Historical Events in 1977 (Part 3)

Events 401 - 600 of 600

• Aug 31 Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft altitude record 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 3 Japanese baseball superstar Sadaharu Oh hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron as all-time career leader in professional baseball
• Sep 5 Cleveland Indians stage 1st "I hate the Yankee Hanky Night", inspired by local radio personality Pete Franklin; home team sweeps a doubleheader over New York at Cleveland Municipal Stadium

• 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 Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy
• Sep 8 Jimmy McCulloch quits Wings
• Sep 9 Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker & Allan Trammell debut together & will play together for 19 years
• 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 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 TV LA drama "CHiPs" debuts on NBC in US
• 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 17 Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer, Reggie hits 2 more

• 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 Russian musical review "Estrada" opens a limited run at Majestic Theater, NYC, for 7 performances
• Sep 20 Vietnam & Djibouti ask for membership in UN
• Sep 22 Minnesota Twin Bert Blyleven no-hits California Angels, 9-0
• Sep 22 West German Red Army Faction terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht
• Sep 23 "I Just Fall in Love Again" single released by The Carpenters
• Sep 23 3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise
• Sep 23 Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on TV show "Charlie's Angels"
• 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 24 Russian musical review "Estrada" closes a limited run at Majestic Theater, NYC, after 7 performances
• Sep 26 British airline entrepreneur Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to New York
• Sep 26 Cleveland Browns play their 1st overtime game, beat Patriots 30-27
• 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 Peter Schats circus opera "Houdini" premieres in Amsterdam
• 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 of Juancho Evertsz resigns
• Sep 30 Ian Dury releases the album "New Boots and Panties!!" which achieves platinum status
• 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 Ringo Starr releases album "Ringo the 4th"
• Sep 30 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• Oct 1 New York Yankees end MLB season with 100-62 record; win 2nd consecutive AL East title; go on the win World Series 4-2 v LA Dodgers
• 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 6 Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game

• 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 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 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 American rock band Kiss release their 2nd live album "Alive II"
• Oct 14 Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro

• Oct 15 "Serpentine Fire" single released by Earth, Wind & Fire (Billboard Song of the Year 1978)
• 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 West German commandos liberate Boeing 737 with 86 hostages at Mogadishu
• Oct 18 Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years
• Oct 19 Corpse of kidnapped West German business executive Hanns Martin Schleyer is found
• Oct 19 Supersonic jet Concorde makes its 1st landing in NYC, a passengerless test flight by Air France, two days after US Supreme Court overrules local authority's ban [1]

• Oct 20 Plane chartered by rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd runs out of fuel and crashes in a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi. Six people are killed, including band members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gains, and Cassie Gaines, and road manager Dean Kilpatrick
• Oct 20 Revival of stage play "Dracula" premieres in NYC starring Frank Langella as Dracula
• 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 Despite not driving in season ending Japanese Grand Prix, Austrian Niki Lauda wins his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 17 points from Jody Scheckter of South Africa
• 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 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 5 NCAA passing record set at 571 yards (Marc Wilson, Brigham Young)
• Nov 6 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga

• Nov 8 Greek Archaeologist Manolis Andronikos rediscovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina
• Nov 9 Cincinnati Reds' George Foster wins NL MVP
• Nov 10 Amsterdam: Red Army Faction terrorists Gert Schneider and 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 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 Bernard Pomerance's "Elephant Man" premieres in London
• Nov 17 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit 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 President Anwar Sadat becomes the 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
• Nov 20 Steve Largent begins NFL streak of 177 consecutive game receptions

• Nov 21 "All 'N All" 8th studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1978)

• Nov 22 Regular Concorde supersonic jet passenger service between New York City's JFK airport and Europe begins (Air France from Paris; British Airways from London) [1]

• Nov 23 European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral
• Nov 24 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Nov 24 Miami Dolphins quarterback Bob Greise passes for 6 touchdowns in a 55-14 win over Cardinals in St. Louis
• Nov 25 David Steed balanced stationary on a bike for 9 hrs 15 mins

• 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.

• Dec 4 Neil Simon's play "Chapter Two" opens in NYC
• Dec 4 NFL's 5,000th game, Cincinnati beats KC 27-7
• 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 8 43rd Heisman Trophy Award: Earl Campbell, Texas (RB)
• 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 12 Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves
• Dec 13 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash

• Dec 14 Egyptian & Israeli representatives gather in Cairo for first formal peace conference
• Dec 14 MLB Boston Red Sox trade Fergie Jenkins to Texas Rangers for John Poloni & cash

• Dec 17 Bobby Simpson scores 176 Australia v India at the WACA, aged 41

• Dec 17 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Dec 17 Rookie defenseman Barry Beck scores first career hat trick and adds an assist in Colorado Rockies' 5-1 win v Minnesota North Stars; sets NHL record for rookie defensemen with a goal in his 6th straight game
• Dec 18 NBA Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 42, Nate Thumond
• 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 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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