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Soviet athlete Vladimir Yashchenko broke the world record for the high jump, clearing 7 feet, 7¾ inches, half an inch better than the mark of 7'7¼" set by Dwight Stones in 1976. Yashchenko's mark was set at the USSR-USA Junior track meet in Richmond, Virginia at the University of Richmond.
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.
In contrast to the contiguous US, Alaska had to that point [b] its warmest January on record with a mean of 17.4 °F or −8.1 °C being 16.2 °F or 9.0 °C warmer than the 1925 to 1974 average of 1.2 °F or −17.1 °C and 1.8 °F or 1.0 °C warmer than Alaska's previous record warmest January 1937. [7]
The record attendance for a Canadian Football League game was set when a crowd of 69,093 people came to Olympic Stadium in Montreal to watch a regular season CFL game. The unbeaten (7-0=0) Montreal Alouettes were upset by the visiting Toronto Argonauts (whose record was 2-5-0), 20 to 14.
The telecast of the game on NBC was watched by an estimated 81,900,000 people, at the time a record for the largest audience to watch a live sporting event. The " shoot-out " was used for the very first time in FIFA World Cup competition, after Tunisia and visiting Morocco remained drawn, 1 to 1, at the end of extra time in the first round of ...
14 October – Fourteen people are injured in a bomb explosion at a London pub. 15 October – World's End Murders: Christine Eadie and Helen Scott, both 17, disappear after leaving the World's End pub in Edinburgh, Scotland. Their bodies are found tied and strangled in the countryside the next day.
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1977 – The television miniseries Roots airs on ABC, to critical acclaim and record audiences. 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.