This Year in History 1977. E-Book

kerry butters

• Herausgeber: Kerry Butters
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

This Year in History 1977.by Kerry Butters is a reference Book from that year, included in it are things in the News, Famous Births and Deaths, Weddings, cost of living, Music and Sport, 1977 Fun Facts etc. Everything 1977. UK and USA Facts, Great for Birthday presents or Anniversaries, Look out for other years in the series or maybe buy your own birth year.

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Table of contents

Table of Contents

Major News Events of 1977

Who Was Born This Year in 1977

Who Died This Year in 1977

Film and TV 1977

Sport of 1977

1977 Music

Cost of Living in 1977

Famous Weddings and Divorces

1977 Fun Facts

Look out for More Books in the Series

This Year in History

1977

By

Kerry Butters

Table of Contents

Major News Events of 1977

Who Was Born This Year in 1977

Who Died This Year in 1977

Film and TV 1977

Sport of 1977

1977 Music

Cost of Living in 1977

Famous Weddings and Divorces

1977 Fun Facts

1977 Calendar

Major News Events of 1977

January

Jan 1 1st woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest (Jacqueline Means)

Jan 1 Belgium reapportions 2,359 communities into 596

Jan 1 Czech intellects begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77

Jan 1 63rd Rose Bowl: #3 Southern California beats #2 Michigan, 14-6

Jan 1 43rd Sugar Bowl: #1 Pittsburgh beats #4 Georgia, 27-3; Tony Dorsett runs for record 202 yards

Jan 1 43rd Orange Bowl: #11 Ohio State beats #12 Colorado, 27-10

Jan 2 Bowie Kuhn suspends Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing

Jan 3 Apple Computer, Inc incorporates

Jan 3 Lindy McDaniel retires with 2nd most pitching appearances (987 games)

Jan 3 Former Home Secretary Roy Jenkins announces his intention to be Britain's first President of the European Commission

Jan 3 "The Police Tapes" premiere on New York City TV station WNET, based somewhat on 1960s NYPD officers who worked in its South Bronx

Jan 4 Mary Shane hired by Chicago White Sox as 1st woman TV play-by-play

Jan 6 EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols Jan 6 Charter 77, a document criticising the Czech government's human rights abuses, is published in Prague

Jan 8 Australian Open Women's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Kerry Melville Reid wins her first and only Grand Slam singles title; beats Dianne Fromholtz Balestrat 7-5, 6-2

Jan 9 "Porgy & Bess" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 122 performances

Jan 9 Super Bowl XI, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA: Oakland Raiders beat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14; MVP: Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, WR

Jan 9 Australian Open Men's Tennis: American Roscoe Tanner wins his first and only Grand Slam event; beats Guillermo Vilas of Argentina 6-3, 6-3, 6-3

Jan 10 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom

Jan 11 Bollingen Prize awarded to David Ignatow

Jan 11 Cubs trade outfielder Rick Monday to Dodgers for Bill Buckner

Jan 11 France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in massacre of Israeli athletes at 1972 Munich Olympics

Jan 12 "Ipi Tombi" opens at Harkness Theater NYC for 39 performances

Jan 12 Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes

Jan 14 "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV

Jan 15 Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live"

Jan 15 Festac '77, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, begins in Lagos, Nigeria

Jan 16 Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders

Jan 17 KC releases Tommy Davis, ends an 18-year career with 10 teams

Jan 17 NFL Pro Bowl, Seattle Kingdome: AFC beats NFC, 24-14; MVP: Mel Blount, Pittsburgh Steelers, CB

Jan 17 Zaire president Mobutu visits Belgium

Jan 17 Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in the Utah state prison, convicted of murder

Jan 18 Pakistan cricket all-rounder Imran Khan takes 6 for 63 in the Australian 2nd innings for a match total of 12 to lead his side to an easy 8 wicket 3rd Test win in Sydney

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

Jan 18 Australia's worst rail disaster occurs in Sydney, killing 83 people

Jan 19 Ernie Banks elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Jan 19 US President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose)

Jan 19 World's largest crowd gathering - the Hindu Kumbh Mela in India attracts a then record 15 million people

Jan 19 Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurred. It also fell in the Bahamas.

Jan 20 George H. W. Bush ends term as 11th director of CIA

Jan 20 Mr Knoche, serves as acting director of CIA

Jan 21 US President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders

Jan 23 $1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited, Paris

Jan 23 Mini-series "Roots" premieres on ABC

Jan 24 Massacre of Atocha in Madrid: Five labor lawyers murdered by fascists in Madrid during the Spanish transition to democracy

Jan 25 30th NHL All-Star Game, Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC: Wales beats Campbell, 4-3; MVP: Rick Martin, Buffalo Sabres, LW

Jan 26 Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai & Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple twist lift in Helsinki

Jan 29 34th Golden Globes: Rocky, Peter Finch, & Faye Dunaway win

Jan 30 8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched US entertainment show ever (100 million)

Jan 30 Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (NSW v Qld)

Jan 30 Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame

Jan 31 Frenchman Francois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad

Jan 31 Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, & Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame

Jan 31 4th American Music Awards: Olivia Newton-John & Elton John win

February

Feb 1 Blizzard in upstate New York and Southern Ontario claims 23 lives

Feb 2 Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (USSR)

Feb 2 Radio Shack officially begins creating the TRS-80 computer

Feb 2 Toronto's Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals, NHL REcord for a defenseman

