1977 facts for kids

1977 (MCMLXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

The Atari video game system

• January 3 – Apple Computer is incorporated
• February 18 – 2000 AD, a British comic, is first published
• March 10 – The rings of Uranus are discovered
• April 22 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic
• May 25 – George Lucas' Star Wars opens in movie theaters
• June – Hot Press, an Irish music magazine debuts
• June 27 – Djibouti receives its independence from France
• July 13 – The New York City blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours
• August 7 – Mount Usu volcano in Japan erupts
• September 11 – Atari, Inc. releases its Video Computer System in North America
• October 18 – Reggie Jackson hits 3 home runs to lead the New York Yankees to a World Series victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers
• November – Blue Öyster Cult release their album Spectres
• November 13 – Shirley Jones and Marty Ingels marry
• December 20 – Djibouti and Vietnam join the United Nations

Births

Adam Małysz at the 2010 Winter Olympics

• January 8 – Amber Benson, American actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• January 13 – Orlando Bloom, English actor (The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, Troy)
• January 28 – Daunte Culpepper, NFL quarterback
• February 2 – Shakira, Colombian musician
• February 3 – Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican singer
• February 14 – Cadel Evans, first Australian Tour de France winner
• March 2 – Chris Martin, English singer (Coldplay)
• March 8 – James Van Der Beek, American actor
• April 9 – Gerard Way, American singer (My Chemical Romance)
• April 14 – Sarah Michelle Gellar American actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• April 23 – John Cena, American professional wrestler, hip hop musician and actor
• May 8 – Bad News Brown, Canadian musician (d. 2011)
• May 19 – Natalia Oreiro, Uruguayan singer
• May 22 – djBJoRN, Canadian/Swedish DJ and producer
• June 10 – Schapelle Corby, Australian criminal
• July 1 – Naofumi Yamamoto, Japanese professional wrestler
• July 8 – Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
• July 14 – Princess Victoria of Sweden, heiress apparent of Sweden
• July 17 – M.I.A., English musician
• August 3 – Oscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist
• August 4 – Yūko Kohara, Japanese manga artist
• August 17 – William Gallas, French footballer
• August 17 – Thierry Henry, French footballer
• August 24 – Robert Enke, German footballer
• August 31 – Jeff Hardy, American wrestler
• September 15 – Angela Aki, Japanese singer
• September 20 – Namie Amuro, Japanese singer
• September 26 – Hugo de Jonge, Dutch politician
• November 10 – Brittany Murphy, American actress
• November 16 – Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater
• December 1 – Melinda Doolittle, American singer
• December 3 – Adam Małysz, Polish ski jumper
• December 7 – Dominic Howard, English musician (Muse)

Deaths

Anthony Eden in 1943

• January 14 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
• February 9 – Queen Alia, Queen of Jordan (b. 1948)
• March 4 – Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician (b. 1887)
• April 5 – Carlos Prío Socarrás, President of Cuba (b. 1903)
• May 5 – Ludwig Erhard, German politician (b. 1897)
• June 16 – Wernher von Braun, German-born American rocket scientist (b. 1912)
• July 2 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (b. 1899)
• August 16 – Elvis Presley, American singer (b. 1935)
• August 19 – Groucho Marx, American actor (b. 1890)
• September 16- Marc Bolan, British pop singer (b. 1947)
• September 18 – Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
• October 14 – Bing Crosby, American actor and singer (b. 1903)
• October 18 – Andreas Baader, German terrorist (b. 1943)
• November 14 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religion leader (b. 1896)
• December 5 - Katherine Milhous, American illustrator and children's book author (b. 1894)
• December 10 – Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach (b. 1901)
• December 25 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor (b. 1889)
• Ali Shariati, Iranian writer and philosopher (b. 1933)

Nobel Prizes

• Nobel Prize in Physics shared by Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry won by Ilya Prigogine, Belgian physical chemist
• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shared by Roger Guillemin, Andrew Schally, and Rosalyn Yalow for their work on neurohormones
• Nobel Prize in Literature won by Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet
• Nobel Peace Prize won by Amnesty International, a group focused on human rights
• Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – Bertil Ohlin, a Swedish economist and politician, and James Meade, a British economist

