- January 7
- Netherlands government imposes rationing of gasoline. [1]
- January 8
- Gold hits record US$126.50 an ounce in London, England. [1]
- Silver hits record US$3.40 an ounce in New York. [1]
- January 11
- Birth of Rosenkowitz sextuplets in Cape Town, South Africa (first known to survive infancy). [1] [5]
- January 12
- Libya and Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic". [1]
- January 18
- Israel and Egypt sign weapons accord. [1]
- January 19
- Belgium government of Leburton falls. [1]
- January 21
- Gold hits record US$161.31 an ounce in London, England. [1]
- Silver hits record US$3.97 an ounce in London, England. [1]
- January 25
- Bülent Ecevit forms government in Turkey. [1]
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- South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard transplants the first human heart without removal of the old one. [1]
- January 30
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk. [1]
- February 2
- Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary". [1]
- February 4
- Benzine rationing ends in Netherlands. [1]
- Gas rationing ends in Netherlands. [1]
- Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old daughter of newspaper publisher Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California. [1] [129]
- February 5
- Maximum speed on German Autobahn reduced to 100 kph. [1]
- U.S. Mariner 10 returns the first close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure. [1] [5]
- February 6
- Dutch automobile speed limit set at 100 km due to oil crisis. [1]
- February 7
- Grenada gains independence from Britain. [1841.465]
- February 8
- After 84 days in space, the crew of the first American space station Skylab return to Earth. [1] [5]
- February 10
- Iran/Iraq border fight breaks out. [1]
- Silver futures hit record US$4.815 an ounce in London, England. [1]
- February 11
- Titan-Centaur test launch fails. [1]
- February 13
- Dissident Nobel Prize writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR. [1]
- February 18
- NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km). [1]
- US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan presents US$2,046,700,000 check. [1]
- February 21
- Israeli forces leave western Suez. [1]
- Silver hits record US$5.965 an ounce in London, England. [1]
- Yugoslavia adopts constitution. [1]
- February 22
- Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators. [1]
- February 24
- Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh. [1]
- February 26
- Gold hits record US$188 an ounce in Paris, France. Silver peaks at US$6.70 per ounce. [1] [582.52] [588.72] [639.12]
- February 28
- Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms. [1]
- Labour Party wins British parliamentary election. [1]
- US and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations after seven years. [1]
- March 3
- World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris, France (346 die). [1]
- March 4
- Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier. [1]
- March 6
- An Italian loses a record US$1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo. [1]
- March 7
- Monitor (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. [1]
- First general strike in Ethiopia. [1]
- March 8
- Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France. [1]
- March 9
- Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended. [1]
- March 10
- Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election. [1]
- March 11
- Mount Etna in Sicily erupts. [1]
- March 12
- Billy Fox, Protestant member of Dublin parliament, is assassinated. [1]
- March 13
- Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris, France. [1]
- March 15
- Brazilian President Garastazu Médici resigns. [1]
- March 18
- Most Arab oil-producing nations end embargo against US. [1]
- March 21
- Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall. [1]
- March 26
- Romanian communist party names party leader Nicolae Ceausescu President. [1]
- March 29
- Mariner 10's first fly-by of Mercury, returns photos. [1]
- April 1
- Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran. [1]
- April 2
- Arganat Committee publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War. [1]
- April 3
- In the USA, 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states in the east, south and midwest killed approximately 315. [1]
- Gold hits record US$197 an ounce in Paris, France. [1]
- April 5
- World's tallest building, the World Trade Center opens in New York City (110 stories). [1]
- April 6
- Swedish music group Abba wins the Eurovision Song Festival with the song "Waterloo". [7]
- April 10
- Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. [1]
- April 15
- The first Olympic lottrery draw is held in Canada. Nine winners share the CDN$1 million top prize, while one person wins the $500,000 second prize. [40.87]
- Military coup in Niger, President Diori Hamani deposed. [1]
- April 16
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- April 17
- Muslim fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis, Egypt. [1]
- April 18
- Red Brigade kidnaps Italian Attorney General Mario Sossi. [1]
- April 21
- 28th Tony Awards: River Niger and Raisin win. [1]
- April 23
- USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan. [1]
- April 25
- German Chancellor Willy Brandt's Secretary Günther Guillaume arrested as a spy. [1]
- Leo Tindemans forms Belgium government. [1]
- Marcello Caetano overthrown in Portugal; he is exiled to Madeira and later to Brazil (Carnation revolution). [1]
- April 26
- Landslide in Huancavelica Province, Peru creates a natural dam. [1]
- Malta adopts constitution. [1]
- April 27
- Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107. [1]
- May 6
- West German chancellor Willy Brandt resigns. [1] [37]
- May 7
- Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin). [1]
- May 8
- 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted. [1]
- Canadian Government of Pierre Trudeau falls. [1]
- In Japan, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurs, on the Izu Peninsula. The earthquake killed 30 people, injured 82, and destroyed 121 homes. Approximately 1,510 houses damaged. [53]
- May 10
- In China, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. 20,000 dead. [53]
- May 14
- Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, six killed. [1]
- May 15
- Mail truck terrorists take school in Maälot, 30 killed. [1]
- Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president of Germany. [1] [37]
- May 16
- Helmut Schmidt is elected German Chancellor after Willy Brandt resigns due to the spy in his office. Hans-Dietrich Genscher (FDP) becomes vice chancellor and foreign minister. [1] [37]
- USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- May 18
- India becomes sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb. [1]
- May 19
- Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election. [1]
- May 23
- Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [1]
- Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed. [1]
- May 27
- Alain Poher ceases serving as Provisional President of France. [1197.172]
- May 28
- In Switzerland, an Athenian decadrachm sells for US$272,240, a world record price. [415.52]
- Massachusetts State Lottery begins selling first instant game lottery tickets (latex-covered scratch-off area). [86.58] [187.389]
- Italian fascists bomb demonstrators in Brescia, six killed. [1]
- Stephen Schwartz' musical Magic Show premieres at the Cort Theater in New York City for 1859 performances. [1]
- May 29
- Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster. [1]
- May 31
- Israel and Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights. [1]
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- June 1
- Massive explosion and fire in caprolactam plant at Flixborough, England, kills 28, injures 36 onsite, and 53 outside the works perimeter. The explosion damages 1821 houses, 167 shops and factories. [720.144]
- June
- At a coin auction in Zurich, Switzerland, a silver decadrachm of Athens sells for about US$325,000. [592.72] [594.112] [596.33]
- June 26
- The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time, to sell a pack of chewing gum in Ohio. [5]
- June 30
- Alberta King [Mrs Martin Luther King Sr] is shot and killed in church. [1]
- Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub killing 24 (Port Chester, New York). [1]
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- Japanese geologists find another 663 fragments of meteorites near the Yamato Mountains in the Antarctic. [523.55]
- The 4.45kg Mayo Belwa achondrite meteorite falls in Nigeria. [523.104]
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