| January 1 | Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for college football title |
| January 1 | PGA inaugurates all-exempt tour |
| January 1 | World Communications Year begins |
| January 2 | "Annie" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 2,377 performances |
| January 2 | Don Muraco beats Pedro Morales to become WWF Intercontinental Champ |
| January 2 | Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing "Doonesbury" |
| January 2 | Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes |
| January 2 | "Sophisticated Ladies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 767 performances |
| January 3 | Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yd rush, Dallas vs Minnesota |
| January 4 | U.S. Football League holds its 1st player draft |
| January 7 | Australia regain the Ashes with a 2-1 series win vs. England |
| January 7 | Reagan ends U.S. arms embargo against Guatemala |
| January 9 | British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands |
| January 10 | NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring New York Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver |
| January 11 | Billy Martin named New York Yankee manager for 3rd time |
| January 12 | Brooks Robinson and Juan Marichal elected to Hall of Fame |
| January 12 | NCAA creates football Kickoff Classic to begin in August |
| January 13 | AMA urges ban on boxing sites Muhammad Ali's deteriorating condition |
| January 13 | Quebec Nordiques play 251st NHL game without being shut out |
| January 15 | Dutch political party DS'70 disbands |
| January 15 | Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard |
| January 15 | Javed Miandad and Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand vs. India |
| January 15 | Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours |
| January 17 | 10th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers |
| January 17 | Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, becomes governor for record 4th time |
| January 17 | Nigeria expels 2 million illegal aliens, mostly Ghanaians |
| January 18 | IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball |
| January 19 | Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia |
| January 21 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht |
| January 21 | Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for U.S. military aid |
| January 22 | 2nd flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 22 seconds |
| January 22 | Houston is 1st NBA team to be held scoreless in an overtime Portland Trail Blazers out score them 17-0 and win 113-96 |
| January 23 | "A-Team" with Mr. T premieres on NBC |
| January 23 | Bjorn Borg announces his retirement from tennis |
| January 23 | Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $14,700,000 |
| January 23 | In NBA, Portland scores all 17 pts in overtime to beat Houston 113-96 |
| January 23 | Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean |
| January 23 | Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:40.97) |
| January 24 | Hulk Hogan pins Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title |
| January 25 | China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life |
| January 25 | Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit |
| January 25 | Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia |
| January 26 | Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from California |
| January 27 | World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid |
| January 29 | 40th Golden Globes: Gandhi, ET and Tootsie win |
| January 29 | "Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on U.K. pop chart |
| January 30 | Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ |
| January 30 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda of Deer Creek Golf Classic |
| January 30 | Superbowl XVII: Washington Red Skins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: John Riggins, Washington, RB |
| February 1 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| February 2 | Chicago Absp Joseph L. Bernardin is among 18 new cardinals invested |
| February 2 | Pope John Paul II names 18 new cardinals |
| February 3 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners |
| February 4 | Jose Happart becomes mayor of Voeren Belgium |
| February 4 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton |
| February 5 | Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial |
| February 6 | 13th NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-19 |
| February 6 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| February 7 | Elizabeth Dole, 1st female secretary of transportation, is sworn-in |
| February 8 | 35th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-3 at New York Islander |
| February 8 | Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino |
| February 8 | Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance |
| February 8 | Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days |
| February 8 | Tina Howe's "Painting Churches," premieres in New York City |
| February 8 | Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period |
| February 9 | Belgium buys 44 F-16s |
| February 10 | Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral U.K. nuclear disarmament |
| February 11 | 4th largest snowfall in New York City history (18"(46 cm)) |
| February 11 | "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Ricky" and "Buckingham Blues" debut LP |
| February 13 | 33rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-123 at LA |
| February 13 | Australia beats New Zealand 2-0 to win World Series Cup |
| February 13 | Donna White wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
| February 13 | E Bernstein, Levinson and Link's musical "Merlin" premieres in New York City |
| February 13 | "Merlin" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 199 performances |
| February 13 | World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds |
| February 17 | Bob Bourne fails on 8th Islander penalty shot |
| February 17 | Netherlands adopts constitution |
| February 17 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 18 | NBA Indiana Pacers begin a 28 game road losing streak |
| February 19 | Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million |
| February 19 | Vladimir Salnikov (U.S.S.R.) sets 400 m free style swimming record |
| February 20 | Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km) |
| February 20 | Roland Liboton becomes world champ cross-country cycling |
| February 21 | Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 minutes 7.1 seconds |
| February 21 | NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak |
| February 22 | Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary |
| February 22 | Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India |
