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List of events
Events from the year 1977 in the United States.
Incumbents [ edit ]
Federal government [ edit ]
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governors [ edit ]
Governor of Alabama : George Wallace (Democratic )
Governor of Alaska : Jay Hammond (Republican )
Governor of Arizona : Raul Hector Castro (Democratic ) (until October 20), Wesley Bolin (Democratic ) (starting October 20)
Governor of Arkansas : David Pryor (Democratic )
Governor of California : Jerry Brown (Democratic )
Governor of Colorado : Richard Lamm (Democratic )
Governor of Connecticut : Ella T. Grasso (Democratic )
Governor of Delaware : Sherman W. Tribbitt (Democratic ) (until January 18), Pierre S. du Pont, IV (Republican ) (starting January 18)
Governor of Florida : Reubin Askew (Democratic )
Governor of Georgia : George Busbee (Democratic )
Governor of Hawaii : George Ariyoshi (Democratic )
Governor of Idaho : Cecil D. Andrus (Democratic ) (until January 24), John V. Evans (Democratic ) (starting January 24)
Governor of Illinois : Dan Walker (Democratic ) (until January 10), James R. Thompson (Republican ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Indiana : Otis R. Bowen (Republican )
Governor of Iowa : Robert D. Ray (Republican )
Governor of Kansas : Robert F. Bennett (Republican )
Governor of Kentucky : Julian M. Carroll (Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana : Edwin W. Edwards (Democratic )
Governor of Maine : James B. Longley (Independent )
Governor of Maryland : Marvin Mandel (Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts : Michael Dukakis (Democratic )
Governor of Michigan : William Milliken (Republican )
Governor of Minnesota : Rudy Perpich (Democratic )
Governor of Mississippi : Cliff Finch (Democratic )
Governor of Missouri : Kit Bond (Republican ) (until January 10), Joseph P. Teasdale (Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Montana : Thomas Lee Judge (Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska : J. James Exon (Democratic )
Governor of Nevada : Mike O'Callaghan (Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire : Meldrim Thomson Jr. (Republican )
Governor of New Jersey : Brendan Byrne (Democratic )
Governor of New Mexico : Jerry Apodaca (Democratic )
Governor of New York : Hugh Carey (Democratic )
Governor of North Carolina : James Holshouser (Republican ) (until January 8), Jim Hunt (Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of North Dakota : Arthur A. Link (Democratic )
Governor of Ohio : Jim Rhodes (Republican )
Governor of Oklahoma : David L. Boren (Democratic )
Governor of Oregon : Robert W. Straub (Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania : Milton Shapp (Democratic )
Governor of Rhode Island : Philip W. Noel (Democratic ) (until January 4), J. Joseph Garrahy (Democratic ) (starting January 4)
Governor of South Carolina : James B. Edwards (Republican )
Governor of South Dakota : Richard F. Kneip (Democratic )
Governor of Tennessee : Ray Blanton (Democratic )
Governor of Texas : Dolph Briscoe (Democratic )
Governor of Utah : Cal Rampton (Democratic ) (until January 3), Scott M. Matheson (Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Vermont : Thomas P. Salmon (Democratic ) (until January 6), Richard A. Snelling (Republican ) (starting January 6)
Governor of Virginia : Mills E. Godwin Jr. (Republican )
Governor of Washington : Daniel J. Evans (Republican ) (until January 12), Dixy Lee Ray (Democratic ) (starting January 12)
Governor of West Virginia : Arch A. Moore Jr. (Republican ) (until January 17), Jay Rockefeller (Democratic ) (starting January 17)
Governor of Wisconsin : Patrick J. Lucey (Democratic ) (until July 6), Martin J. Schreiber (Democratic ) (starting July 6)
Governor of Wyoming : Edgar J. Herschler (Democratic )
Lieutenant governors [ edit ]
January [ edit ]
January 20: Jimmy Carter becomes the 39th U.S. president
Walter Mondale becomes the 42nd U.S. vice president
January
January 3 – Apple Computer is incorporated.
