- January 24
- US President Jimmy Carter signs Executive Order on Intelligence (number 12036). [1]
- January 25
- Muriel Humphrey (Democrat-Minnesota) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat. [1]
- January 30
- Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio. [1]
- February 6
- Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Senator-Democrat-Minnesota) takes his office. [1]
- Snowstorm hits New England (54 inches (137cm)). [1]
- February 8
- The proceedings of the United States Senate are first broadcast on radio. [5]
- February 9
- Ted Bundy kills Kimberly Leach, age 12, in Lake City, Florida. [1]
- February 10
- Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of US Central Intelligence Agency. [1]
- February 13
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [1]
- February 14
- First "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments. [1]
- February 15
- Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, in Pensacola, Florida. [1]
- February 16
- First Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward and Randy's CBBS, Chicago, Illinois). [1]
- February 20
- 4th People's Choice Awards: Star Wars, Carol Burnett, and Bob Hope. [1]
- February 22
- Two tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tennessee. [1]
- February 23
- 20th Grammy Awards: "Hotel California", Fleetwood Mac, Debbie Boone win. [1]
- March 4
- Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue. [1]
- March 5
- Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. [1]
- March 6
- Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot and crippled by a sniper in Georgia, USA. [1]
- March 14
- US Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (one dead). [1]
- March 16
- US Senate accepts Panamá Canal treaty. [1]
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [1]
- March 18
- 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario, California. [1]
- March 22
- Karl Wallenda, famed aerialist, dies at age 73 while attempting to walk a wire suspended 123 feet in the air between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. [1] [467]
- March 23
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [1]
- March 27
- Bob Fosse's Dancin' opens at Broadhurst Theater in New York City for 1,774 performances. [1]
- April 3
- 50th Academy Awards - Annie Hall, Rich Dreyfuss and Diane Keaton win. [1]
- Larry King moves his radio show from Miami, Florida to Washington, DC. [1]
- April 7
- US President Jimmy Carter defers production of the neutron bomb. [1]
- April 17
- 63,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record). [1]
- April 18
- US Senate votes to turn Panamá Canal over to Panamá on December 31, 1999. [1]
- April 25
- US Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more. [1]
- April 27
- Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, Charleston, West Virginia, kills 51. [1]
- May 3
- "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US. [1]
- May 9
- Musical Ain't Misbehavin' opens at Longacre Theater in New York City for 1604 performances. [1]
- May 11
- Margaret A Brewer is first female general in the US Marine Corps. [1]
- May 12
- US Commerce Department announces that hurricane names will no longer be exclusively female. [1]
- May 20
- US launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces first global radar map of Venus. [1]
- May 26
- Atlantic City, New Jersey, opens its first gambling casino, run by Resorts International. New Jersey governor Brendan Byrne opens the casino at 10AM. The first legal bet is made by Steve Lawrence, $10 on craps, pass, loses. (The casino makes a world record US$2.9 million in the first 6 days. The casino is soon earning an average US$600,000 a day.) [1] [39] [86.73] [187.425]
- June 6
- Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57 percent. [1]
- June 9
- Intel introduces the 4.77 MHz 8086 microprocessor. It uses 16-bit registers, a 16-bit data bus, and 29,000 transistors, using 3-micron technology. Price is US$360. It can access 1 MB of memory. Speed is 0.33 MIPS. Later speeds included 8 MHz (0.66 MIPS) and 10 MHz (0.75 MIPS). [4]
- June 15
- Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-year-old American. [1]
- June 19
- The Garfield comic strip debuts, eventually growing to produce over US$1 billion in revenue in over 110 countries. [1] [5]
- June 27
- US Seasat 1, first oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit. [1]
- June 29
- US Vice President Walter F Mondale begins trip to Mid-East. [1]
- July 1
- Former US President Richard Nixon makes first public speech since resigning in 1974. [1]
- July 8
- Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus. [1]
- July 9
- Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Washington DC for Equal Rights Amendment. [1]
- July 13
- Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor President by chairman Henry Ford II. [1]
- July 21
- US Postal Service and unions agree on a contract averting mail strike. [1]
- July 29
- 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, New York. [1]
- August 8
- Pioneer-Venus 2 with five atmospheric probes launched toward Venus. [1]
- August 15
- US House of Representatives approves (233-169), 39-month extension for Equal Rights Amendment. [1]
- August 31
- Symbionese Liberation Army founders William and Emily Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst. [1]
- September 5
- Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Begin and US President Jimmy Carter begin peace conference at Camp David, Maryland. [1]
- September 17
- Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and US President Jimmy Carter sign the Camp David accord. [1]
- September 25
- PSA Boeing 727 and a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, California; 144 die. [1]
- October 10
- US President Jimmy Carter signs Public Law 95-447, amending the Coinage Act of 1965, changing the size, weight, and design of the dollar coin, specifying that the coin depict Susan B. Anthony. [1] [400.20] [434.224] [442.91] [552.48]
- October 12
- Representatives of Israel and Egypt open talks in Washington. [1]
- October
- The US government begins selling 1.5 million ounces of gold per month. [590.57]
- October 17
- US President Jimmy Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis' citizenship. [1]
- October 27
- US President Jimmy Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill. [1]
- November 3
- Mickey Mouse is given a gold star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame, the first cartoon character to be so honored. [6]
- November 18
- Leo J Ryan (Republican-California) and four killed in Jonestown, Guyana. [1]
- November 25
- American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275. [1]
- November 26
- Ten die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, New York. [1]
- November 27
- George Moscone (San Francisco Mayor) and City Superintendant Harvey Milk shot by Dan White. [1]
- November 29
- United Nations observes "international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people," boycotted by US and about 20 other countries. [1]
- December 1
- US President Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size. [1]
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [1]
- December 11
- Six masked men bind ten employees at Lufthansa cargo area at New York Kennedy Airport and make off with US$5.8 million in cash and jewelry. [1]
- December 16
- Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy Carter's recognition of People's Republic of China. [1]
- December 20
- Harry R Haldeman, President Richard Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail. [1]
- December 21
- Police in Des Plaines, Illinois, arrest John Wayne Gacy Jr for murder. [1]
- December 31
- Magic Show closes at Cort Theater in New York City after 1859 performances. [1]
- US Central Intelligence Agency director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy. [1]
- Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with the US. [1]
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