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1977
January 3 – Apple Computer is incorporated.
January 20 – Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th President of the United States.
January 23 – Roots begins its phenomenally successful run on ABC.
March 9 – Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over 3 buildings in Washington, D.C., killing 1 person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends 2 days later.
April 21 – Residents of Dover, Massachusetts report sightings of the so-called "Dover Demon".
May 25 – The movie Star Wars is released.
May 26 – George Willig climbs the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
June 4–5 – Humboldt Park riot in Chicago
July 13 – The New York City blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours, resulting in looting and other disorder.
June 16 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
June 20 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules that states are not required to spend Medicaid funds on elective abortions.
August 3 – United States Senate hearings on MKULTRA are held.
August 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating theUnited States Department of Energy
August 10 – David Berkowitz is captured in Yonkers, New York, after over a year of murders in New York City as the Son of Sam.
August 12 – The NASA Space Shuttle, named Enterprise, makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA).
August 15 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "WOW!" signal for a notation made by a volunteer on the project.
August 20 – Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
September 4 – The Golden Dragon Massacre took place in San Francisco, California.
September 5 – Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
December 1 – The Lockheed's top-secret stealth aircraft project, designated Have Blue, precursor to the U.S. F-117A Nighthawk, makes its first flight.
Full list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_in_the_United_States