| February 22 | Vladimir Salnikov (U.S.S.R.) sets 1500m free style swimming record |
| February 23 | 25th Grammy Awards: Roxanna, Toto IV, Men at Work wins |
| February 23 | USFL New Jersey Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 mil) |
| February 24 | Dow Jones closes above 1100 mark for 1st time |
| February 24 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| February 26 | Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 37 weeks |
| February 27 | Eamonn Coghlan set indoor mile record of 3:49.78 |
| February 27 | Jan Stephenson wins Tucson Conquistadores LPGA Golf Tournament |
| March 1 | Tamara McKinney becomes 1st U.S. woman skier to win the World Cup |
| March 1 | Tornado tears through LA, injuring 33 people |
| March 2 | Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips and Sony introduced |
| March 2 | Final episode of M*A*S*H; 125,000,000 viewers |
| March 2 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| March 5 | Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (Cons) |
| March 5 | NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield |
| March 6 | Anne-Marie Palli wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic |
| March 6 | Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections |
| March 6 | "On Your Toes" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 505 performances |
| March 6 | U.S. Football League begins its 1st season |
| March 7 | TNN, The Nashville Network, begins on Cable TV |
| March 8 | House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with U.S.S.R. |
| March 8 | IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0 |
| March 8 | President Reagan calls the U.S.S.R. an "Evil Empire" |
| March 9 | Caryl Churchill's "Fen," premieres in London |
| March 9 | Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana |
| March 10 | Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame |
| March 11 | Ice Dance Championship at Helsinki Finland won by Torvill and Dean (GRB) |
| March 11 | Ice Pairs Championship at Helsinki won by Valova and Vasiliev (URS) |
| March 11 | Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Helsinki won by Rosalynn Sumners (USA) |
| March 11 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA) |
| March 12 | Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49) |
| March 13 | 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14 |
| March 13 | "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 770 performances |
| March 14 | OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years |
| March 15 | Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy |
| March 16 | Smallest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Nets-1,814) |
| March 17 | 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy |
| March 17 | 9th People's Choice Awards |
| March 20 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| March 21 | Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled |
| March 22 | Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president |
| March 23 | U.S. president Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars" missile defense plan (SDI) |
| March 25 | Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 m ladies (39.69 sec) |
| March 25 | Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000m (1:12.58) |
| March 26 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 27 | 13th Easter Seal Telethon |
| March 27 | Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| March 27 | Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs," premieres in New York City |
| March 30 | Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives," premieres in London |
| March 30 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| March 31 | Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people |
| March 31 | Marsha Norman's "'night, Mother," premieres in New York City |
| April 1 | Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England |
| April 1 | New York Islander Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 cons seasons |
| April 3 | 12th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott |
| April 3 | 2nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: South California beats LA Tech 69-67 |
| April 4 | 45th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Houston 54-52 |
| April 4 | 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched |
| April 5 | France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats |
| April 5 | New York Met Tom Seaver's sets record 14th NL Opening Day assignment |
| April 6 | Caps 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Semifinals- Isles hold 1-0 lead |
| April 7 | Caps 4-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-series tied 1-1 |
| April 7 | Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt |
| April 7 | STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk |
| April 7 | WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas, attracts 75,480 women bowlers for 83-day event |
| April 9 | 6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth |
| April 9 | Caps 2-Isles 6 -Patrick Semis-Denis Potvin fails on penalty shot |
| April 10 | Baltimore's Eddie Murray hits his 1,000 career hit |
| April 10 | Caps 3-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Isles win series 3-2 |
| April 10 | Hennie Kuiper (Netherlands) wins Paris-Roubaix cycle race |
| April 10 | Jordan king Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO |
| April 10 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
| April 11 | 3rd Golden Raspberry Awards: Inchon! wins |
| April 11 | 47th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 280 |
| April 11 | 55th Academy Awards - "Gandhi," Ben Kingsley and Meryl Streep win |
| April 11 | NASA launches RCA-F |
| April 12 | Harold Washington becomes Chicago's 1st black mayor |
| April 12 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| April 13 | Harold Washington elected 1st black mayor of Chicago |
| April 13 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 13 | Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault |
| April 14 | Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Ranger |
| April 14 | President Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue |
| April 14 | Rangers 1-Isles 4-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
| April 15 | Rangers 0-Isles 5-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 2-0 lead |
| April 15 | Tokyo Disneyland opens |
| April 16 | Steve Garvey sets NL record by playing in 1,118 consecutive games |
| April 17 | 1st National Coin Week begins |
| April 17 | Grete Waltz runs female world record marathon (2:25:29) |
| April 17 | In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters |
| April 17 | India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket |
| April 17 | Islanders tie NHL record with 3 shorthanded playoff goals vs Rangers Rangers 7-Isles 6-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 2-1 lead Wayne Gretzky scores 7 goals in one Stanley Cup playoff game |
| April 17 | Lynn Adams wins LPGA Combanks Orlando Golf Classic |
| April 17 | Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,500th batter |
| April 18 | 12th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:22:43 |
| April 18 | 87th Boston Marathon won by Greg Meyer of Mass in 2:09:00 |
| April 18 | Alice Walker wins Pulitzer Prize for "The Color Purple" |
| April 18 | KMO-AM in Tacoma Washington changes call letters to KAMT (now KKMO) |
| April 18 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Alice Walker for "Color Purple" |
| April 18 | Rangers 3-Isles 1-Patrick Div Finals-Series tied at 2-2 |
| April 18 | Suicide bomber kills 63, at U.S. Embassy in Lebanon |
| April 19 | France performs nuclear test |
| April 20 | President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security |
| April 20 | Rangers 2-Isles 7-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 3-2 lead |
| April 20 | Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock |
| April 21 | 1 pound coin introduced in United Kingdom |
| April 21 | Soyuz T-8 is launched |
| April 22 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 22 | Rangers 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Finals-Isles win series 4-2 |
| April 22 | Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth |
| April 22 | Start of 1st Sri Lanka-Australia Test Cricket match (at Kandy) |
| April 22 | Stern mag announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolph Hitler (turned out to be a hoax) |
| April 23 | David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* vs. Sri Lanka |
| April 24 | Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election |
| April 24 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
| April 24 | "Show Boat" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 73 performances |
| April 25 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| April 25 | "Nightline" expands from 1/2 hour to a full hour |
| April 25 | Portugal's Soares' Partido Socialista wins parliamentary election |
| April 25 | Yuri Andropov invites U.S. schoolgirl Samantha Smith to U.S.S.R. |
| April 26 | Bruins 2-Isles 5-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
| April 26 | Dow Jones Industrial Avg breaks 1,200 for 1st time |
| April 26 | San Antonio spurs beat Denver Nuggets, 152-133 in NBA playoff game |
| April 27 | Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), passing Walter Johnson |
| April 28 | Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead |
| April 28 | Bruins 4-Isles 1-Wales Conference Championship-Series tied 1-1 |
| April 28 | NASA launches Geos-F |
| April 29 | Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor |
| April 30 | Bruins 3-Isles 7-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 2-1 lead |
| May 1 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC International Golf Tournament |
| May 1 | "My One and Only" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 767 performances |
| May 1 | Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508) |
| May 2 | 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga, California |
| May 3 | Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead |
| May 3 | Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe |
| May 3 | U.S. bishops condemn nuclear weapons |
| May 4 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| May 5 | Bruins 5-Isles 1-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-2 lead |
| May 5 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 7 | 109th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Sunny's Halo wins in 2:02.2 |
| May 7 | August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups |
| May 7 | Bruins 4-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles win series 4-2 |
| May 8 | Janet Coles wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament |
| May 9 | 18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama and Willie Nelson |
| May 10 | "Laverne and Shirley," last airs on ABC-TV |
| May 10 | Lee Chin Yong performs 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul |
| May 10 | Oilers 0-Isles 2-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
| May 11 | Aberdeen wins 23rd Europe Cup II |
| May 11 | Comet C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock) approaches 0.0312 AUs of Earth |
| May 11 | "Dance a Little Closer" opens and closes at Minskoff Theater New York City |
| May 12 | Julie Lynne Hayek, (California), crowned 32nd Miss USA |
| May 12 | Oilers 3-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead |
| May 13 | Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times |
| May 14 | Oilers 1-Isles 5-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead |
| May 14 | Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5) |
| May 14 | "She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby hits #5 |
| May 15 | Lenore Muraoka wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| May 15 | Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion |
| May 16 | Lebanese parliament accept peace accord with Israel |
| May 17 | Israel and Lebanon sign a peace treaty |
| May 17 | Stanley Cup: New York Islanders sweep Edmonton Oilers in 4 games |
| May 18 | Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program |
| May 19 | NASA launches Intelsat V |
| May 19 | Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington D.C. |
| May 20 | Larry Holmes beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| May 20 | Michael Dokes and Mike Weaver fight to a draw in 15 for hw boxing title |
| May 20 | Phillies Steve Carlton passes W Johnson with 2nd most strike outs |
| May 21 | 109th Preakness: Donald Miller, Jr. on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4 |
| May 21 | "Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63 |
| May 21 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission |
| May 21 | David Bowie's "Let's "Dance," single goes #1 |
| May 22 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Tournament |
| May 22 | Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit HR |
| May 23 | Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air |
| May 24 | Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as chancellor of Austria |
| May 24 | Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students |
| May 25 | 1st National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed |
| May 25 | Fire in Nassermeer Egypt kills 357 |
| May 25 | France performs nuclear test |
| May 25 | Kirk Gibson (Tigers) and Jorge Orta (Blue Jays) hit inside park home runs |
| May 25 | "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released |
| May 26 | 29th Walker Cup: U.S., 13 -10 |
| May 26 | Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7 |