January 9
January 13 – Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1045 , a charter flight from Grant County, Washington to Tokyo, Japan , with a stopover in Anchorage, Alaska , stalls and crashes immediately after takeoff in Anchorage, killing all 5 people on board. The causes of the accident were later revealed to be drag on the aircraft by ice and an inebriated captain[3]
January 17 – In the first execution after the reintroduction of the death penalty in the United States, Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah .[4]
January 19
January 20 – Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th president of the United States , and Walter F. Mondale is sworn in as the 42nd vice president .
January 21 – President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders.
January 23 – Roots begins its phenomenally successful run on ABC .
January 28 – The Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 hits Buffalo , New York.[5]
January 1–31
The contiguous US average monthly minimum temperature of 12.52 °F or −10.82 °C[6] is the coldest for any month since nationwide records were first compiled in 1895.[a]
In contrast to the contiguous US, Alaska had to that point[b] its warmest January on record with a mean of 17.4 °F or −8.1 °C being 16.2 °F or 9.0 °C warmer than the 1925 to 1974 average (1.2 °F or −17.1 °C) and 1.8 °F or 1.0 °C warmer than Alaska's previous record warmest January 1937.[7]
February [ edit ]
An excursion train pulled by a classic BC Rail steam locomotive visits Oakland, California in 1977
March 9 – Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Movement Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, D.C. , killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later.
March 11 – Walt Disney Productions ' 22nd feature film, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh , is released. It is the studio's most critically well-received film in years and the last in the Disney canon in which the late Walt Disney was involved with in any capacity.
March 18 – United States lifts its ban on travel by U.S. citizens to Cambodia , Cuba , North Korea , and Vietnam .
March 15 – Tenor Luciano Pavarotti and the PBS opera series Live from the Met both make their American television debuts. Pavarotti stars in a complete production of Puccini 's La Boheme .
March 26 – The fundamentalist organization Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson .
March 28 – The 49th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Richard Pryor , Ellen Burstyn , Jane Fonda and Warren Beatty , is held at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles . John G. Avildsen 's Rocky receives ten nominations, winning Best Picture and Best Director for Avildsen. Rocky is tied with Sidney Lumet 's Network for the most nominations, while the latter film and Alan J. Pakula 's All the President's Men both won four awards each. The late Peter Finch becomes the first posthumous actor Oscar winner, winning for Best Actor .
April 4
Grundy, Virginia , experiences a major flood that causes around $15 million in damages to 228 residential and commercial structures.
Southern Airways Flight 242 during a flight leg en route to Atlanta, Georgia from Huntsville, Alabama , is forced to make an emergency landing on a highway after complete failure of the aircraft's two engines following the aircraft flying through a hailstorm.[8] 63 of the 85 people on board and 9 people on the ground are killed in the accident.[9]
April 5 – Beginning of demonstrations in 10 cities across the U.S., the longest being the 3.5 week sit-in the San Francisco Federal Building to persuade President Jimmy Carter to implement the first Federal civil rights law for people with disabilities, Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, without reinstituting the "separate but equal" doctrine.
April 7
April 21 – Residents of Dover, Massachusetts , report sightings of the so-called "Dover Demon ".
May 4 – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops rule that divorced Catholics, including those who remarried outside the Church, are no longer automatically excommunicated and can still attend Mass but if they remarry without obtaining a Church annulment , cannot receive Holy Communion and confession .[10]
May 8 – Suzanne Lacy 's extended performance piece about rape, Three Weeks in May begins in Los Angeles and continues until May 24.[11]
May 14 – The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Boston Bruins in four games to win their second straight Stanley Cup .
May 16 – A 20-passenger S-61L helicopter topples sideways at takeoff from the roof of the Pan Am Building in Midtown Manhattan . Four passengers are killed by the turning rotors and a woman at street level is fatally struck by a fallen blade.
May 17 – Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre first opens in San Jose, California.
