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1977 Calendar

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•  January 17, 1977 – Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on Capital punishment in the United States.
•  January 19, 1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. “Tokyo Rose”).
•  February 18, 1977 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
•  March 27, 1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight.
•  April 27, 1977 – 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
•  June 13, 1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
•  July 24, 1977 – End of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
•  October 13, 1977 – Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
•  October 25, 1977 – Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
•  December 6, 1977 – South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.

•  February 6, 1977 – Josh Stewart, American actor
•  February 21, 1977 – Owen King, American writer and journalist
•  March 2, 1977 – Jay Gibbons, American baseball player
•  May 26, 1977 – Nikos Hatzivrettas, Greek basketball player
•  June 4, 1977 – Berglind Icey, Icelandic actor
•  August 14, 1977 – Ed Harcourt, UK singer, songwriter
•  August 31, 1977 – Craig Nicholls, Australian singer and guitarist (The Vines)
•  September 15, 1977 – Sophie Dahl, English model
•  November 4, 1977 – So Ji-sub, South Korean swimmer, model and actor
•  November 30, 1977 – Olivier Schoenfelder, French ice dancer