History of 1977

During the year of 1977 the following events have happened in our world's history.

January 03, 1977 - Apple Computer incorporated
January 10, 1977 - 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
January 16, 1977 - Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders
January 17, 1977 - Gary Gilmore executed in Utah 1st since 1967
January 23, 1977 - Miniseries Roots premiers
January 27, 1977 - Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10 000)
February 06, 1977 - 4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0
February 07, 1977 - Soyuz 24 launched
February 08, 1977 - Earthquake in SF - at 5.0 - strongest since 1966
March 03, 1977 - Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal
March 04, 1977 - 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped - to Los Alamos Laboratories - NM
March 07, 1977 - Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter
March 10, 1977 - Rings of Uranus discovered during occultation of SAO
March 11, 1977 - Rings of Uranus are discovered
March 12, 1977 - Sadat pledges to regain arab terrority from Israel
March 18, 1977 - Vietnam hands over MIA to US
March 22, 1977 - Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
March 27, 1977 - 582 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM 747-Pan Am 747 crash
March 27, 1977 - Diana Hyland dies at 40
April 11, 1977 - (Monday) Went into the farm at 11:43 AM for 24 days.
May 01, 1977 - Empress Lilly dedicated
May 26, 1977 - George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center
June 02, 1977 - NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
June 04, 1977 - Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills two
June 05, 1977 - Revolution in Seychelles Islands
June 06, 1977 - Supreme Court tossed out automatic death penalty laws
June 07, 1977 - Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay law
June 09, 1977 - Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks
June 10, 1977 - Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II. Also James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
June 11, 1977 - Train & school hostage incident in Netherlands ends
June 12, 1977 - Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library
June 13, 1977 - Former Supreme Court Justice Tom C Clark died in NY at 77
June 13, 1977 - Convicted assassin James Earl Ray recaptured
June 14, 1977 - M L King killer James Earl Ray recaptured after prison break
June 15, 1977 - Spain's 1st free elections since 1936
June 16, 1977 - Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR
June 16, 1977 - Ron Guidry's 1st complete game 7-0 over KC Royals. Also Wernher von Braun dies at 65 from smoking
June 18, 1977 - Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
June 18, 1977 - Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time - It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
June 19, 1977 - Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cent bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint
June 19, 1977 - Red Sox set record of 16 HRs in 3 games All against Yanks
June 20, 1977 - Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
June 21, 1977 - Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison
June 22, 1977 - Walt Disney's "The Rescuers" is released
June 22, 1977 - Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in AL prison
June 23, 1977 - 13th Mayor's Trophy Game - Mets beat Yanks 6-4
June 24, 1977 - IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
June 25, 1977 - Report of LBJ having cancer operation while Pres denied
June 25, 1977 - Roy C Sullivan of Va is struck by lightening for 7th time!
June 26, 1977 - 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
June 27, 1977 - 5-4 decision Supreme Court decides to let lawyers advertise
June 27, 1977 - Djibouti gains independence from France (National Day)
June 28, 1977 - Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers
June 29, 1977 - Supreme Court ruled out death penalty for rapists of adults
June 30, 1977 - Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
June 30, 1977 - Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto
July 01, 1977 - Virginia Wade beats Betty Stove for Wimbeldon's woman's singles
July 02, 1977 - Sweden's Bjorn Borg won Wimbeldon men's singles over Jimmy Connors
July 08, 1977 - Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs).
July 11, 1977 - Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
July 12, 1977 - 1st free flight test of Enterprise.
July 13, 1977 - NYC experiences a 25 hr black-out
July 19, 1977 - Yanks host 48th All Star Game NL wins 7-5
July 20, 1977 - Voyager 2 launched.
July 31, 1977 - Son of Sam shot to death 20-year-old Stacy Moskowitz
August 12, 1977 - 1st test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
August 14, 1977 - 77 691 see NY Cosmos beat Ft Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giant Stad
August 16, 1977 - Elvis Presley dies of heart ailment at Graceland at age 42
August 16, 1977 - Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th
August 19, 1977 - Groucho Marx died in LA at the age of 86.
August 20, 1977 - Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune
August 23, 1977 - Yanks leap frog over Red Soxs 1/2 game in 1st place to stay
August 23, 1977 - 1st man-powered flight (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
August 26, 1977 - H.A. Rey author of a popular constellation book dies at age 78
August 27, 1977 - Toby Harrah & Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium Rangers won 8-2
August 28, 1977 - NY Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders 2-1 at Civic Stadium in Portland Ore. winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship.
August 28, 1977 - Ron Guidry faces just 28 men & beats the Rangers 1-0
August 29, 1977 - Lou Brock - Cardinals - eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year old career stolen bases record to a total to 893. The Padres won game 4-3.
August 31, 1977 - Aleksandr Fedotov sets world aircraft altitude record of 38.26 km (125 524 ft) in a Mikoyan E-266M turbojet
September 01, 1977 - 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold
September 05, 1977 - Voyager 1 launched toward fly-by of Jupiter Saturn.
September 05, 1977 - Cleveland Indians stage 1st I hate the Yankee Hanky Night
September 08, 1977 - Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy
September 09, 1977 - 1st TRS-80 computer sold.
September 10, 1977 - Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits
September 10, 1977 - Convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi last to die in the guillotine
September 11, 1977 - TV's Rhoda gets divorced
September 13, 1977 - 1st TV viewer discretion warning - Soap
September 13, 1977 - 2nd test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
September 16, 1977 - Maria Callas American-born prima donna dies in Paris at 53
September 17, 1977 - Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer Reggie hits 2 more
September 18, 1977 - US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of earth & moon together
September 23, 1977 - Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels
September 23, 1977 - 3rd test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
September 26, 1977 - Sir Freddie Laker began cut-rate `Skytrain' service London to NY
September 29, 1977 - Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into earth orbit
October 01, 1977 - Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title
October 04, 1977 - pier 39 opens in SF
October 09, 1977 - Yanks beat Royals for pennant #31
October 09, 1977 - Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 5 but returned after failing to dock
October 11, 1977 - Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
October 12, 1977 - Throwaway Game Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers
October 12, 1977 - 4th test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
October 14, 1977 - Bing Crosby dies in Madrid Spain.
October 17, 1977 - West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu Somalia free all 86 hostages aboard & killing three of the four hijackers.
October 17, 1977 - Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament.
October 18, 1977 - Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship 1st in 15 years
October 18, 1977 - 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th
October 18, 1977 - Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record
October 21, 1977 - US recalls William Bowdler ambassador to South Africa
October 23, 1977 - By 2/3 majority Panamanians vote to approve the new Canal treaties
October 26, 1977 - Fifth & Final test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
October 28, 1977 - TV's Rhoda gets married
November 01, 1977 - Islander Goran Hogosta's only shut-out Flames 9-0 - Trottier 4 goals
November 12, 1977 - New Orleans elects 1st black mayor Ernest `Dutch' Morial
November 13, 1977 - 25th Islander shut-out Resch 6-0 Gilles scores on 5th penalty shot
November 14, 1977 - Egypt Pres Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite
November 15, 1977 - Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
November 17, 1977 - Egyptian Pres Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel
November 19, 1977 - Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
November 19, 1977 - Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer failed on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders
November 20, 1977 - Walter Payton of Bears rushes for NFL-record 275 yards
November 20, 1977 - Egyptian Pres Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israel Knesset
December 06, 1977 - South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
December 07, 1977 - Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent - Black Hawks 4-0
December 10, 1977 - Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
December 12, 1977 - Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves
December 19, 1977 - Nellie Tayloe Ross 1st woman governor dies at 101
December 20, 1977 - 1st Space walk made by G. Grechko from Salyut
December 25, 1977 - Charlie Chaplin died in Switzerland at 88
December 25, 1977 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin met in Egypt with Egyptian Pres Sadat