1977 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1977?
- January 3, 1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated.
- January 18, 1977 – Australia’s worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
- 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.
- March 4, 1977 – The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
- March 9, 1977 – The Hanafi Muslim Siege: In a thirty-nine hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.
- March 10, 1977 – Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
- March 27, 1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight.
- April 28, 1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
- July 4, 1977 – The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit
- July 21, 1977 – The start of the four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
- August 20, 1977 – Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
- 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 20, 1977 – The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
- October 6, 1977 – In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
- October 7, 1977 – The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
- November 19, 1977 – TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 130.
- December 4, 1977 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100.
- December 30, 1977 – For the second time, Ted Bundy escapes from his cell in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
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