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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 20 - Gerald Rudolph
Ford, 38th President of the
United States is succeeded by Jimmy Carter.
- January 21 - President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders.
- 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 5 - A coup takes place in Seychelles.
- June 5 - The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.
- June 10 - James Earl
Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee (he was
recaptured on June 13).
- June 20 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules that states are not required to spend Medicaid funds on elective abortions.
- July 13 - The New York City Blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours and results 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 of China.
- August 4 - US President Jimmy
Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
- August 16 - Rock singer Elvis Presley dies in Tennessee.
- August 20 - Voyager
program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
- September 5 - Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief
delay.
- September 6 (approx) - Steve Biko suffers a massive head injury in police custody in South Africa.
- September 7 - Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The US agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama
at the end of the 20th century.
- 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.
- September 28 - Porsche
928 debuts at the Geneva Auto Convention
- October 13 - Four Palestinians hijack a Lufthansa Airlines
flight to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
- November 6 - The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
- November 19 - Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab
leader to officially visit Israel when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement (much of
the Arab world was outraged by the visit).
- November 22 - British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde
service.
- December 4 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor.
- December 4 - A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737 is hijacked and then blown up in mid-air over the Straits of Johore, killing
100.
- A collection of work by J. R. R. 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.
- 2000 A.D. the UK sci-fi comic is
launched, featuring Judge Dredd.
Year in topic
Births
- January 7 - Dustin
Diamond, actor (Saved by the Bell)
- January 8 - Amber
Benson, actress
- January 13 - Orlando
Bloom, actor (Fellowship of the Ring, Troy)
- January 28 - Joey Fatone, musician
- February 9 - Shakira, Colombian pop singer
- February 11 - Jessica Carlson, United States archer
- February 11 - Stephanie Richardson, Canadian swimmer
- February 13 - Randy
Moss, NFL star
- February 16 - Ian
Clarke, Freenet creator
- February 20 - Stephon Marbury, basketball player
- April 14 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress
- April 14 - Chandra Levy, intern at the Bureau of Prisons in Washington, DC.
- April 21 - Jamie Salé,
figure skater
- April 24 - Carlos
Beltran, baseball player
- May 13 - Samantha
Morton, actress
- May 14 - Roy Halladay,
baseball pitcher
- May 23 - Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skating champion
- June 1 - Danielle
Harris, voice actress
- June 9 - Peja
Stojakovic, Serbian NBA star
- June 27 - Raúl,
Spanish football
star
- July 1 - Jarome Iginla,
NHL hockey player
- July 1 - Liv Tyler, actress
- July 8 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
- July 14 - Victoria, Princess of Sweden - Crown
Princess of Sweden from 1980
- July 28 - Emanuel
Ginobili, Argentine basketball player
- August 17 - Thierry
Henry, French football star
- September 11 - Ludacris,
rapper
- November 3 - Aria
Giovanni, model and actress
- November 16 - Oksana
Baiul, figure skater
- November 19 - Kerri
Strug, gymnast
- December - Ahmed Alnami,
suspected terrorist
- December 3 - Adam
Malysz, Polish ski jumper
- December 7 - Fernando Vargas, boxer
- December 30 - Laila Ali,
boxer, daughter of Muhammad Ali
Deaths
- January 14 - Anthony
Eden, Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom
- January 14 - Peter Finch, actor
- January 14 - Anaďs Nin, author
- January 17 - Gary
Gilmore, murderer (executed by firing squad)
- January 19 - Yvonne Printemps, singer, actress
- 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 16 - Kamal
Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze
- March 18 - Marien
Ngouabi, President of The Congo
- April 21 - Gummo Marx, actor,
comedian, Marx Brothers (b. 1892)
- May 5 - Ludwig Erhard, German
chancellor (1963-1966)
- May 10 - Joan Crawford,
actress (b. 1904)
- June 19 - Lady
Olave Baden-Powell, World Chief Guide
- June 19 - Ali Shariati, sociologist
- July 2 - Vladimir
Nabokov, writer
- August 16 - Elvis
Presley, singer, actor
- August 19 - Groucho
Marx, comedian (b. 1890)
- September 1 - Ethel
Waters, singer (b. 1896)
- September 10 - Hamida Djandoubi, last guillotine execution in France
- September 12 - South
African activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.
- September 16 - Marc
Bolan, father of punk
- September 16 - Maria
Callas, opera singer
- October 14 - Bing
Crosby, American singer and actor
- November 8 - Bucky
Harris, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1896)
- November 15 - Princess Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet Grimaldi of Monaco, mother of Reigning Prince Rainier III of
Monaco
- November 25 - Tommy
Prince, aboriginal Canadian war hero
- December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, comedian, star of silent film
Nobel Prizes
For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album).
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