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August 5 – Waldo L. Schmitt, American biologist (b. 1887) August 9 – George Kenney, World War II United States Army Air Forces general (b. 1889) August 14 – Ron Haydock, actor (b. 1940) August 16 – Elvis Presley, American actor, musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1935) August 17 – Delmer Daves, American screenwriter and director (b. 1904)
At the age of 42, popular American singer Elvis Presley died of a heart attack the day before he was planning to begin his August tour of eight cities. [58] Presley, who had toured earlier in the summer, had been scheduled to start with an August 17 concert at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, Maine . [ 59 ]
1977 was a common year ... This becomes the deadliest accident in aviation history. April. April 2 – Horse ... American-Dominican athlete; August 31.
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August 1977 sports events in the United States (3 C, 10 P) Pages in category "August 1977 events in the United States" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (WW Norton, 2019), scholarly history. excerpt; Olson, James S. ed. Historical Dictionary of the 1970s (1999) excerpt; Richards, Marlee. America in the 1970s (Twenty-First Century Books, 2010) online. Sandbrook, Dominic. Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right ...
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August 31 – President Carter issues Proclamation 4518, a designation of "the week of September 18 through 24, 1977, as National Lupus Week and calling for its appropriate observance." [ 322 ] August 31 – President Carter announces the nomination of Charles N. Van Doren for assistant director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA).