February 1977

The following events occurred in February 1977:

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February 1, 1977 (Tuesday)
  • Françoise Claustre, a French archaeologist who had been a hostage of rebels in Chad for almost three years, returned to France days after being set free. She had been captured near Bardai on April 20, 1974. Returning as well was her husband, Pierre Claustre, who had been captured by the rebels in August, 1975, while he had been trying to negotiate the release of Françoise. Upon their arrival, Françoise and Pierre were admitted to a hospital in Toulouse for an evaluation of their health.[1]
  • The Indian Coast Guard, part of the nation's Ministry of Defence, was established as a maritime law enforcement and search and rescue agency with jurisdiction over India's territorial waters.
  • Died: David E. Finley Jr., 86, American cultural leader who led the Roberts Commission during World War II to rescue war-threatened art works, as well as founding the National Portrait Gallery and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

February 2, 1977 (Wednesday)
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Jagjivan Ram and Indira Gandhi

February 3, 1977 (Thursday)
Mengistu, Benti and Abate
  • Lieutenant General Tafari Benti, Ethiopia's nominal head of state as Chairman of the Central Committee of the Derg, the ruling 40-member military council, was executed along with six other Derg members after a gun battle between rival factions during a meeting in Addis Ababa.[4] The Derg's First Vice Chairman, Mengistu Haile Mariam, announced afterward that Benti and the other six (who included Secretary-General Almayahu Haile ad Information Minister Asrat Desta) had been exposed as supporters of the "counter-revolutionary" Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party. Mengistu then became the new Chairman of the Derg and launched Ethiopia's "Red Terror" (Qey Shibir) campaign that would kill as many as 100,000 of the Derg's political opponents.[5] Benti's deputy chairman, Atnafu Abate, had not been present at the meeting and would remain part of the Derg until his own arrest and execution on November 12.
  • A blizzard in northern Japan killed 18 people whose houses collapsed under the weight of the snow on their roofs, while 13 others froze to death. The storm, blowing southward from Siberia, demolished 90 houses.[6][7]
  • Born: Daddy Yankee (stage name for Ramón Luis Ayala), Puerto Rican American rapper known as the "King of Reggaeton";[8] in San Juan
  • Died: Pauline Starke, 76, American silent film actress

February 4, 1977 (Friday)
  • In the U.S., the derailment of an elevated train in Chicago killed 11 commuters and injured 183 others. At about 5:30 p.m., the 8-car train rear-ended a 6-car train ahead of it in an accident attributed to human error. Two crowded cars plunged 20 feet (6.1 m) from the "EL" tracks into the intersection of Wabash Avenue and Lake Street.[9]
  • Died: Brett Halliday, 72, American author of the Michael Shayne mystery novels (as Davis Dresser)

February 5, 1977 (Saturday)

February 6, 1977 (Sunday)
  • The Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, a year-long celebration of the 25th anniversary of the accession (on February 6, 1952) of Queen Elizabeth II to the British throne, opened with church services across Britain to recognize the 25th anniversary of the death of King George VI.[11] Four days later, the Queen began her visit to Southern Pacific nations within the British Commonwealth which recognized her as their reigning monarch, starting with Fiji (February 16 and 17), New Zealand (February 22 to March 7), Australia (March 7 to March 23), and Papua New Guinea (March 23 and 25).
  • In Canada, René Lévesque, the pro-independence Premier of Quebec, accidentally killed Edgar Trottier while driving his car. Trottier was a homeless man who had been "lying in the middle of McDougall road, near Cedar Ave." at 4:15 in the morning, while Premier Lévesque was driving his secretary in her car after a late night visit to the home of newspaper editor Yves Michaud. Lévesque slammed on the brakes but struck Trottier and the car dragged the victim 140 feet (43 m) as it slid on a downhill slope.[12] Lévesque, the province's head of government, was fined $25 for not wearing his glasses as required by his license.[13]
  • In Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) a group of guerrillas killed seven white missionaries in an attack the St. Paul's High School in Chisipite, a suburb of the Rhodesian capital of Salisbury (now Harare).[14]
  • Born: Ali Seezan, Maldivian film producer; in Malé
  • Died: Gustave Gilbert, 65, American psychologist and author known for his book The Psychology of Dictatorship, a psychohistorical study of Adolf Hitler

February 7, 1977 (Monday)

