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Movie history events from 1977
A priest is murdered. (Amityville, New York) (The Amityville Curse)
Danny Archer's father is decapitated in a civil war. (Blood Diamond)
Amelia's parents, John and Linda, divorce. (The Bone Collector)
Gust Avrakotos begins learning Finnish. (Langley, Virginia) (Charlie Wilson's War)
Elvis Presley dies; Groucho Marx dies three days later. (The Devil's Rejects)
Linda Barrett has sex for the first time. (Ridgemont, CA) (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
The United States begin atmospheric nuclear tests. (USA) (The Hills Have Eyes (1977))
A family is attacked by a tribe of cannibals. (Nevada) (The Hills Have Eyes (1977))
Courtney Agnew, future wife of Nick Webber, is born. (Hot Tub Time Machine)
The year that Juno believes was the best time to rock. (Juno)
Sally Hardesty, sole survivor of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre, dies in a private health care facility. (Texas) (Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III)
The East German Government stops counting suicides. (The Lives of Others)
Addison Corday is born. (Saw II)
Sidney Poitier starts not making film but works as an author and director. (Six Degrees of Separation)
Victoria's Secret company is founded by Roy Raymond. (Stanford, California) (The Social Network)
Voyager 6 is launched from Earth and heads out into deep space. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
Richard Chance and Jimmy Hart become best friends. (Los Angeles, California) (To Live and Die in LA)
George W Bush meets future wife Laura, and runs for congress. (W.)
Harry Burns meets Sally Albright. (Chicago) (When Harry Met Sally)
Harry first meets Sally, as they drive across America on the way back from college. (When Harry Met Sally)
Monday 17th January: Gary Gilmore is put to death by firing squad. (Utah, State Prison) (The Executioner's Song)
Sunday 30th January: David Berkowitz kills Christina Freund. (Summer of Sam)
Tuesday 1st February: A student at East Great Falls High School writes about the G-spot in The Bible. (East Great Falls, Michigan) (American Pie Presents: The Book of Love)
Friday 11th February: Richard Harper is appointed the head of Taft Aerospace, replacing Charlie Blanchard, who resigned. (Fun with Dick and Jane (1977))
Tuesday 8th March: David Berkowitz kills Virginia Voskerichian. (Summer of Sam)
Sunday 13th March: A blond with green eyes is last seen. (Texas) (The Devil's Rejects)
Sunday 17th April: David Berkowitz kills Alexander Esau and Valentina Suriani. (Summer of Sam)
May: Julie Pierce is born. (Boston, MA) (The Next Karate Kid)
Tuesday 10th May: Joan Crawford dies. (New York, New York) (Mommie Dearest)
Wednesday 25th May: Star Wars opens in theaters. (5-25-77)
Monday 6th June: Lissa is born. (Best Laid Plans)
Thursday 16th June: Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party since 1964, is elected president of the Supreme Soviet, thereby becoming both head of party and head of state . (Brezhnev)
Tuesday 21st June: Robert Hillsborough dies from 15 stab wounds. The last words he hears are "Faggot! Faggot! Faggot!" (The Castro, San Francisco, California) (Milk)
Sunday 26th June: David Berkowitz kills Sal Lupo and Judy Placido. (Summer of Sam)
July: Summer of Sam. (Summer of Sam)
Sunday 31st July: David Berkowitz attacks Stacy Moskowitz and Bobby Violante. Violante survives but Moskowitz dies in the hospital a day and a half later. Berkowitz parks in front of a fire hydrant and receives a parking ticket. (Summer of Sam)
Thursday 4th August: Dr. Robert Neville watches Woodstock at a movie theater and shoots a few mutants from "The Family". (Los Angeles, California) (The Omega Man)
Friday 5th August: On August 5, 1977 Dr Robert Neville discovers he is not “The Last Man On Earth” and there are other survivors from the biological war. (Los Angeles, California) (The Omega Man)
Saturday 6th August: Robert Neville meets young people who survived the plague and promises to cure Lisa's teenage brother Richie. Robert and Lisa keeps mutants away and then they have sex. (Los Angeles, California) (The Omega Man)
Wednesday 10th August: 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz is arrested and charged with being the "Son of Sam". (Summer of Sam)
Tuesday 16th August: Elvis Presley dies. (Memphis, Tennessee) (Elvis)
Tuesday 16th August: Elvis Aaron Presley dies. (Memphis, Tennessee) (This is Spinal Tap)
Thursday 18th August: Groucho Marx dies of pneumonia. (Los Angeles, California) (Sinatra)
Sunday 4th September: At a fan-packed performance at the nightclub The Masque, Darby Crash, lead singer of the punk band The Germs, deliberately cuts his bare chest with a knife onstage. (Hollywood, California) (What We Do Is Secret)
Monday 12th September: Steven Biko, leader of South Africa's "Black Consciousness Movement," dies of severe head trauma on the stone floor of a prison cell. (Pretoria, South Africa) (Cry Freedom)
Friday 16th September: Maria Callas dies. (Paris, France) (Callas Forever)
November: Harvey Milk becomes the first openly gay man to be elected to a Californian public office. (San Francisco, California) (Milk)
December: William Turner has sex with Tank's aunt Francie. (Boston, Massachusetts) (My Best Friend's Girl)
Sunday 25th December: Charlie Chaplin dies. (Vevey, Switzerland) (Chaplin)