| May 26 | Los Angeles Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws |
| May 26 | NASA launches Exosat |
| May 26 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 27 | Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress |
| May 28 | Hamburger ZV wins 28th Europe Cup 1 in Athens |
| May 28 | "Ricky" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #63 |
| May 29 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| May 29 | Yuri Dumchev of U.S.S.R. throws discus a record 71.86 m |
| May 30 | AL President Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his public criticism of umpires |
| May 30 | Surrey all out for 14 vs. Essex, their lowest score ever |
| May 31 | 37th NBA Championship: Philadelphia 76ers sweep Los Angeles Lakers in 4 games |
| June 2 | 1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," released in Germany |
| June 2 | Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati |
| June 4 | 53rd French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Mima Jausovec (61 62) |
| June 5 | 37th Tony Awards: Torch Song Trilogy and Cats win |
| June 5 | 53rd French Mens Tennis: Yannick Noah beats Mats Wilander (62 75 76) |
| June 5 | Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic |
| June 6 | 17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins and Roy Acuff |
| June 6 | Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland |
| June 6 | Emmy 10th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 4th time |
| June 6 | Li Xiannian becomes president/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR |
| June 6 | Nicaragua expels 3 U.S. diplomats |
| June 6 | Twins draft pitcher Tim Belcher #1 |
| June 7 | Steve Carlton temporarily passes Nolan Ryan with his 3,552 strike out |
| June 8 | Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal |
| June 8 | Marlies Gohr runs female European record 100m (10.81) |
| June 8 | "Trading Places," "Ghostbusters," and "Gremlins," premieres |
| June 9 | 56th National Spelling Bee: Blake Giddens wins spelling purim |
| June 9 | Margaret Thatchers Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election |
| June 9 | Zimbabwe win their 1st one-day cricket international, vs. Australia |
| June 11 | 115th Belmont: Laffit Pincay, Jr. aboard Caveat wins in 2:27.8 |
| June 11 | "Always Something There To Remind Me" by Naked Eyes peaks at #8 |
| June 11 | Cards outfielder Lonnie Smith checks into a drug rehab |
| June 11 | "Cool Places" by Sparks and Jane Wiedlin peaks at #49 |
| June 11 | Don Genalo needs just 3 of 5 pins to win Southern California Open bowling tournament, miscalculates his score and intentionally gutters his ball |
| June 11 | "Faithfully" by Journey peaks at #12 |
| June 11 | "My Love" by Lionel Richie peaks at #5 |
| June 11 | "Theme From Doctor Detroit" by Devo peaks at #59 |
| June 11 | "When I'm With You" by Sheriff peaks at #61 |
| June 11 | Zhu Jianhua of China set a new world record in high jump at 7-9 14 |
| June 12 | 29th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
| June 12 | Comet C/1983 (Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa) approaches 0.0628 AUs of Earth |
| June 12 | Winston Davis takes 7-51 in Cricket World Cup match vs. Australia |
| June 13 | Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System |
| June 14 | 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx |
| June 15 | Cards trade Keith Hernandez to Mets for Neil Allen and Rick Ownbey |
| June 15 | Supreme Court struck down state and local restrictions on abortion |
| June 16 | Charlos Vieira completes 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria Portugal |
| June 16 | European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10 |
| June 16 | Pope John Paul II visits Poland |
| June 16 | Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany |
| June 16 | U.S.S.R. party leader Yuri Andropov elected president |
| June 18 | 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st U.S. woman |
| June 18 | IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in New York City |
| June 18 | "Pump Boys and Dinettes" closes at Princess Theater New York City after 573 performances |
| June 19 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| June 19 | "Octopussy" premieres in US |
| June 20 | 83rd U.S. Golf Open: Larry Nelson shoots a 280 at Oakmont CC PA |
| June 20 | New York Yankee Bobby Murcer retires |
| June 21 | Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss |
| June 21 | Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery |
| June 22 | 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle |
| June 22 | "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," released in France |
| June 22 | NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period |
| June 23 | Syria throws out PLO leader Arafat |
| June 23 | U.S. Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions |
| June 24 | 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB |
| June 24 | Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters |
| June 25 | "Evita" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 1568 performances |
| June 25 | India beat West Indies by 43 runs to win Cricket World Cup |
| June 25 | Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m |
| June 26 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
| June 26 | "Show Boat" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 73 performances |
| June 27 | Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds - Miro |
| June 27 | Mariners bat out of order against White Sox in 2nd inning |
| June 27 | NASA launches space vehicle S-205 |
| June 27 | Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station |
| June 28 | Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Ct collapsed kills 3 |
| June 28 | NASA launches Galaxy-A |
| June 29 | Angel Cordero wins his 5,000th horse races |
| June 29 | Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
| July 1 | Arbitrator Raymond Goetz rules 43 players who are on Disabled List during 1981 players' strike not entitled to salaries for that period |
| July 2 | 90th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats A Jaeger (60 63) |
| July 3 | 11th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Hollis Stacy |
| July 3 | 97th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Chris Lewis (62 62 62) |
| July 3 | Calvin Smith of U.S. becomes fastest man alive (9.93 for 100m) |
| July 3 | Rangers explode for 12 runs in 15th inning of a 16-4 win over the A's |
| July 4 | New York Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox |
| July 5 | France invades Algeria |
| July 5 | New Jersey Devils purchase AHL Maine Mariners as their farm team |
| July 5 | Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death in Roanoke, Virginia |
| July 6 | 54th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-3 at Comiskey Park, Chicago |
| July 6 | Fred Lynn of Angels hits All Star game 1st grand slam (AL wins 13-3) |
