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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.
This is a list of military conflicts, that United States has been involved in. There are currently 123 military conflicts on this list, 5 of which are ongoing. These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Gulf War.
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 ...
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The U.S. agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century. September 13 – Soap debuts on ABC and launches the career of Billy Crystal. September 18 – Courageous, skippered by Ted Turner, sweeps Australia in the 24th America's Cup yachting race. September 19 – Nicaraguan drug cartels rise to power in New Jersey.
Pages in category "Conflicts in 1977" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. ... Ogaden War; Operation Mafuta Mingi; P. Political violence in ...
Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3] Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter: 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall [15] Unknown [e]
In December 1977, Images Gallery — a studio owned by Bob Persky [6] at 11 East 57th Street in Manhattan — showed his photographs at the same time that Bilitis [7] was released. [4] At that time, art critic Gene Thornton wrote in The New York Times that they reveal "the kind of ideal that regularly was expressed in the great paintings of the ...