August 1977 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1977 Former Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he is flying in Los Angeles
• 03 Aug 1977 Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered
• 04 Aug 1977 President Carter establishes Department of Energy
• 07 Aug 1977 Shenandoah closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 1,050 performances
• 08 Aug 1977 Maurine Stuart, ordained as Zen priest by Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
• 09 Aug 1977 Chris Old completes a century in 37 mins, Yorks vs. Warwicks
• 10 Aug 1977 US and Panamana sign Panama Canal Zone accord
• 11 Aug 1977 Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, vs. Aust at Headingley
• 12 Aug 1977 Space shuttle Enterprise makes first atmospheric flight.
• 13 Aug 1977 1st test glide of shuttle
• 14 Aug 1977 59th PGA Championship: Lanny Wadkins shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach, California
• 15 Aug 1977 SS chief Kappler escapes from prison hospital in Rome
• 17 Aug 1977 Russian nuclear sub Artika is 1st to North Pole
• 18 Aug 1977 2 girls are killed by a runaway car outside of Graceland
• 19 Aug 1977 Julius (Groucho) Marx, comedian (Marx Bros), dies in Los Angeles at age 86.
• 20 Aug 1977 NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
• 21 Aug 1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
• 23 Aug 1977 Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in German DR
• 26 Aug 1977 Frank Martinus Arion forms Surinamese Writers group 77
• 27 Aug 1977 Chicago closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 947 performances
• 28 Aug 1977 Bonnie Lauer wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
• 31 Aug 1977 Spyros Kyprianou appointed President of Cyprus

Famous Birthday

• Tom Brady

  American football player, nicknamed Tom Terrific, a quarterback with the New England Patriots for two years when he was named starting...

• Thierry Henry

  French-born soccer player he has played for several clubs including Monaco (beginning in 1995), Juventus and Barcelona.

• Cameron McGill
• Jeff Hardy

  Wrestler.

• Loana (stylist singer)
• Tarja Turunen

  Metal Singer.

• Damien Saez

  French pop singer, songwriter and composer, born to a Spanish and an Algerian.

• Edward Furlong

  Movie Actor.

• Claire Richards

  British pop singer, a member of the British pop band, STEPS.

• Atomic bombing of Hiroshima
• Zdenka Podkapova
• Jonathan Togo

  American actor, Togo plays officer Ryan Wolfe on CSI Miami, TV’s hit crime show starring David Caruso.

• John Green (author)
• Samantha Ronson

  English singer-songwriter and disc jockey who lives in California.

• Ivory Coast
• Lilou Macé
• Callum Blue

  TV Actor.

• Deco (footballer)
• Denílson (Brazilian footballer)
• Mickaël Silvestre
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Famous Deaths

• Jean Hagen

  American actress, perhaps best known for her four-year role in the popular TV show, "Make Room for Daddy" starring Danny Thomas as Hagen's...

• Edward Chapman

  Actor (Promoter, Rembrandt), dies at 75.

• Groucho Martin

  NYC, comedian (Marx Bros), dies in LA at 86.

• Octavus L "Octave" van Aerschot

  Actor (Scandal in Paris), dies at 87.

• HA Rey

  Author of popular constellation book, dies at 78.

• Heinz Rottger

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Steve Dunne

  Actor (Professional Father), dies at 59.

• Vince Barnett

  Actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), dies at 75.

• Willis Bouchey

  Actor (Battle Cry, From Here to Eternity), dies at 34.

• Francis Gary Powers

  US U-2 pilot, dies at 47.

• George Merritt

  Actor (I Monster, Canterbury Tale), dies at 86.

• Gary Powers

  American spy plane pilot (Born 1929).

• Elvis Presley dies of heart ailment at Graceland

  in Memphis, Tennesee, USA at age 42.

• Edgar Adrian

  English electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the...

• Emil Bloch

  German philosopher (Principle Hope, Traces), dies at 92.

• Brian McGuire

  American actor director producer and screenwriter.

• Naum Gabo

  Russian-American sculptor (d. 1977).

• Alfred Lunt

  Actor (Guardsman, Sally of Sawdust), dies at 83.

• Henry Williamson

  English farmer soldier and author (d. 1977).

• Peter Dyneley

  British actor (Born 1921).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Andy Gibb - I Just Want To Be Your Everything
2. The Emotions - Best Of My Love
3. Peter Frampton - I'm In You
4. Rita Coolidge - (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher
5. Barbra Streisand - My Heart Belongs To Me

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Brotherhood Of Man - Angelo
2. Donna Summer - I Feel Love
3. The Floaters - Float On
4. Showaddywaddy - You Got What It Takes
5. Boney M - Ma Baker