Notable Historical Events - 1977
1977 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
1st woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest (Jacqueline Means) |
Jan 1 |
Belgium reapportions 2,359 communities into 596 |
Jan 1 |
Czech intellects begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77 |
Jan 1 |
Tony Dorsett runs for record 202 yards in the Sugar Bowl |
Jan 2 |
Bowie Kuhn suspends Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing |
Jan 3 |
Apple Computer, Inc incorporates |
Jan 3 |
Lindy McDaniel retires with 2nd most pitching appearances (987 games) |
Jan 4 |
Mary Shane hired by Chicago White Sox as 1st woman TV play-by-play |
Jan 6 |
EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols |
Jan 7 |
Human Rights Charter 77 established in Prague |
Jan 9 |
"Porgy & Bess" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 122 performances |
Jan 9 |
Super Bowl XI: Oakland Raiders beat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14 in Pasadena Super Bowl MVP: Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, WR |
Jan 10 |
20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom |
Jan 11 |
Bollingen Prize awarded to David Ignatow |
Jan 11 |
Cubs trade outfielder Rick Monday to Dodgers for Bill Buckner |
Jan 11 |
France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in massacre of Israeli athletes at 1972 Munich Olympics |
Jan 12 |
"Ipi Tombi" opens at Harkness Theater NYC for 39 performances |
Jan 12 |
Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes |
Jan 15 |
Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live" |
Jan 15 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament |
Jan 16 |
Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders |
Jan 17 |
KC releases Tommy Davis, ends an 18-year career with 10 teams |
Jan 17 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 24-14 |
Jan 17 |
Zaire president Mobutu visits Belgium |
Jan 18 |
Imran Khan takes 12 wickets in match for Pakistan win at the SCG |
Jan 18 |
Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. |
Jan 19 |
Ernie Banks elected to Hall of Fame |
Jan 19 |
US President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) |
Jan 19 |
World's largest crowd gathering - the Hindu Kumbh Mela in India attracts a then record 15 million people |
Jan 19 |
Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurred. It also fell in the Bahamas. |
Jan 20 |
George H W Bush, ends term as 11th director of CIA |
Jan 20 |
Mr Knoche, serves as acting director of CIA |
Jan 21 |
Italy legalizes abortion |
Jan 21 |
US President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders |
Jan 23 |
$1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited, Paris |
Jan 23 |
Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC |
Jan 24 |
5 lawyers murdered by fascist in Madrid |
Jan 24 |
Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy. |
Jan 26 |
Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai & Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple twist lift, Helsinki |
Jan 27 |
1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV |
Jan 30 |
8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever |
Jan 30 |
Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (NSW v Qld) |
Jan 30 |
Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame |
Jan 31 |
Frenchman Francois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad |
Jan 31 |
Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, & Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 31 |
4th American Music Award: Olivia Newton-John & Elton John win |
Feb 1 |
Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives |
Feb 1 |
Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball |
Feb 2 |
Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (USSR) |
Feb 2 |
Radio Shack officially begins creating TRS-80 computer |
Feb 2 |
Toronto's Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals, NHL REcord for a defenseman |
Feb 3 |
Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame |
Feb 4 |
30th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 at Vancouver |
Feb 4 |
Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago st (11 die, 200 hurt) |
Feb 4 |
Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" released |
Feb 4 |
Wings release "Maybe I'm Amazed" |
Feb 5 |
"CB Savage" by Rod Hart peaks at #67 |
Feb 5 |
"Dis-Gorilla (part 1)" by Rick Dees peaks at #56 |
Feb 5 |
"In The Mood" by Henhouse 5 Plus Too (Ray Stevens) peaks at #40 |
Feb 5 |
"Turn Loose On My Leg" by Jim Stafford peaks at #98 |
Feb 5 |
"Up Your Nose" by Gabriel Kaplan peaks at #91 |
Feb 5 |
General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio |
Feb 5 |
Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight |
Feb 5 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
Feb 5 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
Feb 6 |
4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0 |
Feb 6 |
Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 m over 16 buses, near Paris |
Feb 6 |
Harley Race beats Terry Funk in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champ |
Feb 7 |
Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts |
Feb 8 |
Earthquake in SF, at 5.0, strongest since 1966 |
Feb 8 |
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced on obscenity charges |
Feb 10 |
"Party with Comden & Green" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 92 perfs |
Feb 10 |
Bomb explosion in Moscow metro |
Feb 10 |
Jonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx NY named in honor of Bronx-born Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebbe Raid (1976) |
Feb 11 |
20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean) |
