About the day » Thursday May 26, 1977Calender converter

• Jacqueline Toni VERMEULEN, Johannesburg
• Caspar Gerard Chorus, 's-Gravenhage,2595,Zuid-Holland,Nederland

• Carl Wilhelm Fischer (76), Elmhurst, DuPage County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Diderik Kampinga (72), Amsterdam
• Anna Jantina Birza (73)
• Arthur James AYRES (75), Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
• Antonius Johannes Oprins (55), Breda
• Anna Maria Willems (64), Nieuwehagen (L
• Anke Trip (83), Amsterdam
• Adriaan Dooms (77)
• Audrey Grace (67)
• Adriana Maria Brok (72), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1976 » Justin Pierre, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1976 » Kenny Florian, American mixed martial artist and sportscaster
• 1976 » Paul Collingwood, English cricketer and coach
• 1976 » Stephen Curry, Australian comedian and actor
• 1977 » Luca Toni, Italian footballer
• 1977 » Misaki Ito, Japanese actress and model
• 1977 » Nikos Chatzivrettas, Greek basketball player
• 1977 » Raina Telgemeier, American author and cartoonist
• 1978 » Fabio Firmani, Italian footballer
• 1978 » Phil Elvrum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1966 » Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (b. 1894)
• 1969 » Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889)
• 1969 » Paul Hawkins, Australian race car driver (b. 1937)
• 1974 » Silvio Moser, Swiss race car driver (b. 1941)
• 1976 » Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (b. 1889)
• 1978 » Cybele Andrianou, Greek actress (b. 1887)
• 1979 » George Brent, Irish-American actor (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Elizabeth Peer, American journalist (b. 1936)
• 1989 » Don Revie, English footballer and manager (b. 1927)
• 1994 » Sonny Sharrock, American guitarist (b. 1940)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.8 million citizens.
• May 25 » Star Wars (retroactively titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is released in theaters.
• June 10 » James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later.
• June 13 » Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
• August 15 » The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
• September 7 » The Torrijos–Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
• November 12 » France conducts the Oreste nuclear test as 14th in the group of 29, 1975–78 French nuclear tests series.

The temperature on May 26, 1977 was between 11.5 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 14.6 hours of sunshine (90%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.