February 8, 1977 (Tuesday)
  • Convicted West German terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt of the Red Army Faction was paroled from Stammheim Prison after serving time for a 1972 conviction. Mohnhaupt returned to her activities with the Faction and would help carry out the April 7 assassination of West Germany's Chief Prosecutor, Siegfried Buback less than two months later, on April 7.
  • Speaking on behalf of the Government of the United Kingdom, Samuel Silkin, the Attorney General for England and Wales and for Northern Ireland, informed the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Ireland v. the United Kingdom that the Government would not reintroduce the five techniques of torture, banned in 1972, as an aid to interrogation of prisoners. Edward Heath, Prime Minister at the time, had announced on March 2, 1972 that the five techniques (prolonged wall-standing, hooding, loud noise, sleep deprivation and food deprivation) would not be used again.[16][17]
  • Voting was held in the United States and in Canada among 1.4 million steelworkers for the president of the United Steelworkers of America labor union. Lloyd McBride defeated Ed Sadlowski by a margin of about 322,000 to 238,000 votes, and, after an unsuccessful challenge by Sadlowski, would succeed retiring USWA President I. W. Abel on June 1.[18]
  • In the U.S. state of Ohio, Larry Flynt, publisher of the pornographic magazine Hustler was convicted by the Court of Common Pleas for Hamilton County, Ohio (in Cincinnati) of pandering obscenity and of engaging in "organized crime" as defined by a new Ohio law. Flynt was sentenced by Judge William J. Morrisey to at least 7 years in prison and no more than 25, and made plans to appeal the constitutionality of the law.[19] After six days in jail, he was released on $55,000 bond.[20]
  • Born: Jim Carrington, English author of children's literature known for the Otis the Robot series and the Sang Kancil series; in Norwich, Norfolk

February 9, 1977 (Wednesday)
Queen Alia
  • Queen Alia of Jordan, the 28-year-old wife of King Hussein and queen consort since their marriage in 1972, was killed in a helicopter crash, along with Health Minister Mohammed al‐Beshir, the pilot and a Jordanian Air Force medic. Queen Alia and al-Beshir were returning to Amman after an inspection trip to Tafilah when their helicopter went down in a violent rainstorm. King Hussein went on nationwide radio to personally announce his wife's death.[21]
  • Spain and the Soviet Union re-established diplomatic relations almost 40 years after terminating them following the 1937 victory of the late Francisco Franco over the Spain's left-wing Republican government. Prior to the break in relations, Spain's government had shipped 510 tons of gold to Russia for safekeeping.[22]
S. V. Ilyushin (1894-1977)
  • Died: Sergey Ilyushin, 82, Soviet Russian aircraft designer who founded the government-owned Ilyushin Design Bureau in 1933. He designed the Ilyushin Il-2 single engine ground-attack warplane, the single most-often produced military aircraft design in aviation history (with 42,330 produced), and later worked on the team creating what was once the largest capacity jet airliner, the 200-seat Ilyushin Il-62.[23]

February 10, 1977 (Thursday)
Orlov [24]

February 11, 1977 (Friday)
President Fakharuddin Ali Ahmed [30]
  • Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, the 5th President of India and head of state of the nation since 1974, died of a heart attack the day after returning early from a state visit to Malaysia because of illness.[31] President Ahmed was found unresponsive after having suffered a fatal heart attack while taking a bath at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential palace in Delhi. Vice President B. D. Jatti was sworn into office hours later as the Acting President of India until an election could be held in July. The U.S. delegation to the funeral was led by the Lillian Carter, the 78-year-old mother of President Jimmy Carter; Mrs. Carter had served as a Peace Corps volunteer in India 10 years earlier.[32]
  • Born: Mike Shinoda, American singer and co-founder of the band Linkin Park; in Panorama City neighborhood of Los Angeles

February 12, 1977 (Saturday)

February 13, 1977 (Sunday)
  • Qantas became the first airline to fly passengers over the continent of Antarctica, with a special charter flight organized by Australian aviator and entrepreneur Dick Smith. The charter, made on a Boeing 747-200B that departed from Sydney, took guests on a sightseeing tour before returning to Sydney. Air New Zealand made its own charter flight to Antarctica two days later. Both airlines would make multiple flights until the crash of a an Air New Zealand flight on November 28, 1979, killing all 257 people on board.
  • Died: Manuel T. Gonzaullas, 85, Spanish born U.S. law enforcement officer and a captain of the Texas Rangers state police who was nicknamed "Lone Wolf" because of his record of successfully fighting battling outlaws without assistance.[36]

