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The following events occurred in April 1977:

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April 7, 1977: Israel's Prime Minister Rabin resigns during scandal, replaced April 22 by Shimon Peres
April 11, 1977: Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrated in London with silver-colored double-decker buses

April 1, 1977 (Friday)

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Brazilian President Geisel
  • Brazil's President, Ernesto Geisel, announced in a nationally televised speech that he was shutting down the Brazilian Congress indefinitely, and that he would rule by decree until new political measures could be implemented. The move came after Geisel's proposed constitutional amendment for judicial reform failed to win a two-thirds majority.[1]
  • The United States Senate voted, 86 to 9, to adopt a Code of Ethics. For the first time, members were required to give full public disclosure of their income and their assets and liabilities.[2]
  • The white-minority ruled African nation of Rhodesia ended its ban against black Africans from whites only hotels, restaurants, bars and nightclubs.[3]
  • Born: Vitor Belfort, Brazilian mixed martial artist, winner of the 1997 "UFC 12" Ultimate Fighting Championship; in Rio de Janeiro[4]

April 2, 1977 (Saturday)

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Red Rum in 1980 [5]

April 3, 1977 (Sunday)

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  • A group of 22 Libyan Army officers were publicly hanged in Tripoli and in Benghazi after being sentenced to death for their attempt on August 13, 1975, to overthrow the government of Muammar Gaddafi and his ruling Revolutionary Command Council.[11] Within two weeks, 49 people had been hanged.[12]
  • At Medeo in the Kazakh SSR (now Kazakhstan), speed skater Viktor Lyoskin of the Soviet Union broke the world record for fastest 10,000 meter race. His time of 14 minutes, 34.33 seconds would stand for almost three years until being bested in the 1980 Winter Olympics by Eric Heiden.[13]
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April 4, 1977 (Monday)

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Flight 242 at Georgia Highway 92
  • The crash of Southern Airways Flight 242 in the U.S. killed 63 of the 85 people on board, along with nine people on the ground,[14] after the pilot attempted to make an emergency landing on a Georgia State Highway 92. The twin-engine DC-9 jet was flying from Huntsville, Alabama to Atlanta and encountered hail and lightning that shut down both its engines before going down near the town of New Hope, Georgia.[15] The pilot's last statement to the Atlanta control tower, made at 4:18 in the afternoon, was "We're putting it on a highway. We're down to nothing."[16][17]
  • Tornadoes killed 21 people in the U.S. state of Alabama, 17 in the Smithfield Homes housing project in western Birmingham.[18] The same weather system brought heavy rains to the Appalachian regions of Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia, creating massive floods that had mixed with unmelted snow in the mountainous area.[19]
  • In Spain, the Spanish Democratic Union (UDE) and the Christian Democratic People's Party (PPDC) merged to form the Partido Demócrata Cristiano (PDC) in advance of the June 15 parliamentary elections. The new party aligned itself with the Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain) (UDC) coalition of parties headed by Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez.
  • Sweden's Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin announced that the nation's currency, the krona, was being devalued by 6%, and that the national sales tax was being raised from 18.65% to 21.65%. To combat the inflation from the devaluation, Falldin announced a price-freeze.[20]
  • In a non-binding referendum in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, residents of the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard voted overwhelmingly to secede from the state. The vote was reaction to a proposed revision of legislative districts of Massachusetts that would have deprived the islands of their own state representative, as part of reducing the number of state representatives from 240 to 160. State legislative approval would have been required to allow the islands to join another state.[21]
  • Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3 was given its first public performance, premiering at the Royan Festival in the French département of Charente-Maritime.

April 5, 1977 (Tuesday)

