1977 in History (Part 2)

Events in History

Events 101 - 200 of 436

• Mar 26 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Delta State beat Louisiana State University 68-55 in Minneapolis

• 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 #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks

• Apr 3 Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg adopt summer time
• Apr 5 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Apr 7 Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
• Apr 7 Toronto Blues Jays 1st game, they beat Chicago 9-5
• Apr 7 German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.

• Apr 9 Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years
• 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 17 Christian-democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
• Apr 18 Alex Haley author of "Roots" awarded Pulitzer Prize
• Apr 18 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for "Shadow Box"
• Apr 20 Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on NH licenses
• Apr 21 Zia ur-Rahman appointed president of Bangladesh

• 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 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 Ron Cey sets record of 29 RBIs in April
• May 1 36 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
• 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 Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms
• May 16 5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am building in NYC

• 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 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 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
• Jun 1 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
• Jun 1 Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
• Jun 2 New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
• 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 5 31st Tony Awards: Shadow Box & Annie win
• Jun 5 Coup in Seychelles (National Day)
• Jun 6 "Washington Post" reports US has developed neutron bomb
• 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 9 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist

• Jun 10 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II computers
• Jun 10 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
• 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 11 "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Fat Woman)" by Joe Tex hits #12
• Jun 11 "Dance & Shake Your Tambourine" by Universal Robot Band peaks at #93
• Jun 11 "I Need A Man" by Grace Jones peaks at #83
• Jun 11 "I'm Your Boogie Man" by KC & Sunshine Band peaks at #1
• Jun 11 "Lonely Boy" by Andrew Gold peaks at #7
• Jun 11 "The Pretender" by Jackson Browne peaks at #58
• Jun 11 "Watch Closely Now" by Kris Kristofferson peaks at #52
• Jun 11 Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland
• Jun 11 ELO releases "Telephone Line"
• Jun 11 Main Street Electrical Parade premieres in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World

• 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 Fianna Fail party wins Irish elections

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Deaths in History

Deaths 101 - 114 of 114

• Nov 20 Maxie Wander, writer, dies
• Nov 27 John Little McClellan, American lawyer and politician (Sen-D-Ark), dies at 81
• Nov 30 Terrence Rattigan, British writer and playwright (b. 1911)
• Dec 1 Paul Hardy, Belgian designer (Italian Country, dies at 69
• Dec 1 Teun Struycken [Antoon Arnold Marie Struycken], Dutch Minister of Justice (1950-51) and Governor of the Netherlands Antilles (1951-56), dies at 70
• Dec 5 Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet military commander (b. 1895)
• Dec 7 Peter Carl Goldmark, German-Hungarian engineer (developed the LP record format), dies in a car accident at 77
• Dec 9 Clarice Lispector, writer, dies
• Dec 12 Baroness Clementine Spencer-Churchill (nee Hozier), widow of Sir Winston, dies at 92
• Dec 15 Wilfred Kitching, the 7th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893)
• Dec 18 Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92
• Dec 19 Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor, dies at 101
• Dec 24 Samael Aun Weor, Colombian writer (b. 1917)
• Dec 31 Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, ruler of Kuwait (b. 1924)

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