday to Dodgers for Bill Buckner |
| January 11 | France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in massacre of Israeli athletes at 1972 Munich Olympics |
| January 12 | Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes |
| January 12 | "Ipi Tombi" opens at Harkness Theater New York City for 39 performances |
| January 15 | Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live" |
| January 15 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament |
| January 16 | Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders |
| January 17 | KC releases Tommy Davis, ends an 18-year career with 10 teams |
| January 17 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 24-14 |
| January 17 | Zaire president Mobutu visits Belgium |
| January 18 | Imran Khan takes 12 wickets in match for Pakistan win at the SCG |
| January 19 | Ernie Banks elected to Hall of Fame |
| January 19 | President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) |
| January 19 | World's largest crowd-12.7 million-for Indian religious festival |
| January 20 | George Bush, ends term as 11th director of CIA |
| January 20 | Mr. Knoche, serves as acting director of CIA |
| January 21 | Italy legalizes abortion |
| January 21 | President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders |
| January 23 | $1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited, Paris |
| January 23 | Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC |
| January 24 | 5 lawyers murdered by fascist in Madrid |
| January 26 | Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai and Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple twist lift, Helsinki |
| January 27 | 1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV |
| January 27 | President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000) |
| January 30 | 8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever |
| January 30 | Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (NSW vs. Qld) |
| January 30 | Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame |
| January 31 | Frenchman Francois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad |
| January 31 | Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, and Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| February 1 | Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives |
| February 1 | Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball |
| February 2 | Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (U.S.S.R.) |
| February 2 | Radio Shack officially begins creating TRS-80 computer |
| February 2 | Toronto's Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals, NHL REcord for a defenseman |
| February 3 | Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame |
| February 4 | 30th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 at Vancouver |
| February 4 | Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto a Chicago Street (11 die, 200 hurt) |
| February 4 | Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" released |
| February 4 | Wings release "Maybe I'm Amazed" |
| February 5 | "CB Savage" by Rod Hart peaks at #67 |
| February 5 | "Dis-Gorilla (part 1)" by Rick Dees peaks at #56 |
| February 5 | General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio |
| February 5 | "In The Mood" by Henhouse 5 Plus Too (Ray Stevens) peaks at #40 |
| February 5 | Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight |
| February 5 | "Turn Loose On My Leg" by Jim Stafford peaks at #98 |
| February 5 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
| February 5 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
| February 5 | "Up Your Nose" by Gabriel Kaplan peaks at #91 |
| February 6 | 4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0 |
| February 6 | Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 m over 16 buses, near Paris |
| February 6 | Harley Race beats Terry Funk in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champ |
| February 7 | Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts |
| February 8 | Earthquake in San Francisco, at 5.0, strongest since 1966 |
| February 10 | Bomb explosion in Moskouse metro |
| February 10 | Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebee Raid (1976) |
| February 10 | "Party with Comden and Green" opens at Morosco Theater New York City for 92 performances |
| February 10 | Yehonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx named in honor of Bronx-born |
| February 11 | 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean) |
| February 12 | Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0 |
| February 13 | Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship |
| February 13 | "Guys and Dolls" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 239 performances |
| February 13 | "Ipi Tombi" closes at Harkness Theater New York City after 39 performances |
| February 13 | Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic |
| February 13 | "Robber Bridegroom" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 145 performances |
| February 15 | Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election |
| February 16 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| February 18 | George Harrison releases "True Love" |
| February 18 | Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on it's maiden flight |
| February 18 | Test Cricket debuts of Colin Croft and Joel Garner vs. Pakistan Bridgetown |
| February 19 | 19th Grammy Awards: This Masquerade, Starland Vocal Band |
| February 19 | A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000 |
| February 19 | Doug Walters scores 250 vs. New Zealand, 217 stand for 7th wicket w/Gilmour |
| February 19 | Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released |
| February 19 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| February 19 | Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner |
| February 20 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| February 20 | "My Fair Lady" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 384 performances |
| February 21 | 74 Unification Church couples wed in New York City |
| February 24 | President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights |
| February 25 | New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts |
| February 25 | Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons |
| February 25 | Soyuz 24 returns to Earth |
| February 26 | 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747) |
| February 27 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
| February 27 | Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada |
| February 28 | 1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, Los Angeles California) |
| February 28 | Harbor strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends |
| March 1 | Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards |
| March 1 | U.S. extends territorial waters to 200 miles |
| March 2 | 1st time Jay Leno appears on Tonight Show with host Johnny Carson |
| March 2 | Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive Life Achievement Award |
| March 2 | Libya amends constitution |
| March 3 | Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (URS) |
| March 3 | Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal |
| March 3 | Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms |
| March 3 | Men's Figure Skating Champions in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (U.S.S.R.) |
| March 3 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA) |
| March 4 | 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico |
| March 4 | Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain |
| March 4 | Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541 |
| March 7 | Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections |
| March 7 | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter |
| March 8 | Henry L. Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond |
| March 8 | Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter) |
| March 9 | Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche |
| March 9 | Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Washington D.C., siege ended Mar 11th |
| March 10 | Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO |
| March 11 | Moslems hold 130 hostages in Washington D.C. |
| March 12 | Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party |
| March 12 | Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel |
| March 13 | Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test |
| March 15 | "Eight is Enough" premiers on ABC-TV |
| March 15 | U.S. House of Representatives begin 90 day test of televising its sessions |
| March 16 | U.S. president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland |
| March 17 | Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877 |
| March 18 | Clash releases their 1st recording "White Riot" |
| March 18 | U.S. restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea and Cambodia |
| March 18 | Vietnam hands over MIA to U.S. |
| March 19 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| March 19 | Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.33) |
| March 19 | "Side by Side by Sondheim" closes at Music Box New York City after 390 performances |
| March 20 | Communists/socialists win French municipal elections |
| March 20 | Parisians elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century |
| March 20 | Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India |
| March 22 | Dutch Den Uyl government falls |
| March 22 | Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India |
| March 22 | Uyl government falls |
| March 26 | Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero" |
| March 27 | 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife |
| March 27 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic |
| March 28 | 39th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Marquette beats North Carolina 67-59 |
| March 28 | 49th Academy Awards - "Rocky," Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway win |
| March 28 | Morarji Desai forms government in India |
| March 31 | Michael Cristofer's "Shadow Box," premieres in New York City |
| April 1 | Attempt for Moslem state in Chad fails |
| April 1 | NFL decides to experiment with a 7th official in some preseason games |
| April 2 | Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks |
| April 2 | Mont Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a lose |
| April 3 | 6th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Kathy Whitworth |
| April 3 | Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point |
| April 3 | Egyptian President Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter |
| April 3 | Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time |
| April 5 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 6 | Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released |
| April 6 | Kingdome opens, Seattle Mariners 1st game, loses to Angels 7-0 |
| April 7 | Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant |
| April 7 | Toronto Blues Jays 1st game, they beat Chicago 9-5 |
| April 8 | Israel premier Rabin resigns |
| April 9 | Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years |
| April 10 | 41st Golf Masters Championship: Tom Watson wins, shooting a 276 |
| April 10 | Beverly Klass wins LPGA Women's International Golf Satellite |
| April 10 | Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inn game (3:17) |
| April 11 | Ireland sets fishing zone at 50 mile |
| April 14 | Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license |
| April 15 | 1st baseball game at Montreal's Olympic Stadium |
| April 16 | Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia |
| April 17 | Christian-democrats win Belgium parliamentary election |
| April 17 | "I Love My Wife" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 864 performances |
