1977 - Wikipedia

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 - 1977 - 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982

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Events:

January 1 - First woman Episcopal priest ordained
January 18 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious "legionnaire's disease."
January 18 - Australia experiences its worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, in which 83 people died.
January 19 - President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (aka "Tokyo Rose").
January 21 - President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders.
February 4 - Fleetwood Mac releases Rumours, which is a blockbuster album of which was recorded on March 3, 1976
February 7 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24[?].
February 11 - A 20.2-kg lobster is caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean).
February 18 - The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle goes on its maiden "flight" while sitting on top of a Boeing 747.
March 4 - An earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
March 9 - Appoximetely a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, DC, killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later.
March 27 - Collision between KLM and PanAm Boeing 747's at Tenerife kills 583.
May 23 - Scientists report using bacteria in lab to make insulin.
May 28 - In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club[?] is engulfed in fire, killing 165 inside.
June 20 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules that states are not required to spend Medicaid funds on elective abortions.
July 13 - An electricity blackout hits the City of New York, lasting for 25 hours and resulting in looting and other disorder
July 22 - the purged Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power as the "Gang of Four" is expelled from the Communist Party.
September 7 - The Panama Canal treaties are signed.
September 6 (approx) - Steve Biko suffers a massive head injury in police custody in South Africa
September 8 INTERPOL[?] releases copyright laws that govern the reproduction of video tapes & other material
September 11 - The last "wild" infection of smallpox is reported in Somalia.
September 12 - Steve Biko dies of his injuries
September 21 - Nuclear-proliferation pact, curbing spread of nuclear weapons, is signed by 15 countries including the United States and USSR
November 3 - Born Marco Garcia[?], famous marketing manager.

Jimmy Carter succeeds Gerald R. Ford as President of the United States of America
A collection of work by JRR Tolkien, The Silmarillion, is published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien.
Swedish music group ABBA passes The Beatles as having most records sold.
2060 Chiron, first of the outer solar system asteroids known as Centaurs, discovered by Charlie Kowal[?].
Don Novello first appeared on Saturday Night Live until 1987.

Art, Culture & Fashion

1977 in film
- Annie Hall
- The science fiction saga, Star Wars, later renamed to Star Wars: Episode IV - [A New Hope], makes its first outing to the cinema and makes George Lucas and the team at LucasArts a staggering $461 million.
- John Travolta discoed in Saturday Night Fever
- In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight[?] win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network.
- Rocky picks up an Academy Award for Best Picture and All The President's Men[?] wins Jason Robards[?] the Supporting Actor and an Art Direction for George Jenkins[?] and George Gaines[?].
1977 in literature
1977 in music
- February 4 - Fleetwood Mac releases Rumours, which is a blockbuster album of which was recorded on March 3, 1976
- DJ_Kool_Herc classifies and introduces a new movement in America, calling it Hip hop
1977 in sports
- May 29 - Janet Guthrie[?] becomes the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.
1977 in television
- May 10 - South Africa has television service for the first time.

Births:

January 13 - Orlando Bloom, actor
January 28 - Joey Fatone[?], musician
February 2 - Shakira, singer
February 9 - Shakira, Colombian pop singer
February 11 - Jessica Carlson[?], United States archer
February 11 - Stephanie Richardson[?], Canadian swimmer
May 23 - Ilia Kulik[?], figure skating champion
July 1 - Liv Tyler[?], actress

Deaths:

January 14 - Peter Finch, actor
January 14 - Anaïs Nin, author
January 14 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
January 17 - Gary Gilmore[?], murderer (executed by firing squad)
January 28 - Freddie Prinze, actor
January 29 - Freddie Prinze, actor/comedian
February 11 - Louis J M Beel[?], Dutch premier (1946-1948, 1958-1959).
February 28 - Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, actor
March 18 - Marien Ngouabi, President of The Congo[?]
May 5 - Ludwig Erhard, German chancellor (1963-1966.
May 10 - Joan Crawford, actress
July 2 - Vladimir Nabokov, writer
August 16 - Elvis Presley, singer, actor
August 19 - Groucho Marx, comedian
September 12 - South African activist Stephen Biko dies in police custody.
October 14 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor
December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, star of silent film

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For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album).