President:
James Earl Carter, Jr.

Vice President:
Walter F. Mondale

Super Bowl
Oakland d. Minnesota (32-14)

World Series
NY Yankees d. LA Dodgers (4-2)

NBA Championship
Portland d. Philadelphia 76ers (4-2)

Stanley Cup
Montreal d. Boston (4-0)

Wimbledon
Women: Virginia Wade d. B. Stove
(4-6 6-3 6-1)
Men: Bjorn Borg d. J. Connors
(3-6 6-2 6-1 5-7 6-4)

Kentucky Derby Champion
Seattle Slew

NCAA Basketball Championship
Marquette d. North Carolina (67-59)

NCAA Football Champions
Notre Dame (11-1-0)

Events
The TV miniseries Roots draws an audience of 130 million.

Star Wars hits theaters--for the first time--and will go on to be the second highest-grossing film of all time.
 
Saturday Night Fever sparks the disco inferno and the popularity of movie soundtracks.
 
Elvis Presley dies at Graceland, his Memphis, Tenn. home. He was 42.
 
Movies
Saturday Night Fever, Star Wars, Annie Hall, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Julia
 
Music
Various artists, Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
 
Books
John Cheever, Falconer
 
Joan Didion, The Book of Common Prayer
 
Stephen Jay Gould, Ontogeny and Phylogeny
 
Kenneth Koch, The Duplications
 
W.S. Merwin, The Compass Flower
 
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon