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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 18, 1977 – Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires’ disease.
• February 18, 1977 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
• May 25, 1977 – Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare’s work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
• June 7, 1977 – 500 million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
• June 10, 1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
• August 4, 1977 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
• October 18, 1977 – German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
• October 20, 1977 – Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane crashes.
• October 24, 1977 – Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.)
• November 6, 1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.

Who Were Born On 1977?

• March 3, 1977 – Ronan Keating, Irish singer-songwriter and actor (Boyzone)
• March 30, 1977 – Abhishek Chaubey, Indian director and screenwriter
• June 6, 1977 – David Connolly, English-Irish footballer
• August 10, 1977 – Matt Morgan, English comedian, actor, and radio host
• August 20, 1977 – Wayne Brown, English footballer
• August 25, 1977 – Ramil Safarov, Azerbaijani murderer
• September 5, 1977 – Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish footballer
• November 2, 1977 – Jason Cerbone, American actor
• November 9, 1977 – Omar Trujillo, Mexican footballer