
:''For the album by Ash (band), see 1977 (album).'' {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
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|} 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). == Events == ===January-February=== * January 1 - First woman Episcopal Church priest ordained. * January 6 - Record company EMI sacks the controversial United Kingdom punk rock group the Sex Pistols * January 18 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious "legionnaire's disease" * January 18 - Australia experiences its worst Granville railway disaster, near Sydney, in which 83 people died. * January 19 - President of the United States Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (aka "Tokyo Rose"). * January 19 - Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that this occured, and the farthest south a snowfall has been recorded in the United States. * January 20 - Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States of the United States is succeeded by Jimmy Carter. * January 21 - President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders. * February 7 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24. * February 11 - A 20.2-kg (44-lb.-9-oz.) lobster is caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean). * February 18 - The Space Shuttle ''Space Shuttle Enterprise'' test vehicle goes on its maiden "flight" while sitting on top of a Boeing 747. ===March-April=== * March 1 - Sara Lowndes files for divorce from her husband of 11 years, Bob Dylan * March 4 - 1977 Bucharest Earthquake - kills more than 1,500 * March 9 - Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, DC, killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later. * March 27 - A Tenerife Disaster between KLM and PanAm Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583 * April 1 - Hay-on-Wye declares independence * April 7 - German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe. "The Ulrike Meinhof Commando" later claims responsibility * April 7 - Toronto Blue Jays play their first-ever game of baseball against the Chicago White Sox * April 9-Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance, is born. * April 28 - Stuttgart court sentences Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe to life imprisonment ===May-June=== * May 23 - Scientists report using bacterium in lab to make insulin * May 23 - Molucca terrorists take over a school in Midden-Drenthe, northern Netherlands (105 hostages) and a passenger train in Bovensmilde-Assen route nearby (90 hostages) at the same time. June 11 Dutch Royal Marines storm the train - six terrorists and two hostages are killed * May 25 - ''Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope'' opens in theaters. * May 26 - George Willig climbed the South Tower of the World Trade Center. * May 28 - In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 inside. * June 5 - A coup takes place in Seychelles. * June 6-June 9 - Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II celebrations are held in the United Kingdom to celebrate twenty-five years of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom's reign. * June 10 - James Earl Ray escapes from List of Tennessee state prisons in Petros, Tennessee, Tennessee (he was recaptured on June 13). * June 15 - Spain has its first democratic election after 41 years under the Francisco_Franco regime. * June 20 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules that states are not required to spend Medicaid funds on elective abortions. ===July-August=== * July 13 - The New York City Blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours and results in looting and other disorder. * July 22 - The purged People's Republic of China leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power as the "Gang of Four (China)" is expelled from the Communist Party of China. * July 28 - First oil through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System reaches Valdez, Alaska * July 30 - Left-wing German terrorists Susanne Albrecht[http://www.baader-meinhof.com/who/terrorists/raf/albrechtsusanne.html], Brigitte Mohnhaupt[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Mohnhaupt] and a third person assassinate Jürgen Ponto[http://www.dresdner-bank.com/content/03_unternehmen/05_gesellschaftliches_engagement/02_ponto_stiftung/], chairman of the Dresdner Bank in Oberursel, West Germany * August 3 United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA. * August 4 - US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy * August 12 - NASA space shuttle makes its first test flight off the back of a jetliner * August 15 - The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by The Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "WOW!" signal for notation made by a volunteer on the project. * August 16 - Rock singer Elvis Presley dies in Tennessee. * August 19 - Groucho Marx dies. * August 19 - Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami of 1977 * August 20 - Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft ===September=== * September 5 - Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay * September 5 - Hanns-Martin Schleyer, President of the Employers Association, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany. Kidnappers kill three escorting police officers and his chauffeur. They demand release of Red Army Faction prisoners * September 6 (approx) - Steve Biko suffers a massive head injury in police custody in South Africa. * September 7 - Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The US agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century * September 8 - INTERPOL releases copyright laws that govern the reproduction of video tapes & other material. * September 11 - The last "wild" infection of smallpox is reported in Somalia. * September 12 - Steve Biko dies of his injuries. * September 21 - Nuclear-proliferation pact, curbing spread of nuclear weapons, is signed by 15 countries including the United States and Soviet Union. * September 28 - Porsche 928 debuts at the Geneva Auto Convention ===October-December=== * October 13 - Four Palestinians hijack a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction * October 18 - Three Palestinian hijackers are killed when a German anti-terrorist squad storms a Lufthansa aircraft at Mogadishu Airport * October 18 - Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison. Irmgard Möller fails. Their supporters continue to claim they were murdered. Bodies are buried October 27 * October 19 - Kidnapped industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer is found killed in West Berlin * October 20 - Three members of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd die in charter plane crash * November 6 - The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39 * November 19 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement (much of the Arab world is outraged by the visit). * November 22 - British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service * December 1 - First flight of Lockheed's top-secret stealth project aircraft designated Have Blue, the precursor to the US F-117A Nighthawk. * December 4 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor. * December 4 - A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737 is hijacked and then blown up in mid-air over the Straits of Johor, killing 100. ===Unknown dates=== *2060 Chiron, first of the outer solar system asteroids known as Centaur (planetoid)s, discovered by Charlie Kowal. ==Year in topic== * 1977 in film **''Annie Hall'' **'' Dot And The Kangaroo'' (Australia) **'' Storm Boy'' (Australia)* ** May 25 - 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 Lucasfilm a staggering top grossing movies. **John Travolta Disco in ''Saturday Night Fever''. **In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Academy Award for Best Actor and Academy Award for Best Actress and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress awards for Network. **Annie Hall picks up an Academy Award for Best Picture and All The President's Men wins Jason Robards the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for George Jenkins and George Gaines. * 1977 in literature **A collection of work by J. R. R. Tolkien, ''The Silmarillion'', is published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien. **''2000 AD (comic) '', the UK sci-fi comic is launched, featuring Judge Dredd. * 1977 in music **Punk rock music reaches its peak, with landmark records and performances by the Clash, the Sex Pistols, The Jam, The Buzzcocks, The Ramones, and The Damned. Never Mind The Bollocks: Here's The Sex Pistols becomes the most legendary of the '77 records. **February 4 - Fleetwood Mac releases ''Rumours (album)'', which is a blockbuster album (recorded on March 3, 1976). ** Kenny Rogers tops the charts with the country classic "Lucille", the first of more than 20 number 1 hit singles on the country and/or pop charts for the former First Edition star. **DJ_Kool_Herc classifies and introduces a new movement in America, calling it Hip hop. **The Talking Heads release their debut album, ''Talking Heads: 77''. **The Police is formed **Swedish music group ABBA passes The Beatles as having most records sold. * 1977 in rail transport **Auto-Train Corporation launches and then discontinues Auto Train service to Louisville, Kentucky. * 1977 in sports **May 29 - Janet Guthrie becomes the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500. **Creation of the WilliamsF1 Formula One racing team by Frank Williams. **October 1 - Football (soccer) legend Pelé plays the last game of his storied career, a friendly match between his current team, the New York Cosmos, and his old Brazilian club Santos Futebol Clube, at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Pelé played the first half for the Cosmos and the second half for Santos. * 1977 in television **March 15 - ''Eight is Enough'' premieres on American Broadcasting Company. ** June 20 - ''Alternative 3'' shown on British