NASA Launches Voyager 2 Spacecraft, August 20, 1977
Date: August 20, 1977
Date: August 20, 1977
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 β π Other events on July 4 π Events on this day in…
The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39. Date: November 6, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on November 6 π Events on this day in 1977 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1977Australia’s Worst Rail Disaster at Granville, Sydney Kills 83 January…
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed. Date: May 31, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on May 31 π Events on this day in 1977 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1977Siegfried Buback Assassinated by Red Army Faction, April 7, 1977Lufthansa Flight 181 Hijacked by PFLP, October 13, 1977Linjeflyg Flight…
SA de Transport AΓ©rien Flight 730 crashes near Madeira Airport in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, killing 36. Date: December 18, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on December 18 π Events on this day in 1977 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1977Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire Kills 165 in Kentucky,…
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 β π Other events on March 23 π Events on this day…
Capital punishment in the United States resumes after a ten-year hiatus, as convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah. Date: January 17, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 17 π Events on this day in 1977 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1977Dan-Air Boeing…