| January 1 | AT&T's 22 owned Bell system companies divests into 8 companies |
| January 1 | Brunei becomes independent of U.K. |
| January 1 | New York City transit fare rises from 75 cents to 90 cents |
| January 2 | Darryl Cullinan, 16, scores his 1st first-class cricket century |
| January 2 | Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship |
| January 2 | Riot in Tunis kills over 100 |
| January 2 | Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Philadelphia's 1st black mayor |
| January 3 | Syria frees captured U.S. pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson |
| January 4 | Edmonton beats Minnesota 12-8 highest-scoring modern NHL game |
| January 4 | "Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV |
| January 5 | Adrian Dantly (Utah), ties NBA record of 28 free throws |
| January 5 | Greg Chappell scores 182* in his last Test innings |
| January 6 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-41 B mission |
| January 6 | Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh and Lillee |
| January 8 | NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams |
| January 8 | Washington Caps Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Philadelphia 7-1 |
| January 9 | Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession |
| January 9 | EAA moves operations to Oshkosh |
| January 9 | John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me" |
| January 10 | Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested |
| January 10 | Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashs at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die |
| January 10 | Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?" |
| January 10 | Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, and D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame |
| January 10 | U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years |
| January 11 | Denver Nuggets 163, San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game |
| January 11 | STS-41-B vehicle moves to launch pad |
| January 11 | Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood's family |
| January 13 | TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV |
| January 14 | Madonna 1st sings "Holiday" on American Bandstand |
| January 15 | Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak |
| January 15 | Schonbrun skates world record 5 km (7:39.44) |
| January 16 | Paul and Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados for possession of cannabis |
| January 17 | Supreme Court rules (5-4) oks private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws |
| January 18 | 80th Islander and 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll and Bossy) 9-1 win |
| January 19 | California Supreme Court rejects quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia, who wants to starve herself to death in a public hospital |
| January 19 | Francesco Moser bicycles world record time: 50,808 km |
| January 20 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners |
| January 21 | U.S. male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton |
| January 22 | Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's basketball record with 70 pts |
| January 22 | Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European all-round skates |
| January 22 | Superbowl XVIII: Los Angeles Raiders beat Washington Red Skins, 38-9 in Tampa Superbowl MVP: Marcus Allen, Los Angeles Raiders, RB |
| January 23 | Buffalo Sabres win NHL record 10th straight road game |
| January 23 | Greatest unpaced 1-hour bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km |
| January 23 | Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to become WWF champ |
| January 24 | Apple Computer unveils its Macintosh personal computer |
| January 26 | Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders |
| January 26 | U.S. Navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters and a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst, NJ |
| January 27 | John and Yoko release "Milk and Honey" album |
| January 27 | Los Angeles Kings end Wayne Gretzky's NHL-record 51-game scoring streak |
| January 27 | Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial |
| January 28 | 41th Golden Globes: Thornbirds wins |
| January 28 | Los Angeles Kings stop Wayne Gretzky 51 game scoring streak |
| January 28 | Mr Glynn Wolfe marries for non-bigamous record 26th time, Las Vegas |
| January 28 | Record 295,000 dominoes toppled, Fuerth, West Germany |
| January 29 | 34th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 154-145 (OT) at Denver |
| January 29 | Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman |
| January 29 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 45-3 |
| January 29 | President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term |
| January 29 | Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic of Deer Creek |
| January 29 | Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched |
| January 31 | 36th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-6 at NJ |
| January 31 | Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network |
| January 31 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 1 | China and Netherlands regain diplomatic relations |
| February 1 | Daniel Stern becomes NBA commissioner |
| February 1 | Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203) |
| February 2 | 8th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards |
| February 2 | Lebanese army fight in Beirut |
| February 3 | 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched |
| February 4 | "9" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 739 performances |
| February 4 | "Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore |
| February 4 | Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168m) Las Vegas |
| February 5 | New Zealand beat England (82 and 93) by an innings in 3 days |
| February 5 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| February 6 | Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army |
| February 7 | Bruce McCandless, U.S., makes 1st untethered space walk |
| February 7 | Michael Jackson awarded a 4-ft-high platinum disc by CBS |
| February 8 | 14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia |
| February 8 | 1st time 8 people in space |
| February 8 | A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation |
| February 8 | Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7 |
| February 9 | "Rink" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 204 performances |
| February 11 | 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth |
| February 11 | Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11 |
| February 12 | Alice Miller wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
| February 12 | Cale Yarborough, becomes 1st Daytona 500 qualifier, above 200 MPH |
| February 12 | Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at Olympics |
| February 12 | West Indies beat Australia 2-0-1 to win cricket World Series Cup receiving all perfect scores for quality and gold medal |
| February 13 | 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart and liver transplant |
| February 13 | Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as U.S.S.R. leader |
| February 14 | Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney, Australia |
| February 15 | 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq |
| February 16 | Bill Johnson becomes 1st American to win Olympic downhill skiing gold |
| February 16 | New Jersey Devils 1st OT goal, Jan Ludvig beats Hartford Whalers 6-5 |
| February 18 | Revised concordat between Italy and Vatican signed |
| February 19 | 14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia |
| February 19 | 1st brother combo to win Gold and Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil and Steve Mahre-Slalom) |
| February 19 | "Doonesbury" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 104 performances |
| February 19 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| February 22 | Brothers Anton and Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Quebec |
| February 24 | Iraq resumes air attack on Iran |
| February 25 | Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500 |
| February 26 | Last U.S. Marines in multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon left Beirut |
| February 26 | Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse |
| February 26 | Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called New York City, "Hymietown" |
| February 26 | Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st U.S. poet laureate |
| February 27 | Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8.675 m) |
| February 27 | Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa |
| February 27 | WRC-AM in Washington D.C. changes call letters to WWRC |
| February 28 | 26th Grammy Awards: Beat It, Michael Jackson wins 8 |
| February 29 | Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down |
| March 1 | Landsat 5 and ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit |
| March 1 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. #3931 Batten, #4529 Webern, #4530 Smoluchowski, #4818 Elgar, #5502 Brashear and #5943 Lovi |
| March 2 | Iran offensive against Iraq fails |
| March 2 | John Long (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games |
| March 3 | New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6) |
| March 3 | Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1) |
| March 4 | Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational |
| March 4 | Pee Wee Reese and Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
| March 5 | Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene |
| March 5 | U.S. accuse Iraq of using poison gas |
| March 9 | Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections |
| March 9 | John Lennon releases "Borrowed Time" |
| March 9 | Philadelphia 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record |
| March 9 | Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| March 10 | Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page |
| March 11 | Chris Johnson wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic |
| March 12 | British ice dancing team, Torvill and Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships |
| March 12 | National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike |
| March 13 | Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird |
| March 13 | WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield |
| March 14 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-41-C mission |
| March 15 | 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields |
| March 15 | Tanzania adopts constitution |
| March 16 | Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut |
| March 16 | South Africa and Mozambique sign non attack treaty |
| March 18 | Chris Johnson wins LPGA Tucson Conquistadores Golf Open |
| March 19 | John J O'Connor named 8th archbishop of New York |
| March 19 | "Kate and Allie," premieres |
| March 19 | KSD-AM in St. Louis MO changes call letters to KUSA |
| March 19 | Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River |
| March 19 | Pitcher Denny McLain, indicted on various charges of racketeering |
| March 19 | STS-41-C vehicle moves to launch pad |
| March 20 | Andy Kaufman and Fred Blassie's "My Breakfast With Blassie" premieres |
| March 20 | Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools |
| March 21 | Border scores 100* vs. WI Trinidad after 98* in 1st cricket innings |
| March 21 | NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule |
| March 21 | Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon |
| March 21 | Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan |
| March 22 | Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game |
| March 23 | Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 3 km (4:20.91) |
| March 23 | Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa won by J Torvill and Chris Dean (GRB) |
| March 23 | Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Underhill and Paul Martini (CAN) |
| March 23 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Katarina Witt (GDR) |
| March 23 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Scott Hamilton (USA) |
| March 24 | Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52) |
| March 24 | Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51) |
| March 24 | IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics |
| March 25 | Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| March 27 | Andrew Lloyd Webber/Richard Stilgoe's "Starlight Express," premieres |
| March 29 | NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis |
| March 29 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| March 30 | U.S. ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force |
| March 31 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 1 | 14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000 |
| April 1 | 3rd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: Southern California beats Tennessee 72-61 |
| April 1 | 8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours |
| April 2 | 46th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Georgetown beats Houston 84-75 |
| April 3 | Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy |
| April 3 | Guinea suspends constitution after coup |
| April 3 | Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7 |
| April 4 | Michael Frayn's "Benefactors" premieres in London |
| April 4 | Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary |
| April 5 | "Human Comedy" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 13 performances |
| April 5 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421) |
| April 6 | 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)-Challenger 5 is launched |
| April 6 | 1st time 11 people in space |
| April 7 | Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0 |
| April 8 | 13th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster |
| April 8 | 4th Golden Raspberry Awards: Lonely Lady wins |
| April 9 | 56th Academy Awards - "Terms of Endearment," R Duvall and S Maclaine win |