February 14, 1977 (Monday)
  • The B-52's, a U.S. new wave music band, formed by a group of friends in Athens, Georgia, played their first concert together, for a Valentine's Day concert.[37]
  • Veselin Djuranovic, who had fought as part of Yugoslavian President Tito's Partizan Brigade during World War II, was nominated by Tito to be the new Prime Minister of Yugoslavia to succeed the late Dzemal Bijedic. Djuranovic was unanimously approved by Tito and the other 8 members of Yugoslavia's collective state presidency.[20]
  • A recently-suspended employee of the Neptune Worldwide Moving Company, known for collecting Nazi war souvenirs and trained as a U.S. Army sharpshooter, committed a workplace shooting. Cowan, a member of the National States' Rights Party, killed four co-workers (three who were black, and the other a dark-skinned immigrant) and a white patrolman in New Rochelle, New York. After local police and FBI agents arrived, Freddie Cowan shot and wounded three of the police and held the group at bay for more than six hours before killing himself.[38]
  • Born:
  • Died: Joseph Moncure March, 77, American poet known for two book-length narrative poems, The Wild Party (1926) and The Set-Up (1928)

February 15, 1977 (Tuesday)
  • All 98 people aboard Aeroflot Flight 5003 were killed in the Soviet Union when the Ilyushin Il-18 turboprop crashed during an attempted a landing at Mineralnye Vody in the Russian SFSR. The flight had departed earlier from Tashkent, capital of the Uzbek SSR, and stopped at the Uzbek city of Nukus before crashing into an embankment near the Mineralnye Vody airport.[39][40]
  • Edwin John Eastwood, who had escaped from Geelong Prison on December 16, 1976, after being incarcerated for the 1972 Faraday School kidnapping in Australia, repeated the crime by taking 16 adults and nine children hostage after invading the Wooreen State School near Leongatha, Victoria. One hostage escaped and alerted police in Woodside, and the hostages were rescued, unharmed.[41]
  • Voting was held in Denmark for all 179 seats of the Folketingnet, the European kingdom's unicameral parliament.[42] The Socialdemokratiet party of Prime Minister Anker Jørgensen gained 12 seats to reach 65, but the Social Democrats partner in a coalition government, the liberal Venstre Party, lost 21 seats, reducing the coalition from 95 seats to 86, short of the 90 needed for a majority.[43] The opposition Fremskridtspartiet (Progress Party) finished second on a platform of abolishing all taxes, despite the admission by party leader Mogens Glistrup, who admitted that he paid no income tax at all.
  • Italy's most wanted fugitive, Renato Vallanzasca, was captured alive almost seven months after escaping prison, after being tracked down at his hideout in Rome. Vallanzasca, who had committed 70 robberies, kidnapped four people and murdered six others since his escape, had most recently killed two highway patrolmen near Dalmine after they had stopped his car on February 6.[44]
  • The Canadian Citizenship Act of 1976 (Loi sur la citoyenneté) came into force in Canada, repealing the Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946 removing restrictions against having citizenship in more than one country.
  • Died:
    • H. J. Lam, 85, Dutch botanist for whom the lamiodendron species of flowering plants is named
    • Matthews Mabelane, 23, black South African protester, plunged to his death from the 10th floor of the police station in Johannesburg.[45] The circumstances were similar to the death of Ahmed Timol who had fallen 10 floors to his death on October 27, 1971 in what would be ruled in 2017 as a murder. As with Timol, police claimed that Mabelane had committed suicide after being arrested; unbeknownst to police, Mabelane had written a note to his family on the inside of his clothes while in his cell, saying "Brother Lasch, inform mom and other brothers that the police are going to push me from the 10th floor and I am bidding you goodbye forever."[45]

February 16, 1977 (Wednesday)
  • In the central African nation of Uganda, three opponents of dictator Idi Amin were arrested and murdered. The Ugandan government then made an official statement that the victims had died in a motor vehicle accident. Janani Luwum, the Anglican Archbishop of Uganda was taken into custody in Kampala, along with Interior Minister Charles Ofumbi and Housing Minister Erinayo Oryema. The three were taken to a public rally and accused of plotting a coup d'etat as agents of former President Milton Obote. The next day, Radio Uganda announced that Luwum, Ofumbi and Oryema had been killed in a car crash while on their way to interrogation. When the men's families were delivered the remains for burial, however, multiple bullet wounds were visible on the bodies.[46][47] The murder of the three climaxed two weeks of terror in which as many as 1,000 Ugandans were killed.[48]
  • As part of its apartheid policy of racial segregation, the white-minority government of South Africa ordered private Roman Catholic schools to expel their nonwhite students by the end of the week. The schools refused to reverse their policy of integration of white, black and mixed race students, despite threats to have their educational institutions "de-registered".[49]
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February 17, 1977 (Thursday)
  • In Indonesia, Mayora, one of the world's largest food and beverage companies, was founded in Tangerang by Jogi Hendra Atmadja, an immigrant from Iran.
  • Helen Brach, the 65-year-old multimillonaire heiress to the Brach's candy company fortune, disappeared after a routine checkup at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Mrs. Brach had planned to fly in a commercial airliner to her home near Chicago, but did not show up for the flight. She was not seen in public again, and her fate remained unknown to investigators more than 40 years later. She would be declared legally dead by a court in 1984.[50]