television **September 15-CHiPs premieres on NBC. **Don Novello first appeared on ''Saturday Night Live''. * 1977 in video gaming and computing ** June 5 - The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale. ** August 3 Two months after the Apple II and Commodore PET ship, Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80 ** The Atari 2600 Video Computer System is released. == Births == ===January-March=== * January 7 - Dustin Diamond, actor (''Saved by the Bell'') * January 8 - Amber Benson, actress * January 13 - Orlando Bloom, actor (''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'', ''Troy (movie)'') * January 26 - Vince Carter, American basketball star * January 28 - Daunte Culpepper, American football quarterback * January 28 - Joey Fatone, musician * February 2 - Shakira, Colombian musician * February 8 - Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist * February 11 - Mike Shinoda, musician * February 11 - Randy Moss, NFL star * February 16 - Ian Clarke, Freenet creator * February 20 - Stephon Marbury, basketball player * February 21 - Kevin Rose, former co-host of ''Attack of the Show'' and ''The Screen Savers'' * March 5 - Wally Szczerbiak, National Basketball Association basketball player * March 28 - Devon (porn star), erotic actress ===April-June=== * April 9 - Gerard Way, Musician * April 14 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress * April 14 - Chandra Levy, intern at the Bureau of Prisons in Washington, DC (d. 2001) * April 21 - Jamie Salé, figure skater * April 22 - Andruw Jones, Major League Baseball Major League Baseball All-Star Game * April 24 - Carlos Beltrán, baseball player * April 25 - Kim Jong Kook, Korean musician * May 13 - Samantha Morton, actress * May 14 - Ada Nicodemou, Australia actress * May 14 - Roy Halladay, baseball pitcher * May 23 - Ilia Kulik, Russia figure skating champion * June 1 - Danielle Harris, voice actress * June 8 - Kanye West, rapper, producer * June 9 - Peja Stojakovic, Serbia and Montenegro National Basketball Association star * June 14 - Chris McAlister, American football player * June 16 - Kerry Wood (baseball player), baseball pitcher * June 19 - Peter Warrick, American football player * June 27 - Raúl González, Spain national football team football (soccer) star ===July-November=== * July 1 - Jarome Iginla, National Hockey League ice hockey player * July 1 - Liv Tyler, actress * July 8 - Wang Zhizhi, China basketball player * July 14 - Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden - Crown Princess of Sweden from 1980 * July 28 - Manu Ginobili, Argentina basketball player * July 31 - Tim Couch, American football quarterback * August 3 - Angela Beesley, United Kingdom Internet entrepreneur * August 3 - Tom Brady, American football player * August 9 - Chamique Holdsclaw, WNBA basketball player * August 12 - Plaxico Burress, American football player * August 15 - Igor Cassina, Italy gymnastics * August 17 - Thierry Henry, France national football team football (soccer) player * August 27 - Deco, Portugal national football team football (soccer) player * September 1 - Aaron Schobel, American football player * September 11 - Ludacris, rapper * September 13 - Fiona Apple, musician * September 28 - Se Ri Pak, South Korea golfer * October 7 - Meighan Desmond, actress * October 11 - Claudia Palacios, Colombian journalist and newsreader. * October 25 - Birgit Prinz, Germany women's national football team football (soccer) player * November 2 - Randy Harrison, actor * November 3 - Aria Giovanni, model and actress * November 13 - Chanel Cole, singer * November 16 - Oksana Baiul, figure skating * November 19 - Kerri Strug, gymnast * November 21 - Jonas Jennings, American football player ===December=== * December - Ahmed al-Nami, suspected terrorist * December 3 - Adam Malysz, Polish ski jumper * December 7 - Fernando Vargas, boxer * December 12 - Dahm triplets - Nicole Dahm, Erica Dahm, and Jaclyn Dahm, Playmates of the Month for December 1998 * December 23 - Alge Crumpler, American football player * December 30 - Laila Ali, boxer, daughter of Muhammad Ali == Deaths == ===January-March=== * January 2 - Errol Garner, American jazz musician (b. 1921) * January 14 ** Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ** Peter Finch, actor ** Anais Nin, author * January 17 - Gary Gilmore, murderer (execution (legal) by firing squad) * January 19 - Yvonne Printemps, singer, actress * January 29 - Freddie Prinze, actor/comedian * February 11 - Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1946-1948, 1958-1959) (b. 1902) * February 28 - Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, actor * March 4 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951) * March 16 - Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanon Druze * March 18 - Marien Ngouabi, President of The Congo ===April-August=== * April 21 - Gummo Marx, actor, comedian, Marx Brothers (b. 1892) * May 5 - Ludwig Erhard, German chancellor (1963-1966) * May 10 - Joan Crawford, actress (b. 1904) * June 19 - Olave Baden-Powell, World Chief Girl Guides * June 19 - Ali Shariati, sociologist * July 2 - Vladimir Nabokov, writer * July 13 - Carl Gustav von Rosen, military aviator * July 23 - Arsenio Erico, Paraguayan footballer, List of top goalscorers in Primera División Argentina (b. 1915) * August 14 - Ron Haydock, actor, writer, musician * August 16 - Elvis Presley, singer, actor * August 19 - Groucho Marx, comedian (b. 1890) ===September-December=== * September 1 - Ethel Waters, singer (b. 1896) * September 6 - John Edensor Littlewood, British mathematician (b. 1885) * September 10 - Hamida Djandoubi, last guillotine execution (legal) in France * September 12 - Steve Biko, South African activist * September 13 - Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882) * September 16 - Marc Bolan, rock star and glam rock pioneer * September 16 - Maria Callas, American soprano * October 14 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor * November 8 - Bucky Harris, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1896) * November 15 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco of Monaco, mother of Reigning Prince Rainier III, Prince of Monaco * November 25 - Tommy Prince, aboriginal Canadian war hero * December 19 - Jacques Tourneur, director * December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, comedian, star of silent film == Nobel Prizes == * Nobel Prize in Physics - Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck van Vleck * Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Ilya Prigogine * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Roger Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally, Rosalyn Yalow * Nobel Prize in Literature - Vicente Aleixandre * Nobel Peace Prize - Amnesty International * Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - Bertil Ohlin, James Meade ==Templeton Prize== * Chiara Lubich 1977 la:1977 simple:1977
Maybe it's just me, but I find the following way of indicating headings unintuitive: ---- *:Arts and Entertainment **:Book **a song by :TheClash; :Lyrics1977 A collection of work by :JRR Tolkien, :The Silmarillion is published posthumously by his son, Christopher. ---- Usually, a bullet is used for a listed item, not to indicate a heading. One more ordinary convention would rewrite the above as follows: ---- Arts and Entertainment '':Books''
A collection of work by :JRR Tolkien, :The Silmarillion is published posthumously by his son, Christopher. ---- Something like that, anyway. By the way, I really don't see what interest there is in having lyrics from Clash songs on Wikipedia. :-) Again, maybe it's just me... :-) --:LMS ---- Two approaches: * single page factoid list of information contained on other pages (e.g., Nobel prize, academy awards) along with other summary information * just the summary information without links to academy awards, nobel prizes, etc. It would get really cluttered when you add: *superbowl *world series *wimbledon (sp?) *nascar *golf (masters, ryder cup, etc) *grammys *tonys I vote for summary information only and not all of the factoids that are contained in other lists. Do this give us a feature list like? 'GREP :page title "string"' which includes one or more lines from a page within the currently being viewed page. Selective include/partial include of pages may bog wiki down too much especially on a large scale. ---- As far as the clash 1977 song, just mentioning the album would be enough...see the page on the clash for real info. Also, only 'significant' books/music should be included. That would be accomplished by 'popular' vote in many people reviewing/changing the page. ---- The bulleted format is just a test of style, I did try indenting the headers but that looked worse. As for information, well, there should be enough on each year page to make it read sensibly and contain a link to the real meaty page on the particular subject. What would be bad is if each year page just ends up looking like some boring page of stats that hold together as real English . Finally, with regards to what is valid to make it onto each page, well, I'd say "did it occur in the year in question?" "yes" "include it!" If the page shows a bunch of eclectric stuff that isn't mainstream knowledge, great! Bring on the obscure factoids, the more the merrier. Above all, these pages should be FUN, if it doesn't raise a smile whilst you're reading the :Year in Review pages, then it aint doing its job. --User:Neeklamy ---- I'm confused. Fleetwood Mac are a band, not an individual artist. Can this be clarified? User:Mswake 05:14 Jul 31, 2002 (PDT) == page layout years== There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout. For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at). Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done. Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). user talk:BozMo--User:BozMo 13:58, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
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:''For the album by Ash (band), see 1977 (album).'' {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1974 1975 1976 - 1977(MCMLXXVII) - 1978 1979 1980 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). == Events == ===January-February=== * January 1 - First woman Episcopal Church priest ordained. * January 6 - Record company EMI sacks the controversial United Kingdom punk rock group the Sex Pistols * January 18 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious "legionnaire's disease" * January 18 - Australia experiences its worst Granville railway disaster, near Sydney, in which 83 people died. * January 19 - President of the United States Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (aka "Tokyo Rose"). * January 19 - Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that this occured, and the farthest south a snowfall has been recorded in the United States. * January 20 - Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States of the United States is succeeded by Jimmy Carter. * January 21 - President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders. * February 7 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24. * February 11 - A 20.2-kg (44-lb.-9-oz.) lobster is caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean). * February 18 - The Space Shuttle ''Space Shuttle Enterprise'' test vehicle goes on its maiden "flight" while sitting on top of a Boeing 747. ===March-April=== * March 1 - Sara Lowndes files for divorce from her husband of 11 years, Bob Dylan * March 4 - 1977 Bucharest Earthquake - kills more than 1,500 * March 9 - Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, DC, killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later. * March 27 - A Tenerife Disaster between KLM and PanAm Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583 * April 1 - Hay-on-Wye declares independence * April 7 - German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe. "The Ulrike Meinhof Commando" later claims responsibility * April 7 - Toronto Blue Jays play their first-ever game of baseball against the Chicago White Sox * April 9-Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance, is born. * April 28 - Stuttgart court sentences Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe to life imprisonment ===May-June=== * May 23 - Scientists report using bacterium in lab to make insulin * May 23 - Molucca terrorists take over a school in Midden-Drenthe, northern Netherlands (105 hostages) and a passenger train in Bovensmilde-Assen route nearby (90 hostages) at the same time. June 11 Dutch Royal Marines storm the train - six terrorists and two hostages are killed * May 25 - ''Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope'' opens in theaters. * May 26 - George Willig climbed the South Tower of the World Trade Center. * May 28 - In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 inside. * June 5 - A coup takes place in Seychelles. * June 6-June 9 - Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II celebrations are held in the United Kingdom to celebrate twenty-five years of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom's reign. * June 10 - James Earl Ray escapes from List of Tennessee state prisons in Petros, Tennessee, Tennessee (he was recaptured on June 13). * June 15 - Spain has its first democratic election after 41 years under the Francisco_Franco regime. * June 20 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules that states are not required to spend Medicaid funds on elective abortions. ===July-August=== * July 13 - The New York City Blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours and results in looting and other disorder. * July 22 - The purged People's Republic of China leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power as the "Gang of Four (China)" is expelled from the Communist Party of China. * July 28 - First oil through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System reaches Valdez, Alaska * July 30 - Left-wing German terrorists Susanne Albrecht[http://www.baader-meinhof.com/who/terrorists/raf/albrechtsusanne.html], Brigitte Mohnhaupt[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Mohnhaupt] and a third person assassinate Jürgen Ponto[http://www.dresdner-bank.com/content/03_unternehmen/05_gesellschaftliches_engagement/02_ponto_stiftung/], chairman of the Dresdner Bank in Oberursel, West Germany * August 3 United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA. * August 4 - US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy * August 12 - NASA space shuttle makes its first test flight off the back of a jetliner * August 15 - The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by The Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "WOW!" signal for notation made by a volunteer on the project. * August 16 - Rock singer Elvis Presley dies in Tennessee. * August 19 - Groucho Marx dies. * August 19 - Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami of 1977 * August 20 - Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft ===September=== * September 5 - Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay * September 5 - Hanns-Martin Schleyer, President of the Employers Association, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany. Kidnappers kill three escorting police officers and his chauffeur. They demand release of Red Army Faction prisoners * September 6 (approx) - Steve Biko suffers a massive head injury in police custody in South Africa. * September 7 - Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The US agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century * September 8 - INTERPOL releases copyright laws that govern the reproduction of video tapes & other material. * September 11 - The last "wild" infection of smallpox is reported in Somalia. * September 12 - Steve Biko dies of his injuries. * September 21 - Nuclear-proliferation pact, curbing spread of nuclear weapons, is signed by 15 countries including the United States and Soviet Union. * September 28 - Porsche 928 debuts at the Geneva Auto Convention ===October-December=== * October 13 - Four Palestinians hijack a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction * October 18 - Three Palestinian hijackers are killed when a German anti-terrorist squad storms a Lufthansa aircraft at Mogadishu Airport * October 18 - Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison. Irmgard Möller fails. Their supporters continue to claim they were murdered. Bodies are buried October 27 * October 19 - Kidnapped industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer is found killed in West Berlin * October 20 - Three members of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd die in charter plane crash * November 6 - The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39 * November 19 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement (much of the Arab world is outraged by the visit). * November 22 - British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service * December 1 - First flight of Lockheed's top-secret stealth project aircraft designated Have Blue, the precursor to the US F-117A Nighthawk. * December 4 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor. * December 4 - A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737 is hijacked and then blown up in mid-air over the Straits of Johor, killing 100. ===Unknown dates=== *2060 Chiron, first of the outer solar system asteroids known as Centaur (planetoid)s, discovered by Charlie Kowal. ==Year in topic== * 1977 in film **''Annie Hall'' **'' Dot And The Kangaroo'' (Australia) **'' Storm Boy'' (Australia)* ** May 25 - 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 Lucasfilm a staggering top grossing movies. **John Travolta Disco in ''Saturday Night Fever''. **In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Academy Award for Best Actor and Academy Award for Best Actress and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress awards for Network. **Annie Hall picks up an Academy Award for Best Picture and All The President's Men wins Jason Robards the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for George Jenkins and George Gaines. * 1977 in literature **A collection of work by J. R. R. Tolkien, ''The Silmarillion'', is published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien. **''2000 AD (comic) '', the UK sci-fi comic is launched, featuring Judge Dredd. * 1977 in music **Punk rock music reaches its peak, with landmark records and performances by the Clash, the Sex Pistols, The Jam, The Buzzcocks, The Ramones, and The Damned. Never Mind The Bollocks: Here's The Sex Pistols becomes the most legendary of the '77 records. **February 4 - Fleetwood Mac releases ''Rumours (album)'', which is a blockbuster album (recorded on March 3, 1976). ** Kenny Rogers tops the charts with the country classic "Lucille", the first of more than 20 number 1 hit singles on the country and/or pop charts for the former First Edition star. **DJ_Kool_Herc classifies and introduces a new movement in America, calling it Hip hop. **The Talking Heads release their debut album, ''Talking Heads: 77''. **The Police is formed **Swedish music group ABBA passes The Beatles as having most records sold. * 1977 in rail transport **Auto-Train Corporation launches and then discontinues Auto Train service to Louisville, Kentucky. * 1977 in sports **May 29 - Janet Guthrie becomes the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500. **Creation of the WilliamsF1 Formula One racing team by Frank Williams. **October 1 - Football (soccer) legend Pelé plays the last game of his storied career, a friendly match between his current team, the New York Cosmos, and his old Brazilian club Santos Futebol Clube, at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Pelé played the first half for the Cosmos and the second half for Santos. * 1977 in television **March 15 - ''Eight is Enough'' premieres on American Broadcasting Company. ** June 20 - ''Alternative 3'' shown on British television **September 15-CHiPs