Mar 15 Operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon to rid area of Palestine guerrillas
Mar 17 RCMP charge Toronto Sun editor Peter Worthington and publisher Donald Creighton with violating Official Secrets Act; published information from secret report on Soviet espionage activities in Canada
Mar 11 Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed
Mar 10 Soyuz 28 returns to Earth
Mar 24 Wings release "With a Little Luck"
Mar 13 Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
Mar 12 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1:14.99)
Mar 16 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 68.7 million gallons of oil off French coast
Mar 15 People's Rebublic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
Mar 04 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
Mar 16 Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
Mar 03 Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland
Mar 01 Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery
Mar 22 Three prisoners emerge from St. Jerome prison with their six hostages after a two-week standoff, ending Canada's longest hostage-taking
Mar 06 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot &crippled by a sniper in Georgia
Mar 31 Wings release "London Town" album
Mar 16 Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed
Mar 07 Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
Mar 11 Bobby Hull of the Winnipeg Jets joined Gordie Howe by getting career goal number 1,000 in a game against the Quebec Nordiques.
Mar 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 16 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Aug 22 Tear gas used to quell riot by 150 prisoners in Sydney's Long Bay Jail who set fire to their cells
Aug 26 John Paul I (formerly Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice) is elected Pope of the Roman Catholic church, following the death of Paul VI.
Aug 06 Pope Paul VI dies of heart attack at summer residence at 80
Aug 26 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
