1977 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1977?
- January 3, 1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated.
- January 8, 1977 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
- January 15, 1977 – The Kälvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Sweden’s history.
- January 18, 1977 – Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires’ disease.
- January 19, 1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. “Tokyo Rose”).
- February 18, 1977 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
- March 11, 1977 – The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
- April 7, 1977 – German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
- May 31, 1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.
- June 26, 1977 – The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute.
- August 3, 1977 – The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKULTRA.
- August 12, 1977 – The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
- August 15, 1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the “Wow! signal” from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
- August 26, 1977 – The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
- September 4, 1977 – The Golden Dragon Massacre took place in San Francisco, California.
- September 5, 1977 – Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
- September 30, 1977 – Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
- November 6, 1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
- November 21, 1977 – Minister of Internal Affairs Allan Highet announces that 'the national anthems of New Zealand shall be the traditional anthem “God Save the Queen” and the poem “God Defend New Zealand”, written by Thomas Bracken, as set to music by John Joseph Woods, both being of equal status as national anthems appropriate to the occasion.
- December 30, 1977 – For the second time, Ted Bundy escapes from his cell in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
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