| April 10 | Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle |
| April 10 | John Long (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 51 games |
| April 10 | U.S. Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors |
| April 11 | Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair |
| April 11 | Chinese troops invade Vietnam |
| April 11 | General Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union |
| April 11 | Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth |
| April 11 | U.S.S.R. party leader Chernenko elected president |
| April 13 | 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth |
| April 13 | India beat Pak by 58 runs to win 1st Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah |
| April 13 | Pete Rose becomes 1st NL to get get 4,000 hits in a career |
| April 14 | Farewell concert of "Doe Maar" in Den Bosch, Netherlands |
| April 15 | 48th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 277 |
| April 15 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
| April 15 | Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India |
| April 15 | "Human Comedy" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 13 performances |
| April 15 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| April 16 | 13th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lorraine Moller of New Zealand in 2:29:28 |
| April 16 | 88th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:10:34 |
| April 16 | Oakland A's Dave Kingman hits 3 home runs including a grand slam |
| April 16 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive" |
| April 17 | Braves pitcher Pascual Perez suspended due to cocaine usage |
| April 17 | Libyan embassy demonstration, 1 shot dead |
| April 18 | Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
| April 18 | Joan Benoit runs world record female marathon (2:22:43) |
| April 19 | Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in Nature magazine |
| April 20 | Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan |
| April 21 | After 37 weeks, "Thriller" is knocked off as top album by "Footloose" |
| April 21 | Centers for Disease Control says virus discovered in France causes AIDS |
| April 21 | Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph |
| April 21 | Montreal Expo David Palmer no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0 in a perfect 5 inn game |
| April 22 | Vicki Fergon wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
| April 23 | AIDS-virus identified, acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
| April 24 | Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot |
| April 25 | Rock group Wings disbands |
| April 25 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| April 26 | Liverpool's Cavern Club reopens |
| April 26 | President Reagan visits China |
| April 27 | Cleveland Indians beat Detroit Tigers, 8-4, in 19 innings |
| April 27 | Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana |
| April 28 | "La Tragedie de Carmen" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 187 performances |
| April 29 | Betsy King wins LPGA Freedom/Orlando Golf Classic |
| April 29 | "Oliver!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 17 performances |
| April 30 | 1700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are Sweden |
| April 30 | Strong winds cause a 30 minnutes delay in Toronto Blue Jays game |
| May 1 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 1 | Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy |
| May 2 | Indians' Andre Thornton ties record for most walks (6 in 16 inn) |
| May 2 | Mattingly's single breaks up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid |
| May 2 | "Sunday in the Park with George" opens at Booth New York City for 604 performances |
| May 2 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 4 | Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling) |
| May 5 | 110th Kentucky Derby: Laffit Pincay, Jr. aboard Swale wins in 2:02.4 |
| May 6 | Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken, Jr. hits for cycle |
| May 6 | Jose Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election |
| May 7 | $180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit |
| May 7 | Sharon Barrett wins LPGA Potamkin Cadillac Golf Classic |
| May 8 | Chicago White Sox beat Milw Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (completed 5/9) |
| May 8 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| May 8 | Minnesota Twins Kirby Puckett debuts with 4 singles |
| May 8 | Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed |
| May 8 | U.S.S.R. announces it will not participate in LA Summer Olympics |
| May 9 | Alexander Calder's "Big Crinkly" sells for $852,000 |
| May 9 | White Sox and Brewers play 8:06, game, longest timed baseball game, 25 innings |
| May 10 | International Court of Justice rules on U.S. blockade of Nicaragua |
| May 11 | Johan Cruijff quits soccer |
| May 11 | Tigers set best 30 game start record (26-4) |
| May 11 | Transit of Earth as seen on Mars |
| May 12 | Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-41-D |
| May 12 | France performs nuclear test |
| May 12 | Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on same hole |
| May 12 | South Africa prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years |
| May 12 | White Horse by Laid Back hits #26 |
| May 12 | World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans |
| May 13 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| May 13 | Johan Cruyffs last competitive match |
| May 13 | "Oliver!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 17 performances |
| May 14 | 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama |
| May 16 | Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution |
| May 16 | Juventus wins 24th Europe Cup II in Basel |
| May 16 | Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets to keep Twins in Minnesota Twins sell 51,863 tickets but only 6,346 fans show up for the game |
| May 16 | Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer |
| May 16 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 17 | Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning |
| May 17 | Mai Shanley, 21, (NM), crowned 33rd Miss USA |
| May 19 | 110th Preakness: Angel Cordero, Jr. aboard Gate Dancer wins in 1:53.6 |
| May 19 | "King Of Suede" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #62 |
| May 19 | Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 sec in an NHL playoff game |
| May 19 | Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat New York Islanders, 4 games to 1 |
| May 19 | STS-41-D vehicle moves to launch pad |
| May 20 | Barb Bunkowsky wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic |
| May 20 | Boston's Roger Clemens beats Twins, 5-4, for his 1st victory |
| May 20 | "On Your Toes" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 505 performances |
| May 23 | Anderlecht wins 13th UEFA Cup at London |
| May 23 | Detroit Tigers win AL record tying 16th straight road game |
| May 24 | Detroit Tigers win AL record 17th straight road game |
| May 24 | "Wiz" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 13 performances |
