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Events of 1977

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- Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec.

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Births

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Nobel prizes - Templeton Prize

See also - Notes - External links

[edit] Events of 1977

[edit] January

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January 1 - The Australian state of Queensland abolishes death duties.

January 10 - Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Jimmy Carter, 39th US President

January 10 - Ocean Park opens in Hong Kong.

January 15 - Kälvesta air disaster: A Swedish airliner crashes into a residential area of Stockholm, killing all 22 on board.

January 17 - Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah (the first execution after the reintroduction of the death penalty in the USA).

January 18 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.

January 18 - Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.

January 18 - SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

January 19 - U.S. President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (aka "Tokyo Rose").

January 19 - Snow falls in Miami, Florida (despite its ordinarily tropical climate) for the only time in its history. Snowfall has occurred farther south in the United States only on the high mountains of the state of Hawaii.

January 20 - Jimmy Carter succeeds Gerald Ford as the 39th President of the United States.

January 21 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders.

January 23 - Roots begins its phenomenally successful run on ABC.

January 24 - Massacre of Atocha during the Spanish transition to democracy.

January 27 - Record company EMI sacks the controversial United Kingdom punk rock group the Sex Pistols

January 29 - Actor Freddie Prinze dies from a self inflicted bullet wound.

January 28 - Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 hits Buffalo, NY

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February 4 - Fleetwood Mac's Grammy-winning album Rumours is released.

February 7 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24 (Viktor Gorbatko, Yuri Glazkov) to dock with the Salyut 5 space station.

February 11 - A 20.2-kg (44-lb.-9-oz.) 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, at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

February 18 - Prog 1 of 2000AD, currently the UK's longest running comic, is launched. Issue dated 26th February 1977

February 28 - State Opening of the New Zealand Parliament, by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

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March 4 - The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake kills 1,500.

March 5 - Formula One driver Tom Pryce dies after colliding with a track marshal at the South African Grand Prix in Kyalami.

March 8 - State Opening of the Australian Parliament, Canberra by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

March 9 - Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over 3 buildings in Washington, DC, killing 1 person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends 2 days later.

March 12 - The Centenary Test between Australia and England begins at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

March 15 - Tenor Luciano Pavarotti and the PBS opera series Live from the Met both make their American television debuts. Pavarotti stars in a complete production of Puccini's La Boheme.

March 26 - Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson

March 27 - Tenerife disaster: a collision between KLM and PanAm Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583 (the worst single aviation accident on record).

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April 1 - Hay-on-Wye declares independence.

April 1 - American Richard Eisenstein[1] is born.

April 1 - American Poet Michael Vakian is born.

April 7 - German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe. "The Ulrike Meinhof Commando" later claims responsibility.

April 7 - The Toronto Blue Jays play their first-ever game of baseball against the Chicago White Sox.

April 8 - Punk band The Clash's debut album The Clash (album) is released in the UK on CBS Records.

April 9 - Gerard Way, American singer and frontman of successful rock band My Chemical Romance is born.

April 11 - London Transport's Silver Jubilee buses are launched.

April 22 - First use of optical fiber to carry live telephone traffic.

April 27 - The Guatemala City air disaster kills 28 people.

April 28 - A Stuttgart court sentences Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe to life imprisonment.

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