What was going on when I was born?

Chris Evert Lloyd, in what she described as a "very emotional match" on a day she had dreamed about, beat her teen-aged tormentor, Tracy Austin, yesterday in a three-set semifinal of the United States Open tennis championships.

WARSAW, Saturday, Sept. 6--Edward Gierek, the former coal miner who has ruled Poland as the Communist Party leader since December 1970, was dismissed early today after two months of labor turmoil. He was replaced by Stanislaw Kania, a 53-year-old Politburo member who has been in charge of security affairs.

GOSCHENEN, Switzerland, Sept. 5 (Reuters)--The world's longest road tunnel, bored 10 miles through the Swiss Alps beneath the St. Gotthard Pass, was opened today amid controversy over its environmental and economic effects.

LONDON, Sept. 5--Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, plans to cut its oil production and raise its prices if it wins agreement this month to unify the prices charged by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, according to industry, OPEC and government sources.

A Federal judge in Syracuse yesterday declared unconstitutional a provision of the state's gross-receipts tax on oil companies that prevented the tax from being passed along to consumers.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5--Under persistent questioning from Senators, Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti maintained today that he was "comfortable with and proud of" the way he and his associates in the Justice Department had handled the Billy Carter case.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5--Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie will open discussions with Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko Sept. 25 on reducing American and Soviet medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe, Administration officials said today.

A 21-year-old stagehand was indicted yesterday by a State Supreme Court grand jury in Manhattan in the murder of the violinist Helen Hagnes at the Metropolitan Opera House last July.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5--The Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Edward C. Meyer, announced today a series of reforms, including reassigning 6,000 sergeants from Europe and 900 from South Korea to the United States, in a move to improve the combat readiness of units stationed in the United States.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5--The higher cost of food last month pushed up by 1.5 percent the prices retailers pay for finished goods, the Government reported today.

SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 5--The Martial Law Command announced today that 175 people had been indicted on sedition and other charges related to the Kwangju uprising last May, in which at least 250 people were killed.

PEKING, Sept. 5--The editors of four small underground journals, among the few from last year's democracy movement to survive, have been arrested in Canton, a prominent dissident reported today.