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…
Morarji Desai becomes the prime minister of India, the first prime minister not to belong to Indian National Congress. Date: March 24, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 24 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅 On This Day (Today)
The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) is videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes. Date: March 23, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 23 📅 Events on this day…
Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War. Date: March 16, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 16 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅 On This Day (Today)