| July 6 | Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less |
| July 7 | 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for U.S.S.R. |
| July 8 | Rudi Koopmans retains European middleweight title |
| July 11 | Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, of New Zealand, crowned 32nd Miss Universe |
| July 12 | Chad government troops reconquer Abeche |
| July 15 | 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France |
| July 15 | Linda Ronstadt debuts as Mabel in "Pirates of Penzance" |
| July 16 | 20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident |
| July 17 | 112th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 275 at Royal Birkdale |
| July 17 | 1st USFL championship, Michigan Panthers beats Philadelphia Stars 24-22 |
| July 17 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic |
| July 18 | Despite being in 1st place in NL East, Phils fire manager Pat Corrales |
| July 20 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| July 21 | Polish government ends 19 months of martial law |
| July 21 | Storm cuts short free Diana Ross concert in New York's Central Park |
| July 21 | U.S. announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge |
| July 22 | -128.6 degrees F (-89.2 degrees C) recorded, Vostok, Antarctica (world record) |
| July 22 | Angels OF Brian Downing error ends his record streak at 244 games |
| July 22 | Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world |
| July 22 | Poland's Prime Minister Januzelski lifts martial law |
| July 24 | 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czechoslovakia beats Germany in Zurich, Switzerland (2-1) |
| July 24 | Lauren Howe wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
| July 24 | Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France |
| July 24 | "Mame" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 41 performances |
| July 24 | Pine Tar Game: Brett's HR disallowed against Yankees (overturned) |
| July 24 | Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America |
| July 25 | 1st non-human primate, baboon, conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio |
| July 25 | Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion |
| July 26 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8 |
| July 26 | Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czechoslovakia sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28) |
| July 26 | Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io |
| July 27 | 104 degrees F (40.3 degrees C) in Garmersdorf (German record) |
| July 27 | Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal |
| July 28 | AL President Lee MacPhail threw out umpire's decision and allows |
| July 28 | George Brett's 2 run HR against Yankees on July 24 (pine tar game) |
| July 28 | NASA launches Telstar-3A |
| July 28 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 29 | "Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV |
| July 29 | Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak |
| July 30 | Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, California |
| July 30 | Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of U.S.S.R. jerks a record 261 kg |
| July 31 | 38th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jan Stephenson |
| July 31 | B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, and W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame |
| July 31 | Dutch July avg temp is 20.1 degrees C; warmest July since 1852 |
| August 1 | New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England |
| August 2 | STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad |
| August 2 | U.S. District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination |
| August 3 | John Sain of South Bend, Indiana builds 3.91 m house of cards |
| August 3 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 4 | Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy |
| August 4 | France performs nuclear test |
| August 4 | Revolution in Burkina |
| August 4 | While warming up before 5th inning Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull |
| August 6 | Minnesota Vikings beat St. Louis Cardinals 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo) |
| August 6 | Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa |
| August 7 | 1st World Track and Field Championships |
| August 7 | 65th PGA Championship: Hal Sutton shoots a 274 at Riviera CC LA |
| August 7 | Bobby Murcer Day at Yankee Stadium |
| August 7 | Grete Waitz of Norway, wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki Fin) |
| August 7 | "Merlin" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 199 performances |
| August 7 | Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| August 7 | Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T |
| August 8 | Brigadier General Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela |
| August 8 | Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned) |
| August 8 | Military coup in Guatemala, President Rios Montt flees |
| August 12 | General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army |
| August 14 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
| August 14 | Robert de Castella wins Helsinki marathon 2:10:03 |
| August 15 | Ramones guitarist Joey Ramone, beaten in fight-undergoes brain surgery |
| August 16 | Paul Simon weds Carrie Fisher |
| August 17 | Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas |
| August 18 | Hurricane Alicia battered Houston and Galveston, Texas |
| August 18 | Royals defeat Yankees, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes). Hal McRae strikes out and Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order |
| August 18 | Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel |
| August 18 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| August 19 | Dodgers trade Dave Stewart and Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut |
| August 19 | LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 years for counterfeiting |
| August 21 | 110 degrees F (43 degrees C) at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record) |
| August 21 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf |
| August 21 | "La Cage aux Folles" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 1761 performances |
| August 24 | Cincinnati Red Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745 |
| August 25 | Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark |
| August 25 | U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign $10 billion grain pact |
| August 27 | Haiti adopts constitution |
| August 27 | U.S. performs nuclear test |
| August 28 | Greg Luzinski is 1st player to put 3 home runs onto roof at Comiskey Park |
| August 28 | Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin announces resignation |
