What was going on when I was born?

The Chrysler Corporation, which last week reported the largest quarterly deficit ever for an American automobile manufacturer, plans to sell about a 100 parcels of real estate around the country, according to the real estate company that has been retained to market the properties.

PASADENA, Calif. ANY day now, flight controllers at the Jet Pro pulsion Laboratory here will abandon one of their charges, the durable and productive Viking 1, and thus bring to an end the explo ration of Mars, a prime objective of the American space program for two decades.

In appeals to gain black support in their bids for the Presidency, Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Representative John B. Anderson yesterday used different approaches to touch on similar issues in speeches before the 70th conference of the National Urban League in New York City.

LONDON, Aug. 4--With the special exuberance that it reserves for royal occasions, Britain jubilantly celebrated the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother today.

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo.--Confronted by a wide range of internal and external threats, the national park system is now at a turning point that may require substantial changes in traditional policies, in the view of many park service officials, environmentalists and members of Congress.

OTISVILLE, N.Y., Aug. 9--The warden of a Federal prison here denied today that 172 Iranian men arrested in a Washington demonstration nine days ago were being mistreated.

In another signal that the downward spiral of interest rates has been halted, the Chemical Bank yesterday raised its prime lending rate to 11 percent from 10 percent.

WHEN Congress established the Medicare and Medicaid programs in 1965, it unleashed a sorcerer's apprentice that flooded the Treasury with uncontrollable torrents of red ink. So, eight years ago, it authorized a national network of local doctors' panels to review the work of their colleagues, endowing them with the power to deny Federal payment for "medically unnecessary and inappropriate" hospital care.

REVOLUTIONARY changes in understanding and treatment of disease, development of vaccines and other advances appear to be in prospect because of a technique for producing antibodies that is coming into laboratory use throughout the world.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4--A top State Department official testified today that several official contacts were made between the United States and Libya on the question of the American hostages in Iran at the same time that the White House was using Billy Carter as an intermediary between the two governments.