1977

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 - 1977 - 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982

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Births

• February 11 - [Jessica Carlson]?, US archer.
• February 11 - [Stephanie Richardson]?, Canadian swimmer.

Deaths

• February 11 - [Louis J M Beel]?, Dutch premier (1946-1948, 1958-1959).
• July 2 - Vladimir Nabokov, writer
• September 12 - South African activist Stephen Biko dies in police custody.
• October 14 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor

Events

• January 1 - First woman Episcopal priest ordained
• January 18 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious "[legionnaire's disease]?."
• Jimmy Carter succeeds Gerald R. Ford as President of the United States of America
• January 21 - President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders.
• February 11 - A 20.2-kg lobster is caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean?).
• May 23 - Scientists report using bacteria in lab to make insulin.
• June 20 - The United States Supreme Court rules that states are not required to spend Medicaid? funds on elective abortions.
• July 22 - the purged Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power as the "Gang of Four" is expelled from the Communist Party.
• September 7 - The Panama Canal treaties are signed.
• September 11 - The last "wild" infection of smallpox is reported in Somalia.
• A collection of work by JRR Tolkien, The Silmarillion, is published posthumously by his son Christopher?.
• September 21 - Nuclear-proliferation pact, curbing spread of nuclear weapons, is signed by 15 countries including the U.S. and U.S.S.R.

Films

• The science fiction saga, Star Wars, later renamed to Star Wars: Episode IV - [A New Hope], makes its first outing to the cinema and makes George Lucas and the team at LucasArts a staggering $461 million.
• [John Travolta]? discoed in [Saturday Night Fever]?
• In the Academy Awards, [Peter Finch]?, [Faye Dunaway]? and [Beatrice Straight]? win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network?.
• Rocky? picks up a Best Picture and [All The President's Men]? wins [Jason Robards]? the Supporting Actor and an Art Direction for George Jenkins and George Gaines.

Music

• July 22 - [Elvis Costello]? releases his first album, [My aim is true]?, in the UK.
• August 16 - Elvis Presley dies.
• Fleetwood Mac's album Rumour's hits #1 and becomes one of the all-time best selling albums (it was the best selling album until 1983, when Michael Jackson's Thriller would top it).

Sport

• Baseball - New York Yankees defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers. This is the World Series in which [Reggie Jackson]? becomes known as Mr. October.
• NASCAR Championship - [Cale Yarborough]? wins this years event, beating Richard Petty into second place with a very respectable 386 point lead.
• January 9 - Super Bowl XI Oakland Raiders (32) def. Minnesota Vikings (14)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics[Philip Warren Anderson]?, [Sir Nevill Francis Mott]?, [John Hasbrouck van Vleck]?
• Chemistry - [Ilya Prigogine]?
• Medicine - [Roger Guillemin]?, [Andrew V Schally]?, [Rosalyn Yalow]?
• Literature - [Vicente Aleixandre]?
• Peace - [Amnesty International]?
• Economics - [Bertil Ohlin]?, [James Meade]?