| August 28 | Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour |
| August 28 | "Mame" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 41 performances |
| August 28 | Pat Bradley wins Columbia Savings Golf Classic |
| August 30 | 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days) |
| August 30 | Elizabeth R Zakarian (Devon Pierce), 17, New York, crowned 1st Miss Teen USA |
| August 30 | Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space |
| August 30 | WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Philadelphia |
| August 31 | Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz |
| September 1 | Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet |
| September 1 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 1 | WGH-AM in Newport News Virginia changes call letters to WNSY |
| September 2 | Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM |
| September 4 | 83rd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel |
| September 4 | Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship |
| September 4 | "Joseph and the Amazing Dreamcoat" closes at Royale New York City after 747 performances |
| September 4 | Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph) |
| September 5 | 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB |
| September 5 | Elmer Trettr sets record for highest terminal velocity at 201.34 mph |
| September 5 | Jerry Lewis' 18th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,691,627 |
| September 5 | Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| September 6 | U.S.S.R. admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2 |
| September 7 | Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s) |
| September 8 | NASA launches RCA-6 |
| September 9 | Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas |
| September 9 | Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2) |
| September 9 | Vitas Gerulatis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat 100th ranked male tennis player |
| September 10 | 97th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert L Mills (61 63) |
| September 10 | Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| September 11 | 103rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 67 75 60) |
| September 11 | Fashion designer Donna Karen marries Stephan Weiss |
| September 11 | Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards |
| September 11 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship |
| September 11 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| September 12 | Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes |
| September 12 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| September 12 | Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million |
| September 12 | U.S.S.R. vetoes United Nations resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane |
| September 13 | Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save |
| September 13 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| September 13 | Oakland's Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season |
| September 13 | Steve O'Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 minutes, Lancs vs. Leics |
| September 13 | U.S. Mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle) |
| September 14 | U.S. House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner |
| September 15 | Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting New York City subway |
| September 15 | Israel premier Begin resigns |
| September 16 | Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a U.S. citizen |
| September 17 | Chicago White Sox clinch their 1st-ever AL West championship, |
| September 17 | Vanessa Williams (NY), 20, crowned 56th Miss America 1984, 1st black |
| September 18 | George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere |
| September 18 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| September 18 | Lebanese and Syrian army battle |
| September 18 | New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chicago Bears 34-31 |
| September 19 | St. Kitts and Nevis declares independence from U.K. |
| September 20 | 3,112 turn out to see Pirates play New York Mets at Shea Stadium |
| September 20 | Cryptographic Communications System and Method (RSA) patented |
| September 21 | 11 killed in anti Marcos demonstrations in Manila |
| September 21 | David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross," premieres in London |
| September 21 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 22 | Everly Brothers reunite after 10 years (Royal Albert Hall) |
| September 22 | NASA launches Galaxy-B |
| September 22 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| September 22 | Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4" |
| September 23 | Argentina military regime gives amnesty to military and political assassins |
| September 23 | Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation of STS-9 |
| September 23 | Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
| September 23 | Heavyweight Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in Ohio |
| September 23 | Phillies Steve Carlton is 16th to wins 300 game (beating Cards) |
| September 24 | Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in season |
| September 24 | Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of Hanif, vs. India Jullundur |
| September 24 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| September 25 | 35th Emmy Awards: Hill St. Blue, Cheers, Ed Flanders and Shelley Long |
| September 25 | Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0 |
| September 25 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 26 | Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks New York Giant record 56 yard field goal |
| September 26 | Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-U.S. winner) |
| September 26 | Cosmonauts Titov and Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10 |
| September 26 | Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns |
| September 26 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
| September 26 | St. Louis Card Bob Forsch 2nd no-hitter beats Montreal Expos, 3-0 |
| September 27 | South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years |
| September 27 | Tim Raines is 1st since Ty Cobb to steal 70 and drive in 70 runs |
| September 28 | STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad |
| September 29 | 1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act |
| September 29 | "A Chorus Line" 3,389 performance to become longest running Bdwy show |
| September 29 | Airport of Beirut reopens |
| September 29 | Congress authorized President Reagan to keep 1,600 U.S. Marines in Lebanon |
| September 29 | Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0 |
| October 1 | Denise Wallace, 18, of Virginia crowned Miss Teen of America |
