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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.
• February 4, 1977 – A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency’s history.
• February 18, 1977 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
• March 4, 1977 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in the seriously damaged city of Bucharest, Romania.
• March 23, 1977 – The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
• May 9, 1977 – Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.
• June 16, 1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
• July 22, 1977 – Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
• August 13, 1977 – Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.
• September 10, 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.

Who Were Born On 1977?

• January 6, 1977 – Defconn, South Korean singer and television presenter
• January 19, 1977 – Benjamin Ayres, Canadian actor, director, and photographer
• March 2, 1977 – Stephen Parry, English swimmer and sportscaster
• April 2, 1977 – Nicki Pedersen, Danish motorcycle racer
• May 29, 1977 – Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
• June 3, 1977 – Travis Hafner, American baseball player
• August 17, 1977 – Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer-songwriter and producer (Nightwish)
• November 2, 1977 – Rodney Buford, American basketball player
• December 18, 1977 – Axwell, Swedish DJ and producer (Swedish House Mafia)
• December 28, 1977 – Derrick Brew, American sprinter