What Happened in 1977

Alice Cooper releases The Alice Cooper Show

The Alice Cooper Show is a live album by Alice Cooper, released by Warner Bros. in December 1977. It was recorded live in Las Vegas at the... Read more

Nickelodeon is Launched

Nickelodeon was launched on December 1, 1977 as the Pinwheel channel in Columbus, Ohio alongside the QUBE cable system (now Time Warner... Read more

"The Duellists" Is Released

The Duellists is a 1977 film, which was Ridley Scott's first feature film as a director. It won the Best Debut Film award at the 1977 Cannes Film... Read more

Aerosmith releases Draw the Line

Draw the Line is the fifth album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1977. The album was recorded in an abandoned convent near New... Read more

"Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey" Premieres

Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey is a Christmas television special produced in stop motion animation by Rankin-Bass. It was first aired in... Read more

Earl Campbell Wins Heisman Trophy

Campbell has an affinity for the number 4…Four times he was All Southwest running back, the first time in that conference’s history one man earned... Read more

Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan are Awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize

Betty Williams (born 22 May 1943) was a co-recipient with Mairead Corrigan of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work as a cofounder of... Read more

Amnesty International is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty and AI) is an international secular non-governmental organisation which defines its mission as "to... Read more

"Saturday Night Fever" Is Released

Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 film starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young man, coming of age, whose weekend activities are visits to a... Read more

Westwego Grain Elevator Explosion

Weary rescue crews working without rest today recovered another dozen bodies from the steel and concrete rubble of a Mississippi River grain... Read more

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Dies

Chaplin's robust health began to slowly fail in the late 1960s, after the completion of his final film A Countess from Hong Kong, and more rapidly... Read more

FDA Approves Novartis's Hydergine

Treating symptoms of declined mental capacity (memory, mood, and behavior problems) in certain patients older than 60 years of age. It may also be... Read more

FDA Approves AstraZeneca's Nolvadex

NOLVADEX is effective in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer in women and men. In premenopausal women with metastatic breast cancer, NOLVADEX... Read more