| October 2 | Art Monk begins NFL streak of 136 plus consecutive game receptions |
| October 2 | Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat |
| October 2 | Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic |
| October 3 | Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in UK |
| October 4 | Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car |
| October 5 | Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| October 6 | Buffalo Bill quarterback Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs |
| October 6 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| October 6 | Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick |
| October 6 | New York Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands |
| October 6 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 8 | 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7 |
| October 8 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to New York Islanders 8-7 |
| October 9 | 4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma |
| October 10 | 17th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins |
| October 10 | Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM |
| October 10 | Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers |
| October 11 | Last hand-cranked telephones U.S. went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial |
| October 14 | Grenada leftist coup under vice-premier Coard |
| October 14 | U.S. Marine peacekeeper Sergeant Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut |
| October 15 | Black Hawks and Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds) |
| October 15 | Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football, will lose next 44 games |
| October 15 | U.S. Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut International Airport |
| October 16 | 25th Ryder Cup: U.S., 14 -13 at PGA National Golf Club Florida |
| October 16 | Baltimore Orioles beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 3 in 80th World Series |
| October 16 | "Zorba" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 362 performances |
| October 17 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu |
| October 17 | STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem |
| October 19 | Columbia moves to Orbiter Processing Facility |
| October 19 | Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council" |
| October 19 | Philadelphia Flyers begin 13 NHL game win streak |
| October 19 | Senate establishes Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday |
| October 20 | IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released |
| October 21 | Pope John Paul II names 3 new Dutch bishops |
| October 23 | 13th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:00 |
| October 23 | 14th New York City Marathon won by Rod Dixon in 2:08:59 |
| October 23 | 400,000 demonstrate in Brussels, against cruise missile |
| October 23 | Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 241 U.S. personnel in Beirut |
| October 25 | U.S. invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (U.S. Wins!) |
| October 26 | Hugh Williams' "Pack of Lies," premieres in London |
| October 26 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 29 | Notre Dame's Gil Fenerty rushes for 337 yards and 6 touchdowns |
| October 31 | Paul McCartney releases "Pipes of Peace" album |
| October 31 | Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia |
| November 2 | Abp Hickey conducts papal investigation of Abp Hunthausen, Seattle |
| November 2 | President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L. King day |
| November 3 | Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency |
| November 3 | Nashville Network begins on cable TV |
| November 4 | Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed |
| November 4 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime victory beating Vancouver 5-4 |
| November 5 | New York Rangers and Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 seconds of 3rd period |
| November 5 | Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden |
| November 6 | Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Sports Nippon Team Match Golf Tournament |
| November 6 | Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, California |
| November 6 | Tor Bay Buccaneers James Wilder rushes for 219 yards vs Minnesota Vikings |
| November 6 | Turkey Turgut zals Moederland party wins elections |
| November 7 | Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his 2nd New York Giant record 56 yard field goal |
| November 7 | Bomb explodes in U.S. Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries |
| November 8 | Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky |
| November 8 | STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad |
| November 8 | W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia |
| November 9 | Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped |
| November 9 | Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center |
| November 10 | "Amen Corner" opens at Nederlander Theater New York City for 83 performances |
| November 10 | Federal government shut down |
| November 11 | 1st U.S. cruise missiles arrive in Great Britain |
| November 11 | President Reagan became 1st U.S. President to address Japan's legislature |
| November 11 | Wayne Phillips scores 159 on Test Cricket debut, vs. Pakistan at WACA |
| November 12 | 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas |
| November 12 | New Jersey Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3 |
| November 13 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| November 14 | 1st cruise missile placed, Greenham Common, England |
| November 15 | 75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy |
| November 15 | Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed |
| November 16 | Kapil Dev takes 9-83 vs. WI at Ahmedabad, but India still lose |
| November 17 | Harm Wiersma retains checkers world championship |
| November 17 | "La Tragedie de Carmen" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 187 performances |
| November 17 | Philadelphia Flyers win 13th straight NHL game |
| November 19 | Edmonton Oilers beat New Jersey Devils, 13-4, Wayne Gretzky calls the Devils "a Mickey Mouse organization" |
| November 20 | 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "Day After," about nuclear war |
| November 20 | Cleveland Browns shutout Patriots 30-0 |
| November 20 | "Marilyn: An American Fable" opens at Minskoff New York City for 16 performances |
| November 20 | New York Giants Butch Woolfolk ties NFL record of 43 attempts rushing |
| November 21 | "Doonesbury" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 104 performances |
| November 21 | New York Ranger Ron Greschner marries model Carol Alt |
| November 23 | Soyuz T-9 lands |
| November 23 | U.S.S.R. leave weapon disarmament talks |