| May 25 | Detroit Tigers lose to Seattle 7-3 ends record tying 17 consecutive wins |
| May 25 | Red Sox trade pitcher Dennis Eckersley to Cubs for Bill Buckner |
| May 26 | Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia |
| May 26 | Tulsa, Oklahoma gets 13" of rain, 14 die |
| May 27 | Beth Henley's "Miss Firecracker contest," premieres in New York City |
| May 27 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| May 27 | Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day |
| May 29 | Boston Red Sox retires #9 (Ted Williams) and #4 (Joe Cronin) |
| May 30 | Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora headquarters in Nicaragua |
| May 30 | Liverpool wins 29th Europe Cup 1 in Rome |
| May 30 | NL suspends Mario Soto 5 days for Reds-Cubs fight on May 27th |
| May 31 | 57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge |
| May 31 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 31 | Viv Richards hits 189* (170 balls) vs. England, ODI cricket record |
| June 1 | Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner |
| June 1 | KWK-AM in St. Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD |
| June 1 | Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles |
| June 1 | Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of U.S.S.R. snatches a record 211 kg |
| June 2 | Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy |
| June 2 | Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines |
| June 2 | "Welcome To Fun Zone" hosted by Dr. Demento airs on NBC-TV |
| June 3 | 30th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
| June 3 | 38th Tony Awards: Real Thing and La Cage Aux Folles win |
| June 3 | "Wiz" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 13 performances |
| June 4 | 18th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers |
| June 4 | Arnold Palmer fails to make U.S. Open golf tournament 1st time in 32 yrs |
| June 4 | Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA" |
| June 4 | DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal |
| June 4 | New York Mets draft Shawn Abner, 17, #1 |
| June 5 | Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" becomes #1 |
| June 5 | Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site, Golden Temple |
| June 6 | 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India |
| June 9 | 116th Belmont: Laffit Pincay, Jr. aboard Swale wins in 2:27.2 |
| June 9 | 54th French Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats C Evert (63 61) |
| June 9 | Cyndi Lauper's 1st #1 "Time After Times" |
| June 9 | Donald Ducks 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland |
| June 9 | Jurgen Hingsen of W Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts |
| June 9 | Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD |
| June 9 | Weird Al Yankovic gives a live performance at Starlight Amphitheater |
| June 10 | 38th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
| June 10 | 54th French Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (36 26 64 75 75) |
| June 10 | Ivan Lendl wins French Open, his 1st grand slam title |
| June 10 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic |
| June 10 | U.S. missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time |
| June 10 | Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 7'10" (2.39m) |
| June 11 | Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial of half of his ashes |
| June 11 | Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally |
| June 14 | Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members |
| June 15 | "Thicke Of The Night," TV Talk Show last airs in syndication |
| June 15 | Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran |
| June 15 | Vitesse soccer team forms in Arnhem |
| June 16 | Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race |
| June 16 | Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d) |
| June 17 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
| June 17 | John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada |
| June 18 | 84th U.S. Golf Open: Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a 276 at Winged Foot Golf Club New York |
| June 19 | 1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger, Nightline |
| June 19 | "Weird Al" Yankovic gives free live performance at Del Mar Fair |
| June 20 | A's Dave Kingman hits his 3rd grand slam and 14th lifetime |
| June 20 | Amber Kvanli, of Minnesota, crowned America's Junior Miss |
| June 22 | Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins |
| June 22 | Carl Pohlad becomes CEO of Minnesota Twins |
| June 22 | Jolande van de Meer swims Dutch record 800 m freestyle (8:39.30) |
| June 22 | Joseph Luns resigns as Secretary-General of NATO |
| June 24 | Joe Morgan sets career home run mark for 2nd basemen with #265 |
| June 24 | Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| June 25 | Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America |
| June 25 | STS-41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem |
| June 26 | 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4 |
| June 26 | Barbra Streisand records "Here We Are at Last" |
| June 27 | Emmy 11th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 5th time |
| June 27 | Fire destroys a set in "A View to the Kill" |
| June 27 | France wins soccer's European Cup |
| June 27 | Late Night's 1st Tower Drop |
| June 27 | Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts |
| June 29 | Orel Hershiser begins string of making every sched start until 1990 |
| June 29 | Pete Rose plays in record 3,309th game, surpassing Carl Yastrzemski |
| June 29 | U.S.S.R. offers to start talking about banning SDI |
| June 30 | Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia |
| June 30 | Last sixpence minted in Great Britain (in use since 1551) |
| June 30 | Longest pro football game, Los Angeles Express beats Michigan Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds |
| July 1 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| July 1 | "Baby" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 241 performances |
| July 1 | Royals pitcher Paul Splittorff, retires |
| July 3 | Derek Underwood's maiden FC century after 22 years of trying |
| July 3 | Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island |
| July 3 | Greenidge scores brilliant 214 off 241 balls to win Lord's Test |
| July 3 | Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members |
| July 4 | Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki |
| July 4 | Kallicharran gets 206 and 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy game |
| July 4 | New York Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000 |
| July 4 | Yuri Sedykh of U.S.S.R. throws hammer a record 86.33 m |
| July 5 | Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials |
| July 7 | 5 die in a train crash in Williston, Vermont |
| July 7 | 91st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62) |
| July 7 | Frankie Valli marries Randy Clohessy |
| July 8 | 98th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats J Connors (61 61 62) |
