2nd » Czechoslovakia Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian (citizen) Russian or non-American to go into outer space space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
5th » The Landsat program or Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
14th » The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
15th » Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethiopian-Somali War.
16th » Former Italy known as Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and later killed by his captors.
16th » Supertanker 'Amoco Cadiz' splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history.
22nd » Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
23rd » The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for Timeline of UN peacekeeping missions e.g peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line (Lebanon) or Blue Line.
28th » The Supreme Court of the United States called US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in 'Stump v. Sparkman', 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary Human sterilization called sterilization and judicial immunity.