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  • The 504 Sit-in protests in the U.S. were carried out simultaneously in 10 offices of the federal United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), after HEW Secretary Joseph Califano failed to sign off on regulations (authorized under §504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to provide disabled persons access to buildings and as well as to provide equal treatment under the law. The protests were successful in getting Califano to act on April 28.[22]
  • Following a meeting with U.S. President Jimmy Carter in Washington D.C., Egypt's President Anwar Sadat held a press conference at the Blair House, speaking mostly about the opening of a dialogue between the U.S. and Palestinian leaders about a state on the West Bank of the Jordan River.[23] Sadat also indicated, in a statement that went unreported at the time, that he would be willing to make peace with Israel in the near future. An obscure "Israeli journalist", Wolf Blitzer, the Washington correspondent of the Jerusalem Post asked Sadat about an exchange of Egyptian and Israeli reporters, and Sadat replied "I, myself, have no objections to this. But, believe me, our people are not yet ready for this after 29 years of hatred, and four years, and bitterness.. We must take it gradually." Sadat would tell an American journalist, Mark Bruzonsky, that "the question stayed in his mind" after Blitzer had asked it, and explained that "from that suggestion grew the idea of offering to visit Jerusalem to accelerate the process toward a Middle East peace conference at Geneva," an event that would happen on November 19.[24]
  • The Grand National Assembly of Turkey voted, 342 to 1, to move the date for parliamentary elections from October to June 5.[25]
  • Twenty minutes after the departure of American Airlines Flight 241 from St. Louis to Los Angeles, the number 3 engine fell off of the Boeing 707 as the airplane was carrying 37 passengers and 7 crew.[26] The crew of the American flight was able to guide the plane back to the airport for a safe landing. The engine was found the next day in a pasture 60 miles (97 km) west of the airport.[27]
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President Prío

April 6, 1977 (Wednesday)

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  • A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Iran, killing at least 348 people and destroying 2,100 homes. Hardest hit was the town of Naghan, where 202 people died. The quake came 15 days after a 7.0 tremor on March 22, near Bandar Abbas, that killed 167 people.[30]
  • The white minority government of Rhodesia announced that it had started an operation to relocate 250,000 black African residents from rural tribal lands along the Honde River that marked its border with the neighboring nation of Mozambique, and that 17,000 had been placed them in "protected villages". Black nationalist leader Abel Muzorewa described the seven heavily-guarded, fenced "villages" as "concentration camps", in that residents had to return to their villages for a curfew every night.[31]
  • U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that authorized him to reorganize the federal bureaucracy. During his election campaign, Carter had pledged to reduce the number of U.S. government agencies— 2,018 at the time— to no more than 200. Under the law, any proposal submitted to Congress would automatically take effect within 60 days unless either the U.S. Senate or U.S. House of Representatives voted against the change.[32] On the same day, Carter asked Congress to authorize creation of a 2,019th federal agency, the "Agency for Consumer Advocacy".[33]
  • The new Seattle Mariners major league baseball team played their first game, losing 7 to 0 to the visiting California Angels at the Kingdome, before a sellout crowd of 57,762 spectators, the largest opening day attendance in MLB history up to that time.[34] The event was also the first indoor baseball game in American League History.[35]
  • Merle "Hondo" Chance, an 8-year-old boy, became the 25th and last victim of American serial killer Patrick Wayne Kearney. Chance had last been seen riding his bicycle away from his home in Venice, California.[36] His remains would be found on May 26 by a hiker in the Angeles National Forest.[37]
  • Died: Pat Evans, 21, American motorcycle racer, died in a hospital in Bologna, three days after suffering severe head injuries in an accident during a race at the Imola 200 race.

April 7, 1977 (Thursday)

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  • Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin announced his resignation in the wake of a scandal arising from a bank account that he and his wife had maintained in the United States, a violation of Israeli law prohibiting citizens from depositing hard currency outside of Israel with permission from the Finance Ministry. While Rabin was immune from prosecution as prime minister, his wife was not and he chose to quit so that they could face prosecution together, telling viewers "Morally and formally, I could not let her stand alone." Rabin waited until 20 minutes after Israel's victory over Italy in the European Basketball Cup finals to deliver a televised speech.[38]
 
Siegfried Buback
  • German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback was assassinated by Red Army Faction terrorists, along with his chauffeur, Wolfgang Göbel, while his car was waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe. A motorcycle pulled alongside his car, and a woman on the back of the cycle opened fire with a machine gun, then sped away. Buback was struck by more than a dozen bullets.[39] Ulrike Meinhof, who had recently escaped from prison, claimed responsibility. Three members of her "Commando" group were arrested after the shooting.
  • The eruption of the Mount Karthala volcano in the Comoros destroyed five villages in the African island nation, and killed a group of 80 people who were fishing off at sea when lava struck the water.[40]
  • Almost 900 people in Bangladesh were killed by a tornado, including those on 40 boats that were capsized in the Madhumati River.[41]
  • The European Champions Cup, a tournament for crowning the champion basketball team in Europe, was won in the Yugoslavian city of Belgrade, as Israeli champion Maccabi Tel Aviv defeated the defending Cup champion, Mobilgirgi Varese of Italy, by one point, 78 to 77. League champions from 21 European nations, as well as the national champions of Egypt and Israel, had competed for the title, sponsored by FIBA, the Fédération Internationale de Basket-ball Amateur.
  • The new Toronto Blue Jays played their first Major League Baseball game, defeating the visiting Chicago White Sox, 9 to 5. The opener began after snow was plowed from the field.
  • Died:
    • Karl Ritter, 88, Nazi German producer and director of propaganda films, died in Argentina, where he had emigrated after World War II.[42]
    • David Hsin-fu Wand, 45, Chinese-born American professor, author and activist, was killed after plunging from the 11th floor of the Barbizon Plaza Hotel in New York City.[43]

April 8, 1977 (Friday)

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April 9, 1977 (Saturday)

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April 10, 1977 (Sunday)

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  • In London, former North Yemen Prime Minister Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri was shot to death by an assassin, along with his wife and North Yemen's ambassador to the UK. The three were in their car in front of the Royal Lancaster Hotel near Hyde Park.[49]
  • Hu Nim, Information Minister for the Communist Khmer Rouge government of Democratic Kampuchea, was arrested by the secret police after being implicated by another arrested official on charges of espionage for the American CIA and other "counter-revolutionary activity". Hu Nim, a member of the regime that carried out the Cambodian genocide, the mass murder and extermination of more than 1.5 million people, was sent to the S-21 security prison in Phnom Penh, and he would be killed on July 6, after enduring almost two months of torture.[50]
  • Following the resignation of Yitzhak Rabin as Prime Minister of Israel, the 815-member Central Committee of the ruling Israeli Labor Party chose Defense Minister Shimon Peres as its new leader.[51] The only challenger to Peres, Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, had stepped aside as a candidate on April 9 [52] in return for a promise that he would become a leading member of the cabinet if the Labor Party won the May 17 elections for the Knesset. Peres and the Labor Party would be defeated by Menachem Begin's Likud Party.
  • The Japanese Super Cup was inaugurated as a matchup between the first-place finisher in the regular season of the Japan Soccer League and the winner of the Emperor's Cup tournament. In that Furukawa Electric SC of Chiba had finished first in the 1976 season (11 wins, 4 ties, 3 losses) and had won the Emperor's Cup as well (4 to 1 over Yanmar Diesel SC of Osaka, the Super Cup was a rematch between Furukawa and Yanmar, with Furukawa winning, 3 to 2.
  • U.S. golfer Tom Watson won the Masters Tournament, finishing two strokes ahead of Jack Nicklaus, 276 to 278.
  • Born: Lyudmila Filipova, Bulgarian novelist and journalist; in Sofia

April 11, 1977 (Monday)

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  • In honor of the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, London Transport introduced its repainted AEC Routemaster double-decker buses, changing from the traditional red to a silver color.
  • A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner ruled that it would be legal for Beverly Hills millionaire Sandra West to be buried dressed in her lace nightgown and sitting in her 1964 Ferrari automobile "with the seat slanted comfortably." Commissioner Franklin E. Dana ruled that the wishes of West, who had died on March 10, were "unusual, but not illegal."[53] On May 19, West's instructions would be carried out at a cemetery in San Antonio, Texas, with the Ferrari and West's body loaded into a 20 feet (6.1 m) long crate and lowered into a 9 feet (2.7 m) deep grave, where two truckloads of concrete were then poured.[54]
  • Died:
    • Jacques Prévert, 77, French poet and screenwriter [55]
    • Karen Krantzcke, 31, Australian tennis player, 1968 winner of the women's doubles championship at the Australian Open, died in the U.S., less than an hour after she and Kym Ruddell won the doubles final at the Lionel Cup tennis tournament in Tallahassee, Florida. Krantzcke, who was found to have an enlarged heart, had gone jogging on the grounds of the Forest Meadows Racket Club after the match, and was stricken 40 minutes her win.[56][57]

