Four passengers are killed by the turning rotors and a woman at street level is killed by a falling blade.
May 16 – A 20-passenger S-61L topples sideways at takeoff from the roof of the Pan Am Building in Midtown Manhattan.The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Boston Bruins in four games to win their second straight Stanley Cup.The scene is photographed and the picture of the hooded man shooting in the middle of the street appears in many magazines around the world. In Milan, Italy, during a far-left demonstration, a hooded person shoots at the police, killing a policeman, Antonio Custra.The 1977 IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash in Lusaka, Zambia kills all six on board.May 12 – Portugal and Israel establish diplomatic relations.May 1 – The Taksim Square massacre in Istanbul results in 34 deaths and hundreds of injuries.For the Grateful Dead album, see May 1977 (album). Led Zeppelin sets a new world record attendance for an indoor solo attraction at the Pontiac Silverdome when 76,229 people attend a concert here on the group's 1977 North American Tour.The Cold War between Cambodia and Vietnam evolves into the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.April 28 – A federal court in Stuttgart, West Germany, sentences Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe to life imprisonment.April 24 – In northern Bangladesh, a cyclone killed 13 people and injured about 100 others.April 22 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.April 18 - An annular solar eclipse was visible in Africa, and was the 29th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 138.April 17 – Belgian Prime Minister Leo Tindemans' Christian Social Party gains eight seats in the lower house in parliamentary elections.April 11 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.April 9 – Spain legalizes the Communist Party of Spain, which had been outlawed since 1939.This becomes the deadliest accident in aviation history.Īpril 11: UK Silver Jubilee (25 red buses painted silver). March 27 – Tenerife disaster: A collision between KLM and Pan Am Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583 people.March 21 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi withdraws the state of emergency which was implemented on June 25, 1975.Indira Gandhi's Congress Party is routed by the opposition Janata alliance. March 19 – Results of elections to the Indian Parliament are declared.March 12 – The Centenary Test between Australia and England begins at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.March 10 – The rings of Uranus are discovered.March 9 – Hanafi Siege: Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Movement members take over 3 buildings in Washington, D.C., killing 1 person and taking more than 130 hostages (the hostage situation ends 2 days later).March 8 – The Australian parliament is opened by Elizabeth II in her capacity as Queen of Australia.March 4 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in the Vrancea Mountains of Romania kills 1,500.January 31 – The Centre Georges Pompidou is officially opened by French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.January 24 – The Massacre of Atocha occurs, during the Spanish transition to democracy.January 23 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India calls for fresh elections to the Lok Sabha, and releases all political prisoners.January 20 – Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th President of the United States.January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board.SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.49 marines from the USS Trenton and USS Guam are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain.Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah (the first execution after the reintroduction of the death penalty in the U.S.).January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven.Establishments and disestablishments categoriesġ977 in various calendars Gregorian calendar
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