Today in History for October 1977

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 63 of 63

1st - Brazilian soccer great Pele' retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games
1st - Department Of Energy established
1st - Elton John honored by MSG Hall of Fame
1st - Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title
2nd - Pakistan general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition
2nd - Vivian Brownlee wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
2nd - Dusty Baker 30th HR joins teammates Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith (32), & Ron Cey (30) in make Dodgers 1st team to boast 4 30-HR hitters
3rd - "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" opens at Imperial NYC for 66 perfs
3rd - Indira Gandhi arrested
4th - Pier 39 opens in SF
5th - "Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 43 performances
6th - DL Coburns "Gin Game," premieres in NYC
6th - Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game
6th - In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
7th - Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis
7th - USSR adopts constitution
7th - The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
8th - Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)
9th - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Houston Exchange Clubs Golf Classic
Singer Elton John 9th - Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock
9th - Yanks rally for 3 in 9th & beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31
10th - 11th Country Music Association Award: Ronnie Milsap wins
11th - Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
12th - "Throwaway Game" Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers
12th - 4th test of space shuttle Enterprise
12th - Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfolded, smashed into cop van
12th - US Supreme Court heard arguments in "reverse discrimination" case of
12th - Allan Bakke, white student denied admission to University of California Med School
14th - Linda Ronstadt sings national anthem at World Series
14th - Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro
15th - Arkansas' Steve Little kicks a record tying 67 yard field goal
15th - Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life," goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
15th - Don Ritchie runs world record 100 mile (11:30:51)
17th - Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament
17th - West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages & killing 3 of 4 hijackers
18th - 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th
18th - NY Yankees win their 21st World Championship, 4 games
18th - W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu
18th - Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record
18th - Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years
19th - Corpse of kidnapped West German, H M Schleyer, found
19th - Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in NYC
20th - David Mamet's "Life in the Theater," premieres in NYC
20th - Hamilton Deane & John Balderstons "Dracula," premieres in NYC
20th - Six killed in Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash in McComb, Mississippi including band members Ronnie Vanzant, Steve Gains, Cassie Gaines and Dean kilpatrick
21st - US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa
21st - The European Patent Institute is founded.
22nd - International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 & 2 launched into Earth orbit
23rd - 7th NYC Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:43:10
23rd - 8th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:38
23rd - Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve new Canal treaties
23rd - Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 34-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered
25th - Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
26th - 5th & final test of space shuttle Enterprise
26th - Dr Clifford R Wharton Jr named chancellor of State University of NY
26th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
26th - The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
27th - Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped
27th - NASA launches space vehicle S-200
29th - "Act" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 233 performances
29th - Texas' Russell Erideben kicks his 3rd 60 yard field goal of the season
29th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
30th - Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 56 of 56

1st - Alejandro Hernandez, Tijuana Mexico, tennis pro
1st - Jeffrey van Hooydonk, Belgian race car driver
5th - Lia Rousset, Alhambra California, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
6th - Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer
6th - Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer
6th - Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player
7th - Clayton Miller, Toronto Ontario, trap shooter (Olympics-96)
7th - Brandon Quinn, American actor
7th - Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress
8th - Erna Siikavirta, Finnish musician (Deathlike Silence)
8th - Anne-Caroline Chausson, French mountain-bike rider
9th - Lee San San, Miss Hong Kong Universe (1997)
9th - Brian Roberts, American baseball player
11th - Matthew Bomer, American actor
11th - Desmond Mason, American basketball player
11th - Claudia Palacios, Colombian television journalist
11th - Ty Wigginton, American baseball player
12th - Carmen Carrillo Vilanova, Miss El Salvador Universe (1997)
12th - Bode Miller, American alpine ski-racer
12th - Javier Toyo, Venezuelan footballer
12th - Jay Jenkins, American rapper also known as "Young Jeezy"
13th - Gareth Batty, English cricketer
13th - Paul Pierce, American basketball player
13th - Kiele Sanchez, American actress
14th - Kelly Schumacher, Canadian basketball player
14th - Bianca Beauchamp, adult model
14th - Jonathan Kerrigan, English actor
14th - Tina Dico, Danish singer-songwriter
15th - Masato Kawabata, Japanese racing driver
15th - Erin McKeown, American musician
15th - Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer
15th - David Trezeguet, French football player
16th - John Mayer, American musician
17th - Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer
17th - Bryan Bertino, American film director and screenwriter
18th - Chris McKenna, Queens NY, actor (Joey-One Live to Live)
18th - Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer
18th - David Vuillemin, Pro Motocross Rider
19th - Louis-José Houde, Canadian stand-up comic
19th - Jason Reitman, Canadian filmmaker
19th - Raúl Tamudo, Spanish footballer
20th - Matt Jansen, English footballer
20th - Leila Josefowicz, Canadian classical violinist
21st - Christie Lee Woods, Texas, Miss Teen USA (1996)
22nd - Katrina Bergstrom, Miss North Dakota Teen USA (1996)
24th - Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadoran footballer
25th - Birgit Prinz, German footballer
26th - Jon Heder, American actor
27th - Jiří Jarosík, Czech footballer
27th - Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
28th - Lara Antunes, Miss Portugal Universe (1997)
29th - Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor
30th - Jason Adelman, American actor
30th - Charmian Faulkner, Australian crime victim
31st - Sylviane Félix, French athlete
31st - Séverine Ferrer, French singer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 19 of 19

8th - Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country singer , composer , lyricist (b. 1902 )
10th - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
11th - Mason Gross, professor (Think Fast, 2 for the Money), dies at 66
11th - MacKinlay Kantor, American author (b. 1904)
12th - Doris Davenport, actress (Behind the News, Westerner), dies at 81
14th - Bing Crosby, singer/actor (Going My Way), dies of a heart attack at 74
15th - Ralph Truman, actor (Henry V, Treasure Island), dies at 77
16th - Michael Balcon, producer, dies at 81
17th - Robert C "Cal" Hubbard, US baseball player/umpire, dies at 77
18th - Rolph Grant, cricketer (West Indian capt on 1939 England tour), dies
18th - Andreas Baader (b. 1943)
18th - Gudrun Ensslin (b. 1940)
18th - Jan-Carl Raspe (b. 1944)
20th - Cassie Gaines, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 28
20th - Ronnie Van Zant, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 29
20th - Steve Gaines, rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in air crash at 28
21st - Ferit Tuzun, composer, dies at 48
27th - James M Cain, US writer (Postman Always Rings Twice), dies at 85
31st - Joan Tetzel, actress (Hell Below Zero), dies at 56