Events Date 1977 March | History by KabAstro

Film & TV History

Mar 2 Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award

Film & TV History

Mar 2 Future The 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' Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA)
Mar 4 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico
Mar 4 Earthquake in Romania kills 1,541

Music Premiere

Mar 4 Roger Sessions' 6th Symphony premieres (in fully completed form) in New York City with José Serebrier conducting the Juilliard Orchestra

Composer and Musicologist Roger Sessions

Mar 4 West Indian cricket fast bowler Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan in 2nd Test win at Port-of-Spain; best Test figures by a pace bowler from the West Indies
Mar 5 24th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Virginia, 75-69

People's Choice Awards

Mar 5 3rd People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Barbra Streisand win (Motion Picture) and Telly Savalas & Mary Tyler Moore win (TV)

Singer-Songwriter and Actress Barbra Streisand

Mar 7 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections

Meeting of Interest

Mar 7 Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets US President Jimmy Carter

5th Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin

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 Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche
Mar 9 Hanafi Muslims invade 3 buildings in Washington, D.C., siege ended Mar 11th
Mar 10 CBS' premiere of "A Circle of Children", starring Jane Alexander and based on the life and book about this by Mary Mac Cracken
Mar 10 Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO
Mar 11 Hanafi Muslims hold 130 hostages in Washington, D.C.

Event of Interest

Mar 12 Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bans the Christian-Democratic Party

Event of Interest

Mar 12 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel

President of Egypt and Nobel Laureate Anwar Sadat

Sports History

Mar 13 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test

Mar 15 "Eight is Enough" premieres on ABC-TV
Mar 15 TV comedy "Three's Company" starring John Ritter, Suzanne Somers, and Joyce DeWitt, premieres on ABC in US
Mar 15 US House of Representatives begins 90 day test of televising its sessions

Event of Interest

Mar 16 US President Jimmy Carter pleads for a Palestinian homeland

Mar 17 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
Mar 18 The Clash release their first 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 beats Ireland, 15-6 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin to clinch its 6th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 2nd Grand Slam
Mar 19 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Mar 19 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.33)
Mar 19 Last episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" premieres on CBS, with a group hug searching for a box tissues, then singing "It's a Long Way to Tipperary"
Mar 20 Communists and socialists win French municipal elections

Election of Interest

Mar 20 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's party loses election in India

4th Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi

Election of Interest

Mar 20 Parisians elect former PM Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century

Mar 20 PGA Tournament Players Championship, Sawgrass CC: Mark Hayes wins in windy conditions, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Mike McCullough
Mar 22 Dutch coalition government under Labour Party (PvdA) leader Joop den Uyl falls
Mar 22 Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India

Music Concert

Mar 23 Elvis Presley begins his final concert tour

Tony Awards

Mar 24 Lily Tomlin is the first woman to appear solo in a Broadway show in "Appearing Nitely" (special Tony award 1977)

Comedian, Actress and Singer Lily Tomlin

Mar 26 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Delta State beat Louisiana State University 68-55 in Minneapolis

Music History

Mar 26 Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"

Mar 26 Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson

Tenerife Airport Disaster

Mar 27 583 die in aviation's worst ever disaster when two Boeing 747s collide at Tenerife airport in Spain

Wreckage from the two 747 jets after they collided in Tenerife Airport

Sports History

Mar 27 American tennis star Chris Evert wins her 4th and final WTA Tour Championship 2–6, 6–1, 6–1 against England's Sue Barker at Madison Square Garden, NYC