January: Death of Chou En-Lai -- Hurricane winds hit Europe -- Super bowl -- February: Winter Olympics -- Earthquake in Guatemala -- Nixon returned to China -- March: Field Marshall Montgomery died -- Communist Party congress -- War in Angola -- April: Mystery of Howard Hughes -- Wilson gave up as Britain's Prime Minister -- Isabel Peron: regal and alone -- May: Many died in Italian quake -- Senators and spies -- Dispute in Rhodesia -- June: Presidential primaries -- South Africa upheaval -- Illegal alien question -- July: Bicentennial celebration -- Daring raid on Entebbe -- Summer Olympics -- Missing children -- August: Party conventions -- Quakes rocked China -- Sex scandals -- September: Landing on Mars -- Death of Mao Tse-Tsung -- Patty Hearst case -- October: Rioting in Thailand -- Lockheed probe -- "Legionaires' disease" -- November: Jimmy Carter elected president -- Nation's economy -- Freedom of the press -- December: Problems in the Mideast -- Violence in Northern Ireland -- Britain's economic scene.
