McCullough Celebrates 43 Years in 2020

We thought it may be fun to reflect what was happening 43 years ago.

• It was exactly 2,254 weeks or 15,784 days ago.
• With 365 days 1977 is a normal year and no leap year.
• The world's first personal computer, the Commodore PET, is demonstrated at the winter Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago

•  Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th President of the United States

• The Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 hits Buffalo, New York

• Fleetwood Mac's Grammy-winning album Rumours is released.

• The movie Star Wars is released.

• American Roy Sullivan is struck by lightning for the 7th time.

• Elvis Presley performs his last-ever concert, in Indianapolis, Indiana's Market Square Arena.

• Led Zeppelin plays their last U.S. concert in Oakland, California at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. A brawl erupts between Led Zeppelin's crew and promoter Bill Graham's staff, resulting in criminal assault charges for several of Led Zeppelin's entourage including drummer John Bonham.

• A series of partial government shutdowns occur finally ending in December.

• Pelé plays his final professional football game as a member of the New York Cosmos.

• Newly-acquired and flamboyantly charismatic slugger Reggie Jackson hits three home runs to lead the New York Yankees to their first World Series championship victory since 1962 over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1977 World Series in six games.

• The comic strip Li'l Abner ends a 43-year run in newspapers.

• The Lockheed's top-secret stealth aircraft project, designated Have Blue, precursor to the U.S. F-117A Nighthawk, makes its first flight.

• Feature films released in 1977 include: Star Wars, Annie Hall, Saturday Night Fever, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, A Bridge Too Far, Exorcist II: The Heretic, The Turning Point, New York, New York, Smokey and the Bandit

• The coldest winter for fifty-nine years in the Ohio Valley region^[8] and a record dry year throughout the West,^[9] especially the Pacific Northwest,^[10] creates heating fuel and water shortages plus extended freezing of the Great Lakes^[11] and freezing of the Mississippi River as far as Cairo, Illinois.

There’s much more on this link where all sources were found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_in_the_United_States