| November 24 | PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese |
| November 24 | Test Cricket debut of Richie Richardson, WI vs. India Bombay |
| November 25 | Larry Holmes TKOs Marvis Frazier in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| November 25 | Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off |
| November 25 | Syria and Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli |
| November 25 | World's greatest robbery 25,000,000 pounds of gold, Heathrow, England |
| November 26 | Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million |
| November 27 | 71st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats BC Lions, 18-17 |
| November 27 | Colombian jetliner Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 185 |
| November 27 | Desmond Haynes out handled the ball vs. India |
| November 28 | 9th Space Shuttle Mission Columbia 6 is launched |
| November 29 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| November 30 | 6th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| November 30 | Denver Nugget coach Doug Moe, hoplessly behind, advise team to let Blazers break their scoring record |
| November 30 | Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam |
| November 30 | Radio Shack announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip) |
| November 30 | Raul Alfonsin wins Argentine presidential election |
| November 30 | Sam Shepards "Fool for love," premieres in New York City |
| December 1 | Rita Lavelle, former head of EPA, convicted of perjury |
| December 3 | 49th Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Rozier, Nebraska (RB) |
| December 3 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| December 3 | "Marilyn: An American Fable" closes at Minskoff New York City after 16 performances |
| December 4 | "Amen Corner" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 83 performances |
| December 4 | "Baby" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 241 performances |
| December 4 | David Shire and R Maltby Jr's musical "Baby," premieres in New York City |
| December 4 | New Jersey Devils 1st shut-out, beating Minnesota Detroit Red Wings 6-0 |
| December 4 | U.S. jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon |
| December 5 | 12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut |
| December 5 | Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Steve Howe is suspended for 1 year for cocaine use |
| December 6 | A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis |
| December 7 | 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93 |
| December 7 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| December 8 | 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 - lands at Edwards AFB |
| December 8 | Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of San Francisco Zen Center |
| December 9 | Attorney General Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "because food is free and that's easier than paying for it" |
| December 9 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 10 | 58th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats K Jordan (62 76) |
| December 10 | Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize |
| December 10 | Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat New York Jets 34-7 |
| December 10 | Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president |
| December 11 | 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome) |
| December 11 | 72nd Australian Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (61 64 64) |
| December 11 | Jan Stephens/Fred Couples wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| December 12 | A truck bomb explodes at U.S. Embassy in Kuwait |
| December 13 | 9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT) |
| December 13 | British Airways incorporates |
| December 13 | Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers |
| December 13 | KYA-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KOIT |
| December 13 | Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor |
| December 14 | "Peg" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| December 15 | 3 Kansas City Royals suspended due to cocaine usage |
| December 15 | Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB |
| December 15 | Last 80 U.S. combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew |
| December 15 | Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic," premieres in New York City |
| December 16 | Spokesperson for The Who announces the group is disbanding |
| December 16 | Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time |
| December 17 | Bomb attack on Harrod's war house in London, 5 killed, 94 injured |
| December 17 | Disco in Madrid catches fire; 83 die |
| December 17 | "Peg" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| December 18 | NBA San Diego Clippers ends 29 game road losing streak |
| December 20 | El Salvador adopts constitution |
| December 20 | Guy Lafleur, Montreal, became 10th NHLer to score 500 goals |
| December 20 | New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Pitts Penguins |
| December 20 | PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon |
| December 21 | Loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan |
| December 21 | Musical "Tap Dance Kid" with H Battle premieres in New York City |
| December 21 | NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak |
| December 21 | NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men's basketball free throw rule |
| December 21 | "Tap Dance Kid" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 669 performances |
| December 22 | Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat |
| December 22 | Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps |
| December 23 | Journal Science publishes 1st report on nuclear winter |
| December 25 | 1st live telecast of Christmas Parade |
| December 26 | Test Cricket debut of Gregory Richard John Matthews, vs. Pakistan MCG |
| December 26 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 27 | Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca) |
| December 27 | Propane gas fire devastated 16 blocks of Buffalo |
| December 28 | 72nd Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2) |
| December 28 | Gavaskar achieves his 30th century, beating Bradman's 29 |
| December 28 | U.S. say they will leave UNESCO on Dec 31, 1984 |
| December 28 | Warren Cromartie signs 3 year $2.5M contract with Yomiuri Giants |
| December 29 | Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236* vs. WI |
| December 29 | Graeme Yallop completes 268 vs. Pakistan at cricket MCG |
| December 29 | U.S. announced withdrawal from UNESCO |
| December 31 | Brunei gains complete independence from Britain |
| December 31 | Jose Happart installed as mayor of Voeren Belgium |
| December 31 | Nigeria's National Assembly dissolves after military coup |