February 18, 1977 (Friday)
  • The 61st Regiment Farm fire killed 694 people in the People's Republic of China, of whom 597 were schoolchildren who were watching a film.[51][52][53] The blaze in the village of Alimali in China's Xinjiang province began at 8:15 in the evening during the Chinese New Year celebrations after a child threw a firecracker that ignited a pile of wreaths left over from the mourning in September for Chairman Mao Zedong. The fire came while an audience was a North Korean film, Chŏnu, shown in conjunction with the Chinese "Resist America and Assist Korea" campaign. The victims were unable to exit the poorly designed festival hall.
  • The first test flight of the American space shuttle program took place as the Space Shuttle Enterprise was attached to the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a Boeing 747 jet airplane designed to carry the spacecraft.[54] The 747 shuttle carrier took off from Edwards Air Force Base as part of the evaluation of the shuttle's aerodynamics and then landed again.[55]
  • Terrorists in Argentina made the third assassination attempt, in less than a year, on the life of President Jorge Rafael Videla. Videla, along with his Minister of Economy and several other people lifted off from the airport at Buenos Aires in the presidential airplane, a Fokker 28 twinjet, several seconds before a large bomb exploded near the same runway. The plane had only reached an altitude of 160 feet (49 m) when the bomb, loaded with chunks of iron and buckshot, exploded and left a crater. Unsuccessful attempts on Videla's life had been made in March and in October 1976.[56]
  • The government of Spain continued its transition to democracy, legalizing seven political parties, including two Marxist-Leninist organizations, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and the Popular Socialist Party. The Spanish Communist Party still remained illegal.[57]
  • Born:
  • Died: Andy Devine, 71, American character actor on television and film, generally portraying the sidekick to the hero [58]

February 19, 1977 (Saturday)

February 20, 1977 (Sunday)

February 21, 1977 (Monday)
  • In the U.S., a maintenance man was killed while repairing a blade in a large industrial blender at the Food-Maker, Inc. plant in San Diego when another employee tripped and fell against the starter button. Richard Wesson, 49, died of multiple injuries and internal bleeding.[65]
  • Born:
  • Died:
    • Henry Jordan, 42, American pro football player and NFL defensive tackle from 1957 to 1969, died while jogging in Milwaukee. He would be posthumously inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985.
    • John Hubley, 62, American film animator and director known for creating the cartoon character Mr. Magoo, and winner of three Academy Awards, died during heart surgery.[66]
    • Bertram Wolfe, 81, American Communist and political scholar, died from burns sustained after accidentally setting his bathrobe on fire.

February 22, 1977 (Tuesday)
  • In the British House of Commons, prospects of approval of a law to give Scotland and Wales limited home rule were ended by a filibuster. In an attempt by the governing Labour Party to end delay tactics and get a vote from the members, a "guillotine motion" (similar to a resolution of cloture in the U.S.) failed, with 283 votes in favor and 312 against, when 35 Labour members either abstained or voted against the motion.[67]
  • Mohammed Fadel, President of Damascus University in Syria, was shot and killed by an assassin as he arrived for work.[67]
  • Born: Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer and midfielder with 87 caps for the Switzerland national team; to Turkish parents in Basel

February 23, 1977 (Wednesday)
  • Rhodesia's white Prime Minister, Ian Smith, leader of a racial minority government where whites received preferential treatment under the law despite being less than 5% of the population (275,000 out of 6,275,000), proposed his own transition to black majority rule. Smith proposed that "black Rhodesians" would be allowed to become military officers, be employed in government at all levels and to buy businesses in commercial areas, as well as being allowed to drink alcohol in white areas after 7:00 in the evening. Under Smith's plan, private schools and hospitals institutions would not be restricted from integrating, but state-owned schools would remain segregated, and black residents would be limited to buying farmland in only one-third of the areas reserved for white people.[68]
  • Óscar Romero, an outspoken opponent of violence, became the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador in El Salvador.[69] Romero would be assassinated three years later during Mass by a right-wing Salvadoran death squad.
  • Born: Kristina Šmigun-Vähi, Estonian cross-country skier and 2006 Olympic gold medalist; in Tartu, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union