| July 8 | Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| July 9 | 12th minster of York destroyed in lightening storm |
| July 9 | Yvonne Ryding, of Sweden, crowned 33rd Miss Universe |
| July 11 | 55th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at Candlestick Park, San Francisco |
| July 11 | All star MVP: Gary Carter, Mont Expos |
| July 11 | England's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe |
| July 11 | Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989 |
| July 11 | Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana |
| July 12 | Geraldine Ferraro, New York becomes 1st woman major-party Vice Presidential candidate |
| July 13 | Eddie Van Halen joins in, in a Jacksons concert |
| July 13 | Jeff Beck quits Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows |
| July 13 | Sergei Bubka of U.S.S.R. pole vaults a record 5.89 m |
| July 14 | STS-41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads |
| July 14 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 15 | 39th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy |
| July 15 | John Lennon releases "I'm Stepping Out" |
| July 17 | Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France |
| July 17 | Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7 |
| July 18 | James Huberty kills 21 McDonald's patrons in San Ysidro California |
| July 18 | Walter F. Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco |
| July 19 | 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer) |
| July 19 | Geraldine Ferraro, Representative-D-New York 1979 - 1985, wins Democratic Vice Presidential nomination |
| July 20 | Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m |
| July 20 | Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America |
| July 21 | 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in U.S. |
| July 21 | Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s |
| July 21 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test |
| July 22 | 113th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St. Andrews |
| July 22 | 22nd Tennis Fed Cup: Czechoslovakia beats Australia in Sao Paulo Brazil (2-1) |
| July 22 | Kathy Whitworth wins Rochester Golf International (her 85th win) |
| July 22 | Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France |
| July 23 | Kansas City Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save |
| July 23 | Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984 |
| July 23 | Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude |
| July 24 | Steve Ballesteros wins British Open |
| July 25 | Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space |
| July 26 | Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single |
| July 26 | Kuhn announces Vida Blue is suspended due to cocaine conviction |
| July 26 | Pitcher Vida Blue suspended for rest of 1984 due to drug use |
| July 27 | Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single vs. Philadelphia |
| July 28 | 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles |
| July 29 | 12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster |
| July 29 | 23rd Summer Olympics opens in Los Angeles |
| July 30 | Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil |
| July 30 | Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant |
| July 30 | Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV |
| July 31 | Leeza Gibbon's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight |
| July 31 | U.S. men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics |
| July 31 | Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed |
| August 2 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 3 | 365.7 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| August 3 | Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed |
| August 4 | Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics |
| August 4 | Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit home run |
| August 4 | Prince's "Purple Rain," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 24 weeks |
| August 4 | Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day) |
| August 5 | Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic |
| August 5 | Joan Benoit (U.S.) wins 1st Olympic marathon for women (2:24:52) |
| August 5 | Lou Pinella Day at Yankee Stadium |
| August 5 | Toronto's Cliff Johnson hits record 19th career pinch home run |
| August 6 | 203.05 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| August 6 | Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics |
| August 7 | David Rabe's "Hurlyburly," premieres in New York City |
| August 7 | Japan beats U.S. for olympic gold medal in baseball |
| August 7 | Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee |
| August 8 | Carl Lewis wins 3rd (200m) of 4 gold medals in Summer |
| August 8 | Milwaukee 10-game losing streak ends |
| August 8 | "Rink" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 204 performances |
| August 9 | Daley Thomas of Britain sets decathalon record (8,847) in LA Cal |
| August 9 | STS-41-D vehicle again moves out to launch pad |
| August 10 | Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run |
| August 11 | 101,799 fans at soccer match Brazilie-France |
| August 11 | Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds |
| August 11 | Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform |
| August 11 | During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes" |
| August 11 | Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms |
| August 11 | U.S.S.R. performs (underground) nuclear test |
| August 12 | 23rd Olympic games close at Los Angeles, California |
| August 12 | Braves beat Padres 5-3, features 2 brawls and 19 ejections |
| August 12 | Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, and Luis Aparicio inducted into Hall of Fame |
| August 12 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
| August 13 | Morocco and Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty |
| August 14 | IBM releases PC DOS version 3.0 |
| August 14 | West Indies complete 5-0 series annihilation of England |
| August 16 | Andrea Doria's safe opened |
| August 16 | L.A. federal jury acquits auto maker John DeLorean on cocaine charges |
| August 16 | Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500) |
| August 17 | Pete Rose returns to Cincinnati Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits) |
| August 18 | Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire |
| August 19 | 66th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 273 at Shoal Creek Ala |
| August 19 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf |
| August 19 | Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for president |
| August 19 | Sally Quinlan wins LPGA MasterCard Golf International Pro-Am |
| August 22 | Evelyn Ashford of U.S. ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec |
| August 22 | Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced |
| August 22 | Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes 11th rookie to strikeout 200 |
| August 22 | Republican convention in Dallas renominates President Reagan and Vice President Bush |