May 25 – The movie Star Wars , directed by George Lucas is released as the first film in the Star Wars Saga and the first in the Original Trilogy. It is premiered in 32 movie theaters across the United States [12] before reaching other cinemas nationwide. Critics who had previewed the film gave it good reviews, with Time magazine dubbing it "the year's best movie".[13] Charles Champlin called it "the year's most razzle-dazzling family movie, an exuberant and technically astonishing space adventure".[14] Gene Siskel commented that "'Star Wars' is not a great movie in the sense that it describes the human condition. It simply is a fun picture," with "spectacular visual effects, the best since Stanley Kubrick 's 2001 .[15] Some hated the film, with one calling it "frequently boring with its fairy-tale plot", "relentlessly childish", and "no more sophisticated or believable than an old Spider Man comic book."[16] Star Wars would go on to break the record for highest-grossing film (surpassing Jaws , The Godfather and The Sound of Music ) [17]
May 26 – George Willig climbs the South Tower of the World Trade Center .
May 27 – Space Mountain opens at Disneyland and will become one of the park's most popular attractions.
May 28 – The Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky is engulfed in fire, killing 165 inside.
May 29 – Indianapolis 500 : A. J. Foyt becomes the first driver (to date) to win a record four times.
June 4–5 – Humboldt Park riot in Chicago.
June 5 – The Portland Trail Blazers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers 109–107 to win the NBA finals 4–2. Bill Walton is named series MVP.
June 7 – After campaigning by Anita Bryant and her anti-gay "Save Our Children" crusade, Miami-Dade County, Florida voters overwhelmingly vote to repeal the county's gay rights ordinance.
June 10 – Assassin James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee . He is recaptured on June 13.
June 16 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores , California as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison , Bob Miner and Ed Oates .
June 20 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules that states are not required to spend Medicaid funds on elective abortions.
June 22 – Walt Disney Productions ' 23rd feature film, The Rescuers , is released to box office success and positive critical reception.
June 25 – American Roy Sullivan is struck by lightning for the 7th time.
June 26
Some 200,000 protesters march through the streets of San Francisco , protesting Anita Bryant 's anti-gay remarks and the murder of Robert Hillsborough .
Elvis Presley performs his final concert, in Indianapolis, Indiana's Market Square Arena. Two previous performances were filmed in Omaha, Nebraska (June 19th) and Rapid City, South Dakota (June 21st) for the TV Special "Elvis In Concert." This special was not televised until October 3 of that year on CBS.
June 30 – Women Marines disbanded; women are integrated into regular Marine Corps .
August 3 – United States Senate hearings on MKULTRA are held.
August 4 – President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy .
August 9 – Hulk Hogan debuts as The Super Destroyer for Championship Wrestling from Florida when he is defeated by Don Serrano at John Carroll Catholic High School 's gym in Fort Pierce, Florida
August 10 – David Berkowitz is captured in Yonkers , New York , after over a year of murders in New York City as the Son of Sam .
August 12 – The NASA Space Shuttle , named Enterprise , makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA).
August 15 – The Big Ear , a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "WOW!" signal for a notation made by a volunteer on the project.
August 16 – Elvis Presley , the king of rock and roll , dies in his home in Graceland at age 42. 75,000 fans lined the streets of Memphis for his funeral, which occurred on August 18, but wasn't televised until August 20.[18]
August 20 – Voyager program : The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
September [ edit ]
Voyager 1 launched Sept. 5, 1977
October [ edit ]
October 1
October 6 – Irish American mobster Danny Greene is murdered with a car bomb by the Cleveland crime family in Lyndhurst, Ohio .
October 12 – The passage of the Community Reinvestment Act .
October 14 – Anita Bryant is famously pied by four gay rights activists during a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa. This event resulted in her political fallout from anti-gay activism.
October 18 – Newly acquired and flamboyantly charismatic slugger Reggie Jackson hits three home runs to lead the New York Yankees to their first World Series championship victory since 1962 over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1977 World Series in six games.
October 20 – Three members (lead singer Ronnie Van Zant , guitarist Steve Gaines and his older sister Cassie Gaines , band's backup singer) of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a charter plane crash outside Gillsburg, Mississippi , three days after the release of their fifth studio album Street Survivors .
October 21 – Rock singer Meat Loaf (real name Marvin Lee Aday) releases the album Bat Out of Hell .[20]
October 24 – A new Peanuts special, It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown , airs on CBS . It shows and names "Heather", the Little Red-Haired Girl , thereupon ending the 'mystery'.
November [ edit ]
A British Airways Concorde aircraft
December [ edit ]
Undated [ edit ]
Polish-American mathematician Antoni Zygmund authors his major work Measure and Integral .
