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Oct 14, 2008

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Year by Year: 1900-2008	View a 1977 calendar

World Events

• Deng Xiaoping, purged Chinese leader, restored to power as Gang of Four is expelled from Communist Party (July 22).
  
  
• South African activist Steve Biko dies in police custody (Sept. 12).
  
  
• Nuclear-proliferation pact, curbing spread of nuclear weapons, is signed by 15 countries, including US and USSR (Sept. 21). Background: nuclear disarmament
  
  

U.S. Events

• First woman Episcopal priest ordained (Jan. 1).
  
  
• Scientists identify previously unknown bacterium as cause of mysterious "legionnaire's disease" (Jan. 18).
  
  
• Carter pardons Vietnam war draft evaders (Jan. 21).
  
  
• Supreme Court rules that states are not required to spend Medicaid funds on elective abortions (June 20).
  
  

Economics

Sports

Super Bowl

World Series

NBA Championship

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Basketball Championship

NCAA Football Champions

Entertainment

Events

• The TV miniseries Roots draws an audience of 130 million.
• Star Wars hits theaters--for the first time--and will go on to be the second highest-grossing film of all time.
• Saturday Night Fever sparks the disco inferno and the popularity of movie soundtracks.
• Elvis Presley dies at Graceland, his Memphis, Tenn. home. He was 42.

Movies

• Saturday Night Fever, Star Wars, Annie Hall, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Julia

Music

• Various artists, Saturday Night Fever soundtrack

Books

• John Cheever, Falconer
• Joan Didion, The Book of Common Prayer
• Stephen Jay Gould, Ontogeny and Phylogeny
• Kenneth Koch, The Duplications
• W.S. Merwin, The Compass Flower
• Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

Science

• The neutron bomb is developed. Background: nuclear weapons
• The space shuttle Enterprise makes its first test glide, from the back of a 747. Background: US Staffed Space Flights
• Paul MacCready (US) develops the Gossamer Condor, the first successful human-powered aircraft. Background: Famous Firsts in Aviation
• Lasers are first used to initiate a fusion reaction. Background: nuclear energy

Deaths

• Charles Chaplin
  
  
• Bing Crosby
  
  
• Groucho Marx
  
  
• Vladimir Nabokov
  
  
• Elvis Presley
  
  

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