Some events that took place in 1977

• Carter gives pardon to American draft evaders of Vietnam
• Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
• US Dept. of Energy is established
• Leonid Brezhnev elected President of Soviet Union
• Nobel Peace Prize – Amnesty International
• Anwar Sadat – PM Egypt goes to Israel for 1^st time
• Ed Koch elected Mayor of New York City
• JRR Tolkien book The Silmarillion came out - posthumously
• The Thornbirds – Colleen McCollough (I can’t believe I read this trash)
• Annie – Tony Award for Best Musical
• John Neopomucene Neumann (1811-1860) canonized; first American male saint
• Roberto Rossellini died
• Joan Crawford died
• Groucho Marx died
• Charlie Chaplin died
• Elvis Presley died
• Bing Crosby died
• Maria Callas died
• TV dramatization of Roots
• US space shuttle Enterprise makes its first manned flight
• 2,300 year old tomb of King Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, is found in northern Greece
• Portland Trailblazers win NBA championship
• Montreal Canadiens defeat Boston Bruins to win their 20^th Stanley Cup
• Tom Watson wins Masters and British Golf open
• Seattle Slew wins horse racing’s Triple Crown
• American ship “Courageous” defeats “Australia” to retain the America’s Cup
• Chris Everet wins her 3^rd Wimbledon, Bjorn Borg wins his 2^nd; Australia wins Davis Cup
• Pele plays his last professional soccer game between Cosmos and Santos – I saw the game – he played the first half with Santos and the second with Cosmos
• 570 people die when two airplanes crash on the Canary Island of Tenerife
• New York City blackout leaves 9 million people w/out electricity for between 4 ½ and 25 hours – looting and rioting ensued
• Jaelle Penny Commissiong, of Trinidad Tobago – 1^st black woman to win Miss Universe Title
• Passenger service on the Concorde begins between Paris and London
• US population reaches 216 million

• We graduated from AHS