January 31 » Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
August 2 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
August 21 » Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.
August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.
Day of death October 10, 1977
The temperature on October 10, 1977 was between 5.7 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
March 16 » Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
June 26 » Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena.
August 3 » Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
September 5 » Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
September 18 » Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
September 30 » Because of NASA budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
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