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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.
•  February 18, 1977 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
•  April 27, 1977 – 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
•  April 28, 1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
•  August 12, 1977 – The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
•  August 20, 1977 – Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
•  October 6, 1977 – The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
•  October 7, 1977 – The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
•  November 8, 1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.

•  January 22, 1977 – Aaron Rakers, American baseball player
•  March 4, 1977 – Dan Wells, American horror fiction author
•  May 9, 1977 – Iñigo Landaluze, Spanish cyclist
•  May 19, 1977 – Brandon Inge, American baseball player
•  May 27, 1977 – Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer
•  June 12, 1977 – Wade Redden, Canadian ice hockey player
•  August 8, 1977 – Lindsay Sloane, American actress
•  October 26, 1977 – Jon Heder, American actor
•  November 11, 1977 – Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (d. 2002)
•  December 12, 1977 – Orlando Hudson, American baseball player