Feature films released in 1977 include: Star Wars , Annie Hall , Saturday Night Fever , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , The Goodbye Girl , A Bridge Too Far , Exorcist II: The Heretic , The Turning Point , New York, New York , Smokey and the Bandit
John Travolta 's role in Saturday Night Fever inspired young Americans to wear Flare jeans, an updated version of Bell-bottoms .
Atari 2600 , released in October, popularized the use of microprocessor based hardware and cartridges containing game code.
The coldest winter for fifty-nine years in the Ohio Valley region[3] and a record dry year throughout the West,[21] especially the Pacific Northwest,[22] creates heating fuel and water shortages plus extended freezing of the Great Lakes[23] and freezing of the Mississippi River as far as Cairo , Illinois .
Ongoing [ edit ]
January [ edit ]
Dustin Diamond
Jerry Trainor
Vince Carter
Antonio Delgado
Kerry Washington
February [ edit ]
Mike Shinoda
Ike Barinholtz
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Jason Aldean
February 1
February 3 – Maitland Ward , actress
February 4
February 5
February 6
February 7 – Hillary Wolf , child actress and judoka
February 8
February 10 – Kris Jordan , politician (d. 2023)
February 11 – Mike Shinoda , singer, rapper, and emcee for Linkin Park
February 12 – Melissa Beck , television personality and comedian
February 13 – Randy Moss , football player
February 15 – Brooks Wackerman , drummer for Avenged Sevenfold and Bad Religion (2001-2005)
February 16 – Paul Brittain , actor and comedian
February 17 – Bennie Anderson , football player
February 18
February 19 – Andrew Ross Sorkin , journalist, author, columnist, and producer
February 20
February 21
February 24
February 26
February 28
James Van Der Beek
Robin Thicke
Jessica Chastain
Annie Wersching
March 1 – Adam Huss , actor, producer, and writer
March 2
March 4 – Jeremiah Green , rock musician drummer for Modest Mouse (d. 2022 )
March 5
March 6 – Bubba Sparxxx , rapper
March 8 – James Van Der Beek , actor
March 9
March 10 – Bree Turner , actress
March 11
March 15
March 16 – Richard Swift , singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and short-film maker
March 17 – Tamar Braxton , singer
March 18 – Devin Lima , singer and member of LFO (d. 2018)
March 19
March 22
March 23 – Sammy Morris , football player
March 24
March 26 – Bianca Kajlich , actress
March 27 – Roger Velasco, actor
March 28 – Annie Wersching , actress (d. 2023 )
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Kal Penn
John Cena
Tom Welling
April 1
April 3 – Aiden Leslie , singer/songwriter
April 4 – Adam Dutkiewicz , musician and guitarist for Killswitch Engage and Times of Grace
April 5 – Lee Eisenberg , screenwriter and producer
April 6 – Teddy Sears , actor
April 9 – Gerard Way , singer and frontman for My Chemical Romance
April 10
April 11 – Ron Nirenberg , politician, mayor of San Antonio, Texas (2017-present)
April 12 – Sarah Jane Morris , actress
April 14
April 15 – Matt Holt , heavy metal singer (d. 2017 )
April 16
April 21 – Bodhraj Acharya , Nepalese-born scientist
April 22 – Owen Ashworth , musician
April 23
April 25 – Ricardo Aleman , author and comedian
April 26
April 27
April 29
April 30 – Alexandra Holden , actress
Eric Church
Tom Cotton
Mark Hunter
Eric Christian Olsen
May 3
May 5 – Tudor Dixon , businesswoman, political commentator, and political candidate
May 6 – Brian Aldridge , politician
May 9 – Maggie Dixon , basketball player and coach (d. 2006)
May 11 – Sal Alosi , strength and conditioning coach
May 12 – Rebecca Herbst , actress
May 13
May 14 – Roy Halladay , baseball player (d. 2017)
May 16 – Lynn Collins , actress
May 17
May 18 – Ken Amato , football player
May 19
May 20
May 21 – Alicia Albe , gymnast
May 23 – Heather Wahlquist , actress
May 26 – Mark Hunter , singer and frontman for Chimaira
May 27
May 28 – Elisabeth Hasselbeck , talk show host
May 29
May 31
Sarah Wayne Callies
Zachary Quinto
Kanye West
Jason Mraz
Liv Tyler
Milo Ventimiglia
Brock Lesnar
Jaime Pressly
July 1
July 4 – Stephen Rannazzisi , actor and comedian
July 5 – Steven Sharp Nelson , cellist
July 6 - Justin Lyon , producer for Yo Gabba Gabba!