Feb 12 |
Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0 |
Feb 13 |
"Guys & Dolls" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 239 performances |
Feb 13 |
"Ipi Tombi" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 39 performances |
Feb 13 |
"Robber Bridegroom" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 145 perfs |
Feb 13 |
Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship |
Feb 13 |
Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic |
Feb 15 |
Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election |
Feb 16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan |
Feb 18 |
George Harrison releases "True Love" |
Feb 18 |
Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on it's maiden flight |
Feb 18 |
Test Cricket debuts of Colin Croft & Joel Garner v Pakistan Bridgetown |
Feb 19 |
19th Grammy Awards: This Masquerade, Starland Vocal Band |
Feb 19 |
A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000 |
Feb 19 |
Doug Walters scores 250 v NZ, 217 stand for 7th wicket w/Gilmour |
Feb 19 |
Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released |
Feb 19 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Feb 19 |
Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner |
Feb 20 |
"My Fair Lady" closes at St James Theater NYC after 384 performances |
Feb 20 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
Feb 21 |
74 Unification Church couples wed in NYC |
Feb 24 |
Pres Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights |
Feb 25 |
New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts |
Feb 25 |
Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons |
Feb 25 |
Soyuz 24 returns to Earth |
Feb 26 |
1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747) |
Feb 27 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
Feb 27 |
Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada |
Feb 28 |
1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, Los Angeles California) |
Feb 28 |
Harbor strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends |
Mar 1 |
Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards |
Mar 1 |
US extends territorial waters to 200 miles |
Mar 2 |
1st time Jay Leno appears on Tonight Show |
Mar 2 |
Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award |
Mar 2 |
Future Tonight Show host Jay Leno debuts with host Johnny Carson |
Mar 2 |
Libya amends constitution |
Mar 3 |
Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (URS) |
Mar 3 |
Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal |
Mar 3 |
Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms |
Mar 3 |
Men's Figure Skating Champions in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR) |
Mar 3 |
World Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA) |
Mar 4 |
1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, NM |
Mar 4 |
Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain |
Mar 4 |
Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541 |
Mar 5 |
3rd People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Barbra Streisand win (Motion Picture) and Telly Savalas & Mary Tyler Moore win (TV) |
Mar 7 |
Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections |
Mar 7 |
Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter |
Mar 8 |
Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia |
Mar 8 |
Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter) |
Mar 9 |
Hanafi Muslims invade 3 buildings in Wash DC, siege ended Mar 11th |
Mar 9 |
Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche |
Mar 10 |
Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO |
Mar 11 |
Moslems hold 130 hostages in Wash DC |
Mar 12 |
Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party |
Mar 12 |
Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel |
Mar 13 |
Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test |
Mar 15 |
"Eight is Enough" premiers on ABC-TV |
Mar 15 |
US House of Reps begin 90 day test of televising its sessions |
Mar 15 |
First official test cricket match is played between Australia and England at Melbourne |
Mar 16 |
US president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland |
Mar 17 |
Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877 |
Mar 18 |
Clash releases their 1st recording "White Riot" |
Mar 18 |
US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea & Cambodia |
Mar 18 |
Vietnam hands over MIA to US |
Mar 19 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Mar 19 |
Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.33) |
Mar 20 |
Communists/socialists win French municipal elections |
Mar 20 |
Parisians elect former PM Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century |
Mar 20 |
Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India |
Mar 22 |
Dutch Den Uyl government falls |
Mar 22 |
Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India |
Mar 22 |
Uyl government falls |
Mar 26 |
Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero" |
Mar 26 |
Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson |
Mar 27 |
583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife |
Mar 27 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic |
Mar 28 |
39th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Marquette beats NC 67-59 |
Mar 28 |
49th Academy Awards - "Rocky", Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway win |
Mar 28 |
Morarji Desai forms government in India |
Mar 31 |
Michael Cristofer's "Shadow Box" premieres in NYC |
Apr 1 |
Attempt for Moslem state in Chad fails |
Apr 1 |
NFL decides to experiment with a 7th official in some preseason games |
Apr 2 |
Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks |
Apr 2 |
