| 1976 |
| September |
- Congress
passes Hyde amendment, which would prevent
Medicaid reimbursements for abortions
|
| October |
- Three
elderly deaths halt swine flu vaccination program
|
| November |
- Carter/Mondale
defeats Ford, Bill Clinton elected to first of
three terms in Arkansas as governor
- Mayor
Richard Daley, ruler of Chicago for 20 years,
dies
- Worst
oil spill off US coast - Liberian tanker off
Nantucket
|
| Entertainment |
- TV:
Charlie's Angels, Happy Days, Laverne and
Shirley, Little House on the Prairie, The
Waltons.
- Movies:
Saturday Night Fever, Network, Rocky,
Taxi Driver, All the President's Men, Three Days
of the Condor, The Marathon Man
- Music:
Springsteen, Bob Dylan, McCartney and Wings, Joni
Mitchell, Warren Zevon, Ramones, Blondie. John
Denver, Peter Frampton, The Captain and Tennille,
Sex Pistols
|
| 1977 |
| January |
- Roots
on TV, watched by 36 million
- Vatican
bars women from priesthood
|
| February |
- Transportation
Department announces seat belts required by 1984
|
| March |
- Carter
ends travel restrictions to Cuba, Vietnam, North
Korea, Cambodia
|
| April |
- Alaskan
pipeline completed
- 414
arrested as Clamshell Alliance occupies
construction site of nuclear power plant at
Seabrook, New Hampshire
|
| May |
- Unemployment
down to 7% - lowest in 29 months
- 500
demonstrators arrested at Seabrook demo found
guilty of trespass
|
| June |
- Dade
County, Florida vote repeals anti-gay ordinance
(Orange juice spokeswoman / singer Anita Bryant
is active in campaign against repeal)
- Seattle
Slew wins the Triple Crown, horse racing's
highest honor, by winning the Belmont Stakes.
- EPA
approves Seabrook
- California
judge places heiress and onetime terrorist Patty
Hearst on five years' probation for her
involvement in a 1974 bank robbery
|
| July |
- New
York City black out
- President
Carter cancels the B-1 bomber program.
- Elvis
Presley makes his last concert appearance,
performing live in Indianapolis.
- Pet
boa constrictor belonging to rocker Alice Cooper
dies when it is bitten by its breakfast, a live
rat.
|
| August |
- Son of
Sam captured after 6 murders, 7 wounded
- Elvis
Presley dies in Memphis
|
| September |
|
| October |
- US
trade deficit first time over 3 billion in
history
- Rocky
Horror Show starts at University of California
|
| November |
- United
Nations votes South African arms embargo
- Egypt
President Sadat visits Israel
|
| December |
- FBI
finally releases JFK assassination files due to
requests under Freedom of Information Act
|
| Entertainment |
- TV:
Shields And Yarnell, The Marilyn McCoo &
Billy Davis, Jr. Show
- Movies:
Annie Hall, Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
Star Wars, Smokey and the Bandit, The Goodbye
Girl
- Music:
Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in plane crash, Elvis
Costello, Patti Smith, Peter Tosh, Talking Heads,
Clash
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