November 10 - Members of the Movement 2 June try to kidnap Günter von Drenkmann , the president of West Germany's Superior Court of Justice, at his home but he is fatally shot during the attempt
November 16 - Arecibo telescope sends an interstellar radio message towards M 13 great globular cluster
September 10 - The controversial TV movie Born Innocent , starring Linda Blair, was first screened on the NBC network in the United States. The film, which involved a fourteen-year-old being sent to a women's prison, drew heavy criticism due to an all-female rape scene, the first ever seen on American television.