| April 17 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament |
| April 18 | 6th Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:48:33 |
| April 18 | 81st Boston Marathon won by Jerome Drayton of Canada in 2:14:46 |
| April 18 | Alex Haley, author of "Roots," awarded Pulitzer Prize |
| April 18 | Eddie Murray hits his 1st HR |
| April 18 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for "Shadow Box" |
| April 18 | "Side by Side by Sondheim" opens at Music Box New York City for 390 performances |
| April 18 | Stephen Sondheim's musical "Side by Side" premieres in New York City |
| April 20 | Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on New Hampshire licenses |
| April 20 | Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres |
| April 21 | "Annie" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 2377 performances |
| April 21 | Billy Martin pulls Yankee line-up out of a hat, beats Blue Jays 8-6 |
| April 21 | Broadway play "Annie" opens, 1st of 2,377 performances |
| April 21 | C Strouse and M Charnins musical "Annie," premieres in New York City |
| April 21 | Zia ur-Rahman appointed president of Bangladesh |
| April 22 | Simon Peres becomes premier of Israel |
| April 23 | ADO The Hague soccer team forms |
| April 23 | Czechoslovakian chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously and only loses 10 |
| April 23 | Dr. Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops |
| April 23 | Miltitary workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa |
| April 24 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA American Defender Golf Tournament |
| April 25 | Cincinnati Reds tie record of 12 runs in 5th inning beating Braves 23-9 |
| April 25 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| April 26 | New York's famed disco Studio 54 opens |
| April 27 | Bloody riots in Soweto South Africa |
| April 27 | HCC, Hobby Computer Club, forms in Netherlands |
| April 28 | Andreas Baader and members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany |
| April 28 | Christopher Boyce convicted for selling secrets |
| April 29 | British Aerospace forms |
| April 30 | Billy Graham beats Bruno Sammartino in Baltimore, to become WWF champ |
| April 30 | "Party with Comden and Green" closes at Morosco New York City after 92 performances |
| April 30 | Ron Cey sets record of 29 RBIs in April |
| May 1 | Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:35:15.4) |
| May 1 | Debbie Austin wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
| May 1 | Empress Lilly dedicated |
| May 2 | "King and I" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 719 performances |
| May 6 | "Beatles at Hollywood Bowl," released in U.K. |
| May 7 | 103rd Kentucky Derby: Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins in 2:02.2 |
| May 7 | "Happy End" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 75 performances |
| May 8 | David Berkowitz pleads guilty in "Son of Sam" 44-caliber shootings |
| May 8 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic |
| May 9 | Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed |
| May 9 | Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon |
| May 9 | Patty Hearst let out of jail |
| May 11 | Hamburger SV wins 17th soccer Europe Cup II |
| May 11 | Ted Turner manages an Atlanta Braves game |
| May 12 | 1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London) |
| May 12 | Emmy 4th Daytime Award presentation |
| May 13 | Howard Stern begins broadcasting at WRNW, Briarcliff Manor, New York |
| May 14 | English football international Bobby Moore retires |
| May 14 | Kansas City Royals Jim Colborn no-hits Texas Rangers, 6-0 |
| May 14 | Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms |
| May 14 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games |
| May 15 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic |
| May 16 | 5 die as New York Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am building in New York City |
| May 16 | Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 for heavywgt boxing title |
| May 17 | Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel |
| May 18 | A nightclub fire in Cincinnati killed 164 |
| May 18 | Juventus wins 6th UEFA Cup at Bilbao |
| May 18 | Menachem Begin becomes Israel's Prime Minister |
| May 18 | Nightclub in Cincinnati fire kills 164 |
| May 19 | "Smokey and the Bandit," premieres |
| May 21 | 103rd Preakness: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 1:54.4 |
| May 21 | Albert Innaurato's "Gemini," premieres in New York City |
| May 21 | "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 167 performances |
| May 21 | Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19 |
| May 21 | San Diego Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings |
| May 22 | Final European scheduled run of Orient Express (94 years) |
| May 22 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic |
| May 22 | Red Sox (6) and Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11 |
| May 23 | Benin adopts its constitution |
| May 23 | Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11 |
| May 23 | Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell |
| May 24 | U.S.S.R. President Podgorny resigns |
| May 25 | "Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released |
| May 25 | "Brady Bunch Hour," last airs on ABC-TV |
| May 25 | Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election |
| May 25 | Liverpool wins 22nd Europe Cup 1 in Rome |
| May 25 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 26 | George Willig climbs New York City World Trade Center |
| May 26 | Movie "Star Wars" debuts |
| May 27 | 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582 |
| May 27 | New York City fines George Willig 1 cents for each of 110 stories he climbed |
| May 28 | 165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky |
| May 29 | A. J. Foyt wins Indianapolis 500 for a record 4th time |
| May 29 | Janet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in Indy 500 |
| May 29 | NBC News and Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio |
| May 29 | Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| May 29 | Sue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one |
| May 29 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| May 30 | Cleveland Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits California Angels, 2-0 |
| May 31 | "Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 920 performances |
| May 31 | Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar |
| May 31 | Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed |
| June 1 | British Virgin Islands adopts constitution |
| June 1 | Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason |
| June 1 | South Carolina Heerenveen soccer team forms in Heerenveen |
| June 2 | New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City |
| June 3 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 6th triple play (9-6-4-6-6 vs Kansas City Royals) |
| June 3 | Belgium government of Tindemans forms |
| June 3 | U.S. and Cuba talk about diplomatic relations |
| June 4 | Apple II, the 1st personal computer, goes on sale |
| June 4 | Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2 |
| June 5 | 31st NBA Championship: Port Trailblazers beat Philadelphia 76er, 4 games to 2 |
| June 5 | 31st Tony Awards: Shadow Box and Annie win |
| June 5 | Coup in Seychelles, National Day |
| June 5 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Talk Tournament '77 Golf Tournament |
| June 5 | Los Angeles Dodgers retire Walt Alston's #24 |
| June 6 | Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic and Concert for United Way |
| June 6 | Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss) |
| June 6 | Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws |
| June 6 | Washington Post reports U.S. has developed neutron bomb |
| June 7 | Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law |
| June 7 | White Sox draft Harold Baines #1 |
| June 8 | Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game |
| June 9 | 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist |
| June 9 | George and Patti Harrison divorce |
| June 9 | Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks |
| June 10 | Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II |
| June 10 | James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison |
| June 11 | 109th Belmont: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 2:29.6 |
| June 11 | "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Fat Woman)" by Joe Tex hits #12 |
| June 11 | "Dance and Shake Your Tambourine" by Universal Robot Band peaks at #93 |
| June 11 | Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland |
| June 11 | ELO releases "Telephone Line" |
| June 11 | "I'm Your Boogie Man" by Kansas City and Sunshine Band peaks at #1 |
| June 11 | Main Street Electrical Parade premieres at Disney |
| June 12 | 23rd LPGA Championship won by Chako Higuchi |
| June 12 | Ground-breaking ceremonies for President Kennedy library |
| June 12 | "Pippin" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 1944 performances |
| June 13 | Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured |
| June 15 | New York Mets trade Tom Seaver to Reds for Pat Zachry |
| June 15 | Spain's 1st free elections since 1936 (41 years) |
| June 15 | Wim Polak becomes mayor of Amsterdam |
| June 16 | "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway |
| June 16 | Fianna Fail-party wins Irish elections |
| June 16 | Leonid Brezhnev named president of U.S.S.R. |
| June 16 | Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over Kansas City Royals |
| June 18 | Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation |
| June 18 | Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten and Paul Cook, beaten and robbed by London pub |
| June 18 | Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747 |
| June 19 | 77th U.S. Golf Open: Hubert Green shoots a 278 at Southern Hills Tulsa |
| June 19 | Indians fire manager Frank Robinson and replace him with Jeff Torborg |
| June 19 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
| June 19 | Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann 1st U.S. male saint |
| June 19 | Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 home runs, all against Yankees |
| June 20 | Menahem Begin forms Israeli government |
| June 20 | Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez |
| June 21 | Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison |
| June 21 | Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's 6th PM |
| June 22 | Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison |
| June 22 | Walt Disney's "Rescuers" released |
| June 23 | 13th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 6-4 |
| June 24 | IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976 |
| June 25 | Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for 7th time |
| June 26 | 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia, Tennessee |
| June 26 | Debbie Austin wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic |
| June 26 | Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, last performance of his career |
| June 27 | 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise |
| June 27 | Djibouti (Afars and Issas) claims Independence from France |
| June 27 | Willie McCovey smashes 2 home runs in inning for 2nd time (Apr 12, 1973) |
| June 28 | Billy Hunter becomes Rangers' 4th manager in 6 days |
| June 28 | Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers |
| June 29 | Willie Stargell hits his 400th career HR |
| June 30 | Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52" |
| June 30 | Marvel Comics publish "Kiss book" tributing rock group Kiss |
| June 30 | U.S. Railway Post Office final train run, New York to Washington D.C. |
| June 30 | Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive home runs in Toronto |
| July 1 | 84th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats B Stove (46 63 61) |
| July 1 | FC Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam, Netherlands |
| July 1 | Marlies Gohr runs Europen record 100m (10.88 sec) |
| July 2 | 91st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Connors (36 62 61 57 64) |
| July 3 | 5th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Judy Rankin |
| July 3 | Turkey: premier Ecevit goes off |
| July 4 | Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher |
| July 4 | Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie |
| July 4 | Red Sox wallop a major league-record 8 home runs beating Toronto 9-6 |
| July 5 | Pakistan's army, led by General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power |
| July 6 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| July 7 | 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City |
| July 8 | Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hours) |
| July 9 | 106th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland |
| July 10 | "Happy End" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 75 performances |
| July 10 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic |
| July 11 | Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| July 12 | 1st free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise |
| July 12 | John Edrich scores his 100th 100, Surrey vs. Derbyshire at The Oval |
| July 13 | New York City experiences 25 hr black-out |
| July 14 | North Korea shoots down U.S. helicopter, killing 3 |
| July 14 | U.S. House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence |
| July 16 | Janelle Commissiong, of Trinidad and Tobago, crowned 26th Miss Universe |
| July 17 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
| July 18 | Hugh Leonard's "Da," premieres in London |
| July 18 | Vietnam becomes member of U.N. |
| July 19 | 48th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, New York |
| July 19 | All star MVP: Don Sutton (Los Angeles Dodgers) |
| July 19 | Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 76 |
| July 20 | Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 80 and causing $350 mil damage |
| July 21 | Libyan-Egyptian border fights |
| July 21 | Sri Lanka premier Bandaranaike loses election |
| July 23 | Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges |
| July 24 | 32nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy |
| July 24 | Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881 |
| July 24 | Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring 33 consecutive batsmen |
| July 26 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test |
| July 27 | John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in U.S. |
| July 28 | 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska |
| July 28 | Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks |
| July 28 | Test Cricket debut of Ian Botham vs. Australia Trent Bridge, 5-74 1st innings |
| July 31 | Debbie Austin wins LPGA Pocono Northeast Golf Classic |
| July 31 | E Henry Knoche, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
| July 31 | John F. Blake promoted from acting to deputy director of CIA |
| August 1 | San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer |
| August 3 | Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered |
| August 4 | President Carter establishes Department of Energy |
| August 4 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 6 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate European Women's Golf Open |
| August 7 | "Shenandoah" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 1,050 performances |
| August 8 | Maurine Stuart, ordained as Zen priest by Eido Tai Shimano Roshi |
| August 8 | Texas Rangers turn their 1st triple play (vs A's) |
| August 9 | Chris Old completes a century in 37 minutes, Yorks vs. Warwicks |
| August 9 | NHL refuses merger of 6 WHA clubs |
| August 10 | Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being "Son of Sam" 44 caliber killer |
| August 10 | U.S. and Panamana sign Panama Canal Zone accord |
| August 10 | U.S.S.R. performs (underground) nuclear test |
| August 11 | Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, vs. Australia at Headingley |
| August 12 | For 2nd straight day, Oakland's Manny Sanguillen foils a no-hit bid |
| August 12 | High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit |
| August 12 | Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight |
| August 13 | Randy Bachman quits BTO, they disband |
| August 14 | 59th PGA Championship: Lanny Wadkins shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach Cal |
| August 14 | 77,691 see New York Cosmos beat Ft. Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giant Stad |
| August 14 | Debbie Austin wins LPGA Long Island Charity Golf Classic |
| August 15 | England regain cricket Ashes by taking a 3-0 series lead over Australia |
| August 15 | SS chief Kappler escapes from prison hospital in Rome |
| August 16 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 16 | Yankees blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th |
| August 17 | Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole |
| August 17 | Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38.8) |
| August 17 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| August 18 | 2 girls are killed by a runaway car outside of Graceland |
| August 18 | Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton throws his NL record tying 5th one-hitter |
| August 19 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| August 20 | NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune |
| August 21 | Debbie Austin wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic |
| August 21 | Donna Patterson Brice sets high speed water skiing rec (111.11 mph) |
