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1 day ago · On March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747s (a KLM and a Pan Am) collided on the runway in heavy fog at Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, killing 583 people – the worst aviation disaster on record. On January 1, 1978, Air India Flight 855 crashed into the sea off the coast of India, killing all 213 aboard.
Fantastic retro TV ad from 1977 for British newsstand stalwart “2000 AD”, celebrating the release of issue 1 and its hard-to-find free SPACE SPINNER. Never has a piece of plastic been seared into the minds of a generation so permanently. The ad’s presenter is long-serving alien editor THARG.
4 days ago · 1977: Dr Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger invented a new DNA sequencing method for which they won the Nobel Prize. 1977: The first self-driving car that did not rely upon rails or wires under the road is designed by the Tsukuba Mechanical Engineering Laboratory. 1978: The Global Positioning System (GPS) enters service.
2 days ago · Yale University’s new president will be Maurie D. McInnis, currently the president of Stony Brook University, a New York state public university where she is known for raising the school’s ...
3 days ago · 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1975th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 975th year of the 2nd millennium, the 75th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1970s decade.
2 days ago · On November 22, 1977, a three network demonstration was conducted including the ARPANET, the SRI's Packet Radio Van on the Packet Radio Network and the Atlantic Packet Satellite Network (SATNET) including a node at UCL.
2 days ago · NPR was primarily a production and distribution organization until 1977, when it merged with the Association of Public Radio Stations. Morning Edition premiered on November 5, 1979, first hosted by Bob Edwards .
