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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in October 1977.
The US president was Jimmy Carter (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was James Callaghan (Labour), Pope St Paul VI was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on October 1977: find out below

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Historical Events

Which were the important events of October 1977?


Events

  • 01 Oct 1977 Department Of Energy established
  • 02 Oct 1977 Dusty Baker 30th HR joins teammates Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith (32), and Ron Cey (30) in make Dodgers 1st team to boast 4 30-HR hitters
  • 03 Oct 1977 Comedy with Music (Victor Borge) opens at Imperial NYC for 66 performances
  • 04 Oct 1977 Pier 39 opens in San Francisco, California.
  • 05 Oct 1977 Hair opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 43 performances
  • 06 Oct 1977 DL Coburns Gin Game, premieres in New York City
  • 07 Oct 1977 Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis
  • 08 Oct 1977 Largest baseball crowd in Pennsylvania, 64,924 see Los Angeles Dodgers beat Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 in fourth National League championship game (Dodgers win pennant).
  • 09 Oct 1977 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Houston Exchange Clubs Golf Classic
  • 10 Oct 1977 11th Country Music Association Award: Ronnie Milsap wins
  • 11 Oct 1977 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth.
  • 12 Oct 1977 4th test of space shuttle Enterprise
  • 13 Oct 1977 The Atari 2600 game system is released.
  • 14 Oct 1977 Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro
  • 15 Oct 1977 Don Ritchie runs world record 100 mile
  • 17 Oct 1977 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament.
  • 18 Oct 1977 W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu
  • 19 Oct 1977 Corpse of kidnapped West German, H M Schleyer, found
  • 20 Oct 1977 Hamilton Deane and John Balderstons Dracula, premieres in New York City
  • 21 Oct 1977 US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa.
  • 22 Oct 1977 International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 and 2 launched into Earth orbit.
  • 23 Oct 1977 8th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:38
  • 24 Oct 1977 Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.)
  • 25 Oct 1977 Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
  • 26 Oct 1977 5th and final test of space shuttle Enterprise
  • 27 Oct 1977 Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped
  • 29 Oct 1977 Act opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 233 performances
  • 30 Oct 1977 Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07

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Music charts

Which were the top hits in October 1977?
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Top #5 songs in the USA

  1. - Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band (Medley)
  2. - You Light Up My Life
  3. - Keep It Comin' Love
  4. - Nobody Does It Better
  5. - Don't Stop

Top #5 songs in the UK

  1. - Silver Lady
  2. - Black Is Black
  3. - Yes Sir I Can Boogie
  4. - Way Down
  5. - Best Of My Love

Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released in that month?
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Office Romance

Office Romance

Release year: 1977

Directed by: Eldar Ryazanov

Starring: Alisa Freyndlikh, Andrey Myagkov, Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Oleg Basilashvili

On Our Own

On Our Own

Release year: 1977

Directed by: Lyman Dayton

Julia

Julia

Release year: 1977

Directed by: Fred Zinnemann

Starring: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell

Country: United States of America

Equus

Equus

Release year: 1977

Directed by: Sidney Lumet

Starring: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright

Country: United States of America

The Last Wave

The Last Wave

Release year: 1977

Directed by: Peter Weir

Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow

Country: United States of America

Books

Which were the most popular books released in October 1977?
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The Rich Are Different by Susan Howatch

The Rich Are Different

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Dinah Slade, a young Englishwoman, is full of vitality and great sensual power. She also has fierce ambition. Paul Van Zale, a handsome and powerful man, falls in love with Dinah Slade.

Dreams Die First by Harold Robbins

Dreams Die First

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"Robbins eroticized commerce and, at the time, commercialized erotica. He dashing into an rich new market for dirty novels." --The New Yorker. "Robbins' dialog is moving... His people have the warmth

The Immigrants by Howard Fast

The Immigrants

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Howard Fast's first book is a beloved family saga. "A most beautiful book...there hasn’t been a book in years that can do an job on readers’ emotions that this book."

Daniel Martin by John Fowles

Daniel Martin

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New trade paperback edition "a masterpiece symbolically charged realism Fowles" is now available. He is the only English writer to have the knowledge, power, and wisdom of Tolstoy

The Public Burning by Robert Coover

The Public Burning

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The Public Burning was a controversial bestseller in 1977. It has been rediscovered as one of the most influential novels today.