Historical Events In 1977
Jun 11 ELO releases "Telephone Line"
Dec 14 Egypt and Israel reps gather in Cairo for first formal peace conference
Dec 31 Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa
Dec 05 Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq & S Yemen
Dec 07 Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0
Dec 20 First Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut
Dec 22 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
Dec 30 Carter holds first news conference by US President in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)
Dec 31 Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado
Dec 06 South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
Dec 25 Israeli PM Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with Egyptian President Sadat
Dec 13 Entire University of Evansville basketball team, die in plane crash
Dec 05 The Plymouth Horizon was introduced on this day. It was the first American-made small car with front-wheel drive. Technical advances in drive technology had reduced the size and cost of front-wheel drive systems.
Dec 04 Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself
Dec 10 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
Dec 22 After only ten months as a professional jockey, sixteen-year-old Steve Cauthen won his 355th race and set a new earnings record.
Dec 22 The Canadian government starts building first six new naval frigates; part of $1.5 billion naval program. (not nearly enough)
Aug 12 Space shuttle Enterprise makes first atmospheric flight
Aug 12 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit
Aug 11 The first CH-46E Sea Knight with newly developed fiberglass rotor blades was flown by Marine Corps helicopter pilots
Aug 31 Ian Smith wins the Rhodesian general election with 80 per cent of the overwhelmingly white electorate's vote.
Aug 20 NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
Aug 29 Lou Brock breaks Ty Cobb's record by stealing the 893rd base of his baseball career.
Aug 03 Radio Shack announces TRS-80 computer. Within weeks thousands were ordered
Aug 31 Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')
Aug 10 Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" the 44 caliber killer
Aug 04 Pres Carter establishes Dept of Energy
Aug 23 The first man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
Aug 13 First test glide of the shuttle
Oct 26 Dr Clifford R Wharton Jr named chancellor of State University of NY
Oct 12 4th test of the space shuttle Enterprise
Oct 26 5th & final test of space shuttle Enterprise
Oct 17 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages & killing 3 of the 4 hijackers
Oct 28 TV's Rhoda gets married
Oct 17 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament
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