1977 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1977?
- 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 24, 1977 – Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy.
- January 28, 1977 – The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, which severely affects and cripples much of Upstate New York, but Buffalo, NY, Syracuse, NY, Watertown, NY, and surrounding areas are most affected, each area accumulating close to 10 ft of snow on this one day.
- February 18, 1977 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- April 27, 1977 – 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
- May 31, 1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.
- June 5, 1977 – The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
- June 10, 1977 – Apple ships its first Apple II personal computer.
- June 13, 1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
- June 27, 1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti.
- July 20, 1977 – The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
- July 24, 1977 – End of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
- August 4, 1977 – US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
- September 7, 1977 – The 300 metre tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
- September 10, 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
- November 22, 1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
- December 4, 1977 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
- December 25, 1977 – Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with President of Egypt Anwar Sadat.
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