Charlestown Travel Guide

Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. Year 1977 (MCMLXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1977 Gregorian calendar).
Events of 1977
January
January 1 - The Australian state of Queensland abolishes death duties.
January 10 - Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
January 10 - Ocean Park opens in Hong Kong.
January 15 - Kälvesta air disaster: A Swedish airliner crashes into a residential area of Stockholm, killing all 22 on board.
January 17 - Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah (the first execution after the reintroduction of the death penalty in the USA).
January 18 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
January 18 - Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.
January 18 - SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
January 19 - U.S. President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (aka "Tokyo Rose").
January 19 - Snow falls in Miami, Florida (despite its ordinarily tropical climate) for the only time in its history. Snowfall has occurred farther south in the United States only on the high mountains of the state of Hawaii.
January 20 - Jimmy Carter succeeds Gerald Ford as the 39th President of the United States.
January 21 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders.
January 23 - Roots begins its phenomenally successful run on ABC.
January 24 - Massacre of Atocha during the Spanish transition to democracy.
January 27 - Record company EMI sacks the controversial United Kingdom punk rock group the Sex Pistols (...) more....

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