September 1977

The following events occurred in September 1977:

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September 7, 1977: Panama Canal Treaties signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Panama's Omar Torrijos

September 1, 1977 (Thursday)
  • The United Kingdom nationalized its shipbuilding industry under the government-owned company British Shipbuilders, acquiring the assets of 27 private companies in accordance with the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977. Sir Anthony Griffin, an Admiral in the Royal Navy, served as British Shipbuilders' first chairman. After closing half of the nation's shipyards, the company was then required to privatize its assets under the terms of the British Shipbuilders Act 1983, and closed all of its remaining shipyards by 1989.
  • The United States agreed to let Japan begin the reprocessing of used nuclear fuel for two years, approving a proposal that had been made by Japan in 1970 to use reprocess fuel at Tokai village northeast of Tokyo. The accord between the two allies averted a crisis between Japan, which was in need of a source of energy, and the U.S., which was seeking to halt the increased availability of plutonium.[1]
  • The southern African nation of Angola announced that its government had acquired 61% of the shares of Diamang Diamond Company (Companhia de Diamantes de Angola), the main source of the country's wealth, and majority control of the company, with the remaining 39% held by foreign investors.[2]
  • Born: David Albelda, Spanish footballer with 51 appearances for the Spain national team as a defensive midfielder; in La Pobla Llarga, Province of Valencia
  • Died: Ethel Waters, 80, African-American singer, film and TV actress[3]

September 2, 1977 (Friday)

September 3, 1977 (Saturday)
  • Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who had recently been released from prison after his July 5 overthrow, was arrested again while campaigning for office in anticipation of elections in October.[6] Bhutto had been set free on July 28 and remained out for 37 days before being arrested on charges of conspiracy in the murder of a political opponent.
  • Japanese baseball player Sadaharu Oh of Tokyo's Yomiuri Giants (Bunkyō ward) hit the 756th home run of his career, one more than the Major League Baseball record of Hank Aaron, who had retired in 1976 with 755 career home runs.[7] His hit came during an 8 to 1 win over the Yakult Swallows (in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo), on a pitch by the Swallows' Kojiro Suzuki. Oh would play three more years, retiring at the end of the 1980 Central League season on October 12, 1980, with 868 homers.
  • The Grateful Dead set a record of selling 107,019 tickets to a rock concert, playing at Raceway Park near Englishtown, New Jersey. The concert set a U.S. and world record and would continue to be the highest attended ticketed concert in the U.S. as of 2023. A concert by Frank Sinatra in Brazil would break the record on January 26, 1980, with 175,000 tickets sold.
  • U.S. Christian evangelist became the first preacher to make a speaking tour within a Communist nation as he arrived in Budapest for an eight-day tour of Hungary. Graham was cleared by the Hungarian Communist Party chairman Janos Kadar to appear as the guest of the Hungarian Council of Free Churches.[8]
  • Born: Olof Mellberg, Swedish footballer and defender with 117 caps for the Sweden national team; in Gullspång
  • Died: Albert Muwalo, 50, Minister of State and later Minister without Portfolio for Malawi until October 27, 1976, was hanged at the national prison in Zomba after being convicted on charges of corruption.

September 4, 1977 (Sunday)

September 5, 1977 (Monday)
  • Not realized at the time by Earth astronomers, the asteroid 2022 QX4 passed within 0.00086 astronomical units or 81,000 miles (130,000 km) of Earth.[14] By comparison, the average distance from the Earth to the Moon almost three times as far 238,900 miles (384,500 km). The asteroid, about 130 feet (40 m) in diameter, would not be discovered from Earth until August 24, 2022, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS).,[14] after which its trajectory would be calculated retroactively and prospectively.
  • The interplanetary probe Voyager 1 was launched from the United States at 8:56 in the morning (1256 UTC), following the August 20 launch of Voyager 2 toward Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.[15]
  • West German Employers Association President Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped in Cologne. The kidnappers killed three escorting police officers and his chauffeur, and demanded the release of 14 Red Army Faction prisoners in return for Schleyer's safe return.[16] Schleyer would be murdered by his captors on October 18.