Mont Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a lose |
Apr 3 |
6th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Kathy Whitworth |
Apr 3 |
Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point |
Apr 3 |
Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat's 1st meeting with US President Jimmy Carter |
Apr 3 |
Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time |
Apr 5 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 6 |
Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released |
Apr 6 |
Kingdome opens, Seattle Mariners 1st game, loses to Angels 7-0 |
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 8 |
Israeli premier Rabin resigns |
Apr 9 |
Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years |
Apr 10 |
41st Golf Masters Championship: Tom Watson wins, shooting a 276 |
Apr 10 |
Beverly Klass wins LPGA Women's International Golf Satellite |
Apr 10 |
Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inn game (3:17) |
Apr 11 |
Ireland sets fishing zone at 50 mile |
Apr 14 |
Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license |
Apr 15 |
1st baseball game at Montreal's Olympic Stadium |
Apr 16 |
Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia |
Apr 17 |
"I Love My Wife" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 864 performances |
Apr 17 |
Christian-democrats win Belgium parliamentary election |
Apr 17 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament |
Apr 18 |
"Side by Side" by Stephen Sondheim opens at Music Box NYC for 390 perfs |
Apr 18 |
6th Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:48:33 |
Apr 18 |
81st Boston Marathon won by Jerome Drayton of Canada in 2:14:46 |
Apr 18 |
Alex Haley, author of "Roots", awarded Pulitzer Prize |
Apr 18 |
Eddie Murray hits his 1st HR |
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 20 |
Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres |
Apr 20 |
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Apr 21 |
Billy Martin pulls Yankee line-up out of a hat, beats Blue Jays 8-6 |
Apr 21 |
C Strouse & M Charnins musical "Annie" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 2377 performances |
Apr 21 |
Zia ur-Rahman appointed president of Bangladesh |
Apr 22 |
Simon Peres becomes premier of Israel |
Apr 23 |
ADO The Hague soccer team forms |
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 24 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA American Defender Golf Tournament |
Apr 25 |
Cin 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 |
NY's famed disco Studio 54 opens |
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 & members of Baader-Meinhoff 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 perfs |
Apr 30 |
Billy Graham beats Bruno Sammartino in Baltimore, to become WWF champ |
Apr 30 |
Ron Cey sets record of 29 RBIs in April |
May 1 |
Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:35:15.4) |
May 1 |
Debbie Austin wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
May 1 |
36 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations. |
May 2 |
"King & I" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 719 performances |
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 8 |
David Berkowitz pleads guilty in "Son of Sam" 44-caliber shootings |
May 8 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic |
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 11 |
Hamburger SV wins 17th soccer Europe Cup II |
May 11 |
Ted Turner manages an Atlanta Braves game |
May 12 |
1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London) |
May 12 |
Emmy 4th Daytime Award presentation |
May 13 |
Howard Stern begins broadcasting at WRNW, Briarcliff Manor NY |
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: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games |
May 15 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic |
May 16 |
5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am bldg in NYC |
May 16 |
Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
May 17 |
Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel |
May 18 |
Juventus wins 6th UEFA Cup at Bilbao |
May 18 |
Menachem Begin becomes Prime Minister of Israel |
May 18 |
Nightclub in Cincinnati fire kills 164 |
May 19 |
"Smokey & the Bandit," premieres |
May 21 |
"Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 perfs |
May 21 |
103rd 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 |
SD Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings |
May 22 |
Final European scheduled run of Orient Express (94 years) |
May 22 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic |
May 22 |
Red Sox (6) & Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11 |
May 23 |
Benin adopts its constitution |
May 23 |
Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, 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 |
"Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released |
May 25 |
"Brady Bunch Hour" last airs on ABC-TV |
May 25 |
Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election |
May 25 |
Liverpool wins 22nd Europe Cup 1 in Rome |
May 25 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 25 |
Original "Star Wars" movie ("part IV") released |
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 |
May 28 |
165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky |
May 29 |
Indianapolis 500: A J Foyt wins for a record 4th time |
May 29 |
NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio |
May 29 |
Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
May 29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
May 29 |
Janet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in Indy 500 |
May 29 |
Sue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one |
May 30 |
Cleve 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 |
SC Heerenveen soccer team forms in Heerenveen |
Jun 2 |
NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City |
Jun 3 |
Balt 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 5 |
31st NBA Championship: Port Trailblazers beat Phila 76er, 4 games to 2 |
Jun 5 |
31st Tony Awards: Shadow Box & Annie win |
Jun 5 |
Coup in Seychelles (National Day) |
Jun 5 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Talk Tournament '77 Golf Tournament |
Jun 5 |
LA Dodgers retire Walt 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 8 |
Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game |
Jun 9 |
50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist |
Jun 9 |
Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain celebrated with fireworks |
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 |
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 |
ELO releases "Telephone Line" |
Jun 11 |
Main Street Electrical Parade premieres in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World |
Jun 12 |
"Pippin" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1944 performances |
Jun 12 |
23rd LPGA Championship won by Chako Higuchi |
Jun 12 |
Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library |
Jun 13 |
Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured |
Jun 15 |
NY Mets trade Tom Seaver to Reds for Pat Zachry |
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 |
Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR |
Jun 16 |
Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals |
Jun 16 |
Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates. |
Jun 18 |
Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation |
Jun 18 |
Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten & Paul Cook, beaten & robbed by London pub |
Jun 18 |
Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747 |
Jun 19 |
77th US Golf Open: Hubert Green shoots a 278 at Southern Hills Tulsa |
Jun 19 |
Indians fire manager Frank Robinson & replace him with Jeff Torborg |
Jun 19 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
Jun 19 |
Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint |
Jun 19 |
Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 HRs, all against Yanks |
Jun 20 |
Menahem 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 HR Haldeman enters prison |
Jun 21 |
Menachem Begin (Likud) becomes Israel's 6th PM |
Jun 22 |
Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison |
Jun 22 |
Walt Disney's "Rescuers" released |
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 |
IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976 |
Jun 24 |
Josiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) |
Jun 25 |
Roy C Sullivan of Va is struck by lightning for 7th time! |
Jun 26 |
42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn |
Jun 26 |
Debbie Austin wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic |
Jun 26 |
Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, the last performance of his career |
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 27 |
5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise |
Jun 27 |
Djibouti (Afars & Issas) claims Independence from France |
Jun 27 |
Willie McCovey smashes 2 HRs in inning for 2nd time (Apr 12, 1973) |
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 |
Willie Stargell hits his 400th career HR |
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 |
Marvel Comics publish "Kiss book" tributing rock group Kiss |
Jun 30 |
US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC) |
Jun 30 |
Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto |
Jul 1 |
84th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats B Stove (46 63 61) |
Jul 1 |
FC Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam Neth |
Jul 1 |
Marlies Gohr runs Europen record 100m (10.88 sec) |
Jul 2 |
91st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Connors (36 62 61 57 64) |
Jul 3 |
5th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Judy Rankin |
Jul 3 |
Turkey: premier Ecevit goes off |
Jul 3 |
The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded. |
Jul 4 |
Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher |
Jul 4 |
Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie |
Jul 4 |
Red Sox wallop a major league-record 8 HRs beating Toronto 9-6 |
Jul 5 |
Pakistan's army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power |
Jul 6 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Jul 7 |
12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City |
Jul 8 |
Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs) |
Jul 9 |
106th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland |
Jul 10 |
"Happy End" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 75 performances |
Jul 10 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic |
Jul 11 |
US Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr |
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 17 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
Jul 18 |
Hugh Leonard's "Da" premieres in London |
Jul 18 |
Vietnam becomes member of UN |
Jul 19 |
48th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, NY |
Jul 19 |
All star MVP: Don Sutton (LA Dodgers) |
Jul 19 |
Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 76 |
Jul 20 |
Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pa, kills 80 & causing $350 mil 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 |
Sri Lanka premier Bandaranaike loses election |
Jul 23 |
Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges |
Jul 24 |
32nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy |
