Historical Events in 1977 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 689

• Apr 23 ADO Den Haag soccer team forms in The Hague, Netherlands

• Apr 23 Dr Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops
• Apr 23 Milt workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa
• Apr 23 Czech chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously & only loses 10
• Apr 25 Cincinnati Reds tie record of 12 runs in 5th inning beating Braves 23-9
• Apr 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Apr 26 Opening of Studio 54 in New York, N.Y.
• Apr 27 Bloody riots in Soweto, South Africa
• Apr 27 HCC, Hobby Computer Club, forms in Netherlands
• Apr 27 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
• Apr 28 Christopher Boyce convicted for selling secrets
• Apr 28 Andreas Baader and members of terrorist group the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang) jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany
• Apr 28 The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
• Apr 29 British Aerospace forms
• Apr 30 "Party with Comden & Green" closes at Morosco NYC after 92 performances


• Apr 30 Wrestler "Superstar" Billy Graham beats Bruno Sammartino in Baltimore, to become WWF champion
• Apr 30 Ron Cey sets record of 29 RBIs in April
• May 1 French runner Chantal Langlacé sets female world marathon record (2:35:15.4) in Oyarzun, Spain
• May 1 American golfer Debbie Austin wins the Birmingham Classic, the first of 5 LPGA Tour victories in a 4-month span
• May 1 36 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
• May 1 American golfer Gene Littler wins the Houston Open, his 29th and final PGA title
• May 2 "The King & I" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 719 performances
• May 3 1977 NFL Draft: Ricky Bell from USC first pick by Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• May 4 US Catholic bishops rescind automatic excommunications for divorced and remarried Catholics (receiving communion still outlawed if the previous marriages were not annulled by Church tribunals)
• May 6 "Beatles at Hollywood Bowl" released in UK
• May 7 "Happy End" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 75 performances
• May 7 103rd Kentucky Derby: Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins in 2:02.2
• May 7 22nd Eurovision Song Contest: Marie Myriam for France wins singing "L'oiseau et l'enfant" in London
• May 9 Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed
• May 9 Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon
• May 9 Patty Hearst let out of jail

• May 12 Emmy 4th Daytime Award presentation

• May 14 English football international Bobby Moore retires


• May 14 KC Royals Jim Colborn no-hits Texas Rangers, 6-0
• May 14 Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms
• May 14 Stanley Cup Final, Boston Garden, Boston, MA: Jacques Lemaire scores twice as Montreal Canadiens edge Boston Bruins, 2-1 in OT for a 4 game sweep and back-to-back titles
• May 16 5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am building in NYC

• 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 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 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 San Diego Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
• May 21 Electric Light Orchestra releases "Telephone Line" in the UK; it would peak in the Top 10 in the UK and US

• May 22 Red Sox (6) & Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11
• May 23 Benin adopts its constitution

• 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 Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election
• May 25 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• May 25 21st European Cup: Liverpool beats Borussia Monchengladbach 3-1 at Rome
• May 26 George Willig climbs the South Tower of NYC's World Trade Center, famously fined 1 cent for each of 110 stories he climbed
• May 27 30th Cannes Film Festival: "Padre Padrone" directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani wins the Palme d'Or

• May 28 Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, Kentucky kills 168

• May 29 NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio
• 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 Australian Sue Prell first female golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one; 13th and 14th holes at Chatswood Golf Club, Sydney
• May 30 Cleveland 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
• Jun 1 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
• Jun 1 Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
• Jun 1 Dutch soccer club FC Volendam is established as a result of split up with RKSV; 6-time Eerste Divisie champions
• Jun 2 New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
• Jun 3 Baltimore Orioles pull their 6th triple play (9-6-4-6-6 vs KC Royals)
• Jun 3 Belgium government of Tindemans forms
• Jun 3 US & Cuba talk about diplomatic relations
• Jun 4 Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2

• Jun 4 An estimated 20,000 Scottish football fans invade the Wembley Stadium pitch after Scotland beats England, 2-1; goalposts and advertising hoardings destroyed
• Jun 5 31st NBA Championship: Port Trailblazers beat Philadelphia 76er, 4 games to 2
• Jun 5 31st Tony Awards: Shadow Box & Annie win
• Jun 5 Coup in Seychelles (National Day)
• Jun 5 Los Angeles Dodgers retire Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman and manager Walter Alston's #24

• Jun 6 "Washington Post" reports US has developed neutron bomb
• Jun 6 Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic & Concert for United Way
• Jun 6 Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss)
• Jun 6 Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
• Jun 7 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law
• Jun 7 White Sox draft Harold Baines #1