September 6, 1977 (Tuesday)

September 7, 1977 (Wednesday)
  • Two treaties between Panama and the United States were signed for the eventual transfer of the Panama Canal, as U.S. President Jimmy Carter and the Panamanian Head of Government, General Omar Torrijos, met at the Washington DC headquarters of the Organization of American States.[21] In the Panama Canal Treaty, the U.S. agreed that control of the canal would be transferred to Panama at midnight on December 31, 1999, after which Panama would have control of the canal and be responsible for its maintenance and its defense.[22] In the other agreement, the Neutrality Treaty, Panama agreed that the U.S. would have "the permanent right to defend the canal from any threat that might interfere with its continued neutral service to ships of all nations." Both treaties would ratified by the U.S. Senate on April 18, 1979.[23]
  • Former FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy, who was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping in connection with the break-in of the 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee that led to the Watergate scandal, was released from prison after having been incarcerated for four and one-half years.[24]
  • A judge in Dane County, Wisconsin, Archie Simonson, was removed from office by an overwhelming margin in a recall election, after making remarks on May 25 justifying rape of a girl because of the clothes that she was wearing.[25]

September 8, 1977 (Thursday)
  • Interpol issued a resolution against the copyright infringement of video tapes and other material. The warning is still cited in warnings at the start of all videocassettes and DVDs.
  • At least 50 people in Egypt were killed, and 120 injured, when a train derailed while moving along a curved track at excess speed, and then plunged down an embankment near Asyut.[26]
  • All 25 people on a Burma Airways Twin Otter 300 were killed when the airplane departed Mong Hsat but failed to land as scheduled in Keng Tung. The wreckage was found three days later.[27]
  • The first Chia Pet was introduced by Joseph Enterprises as a novelty terracotta decoration that sprouted the fast-growing and flowering plant chia from seeds embedded inside the decoration.[28]
  • Died: Zero Mostel (stage name for Samuel Joel Mostel, 62, American stage and film actor known as the star of the musical Fiddler on the Roof, winner of three Tony Awards (1961, 1962 and 1964)[29]

September 9, 1977 (Friday)
  • The public execution of 12 Ugandan prisoners, convicted of the June 18 attempt to overthrow President Idi Amin, took place in front of the Queen's Clock Tower in the capital city of Kampala. Three other people were shot in addition to the coup d'etat plotters, as shooting started at 5:05 and prisoners were killed "one by one... as they stood tied against sand-filled water drums."[30] The eight ringleaders were left alive at the prison in Nakasero of Uganda's secret police, the State Research Bureau, pending a public confession of their role in the coup attempt.[31]
  • The French weekly news and entertainment magazine VSD (an abbreviation for "Vendredi, Samedi, Dimanche", the French words for Friday, Saturday and Sunday) published its first issue.[32]
  • Born: Soulja Slim (stage name for James Tapp Jr.), American rap artist; in New Orleans (murdered, 2003)
  • Died:

September 10, 1977 (Saturday)

September 11, 1977 (Sunday)
The Atari 2600
graphics for "Combat"

September 12, 1977 (Monday)
Norway's Prime Minister Nordli
  • Two days of voting in Norway for all 155 seats of the Storting, with the Arbeidarpartiet (Labor Party) of Prime Minister Odvar Nordli posting a 14-seat gain to win 76 seats, two short of a majority.[38][39]
  • In a breakthrough in the Ogaden War that had started in northeastern Africa on July 13, the Somali National Army won the Battle of Jijiga after fighting with the Ethiopian Army within 12 days after invading Ethiopia's region of the Somali minority.[40]
  • Born:
  • Died:
    • Steve Biko, 30, South African anti-apartheid activist, died of a brain hemorrhage five days after being beaten by police at an interrogation at Port Elizabeth.[41] On December 2, after a three-week public inquest into Biko's death, South African magistrate Marthinus J. Prins ruled that although "Mr. Biko's death could be attributed to head injury with extensive brain injuries followed by complications leading to renal failure," and "the head injury was probably sustained... when the deceased was involved in a struggle with members of the security branch... The available evidence does not provee that the death of Mr. Biko was brought about by any act or omission involving an offense by any person."[42]
    • Robert Lowell, 60, American poet, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, died of a heart attack while riding in a New York taxicab.[43]

