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August 29, 1977 (Monday) [ edit ] The first of two major fires at film vaults of the U.S. National Archives took place at Suitland, Maryland , when nitrocellulose film stock ignited, destroying one million feet of irreplaceable footage from the newsreel series The March of Time , equivalent to 75,000 minutes worth of the 20-minute film preview ...
On December 16, 2021, WBBM-TV announced that Jim Williams and Marie Saavedra will co-anchor a new hour-long 4 p.m. newscast which will debut on January 24, 2022, along with meteorologist Mary Kay Kleist and sports anchor Marshall Harris. In February 2022, reporter Dana Kozlov will replace Williams as weekend anchor. [72]
Brach, an heiress novelist, disappeared on 17 February 1977, and was thought to have been murdered. A man named Richard Bailey was charged more than a decade later with killing Brach, but not convicted. He eventually received a long sentence after being convicted of defrauding her. [362] 18 March 1977 Mary Boyle: 6 Ballyshannon, Ireland
Aug. 15, 1977: King Tut’s reign in Chicago ends. More than 1.3 million people — at a rate of more than 1,000 per hour — viewed the King Tut exhibit while it was in Chicago. Those who waited ...
August 16 – Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll, dies in his home in Graceland at age 42. 75,000 fans lined the streets of Memphis for his funeral, which occurred on August 18, but wasn't televised until August 20. [16] August 20 – Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft. August 25 –
The gang did not strike again for two months. On August 28, 1982, the body of Sandra Delaware was discovered on the bank of the Chicago River. She had been stabbed, strangled, and her left breast was amputated. [5] On September 8, 31-year-old Rose Davis was found in an alley, having suffered almost identical injuries as Delaware. [5]
Randy Burt ate pepperoni pizza and drank red wine for dinner on Sept. 24, 1977. The next morning, he put on his old high school gym uniform and went to the starting line of the first Chicago Marathon.
May December is considered to be a work of fiction, but the film is loosely inspired by the story of Mary Kay Letourneau, 34, an elementary school teacher who had a sexual relationship with a 13 ...