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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 coldest winter for fifty-nine years in the Ohio Valley region [3] and a record dry year throughout the West, [19] especially the Pacific Northwest, [20] creates heating fuel and water shortages plus extended freezing of the Great Lakes [21] and freezing of the Mississippi River as far as Cairo, Illinois.
Kenya Airways, the national airline of the African nation of Kenya, was founded after the 31-year old East African Airways (EAA) ceased operations. [98] EAA had been operated jointly by the governments of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda until relations among the three countries worsened and the EAA assets were divided.
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
Billboard's year-end Hot 100 for the year 1977, printed on December 24, 1977, was based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 6, 1976 through October 29, 1977. The decision to include the last two months of 1976 resulted in Rod Stewart 's " Tonight's the Night " being listed as no. 1 record of 1977, despite seven of its eight weeks ...
Jimmy Carter's 1977 New Year's Trip to Poland Ended in Disaster When His Polite Speech Was Mistranslated as an NSFW Come-On. Kyler Alvord, Tabitha Parent. December 31, 2024 at 12:38 PM.
The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977. [3] [4] The only unaffected neighborhoods in the city were in southern Queens (including neighborhoods of the Rockaways), which were part of the Long Island Lighting Company system, as well as the Pratt Institute campus in Brooklyn, and a few other large apartment and ...
A local case from 1977. A small Indiana town with a population of less than 2,000 had 3 unsolved child m*rders committed in the same year. After the third m*rder, the k*llings stopped and the ...