Events in History in 1977 (Part 2)

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• 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 18 Hugh Leonard's "Da" premieres in London
• Jul 18 Vietnam becomes a member of the UN
• 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 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 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
• Jul 26 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
• Jul 28 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska
• Jul 28 Roy Wilkins turns over NAACP leadership to Benjamin Hooks
• Jul 31 E. Henry Knoche, ends term as deputy director of CIA
• Jul 31 John F. Blake promoted from acting to deputy director of CIA

• Aug 3 Radio Shack introduces the TRS-80 personal computer, within weeks thousands were ordered
• Aug 3 United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA.
• Aug 4 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Aug 4 US President Carter establishes Department of Energy
• Aug 7 Mount Usu volcano in Hokkaido, Japan erupts for the first time in over 30 years
• Aug 8 Maurine Stuart, ordained as Zen priest by Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
• Aug 9 Chris Old completes a century in 37 mins, Yorks v Warwicks
• Aug 9 Military-controlled Government of Uruguay announces the return to civilian rule through general elections in 1981 to democratically elect a President and Congress
• Aug 10 About 100 white sympathisers joined evicted black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outside Cape Town, South Africa
• Aug 10 Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" 44 caliber killer
• Aug 10 US & Panama sign Panama Canal Zone accord
• Aug 10 USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
• Aug 11 Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, v Aust at Headingley
• Aug 12 For 2nd straight day, Oakland's Manny Sanguillen foils a no-hit bid
• Aug 12 High Energy Astronomy Observatory {HEAO] 1 launched into Earth's orbit by NASA
• Aug 12 Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric test flight
• Aug 13 1st test glide of space shuttle
• Aug 13 Randy Bachman quits band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, they then disband
• Aug 14 77,691 see NY Cosmos beat Fort Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giants Stadium
• Aug 15 "Wow" possible alien radio signal from deep space received at "The Big Ear", Ohio State's radio telescope in Delaware
• Aug 15 Herbert Kappler, head of Nazi police and security services (SS) in Rome during WWII, escapes from prison hospital in Rome
• Aug 16 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Aug 17 Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole
• Aug 17 Thomas Wessinghage, Harald Hudak, Michael Lederer and Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38.8)
• Aug 17 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Aug 18 2 girls are killed by a runaway car outside of Graceland
• Aug 18 South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is arrested at a roadblock (dies of police beating 12 September)
• Aug 19 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR

• Aug 23 1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
• Aug 23 Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in German DR
• Aug 26 Frank Martinus Arion forms Surinamese Writers group 77
• Aug 27 Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry, Guinea
• Aug 31 Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')
• Aug 31 Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote
• Aug 31 Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus
• Sep 1 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 5 NASA launches Voyager 1 on a mission to initially just fly-by Jupiter and Saturn, later Uranus and Neptune also (2012 becomes the first human-made object to leave the solar system)
• Sep 5 Red Army Faction kidnaps and subsequently murders West German business executive Hanns Martin Schleyer
• Sep 7 Ethiopia drops diplomatic relations with Somalia

• Sep 7 Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy is released from prison after serving 4 years and 4 1/2 months
• Sep 8 Jimmy McCulloch quits Wings
• Sep 9 Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker & Allan Trammell debut together & will play together for 19 years
• Sep 10 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France
• Sep 12 Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody from his injuries after being beaten and tortured by police
• Sep 13 1st TV viewer discretion warning-Soap
• Sep 13 2nd Test flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise
• Sep 13 General Motors introduces 1st US diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)
• Sep 14 Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robben Island, South Africa
• Sep 15 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 15 US President Jimmy Carter meets with 15 record company executives
• Sep 16 90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premieres on TV
• 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 18 US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together
• Sep 20 Russell Means addresses the UNHCR in Geneva: criticizes the United States, describing Native Americans as "people who live in the belly of the monster"
• Sep 20 Vietnam & Djibouti ask for membership in UN
• 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 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 Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
• Sep 30 Dutch Antillean government-Evertsz resigns
• Sep 30 Philippine political prisoners, Eugenio Lopez, Jr. and Sergio Osmeña III successfully escaped from Fort Bonifacio Maximum Security Prison in the Philippines
• Sep 30 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Oct 1 US Department of Energy established
• Oct 2 Pakistani general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition

• 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 11 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
• 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 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 21 The European Patent Institute is founded.
• Oct 21 US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa
• Oct 22 International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 & 2 launched into Earth orbit
• Oct 23 Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces discovery of a 3.4-billion year old one-celled fossil, one of the earliest life forms on Earth
• Oct 23 Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve new Canal treaties
• 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 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 26 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 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 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Nov 1 US President Jimmy Carter raises the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st Jan 1981
• 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 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)

• Nov 15 US President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
• 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 22 Regular Concorde passenger service between NY and Europe begins

• Nov 23 European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral
• Nov 24 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Nov 25 David Steed balanced stationary on a bike for 9 hrs 15 mins

• Dec 5 Egypt breaks off diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq & South Yemen
• Dec 6 South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
• Dec 7 Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0
• Dec 10 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
• Dec 11 Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, leaders of the group 'Peace People' (an organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland) receive the Nobel Peace Prize

• Dec 14 Egyptian & Israeli representatives gather in Cairo for first formal peace conference
• Dec 17 Bobby Simpson scores 176 Australia v India at the WACA, aged 41
• Dec 17 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Dec 18 Dutch Antilles: premier Boy Rozendal points independence off
• Dec 19 Dutch government of Van Agt/Wiegel forms
• Dec 20 1st Space walk made by Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Grechko during Salyut 6 EO-1 mission
• Dec 20 RAF -terrorist Knut Folkerts sentenced to 20 years
• Dec 22 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
• Dec 24 "Ghost to the Post", Raiders tight end Dave Casper ("The Ghost") catches a 42-yard reception to set up the Raiders' tying field goal near the end of regulation (Raiders win in OT)

• Dec 26 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Dec 29 Ronald Ribman's "Cold Storage" premieres in NYC
• Dec 30 Carter holds 1st news conference by US President in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)
• Dec 31 Amir Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah becomes leader of Kuwait
• Dec 31 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with Vietnam
• Dec 31 Donald Woods, a banned anti-Apartheid white editor flees South Africa
• Dec 31 Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is imprisoned for co-writing a play critical of the Kenyan government

• Dec 31 WFAT (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM

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