September 13, 1977 (Tuesday)
  • The Italian-built Orbital Test Satellite (OTS 1), intended to be the first orbiting spacecraft of the European Space Agency, was launched from the U.S. at Cape Canaveral at 6:31 in the morning (11:31 UTC) on a U.S. Delta 3000 rocket. Only 54 seconds after liftoff, however, the rocket exploded when a crack in one of the booster rockets ignited the rocket's main fuel tank, destroying the $42 million OTS 1 satellite.[44][45]
Princess Ashraf of Iran
  • An attempt was made to assassinate Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, the and older twin sister of the Shah of Iran while she was being chauffeured through the French Riviera resort city of Antibes. A pair of assassins had stolen a Peugeot sedan from a car dealer, then used the car to block the Rolls-Royce automobile in which Princess Ashraf was riding. The princess was riding in the front seat of the car, while Kahainouri Forough, the princess's lady-in-waiting, had been sitting in the back, was killed after apparently being mistaken for the monarch's sister. Princess Ashraf escaped injury, and chauffeur Arus Ettemadian was slightly wounded.[46]
  • The controversial U.S. television situation comedy Soap debuted on the ABC television network as a late night parody of daytime soap operas. Of the 195 ABC affiliate stations, 18 refused to air the season opener.[47] The program was a success and would run for four seasons with 85 episodes.
  • Born: Fiona Apple (stage name for Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart), American singer; in New York City
  • Died: Leopold Stokowski, 95, British-born Marican conductor for the Philadelphia Orchestra[48]

September 14, 1977 (Wednesday)
  • In Colombia, the National Civil Strike (Paro Cívico Nacional de 1977) broke out as a protest against President Alfonso López Michelsen, with rioting and skirmishes between protesters and riot police throughout the capital, Bogotá, and then spread to other Colombian cities. Almost 3,000 people were injured and 33 were killed. Thousands of people were arrested and detained in the Plaza de Toros de Santa Maria bullfighting ring and the El Campin soccer football stadium. The violence subsided the next day.
  • All 20 people on a U.S. Air Force Boeing EC-135 (a modified Boeing 707) were killed when the jet crashed on takeoff from Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, New Mexico on a Higher-Headquarters Directed (HHD) mission for the USAF Tactical Air Command.[49] Lacking sufficient power to climb, the jet crashed at an altitude of 8,500 feet (2,600 m) in the Manzano Mountains. The report of the U.S. Air Force accident investigation concluded that "a plane too heavy and a runway too short combined with miscalculations by the crew" in causing the crash near a nuclear weapons storage facility.[50]
  • U.S. terrorist Mark Rudd, one of the founders of the Weather Underground paramilitary organization, turned himself in to authorities after more than seven years as a fugitive.[51] A month later, Rudd was allowed to plead to a misdemeanor on charges of inciting student rioting in 1968 at Columbia University, and was set free.[52]

September 15, 1977 (Thursday)

September 16, 1977 (Friday)
  • At the University of Zurich Hospital in Switzerland, Dr. Andreas Gruentzig, a German cardiologist, performed the first percutaneous coronary angioplasty (also called a "balloon angioplasty") on a human being as a non-surgical procedure, improving on the work of Dr. Charles Dotter[55] by fitting a catheter "with a polyvinylchloride balloon that would set in motion a revolution in medicine." Adolph Bachman, a heart patient at the hospital, agreed to be the first patient and remained awake during the entire procedure for clearing a coronary artery.[56]
  • A treaty for the Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Dams project was signed in Budapest between Prime Ministers György Lázár of the People's Republic of Hungary and Lubomír Štrougal of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic to build dams on the Danube River to control flooding and provide hydroelectric power for both nations. The project soon ran into problems with funding and, after the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993, a border dispute between the Republic of Hungary and the Slovak Republic over the rerouting of the Danube, the border between the two nations.
  • Former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan was re-arrested only three days after he had been released on bail from his September 3 arrest. He would remain incarcerated at the Central Jail Rawalpindi for the rest of his life, found guilty of murder on March 18, 1978, after a five-month long trial, and hanged in prison on April 4, 1979.
  • American serial killer Carlton Gary, who had escaped prison on August 22, committed the first of at least seven rape/murders of aged women, strangling Ferne Jackson, 60, at her home in Columbus, Georgia. Before his arrest 15 months later, he would strangle seven other women ranging in age from 61 to 89 years old. He would be executed by lethal injection in 2018. "[57]
  • Soviet Russian serial killer Anatoly Biryukov committed the murder of first of five babies in Moscow, before being arrested on October 24, 1977. He would be executed by a gunshot to the head on February 24, 1979.
  • Died:
    • Maria Callas (stage name for Maria Kalogeropoulos), 53, U.S.-born Greek soprano opera singer, died of a heart attack.[58]
    • Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld), 29, English rock-guitarist and lead vocalist for the band T. Rex, was killed in a car wreck in London while being driven home by his girlfriend.
    • Claudio Camaso (stage name for Claudio Volonté), 38, Italian film actor, hanged himself at the Regina Coeli prison in Rome, six weeks after being arrested for the fatal stabbing of film gaffer Vincenzo Mazza.[59]

September 17, 1977 (Saturday)

September 18, 1977 (Sunday)

September 19, 1977 (Monday)

September 20, 1977 (Tuesday)
  • The Petrozavodsk phenomenon, a series of initially unidentifiable objects in the sky was observed over the Russian city of Petrozavodsk in the Soviet Union and some northern European countries. The event came at the same time as the launch of the Soviet electronic intelligence satellite Kosmos 955.[63]
  • The phrase "jumping the shark", referring to the point where a creative work has reached the point of running out of new ideas, was given inspiration in an episode of the highest-rated TV program in the U.S. at the time, Happy Days.
  • Born: Namie Amuro, Japanese singer and actress; in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture

September 21, 1977 (Wednesday)
  • The crash of Malev Hungarian Airlines Flight 203 killed all 8 of its crew and 21 of the 45 passengers on board. The Tupolev Tu-134 jet had departed Istanbul in Turkey and was preparing to land at Bucharest in Romania as a stop on the way to Budapest in Hungary. An investigation by the Romanian Department of Transportation concluded that the jet had gradually lost altitude and failed to clear a plateau during its approach to the runway.[64]
  • Bert Lance, the Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget for President Jimmy Carter, resigned after being investigated for mismanagement of a bank in Calhoun, Georgia.[65] Lance would later be acquitted of the criminal charges brought against him.
  • Motorcycle stunt rider Evel Knievel let anger end his career when he used a baseball bat to attack and injure sports promoter Shelly Saltman. Knievel was furious after reading Saltman's recently published Evel Knievel on Tour, an unflattering book about Knievel's 1974 attempt to jump a rocket-powered cycle over the Snake River Canyon in Idaho. Saltman was hospitalized for a compound fracture of his left arm and a broken right wrist.[66] On October 14, Knievel pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to six months in jail and lost all of his sponsors and endorsement deals, including his contract with the Ideal Toy Company, which had paid him royalties for using his likeness in a line of best-selling Evel Knievel action figures and related merchandise.
Adler

September 22, 1977 (Thursday)
  • Egypt's Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy announced a major reverse in his nation's policy toward Israel, telling reporters at a press conference in Washington DC that "The Arab countries are ready for the first time to accept Israel as a Middle Eastern country to live in peace in this area, in secure borders." Fahmy's announcement came after he had concluded a day of talks with U.S. President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.[67]
  • A group of 55 people— 31 American citizens and 24 of their Cuban relatives— landed at Homestead Air Force Base near Miami in the U.S. after a short flight from Havana in Cuba, becoming the first persons allowed to leave Cuba in more than a decade. The group arrived on a chartered Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 jet, as part of a repatriation agreement between Cuba and the United States.[68]
  • Haiti's dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier marked the 20th anniversary of the Duvalier family's rule over the Caribbean nation and freed 104 political prisoners, "some of them jailed for many years and others thought dead."[69]
  • What is now the USA Network on cable television was launched as a joint venture of UA-Columbia Cablevision and the Madison Square Garden Corporation, and would soon brand itself the Madison Square Garden Sports Network, unrelated to what is now the MSG Network.[70] When MSG Network assumed its current name on April 9, 1980, the MSG Sports Network would rebrand itself as the USA Network.
  • The HBO (Home Box Office) pay cable service, which had been limited since 1972 to broadcasting sporting events and uninterrupted telecasts of recent cinema films, launched its first original weekly program, Inside the NFL, which has gone on to become cable television's longest-running series.
  • Regular commercial service to and from New York City by the Concorde supersonic aircraft began after the New York and New Jersey Port Authority relented on its position against allowing the Concorde to land at the JFK Airport.
  • Born: Paul Sculthorpe, English rugby league forward with 27 appearances for the Great Britain national team; in Burnley, Lancashire