| August 22 | South African election for parliament boycvotted |
| August 24 | Pat Bradley set LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver |
| August 25 | French airship capsizes |
| August 25 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| August 26 | Betsy King wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic |
| August 26 | Tatyana Kazankina of U.S.S.R. sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad |
| August 26 | Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record) |
| August 27 | President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project |
| August 27 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| August 28 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| August 30 | 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days) |
| August 30 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| August 30 | Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36 |
| August 30 | Sotherby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock memorabilla |
| August 31 | Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavywgt boxing title |
| September 2 | "Zorba" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 362 performances |
| September 3 | 28 year old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery |
| September 3 | Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th |
| September 3 | Cindy Hill wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| September 3 | Jerry Lewis' 19th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $32,074,566 |
| September 3 | South Africa adopts constitution |
| September 4 | Nigerian singer Fela Kuti sentenced to 2 years |
| September 5 | 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB |
| September 6 | Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead," premieres in New York City |
| September 6 | Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow |
| September 7 | Met Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236 |
| September 8 | 98th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris E L Mills (46 64 64) |
| September 8 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-41G mission |
| September 9 | 104th U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl (63 64 61) |
| September 9 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship |
| September 9 | California Angel Michael Witt is 11th to pitch a perfect baseball game |
| September 10 | Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla |
| September 12 | Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident |
| September 12 | Cyndi Lauper sings "She-Bop" on Tonight Show |
| September 12 | Ethiopia forms socialist republic |
| September 12 | New York Met Dwight Goodin sets rookie strike out record at 251 |
| September 13 | Simon Peres forms Israeli government with Likoed |
| September 13 | STS-41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad |
| September 14 | 1st MTV awards-Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd host |
| September 15 | Sharlene Wells (Utah), 20, crowned 58th Miss America 1985 |
| September 15 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| September 16 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| September 16 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| September 16 | "Miami Vice" premieres |
| September 17 | Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th Prime Minister succeeding John Turner |
| September 17 | Dwight Gooden ties record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games |
| September 17 | Reggie Jackson is 13th to hit 500 home runs |
| September 17 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| September 18 | Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic |
| September 18 | Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place) |
| September 18 | Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons |
| September 19 | Britain and China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997 |
| September 20 | "Cosby Show" premieres on NBC-TV |
| September 20 | Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time |
| September 20 | Suicide car bomb attacks U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23 |
| September 21 | NASA launches Galaxy-C |
| September 22 | Brussels princess Astrid marries arch duke Lorenz of Austrian-Este |
| September 23 | 36th Emmy Awards: Hill St. Blue, Cheers, John Ritter and Tyne Daly |
| September 23 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic |
| September 23 | SF 49er Joe Montana misses his 1st start in 49 games |
| September 23 | Sparky Anderson is 1st manager to win 100 games in both leagues |
| September 24 | Cubs clinch NL East title |
| September 24 | Paul McCartney release "No More Lonely Nights" |
| September 25 | 1st London performance of musical "Stepping Out" presented |
| September 25 | Egypt and Jordan regain diplomatic relations |
| September 25 | New York Met Rusty Staub joins Ty Cobb, who hit home runs as a teen and in 40s |
| September 25 | "Quilters" opens at Jack Lawrence Theater New York City for 24 performances |
| September 26 | 5,251 turn out to see Phillies play New York Mets at Shea Stadium |
| September 26 | Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a paternity suit |
| September 26 | Britain and China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997 |
| September 26 | Dutch Queen Beatrice opens University |
| September 26 | Phila's Juan Samuel sets record for steals by a rookie with his 72nd |
| September 26 | President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa |
| September 28 | 1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India vs. Australia, New Delhi) |
| September 28 | Cleveland Indians down 0-10 to Minnesota Twins, win 11-10 |
| September 29 | "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama peaks at #9 |
| September 29 | "Drive" by Cars peaks at #3 |
| September 29 | Elizabeth Taylor, undergoing rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Clinic |
| September 29 | "Layin' It On Line" by Jefferson Starship peaks at #66 |
| September 29 | "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince and Revolution peaks at #1 |
| September 29 | "Pretty Mess" by Vanity peaks at #75 |
| September 29 | "Torture" by Jacksons peaks at #17 |
| September 29 | "(What) In Name Of Love" by Naked Eyes peaks at #39 |
| September 29 | "When You Close Your Eyes" by Night Ranger peaks at #14 |
| September 29 | "Yes Or No" by Go-Go's peak at #84 |
| September 30 | Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner |
| September 30 | Browns set a team record for allowing most sacks (11), Kansas City wins 10-6 |
| September 30 | California Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0 |
| September 30 | New York Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg |
| October 1 | Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after 2-year hiatus |
| October 1 | Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of baseball |
| October 2 | 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit |
| October 2 | In 1st LCS game played with replacement umps, Cubs cbeat Padres 13-0 |
| October 2 | Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage |
| October 4 | U.S. government closes down due to budget problems |
| October 4 | Yankees clinch AL East |
| October 5 | 13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G)-Challenger 6-launched |
| October 6 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open |
| October 7 | Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, San Diego Padres win pennant |
| October 7 | Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader |
| October 8 | 18th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins |
| October 9 | Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st U.S. woman to walk in space |
| October 11 | 1st space walk by U.S. woman, Kathryn D. Sullivan |
| October 11 | August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," premieres in New York City |
| October 11 | NASA launches space vehicle S-208 |
| October 11 | Vice President candidate debate-Graldine Ferraro (D) and George Bush (R) |
| October 12 | IRA bombs hotel where Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die |
| October 13 | Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders |
| October 13 | John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million |
| October 13 | STS-41-G mission; lands at Kennedy Space Center |
| October 14 | Browns' Ozzie Newsome sets club records with 14 receptions for 191 yards |
| October 14 | Detroit Tigers beat San Diego Padres, 4 games to 1 in 81st World Series |
| October 14 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Smirnoff Ladies Irish Golf Open |
| October 14 | "Quilters" closes at Jack Lawrence Theater New York City after 24 performances |
| October 15 | Central Intelligence Agency's Information Act passes |
| October 15 | Centrum party expels 2nd Member of parliament Janmaat due to fraud |
| October 16 | Baboon heart transplanted into a 15-day-old baby girl |
| October 16 | Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| October 17 | Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield |
| October 18 | Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-51A mission |
| October 18 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 20 | Cleveland Metroparks' Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are completed |
| October 20 | Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick-4 goals |
| October 21 | Cleveland Browns' Steve Cox sets club record with a 60-yd field goal |
| October 21 | Niki Lauda becomes 3rd time motor racing world champ |
| October 21 | Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2:08:05 |
| October 22 | NFL quarterback Ken Stabler retires |
| October 22 | Paul McCartney releases "Give My Regards to Broad Street" soundtrack |
| October 23 | Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young |
| October 23 | NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine |
| October 23 | STS-51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad |
| October 24 | 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested |
| October 24 | Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed |
| October 24 | Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match |
| October 25 | "Give My Regards to Broad Street" premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC) |
| October 25 | Hepatitis virus is discovered |
| October 25 | King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels |
| October 25 | Rangers beat Devils 11-2 |
| October 25 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 25 | West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption |
| October 26 | "Baby Fae" gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days |
| October 27 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| October 27 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 27 | Washington State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing |
| October 28 | 14th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30 |
| October 28 | 15th New York City Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53 |
| October 28 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament |
| October 29 | Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) and Greta Weitz (2:29:30) win New York Marathon |
| October 30 | Tigers reliever Willie Hernandez wins AL Cy Young Award |
| October 31 | Howard Goodall/Melvyn Bragg's musical "Hired Man," premieres in London |
| October 31 | Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire |
| November 1 | 1st NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - Clipper beat Knick, 107-105 |
| November 1 | Despite Mike Bossy 4 goals Islanders lose 5-6 to Canadians making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-77-3-4 |
| November 1 | Larry Shues "Foreigner," premieres in New York City |
| November 1 | Willem de Kooning's "Two Women" sells for $1,980,000 |
| November 2 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| November 3 | 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India |
| November 3 | Body of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi cremated |
| November 4 | Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| November 4 | Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63% |
| November 6 | President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D) |
| November 6 | Willie Hernandez wins AL MVP Award |
| November 7 | STS-51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds |
| November 8 | 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test |
| November 8 | Anna Fisher becomes 1st "mom" to go into orbit |
| November 8 | STS-51-A mission; launch |
| November 9 | 1st-class cricket debut for Brian McMillan, Transvaal B vs. N Tvl B |
| November 9 | Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| November 9 | Most shots in an Islander game-88-Isles 45, Rangers 43 |
| November 9 | Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed |
| November 10 | Australia all out 76 vs. West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21 |
| November 10 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Chief's Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again at Hollywood |
| November 10 | Miami Hurricanes blows 31-0 lead in 3rd quarter lose to Md 42-40 |
| November 11 | "3 Musketeers" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 9 performances |
| November 12 | Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together" |
| November 12 | Space shuttle astronauts retreive a satellite - 1st space salvage |
| November 13 | David Levy finds his 1st comet |
| November 13 | Ryne Sandberg wins the NL MVP Award |
| November 14 | Astronauts aboard "Discovery" pluck a 2nd satellite from orbit |
| November 14 | NASA launches NATO-3D |
| November 16 | 14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Center |
| November 16 | Houston blocks 20 Denver shots tying NBA regulation game record |
| November 16 | Imran Khan makes his 1st appearance for NSW Cricket |
| November 16 | John Lennon releases "Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him" |
