Nolan Bushnell opened the first Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre (later renamed Chuck E. Cheese) in San Jose, California. Date: May 17, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 17 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅 On This Day (Today)
A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on approach to Lusaka International Airport in Lusaka, Zambia, killing six people. Date: May 14, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 14 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: April 28, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 28 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅 On This Day…
Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic. Date: April 22, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 22 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅 On This Day (Today)
Annie opens on Broadway. Date: April 21, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 21 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅 On This Day (Today)
London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched. Date: April 11, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 11 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅 On This Day (Today)
German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light. Date: April 7, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 7 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅 On This Day (Today)
The US Supreme Court rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the Sioux people's reservation thereby destroyed the tribe's jurisdictional authority over the area in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip. Date: April 5, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 5 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅…
Southern Airways Flight 242 crashes in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia, killing 72. Date: April 4, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 4 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅 On This Day (Today)
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…