1977 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1977?
- January 3, 1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated.
- January 17, 1977 – Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on Capital punishment in the United States.
- January 18, 1977 – Australia’s worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
- January 19, 1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. “Tokyo Rose”).
- February 18, 1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden “flight” on top of a Boeing 747.
- March 10, 1977 – Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
- 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.
- May 1, 1977 – 36 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
- May 25, 1977 – Star Wars (retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981) is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday.
- June 7, 1977 – 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begins.
- August 13, 1977 – Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.
- September 4, 1977 – The Golden Dragon Massacre took place in San Francisco, California.
- September 12, 1977 – South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.
- September 18, 1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
- November 19, 1977 – TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 130.
- 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.
- November 26, 1977 – 'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain’s Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 pm.
- December 4, 1977 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
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