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Sports History
Jan 2 MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspends Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing
Apple Macintosh Personal Computer
Jan 3 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporate Apple Computer, Inc
- 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 announcer
- 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 Revival of George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" closes at Uris Theater, NYC, after 122 performances
Super Bowl
Jan 9 Super Bowl XI, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA: Oakland Raiders beat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14; MVP: Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, WR
Australian Men's Tennis Open
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 10 Steve Allen's "Meeting Of The Minds", a round table talk-show in which he interviews figures from history debuts on PBS
- 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 Montalbán and Hervé Villechaize premieres on ABC TV
Album Release
Jan 14 RCA releases David Bowie's 11th studio album, "Low"
- 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
Sports History
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
Hall of Fame
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 his term as 11th director of CIA replaced by E. Henry Knoche as acting director
Historic Event
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
Golden Globes
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)
Sports History
Jan 30 Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (NSW v Qld)
Music Awards
Jan 31 4th American Music Awards: Olivia Newton-John & Elton John win
- 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 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 Comedy album "Up Your Nose" by Gabriel Kaplan peaks at #91
- Feb 5 General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio
- Feb 5 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
- Feb 5 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
Sports History
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
Historic Event
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 Revival of Frank Loesser's musical "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
Sports History
Feb 13 Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship
NBA All-Star Game
Feb 13 27th NBA All-Star Game, MECCA Arena, Milwaukee, Wi: West beats East, 125-124; MVP: Julius Erving, Philadelphia 76ers, F
Music Single
Feb 18 George Harrison releases music single "True Love", from his "33-1/3" album
- Feb 18 Space Shuttle Enterprise takes its maiden flight affixed atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Aircraft Carrier
- 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 American rock band KISS play their first concert in their hometown venue of Madison Square Garden in New York City
- Feb 19 19th Grammy Awards: "This Masquerade"and Starland Vocal Band win
- 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
#1 in the Charts
Feb 19 Manfred Mann's Earth Band's cover of Bruce Springsteen's song "Blinded By The Light" goes to #1
- Feb 20 Revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musical "My Fair Lady" closes at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, NYC, after 377 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
NBA Record
Feb 25 New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts
Music History
Feb 27 Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession in Canada
- Feb 28 1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, Los Angeles California)
- Feb 28 Dock strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends
- 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
Film & TV History
Mar 2 Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award
Film & TV History
Mar 2 Future The 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, New Mexico
- 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 4 Roger Sessions' 6th Symphony premieres (in fully completed form) in New York City with José Serebrier conducting the Juilliard Orchestra
Film and TV Awards
Mar 5 3rd People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Barbra Streisand win (Motion Picture) and Telly Savalas & Mary Tyler Moore win (TV)
Meeting of Interest
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.
Historic Event
Mar 12 Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bans the Christian-Democratic Party
Historic Event
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 John 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"
- Mar 18 US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea & Cambodia
- Mar 18 Vietnam hands over MIA to US
- Mar 19 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Mar 19 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.33)
- Mar 19 Last episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" premieres on CBS, with a group hug searching for a box tissues, then singing "It's a Long Way to Tipperary"
- Mar 19 France beats Ireland, 15-6 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin to clinch its 6th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 2nd Grand Slam
- Mar 20 Communists and socialists win French municipal elections
Election of Interest
Mar 20 Parisians elect former PM Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century
Election of Interest
Mar 20 Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India
- Mar 20 PGA Tournament Players Championship, Sawgrass CC: Mark Hayes wins in windy conditions, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Mike McCullough
- Mar 22 Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India
- Mar 22 Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) government under Joop den Uyl falls
Music Concert
Mar 23 Elvis Presley begins his final concert tour
Tony Awards
Mar 24 Lily Tomlin is the first woman to appear solo in a Broadway show in "Appearing Nitely" (special Tony award 1977)
Music History
Mar 26 Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"
Tenerife Airport Disaster
Mar 27 583 die in aviation's worst ever disaster when two Boeing 747s collide at Tenerife airport in Spain
Sports History
Mar 27 American tennis star Chris Evert wins her 4th and final WTA Tour Championship 2–6, 6–1, 6–1 against England's Sue Barker at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- Mar 28 39th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Marquette beats North Carolina, 67-59; Warriors' first title; coach Al McGuire retires
- Mar 28 49th Academy Awards: "Rocky", Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway win
- Mar 28 Morarji Desai forms a government in India
- Mar 31 Michael Cristofer's "Shadow Box" premieres in NYC
- Apr 1 Attempt for Muslim state in Chad fails
- Apr 2 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album goes to No. 1 & stays atop charts for 31 weeks
- Apr 2 Montreal Canadiens rout the Washington Capitals, 11-0 at the Montreal Forum to set an NHL record of 34 straight home games without a loss
- Apr 2 131st Grand National: Tommy Stack wins aboard 9/1 Red Rum; record third GN victory (1973-74); Charlotte Brew first female to ride in the race
- Apr 3 Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point
- Apr 3 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's 1st meeting with US President Jimmy Carter
- Apr 3 Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg adopt summer time
- Apr 5 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Apr 6 Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released
- Apr 6 Kingdome opens, Seattle Mariners 1st game, loses to Angels 7-0
- Apr 7 Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
- Apr 7 Toronto Blue Jays 1st game, they beat Chicago 9-5
- Apr 7 German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot dead by two Red Army Faction members, starting the "German Autumn"
- Apr 8 Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin resigns
- Apr 9 Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years
US Masters Golf
Apr 10 41st US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Tom Watson wins the first of his 2 green jackets, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Jack Nicklaus
- Apr 10 Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inn game (3:17)
- Apr 11 Ireland sets fishing zone at 50 mile
- Apr 11 "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" single released by Waylon Jennings (Billboard Song of the Year, 1977)
- Apr 14 US Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license
- Apr 15 1st baseball game at Montreal's Olympic Stadium
Historic Event
Apr 16 Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia
- Apr 18 81st Boston Marathon: Canadian Jerome Drayton wins men's race in 2:14:46; American Miki Gorman takes her 2nd women's event in 2:48:33
- Apr 18 Alex Haley author of "Roots" awarded Pulitzer Prize
Baseball Event
Apr 18 Eddie Murray hits his 1st HR