- 1977 in the United States
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* Polish-American mathematician
Antoni Zygmund authors his major work "Measure and Integral".
* Feature films released in 1977 include: ', "Annie Hall ", "Saturday Night Fever ", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind ", "The Goodbye Girl ", '
*John Travolta 's role in "Saturday Night Fever " inspired young Americans to wear Flare jeans, an updated version ofBell-bottoms .
*Fleetwood Mac release "Rumours ". The album spend over 30 weeks at number one and became one the best selling albums of all time.
*Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as the 39thPresident of the United States .
* The Son of Sam murders swept throughNew York City .
*Amnesty International won theNobel Peace Prize
* Three members of the rock bandLynyrd Skynyrd die in a charter plane crash outsideGillsburg, Mississippi .
*Death of the 'King of Rock 'n' Roll',Elvis Presley on16 August .
*New York City experienced a citywide blackout which led to widespread looting, devastating some neighborhoods, includingBushwick inBrooklyn .
*Atari 2600 releasedOctober , popularized the use of microprocessor based hardware and cartridges containing game code.Ongoing events
Births
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Amber Benson
*A. J. Burnett
*Vince Carter
*John Cena
*Daunte Culpepper
*Gavin DeGraw
*Dustin Diamond
*Jason Earles
*Joey Fatone
*Sarah Michelle Gellar
*Barry Hall
*Becky Harmon
*Chandra Levy
*Stephon Marbury
*Ahmad Merritt
*Randy Moss
*Lyle Overbay
*Zachary Quinto
*Kevin Rose
*Mike Shinoda
*Bree Turner
*Nadia Turner
*Liv Tyler
*James Van Der Beek
*Sean Watkins
*Gerard Way
*Tom Welling Deaths
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Maria Callas
*Charlie Chaplin
*Joan Crawford
*Bing Crosby
*Errol Garner
*Gary Gilmore (execution)
*Brett Halliday
*Ron Haydock
*Allison Hayes
*Tony Hulman
* James Jones
*Wilfred Kitching
*Groucho Marx
*Gummo Marx
*Alice Paul
*Elvis Presley
*Freddie Prinze
*Toots Shor
*Ethel Waters
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