| November 17 | Golden State Warrior scores 59 points losing to New Jersey Nets 124-110 |
| November 17 | Islanders score 20 assists against Rangers |
| November 18 | "3 Musketeers" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 9 performances |
| November 18 | 72nd CFL Grey Cup: Win Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 47-17 |
| November 18 | Browns set team records for most sacks (11) |
| November 18 | Flyers' Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders |
| November 18 | New Jersey Devils shutout New York Rangers 6-0 |
| November 19 | Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die |
| November 19 | New York Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year |
| November 20 | McDonald's made its 50 billionth hamburger |
| November 20 | Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden wins NL Rookie of Year |
| November 22 | Fred Rogers of PBS' "Mr Rogers? Neighborhood" presents a sweater to Smithsonian Institution |
| November 23 | Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie passes (472 yards), including game ending 48 yard touchdown (Hail Mary Pass) to end game and beat Miami 47-45 |
| November 23 | Limited-over International cricket debut for Wasim Akram, vs. New Zealand |
| November 23 | Test Cricket debut of David Boon age 23 and Bob Holland age 38 (v WI) |
| November 23 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| November 25 | Julio M Sanguinetti wins Uruguay presidential election |
| November 25 | William Schroeder, is 2nd to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart |
| November 26 | After 518 goals and 14 years with Mont Canadiens, Guy LaFleur retires |
| November 26 | John W Mercom, Jr. announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75 million |
| November 26 | Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain |
| November 26 | U.S. and Iraq regain diplomatic relations |
| November 29 | Javed Miandad completes twin Test Cricket tons, vs. New Zealand, Hyderabad |
| December 1 | 50th Heisman Trophy Award: Doug Flutie, Boston College (quarterback) |
| December 1 | France performs nuclear test |
| December 1 | Greg Page KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 8 for WBA heavyweight boxing title |
| December 2 | 4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win |
| December 2 | Bob Holland takes 9-83 for NSW against South Australia, SCG |
| December 2 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 3 | 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India |
| December 3 | Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisc |
| December 4 | Hijackers commandeered a Kuwaiti airliner |
| December 5 | A's trade Rickey Henderson to Yankees for Jay Howell and Jose Rijo |
| December 5 | French colonies killed 10 Kanaken in New Caledonia |
| December 5 | Yankees trade catcher Rick Cerone to Braves for pitcher Brian Fisher |
| December 6 | France performs nuclear test |
| December 6 | Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage |
| December 7 | Allan Border's 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide) |
| December 8 | 73rd Australian Men Tennis: Mats Wilander beats K Curren (67 64 76 62) |
| December 8 | Europe and 64 developing countries sign Lome III treaty |
| December 8 | Ringo appears on Saturday Night Live |
| December 9 | 59th Australian Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Sukova (67 61 63) |
| December 9 | 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends |
| December 9 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 9 | Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane |
| December 9 | LA Ram Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2,003 yards |
| December 9 | Vicki Alvarez/Mike McDonald wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| December 10 | 1st planet outside our solar system discovered |
| December 10 | South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize |
| December 10 | WNSY-AM in Newport News Virginia returns from WGH |
| December 11 | "Doug Henning and His World..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne New York City for 60 perf |
| December 11 | Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya |
| December 13 | Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke |
| December 14 | Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football |
| December 15 | U.S.S.R. launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet |
| December 17 | New Jersey Devils 1st penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton |
| December 17 | New Jersey Devils 1st shutout, Glenn Resch makes 42 saves beat Minn, 2-0 |
| December 18 | 73rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats USA in Gothenburg (4-1) |
| December 19 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| December 19 | China Premier Zhao Ziyang and Margaret Thatcher sign Hong Kong Treaty |
| December 19 | Fire at Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people |
| December 19 | Scotty Bowman becomes NHL's all time winningest coach |
| December 19 | UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 |
| December 19 | Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th and youngest NHL-er to score 1,000 points |
| December 20 | 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library |
| December 20 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 21 | Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win-Whalers 1-0 |
| December 21 | U.S.S.R. launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come |
| December 22 | Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on New York City subway train |
| December 22 | Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks |
| December 22 | Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, vs. WI at the MCG |
| December 23 | Viv Richards scores 208 in Test Cricket at MCG |
| December 24 | Palace coup in Mauritania |
| December 25 | NBA's Bernard King scores 60 points |
| December 26 | Belgian princess Astrid marries arch duke Otto L van Austrian-Este |
| December 27 | Padres' free agent pitcher Ed Whitson signs with New York Yankees |
| December 28 | Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old |
| December 28 | Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India |
| December 28 | TV soap "Edge of Night" ends 28 year run |
| December 28 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 29 | 5th United Negro College Fund |
| December 29 | Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period |
| December 29 | Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections |
| December 30 | Miss Elizabeth (Hulette) and Macho Man Randy Savage (Poffo) wed |
| December 31 | Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen loses his arm in a car crash |
| December 31 | New York City subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in New Hampshire |
| December 31 | Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th Prime Minister succeeds his mother, Indira Gandhi |
| December 31 | Test Cricket debut of Mohammad Azharuddin, vs. England at Calcutta |
| December 31 | U.S. leaves UNESCO |