April 12, 1977 (Tuesday)

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  • South Africa's white-minority government rejected recommendations to admit persons of mixed-race ("coloured" under South African race classifications) into the nation's parliament, the House of Assembly. The Minister of Coloured Relations, Hennie Smit, said also that the cabinet of ministers had rejected an elimination of bans against interracial marriage and against sex between whites and non-whites.[58]
  • As the second anniversary of the fall of Saigon approached in the reunified Communist Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the government-run Vietnam News Agency announced that six million urban residents of the former South Vietnam would be forcibly relocated to the surrounding countryside. Commentator Nguyen Khac Vien said that 80 percent of the residents of Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon, "provide no useful work" for the socialist state and that they would be made to "work with their hands to help complete the Communist revolution."[59]
  • U.S. President Jimmy Carter commuted the 20-year prison term of Watergate scandal conspirator G. Gordon Liddy, reducing the sentence to eight years "in the interest of equity and fairness based on a comparison of Mr. Liddy's sentence with those of all others convicted in Watergate related prosecutions."[60][61] While Liddy still was required to pay $40,000 in fines, the commutation made him eligible for parole later in the year and he would be released on September 7.
  • Six weeks before the debut of the film Star Wars, Marvel Comics Group published the first issue of a comic book of the same name with the tag line, "Marvel's Epic Official Adaptation of the Mounumental 20th Century Fox Movie!". Although George Lucas authorized the publication (on November 12, 1976) of a paperback book that introduced the characters, the comic book was the first to provide a preview to fans of what the film would look like.
  • A royal wedding was held in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, with ceremonies at the Raghadan Palace in Amman. At the age of 21, Princess Alia bint Hussein, the eldest child of King Hussein, married Jordanian Army Lieutenant-Colonel Nasser Wasfi Mirza.
  • Died: Philip K. Wrigley, 82, owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball team and president of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company chewing gum enterprise, founder of the short-lived All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.[62]

April 13, 1977 (Wednesday)

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  • Aston Villa won the Football League Cup, England's premier professional soccer football tournament, in the longest contest— 330 minutes— in The Football League's history, a 3–2 victory over Everton in the third meeting of the teams.[63] The match on March 12 at Wembley Stadium had ended in a 0–0 draw. A replay on March 16 at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield finished after extra time as a 1–1 draw. The second replay, at Old Trafford in Manchester, was tied at 2–2 after 90 minutes. In extra time, Brian Little of Aston Villa made the go-ahead goal with less than a minute left in extra time of the third match. As writer Patrick Barclay of The Guardian wrote, "The longest cup final in English football history was decided in the 329th of its 330 minutes," adding that "If the first contest at Wembley had been a bore, the second at Hillsborough a slugging match, last night's affair at Old Trafford was a deluge of thrills from the moment Latchford put Everton ahead in the 38th minute."[64]

April 14, 1977 (Thursday)

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April 15, 1977 (Friday)

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Timerman, the Prisoner Without a Name

April 16, 1977 (Saturday)

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April 17, 1977 (Sunday)

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April 18, 1977 (Monday)

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  • Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia and its white-minority government, won approval for negotiating for eventual black-majority rule, after convening an emergency meeting of his Rhodesian Front Party. The delegates of the party (which held all 50 elected seats in the nation's Parliament) approved the resolution "that transition to black rule is inevitable" by a margin of 422 to 35, but that urged Smith to seek guarantees for "an equitable sharing of political power by whites."[73]
  • U.S. President Jimmy Carter delivered what would later be called the "Moral Equivalent of War speech, speaking on national television about his 10-point plan to fight the energy crisis in the U.S. by reducing American dependence on imported oil by 1985. Carter told viewers, "Two days from now, I will present to the Congress my energy proposals," adding that "many of these proposals will be unpopular," and "some will cause you to put up with inconveniences and to make sacrifices." Borrowing a phrase coined by William James, Carter said "This difficult effort will be the 'moral equivalent of war,' except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy." A cynical press quickly dubbed Carter's "moral equivalent of war" as "M.E.O.W."
  • An annular solar eclipse was visible in Africa.
  • Born: Ilya Kaminsky, Soviet Ukrainian-born poet who later immigrated to the U.S.; in Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union

