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1977
- For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album).
1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar).
Events
January-February
March-April
May-June
July-August
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July 13 - The New York City Blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours and results in looting and other disorder.
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July 20 - A flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, caused by thunderstorms, kills over 70 people.
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July 22 - The purged Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power as the "Gang of Four" is expelled from the Communist Party of China.
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July 25 - About 9 pm a group of three boys were at play in a residential back yard. Two large birds approached, and chased the boys. Two escaped unharmed, but the third boy, ten-year-old Marlon Lowe, did not. One of the birds reportedly clamped his shoulder with its claws, then lifted Lowe about two feet off the ground, carrying him some distance. Lowe fought against the bird, which released him.
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July 28 - First oil through the Trans Alaska Pipeline System reaches Valdez, Alaska
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July 30 - Left-wing German terrorists Susanne Albrect , Brigitte Mohnhaupt and a third person assassinate Jürgen Ponto , chairman of the Dresdener Bank in Oberursel, West Germany
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August 3 United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA.
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August 3 Two months after the Apple II and Commodore PET ship, Tandy announces the TRS-80
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August 4 - US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy
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August 12 - NASA space shuttle makes its first test flight off the back of a jetliner
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August 15 - The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by The Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "WOW!" signal for notation made by a volunteer on the project.
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August 16 - Rock singer Elvis Presley dies in Tennessee.
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August 20 - Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft
September
October-December
Unknown dates
Year in topic
Births
January-March
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January 7 - Dustin Diamond, actor (Saved by the Bell)
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January 8 - Amber Benson, actress
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January 13 - Orlando Bloom, actor (Fellowship of the Ring, Troy)
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January 28 - Daunte Culpepper, American football quarterback
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January 28 - Joey Fatone, musician
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February 2 - Shakira, Colombian musician
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February 8 - Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist
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February 11 - Jessica Carlson , United States archer
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February 11 - Stephanie Richardson , Canadian swimmer
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February 11 - Mike Shinoda, musician
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February 11 - Randy Moss, NFL star
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February 16 - Ian Clarke, Freenet creator
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February 20 - Stephon Marbury, basketball player
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February 21 - Kevin Rose, co-host of Attack of the Show
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March 5 - Wally Szczerbiak, NBA basketball player
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March 28 - Devon, erotic actress
April-June
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April 9 - Gerard Way, Musician
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April 14 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress
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April 14 - Chandra Levy, intern at the Bureau of Prisons in Washington, DC (d. 2001)
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April 21 - Jamie Salé, figure skater
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April 22 - Andruw Jones, Major League Baseball All-Star
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April 24 - Carlos Beltrán, baseball player
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April 25 - Kim Jong Kook , Korean musician
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May 7 - Fluffyhearts, artist
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May 13 - Samantha Morton, actress
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May 14 - Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress
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May 14 - Roy Halladay, baseball pitcher
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May 23 - Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skating champion
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June 1 - Danielle Harris, voice actress
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June 8 - Kanye West, rapper, producer
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June 9 - Peja Stojakovic, Serbian NBA star
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June 14 - Chris McAlister, American football player
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June 16 - Kerry Wood, baseball pitcher
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June 19 - Peter Warrick, American football player
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June 27 - Raúl, Spanish international football star
July-November
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July 1 - Jarome Iginla, NHL hockey player
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July 1 - Liv Tyler, actress
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July 8 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
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July 8 - Amr Aly , Egyptian Graphic designer
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July 14 - Victoria, Princess of Sweden - Crown Princess of Sweden from 1980
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July 28 - Emanuel Ginobili, Argentine basketball player
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July 31 - Tim Couch, American football quarterback
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August 9 - Chamique Holdsclaw, WNBA basketball player
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August 12 - Plaxico Burress, American football player
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August 15 - Igor Cassina, Italian gymnast
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August 17 - Thierry Henry, French international football star
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August 27 - Deco, Portuguese international football player
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September 1 - Aaron Schobel, American football player
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September 11 - Ludacris, rapper
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September 26 - Pablo Díaz, spanish football
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September 28 - Se Ri Pak, Korean golfer
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October 7 - Meighan Desmond, actress
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November 3 - Aria Giovanni, model and actress
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November 13 - Chanel Cole, singer
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November 16 - Oksana Baiul, figure skater
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November 19 - Kerri Strug, gymnast
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November 21 - Jonas Jennings, American football player
December
Deaths
January-August
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January 14 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- January 14 - Peter Finch, actor
- January 14 - Anaďs Nin, author
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January 17 - Gary Gilmore, murderer (executed by firing squad)
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January 19 - Yvonne Printemps, singer, actress
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January 29 - Freddie Prinze, actor/comedian
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February 11 - Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1946-1948, 1958-1959) (b. 1902)
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February 28 - Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, actor
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March 4 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
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March 16 - Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze
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March 18 - Marien Ngouabi, President of The Congo
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April 21 - Gummo Marx, actor, comedian, Marx Brothers (b. 1892)
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May 5 - Ludwig Erhard, German chancellor (1963-1966)
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May 10 - Joan Crawford, actress (b. 1904)
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June 19 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, World Chief Guide
- June 19 - Ali Shariati, sociologist
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July 2 - Vladimir Nabokov, writer
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July 13 - Carl Gustav von Rosen, military aviator
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July 23 - Arsenio Erico, Paraguayan footballer, top-scorer of all-time in Argentina's top division (b. 1915)
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August 14 - Ron Haydock, actor, writer, musician
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August 16 - Elvis Presley, singer, actor
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August 19 - Groucho Marx, comedian (b. 1890)
September-December
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September 1 - Ethel Waters, singer (b. 1896)
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September 10 - Hamida Djandoubi, last guillotine execution in France
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September 12 - Steve Biko, South African activist
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September 13 - Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882)
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September 16 - Marc Bolan, rock star and glam rock pioneer
- September 16 - Maria Callas, American soprano
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October 14 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor
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November 8 - Bucky Harris, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1896)
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November 15 - Princess Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet Grimaldi of Monaco, mother of Reigning Prince Rainier III of Monaco
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November 25 - Tommy Prince, aboriginal Canadian war hero
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December 19 - Jacques Tourneur, director
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December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, comedian, star of silent film
Nobel Prizes
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