Date: February 4, 1977
End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War. Date: July 24, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 24 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1977Benigno Aquino Jr. Sentenced to Death by Firing Squad, November 25, 1977Tenerife Airport Disaster: Deadliest Aviation Accident, 583 Killed…
Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France. Date: September 10, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 10 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1977Martin Luther King Jr. Posthumously Receives Presidential…
Star Wars (retroactively titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is released in US theaters. Date: May 25, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 25 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1977First Chicago Marathon Draws 4,200 Runners September 25,…
The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit. Date: July 4, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 4 📅 Events on this day in…
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). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the deadliest aviation accident in history. Date: March 27, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other…
Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops a rash in Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date to be the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination. Date: October 26, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 26 📅 Events on…