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1977-10-17
Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament
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9670
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1977
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10
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17
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Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament
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10/1 - Brazilian soccer great Pele' retires with 1p~281 goals in 1p~363 games
10/1 - Department Of Energy established
10/1 - Elton John honored by MSG Hall of Fame
10/1 - Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title
10/2 - Pakistan general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition
10/2 - Vivian Brownlee wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
10/3 - Indira Gandhi arrested
10/3 - Comedy with Music (Victor Borge) opens at Imperial NYC for 66 perfs
10/4 - Pier 39 opens in SF
10/5 - Hair opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 43 performances
10/6 - "DL Coburns ""Gin Gamep~"" premieres in NYC"
10/6 - Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game
10/6 - In Alicantep~ Spainp~ fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizersp~ and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
10/7 - USSR adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
10/7 - Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis
10/8 - Largest baseball crowd in Pennsp~ 64p~924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)
10/9 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Houston Exchange Clubs Golf Classic
10/9 - Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6p~ but returned after failing to dock
10/9 - Yanks rally for 3 in 9th & beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31
10/10 - 11th Country Music Association Award: Ronnie Milsap wins
10/11 - Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
10/12 - Allan Bakkep~ white student denied admission to University of California Med School
10/12 - "US Supreme Court heard arguments in ""reverse discrimination"" case of"
10/12 - Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfoldedp~ smashed into cop van
10/12 - 4th test of space shuttle Enterprise
10/12 - Throwaway Game Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers
10/14 - Linda Ronstadt sings national anthem at World Series
10/14 - Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro
10/15 - Don Ritchie runs world record 100 mile (11:30:51)
10/15 - "Debbie Boone's ""You Light Up My Lifep~"" goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks"
10/15 - Arkansas' Steve Little kicks a record tying 67 yard field goal
10/17 - Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament
10/17 - West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishup~ Somalia freeing all 86 hostages & killing 3 of 4 hijackers
10/18 - Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championshipp~ 1st in 15 years
10/18 - Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record
10/18 - W German commandos liberate Boeing 737p~ 86 hostages at Mogadishu
10/18 - NY Yankees win their 21st World Championshipp~ 4 games
10/18 - 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th
10/19 - Corpse of kidnapped West Germanp~ H M Schleyerp~ found
10/19 - Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in NYC
10/20 - "David Mamet's ""Life in the Theaterp~"" premieres in NYC"
10/20 - "Hamilton Deane & John Balderstons ""Draculap~"" premieres in NYC"
10/20 - Six killed in Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash in McCombp~ Mississippi including band members Ronnie Vanzantp~ Steve Gainsp~ Cassie Gaines and Dean kilpatrick
10/21 - US recalls William Bowdlerp~ ambassador to South Africa
10/21 - The European Patent Institute is founded.
10/22 - International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 & 2 launched into Earth orbit
10/23 - 7th NYC Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:43:10
10/23 - 8th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:38
10/23 - Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve new Canal treaties
10/23 - Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 34-billion-year-old one-celled fossilsp~ the earliest life formsp~ had been discovered
10/25 - Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
10/26 - The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca districtp~ Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpoxp~ the most spectacular success of vaccination.
10/26 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
10/26 - Dr Clifford R Wharton Jr named chancellor of State University of NY
10/26 - 5th & final test of space shuttle Enterprise
10/27 - Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped
10/27 - NASA launches space vehicle S-200
10/29 - Act opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 233 performances
10/29 - Texas' Russell Erideben kicks his 3rd 60 yard field goal of the season
10/29 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
10/30 - Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07