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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.
Elvis Presley. / 35.04611°N 90.02306°W / 35.04611; -90.02306. Elvis Aaron Presley[ a] (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Known as the " King of Rock and Roll ", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century.
1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1977th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 977th year of the 2nd millennium, the 77th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1970s decade.
August 16 is the 228th day of the year ... who died the previous day, ... (d. 1977) 1912 – Ted Drake, English footballer and manager (d. 1995)
In 1977, the young Amish mother, Ida, who was expecting her second child, died in a barn fire at a Moser Road farm south of Dalton. Eli Stutzman Jr. claimed Ida had a bad heart and collapsed ...
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.
Crash. On October 19, 1977, two days after releasing their album Street Survivors, Lynyrd Skynyrd performed at the Greenville Memorial Auditorium in Greenville, South Carolina. The following day they boarded a Convair CV-240 airplane to take them to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where they were to perform at Louisiana State University.
Washington. Date apprehended. August 16, 1975. Theodore Robert Bundy ( né Cowell; November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped, and murdered dozens of young women and girls during the 1970s. After more than a decade of denials, before his execution he confessed to thirty murders.