February 4 - Fleetwood Mac's Grammy-winning album Rumours is released.
February 28 - Canadian passenger rail services are amalgamated into VIA Rail.
March 15 - The television show Three's Company debuts on ABC.
April 7 - The Toronto Blue Jays play their first game, defeating the Chicago White Sox.
May 7 - Pierre Elliot Trudeau does a pirouette behind the back of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
May 23 - Scientists report using bacteria in a lab to make insulin.
May 25 - Star Wars opens in cinemas (later renamed Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) and becomes a blockbuster hit.
May 26 - George Willig climbs the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
June 5 - The first Apple II computers go on sale.
June 6-June 9 - Jubilee celebrations are held in the United Kingdom to celebrate twenty-five years of Elizabeth II's reign.
June 15 - Spain has its first democratic elections, after 41 years under the Franco regime.
July 13 - The New York City Blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours, resulting in looting and other disorder.
July 28 - The first oil through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System reaches Valdez, Alaska.
August 12 - The NASA Space Shuttle makes its first test flight off the back of a jetliner.
August 16 - Music icon Elvis Presley dies in Memphis, Tennessee.
September 7 - Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The U.S. agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
September 8 - INTERPOL issues a resolution against the piracy of video tapes and other material, which is still cited in warnings on opening pre-credits of videocassettes and DVDs today.
September 11 - The last "wild" smallpox infection is reported in Somalia.
October 18 - The House of Commons is televised for the first time.
October 20 - Three members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a charter plane crash outside Gillsburg, Mississippi.
October 26 - The last natural smallpox case is discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination and, by extension, of modern science.
November 22 - British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
December 4 - The film Saturday Night Fever is released.
Other Events that occurred:
- All Canadian road signs are Metricated.
- The Eaton Centre opens in Toronto.
- Prime Minister Trudeau divorces his wife Margaret Sinclair.
- Quebec becomes the first jurisdiction (larger than a city or county) in the world to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in the public and private sectors.
- Color TV Game 6 is created by Nintendo.
People Born in 1977:
January 13 - Orlando Bloom, British actor
February 2 - Shakira, Colombian musician
March 2 - Chris Martin, British musician
March 3 - Ronan Keating, Irish singer
March 8 - James Van Der Beek, American Actor
April 14 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
April 21 - Jamie Salé, Canadian figure skater
July 1 - Liv Tyler, American actress
November 24 - Colin Hanks, American actor
People who Died in 1977:
January 14 - Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903)
May 10 - Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1905)
June 19 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English Chief Girl Guide (b. 1889)
August 19 - Groucho Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1890)
October 14 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1903)
December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, English-born comedian (b. 1889)
November 5 - Guy Lombardo, bandleader
Songs Popular in 1977:
Dancing Queen by ABBA
You Don't Have to be a Star - Marilyn McCoo
You Make me Feel Like Dancing by Leo Sayer
I wish by Stevie Wonder
Car Wash by Rose Royce
Torn Between Two Lovers by Mary MacGregor
Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
New Kid in Town by the Eagles
Love Theme from a Star is Born by Barbra Streisand
Rich Girl by Daryl Hall and John Oates
Movies Popular in 1977:
Star Wars
Rocky
Smokey and the Bandit
A Star is Born
King Kong
The Deep
Silver Streak
The Enforcer
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
In Search of Noah's Ark
Books Popular in 1977:
Timothy Findley - The Wars
The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Illusions by Richard Bach
The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carre
Oliver's Story by Erich Segal
Roots by Alex Haley
All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot
TV Shows Popular in 1977:
Laverne and Shirley
Happy Days
Three's Company
60 Minutes
Charlie's Angels
All in the Family
Alice
Little HOuse on the Prairie
M*A*S*H
ONe Day at a Time
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