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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 ...
July 13 – The New York City blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours, resulting in looting and disorder. July 19–20 – Flooding in Johnstown, Pennsylvania , caused by massive rainfall, kills over 75 people and causes billions of dollars in damage.
January–June – The United Kingdom holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union for the first time.; January – The Ford Fiesta car goes on sale in the UK.; 3 January – Roy Jenkins, the Home Secretary, announces he is leaving the House of Commons to become President of the European Commission.
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
August 16, 1977: Popular singer Elvis Presley dies a day before concert tour August 12, 1977: U.S. space shuttle Enterprise, the first spacecraft designed to land like an airplane, separates from carrier and glides to its touchdown
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 ...
On Dec. 29, 1977, President Carter arrived in Poland to kick off a nine-day, seven-nation peace tour nearly a year into his presidency. Before he could even leave the Warsaw airport, he'd made ...
January 20, 1977: Jimmy Carter inaugurated as 39th U.S. president January 31, 1977: "Inside-out" Centre Pompidou opens in Paris [1] The following events occurred in January 1977 : January 1, 1977 (Saturday)