April 1977 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1977 NFL decides to experiment with a 7th official in some preseason games.
• 02 Apr 1977 Montreal Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a loss.
• 03 Apr 1977 Netherlands / Belgium / Luxembourg adopt summer time
• 04 Apr 1977 Grundy, Virginia experienced a major flood that made around $15 million in damages to 228 residential and commercial structures. To date the town is still recovering.
• 05 Apr 1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 06 Apr 1977 Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released
• 07 Apr 1977 Toronto Blue Jays' first game, they beat Chicago Cubs 9-5.
• 08 Apr 1977 Israel premier Yitzhak Rabin resigns.
• 09 Apr 1977 Communist party legally allowed in Spain after 40 years.
• 10 Apr 1977 Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inning game (3:17).
• 11 Apr 1977 Ireland sets fishing zone at 50 miles.
• 14 Apr 1977 US Supreme Court rules people may refuse to display state motto on car license.
• 16 Apr 1977 Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia
• 17 Apr 1977 I Love My Wife opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 864 performances
• 18 Apr 1977 Side by Side by Sondheim opens at Music Box NYC for 390 performances
• 20 Apr 1977 Supreme Court rules Live Free or Die may be covered on NH licenses
• 21 Apr 1977 Annie opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 2377 performances
• 22 Apr 1977 Simon Peres becomes premier of Israel.
• 23 Apr 1977 ADO The Hague soccer team forms.
• 24 Apr 1977 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA American Defender Golf Tournament.
• 26 Apr 1977 New York's famed disco Studio 54 opens.
• 27 Apr 1977 HCC, Hobby Computer Club, forms in the Netherlands
• 28 Apr 1977 Andreas Baader and members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly two years in Stuttgart, Germany.
• 29 Apr 1977 British Aerospace forms.
• 30 Apr 1977 Party with Comden & Green closes at Morosco NYC after 92 performances

Famous Birthday

• Michael Fassbender

  German-Irish actor, born to an Irish mother and a German father.

• Sarah Michelle Gellar

  American actress.

• John Cena

  American professional wrestler, rapper and actor signed to WWE.

• Tom Welling

  American actor.

• Gerard Way

  American singer (My Chemical Romance).

• Ana de la Reguera
• Stéphanie Renouvin
• Jamie Salé

  Canadian figure skater, who, with partner David Pelletier ,won a gold medal at the 2002 Olympics, but not without anguish.

• Freddie Ljungberg
• Ambra Angiolini

  Italian entertainer who began her career as a teenager and representative of Generation-X.

• Manolo Cardona
• John Oliver (comedian)
• Alek Wek

  Sudanese-English model.

• Kal Penn

  American actor.

• Eric Balfour
• Alexandra Holden

  American actress.

• Marc Raquil

  French athlete of Martiniquais origin, runner (400m).

• Nicolas Cazalé
• Véronique De Kock

  Miss Belgium 1995 and a contestant at Miss Universe 1996.

• Rob McElhenney

  American actor.

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Famous Deaths

• Ricardo Cortez

  Actor / director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87.

• Bryan Foy

  Director / writer, dies at 80.

• John Marriott

  dies at age 83.

• Philip K Wrigley

  baseball owner (Chicago Cubs), dies at age 82.

• Riekus Waskowsky

  Dutch poet, dies at age 44.

• Gummo [Milton] Marx

  US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at age 84.

• Phil Wrigley

  American manufacturer and baseball executive (Born 1894).

• Sepp Herberger

  German football player and manager.

• Charles Sanford

  American financier and CEO in charge of Banker Trust of New York.

• Jacques Prevert

  French poet and screenwriter (Born 1900).

• Siegfried Buback

  German lawyer and politician Attorney General of Germany (d. 1977).

• William Conway

  Northern Irish cardinal (d. 1977).

• Stanley Adams

  Actor (Lillies of the Field, Thunder Alley), dies at 61.

• Issy Bonn

  British actor and musician (Born 1893).

• Walter Wolf

  Austrian-Canadian businessman founded Walter Wolf Racing.

• Gummo Marx

  American actor and comedian (Born 1892).

• Jeno Zador

  Composer, dies at 82.

• Frank Milan

  Actor (Witness), dies at 71.

• Clive Martin Douglas

  Composer, dies at 73.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Daryl Hall & John Oates - Rich Girl
2. ABBA - Dancing Queen
3. David Soul - Don't Give Up On Us
4. Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way
5. Glen Campbell - Southern Nights

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Abba - Knowing Me, Knowing You
2. Rod Stewart - I Don't Want To Talk About It / First Cut Is The Deepest
3. David Soul - Going In With My Eyes Open
4. Deniece Williams - Free
5. Billy Ocean - Red Light Spells Danger