Centuries:
Year in Review 20th Century
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s
1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982
Births
Deaths
Events
Films
Music
- July 22 - [Elvis Costello]? releases his first album, [My aim is true]?, in the UK.
- August 16 - Elvis Presley dies.
- Fleetwood Mac's album Rumour's hits #1 and becomes one of the all-time best selling albums (it was the best selling album until 1983, when Michael Jackson's Thriller would top it).
Sport
Nobel Prizes
- Physics[Philip Warren Anderson]?, [Sir Nevill Francis Mott]?, [John Hasbrouck van Vleck]?
- Chemistry - [Ilya Prigogine]?
- Medicine - [Roger Guillemin]?, [Andrew V Schally]?, [Rosalyn Yalow]?
- Literature - [Vicente Aleixandre]?
- Peace - [Amnesty International]?
- Economics - [Bertil Ohlin]?, [James Meade]?