April 19, 1977 (Tuesday)

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April 20, 1977 (Wednesday)

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  • Ethiopia's military government, the Derg, began an 11-day campaign to prevent the Eritrean People's Revolutionary Party from disrupting the government's May Day festivities. Ethiopian military and paramilitary units killed more than 1,000 college and secondary school students, including the indiscriminate massacre of entire classrooms in order to set an example.[79]
  • Guerrillas of the South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), a group fighting for black rule in the South African administered territory of South-West Africa (now Namibia) kidnapped 126 black children and four white staff members of a Roman Catholic mission school in the village of Onamulenga, then moved them across the border into Angola. Ten of the children were able to escape.[80]
  • The film Annie Hall, which would win the Academy Award for Best Picture as well as Oscars for Best Director for Woody Allen and Best Actress for Diane Keaton, was released nationwide in the U.S. after a screening at the Los Angeles Film Festival on March 27.
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April 21, 1977 (Thursday)

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  • A. M. Sayem, the President of Bangladesh, resigned because of illness and was replaced by General Ziaur Rahman, who had been the nation's dictator as Chief Martial Law Administrator since 1975.[82]
  • Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto declared martial law in the three cities in the nation that had made the most urgent demands for his resignation, Karachi, Hyderabad and Lahore.[83] The declaration was followed the next day by even more violence as protests began in other cities, and troops in Karachi fired on a crowd of anti-government protesters who defied an order to halt, killing at least 13.[84]
 
Andrea McCardle as "Annie", with Reid Shelton as "Daddy Warbucks"
  • The popular musical Annie, based on the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie", made its debut on Broadway, premiering at the Alvin Theatre, and would go on to win three Tony Awards. With music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin, Annie had been given a pre-Broadway performance starting on August 10, 1976 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut.
  • Born: Jamie Salé, Canadian figure skater and 2002 Olympic gold medalist (with David Pelletier) in pairs skating; in Calgary
  • Died:
    • Gummo Marx (stage name for Milton Marx), 84, American actor and comedian; he was replaced by Zeppo Marx after being drafted into the U.S. Army in World War One, and never appeared in the Marx Brothers' films, becoming instead a talent agent.
    • General Chalard Hiranyasiri, 53, a Thai Army officer who had attempted a coup d'etat against Thailand's military government on March 26, was executed after a group of military and civilian leaders found him guilty of treason in a court-martial. The death penalty was invoked because General Chalard had personally shot and killed Major General Aroon Thavatasin, commander of the Thai Army First Division. After the sentence was pronounced, a reporter at the time noted, "The general was killed by machine gun fire three hours later."[85]

April 22, 1977 (Friday)

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  • Shimon Peres quietly took over the duties of Prime Minister of Israel, although Yitzhak Rabin was forced to remain as the nominal prime minister because of an Israeli law that barred a cabinet minister from resigning from a caretaker government.[86]
  • A funeral was held for U.S. outlaw Elmer McCurdy at Guthrie, Oklahoma, more than 65 years after he had been shot by a county sheriff's posse in 1912. McCurdy's body had not been buried at the time, and was displayed for decades at carnivals and at wax museums over the decades that followed until 1976, when a propmaster at a TV studio realized that the "mannequin" had been a human being. McCurdy's coffin was interred at the "Boot Hill" section of Guthrie's Summit View Cemetery.[87]
 
Idi Amin Dada and Mobutu Sese Seko

April 23, 1977 (Saturday)