February 24, 1977 (Thursday)
  • Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin narrowly won his bid to remain in charge of the Labor Party, defeating Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 1,445 votes to 1,404 in voting by delegates at the nominating convention in advance of the May 17 Knesset election.[70] Less than two months later, Rabin would resign in a scandal and be replaced on April 8 by Peres, and the Labor Party would lose in May to the Likud Party of Menachem Begin.
  • Republican Party members of the U.S. Congress borrowed an idea from the United Kingdom and announced formation of a "shadow cabinet" with counterparts to the secretaries in President Jimmy Carter's Democrat cabinet.[71]
  • The Soviet Union announced that it would begin enforcing its own fishing zone 200 miles (320 km) from its coast lines, within which foreign trawlers would not be allowed to fish unless their nation's government permitted the same rights to the Soviet Union." The enforcement date, March 1, 1977, coincided with that of the United States.[72]
  • U.S. labor leader Al Bramlet, who had been president of the Nevada branch of the AFL–CIO for ten years, disappeared shortly after landing at the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on a flight from Reno. Bramlet had called his daughter at 4:30 p.m. to say he would be home in 20 minutes, but never made it to his car in the airport parking lot.[73] Bramlet's body would be found in the Nevada desert three weeks later, 45 miles (72 km) southwest of Las Vegas.[74]
  • Born: Floyd Mayweather Jr., American professional boxer and NASCAR team owner; WBC superfeatherweight champion 1998-2002; WBC lightweight champion 2002-2005; WBC and IBF super lightweight champion 2005-2007; IBF, IBO and WBC welterweight champ 2006-2007; WBC light middleweight champion 2007-2011; WBA super light middleweight champ 2012-2015; WBA, WBC and WBO welterweight champ 2015-2017; as Floyd Joy Sinclair in Grand Rapids, Michigan

February 25, 1977 (Friday)
  • A fire that broke out on the 13th floor of Moscow's Rossiya Hotel killed 42 guests and employees, and injured 52 others.[75] At the time, the Rossiya was the largest in the world with 3,182 rooms. The number of casualties was exacerbated by the lack of enough exits in the hotel. Within the Soviet Union, only one newspaper, "Evening Moscow", mentioned the fire and devoted 17 lines on the bottom of page 3 under the headline "Information", while the nation's major newspapers, Pravda and Izvestia ignored it completely.[76]
  • The first parliamentary voting in more than 12 years was held in Algeria for the Majlis. Although the National Liberation Front was the only legal political party, there were 783 candidates for the 261 seats.[77]
  • Uganda's President Idi Amin announced that the 240 Americans living in the central African nation would not be allowed to leave, and ordered the U.S. citizens to report on February 28 to meet with him in Kampala. A second broadcast by Radio Uganda gave assurances that the Americans would not be arrested or harmed.[78] The U.S. Navy responded by sending ships in the Indian Ocean to cruise off of the coast of East Africa. Amin reversed his order on March 1 without military intervention.[79]
  • The Soviet Soyuz 24 space mission returned to earth with cosmonauts Viktor Gorbatko and Yuri Glazkov, after 17 days in space and the reactivation of the orbiting Salyut space station for the first time in six months.[80]
  • Died:

February 26, 1977 (Saturday)

February 27, 1977 (Sunday)

February 28, 1977 (Monday)
Anderson

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  62. "Allies, Foes Pay Tribute to Britain's Anthony Crosland", Los Angeles Times, February 20, 1977, p.I-4
  63. "Joe Roth, 21, Dies After Long Fight With Cancer", Los Angeles Times, February 20, 1977, p.III-1
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  71. "Conservatives Form 'Shadow Cabinet' to Keep Watch on Carter's Policies", Los Angeles Times, February 25, 1977, p.I-17
  72. "Russ to Start Enforcing 200-Mile Fishing Limit", Los Angeles Times, February 25, 1977, p.I-21
  73. "Top Nevada Labor Leader Mysteriously Disappears", Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1977, p.I-3
  74. "Body Believed Bramle'ts Found in Desert Grave", by David Rosenzweig, Los Angeles Times, March 18, 1977, p. I-3
  75. "At Least 17 Die in Fire at Moscow Hotel", Los Angeles Times, February 26, 1977, p.I-3
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  78. "Americans Ordered Not to Leave Uganda— Amin Says He'll Meet 200 U.S. Citizens Monday; Aide Adds They Will be Safe", Los Angeles Times, February 26, 1977, p.I-1
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  80. "Cosmonauts Land Safely After Short Stay in Salyut 5", Los Angeles Times, February 26, 1977, p.I-2
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  87. "Errant Shots— Real Ones— Scare Golfers", Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1977, p.III-1
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