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18 December 1977 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 18 December 1977 was a Sunday.
- Irish Chart Song in 1977
- The Irish chart song for 1977 was “Knowing Me Knowing You” by ABBA.
- Top Film of 1977
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1977 was Star Wars.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 18 December is Sagittarius.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 18 December 1977 fell in the Year of the Snake.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for December is Turquoise.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 18 December 1977 was First Quarter.
On this day: 18 December
- 1957 A violent F5 tornado wipes out the entire community of Sunfield, Illinois.
- 1958 Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
- 1966 Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
- 1973 Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
- 1999 NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
Famous people born on 18 December
- Brad Pitt, American actor and producer (born 1963)
- Steven Spielberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks (born 1946)
- Jayden Daniels, American football player (born 2000)
- Billie Eilish, American singer (born 2001)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 1977 in Ireland
A selection from Wikipedia's '1977 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.
- 21 February – A crater on the planet Mercury was named after the Irish poet W. B. Yeats.
- 18 March – Six-year-old Mary Boyle from Kincasslagh vanished from her grandparents' farm near Ballyshannon in County Donegal.
- 9 May – Ireland's first McDonald's restaurant opened on Grafton Street in Dublin.
Life in Ireland in 1977
Taoiseach
Jack Lynch
Petrol (per litre)
£0.62/gal
Loaf of Bread
£0.19
Average House
£15,000
Weekly Wage
£33
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Famous Faces Born in the 1970s
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Cillian Murphy25 May 1976ActorView their day →Michael Fassbender2 April 1977ActorView their day →Andrew Scott21 October 1976ActorView their day →Colin Farrell31 May 1976ActorView their day →Dolores O'Riordan6 September 1971MusicianView their day →Sharon Horgan13 July 1970Actress & writerView their day →Glen Hansard21 April 1970Musician & songwriterView their day →Jimmy Carr15 September 1972Comedian & humouristView their day →Sources: Wikidata and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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