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Browse the list of major events that happened in 1977, from politics and sports to culture and entertainment. Find out what happened on any date in 1977 with On This Day.
- Australia - Federal Elections
- Israel - Egyptian Leader Visits
- The Us Returns The Panama Canal Back to Panama
- United States -- Commodore Pet Computer Released
- India - Indira Gandhi Resigns
- The First Apple II Computers Went on Sale
- Trans Alaskan Oil Pipeline
- Spain -- First Elections Since Franco
- USA -- Star Wars Premieres
- United States -- Saturday Night Fever Premieres
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1. Australia holds federal elections on December 10 News Events. All 124 House of Representatives seats and 34 of 64 Senate seats were contested. 2. The Liberal/National Coalition lost five seats and the Australian Labor Party gained two seats. 3. Malcolm Fraser retained his leadership position as the head of the Liberal/National coalition and won ...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat makes a historic visit to Israel during November. It was the first step towards establishing a long-term peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. His visit lasted 36 hours, during which he addressed the Knesset (Israel’s Parliament) and met with Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Sadat was the first Arab leader ...
More Information and Timeline For the Panama Canal back to Panama 1. 1904 Isthmian Canal Commission gains control of the Panama Canal Zone over which the United States exercises sovereignty 2. 1905 to 1914 Planning and construction of the Panama Canal 3. 1914 The Panama canal is 47.9 miles long joining the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean 4. 19...
The first all-in-one personal computer, the Commodore PET, was introduced as a prototype at the Consumer Electronics Show during January of 1977. PET stood for “Personal Electronic Transactor” and was the world’s first PC to be sold to regular retail consumers. It came equipped with a monitor, keyboard, and a cassette tape drive and was originally ...
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi resigns from office. More Information for the resignation of Indira Gandhi India’s Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, resigns from office during March of 1977 after losing her seat in the general election. The daughter of India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi had been involved in India’s politics most of he...
More Information and Timeline For the Apple II Computer 1. 1976 2. April 1st Apple Computer, Established in Cupertino, California by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne to sell the Apple I personal computer kit 3. July The Apple I computer was nothing more than fully assembled circuit board containing about 60+ chips including microprocesso...
The Trans Alaskan Oil Pipeline opens on on May 31st More Information and Timeline For the Trans Alaskan Oil Pipeline 1. 1973 2. October 16th OPEC announced a decision to raise the posted price of oil by 70%, to $5.11 a barrel 3. October 17th Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries or the OAPEC (consisting of the Arab members of OPEC, plu...
Spain held its first democratic elections in 41 years during June, two years after the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. These were the first elections held in Spain since 1936, just before the Spanish Civil War began. The voter turnout was 78.8% and the coalition party UCD (Unión de Centro Democrático) won the most votes with 34.4% of th...
The first Star Wars film, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, premieres on May 25. The epic science-fiction adventure was written and directed by George Lucas and starred Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, and Alec Guinness in the lead roles. It was a huge success, breaking box office records upon its release and it became a popular franchi...
The popular film “Saturday Night Fever” is released during December. John Travolta played the movie’s lead “Tony Manero” and the role helped launch his film career. It also starred actors Karen Gorney, Donna Pescow, and Barry Miller. It was a drama that was based on an article written by Nik Cohn in New York Magazine that was later revealed to be m...
Find out what happened in 1977 around the world, from the New York City blackout to the first commercial flight Concord. Learn about the historical context, causes, and consequences of these events and more.
- 1st January » Charter 77 published its first document.
- 3rd January » Apple Inc. named Apple Computer is incorporated.
- 8th January » 1977 Moscow bombings Three bombs explode in Moscow Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenians Armenian separatist group.
- 17th January » Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States.
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1977 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. It saw the release of Star Wars, the death of Elvis Presley, the Camp David Accords, the Soviet-Afghan War, and more.
January 28 – The Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 hits Buffalo, New York. [5] January 1–31. The contiguous US average monthly minimum temperature of 12.54 °F or −10.81 °C [6] is the coldest for any month since nationwide records were first compiled in 1895.
Oct 16, 2017 · Bettmann / Getty. A member of the Ku Klux Klan and black man struggle over possession of a stick during an encounter in downtown Mobile, Alabama, on September 24, 1977. A large group of blacks ...
Dec 25, 2012 · Find out the major events, birthdays, deaths, weddings and more that happened in 1977. See highlights such as the Tenerife Airport Disaster, the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, the release of Star Wars and Roots, and the eradication of smallpox.
