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August 4, 1977 (Thursday) The United States Department of Energy was created as U.S. President Carter signed legislation into law. Former U.S. Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger was sworn into office the next day as the first U.S. Secretary of Energy, and the DOE began operations on October 1.
44. November 2, 1977. Oh, God! $1,320,452. Oh, God! reached number one in its fourth week of release. It grossed $1,508,511 nationally for the weekend ended October 30. Star Wars placed third on the chart based on 98 theaters but grossed $3,292,879 for the same period nationally from 739 theaters.
The 1976–77 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1976 to August 1977. Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of older programming are orange, game shows are pink ...
August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) ... German economist and statistician (d. 1977) 1912 – Ted Drake, English footballer and manager (d. 1995)
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1977. That year, 18 acts earned their first number one songs, such as Leo Sayer, Rose Royce, Mary MacGregor, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Daryl Hall and John Oates, ABBA, David Soul, Thelma Houston, Fleetwood Mac, Bill Conti, Alan O'Day, Shaun Cassidy, Andy Gibb, The Emotions, Meco, and Debby ...
An excursion train pulled by a classic BC Rail steam locomotive visits Oakland, California in 1977. March 9 – Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Movement Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, D.C., killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later.
August 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of Solidarity and Freedom ( Poland) Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Kyrgyzstan from the Soviet Union in 1991. Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Malaya from the United Kingdom in 1957. Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Trinidad and Tobago from the United ...
Elvis' funeral was held at Graceland on Aug. 18, 1977, attracting 10,000 to 25,000 mourners, according to newspaper accounts. Five years later, on June 7, 1982, Graceland was opened to the public ...