Historical Events in May 1977

May 11 Ted Turner manages an Atlanta Braves game

May 13 Howard Stern begins broadcasting at WRNW, Briarcliff Manor NY

May 16 Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

May 16 TV drama “Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn”, starring Leigh McCloskey, follow up to "Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway" premieres on US network NBC, focusing on what happened to him after Dawn left L.A. to return to her hometown

May 17 Menachem Begin's Likoed party wins election in Israel

May 18 Menachem Begin becomes Prime Minister of Israel
May 18 US, USSR and other nations sign the Environmental Modification Convention which prohibits weather warfare having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects
May 19 "Smokey & the Bandit," premieres
May 21 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 performances
May 21 102nd Preakness: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 1:54.4
May 21 Albert Innaurato's "Gemini" premieres in NYC
May 21 Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19
May 21 SD Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
May 22 Final European scheduled run of Orient Express (after 94 years)
May 22 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
May 22 Red Sox (6) & Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11
May 23 Benin adopts its constitution
May 23 US Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell
May 23 Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Neth, children released May 27, siege ends June 11
May 24 USSR President Podgorny resigns
May 25 "Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released
May 25 "Brady Bunch Hour" last airs on ABC-TV
May 25 Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election
May 25 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

May 25 Original "Star Wars" movie (Episode IV – A New Hope), directed by George Lucas and starring Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford first released

May 25 21st European Cup: Liverpool beats Borussia Monchengladbach 3-1 at Rome
May 26 George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center
May 27 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am & KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582
May 27 New York City fines George Willig 1 cent for each of 110 stories he climbed of the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York
May 27 30th Cannes Film Festival: "Padre Padrone" directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani wins the Palme d'Or

May 27 The Sex Pistols release "God Save the Queen", sparking major controversy and leading to a ban on the song by the BBC

May 29 Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt wins for a record 4th time

May 29 NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio
May 29 Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
May 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
May 29 Janet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in Indianapolis 500
May 29 Sue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one
May 30 Cleve Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits California Angels, 2-0
May 31 "Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 920 performances
May 31 Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar
May 31 Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed