1977

Nuclear-proliferation pact, curbing spread of nuclear weapons, signed by 15 countries, including US and USSR
Treaties signed to transfer control of the Panama Canal to Panama
Two 747s collide in the Canary Islands - 574 killed
Kenya bans the hunting of big game
Anwar Sadat visits Israel and declares "no more war."
Menachem Begin becomes Premier of Israel
Rev. Jacqueline Means - 1st woman Episcopal priest
Vietnam draft resisters pardoned
Trans-Alaskan oil pipeline opens
1st landing of the Concorde at Kennedy International Airport
Janet Guthrie becomes the 1st woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500
Foyt becomes the 1st four-time winner of the Indianapolis 500
Tolkien's The Silmarillion
Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds
Scientists identify previously unknown bacterium as cause of mysterious "legionnaire's disease"
rings around Uranus discovered
Apple II computer
Neutron bomb
Fiber-optic communications
Songs - "You Light Up My Life", "Best of My Love", "Hotel California", "I Just Want to be Your Everything"
Broadway - "Annie"
Films - "Star Wars", "Annie Hall", "Saturday Night Fever"
"Roots" miniseries, based on Alex Haley's book, draws a record 80 million viewers
TV - "CHiPs", "Soap"
Shannon Miller, Fiona Apple, Oksana Baiul, and Kerri Strug born
Werner von Braun, Elvis Presley, Freddie Prinz, Joan Crawford, Roberto Rossellini, Groucho Marx, Bing Crosby, Erroll Garner, Peter Finch, Ethel Waters, Zero Mostel, Maria Callas, and Charlie Chaplin die