October 1977 calendar

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

Famous Birthday

• John Mayer

  American singer-songwriter and producer.

• Bianca Beauchamp

  Canadian fetish and adult model.

• Matt Bomer

  TV Actor.

• Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
• Coralie (L5)
• Séverine Ferrer

  French singer.

• Tania Young
• David Trezeguet

  French-Argentine football player, striker.

• Lapo Elkann
• Young Jeezy
• Jon Heder

  American actor.

• Brendan Fehr

  Canadian actor.

• Sara Semendueva
• Rav Wilding
• Manila Nazzaro

  Italian beauty queen, voted Miss Italy of 1999.

• Elena Berezhnaya
• Brandon Quinn

  American actor.

• Xavier Delarue
• David Vuillemin

  French motocross rider, who was the World Supercross Champion in 1999 and 2001.

• Bode Miller

  American alpine ski-racer.

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Famous Deaths

• Bing Crosby

  American singer who was a world famed crooner for his mellow baritone.

• Andreas Baader

  German militant anarchist and political activist.

• Gudrun Ensslin

  German dedicated communist, the daughter of a Pastor.

• Steve Gaines

  American musician.

• Ralph Truman

  Actor (Henry V, Treasure Island), dies at 77.

• James M Cain

  US writer (Postman Always Rings Twice), dies at 85.

• Joan Tetzel

  Actress (Hell Below Zero), dies at 56.

• Robert C "Cal" Hubbard

  US baseball player / umpire, dies at 77.

• Jose Ber Gelbard

  activist and politician, dies in Washington DC of a heart attack (Born 1917).

• Danny Greene

  Irish-American mobster from Cleveland (Born 1933).

• Red Army

  Faction Stammheim Prison suicides.

• MacKinlay Kantor

  American journalist, novelist and screenwriter.

• Jan-Carl Raspe

  German terrorist, a member of the Red Army activist group led by Andreas Baader in Berlin.

• Chiyonoyama Masanobu

  Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (Born 1926).

• Giorgos Papasideris

  Greek country singer , composer , lyricist (Born 1902).

• Angelo Muscat

  Maltese-English actor (d. 1977).

• Mason Gross

  Professor (Think Fast, 2 for the Money), dies at 66.

• Doris Davenport

  Actress (Behind the News, Westerner), dies at 81.

• Michael Balcon

  Producer, dies at 81.

• Cassie Gaines

  Rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 28.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Meco - Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band (Medley)
2. Debby Boone - You Light Up My Life
3. KC and the Sunshine Band - Keep It Comin' Love
4. Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better
5. Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. David Soul - Silver Lady
2. La Belle Epoque - Black Is Black
3. Baccara - Yes Sir I Can Boogie
4. Elvis Presley - Way Down
5. The Emotions - Best Of My Love