premieres on NBC. **Don Novello first appeared on ''Saturday Night Live''. * 1977 in video gaming and computing ** June 5 - The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale. ** August 3 Two months after the Apple II and Commodore PET ship, Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80 ** The Atari 2600 Video Computer System is released. == Births == ===January-March=== * January 7 - Dustin Diamond, actor (''Saved by the Bell'') * January 8 - Amber Benson, actress * January 13 - Orlando Bloom, actor (''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'', ''Troy (movie)'') * January 26 - Vince Carter, American basketball star * January 28 - Daunte Culpepper, American football quarterback * January 28 - Joey Fatone, musician * February 2 - Shakira, Colombian musician * February 8 - Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist * February 11 - Mike Shinoda, musician * February 11 - Randy Moss, NFL star * February 16 - Ian Clarke, Freenet creator * February 20 - Stephon Marbury, basketball player * February 21 - Kevin Rose, former co-host of ''Attack of the Show'' and ''The Screen Savers'' * March 5 - Wally Szczerbiak, National Basketball Association basketball player * March 28 - Devon (porn star), erotic actress ===April-June=== * April 9 - Gerard Way, Musician * April 14 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress * April 14 - Chandra Levy, intern at the Bureau of Prisons in Washington, DC (d. 2001) * April 21 - Jamie Salé, figure skater * April 22 - Andruw Jones, Major League Baseball Major League Baseball All-Star Game * April 24 - Carlos Beltrán, baseball player * April 25 - Kim Jong Kook, Korean musician * May 13 - Samantha Morton, actress * May 14 - Ada Nicodemou, Australia actress * May 14 - Roy Halladay, baseball pitcher * May 23 - Ilia Kulik, Russia figure skating champion * June 1 - Danielle Harris, voice actress * June 8 - Kanye West, rapper, producer * June 9 - Peja Stojakovic, Serbia and Montenegro National Basketball Association star * June 14 - Chris McAlister, American football player * June 16 - Kerry Wood (baseball player), baseball pitcher * June 19 - Peter Warrick, American football player * June 27 - Raúl González, Spain national football team football (soccer) star ===July-November=== * July 1 - Jarome Iginla, National Hockey League ice hockey player * July 1 - Liv Tyler, actress * July 8 - Wang Zhizhi, China basketball player * July 14 - Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden - Crown Princess of Sweden from 1980 * July 28 - Manu Ginobili, Argentina basketball player * July 31 - Tim Couch, American football quarterback * August 3 - Angela Beesley, United Kingdom Internet entrepreneur * August 3 - Tom Brady, American football player * August 9 - Chamique Holdsclaw, WNBA basketball player * August 12 - Plaxico Burress, American football player * August 15 - Igor Cassina, Italy gymnastics * August 17 - Thierry Henry, France national football team football (soccer) player * August 27 - Deco, Portugal national football team football (soccer) player * September 1 - Aaron Schobel, American football player * September 11 - Ludacris, rapper * September 13 - Fiona Apple, musician * September 28 - Se Ri Pak, South Korea golfer * October 7 - Meighan Desmond, actress * October 11 - Claudia Palacios, Colombian journalist and newsreader. * October 25 - Birgit Prinz, Germany women's national football team football (soccer) player * November 2 - Randy Harrison, actor * November 3 - Aria Giovanni, model and actress * November 13 - Chanel Cole, singer * November 16 - Oksana Baiul, figure skating * November 19 - Kerri Strug, gymnast * November 21 - Jonas Jennings, American football player ===December=== * December - Ahmed al-Nami, suspected terrorist * December 3 - Adam Malysz, Polish ski jumper * December 7 - Fernando Vargas, boxer * December 12 - Dahm triplets - Nicole Dahm, Erica Dahm, and Jaclyn Dahm, Playmates of the Month for December 1998 * December 23 - Alge Crumpler, American football player * December 30 - Laila Ali, boxer, daughter of Muhammad Ali == Deaths == ===January-March=== * January 2 - Errol Garner, American jazz musician (b. 1921) * January 14 ** Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ** Peter Finch, actor ** Anais Nin, author * January 17 - Gary Gilmore, murderer (execution (legal) by firing squad) * January 19 - Yvonne Printemps, singer, actress * January 29 - Freddie Prinze, actor/comedian * February 11 - Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1946-1948, 1958-1959) (b. 1902) * February 28 - Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, actor * March 4 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951) * March 16 - Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanon Druze * March 18 - Marien Ngouabi, President of The Congo ===April-August=== * April 21 - Gummo Marx, actor, comedian, Marx Brothers (b. 1892) * May 5 - Ludwig Erhard, German chancellor (1963-1966) * May 10 - Joan Crawford, actress (b. 1904) * June 19 - Olave Baden-Powell, World Chief Girl Guides * June 19 - Ali Shariati, sociologist * July 2 - Vladimir Nabokov, writer * July 13 - Carl Gustav von Rosen, military aviator * July 23 - Arsenio Erico, Paraguayan footballer, List of top goalscorers in Primera División Argentina (b. 1915) * August 14 - Ron Haydock, actor, writer, musician * August 16 - Elvis Presley, singer, actor * August 19 - Groucho Marx, comedian (b. 1890) ===September-December=== * September 1 - Ethel Waters, singer (b. 1896) * September 6 - John Edensor Littlewood, British mathematician (b. 1885) * September 10 - Hamida Djandoubi, last guillotine execution (legal) in France * September 12 - Steve Biko, South African activist * September 13 - Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882) * September 16 - Marc Bolan, rock star and glam rock pioneer * September 16 - Maria Callas, American soprano * October 14 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor * November 8 - Bucky Harris, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1896) * November 15 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco of Monaco, mother of Reigning Prince Rainier III, Prince of Monaco * November 25 - Tommy Prince, aboriginal Canadian war hero * December 19 - Jacques Tourneur, director * December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, comedian, star of silent film == Nobel Prizes == * Nobel Prize in Physics - Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck van Vleck * Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Ilya Prigogine * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Roger Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally, Rosalyn Yalow * Nobel Prize in Literature - Vicente Aleixandre * Nobel Peace Prize - Amnesty International * Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - Bertil Ohlin, James Meade ==Templeton Prize== * Chiara Lubich 1977 la:1977 simple:1977
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Maybe it's just me, but I find the following way of indicating headings unintuitive: ---- *:Arts and Entertainment **:Book **a song by :TheClash; :Lyrics1977 A collection of work by :JRR Tolkien, :The Silmarillion is published posthumously by his son, Christopher. ---- Usually, a bullet is used for a listed item, not to indicate a heading. One more ordinary convention would rewrite the above as follows: ---- Arts and Entertainment '':Books''
A collection of work by :JRR Tolkien, :The Silmarillion is published posthumously by his son, Christopher. ---- Something like that, anyway. By the way, I really don't see what interest there is in having lyrics from Clash songs on Wikipedia. :-) Again, maybe it's just me... :-) --:LMS ---- Two approaches: * single page factoid list of information contained on other pages (e.g., Nobel prize, academy awards) along with other summary information * just the summary information without links to academy awards, nobel prizes, etc. It would get really cluttered when you add: *superbowl *world series *wimbledon (sp?) *nascar *golf (masters, ryder cup, etc) *grammys *tonys I vote for summary information only and not all of the factoids that are contained in other lists. Do this give us a feature list like? 'GREP :page title "string"' which includes one or more lines from a page within the currently being viewed page. Selective include/partial include of pages may bog wiki down too much especially on a large scale. ---- As far as the clash 1977 song, just mentioning the album would be enough...see the page on the clash for real info. Also, only 'significant' books/music should be included. That would be accomplished by 'popular' vote in many people reviewing/changing the page. ---- The bulleted format is just a test of style, I did try indenting the headers but that looked worse. As for information, well, there should be enough on each year page to make it read sensibly and contain a link to the real meaty page on the particular subject. What would be bad is if each year page just ends up looking like some boring page of stats that hold together as real English . Finally, with regards to what is valid to make it onto each page, well, I'd say "did it occur in the year in question?" "yes" "include it!" If the page shows a bunch of eclectric stuff that isn't mainstream knowledge, great! Bring on the obscure factoids, the more the merrier. Above all, these pages should be FUN, if it doesn't raise a smile whilst you're reading the :Year in Review pages, then it aint doing its job. --User:Neeklamy ---- I'm confused. Fleetwood Mac are a band, not an individual artist. Can this be clarified? User:Mswake 05:14 Jul 31, 2002 (PDT) == page layout years== There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout. For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at). Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done. Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). user talk:BozMo--User:BozMo 13:58, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
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