July 1977 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1977 84th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats B Stove
• 03 Jul 1977 5th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Judy Rankin
• 04 Jul 1977 Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
• 05 Jul 1977 Military coup in Pakistan: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
• 07 Jul 1977 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City
• 08 Jul 1977 Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance
• 09 Jul 1977 106th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland
• 10 Jul 1977 Happy End closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 75 performances
• 11 Jul 1977 US Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
• 12 Jul 1977 1st free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise
• 13 Jul 1977 New York City, amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences a blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting.
• 14 Jul 1977 North Korea shoots down US helicopter, killing 3
• 15 Jul 1977 Anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay disappears near Griffith, New South Wales (presumed murdered).
• 16 Jul 1977 Janelle Commissiong, of Trinidad and Tobago, crowned 26th Miss Universe
• 17 Jul 1977 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
• 18 Jul 1977 Vietnam becomes member of UN
• 19 Jul 1977 48th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, New York
• 20 Jul 1977 Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 80 and causing US$350 million damage.
• 21 Jul 1977 Libyan-Egyptian border fights
• 22 Jul 1977 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
• 23 Jul 1977 Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Muslims on hostage charges.
• 24 Jul 1977 Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881
• 26 Jul 1977 The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
• 27 Jul 1977 John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US.
• 28 Jul 1977 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska
• 30 Jul 1977 Left-wing German terrorists Susanne Albrecht, Dresdner-Bank.com chairman of the Dresdner Bank in Oberursel, West Germany.
• 31 Jul 1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Pocono Northeast Golf Classic

Famous Birthday

• Liv Tyler

  American actress, daughter of Bebe Buell and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.

• Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Irish actor.

• Milo Ventimiglia

  American actor.

• Victoria Crown Princess of Sweden
• Sarah Biasini

  Comedian, actress.

• Jaime Pressly

  American actress.

• Lana Parrilla

  American actress.

• Audrey Fleurot
• Grand Corps Malade
• Colorado Springs (Colorado)
• Brock Lesnar

  American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler.

• Ashley Scott

  American actress.

• Kelly Reilly

  English actress.

• Danny Dyer

  English actor and television presenter.

• Dublin (Ireland)
• Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Movie Actor.

• Ian Watkins (Lostprophets)
• Tanja Szewczenko

  German figure skater and actress.

• Susana Werner
• Travis Alexander

  American murder victim, killed at his home in Mesa, Arizona.

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Famous Deaths

• Lee Miller

  American photographer who began her career as a model.

• Oedoen Partos

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Loren C Eiseley

  US anthropologist / writer (Animal Secrets), dies at 69.

• Ed Holmes

  Actor (Growing Paynes, Once Upon a Tune), dies at 66.

• Carter De Haven

  Actor (Courage, Great Dictator), dies at 90.

• Gena Branscombe

  Composer, dies at 95.

• Hans-Otto Borgmann

  Composer, dies at 75.

• Karac Plant

  Son of Robert Plant, dies of respiratory failure at 6.

• Hugh Le Caine

  Composer, dies at 63.

• Mohammed al-Zahaby

  Egyptian minister, murdered.

• Vladimir V Nabokov

  Russian / US writer (Lolita), dies at 78.

• Norman Paris

  orchestra leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at age 41.

• Stacy Moskowitz shot to death by Son of Sam

  at age 20.

• Odon Partos

  Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer (Born 1907).

• Alice Paul

  American suffragist figure (Born 1885).

• Konstantin Fedin

  Russian author and poet (d. 1977).

• Gary Kellgren

  American record producer co-founded Record Plant (d. 1977).

• Gersh Budker

  Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (d. 1977).

• Vladimir Nabokov

  Russian-American writer, scholar, translator and lepidopterist.

• Alexander M Volkov

  Russian novelist and mathematician (Born 1891).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Bill Conti - Gonna Fly Now (Theme From Rocky)
2. Alan O'Day - Undercover Angel
3. Shaun Cassidy - Da Doo Ron Ron
4. Barry Manilow - Looks Like We Made It
5. Andy Gibb - I Just Want To Be Your Everything

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Hot Chocolate - So You Win Again
2. Donna Summer - I Feel Love
3. Emerson Lake & Palmer - Fanfare For The Common Man
4. Brotherhood Of Man - Angelo
5. Showaddywaddy - You Got What It Takes