- January 17
- Zaire President Mobutu visits Belgium. [1]
- January 18
- Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. [5]
- January 19
- US President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri (Tokyo Rose), convicted in 1949 of treason, as witness testimony included lies under threat by the FBI and occupation police. [1] [10]
- World's largest crowd-12.7 million-for Indian religious festival. [1]
- January 21
- U.S. President Jimmy Carter grants an unconditional pardon to hundreds of thousands of men who evaded the draft during the Vietnam War. [1] [129]
- Italy legalizes abortion. [1]
- January 23
- $1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited in Paris, France. [1]
- January 24
- Five lawyers murdered by fascist in Madrid, Spain. [1]
- January 31
- Frenchman François Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad. [1]
- In Louisville, Kentucky, USA three buildings and a car are struck by a falling meteorite. [521]
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- February 1
- Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives. [1]
- February 2
- Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (USSR). [1]
- February 4
- Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago street (11 die, 200 hurt). [1]
- February 5
- The Canadian Meteorite Observation and Recovery Programme photos stony meteorites landing at Innisfree, Alberta, weighing 4.58kg. [523.46]
- February 7
- Soyuz 24 launches with two cosmonauts. [1]
- February 8
- Earthquake in San Francisco, California, at 5.0, strongest since 1966. [1]
- February 9
- Death of Gaus, an orangutan who lived to be 59. [1]
- February 10
- Bomb explosion in Moskouse metro. [1]
- Yehonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx, New York, named in honor of Bronx-born Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebbe Raid (1976). [1]
- February 15
- Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election. [1]
- February 16
- USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan. [1]
- February 19
- France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island. [1]
- Space shuttle Enterprise makes first test flight atop a 747 jetliner. [1] [5]
- February 24
- US President Jimmy Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights. [1]
- February 25
- The Liberian-registered Hawaiian Patriot oil tanker catches fire in the Northern Pacific west of Honolulu, Hawaii, spilling 115 million litres of oil. [1] [522]
- February 28
- First killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, Los Angeles, California). [1]
- Harbor strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends. [1]
- March 1
- Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards. [1]
- US extends territorial waters to 200 miles. [1]
- March 2
- Libya amends constitution. [1]
- March 3
- Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms. [1]
- March 4
- The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. [1] [5]
- In Romania, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs, centered about 170 kilometers northeast of Bucharest. It killed 1,500, injured about 10,500, and caused extensive damage in Bucharest and other parts of Romania. This shock was felt from Rome to Moscow and from Turkey to Finland. [1] [53]
- March 7
- Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections. [1]
- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets US President Jimmy Carter. [1]
- March 9
- Hanafi Muslims invade three buildings in Washington DC, siege ends March 11th. [1]
- March 11
- 34 Israelis killed by Palestinians on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway. [1]
- Muslims hold 130 hostages in Washington DC. [1]
- March 12
- Chile's President Augusto Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party. [1]
- Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel. [1]
- March 15
- Kamal Joemblat, Lebanese politician, is murdered. [1]
- March 16
- US President Jimmy Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland. [1]
- March 18
- Marien Ngouabi, President of Congo-Brazzaville, is murdered. [1]
- US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, and Cambodia. [1]
- In the Philippine Islands, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurs, centered about 300 kilometers northeast of Manilla. [53]
- Vietnam hands over missing-in-action soldiers to US. [1]
- March 19
- France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island. [1]
- March 20
- Parisians (France) elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as first mayor in a century. [1]
- Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India. [1]
- March 21
- In Iran, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurs, centered in the Bandar Abbas area, near the Persian Gulf. 167 deaths, 556 injuries, considerable damage over an area of 550 square kilometers north of Bandar Abbas. About 7,000 people homeless. [53]
- March 22
- Dutch Den Uyl government falls. [1]
- Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India. [1]
- March 25
- In Turkey, a magnitude 5.2 earthquake occurs. [53]
- March 27
- 583 people die in Los Rodeos, Tenerife, Spain, after two Boeing 747s collide - one Pan Am, one KLM. [1] [57]
- March 28
- Morarji Desai forms government in India. [1]
- April 1
- Attempt for Muslim state in Chad fails. [1]
- April 3
- Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's first meeting with US President Jimmy Carter. [1]
- Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time. [1]
- April 6
- In Iran, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurs, about 800 kilometers northwest of Bandar Abbas. At least 348 killed, and damage over an area of approximately 150 square kilometers. [53]
- April 8
- Israel premier Yitzhak Rabin resigns. [1]
- April 9
- Communist party legally allowed in Spain after 40 years. [1]
- April 11
- Ireland sets fishing zone at 50 miles. [1]
- April 16
- At the West Coast Computer Faire in SanFrancisco, California, Commodore demonstrates the PET 2001 computer, and Apple Computer introduces the Apple II. Both feature a 6502 processor and 4 kB RAM, both targeting the home computer user. The PET is a complete unit, incorporating a monochrome display and cassette storage, whereas the Apple II uses a color TV display and external storage. [4]
- April 17
- Christian-Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election. [1]
- April 18
- Alex Haley, author of Roots, awarded Pulitzer Prize. [1]
- Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for Shadow Box. [1]
- April 21
- Charles Strouse and Martin Charnins' musical Annie opens at Alvin Theater in New York City for 2377 performances. The musical is based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie. [1] [457]
- In the Solomon Islands, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurs. Extensive damage on Guadacanal. [53]
- Zia ur-Rahman appointed President of Bangladesh. [1]
- April 22
- Simon Peres becomes premier of Israel. [1]
- April 23
- Military workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa. [1]
- April 25
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- April 26
- New York's famed disco Studio 54 opens. [1]
- April 27
- Bloody riots in Soweto, South Africa. [1]
- April 28
- Andreas Baader and members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly two years in Stuttgart, Germany. [1]
- Christopher Boyce convicted for selling US secrets to the Russians. [1]
- April 29
- British Aerospace forms. [1]
- April 30
- Led Zeppelin breaks the world attendance record at a concert, playing to 76,229 people at the Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan, USA. [457]
- May 9
- Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed. [1]
- May 14
- Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms. [1]
- May 16
- Five die as New York Airway helicopter topples on the Pan Am Building in New York City. [1]
- May 17
- Menahem Begin's Likoed-party wins election in Israel. [1]
- May 18
- Menachem Begin becomes Israel's Prime Minister. [1]
- May 21
- Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19. [1]
- May 22
- Final European scheduled run of the Orient Express (94 years). [1]
- May 23
- Benin adopts its constitution. [1]
- Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands; children released May 27, siege ends June 11. [1]
- May 24
- USSR President Podgorny resigns. [1]
- May 25
- Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election. [1]
- 20th Century Fox releases the film Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope to theaters in the USA. (Gross theater receipts: US$461 million in the US, US$800 million worldwide.) [1] [5] [129]
- May 27
- Two Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582. [1]
- May 28
- A fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, USA, kills 164 people and injures 130 others. [1] [457]
- May 29
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- May 31
- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar. [1]
- Trans-Alaska oil pipeline completed. [1]
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