Jul 24 |
Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881 |
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 |
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 |
Jul 27 |
John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US |
Jul 28 |
1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska |
Jul 28 |
Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks |
Jul 28 |
Test Cricket debut of Ian Botham v Aust Trent Bridge, 5-74 1st innings |
Jul 31 |
Debbie Austin wins LPGA Pocono Northeast Golf Classic |
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 1 |
SF Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer |
Aug 1 |
Former Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he was flying in Los Angeles |
Aug 3 |
Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered |
Aug 3 |
United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA. |
Aug 4 |
US President Carter establishes Department of Energy |
Aug 4 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Aug 6 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate European Women's Golf Open |
Aug 7 |
"Shenandoah" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 1,050 performances |
Aug 8 |
Maurine Stuart, ordained as Zen priest by Eido Tai Shimano Roshi |
Aug 8 |
Texas Rangers turn their 1st triple play (vs A's) |
Aug 9 |
Chris Old completes a century in 37 mins, Yorks v Warwicks |
Aug 9 |
NHL refuses merger of 6 WHA clubs |
Aug 9 |
The military-controlled Government of Uruguay announces that it will return the nation to civilian rule through general elections in 1981 for a President and Congress. |
Aug 10 |
US & Panamana sign Panama Canal Zone accord |
Aug 10 |
USSR performs (underground) nuclear test |
Aug 10 |
Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" 44 caliber killer |
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 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 1 launched into Earth orbit |
Aug 12 |
Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight |
Aug 13 |
1st test glide of space shuttle |
Aug 13 |
Randy Bachman quits BTO, they disband |
Aug 14 |
59th PGA Championship: Lanny Wadkins shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach Cal |
Aug 14 |
77,691 see NY Cosmos beat Fort Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giant Stad |
Aug 14 |
Debbie Austin wins LPGA Long Island Charity Golf Classic |
Aug 15 |
England regain cricket Ashes by taking a 3-0 series lead over Aust |
Aug 15 |
Herbert Kappler, head of Nazi police and security services in Rome during WWII, escapes from prison hospital in Rome |
Aug 16 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Aug 16 |
Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th |
Aug 17 |
Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole |
Aug 17 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Aug 17 |
Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38.8) |
Aug 18 |
2 girls are killed by a runaway car outside of Graceland |
Aug 18 |
Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton throws his NL record tying 5th one-hitter |
Aug 19 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
Aug 20 |
NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune |
Aug 21 |
Debbie Austin wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic |
Aug 21 |
Donna Patterson Brice sets high speed water skiing rec (111.11 mph) |
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 |
"Chicago" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 947 performances |
Aug 27 |
Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry, Guineau |
Aug 27 |
Toby Harrah & Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2 |
Aug 28 |
Bonnie Lauer wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
Aug 28 |
NY Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 men & beats Texas Rangers 1-0 |
Aug 28 |
Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year |
Aug 28 |
NY Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland Ore, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship |
Aug 29 |
St Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3 |
Aug 31 |
Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524') |
Aug 31 |
Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus |
Aug 31 |
Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote |
Sep 1 |
1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold |
Sep 1 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 3 |
Japan's Sadaharu Oh hits 756th HR to surpass Hank Aaron's total |
Sep 3 |
Last broadcast of "Mary Tyler Moore Show" on NBC-TV |
Sep 4 |
"Godspell" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 527 performances |
Sep 4 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Rail Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic |
Sep 5 |
Cleveland Indians stage 1st "I hate the Yankee Hanky Night" |
Sep 5 |
Jerry Lewis' 12th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
Sep 5 |
RAF kidnap West German work chairman Schleyer |
Sep 5 |
Voyager 1 (US) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn |
Sep 6 |
Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977 |
Sep 7 |
Ethiopia drops diplomatic relations with Somalia |
Sep 7 |
Pres Carter & Gen Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties |
Sep 8 |
Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy |
Sep 8 |
Jimmy McCullough quits Wings |
Sep 9 |
1st TRS-80 computer sold |
Sep 9 |
Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker & Allan Trammell debut together & will play together for 19 years |
Sep 10 |
91st US Womens Tennis: Chris Evert L Mills beats W Turnbull (76 62) |
Sep 10 |
Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits |
Sep 10 |
Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5) |
Sep 10 |
Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
Sep 10 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
Sep 10 |
Susan Perkins (Ohio), crowned 50th Miss America 1978 |
Sep 10 |
Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France. |
Sep 11 |
29th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Carroll O'Conner & Bea Arthur win |
Sep 11 |
97th US Men's Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy Connors (26 63 75 60) |
Sep 11 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
Sep 11 |
TV's Rhoda gets divorced |
Sep 13 |
1st TV viewer discretion warning-Soap |
Sep 13 |
2nd Test Cricket 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 |
"Man of La Mancha" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 124 performances |
Sep 15 |
Orioles forfeit to Blue Jays when mgr Earl Weaver pulls team off field in 5th citing hazardous condition (small tarpaulin on bullpen mound) |
Sep 15 |
Pres Carter meets with 15 record company execs |
Sep 15 |
Rock Music Award |
Sep 15 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 16 |
90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premieres on TV |
Sep 16 |
Ringo releases "Drowning in Sea of Love" |
Sep 16 |
Seattle beats Royals, 4-1, to end KC's winning streak at 16 games |
Sep 17 |
22nd Ryder Cup: US, 12½-13½ at Royal Lytham & St Annes England |
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 |
Courageous (US) sweeps Australia (Aust) in 24th America's Cup |
Sep 18 |
Joanne Carner/Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Team Golf Championship |
Sep 18 |
US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together |
Sep 20 |
"Estrada" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 7 performances |
Sep 20 |
Vietnam & Djibouti ask for membership in UN |
Sep 21 |
US minister of Foreign affairs Cyrus Vance dismissed |
Sep 22 |
Minn Twin Bert Blyleven no-hits California Angels, 9-0 |
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 Charlie's Angels |
Sep 24 |
"Estrada" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 7 performances |
Sep 24 |
1st broadcast of "Love Boat" on ABC-TV |
Sep 24 |
Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards |
Sep 25 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament |
Sep 26 |
Cleveland Browns play their 1st overtime game, beat Patriots 30-27 |
Sep 26 |
Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY |
Sep 27 |
Phillies clinch 2nd straight NL East Division title |
Sep 29 |
"Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" by Meco hits #1 |
Sep 29 |
Eva Shain is 1st woman to referee a heavyweight championship |
Sep 29 |
James Brown's band walks out claiming they were underpaid & overworked |
Sep 29 |
Muhammad Ali beats Earnie Shavers in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 29 |
Peter Schats circus opera "Houdini" premieres in Amsterdam |
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 |
Brazilian soccer great Pele retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games |
Oct 1 |
US Department of Energy established |
Oct 1 |
Elton John honored by MSG Hall of Fame |
Oct 1 |
Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title |
Oct 2 |
Pakistan general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition |
Oct 2 |
Vivian Brownlee wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
Oct 2 |
Dusty Baker 30th HR joins teammates Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith (32), & Ron Cey (30) in make Dodgers 1st team to boast 4 30-HR hitters |
Oct 3 |
"Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" opens at Imperial NYC for 66 perfs |
Oct 3 |
Indira Gandhi arrested |
Oct 4 |
Pier 39 opens in SF |
Oct 5 |
"Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 43 performances |
Oct 6 |
DL Coburns "Gin Game" premieres in NYC |
Oct 6 |
Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game |
Oct 6 |
In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed. |
Oct 7 |
Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis |
Oct 7 |
USSR adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution. |
Oct 8 |
Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant) |
Oct 9 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Houston Exchange Clubs Golf Classic |
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 10 |
11th Country Music Association Award: Ronnie Milsap wins |
Oct 11 |
Soyuz 25 returns to Earth |
Oct 12 |
"Throwaway Game" Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers |
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 |
Linda Ronstadt sings national anthem at World Series |
Oct 14 |
Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro |
Oct 15 |
Arkansas' Steve Little kicks a record tying 67 yard field goal |
Oct 15 |
Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life" goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks |
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 |
NY Yankees win their 21st World Championship, 4 games |
Oct 18 |
W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu |
Oct 18 |
Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record |
Oct 18 |
Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years |
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 20 |
Six killed in Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash in McComb, Mississippi including band members Ronnie Vanzant, Steve Gains, Cassie Gaines and Dean kilpatrick |
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 |
7th NYC Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:43:10 |
Oct 23 |
8th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:38 |
Oct 23 |
Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve new Canal treaties |
Oct 23 |
Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 34-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered |
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 |
The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date 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 |
"Act" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 233 performances |
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 |
Phillies' Steve Carlton wins 2nd Cy Young Award |
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 3 |
Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic |
Nov 4 |
UN Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa |
Nov 5 |
NCAA passing record set at 571 yards (Marc Wilson, Brigham Young) |
Nov 6 |
"Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 43 performances |
Nov 6 |
1st Emmy Sports Award presentation |
Nov 6 |
39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga |
Nov 8 |
Manolis Andronikos, a Greek Archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina. |
Nov 9 |
Reds' George Foster wins NL MVP |
Nov 10 |
Amsterdam: Red Army Faction terrorists Gert Schneider/Christof Wackernagel arrested |
Nov 10 |
Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (NYC) |
Nov 11 |
Wings release "Mull of Kintyre" & "Girl's School" |
Nov 12 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
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 13 |
Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open |
Nov 14 |
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Walter Cronkite |
Nov 15 |
Pres 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 Pres Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel |
Nov 17 |
Miss World Contest - Miss UK wears $9,500 platinum bikini |
Nov 19 |
-21] Egyptian president Sadat visits Israel |
Nov 19 |
Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders |
Nov 19 |
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel |
Nov 19 |
Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt |
Nov 20 |
Egyptian Pres Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset |
Nov 20 |
Steve Largent begins NFL streak of 177 consecutive game receptions |
Nov 20 |
Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL-record 275 yards |
Nov 21 |
First flight of Concorde (London to New York) |
Nov 21 |
Orioles 1st baseman Eddie Murray wins AL Rookie of Year |
Nov 22 |
Regular Concorde passenger service between NY & Europe begins |
Nov 22 |
First three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what would eventually become the Internet. |
Nov 23 |
"Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 96 perfs |
Nov 23 |
European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral |
Nov 24 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Nov 24 |
Miami Bob Greise passes for 6 touchdowns vs St Louis (55-14) |
Nov 25 |
David Steed balanced stationary on a bike for 9 hrs 15 mins |
Nov 25 |
Miss Teenage America Pageant |
Nov 25 |
Thomas Hearns KOs Jerome Hill in 2 rounds in his 1st pro fight |
Nov 26 |
'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 PM. |
Nov 27 |
"Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Imperial NY after 66 perf |
Nov 27 |
65th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 41-6 |
Dec 4 |
Hollis Stacy/Jerry Pate wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Championship |
Dec 4 |
Jean-Bedel Bokassa crowns himself ruler of Central African Empire |
Dec 4 |
NFL's 5,000th game, Cincinnati beats KC 27-7 |
Dec 4 |
Neil Simon's "Chapter Two" premieres in NYC |
Dec 4 |
66th Davis Cup: Australia beats Italy in Sydney (3-1) |
Dec 5 |
Egypt breaks dipl relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq & S Yemen |
Dec 6 |
South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence |
Dec 7 |
Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0 |
Dec 8 |
43rd Heisman Trophy Award: Earl Campbell, Texas (RB) |
Dec 8 |
Portugal's premier Soares resigns |
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 organisation dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland) receive the Nobel Peace Prize |
Dec 12 |
Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves |
Dec 13 |
14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash |
Dec 14 |
"Saturday Night Fever" starring John Travolta, premieres in NYC |
Dec 14 |
Egypt & Israel reps gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference |
Dec 14 |
Red Sox trade Fergie Jenkins to Rangers for John Poloni & cash |
Dec 14 |
Test Cricket debut of Abdul Qadir, v England at Lahore |
Dec 14 |
War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years |
Dec 17 |
Bobby Simpson scores 176 Australia v India at the WACA, aged 41 |
Dec 17 |
Elvis Costello & The Attractions 1st US TV appearance (SNL) |
Dec 17 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Dec 18 |
Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 42, Nate Thumond |
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 G Grechko from Salyut |
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 25 |
Israeli PM Menachem Begin meets Egyptian Pres Sadat in Egypt |
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 pres in Eastern Europe (Warsaw) |
Dec 31 |
"Bubbling Brown Sugar" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 766 perfs |
Dec 31 |
"Man of La Mancha" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 124 performances |
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 white editor flees South Africa |
Dec 31 |
Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado |
Dec 31 |
WFAT (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM |
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