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CBS commentator Eric Sevareid bade farewell in his final two-minute segment on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, after 48 years at CBS News. December 2 Billy Crystal sets a winner's circle record by getting the contestant to the top of the pyramid in 26 seconds on ABC's The $20,000 Pyramid. The record still stands today. December 11
December 12 – The Lockheed's top-secret stealth aircraft project, designated Have Blue, precursor to the U.S. F-117A Nighthawk, makes its first flight. December 13 – Crash of Air Indiana Flight 216 : A DC-3 charter plane carrying the University of Evansville basketball team crashes in rain and dense fog about 90 seconds after takeoff from ...
On this day in history, October 20, 1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd ...
1977 – The science-fiction space opera film Star Wars debuts in theaters. 1977 – The New York City blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours, resulting in looting and other disorder. 1977 – Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll, dies in his home in Graceland at age 42. 75,000 fans line the streets of Memphis for his funeral
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1977 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1977th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 977th year of the 2nd millennium, the 77th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1970s decade.
The eighth and concluding episode of the ABC miniseries Roots was watched in an estimated 36,380,000 U.S. households and over 100 million viewers, becoming the most-watched TV episode up to that time. [119] As of 2023, the record has been exceeded only by the final episode of M*A*S*H, watched on February 28, 1983, by 105.9 million people.
Early 1971–1977 episodes are lost and 1 survives, see the page's list of episodes. Newsweek Views the News: 1948–1950 A prime-time public-affairs program featuring editors of Newsweek magazine discussing current events; only two episodes survive. Number 96: 1972–1977 Most of the black and white episodes were destroyed by the Ten Network ...