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Carter's natl security adviser Dr Brzezinski has started study on stemming diversion of nuclear materials to weapons production (S)
50âbyâ62âft landmark neon sign that advertised Canadian Club in Times Sq is taken down after 24 yrs, reptdly because of change in co's mktg strategy (S)
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investment bankers agree with commercial banks that city needs outside fiscal monitor to restore creditâworthiness (M)
2âwkâold natural gas crisis forces new layoffs for hundreds of thousands of workers in dozen states; Ohio Mfrs Assn, with estimated 75,000 people already jobless, estimates that elimination of gas service to all industries would bring layoffs to 250,000; in Va, as many as 30,000 workers may be laid off; in parts of country, loss of heat to homes, except in few isolated instances, is avoided as thousands of factories close to reduce natural gas usage (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 26, 1977, covering January 28, 1977.
Stevie Wonder
Paul McCartney And Wings
Eagles
Barbra Streisand & Kris Kristofferson
Boston
1977Sandis BuÅ¡kevics, Latvian basketball player and coach[â ]
Sandis BuÅ¡kevics is a Latvian professional basketball coach and former player. He is currently the head coach for BC TelÅ¡iai of the NacionalinÄ krepÅ¡inio lyga (NKL). BuÅ¡kevics was also a member of the Latvia national basketball team.
1977Daunte Culpepper, American football player[â ]
Daunte Rachard Culpepper is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Minnesota Vikings. He played college football for the UCF Knights and was selected by the Vikings in the first round of the 1999 NFL draft.
1977Joey Fatone, American singer, dancer, and television personality[â ]
Joseph Anthony Fatone Jr. is an American singer, dancer, actor, and television host. He is best known as a member of the boy band NSYNC, in which he sang baritone. The band has sold over 70 million records, becoming one of the best-selling boy bands of all time.
1977Takuma Sato, Japanese race car driver[â ]
Takuma "Taku" Sato is a Japanese racing driver, who competes part-time in the IndyCar Series for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. Sato competed in Formula One from 2002 to 2008. In American open-wheel racing, Sato is a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 in 2017 and 2020, remaining the only Asian driver to win the event.
1977The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, which dumps 3 metres (10Â ft) of snow in one day in Upstate New York. Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas are most affected.[â ]
The blizzard of 1977 hit Western New York, Central NY, Northern NY, and Southern Ontario from January 28 to February 1 of that year. Daily peak wind gusts ranging from 46 to 69Â mph were recorded by the National Weather Service in Buffalo, with snowfall as high as 100Â in (254Â cm) recorded in areas, and the high winds blew this into drifts of 30 to 40Â ft. There were 23 total storm-related deaths in Western New York, with five more in northern New York.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[â ]