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  • The "Battle of the Z Boys" was fought between bantamweight boxers Carlos Zarate (champion of the World Boxing Council) and Alfonso Zamora (champion of the World Boxing Association). Neither of the Mexican fighters had a professional loss going into the fight at The Forum in Los Angeles at Inglewood. Zarate had 45 wins, 44 of them by knockout, while all 29 of Zamora's fights were won by knockout. However, neither the WBC nor the WBA sanctioned the eagerly-anticipated fight. In the fourth round, Zamora was unable to continue after being knocked down twice by Zarate. Zamora continued as WBA champion, and Zarate would continue as WBC champ until 1979.
  • The African nation of Ethiopia terminated its military relationship with the United States, closing the Kagnew Station, the U.S. consulate in Asmara, all U.S. Information Service offices, and the U.S. Navy Medical Research Center.[90] The move came after the U.S. had announced on February 25 that it was reducing military aid because of Ethiopia's violations of human rights. On April 27, the U.S. terminated all arms shipments to Ethiopia.[91]
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the smallpox virus had been completely eradicated in India and that the African nation of Somalia was the only country with known cases of smallpox. A WHO campaign to wipe out the disease in India followed death of 31,000 people in 1973 and 1974.[92]
  • The government of Pakistan imposed censorship of the press on all Pakistani newspapers after officials concluded that "exaggerated or wrong reporting" had been made of the deaths during protests over the imposition of martial law.[93]
  • Soviet Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovych was arrested in the Ukrainian SSR city of Drohobych along with Mykola Matusevych, and charged with "anti-Soviet agitation" for his activities in the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. Marynovych would spend the next seven years in the VS-389 security camp at Perm in the Russian SFSR, followed by three years of exile in the village of the Kazakh SSR before being allowed to return home.
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  • Died: Lawrence Revere (pen name for Griffith K. Owens), 61, American gambler and professional blackjack player known for developing several card counting strategies (notably the "Revere Point Count") and his book Playing Blackjack as a Business, died of cancer.

April 24, 1977 (Sunday)

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April 25, 1977 (Monday)

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The Robben Island prison in 2018 [95]
  • A group of reporters became the first outsiders ever allowed to visit South Africa's secret maximum security prison at Robben Island, 7 miles (11 km) off of the coast of Cape Town, where 370 non-white political prisoners were incarcerated by South Africa's white-minority government. The prison, whose inmates included Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, and Govan Mbeki of the African National Congress, had been opened on April 1, 1961. On the day of the tour, Mandela was seen by reporters while he was "clearing weeds from a gravel and dirt pathway with a shovel", but reporters were not allowed to interview any of the inmates. The media was allowed to see Mandela's prison cell.[96]
  • East of New Zealand, the Japanese fishing trawler Zuiyō Maru caught the zuiyo-maru carcass, the 3,950 pounds (1,790 kg), 33 feet (10 m) decomposing body of a large, unidentifiable sea creature that resembled descriptions of the prehistoric plesiosaur.[97] The trawler's captain, Akira Tanaka, ultimately dumped the carcass back into the ocean because of the danger of contaminating the ships cargo of caught fish. Samples of tissue saved by the crew were later found to be similar to that of a basking shark.[98][99]
  • Born: Manolo Cardona, Colombian TV and film actor; in Popayán

April 26, 1977 (Tuesday)

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  • The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, that laws prohibiting children born out of wedlock from inheriting from their fathers were prohibited by the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. At the time, laws of descent and distribution in 20 of the 50 U.S. states limited intestate inheritance to "legitimate" children. Writing for the majority in Trimble v. Gordon (430 U.S. 762), Justice Lewis F. Powell wrote "We have expressly considered and rejected the argument that a state may attempt to influence the actions of men and women by imposing sanctions on the children born of their illegitimate relationships," and added "Difficulties in proving paternity in some situations do not justify the total statutory disinheritance of illegitimate children whose fathers die intestate."[100]
 
Studio 54

April 27, 1977 (Wednesday)

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  • The U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHA) published proposed regulations to convert all road signs in the U.S. to the metric system, pursuant to the authority of the Metric Conversion Act of 1975.[104] The proposed rules were published in the Federal Register, with a 45-day public notice and comment period. If effective, speed limit signs would be changed from miles to kilometers during the summer of 1978, in a 90-day period running from July 1, to September 30, 1978, and distance and milepost signs would be changed to metric by September 30, 1982. The Associated Press noted that "There is no plan to print both metric and English figures on signs to ease the familiarization," and that speed signs would be rounded up to "the nearest easily recognizable number", with 55 miles per hour (89 km/h) to be changed to 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph). By June 8, FHA Administrator William M. Cox, would pass word through Iowa Congressman Charles E. Grassley that negative comments had been enough of a protest against the metric system. [105]
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April 28, 1977 (Thursday)

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April 29, 1977 (Friday)

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April 30, 1977 (Saturday)

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Mrs. de Vincenti before she became a desaparecido

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