July 7
July 8 – Milo Ventimiglia , actor
July 10 – Cary Joji Fukunaga , director, writer, and cinematographer
July 11 – Edward Moss , impersonator
July 12
July 13
July 15
July 16 – Brian Cook , bassist
July 17 – Brandon Ash , stock car racing driver
July 19 – Danny Roberts , television personality and recruiter
July 21 – Heather Armbrust , bodybuilder
July 26 – Markwayne Mullin , politician
July 27
July 28
July 29 – Balamurali Ambati , Indian-born ophthalmologist, educator, and researcher
July 30 – Jaime Pressly , actress
July 31 – Tim Couch , football player
Tom Brady
Jamey Jasta
Jeff Hardy
August 2
August 3
August 4 – Dada 5000 , Bahamian-born mixed martial artist and internet personality
August 6 – Ashlie Atkinson , actress
August 7 – Jamey Jasta , singer and frontman for Hatebreed and Kingdom of Sorrow
August 8
August 11 – Pablo Lucio Vasquez , murderer executed by lethal injection (d. 2016 )
August 12 – Plaxico Burress , football player
August 13 – Karine Jean-Pierre , French-born White House Press Secretary
August 14
August 19
August 23
August 24 – John Green , author, vlogger, and editor
August 26 – Morris Peterson , basketball player
August 28
August 29
August 30
August 31 – Jeff Hardy wrestler
September [ edit ]
Ludacris
2 Chainz
Marisa Ramirez
Clea DuVall
September 1
September 2 – Playa Fly , rapper
September 3
September 4
September 5 – Sin Cara , wrestler and luchador
September 6 – N.O.R.E. , rapper and podcaster
September 7
September 9 – Soulja Slim , rapper (d. 2003)
September 10 – Anita Allen , Army medic and Olympic pentathlete
September 11
September 12 – 2 Chainz , rapper
September 13
September 15
September 17 – Andrea Anderson , Olympic sprinter
September 18 – Sara Haines , television host
September 19 – Erica Ash , actress, comedian, singer, and model
September 21
September 23 – Brent Abernathy , baseball player
September 24
September 25
September 26 – Sirena Irwin , actress
September 27 – Michael C. Maronna , actor
September 29 – Heath Bell , baseball player
October [ edit ]
Matt Bomer
John Mayer
Jon Heder
October 6
October 10 – Tom Ashworth , football player
October 11
October 12 – Bode Miller , Olympic skier
October 13
October 14
October 15 – Jeff Sutphen , actor and producer
October 16
October 17
October 18
October 27 – Mat Lucas , voice actor
October 20
October 22 – Jocelyn Benson , politician
October 23 – Matt Allen , football player
October 25 – The Alchemist , record producer, DJ, rapper, and songwriter
October 26 – Jon Heder , actor and voice actor
October 29 – Jon Abrahams , actor
November [ edit ]
Brittany Murphy
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Colin Hanks
Andy Beshear
November 2 – Randy Harrison , actor
November 3
November 4 – Larry Bigbie , baseball player
November 5 – Sherry Argov , French-born author
November 8
November 10
November 11 – Scoot McNairy , actor
November 14 – Brian Dietzen , actor
November 15
November 16 – Maggie Gyllenhaal , actress
November 19
November 20 – Josh Turner , country music singer
November 21 – Jonas Jennings , football player
November 22
November 24 – Colin Hanks , actor
November 27
November 28 – DeMya Walker , basketball player
November 29
November 30
December [ edit ]
Nancy Mace
Michael Raymond-James
Laila Ali
Donald Trump Jr.