September 23, 1977 (Friday)
  • At a trade show in Tokyo, the All-Japan Audio Fair, the first public demonstration of what was billed as "laser sound" by the Japanese electronic company Sony and the Dutch company Philips was given for the technology that would become the basis for digital recording of the compact disc for music, as well as the videodisc, the CD-ROM, the DVD and other products. The Associated Press reported that "The Japanese have introduced a record player that uses a laser beam instead of a needle and does not wear out records... A small laser gun on the turntable cast a beam on a 12-inch wide silvery disc rotating 1,800 times a minute. Characteristics of the disk's 54,000 delicate grooves are turned into electrical signals and then into sound that is reproduced through speakers."[71]
  • In Uganda, six political prisoners escaped prison before they were to be executed for a failed attempt on June 18 to overthrow dictator Idi Amin. The coup organizer, Major Patrick Kimumwe, got out of a prison cell of the State Research Bureau in the Nakasero district of Kampala. Kimumwe was accompanied by Flight Lieutenants Sylvester Mutumba and Boswal Nambale, Cadet Nicodemus Kassujja, and Warrant Officer Eddie Sendaula, after were able to force their way out through a ventilator in the wall of their prison cell at the . Two other prisoners, Warrant Officers John Okech and Christopher Ssekalo, were not thin enough to get through the space and remained behind after helping the others.[72]
  • In the last horse race of the day at Belmont Park, a horse from Uruguay named Lebón, with 57—1 odds, won in an upset. The win was suspect because Lebón had finished 11th out of 12 in a previous race at Belmont, and had earned only $711 in 1976. Equine veterinarian Mark Gerard, who collected $77,920 by betting on the horse, was soon found to have substituted another horse, Cinzano, in place of Lebón.[73] Soon afterward, a Uruguayan sports journalist recognized Cinzano and informed the New York State Racing Commission.
  • Born: Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer; in Beirut (murdered 2008)

September 24, 1977 (Saturday)
  • The collision of a ferryboat and a barge on the Nile River, north of Cairo, killed 51 of the 60 people on board. Nine passengers survived, but 26 bodies were recovered and 25 other passengers were missing and presumed dead.[74]
  • The championship of Australian rules football, the 80th Grand Final of the Victoria Football League, was played at Melbourne before a crowd of 108,224 people and a live television audience on the Seven Network. The North Melbourne Kangaroos scored 10 goals (worth six points each) and 16 behinds (one point each) (10.16) while the Collingwood Magpies had 9 goals and 22 behinds (9.22), giving each team exactly 76 points.[75] A second, 81st Grand Final was played on October 1, with North Melbourne beating Collingwood, 21.25 to 19.10 (151 to 124).

September 25, 1977 (Sunday)

September 26, 1977 (Monday)
  • Taking advantage of deregulation of the U.S. airlines, the British carrier Laker Airways inauguration the lowest trans-Atlantic passenger flight service in the world, with flights between Gatwick Airport in London to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. The prices were $135 (£77.14) one-way from New York to London and £59 ($103.25) from London to New York, based on the then-exchange rate of £1.00 = $1.75.[81]
  • U.S. white supremacist Robert Edward Chambliss was arrested on charges of conspiracy and murder in the deaths of four African-American girls, 14 years after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama. Alabama's attorney general, Bill Baxley, had reopened the case in 1976 and a grand jury returned the indictment against Chambliss.[82]
  • Died: Ernie Lombardi, 69, American baseball player and inductee in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, 1938 National League Most Valuable Player, NL batting champion 1938 and 1942[83]

September 27, 1977 (Tuesday)
  • Japan Air Lines Flight 715 crashed into a hillside during its approach to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, after having departed from Hong Kong, killing 34 of the 79 people on board, including 8 of its 10-member crew. The McDonnell Douglas DC-8 jet had gone below the minimal descent altitude of 750 feet (230 m) before the captain had sighted the runway and crashed into the 300 feet (91 m) high hill, four nautical miles from the runway.[84]

September 28, 1977 (Wednesday)
  • Japan Air Lines Flight 472, flying from Paris to Tokyo, was hijacked by five members of the Japanese Red Army (JRA) terrorist group. The Douglas DC-8 had 151 other passengers and crew on board and had just taken off from Mumbai when it was diverted to Dhaka in Bangladesh.[85] Three days later, the Japanese government accepted the terrorists' demands and released nine members of the Red Army and paid a US$6,000,000 ransom. Announcing a decision of the Japanese government, Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda told reporters, "There are times when one cannot speak about law and order," and announced acceptance of the demands.[86][87] The last 19 hostages were freed by the Japanese Red Army on October 3 after the terrorists landed in Algiers.[88]
  • The Porsche 928 made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show.
  • Born:

September 29, 1977 (Thursday)

September 30, 1977 (Friday)
  • Members of the Bangladesh Army, stationed at the Bogra Cantonment, staged a mutiny that would lead to much larger uprising on October 2 and the eventual execution of 1,143 military personnel.
  • The last of the ongoing Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) instruments on the Moon were deactivated after funding for the project was eliminated from the budget at the end of Fiscal Year 1977. The Charged Particle Lunar Environment Experiment (CPLEE) had been placed at the Fra Mauro formation in 1971 by the crew of Apollo 14 to measure the energy spectra of low-energy charged particles striking the lunar surface.[94]
  • Philippine political activists Serge Osmeña and Eugenio Lopez Jr., jailed for the past five years under the martial law declared in 1972 by President Ferdinand Marcos, escaped from the Philippine Army's maximum security prison at Fort Bonifacio. The incident would later be dramatized in the 1995 film Eskapo.
  • The Mutual Broadcasting System, one of the four major U.S. radio networks, was acquired by the Amway Corporation, a company known for its manufacture and private distribution network for health, beauty and home care products.[95]
  • At Hanoi, Vietnamese government officials met with a team from the United States and returned the remains of 17 U.S. Air Force fliers, three from the U.S. Navy, and those of a civilian government employee, all of whom had been missing in action during the Vietnam War. The U.S. Military Center was able to identify the individuals. At the time, 702 other persons were listed as MIAs and 1,803 were classified as killed in action but whose bodies had never been recovered.[96]
  • Born:
  • Died: Mary Ford, 53, American pop music singer and part of the husband-wife duo of Les Paul and Mary Ford, died of pneumonia after having been in a diabetic coma for 54 days. On August 8, she had had an adverse reaction to insulin and never regained consciousness.[97] During the first five years of the 1950s, they had 16 top-10 hits.

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  46. "Shah of Iran's Sister Escapes Assassination", Los Angeles Times, September 14, 1977, p. I-5
  47. "Can 'Soap' Slip Through the Minefield?", Variety, September 29, 1977
  48. "Leopold Stokowski Dies of Heart Attack at 95", by Martin Bernheimer, Los Angeles Times, September 14, 1977, p. I-1
  49. Aviation Safety Network
  50. "The Nation", Los Angeles Times, December 19, 1977, p.I-2
  51. "Mark Rudd Ends His Days of Rage, Years of Hiding", by John J. Goldman, Los Angeles Times, September 15, 1977, p. I-1
  52. "Rudd Goes Free After Guilty Plea in '68 Riot Case", Los Angeles Times, October 14, 1977, p.I-13
  53. "15 settembre 1977, Torino, prima stesura al mondo di una fibra ottica in esercizio. Un record detenuto da TIM." ("September 15, 1977, Turin: first draft in the world of an optical fiber in operation. A record held by TIM.")
  54. The quotation marks and the lower case "i" were part of the title of the show.
  55. Dotter had invented the angioplasty and treated a femoral artery of an Oregon woman on January 16, 1964.
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  57. Carlton Gary: The Columbus, Georgia Stocking Strangler", by Denise Noe, Crime Library, TruTV.com
  58. "Maria Callas, 53, Tempestuous Star of Opera, Dies", Los Angeles Times, September 17, 1977, p. I-1
  59. "Claudio Volonté si e impicato in cella disperato per avere ucciso il giovane" ("Claudio Volontè hanged himself in his cell in despair for having killed a young man"), La Stampa (Turin), September 17, 1977, p.13
  60. "America's Cup Is Just a Breeze for Courageous", Los Angeles Times, September 19, 1977, p. III-1
  61. Abductions of Japanese Citizens by North Korea (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, 2012) p.12
  62. "Borys Martos, Ex‐Leader of Independent Ukraine", The New York Times, September 23, 1977, p.28
  63. "Soviet UFO due to secret launch", Science News, October 8, 1977
  64. Aviation Safety Network
  65. "Lance Resigns; President Tells 'Regret and Sorrow'— Grim, Shaken Carter Still Defends Him", by Rudy Abramson and Don Irwin, Los Angeles Times, September 22, 1977, p. I-1
  66. "Knievel Questioned in Attack on Man", Los Angeles Times, September 22, 1977, p.II-8
  67. "Arabs Ready to Live With Israel— Egypt; Foreign Minister Gives U.S. Peace Initiative a Boost With His Statement", by Oswald Johnston, Los Angeles Times, September 23, 1977, p.I-1
  68. "55 Refugees From Cuba Land Here", by Robert Fabricio and Bonnie Anderson, Miami Herald, September 23, 1977, p.IA
  69. "The World", Los Angeles Times, September 23, 1977, p.I-2
  70. "Garden Cable Network Is Going Beyond Sports", by Les Brown, The New York Times, April 7, 1978
  71. "'Laser Sound' Introduced", Los Angeles Times, September 25, 1977, p.I-29
  72. "September 23, 1977: Six stage escape from the dreaded State Research Bureau", Monitor magazine (Kampala), November 4, 2017
  73. "Pleasant Colony and the Crown of Thorns", by Jon Wertheim, Sports Illustrated, April 27, 2021
  74. "Nile collision fatal to 26", UPI report in The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA), September 26, 1977, p.2
  75. "VFL grand final on Saturday", by Jack Dyer, Sydney Morning Herald, September 25, 1977, p.83
  76. "越南与柬埔寨妇女代表团上香缅怀遭波尔布特军杀害的无辜平民 ("Vietnamese and Cambodian women's delegations commemorate innocent civilians killed by Pol Pot's army")". 越通社 (Vietnam News Agency). 22 February 2019. Archived from the original on 6 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  77. "French Left Gains in Election", Los Angeles Times, September 26, 1977, p.I-2
  78. "Smith and Kaunda Hold Secret Meeting", Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1977, p.I-19
  79. Andrew G. Suozzo, The Chicago Marathon (University of Illinois Press, 2006)
  80. "Divya Dutta's birthday made 'very special' by Shabana Azmi". The Indian Express. Indo-Asian News Service. 25 September 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  81. "First Skytrain leaves on Monday", Flight International, September 24, 1977, p. 875
  82. "Ex-Klansman Held in 1963 Bomb Deaths of Four Black Girls in Birmingham Church", Los Angeles Times, September 27, 1977, p.I-14
  83. "Ernie Lombardi Dies at Age 69", Los Angeles Times, September 28, 1977, p.III-1
  84. Aviation Safety Network
  85. "Plane With 156 Hijacked in India— Flight Believed Seized by Japanese Leftists", Los Angeles Times, September 28, 1977, p. I-1
  86. "Decision Offers Insight Into Japanese", Los Angeles Times, October 1, 1977, p.I-1
  87. "58 Hostages Exchanged for $6 Million, 6 Prisoners— Hijackers Give No Hint of What They Plan Next as Plane Waits in Dacca With Remaining Captives", Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1977, p.I-1
  88. "Last 19 Hostages Freed in Algeria— Hijackers Surrender, Their Fate Unknown", Los Angeles Times, October 4, 1977, p.I-1
  89. "Salyut 6", by Mark Wade, Encyclopedia Astronautica (2002)
  90. "INTELSAT 4A F-5", NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive
  91. "Spain Grants Provisional Autonomy to Its Northeastern Catalonia Region", by Stanley Meisler, Los Angeles Times, September 30, 1977, p.I-8
  92. "India: Shah Commission of Inquiry, Interim Report I", by Neil J. Kritz, in Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes, Volume III: Laws, Rulings, and Reports. U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 1995) p.237
  93. "Masters Chief Roberts Kills Self at Augusta", Los Angeles Times, September 30, 1977, p.III-1
  94. "Passive Seismic Experiment (PSE)", NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive"
  95. In the Matter of the Petition of Mutual Broadcasting System Inc. for Redetermination of a Deficiency, New York State Division of Tax Appeals, August 27, 1987
  96. "Pentagon Identifies U.S. Bodies Returned by Hanoi", Los Angeles Times, October 26, 1977, p.I-26
  97. "Mary Ford Dies of Pneumonia— Partner in One of Top Singing Duos of '50s", by Dorothy Townsend, Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1977, p.I-3
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