- Mother Teresa wins the Nobel Peace Prize...
- Human and mechanical errors bring the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant to the brink of disaster...
- The Sony Walkman is introduced...
- John Wayne dies at the age of 72...
- Jimmy Carter is President, Walter Mondale is Vice President...
- The government orders the grounding of all DC-10 airliners after 273 persons die in the worst U.S. air disaster...
- Former Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller dies of a heart attack...
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