December 1 – Brad Delson , lead guitarist for Linkin Park
December 2
December 3 – Troy Evans , football player
December 4 – Nancy Mace , politician
December 6
December 7
December 8 – Ryan Newman , stock car racing driver
December 10
December 11 – Margaret Hoover , political commentator, strategist, author, and media personality
December 12
December 13 – Nikki Fried , politician
December 18
December 21
December 22
December 23 – Alge Crumpler , American football player
December 24 – Michael Raymond-James , actor
December 27 – Erin Aldrich , Olympic high jumper and volleyball player
December 28
December 29
December 30
December 31 – Donald Trump Jr. , businessman and TV personality, son of Donald Trump
Full date unknown [ edit ]
Sarah Ashton-Cirillo
Faisal Alam , gay rights activist
Rumaan Alam , writer
Cecilia Alemani , Italian-born curator
Kate Ali , artist
Hannah Allam , journalist and reporter
Francis Allen-Palenske , businessman and politician
Charles Allen , politician
Paul Coy Allen , filmmaker, producer, and director
Ilkay Altintas , Turkish-born data and computer scientist
Bill Anderson , politician
Holly Andres , photographer
George Arison , Georgian-born businessman
Brad Ascalon , industrial designer
Sarah Ashton-Cirillo , journalist
Joe Asselin , blues musician
Amanda Auchter , writer, professor, and editor
Kristoffer Polaha , actor and author
Kris Roe , singer/songwriter, guitarist, and frontman for The Ataris
Erica Tazel , actress
January [ edit ]
Peter Finch
February [ edit ]
February 3 – Pauline Starke , American actress (b. 1901 )
February 4 – Brett Halliday , mystery writer (b. 1904 )
February 12 – Henry Jordan , American football player and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1935 )
February 17 – Quincy Howe , American journalist (b. 1900 )
February 18 – Andy Devine , actor (b. 1905 )
February 20 – Ralph Hungerford , American naval officer, 33rd Governor of American Samoa (b. 1896 )
February 21 – John Hubley , American animator (b. 1914 )
February 24 – Milt Kamen , comedian and actor (b. 1921 )
February 27 – Allison Hayes , American actress (b. 1930 )
February 28 – Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (b. 1905 )
Fannie Lou Hamer
Elvis Presley
August 1 – Francis Gary Powers , American U-2 spy plane pilot (b. 1929 )
August 3 – Alfred Lunt , American actor (b. 1892 )
August 5 – Waldo L. Schmitt , American biologist (b. 1887 )
August 9 – George Kenney , World War II United States Army Air Forces general (b. 1889 )
August 14 – Ron Haydock , actor (b. 1940 )
August 16 – Elvis Presley , American actor, musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1935 )
August 17 – Delmer Daves , American screenwriter and director (b. 1904 )
August 19 – Groucho Marx , American actor and comedian (b. 1890 )
August 22 – Sebastian Cabot , English actor (b. 1918 )
August 29 – Jean Hagen , American actress (b. 1923 )[25]
September [ edit ]
Ethel Waters
October [ edit ]
Bing Crosby
October 2 – Joseph William Woodrough , American federal judge (b. 1873 )
October 3 – Tay Garnett , American film director (b. 1894 )
October 5 – Jan Garber , American jazz bandleader (b. 1894 )
October 6 – Danny Greene , Irish American mobster (b. 1933)
October 8 – Joe Greenstein , Polish-born American strongman (b. 1893 )
October 11 – MacKinlay Kantor , American writer, Pulitzer Prize winner (b. 1904)
October 12 – Dorothy Davenport , American actress (b. 1895 )
October 14 – Bing Crosby , American pop singer and actor (b. 1903 )
October 16 – Milt Raskin , American swing jazz pianist (b. 1916 ).
October 20 – Three members of American rock group, Lynyrd Skynyrd , killed in plane crash:
October 27 – James M. Cain , American writer (b. 1892 )
November [ edit ]
December [ edit ]
December 4 – Leila Hyams , actress (b. 1905 )
December 5 – Rahsaan Roland Kirk , American jazz multi-instrumentalist (b. 1935 )
December 7 – Peter Carl Goldmark , Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1906 )
December 10 – Ethel Roosevelt Derby , youngest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt (b. 1891 )[26]
December 15 – Wilfred Kitching , 7th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1893 )
December 19 – Nellie Tayloe Ross , 13th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927 and director of the United States Mint from 1933 to 1953; first female state governor in the U.S. (b. 1876 )
December 25 – Charlie Chaplin , British-born actor (b. 1889 )
December 26 – Howard Hawks , film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1896 )
See also [ edit ]
^ The mean temperature for January 1977 of 23.09 °F or −4.95 °C was the coldest since before 1895, but was broken in January 1979.
^ Januaries 1981, 1985 and 2014 have since surpassed this figure, almost certainly largely due to man-made global warming .
References [ edit ]
^ CalmX, some as; Artist, Was an Experimental; Director, Film; producer; Creator, Video Game Content; inventors, freelance writer for some 18 years She specialized in writing about; inventions; March 2015, in particular Bellis died in. "The Inventors of the First Hobby and Home Computers" . ThoughtCo . {{cite web }}
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^ "History of the Coalition of Free Men, Inc. (NCFM) - National Coalition For Men (NCFM)" . ncfm.org . 15 November 2011.
^ a b October to February Mean Temperature: Ohio Valley ; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
^ Mitchell K. Hall (2008). "Chronology" . Historical Dictionary of the Nixon-Ford Era . Scarecrow Press . ISBN 978-0-8108-6410-8 .
^ Dewey, K.F. (1977). "Lake-Effect Snowstorms and the Record Breaking 1976–1977 Snowfall to the Lee of Lakes Erie and Ontario". Weatherwise . 30 (6): 228–231. Bibcode :1977Weawi..30f.228D . doi :10.1080/00431672.1977.9931836 .
^ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ; Contiguous US Minimum Temperature; January
^ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Alaska Average Temperature: January
^ Magazine, Smithsonian. "What Happened When a Southern Airways Flight 242 Crashed in Sadie Burkhalter's Front Yard" . Smithsonian Magazine . Retrieved 2023-12-04 .
^ Brasch, Ben. "40 years later: Remembering the 72 who died in New Hope plane crash" . The Atlanta Journal-Constitution . ISSN 1539-7459 . Retrieved 2023-12-04 .
^ Hyer, Marjorie (November 11, 1977). "Vatican Eases Excommunication Rule" . The Washington Post . Retrieved December 26, 2019 .
^ Fryd, Vivien Green (Spring 2007). "Suzanne Lacy's Three Weeks in May: Feminist Activist Performance Art as "Expanded Public Pedagogy" ". NWSA Journal . 19 (1). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 23–38. JSTOR 4317229 . S2CID 201751753 .
^ "Star Wars' B.O. Hits Wow $2.5 Mil", Variety , June 1, 1977, p.1
^ "STAR WARS: The Year's Best Movie" , TIME , May 30, 1977
^ "'Star Wars' Hails the Once and Future Space Western", by Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times , May 22, 1977
^ "'Star Wars' flashes with space wizardry", by Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune , May 27, 1977, p.23
^ "'Star Wars' twinkles for TV-cartoon set only'" , by Scott Hamen, Courier-Journal (Louisville KY), May 26, 1977, p.C-5
^ "'Star Wars' the new box office champ", Modesto (CA) Bee , December 1, 1977, p. C-12.
^ "Elvis Presley Remembered: A Look at How Rolling Stone Covered the King on the Thirtieth Anniversary of His Death" . Rolling Stone . 15 August 2007.
^ "Four years of built $120 Million hospital of faith" , New York Times , October 20, 1981; retrieved October 23, 2013
^ "Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell" . www.superseventies.com .
^ July to June Precipitation: Western NWS Region , National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
^ Northwest Region July to June Precipitation , National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
^ Quinn, F. H., Assell, R. A., Boyce, D. E., Leshkevich, G. A., Snider, C. R., and Weisnet, D.; ‘Summary of Great Lakes Weather and Ice Conditions, Winter 1976-77’
^ "Wally Szczerbiak Stats" . Basketball-Reference.com . Retrieved 2020-11-08 .
^ "Jean Hagen" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 27 June 2020 .
^ Ethel Roosevelt Derby, a Daughter Of President Theodore Roosevelt
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