Movies released

Model of spacecraft from Close Encounters of the Third Kind

• Annie Hall, winner of 4 Academy Awards
• Candleshoe, starring David Niven, Helen Hayes, and Jodie Foster
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven Spielberg
• The Gauntlet
• The Deep, directed by Peter Yates
• The Goodbye Girl, winning Academy Award for Best Actor for Richard Dreyfuss
• Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney
• Smokey and the Bandit
• The Spy Who Loved Me, the tenth James Bond movie
• Star Wars

Hit songs

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in 2013

• "Alison" – Elvis Costello
• "American Girl" – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• "Amoureuse de la vie" – Dalida
• "Angel In Your Arms" – Hot
• "Another Star" – Stevie Wonder
• "April Sun In Cuba" – Dragon
• "As" – Stevie Wonder
• "Baby What A Big Surprise" – Chicago
• "Barracuda" – Heart
• "Black Betty" – Ram Jam
• "Blue Bayou" – Linda Ronstadt
• "Boogie Nights" – Heatwave
• "California" – Manfred Mann's Earth Band
• "Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft" – The Carpenters
• "Captain Sky" – Dalida
• "Carry On Wayward Son" – Kansas
• "Cold As Ice" – Foreigner
• "Come Sail Away" – Styx
• "Complete Control" – The Clash
• "Coyote" – Joni Mitchell
• "Dancing In The Moonlight(It's Caught Me In The Spotlight)" – Thin Lizzy
• "Dancing The Night Away" – The Motors
• "Daytime Friends" – Kenny Rogers
• "Disco Inferno" – The Trammps
• "Do Anything You Wanna Do" – Eddie and the Hotrods
• "Don't Believe A Word" – Thin Lizzy
• "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" – Crystal Gayle
• "Don't Stop" – Fleetwood Mac
• "Down To Zero" – Joan Armatrading
• "Dr Love" – Tina Charles
• "Dreamboat Annie" – Heart
• "Fanfare For The Common Man" – Emerson Lake and Palmer
• "Father Christmas" – The Kinks
• "Feels Like The First Time" – Foreigner
• "Femme est la Nuit" – Dalida
• "Fly Like An Eagle" – Steve Miller Band
• "(Get A)Grip(On Yourself)" – The Stranglers
• "Give A Little Bit" – Supertramp
• "Go Your Own Way" – Fleetwood Mac
• "God Save The Queen" – The Sex Pistols
• "Heard It In A Love Song" – Marshall Tucker
• "Heartsong" – Gordon Giltrap
• "Hello Stranger" – Yvonne Elliman
• "Help Is On It's Way" – Little River Band
• "Here Come Those Tears Again" – Jackson Browne
• "Heroes" – David Bowie
• "Holidays In The Sun" – The Sex Pistols
• "I Need A Man" – Grace Jones
• "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" – Warren Zevon
• "I'm In You" – Peter Frampton
• "In The Flesh" – Blondie
• "Jamming/Punky Reggae Party" – Bob Marley and the Wailers
• "Jet Airliner" – Steve Miller Band
• "Jungle Love" – Steve Miller Band
• "Killing of Georgie, Pt. 1-2" – Rod Stewart
• "Let There Be Rock" – AC/DC
• "Lido Shuffle" – Boz Scaggs
• "Life In The Fast Lane" – The Eagles
• "Like A Huricane" – Neil Young
• "Livin' Thing" – Electric Light Orchestra
• "Living Next Door To Alice" – Smokie
• "Lonely Boy" – Andrew Gold
• "Love Is The Answer" – Utopia
• "Ma Baker" – Boney M
• "Magazine Madonna – Sherbet
• "Mannequin" – Wire
• "Margaritaville" – Jimmy Buffett
• "Maybe I'm Amazed" (live) – Paul McCartney & Wings
• "Memory Motel" – The Rolling Stones
• "More Than A Feeling" – Boston
• "Motorhead" – Motorhead
• "No More Heroes" – The Stranglers
• "Nobody Does It Better" – Carly Simon
• "Peaches/Go Buddy Go" – The Stranglers
• "Pearl's A Singer" – Elkie Brooks
• "Portsmouth" – Mike Oldfield
• "The Pretender" – Jackson Browne
• "Pretty Vacant" – The Sex Pistols
• "Really Free" – John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett
• "Remember... C'était loin" – Dalida & Richard Chanfray as St-Germain
• "Rip To Her Shreds" – Blondie
• "Rockaria" – Electric Light Orchestra
• "Rockin' All Over The World" – Status Quo
• "Rose Of Cimarron(EP)" – Poco
• "Salma Ya Salama" – Dalida
• "Save It For A Rainy Day" – Stephen Bishop
• "Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll" – Ian Dury
• "She's Not There" – Santana
• "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" – The Ramones
• "Smoke On The Water" – Deep Purple
• "Solsbury Hill" – Peter Gabriel
• "Something Better Change/Straighten Out" – The Stranglers
• "Sound And Vision" – David Bowie
• "Things We Do For Love" – 10cc
• "This Is Tomorrow" – Bryan Ferry
• "Ti Amo (Je t'aime)" – Dalida
• "Tie Your Mother Down" – Queen
• "2-4-6-8 Motorway" – Tom Robinson Band
• "Tumbling Dice" – Linda Ronstadt
• "Walk This Way" – Aerosmith
• "Watching The Detectives" – Elvis Costello
• "We Are The Champions" – Queen
• "We Will Rock You" – Queen
• "We Just Disagree" – Dave Mason
• "White Riot" – The Clash
• "Whole Wide World" – Wreckless Eric
• "Wild Side Of Life" – Status Quo
• "Wonderous Stories" – Yes
• "Year Of The Cat" – Al Stewart
• "You And Me" – Alice Cooper
• "You Yesyesyes" – The Residents
• "You're In My Heart" – Rod Stewart
• "You're Moving Out Today" – Carole Bayer Sager
• "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher" – Rita Coolidge
• "Your Song" – Billy Paul

New books

Irwin Shaw in 1948

• The Amityville Horror – Jay Anson
• Beggarman, Thief – Irwin Shaw
• Bloodline – Sidney Sheldon
• A Bonus – Elizabeth Smart
• The Chancellor Manuscript – Robert Ludlum
• Child of the Morning – Pauline Gedge
• The Complete Book of Running – Jim Fixx
• Daniel Martin – John Fowles
• Dreams Die First – Harold Robbins
• The Honourable Schoolboy – John le Carré
• How to Save Your Own Life – Erica Jong
• Illusions – Richard Bach
• James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me – Christopher Wood
• Oliver's Story – Erich Segal
• The Plague Dogs – Richard Adams
• Rage – Richard Bachman
• Refiner's Fire – Mark Helprin
• A Scanner Darkly – Philip K. Dick
• The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
• The Shining – Stephen King
• The Silmarillion – J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Slave Girl – Buchi Emecheta
• Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
• Terms of Endearment – Larry McMurtry
• The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough
• The True American, A Folk Fable – Melvin Van Peebles
• The Wars – Timothy Findley
• Rocky Marciano. Biography of A First Son – Everett M. Skehan

Images for kids

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  April 11: UK Silver Jubilee (25 red buses painted silver).

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  November 19: Anwar Sadat meets Menachem Begin in Israel.

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  Orlando Bloom

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  Jerry Trainor

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  Shakira

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  Daddy Yankee

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  Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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  Ronan Keating

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  Robin Thicke

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  Jessica Chastain

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  Darko Perić

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  Michael Fassbender

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  Jonathan Erlich

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  Sarah Michelle Gellar

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  John Cena

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  Maryam Mirzakhani

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  Samantha Morton

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  Melanie Lynskey

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  Richard Ayoade

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  Sarah Wayne Callies

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  Zachary Quinto

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  Kanye West

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  Kaja Kallas

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  Liv Tyler

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  Milo Ventimiglia

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  Chiwetel Ejiofor

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  Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

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  Edward Furlong

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  Tom Brady

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  John Green

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  Ludacris

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  Dudu Aouate

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  Jyothika

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  Birgit Prinz

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  Brittany Murphy

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  Oxana Fedorova

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  Emmanuel Macron

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  Psy

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  Anthony Eden

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  Peter Finch

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  Alia Al-Hussein

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  Fannie Lou Hamer

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  Marien Ngouabi

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  Carlos Prío Socarrás

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  Joan Crawford

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  Wernher von Braun

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  David Toro

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  Elvis Presley

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  Groucho Marx

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  Marc Bolan

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  Maria Callas

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  Bing Crosby

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  Kurt Schuschnigg

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  Sir Charlie Chaplin

See also

In Spanish: 1977 para niños