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1977 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2033. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1977 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1977

• January 17, 1977 – Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States.
• January 18, 1977 – Australia’s worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
• February 18, 1977 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
• April 11, 1977 – London Transport’s Silver Jubilee buses are launched.
• April 28, 1977 – The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
• July 5, 1977 – Military coup in Pakistan: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
• August 3, 1977 – The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKUltra.
• October 26, 1977 – Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops rash in Merca district, Somalia. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
• November 6, 1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
• November 20, 1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

Who Were Born On 1977?

• May 3, 1977 – Tyronn Lue, American basketball player and coach
• July 20, 1977 – Alessandro Santos, Brazilian-Japanese footballer
• July 27, 1977 – Björn Dreyer, German footballer
• August 15, 1977 – Igor Cassina, Italian gymnast
• August 31, 1977 – Ian Harte, Irish footballer
• September 7, 1977 – Jon Macken, English-Irish footballer
• September 11, 1977 – Tobias Zellner, German footballer
• October 18, 1977 – Flavia Colgan, Brazilian-American journalist
• December 3, 1977 – Troy Evans, American football player
• December 13, 1977 – Sascha Kindred, German-English swimmer