May 1977 in History

Events in History

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

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 Albert Innaurato's "Gemini" premieres in NYC
May 21 Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19
May 22 Final European scheduled run of Orient Express (after 94 years)
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 Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election
May 25 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 26 George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center
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 28 Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, Kentucky kills 168
May 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
May 31 Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar
May 31 Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed

May 2 Fredrik Malm, Swedish politician, Member of Parliament for the Liberal People's Party, born in Stockholm, Sweden
May 3 Mashima Hiro, Japanese Mangaka of Rave Master and Fairy Tail, born in Nagano, Japan
May 3 Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian Mathematician, born in Tehran, Iran (d. 2017)
May 22 Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, Irish hurler
May 25 Giel Beelen, Dutch radio DJ
May 26 Raina Telgemeier, American cartoonist
May 28 Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American television panelist (The View)
May 31 Joel Ross, British disc jockey

May 5 Ludwig Erhard, German minister of Economic Affairs (CDU), dies at 80
May 9 James Jones, American novelist (Bad Blood, From Here to Eternity), dies at 55
May 22 Gijsbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67), dies at 73
May 25 Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b. 1904)
May 29 Ba Maw, Burmese politician (b. 1893)
May 30 Claire Goll, German-French writer, dies at 86