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- Jan 1 1st woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest (Jacqueline Means)
- Jan 1 43rd Orange Bowl: #11 Ohio State beats #12 Colorado, 27-10
- Jan 1 43rd Sugar Bowl: #1 Pittsburgh beats #4 Georgia, 27-3; Tony Dorsett runs for record 202 yards
- Jan 1 63rd Rose Bowl: #3 Southern California beats #2 Michigan, 14-6
- Jan 1 Belgium reapportions 2,359 communities into 596
- Jan 1 Czech intellects begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77
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
- 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 3 Former Home Secretary Roy Jenkins announces his intention to be Britain's first President of the European Commission
Historic Communication
Jan 3 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporate Apple Computer, Inc
Music History
Jan 6 EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols
- 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
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 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
- 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 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 11 Poetry's Bollingen Prize awarded to David Ignatow
- 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
Low
Jan 14 RCA releases David Bowie's 11th studio album, "Low"; the album is the first collaboration with Brian Eno, in what becomes known as his 'Berlin trilogy'
- 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 Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in the Utah state prison, convicted of murder
- 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 18 Australia's worst rail disaster occurs in Sydney, killing 83 people
Cricket 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
- Jan 18 Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
Baseball Hall of Fame
Jan 19 Ernie Banks elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- 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 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 20 George H. W. Bush ends his term as 11th director of CIA replaced by E. Henry Knoche as acting director
Vietnam War
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 vs Qld)
- Jan 30 Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame
American Music Awards
Jan 31 4th American Music Awards: Olivia Newton-John & Elton John win
- Jan 31 Frenchman Francois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad
Baseball Hall of Fame
Jan 31 Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie and Al López elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- Jan 31 The Pompidou Centre, designed by architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, housing the greatest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe, is inaugurated in Paris [1]
- 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
Rumours
Feb 4 "Rumours" 11th studio album by Fleetwood Mac is released (Grammy Album of the Year)
- Feb 4 Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago st (11 die, 200 hurt)
- 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
Music History
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
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
- 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
- Feb 6 4th time New York Rangers shut-out New York 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, Ontario 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
Larry Flynt sentenced
Feb 8 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced on obscenity charges
- 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
Music History
Feb 10 Revival of musical revue "A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green" opens at Morosco Theatre, later transferring to the Little Theatre, NYC; runs for 92 performances
- Feb 11 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)
- Feb 12 Festac '77, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, finishes in Lagos, Nigeria
- Feb 12 Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
- Feb 13 "Ipi Tombi" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 39 performances
- Feb 13 "Robber Bridegroom" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 145 performances
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
Sports History
Feb 13 Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship
Musical Finale
Feb 13 Revival of Frank Loesser's musical "Guys & Dolls" closes at Broadway Theater, NYC, after 239 performances
- Feb 18 American rock band KISS play their first concert in their hometown venue of Madison Square Garden in New York City
True Love
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 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
#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 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 19 Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner
Daytona 500
Feb 20 19th Daytona 500: Cale Yarborough wins his 2nd Great American Race; Janet Guthrie first female NASCAR Cup Series driver; finishes 12th
Musical Finale
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 21 74 Unification Church couples wed in NYC
Academy of Country Music Awards
Feb 24 12th Academy of Country Music Awards: Mickey Gilley and Crystal Gayle win
- Feb 24 US President Jimmy Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights
NBA Record
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)
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 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 1 US extends territorial waters to 200 miles
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 Earthquake in Romania kills 1,541
Music Premiere
Mar 4 Roger Sessions' 6th Symphony premieres (in fully completed form) in New York City with José Serebrier conducting the Juilliard Orchestra
- 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 5 24th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Virginia, 75-69
People's Choice Awards
Mar 5 3rd People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Barbra Streisand win (Motion Picture) and Telly Savalas & Mary Tyler Moore win (TV)
- Mar 7 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
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 Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche
- Mar 9 Hanafi Muslims invade 3 buildings in Washington, D.C., siege ended Mar 11th
- 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 10 Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO
- Mar 11 Hanafi Muslims hold 130 hostages in Washington, D.C.
Event of Interest
Mar 12 Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bans the Christian-Democratic Party
Event of Interest
Mar 12 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
Sports History
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 TV comedy "Three's Company" starring John Ritter, Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt premieres on ABC
- Mar 15 US House of Representatives begins 90 day test of televising its sessions
- 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 beats Ireland, 15-6 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin to clinch its 6th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 2nd Grand Slam
- 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 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
- Mar 20 PGA Tournament Players Championship, Sawgrass CC: Mark Hayes wins in windy conditions, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Mike McCullough
Election of Interest
Mar 20 Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India
- Mar 22 Dutch coalition government under Labour Party (PvdA) leader Joop den Uyl falls
- Mar 22 Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India
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)
- Mar 26 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Delta State beat Louisiana State University 68-55 in Minneapolis
Music History
Mar 26 Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"
- Mar 26 Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson
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 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 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 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 Commission bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
- Apr 7 German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot dead by two Red Army Faction members, starting the "German Autumn"
- Apr 7 MLB Toronto Blue Jays 1st game, they beat Chicago 9-5
- 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)
Luckenbach, Texas
Apr 11 "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" single released by Waylon Jennings (Billboard Song of the Year, 1977)
Event of Interest
Apr 16 Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia
- Apr 17 "I Love My Wife" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 864 performances
- Apr 17 Christian-democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
- 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 History
Apr 18 Eddie Murray hits his 1st HR