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16 January 1977 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 16 January 1977 was a Sunday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” by Leo Sayer.
- Top Film of 1977
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1977 was Star Wars.
- Bestselling Novel of 1977
- “The Silmarillion” by J. R. R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 1977.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “Laverne & Shirley” (ABC) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1977–78 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 16 January is Capricorn.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 16 January 1977 fell in the Year of the Dragon.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for January is Garnet.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 16 January 1977 was Waning Crescent.
On this day: 16 January
- 1969 Space Race: Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of crewed spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
- 1979 Iranian Revolution: The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
- 1984 A radiation detector at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, United States, detects radioactivity after a truck carrying rebar accidentally passed through the laboratory's area, revealing a contamination incident that occurred in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, the previous month.
- 1991 Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.
- 1992 El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
Famous people born on January 16
- Aaliyah, American singer and actress (1979–2001)
- Lin-Manuel Miranda, American actor, playwright, and composer (born 1980)
- Sade, Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and producer (born 1959)
- Sidharth Malhotra, Indian actor (born 1985)
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Events of 1977 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '1977 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- January 9 – Rock band Toto is founded by David Paich and Jeff Porcaro in Van Nuys, Los Angeles.
- February 4 – Fleetwood Mac's Grammy Award-winning album Rumours is released.
- March 15 – Tenor Luciano Pavarotti and the PBS opera series Live from the Met both make their American television debuts. Pavarotti stars in a complete production of Puccini's La Boheme. Also debuting is the ABC sitcom Three's Company.
Life in the US in 1977
President
Gerald Ford
Gas (per gallon)
$0.62
Loaf of Bread
$0.37
Average House
$48,800
Weekly Wage
$218
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