The first Apple Computer goes on sale.
Quebec adopts French as the official language.
Jimmy Carter is elected as the President of United States.
The first oil flows through the Trans Alaskan Oil Pipeline.
The precursor to the GPS system in use today is started by US Department of defense.
Elvis Presley dies from a heart attack at age 42.
Star Wars opens in cinemas
TV mini-series “Roots” is aired
First commercial flight of the Concord
NASA space shuttle first test flight
World Trade Center completed
UK Jubilee celebrations
Roman Polanski is arrested and charged
Alaskan Oil Pipeline completed
New York City blackout lasts for 25 hours
Population:
- Wake County: 280,163
- NC: 5,686,000
- USA: 220,200,000
National Debt:
- $698,840,000,000 (1977)
- $18,152,809,942,589 (2015)
Value of a Dollar: $1 in 1977 is $4.03 in 2015
Cost Of Living 1977:
- Yearly inflation rate: 6.5%
- Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average: 831
- Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve: 7.75%
- Average cost of new house: $49,300
- Average income per year: $15,000
- Average monthly rent: $240
- Cost of a gallon of gas: $0.65
- Bikini: $9.00
- Wrist Worn AM Radio: $7.95
- 5 inch Portable TV: $147.00
- New stereo system: $247.95
- Cheeseburger at McDonald’s: $0.30
- Ticket to Disneyland: Admission and 12 Adventure Book tickets: $8.25-$9.50
Ounce of Gold Price:
- The cost of an ounce of gold was $147.84
- The inflation-adjusted price of an ounce of gold was $578.23
Cost of a movie ticket: $2.23
Inflation-adjusted price of a movie ticket: $8.81
The cost of a movie ticket in 2015: $7.92
Top 5 Movies:
- Star Wars
- Smokey and the Bandit
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Goodbye Girl
- Saturday Night Fever
- Best Picture: Rocky
- Best Director: John G. Avildsen – Rocky
- Best Actor: Peter Finch – Network
- Best Actress: Faye Dunaway – Network
- Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards – All the President’s Men
- Best Supporting Actress: Beatrice Straight – Network
- Laverne & Shirley – ABC – 23,036,400
- Happy Days – ABC – 22,890,600
- Three’s Company – ABC – 20,630,700
- 60 Minutes – CBS – 17,787,600
- Charlie’s Angels – ABC – 17,787,600
- All in the Family – CBS – 17,787,600
- Little House on the Prairie – NBC – 17,568,900
- Alice – CBS – 16,912,800
- M*A*S*H – CBS – 16,912,800
- One Day at a Time – CBS – 16,767,000
- Rod Stewart – Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright)
- Andy Gibb – I Just Want To Be Your Everything
- Emotions – Best Of My Love
- Barbra Streisand – Love Theme From “A Star Is Born”
- Hot – Angel In Your Arms
- Kenny Nolan – I Like Dreamin’
- Thelma Houston – Don’t Leave Me This Way
- Rita Coolidge – (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher
- Alan O’Day Undercover Angel
- Mary MacGregor – Torn Between Two Lovers
- K.C. and The Sunshine Band – I’m Your Boogie Man
- ABBA – Dancing Queen
- Leo Sayer – You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
- Jimmy Buffett – Margaritaville
- Electric Light Orchestra – Telephone Line
- Pablo Cruise – Whatcha Gonna Do?
- Peter McCann – Do You Wanna Make Love?
- Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
- Eagles – Hotel California
- Marvin Gaye – Got To Give It Up, Pt. 1
- Broken Down In Tiny Pieces – Billy “Crash” Craddock
- You Never Miss A Real Good Thing – Crystal Gayle
- I Can’t Believe She Gives It All To Me – Conway Twitty
- Let My Love Be Your Pillow – Ronnie Milsap
- Near You – George Jones & Tammy Wynette
- Moody Blue – Elvis Presley
- Say You’ll Stay Until Tomorrow – Tom Jones
- Heart Healer – Mel Tillis
- She’s Just An Old Love Turned Memory – Charley Pride
- Southern Nights – Glen Campbell
- Lucille – Kenny Rogers
- It Couldn’t Have Been Any Better – Johnny Duncan
- She’s Got You – Loretta Lynn
- She’s Pulling Me Back Again – Mickey Gilley
- Play, Guitar Play – Conway Twitty
- Some Broken Hearts Never Mend – Don Williams
- Luckenbach, Texas – Waylon Jennings
- That Was Yesterday – Donna Fargo
- I’ll Be Leaving Alone – Charley Pride
- It Was Almost Like A Song – Ronnie Milsap
ACC Football Champ: North Carolina
ACC Basketball Champs: North Carolina (UNC 75 – Virginia 69)
World Series Winner: New York Yankees over the LA Dodgers
Heavyweight Boxing Champ: Muhammad Ali
Super Bowl XI: Oakland Raiders (Raiders 32 – Minnesota Vikings 14)
NASCAR Season Winner: Cale Yarborough
Masters Winner: Tom Watson (12 under – won $40,000)
Wimbledon Winners:
- Men’s Singles: Sweden Björn Borg defeated United States Jimmy Connors, 3–6, 6–2, 6–1, 5–7, 6–4
- Women’s Singles: United Kingdom Virginia Wade defeated Netherlands Betty Stöve, 4–6, 6–3, 6–1
- Men’s Doubles: Australia Ross Case / Australia Geoff Masters defeated Australia John Alexander / Australia Phil Dent, 6–3, 6–4, 3–6, 8–9(4–7), 6–4
- Women’s Doubles: Australia Helen Gourlay Cawley / United States JoAnne Russell defeated Czechoslovakia Martina Navrátilová / Netherlands Betty Stöve, 6–3, 6–3
- Mixed Doubles: South Africa Bob Hewitt / South Africa Greer Stevens defeated South Africa Frew McMillan / Netherlands Betty Stöve, 3–6, 7–5, 6–4