1977 @ Nostalgia Central

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06 - "Charter 77" launched in Czechoslovakia calling for restoration of human rights

06 - EMI sacks The Sex Pistols for "inexplicable behaviour"

17 - Gary Gilmore, convicted of murdering a Utah gas station attendant, becomes the first person executed in US since 1967. He is executed by firing squad in Nevada

18 - Carnage as commuter train brings down a bridge at Granville in Western Sydney (Australia). 83 are dead

20 - Jimmy Carter is inaugurated as US President

21 - President Carter pardons Vietnam draft evaders

28/29 - A blizzard paralyses most of the US East and Midwest, resulting in a severe shortage of natural gas

29 - IRA bombs London's West End

03 - Lt Col Mengistu Haile Mariam becomes leader of Ethiopia after Brigadier General Teferi Benti is murdered

08 - Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 24 links with orbiting space lab Salyut 5

12 - In Australia, severe bushfires wipe out a Victorian country town

18 - Ugandan Bishop Janani Luwum is murdered by security forces in Amin's terror wave

27 - Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones is arrested at Toronto's Harbor Castle Hotel by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for drug possession

07 - The Queen and Prince Philip visit Australia to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee

10 - The Sex Pistols sign with A&M outside Buckingham Palace. After only six days, A&M let the band go due to pressure from their head office in Los Angeles

11 - Violent protests erupt in Pakistan against vote-rigging

18 - Sylvester Stallone's Rocky wins Best Picture Oscar

27 - 574 die as Pan Am and KLM Jumbo Jets collide on the ground in world's worst air crash at Tenerife Airport in Canary Islands

02 - Red Rum is the first horse to win the UK Grand National for the third time

18 - Calling it "the moral equivalent of war", President Carter calls for an all-out campaign for energy conservation

22 - North Sea oil well blow-out causes a vast oil slick

22 - Israeli PM Itzhak Rabin resigns over money scandal

04 - At normalisation talks in Paris, the US agrees to stop blocking Vietnam's application for admission to the UN

09 - Patricia Hearst is released from jail on probation

10 - Actress Joan Crawford dies

15 - Australian Democrats Party is launched by Don Chipp

21 - Manchester United beat Liverpool 2-1 in British FA Cup final

22 - The Orient Express arrives in Istanbul for the last time, having originally begun in Paris in 1883

27 - The Sex Pistols release God Save The Queen

06 - The Washington Post reports that the US is developing a neutron bomb, a weapon designed to kill people but cause minimal destruction of property

07 - The Queen celebrates her Silver Jubilee across the UK after 25 years on the throne

11 - Dutch Marines storm a train at Assen, Northern Holland, in which South Moluccan terrorists have been holding 55 hostages for 20 days. Six terrorists and two hostages are killed

15 - First democratic elections in Spain for 41 years

16 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes Russian President

18 - Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten is attacked by razor-wielding thugs in North London

21 - Menachim Begin, leader of the Likud party, becomes prime minister of Israel

26 - Elvis Presley plays what will be his last ever public performance, at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana

26 - Djibouti, France's last African colony, gains independence

01 - Virginia Wade beats Chris Evert at the 100th Wimbledon women's single title

01 - A severe US West Coast drought necessitates water rationing in California

05 - Zulfikar Ali Butto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, arrested by General Zia ul-Huq

13/14 - A lightning storm causes a 25-hour power blackout in New York City and New York's Westchester County. Extensive looting and arson ensues. 3,776 looters are arrested, 100 policemen injured and $135 million in damage is caused

19 - A flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvania (USA) kills 76 and causes $200 million in damage

22 - In China, the "Gang of Four" are expelled from the Chinese Communist party and Deng Xiapong is reinstated as deputy prime minister

23 - Somali forces invade Ethiopia in a dispute over the Ogaden area

06 - 'Son Of Sam' murders his sixth victim, Stacy Moskowitz, in a parked car in Brooklyn, New York

10 - David Berkowitz is arrested in Yonkers, New York, for killing six people and wounding seven more during his 13-month 'Son Of Sam' murder spree. Berkowitz claims that his neighbours dog told him to do it

12 - Space Shuttle makes first test flight. The shuttle Enterprise makes its first free flight after being lifted to a height of 25,000 feet on the back of a Boeing 747

16 - Elvis Presley, The King of Rock & Roll, found dead at home (aged 42)

19 - Comedian Groucho Marx dies

29 - Three people arrested in Memphis, charged with attempting to steal the body of Elvis Presley from the Forest Hill cemetery. As a result, Elvis's body (and that of his mother Gladys) are removed and re-buried in the grounds of his Graceland mansion

31 - Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front party wins an overwhelming victory in the general election

04 - Street protest marches are banned in Queensland, Australia

05 - Terrorists ambush a car in Cologne, West Germany, killing four and kidnapping Dr Hanns-Martin Schleyer, president of the West German Employers' Federation. He is later found dead

07 - US and Panama sign a treaty transferring the Panama Canal to full Panamanian control in 1999

12 - Black South African leader Steve Biko is killed while in police custody

16 - British glam rocker Marc Bolan (of T Rex) is killed when the car driven by his girlfriend Gloria Jones collides with a tree on Barnes Common in South West London. He was 30 years old

16 - Opera star Maria Callas dies

21 - Bert Lance, the Carter-appointed Director of the Office of Management and Budget, resigns following Congressional criticism of his financial practices during his career as a Georgia banker

26 - Laker Skytrains starts a regular passenger service between London's Gatwick airport and New York at very low fares

28 - Cambodian leader Pol Pot arrives in Beijing to discuss Chinese aid

03 - Former Indian PM Indira Gandhi arrested

14 - Singer Bing Crosby (born Harry Lillis Crosby), dies aged 76

15 - NY Supreme Court rules that David R. Berkowitz is competent to stand trial as the accused 'Son Of Sam' killer

18 - German Commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa jet in Mogadishu, killing three of the four Palestinian hijackers

19 - The body of Dr Hans Martin Schleyer, director of Mercedes Benz in West Germany, is found in the boot of a car in Eastern France. He was kidnapped by the Baader-Meinhof group and murdered in response to the storming of the Lufthansa jet in Somalia yesterday

20 - Three members of southern US rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd (Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, and Cassie Gaines) are killed when their light plane crashes in Mississippi. Tour manager Dean Kilpatrick is also killed

01 - Prince Charles visits Australia

04 - United Nations bans arms sales to South Africa

05 - Guy Lombardo dies

08 - Edward Koch elected Mayor of New York

09 - President Sadat of Egypt willing to negotiate peace terms with Israel

18/21 - The first National Women's Conference draws 1,442 delegates to Houston, Texas. The conference calls for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and the elimination of institutional discrimination

02 - South African police cleared of killing Steve Biko despite the inquest finding that his death was caused by "application of force to his head" while he was in custody

03 - Vietnam refugee exodus begins

05 - President Sadat breaks off diplomatic ties with Syria, Iraq, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen for opposition to his peace moves toward Israel

10 - In Australia the Fraser government is re-elected and Gough Whitlam steps down as Labor Party leader

16 - The Piccadilly line tube in London is extended from Hatton Cross to London airport

25 - Silent film star Charlie Chaplin dies at home in Switzerland, aged 88

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