Feb 3 Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame

Feb 4 Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago st (11 die, 200 hurt)

Feb 4 "Rumours" 11th studio album by Fleetwood Mac is released (Grammy Album of the Year)

Feb 4 Wings release their single "Maybe I'm Amazed"

Feb 5 "CB Savage" by Rod Hart peaks at #67

Feb 5 "Dis-Gorilla (part 1)" by Rick Dees peaks at #56

Feb 5 "In The Mood" by Henhouse 5 Plus Too (Ray Stevens) peaks at #40

Feb 5 "Turn Loose On My Leg" by Jim Stafford peaks at #98

Feb 5 "Up Your Nose" by Gabriel Kaplan peaks at #91

Feb 5 General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio

Feb 5 Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight

Feb 5 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne

Feb 5 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner

Feb 5 Future 5-division world boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard makes his professional debut with a 6-round unanimous decision over Luis Vega at Baltimore’s Civic Center

Feb 6 4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0

Feb 6 Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 m over 16 buses, near Paris

Feb 6 Harley Race beats Terry Funk in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champ

Feb 7 Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts

Feb 8 Earthquake in San Francisco, at 5.0, strongest since 1966

Feb 8 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced on obscenity charges

Feb 10 "Party with Comden & Green" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 92 performances

Feb 10 Bomb explosion in Moscow metro

Feb 10 Jonathan Netanyahu Lane in the Bronx, New York, named in honor of the Bronx-born Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebbe Raid in Uganda in 1976

Feb 11 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)

Feb 12 Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0

Feb 12 Festac '77, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, finishes in Lagos, Nigeria

Feb 13 "Guys & Dolls" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 239 performances

Feb 13 "Ipi Tombi" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 39 performances

Feb 13 "Robber Bridegroom" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 145 performances

Feb 13 Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship

Feb 13 27th NBA All-Star Game, MECCA Arena, Milwaukee, Wi: West beats East, 125-124; MVP: Julius Erving, Philadelphia 76ers, F

Feb 15 Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election

Feb 16 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan

Feb 18 George Harrison releases "True Love"

Feb 18 Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on its maiden flight

Feb 18 West Indies cricket fast bowlers Joel Garner (4/130) and (Colin Croft 3/85) debut in drawn 1st Test v Pakistan at Bridgetown, Barbados

Feb 18 Kiss play their first concert in their hometown venue of Madison Square Garden in New York City

Feb 19 19th Grammy Awards: This Masquerade, Starland Vocal Band

Feb 19 A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000

Feb 19 Doug Walters scores 250 v NZ, 217 stand for 7th wicket with Gilmour

Feb 19 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

Feb 19 Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner

Feb 19 Right wing Rod Gilbert scores a goal and adds an assist in a 5-2 defeat at the NY Islanders to become first player in NY Rangers history (11th in NHL) to score 1,000 career points

Feb 20 "My Fair Lady" closes at St James Theater NYC after 384 performances

Feb 20 19th Daytona 500: Cale Yarborough wins his 2nd Great American Race; Janet Guthrie first female NASCAR Cup Series driver; finishes 12th

Feb 21 74 Unification Church couples wed in NYC

Feb 24 US President Jimmy Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights

Feb 24 12th Academy of Country Music Awards: Mickey Gilley and Crystal Gayle win

Feb 25 New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts

Feb 25 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons

Feb 25 Soyuz 24 returns to Earth

Feb 26 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)

Feb 27 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada

Feb 28 1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, Los Angeles California)

Feb 28 Dock strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends

March

Mar 1 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for its credit cards

Mar 1 US extends territorial waters to 200 miles

Mar 1 PGA of America announces a sudden-death playoff format for the PGA Championship to be implemented; previously an 18-hole playoff applied after tie in regulation 72 holes

Mar 2 Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award

Mar 2 Future Tonight Show host Jay Leno debuts with host Johnny Carson

Mar 2 Libya amends constitution

Mar 3 Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (URS)

Mar 3 Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal

Mar 3 Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms

Mar 3 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)

Mar 3 World Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA)

Mar 4 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, NM

Mar 4 West Indian cricket fast bowler Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan in 2nd Test win at Port-of-Spain; best Test figures by a pace bowler from the West Indies

Mar 4 Earthquake in Romania kills 1,541

Mar 5 3rd People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Barbra Streisand win (Motion Picture) and Telly Savalas & Mary Tyler Moore win (TV)

Mar 5 24th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Virginia, 75-69

Mar 7 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections

Mar 7 Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets US President Jimmy Carter

Mar 8 Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia

Mar 8 Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter)

Mar 9 Hanafi Muslims invade 3 buildings in Washington, D.C., siege ended Mar 11th

Mar 9 Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche

Mar 10 Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO

Mar 10 CBS' premiere of "A Circle of Children", starring Jane Alexander and based on the life and book about this by Mary Mac Cracken

Mar 11 Hanafi Muslims hold 130 hostages in Washington, D.C.

Mar 12 Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bans the Christian-Democratic Party

Mar 12 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel

Mar 13 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test

Mar 15 "Eight is Enough" premieres on ABC-TV

Mar 15 US House of Representatives begins 90 day test of televising its sessions

Mar 15 TV comedy "Three's Company" starring Jack Ritter, Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt premieres on ABC

Mar 16 US President Jimmy Carter pleads for a Palestinian homeland

Mar 17 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877

Mar 18 The Clash release their first recording "White Riot"