| August 23 | 1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor) |
| August 23 | Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in East Germany |
| August 23 | Yankees leap frog over Red Soxs game in 1st place to stay |
| August 26 | Frank Martinus Arion forms Surinamese Writers group 77 |
| August 27 | Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee |
| August 27 | "Chicago" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 947 performances |
| August 27 | Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2 |
| August 28 | Bonnie Lauer wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
| August 28 | N.Y. Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland, Oregon, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship |
| August 28 | New York Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 men and beats Texas Rangers 1-0 |
| August 28 | Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year |
| August 29 | St. Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3 |
| August 31 | Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft altitude record of 38.26 km (125,524') |
| August 31 | Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote |
| August 31 | Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus |
| September 1 | 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold |
| September 1 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 3 | Japan's Sadaharu Oh hits 756th HR to surpass Hank Aaron's total |
| September 3 | Last broadcast of "Mary Tyler Moore Show" on NBC-TV |
| September 4 | "Godspell" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 527 performances |
| September 4 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Rail Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic |
| September 5 | Cleveland Indians stage 1st "I hate the Yankee Hanky Night" |
| September 5 | Jerry Lewis' 12th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| September 5 | RAF kidnap West German work chairman Schleyer |
| September 5 | Voyager 1 (U.S.) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn |
| September 6 | Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977 |
| September 7 | Ethiopia drops diplomatic relations with Somalia |
| September 7 | President Carter and General Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties |
| September 8 | Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy |
| September 8 | Jimmy McCullough quits Wings |
| September 9 | 1st TRS-80 computer sold |
| September 9 | Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker and Allan Trammell debut together and will play together for 19 years |
| September 10 | 91st U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris Evert L Mills beats W Turnbull (76 62) |
| September 10 | Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits |
| September 10 | Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5) |
| September 10 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| September 10 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| September 10 | Susan Perkins (Ohio), crowned 50th Miss America 1978 |
| September 11 | 29th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Carroll O'Conner and Bea Arthur |
| September 11 | 97th U.S. Mens Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy Connors (26 63 75 60) |
| September 11 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
| September 13 | 1st TV viewer discretion warning-Soap |
| September 13 | General Motors introduces 1st U.S. diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88) |
| September 14 | Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robbeneiland South Africa |
| September 15 | "Man of La Mancha" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 124 performances |
| September 15 | Orioles forfeit to Blue Jays when manager Earl Weaver pulls team off field in 5th citing hazardous condition (small tarpaulin on bullpen mound) |
| September 15 | President Carter meets with 15 record company executives |
| September 15 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 16 | 90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premieres on TV |
| September 16 | Ringo releases "Drowning in Sea of Love" |
| September 16 | Seattle beats Royals, 4-1, to end KC's winning streak at 16 games |
| September 17 | 22nd Ryder Cup: U.S., 12 -13 at Royal Lytham and St. Annes England |
| September 17 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| September 17 | Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer, Reggie hits 2 more |
| September 17 | Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" is #1 for 19th straight week |
| September 18 | All 4 Kiss members release solo albums |
| September 18 | Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore |
| September 18 | Courageous (U.S.) sweeps Australia (Australia) in 24th America's Cup |
| September 18 | Joanne Carner/Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Team Golf Championship |
| September 18 | U.S. Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth and Moon together |
| September 20 | "Estrada" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| September 20 | Vietnam and Djibouti ask for membership in U.N. |
| September 20 | Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune |
| September 21 | U.S. minister of Foreign affairs Cyrus Vance dismissed |
| September 22 | Minn Twin Bert Blyleven no-hits California Angels, 9-0 |
| September 22 | Preston Jones' "Texas Trilogy," premieres in New York City |
| September 22 | West German RAF terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht |
| September 23 | 3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise |
| September 23 | Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels |
| September 24 | 1st broadcast of "Love Boat" on ABC-TV |
| September 24 | "Estrada" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| September 24 | Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards |
| September 25 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament |
| September 26 | Cleveland Browns play their 1st overtime game, beat Patriots 30-27 |
| September 26 | Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY |
| September 27 | Phillies clinch 2nd straight NL East Division title |
| September 29 | Eva Shain is 1st woman to referee a heavyweight championship |
| September 29 | James Brown's band walks out claiming they were underpaid and overworked |
| September 29 | Muhammad Ali beats Earnie Shavers in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| September 29 | Peter Schats circus opera "Houdini," premieres in Amsterdam |
| September 29 | Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit |
| September 29 | "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band," by Meco hits #1 |
| September 30 | Dutch Antillean government-Evertsz resigns |
| September 30 | Ringo releases "Ringo the 4th" album |
| September 30 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 1 | Brazilian soccer great Pele' retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games |
| October 1 | Department Of Energy established |
| October 1 | Elton John honored by MSG Hall of Fame |
| October 1 | Peter Schats opera "Houdini" premieres in Amsterdam |
| October 1 | Yankees win 2nd consecutive AL East title |
| October 2 | Dusty Baker 30th HR joins teammates Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith (32), and Ron Cey (30) in make Dodgers 1st team to boast 4 30-HR hitters |
| October 2 | Pakistan general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition |
| October 2 | Vivian Brownlee wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| October 3 | "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" opens at Imperial New York City for 66 performances |
| October 3 | Indira Gandhi arrested |
| October 4 | Pier 39 opens in San Francisco |
| October 5 | "Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 43 performances |
| October 6 | DL Coburns "Gin Game," premieres in New York City |
| October 6 | Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat Kansas City Royals 5-3 in 5th and deciding playoff game |
| October 7 | Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis |
| October 7 | U.S.S.R. adopts constitution |
| October 8 | Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant) |
| October 9 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Houston Exchange Clubs Golf Classic |
| October 9 | Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock |
| October 9 | Yankees rally for 3 in 9th and beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31 |
| October 10 | 11th Country Music Association Award: Ronnie Milsap wins |
| October 11 | Soyuz 25 returns to Earth |
| October 12 | 4th test of space shuttle Enterprise |
| October 12 | Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfolded, smashed into cop van |
| October 12 | "Throwaway Game" Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers |
| October 14 | Linda Ronstadt sings national anthem at World Series |
| October 14 | Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro |
| October 15 | Arkansas' Steve Little kicks a record tying 67 yard field goal |
| October 15 | Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life," goes #1 and stays #1 for 10 weeks |
| October 15 | Don Ritchie runs world record 100 mile (11:30:51) |
| October 17 | Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament |
| October 17 | West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages and killing 3 of 4 hijackers |
| October 18 | 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th |
| October 18 | New York Yankees win their 21st World Championship, 4 games |
| October 18 | Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record |
| October 18 | W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu |
| October 18 | Yankees beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years |
| October 19 | Corpse of kidnapped West German, H. M. Schleyer, found |
| October 19 | Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in New York City |
| October 20 | David Mamet's "Life in the Theater," premieres in New York City |
| October 20 | Hamilton Deane and John Balderstons "Dracula," premieres in New York City |
| October 21 | U.S. recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa |
| October 22 | International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 and 2 launched into Earth orbit |
| October 23 | 7th New York City Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:43:10 |
| October 23 | 8th New York City Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:38 |
| October 23 | Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 3.4-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered |
| October 23 | Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve new Canal treaties |
| October 26 | 5th and final test of space shuttle Enterprise |
| October 26 | Dr. Clifford R Wharton, Jr. named chancellor of State University of NY |
| October 26 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 27 | Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped |
| October 27 | NASA launches space vehicle S-200 |
| October 29 | "Act" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 233 performances |
| October 29 | Texas' Russell Erideben kicks his 3rd 60 yard field goal of the season |
| October 29 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 30 | Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07 |
| November 1 | Islander Goran Hogosta's only shut-out Flames 9-0-Trottier 4 goals |
| November 1 | President Carter raises minimum wages of $2.30 to $3.35 for Jan 1 1981 |
| November 1 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 2 | Phillies' Steve Carlton wins 2nd Cy Young Award |
| November 3 | Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic |
| November 4 | U.N. Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa |
| November 5 | NCAA passing record set at 571 yards (Marc Wilson, Brigham Young) |
| November 6 | 1st Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| November 6 | 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga |
| November 6 | "Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 43 performances |
| November 9 | Reds' George Foster wins NL MVP |
| November 10 | Amsterdam: RAF-terrorists Gert Schneider/Christof Wackernagel arrested |
| November 10 | Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (New York City) |
| November 11 | Wings release "Mull of Kintyre" and "Girl's School" |
| November 12 | Ernest N. Morial elected mayor of New Orleans |
| November 12 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| November 12 | New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial |
| November 13 | 25th Islander shut-out Resch 6-0 Gilles scores on 5th penalty shot |
| November 13 | Final Al Capp comic strip of "Li'l Abner" (1934-77) |
| November 13 | Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open |
| November 14 | Egypt President Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite |
| November 15 | President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran |
| November 16 | Rod Carew wins AL MVP award |
| November 17 | Bernard Pomerance's "Elephant Man," premieres in London |
| November 17 | Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel |
| November 17 | Miss World Contest - Miss U.K. wears $9,500 platinum bikini |
| November 19 | Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders |
| November 19 | Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel |
| November 19 | Egyptian president Sadat visits Israel |
| November 19 | Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt |
| November 20 | Egyptian President Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset |
| November 20 | Steve Largent begins NFL streak of 177 consecutive game receptions |
| November 20 | Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL-record 275 yards |
| November 21 | 1st flight of Concorde, London to New York |
| November 21 | Orioles 1st baseman Eddie Murray wins AL Rookie of Year |
| November 22 | Regular Concorde passenger service between New York and Europe begins |
| November 23 | European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral |
| November 23 | "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 96 performances |
| November 24 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| November 24 | Miami Bob Greise passes for 6 touchdowns vs St. Louis (55-14) |
| November 25 | David Steed balanced stationary on a bike for 9 hours 15 minutes |
| November 25 | Miss Teenage America Pageant |
| November 25 | Thomas Hearns KOs Jerome Hill in 2 rounds in his 1st pro fight |
| November 27 | 65th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 41-6 |
| November 27 | "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Imperial New York after 66 perf |
| December 4 | Hollis Stacy/Jerry Pate wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Championship |
| December 4 | Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself |
| December 4 | Neil Simon's "Chapter Two," premieres in New York City |
| December 4 | NFL's 5,000th game, Cincinnati beats Kansas City 27-7 |
| December 5 | Egypt breaks dipl relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and S Yemen |
| December 6 | South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence |
| December 7 | Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0 |
| December 8 | 43rd Heisman Trophy Award: Earl Campbell, Texas (RB) |
| December 8 | Portugal's premier Soares resigns |
| December 10 | Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station |
| December 11 | Billboard Awards |
| December 12 | Yankees purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves |
| December 13 | 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash |
| December 14 | Egypt and Israel reps gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference |
| December 14 | Red Sox trade Fergie Jenkins to Rangers for John Poloni and cash |
| December 14 | "Saturday Night Fever,"starring John Travolta, premieres in New York City |
| December 14 | Test Cricket debut of Abdul Qadir, vs. England at Lahore |
| December 14 | War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years |
| December 17 | Bobby Simpson scores 176 Australia vs. India at the WACA, aged 41 |
| December 17 | Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1st U.S. TV appearance (SNL) |
| December 17 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| December 18 | Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 42, Nate Thumond |
| December 18 | Dutch Antilles: premier Boy Rozendal points independence off |
| December 19 | Dutch government of Van Agt/Wiegel forms |
| December 20 | 1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut |
| December 20 | RAF-terrorist Knut Folkerts sentenced to 20 years |
| December 22 | 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes |
| December 25 | Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Sadat in Egypt |
| December 26 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 29 | Ronald Ribman's "Cold Storage," premieres in New York City |
| December 30 | Carter holds 1st news conference by U.S. President in Eastern Europe (Warsaw) |
| December 31 | Amir Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah becomes leader of Kuwait |
| December 31 | "Bubbling Brown Sugar" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 766 performances |
| December 31 | Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with Vietnam |
| December 31 | Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa |
| December 31 | "Man of La Mancha" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 124 performances |
| December 31 | Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado |
