1977 in History (Part 4)

Events in History

Events 301 - 400 of 434

Event of Interest

Sep 7 US President Jimmy Carter and Panama's General Omar Torrijos sign the Panama Canal treaties, guaranteeing Panama control of the Panama Canal after 1999

39th US President Jimmy Carter — 39th US President
Jimmy Carter

Event of Interest

Sep 16 Ringo Starr releases "Drowning in Sea of Love"

Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr — Beatles Drummer
Ringo Starr

Sep 16 Seattle beats Royals, 4-1, to end KC's winning streak at 16 games
Sep 17 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
Sep 17 Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer, Reggie hits 2 more
Sep 17 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" is #1 for 19th straight week
Sep 18 Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore
Sep 18 US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together
Sep 18 2nd Toronto International Film Festival opens
Sep 20 Vietnam & Djibouti ask for membership in UN
Sep 21 US minister of Foreign affairs Cyrus Vance dismissed
Sep 22 Preston Jones' "Texas Trilogy" premieres in NYC
Sep 22 West German Red Army Faction terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht
Sep 23 3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise

Sep 23 Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on TV show "Charlie's Angels"
Sep 23 "I Just Fall in Love Again" single released by The Carpenters
Sep 26 Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY
Sep 29 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
Sep 30 Dutch Antillean government-Evertsz resigns
Sep 30 Ringo Starr releases "Ringo the 4th" album
Sep 30 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Sep 30 Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
Sep 30 Philippine political prisoners, Eugenio Lopez, Jr. and Sergio Osmeña III successfully escaped from Fort Bonifacio Maximum Security Prison in the Philippines
Oct 1 US Department of Energy established
Oct 1 Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title
Oct 2 Pakistani general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition

Event of Interest

Oct 3 Indira Gandhi arrested

4th Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi — 4th Prime Minister of India
Indira Gandhi

Oct 6 DL Coburns "Gin Game" premieres in NYC
Oct 6 In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
Oct 7 USSR adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
Oct 9 Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock
Oct 9 Yanks rally for 3 in 9th & beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31
Oct 11 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth

Historic Invention

Oct 11 American inventor Gordon Gould issued his first US patent for a optically pumped laser amplifier, 20 years after first claiming to have invented the laser

Physicist Gordon Gould — Physicist
Gordon Gould

Oct 12 4th test of space shuttle Enterprise
Oct 12 Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfolded, smashed into cop van
Oct 12 US Supreme Court heard arguments in "reverse discrimination" case of Allan Bakke, white student denied admission to University of California Med School
Oct 14 Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro
Oct 15 Arkansas' Steve Little kicks a record tying 67 yard field goal

Oct 15 Don Ritchie runs world record 100 mile (11:30:51)
Oct 15 "Serpentine Fire" single released by Earth, Wind & Fire (Billboard Song of the Year 1978)
Oct 17 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament
Oct 17 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages & killing 3 of 4 hijackers
Oct 18 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th
Oct 18 West German commandos liberate Boeing 737 with 86 hostages at Mogadishu
Oct 19 Corpse of kidnapped West German, H M Schleyer, found
Oct 19 Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in NYC
Oct 20 David Mamet's "Life in the Theater" premieres in NYC
Oct 20 Hamilton Deane & John Balderstons "Dracula" premieres in NYC
Oct 21 US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa
Oct 21 The European Patent Institute is founded.
Oct 22 International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 & 2 launched into Earth orbit
Oct 23 Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve new Canal treaties
Oct 23 Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces discovery of a 3.4-billion year old one-celled fossil, the earliest life form
Oct 25 Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
Oct 26 5th & final test of space shuttle Enterprise
Oct 26 Dr Clifford R Wharton Jr named chancellor of State University of New York
Oct 26 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Oct 26 Last natural case of smallpox discovered in Merca district, Somalia. Considered the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination
Oct 27 Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped
Oct 27 NASA launches space vehicle S-200
Oct 29 Texas' Russell Erideben kicks his 3rd 60 yard field goal of the season
Oct 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Oct 30 Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07
Nov 1 Islander Goran Hogosta's only shut-out Flames 9-0-Trottier 4 goals
Nov 1 US President Jimmy Carter raises the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st Jan 1981
Nov 1 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Nov 2 Microbiologist Carl R. Woese and scientists from the University of Illinois announce the identification of methanogens, a form of microbial life (Archaea) dating back some 3.5 billion years
Nov 4 UN Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa
Nov 6 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga
Nov 8 Greek Archaeologist Manolis Andronikos discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina
Nov 8 Ed Koch is elected Mayor of New York (his 1st term)
Nov 9 Reds' George Foster wins NL MVP
Nov 10 Amsterdam: Red Army Faction terrorists Gert Schneider and Christof Wackernagel arrested
Nov 12 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Nov 12 New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial
Nov 13 25th Islander shut-out Resch 6-0 Gilles scores on 5th penalty shot
Nov 13 Final Al Capp comic strip of "Li'l Abner" (1934-77)

Event of Interest

Nov 14 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Walter Cronkite

President of Egypt and Nobel Laureate Anwar Sadat — President of Egypt and Nobel Laureate
Anwar Sadat

Broadcast Journalist Walter Cronkite — Broadcast Journalist
Walter Cronkite

Nov 15 US President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
Nov 16 Rod Carew wins AL MVP award
Nov 17 Bernard Pomerance's "Elephant Man" premieres in London
Nov 17 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel
Nov 19 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
Nov 19 Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
Nov 20 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
Nov 21 First flight of Concorde (London to New York)
Nov 21 "All 'N All" 8th studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1978)

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Deaths in History

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