Historical Events In 1977

Feb 14 The Unity Bank of Canada and Provincial Bank of Canada merge

Feb 11 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)

Feb 08 Earthquake in San Francisco CA, at 5.0, strongest since 1966

Feb 25 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons

Feb 02 Radio Shack officially begins creating the TRS-80 computer

Feb 19 Shuttle Enterprise makes first test flight atop a 747 jetliner

Feb 08 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced

Feb 19 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released

Feb 06 Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 meter over 16 buses, near Paris

Feb 11 Off Nova Scotia fisherman catches 20.2 kg lobster off Nova Scotia; the world's heaviest known crustacean

Feb 28 Harbor strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends

Feb 05 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner

Feb 27 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic

Feb 16 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR

Feb 21 74 Unification Church couples wed in New York NY

Feb 07 Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts

Feb 19 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

Feb 18 George Harrison releases "True Love"

Feb 04 Wings release "Maybe I'm Amazed"

Feb 05 General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio

Feb 02 Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (USSR)

Feb 04 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" released

Feb 27 In Toronto, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones rock group is arrested by the RCMP and charged with possession of heroin with intent to traffic and possession of cocaine

Feb 27 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada

Feb 25 Soyuz 24 returns to Earth

Feb 18 The first space shuttle, Enterprise, makes its maiden flight (carried atop a Boeing 747), over the Mojave Desert.

Feb 01 Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives

Feb 13 Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic

Feb 13 Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship

Feb 26 First flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)

Feb 24 President Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights

Feb 05 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne

Apr 09 Frank Milan actor (The Witness), dies at 71

Apr 20 Ottawa starts $41 million program to upgrade the East Coast fishery.

Apr 20 Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on NH licenses

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