• Jun 9 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist

• Jun 10 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II computers

• Jun 10 International Labour Organisation and United Nations meet to discuss apartheid in South Africa and potential actions to prevent further violence and state repression.
• Jun 10 Al Geiberger becomes the 1st player in history to post a score of 59 (−13) in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event, during the 2nd round Danny Thomas Memphis Classic at Colonial CC in Cordova, Tennessee
• Jun 11 109th Belmont: Jean Cruguet riding Seattle Slew wins in 2:29.6
• Jun 11 Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland
• Jun 11 Main Street Electrical Parade premieres in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World
• Jun 11 "I'm Your Boogie Man" by KC and the Sunshine Band peaks at #1
• Jun 12 "Pippin" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1944 performances

• Jun 13 Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured

• Jun 15 Spain's 1st free elections since 1936 (41 years)
• Jun 15 Wim Polak becomes mayor of Amsterdam
• Jun 16 "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway
• Jun 16 Fianna Fail party wins Irish elections

• Jun 16 Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals

• Jun 18 Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, it was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
• Jun 19 US Open Golf, Southern Hills CC: Hubert Green shoots 2-under 278 to beat Lou Graham by 1 stroke

• Jun 19 Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 HRs, all against Yanks
• Jun 20 Menachem Begin forms Israeli government
• Jun 20 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
• Jun 21 Former White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman enters prison
• Jun 21 Menachem Begin (Likud) becomes Israel's 6th Prime Minister
• Jun 21 Bülent Ecevit forms a minority government in Turkey which lasts only 1 month
• Jun 22 Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison
• Jun 22 Walt Disney's "Rescuers" released, first Disney film to get a sequel
• Jun 23 13th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-4
• Jun 23 Violence erupts in Soweto, South Africa, again and the police make at least 146 arrests

• Jun 24 Josiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF)
• Jun 24 27th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Ascent" wins the Golden Bear
• Jun 25 Roy C Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for 7th time!
• Jun 25 8th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats Great Britain 13-12
• Jun 26 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn

• Jun 26 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.
• Jun 26 Tim Severin aboard the Brendan reaches Newfoundland in attempt to prove sixth-century Irish monks could have voyaged across the Atlantic
• Jun 27 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
• Jun 27 Djibouti (Afars & Issas) claims Independence from France

• Jun 28 Billy Hunter becomes Rangers' 4th manager in 6 days
• Jun 28 Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers
• Jun 28 The United Party, main political opposition party in South Africa, is formally disbanded by the majority faction after members leave the party to join other new political parties
• Jun 29 Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults

• Jun 29 South Africa opposition party, the New Republic Party (NRP), is formed after the integration of the United Party (UP) and Democratic Party (DP)
• Jun 30 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"

• Jun 30 US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Washington, D.C.)
• Jun 30 Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto

• Jul 1 East German sprinter Marlies Göhr sets world record for 100m (10.88) in Dresden, Germany

• Jul 3 Canadian Open Golf (Peter Jackson Classic), Lachute GC: Judy Rankin wins by 3 strokes from Pat Meyers and Sandra Palmer
• Jul 3 The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded
• Jul 3 Triple Crown champion Seattle Slew's 9-race win streak ends in the Swaps Stakes at Hollywood Park, finishes 4th
• Jul 4 Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
• Jul 4 Red Sox end 9-game losing streak by smashing a MLB-record 8 HRs in a 9-6 win vs Toronto at Fenway Park
• Jul 5 Pakistani army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power
• Jul 6 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Jul 7 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City

• Jul 8 Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs)

• Jul 10 "Happy End" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 75 performances

• Jul 12 John Edrich scores his 100th 100, Surrey v Derbyshire at The Oval
• Jul 13 NYC experiences 25 hr black-out
• Jul 14 North Korea shoots down US helicopter, killing 3
• Jul 14 US House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence


• Jul 16 Janelle Commissiong, of Trinidad & Tobago crowned 26th Miss Universe
• Jul 18 Hugh Leonard's "Da" premieres in London
• Jul 18 Vietnam becomes a member of the UN
• Jul 19 48th MLB All Star Game, Yankee Stadium, NYC, NY: NL wins, 7-5; MVP: Don Sutton, LA Dodgers, P
• Jul 19 Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kill 76
• Jul 20 Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 80 and causes $350 million damage
• Jul 20 The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments
• Jul 20 10th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel
• Jul 21 Libyan-Egyptian border fights

• Jul 21 Sanjiva Reddy is elected sixth President of India unopposed
• Jul 23 Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Muslims on hostage charges

• Jul 24 Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring 33 consecutive batsmen
• Jul 24 64th Tour de France won by Bernard Thevenet of France
• Jul 26 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
• Jul 26 The 'Committee of 10' formed by prominent Soweto residents, issues a programme for the election of a new community board to have total autonomy in Soweto, South Africa

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