On this day
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Yazoo City, Miss, described on eve of Pres Carter visit; illus; map; town is trying to maintain stability and Southern traditions of civility while progressing in modern age; peaceful school integration recalled (M)
Conn issues automotive air pollution alert for 2d time in less than a wk (M)
Pres Carter to propose to Cong legis granting full amnesty to aliens who have been working illegally in US for 7 yrs or longer; action will be 1st major step in dealing with aliens; passage in '77 is considered unlikely because of complexity of issues; plan outlined (M)
Croatian nationalists Zvonko Busic and wife Julienne, who hijacked TWA jet on Sept 10 '76, are sentenced in Fed Dist Ct, NYC, to life imprisonment for air piracy resulting in death of NYC police officer; Judge John R Bartels, while giving couple same sentence, rules that Mrs Busic be eligible for parole in 8 yrs, as opposed to 10 for her husband, because she might not have been involved in hijacking had she not met her husband; Busic's lawyer Michael Tigar to appeal sentences and chief asst US Atty Edward Korman to appeal Bartel's parole ruling regarding Mrs Busic (M)
illus of rescue workers using makeshift bridge across River tributary to remove body of flood victim
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 20, 1977, covering July 21, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Peter Frampton
Barry Manilow
Barbra Streisand
Kiss
1977Paul Casey, English golfer[†]
Paul Alexander Casey is an English golfer who is a member of LIV Golf. He has also played on the US-based PGA Tour and the European Tour. In 2009, he achieved his highest position, third, in the Official World Golf Ranking.
1977Lee Miller, American model and photographer (born 1907)[†]
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose, was an American photographer and photojournalist. Miller was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, becoming a fashion and fine-art photographer there.
1977The start of the four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.[†]
The Egyptian–Libyan War, also known as the Four Day War, was a short border war fought between Libya and Egypt that lasted from 21 to 24 July 1977. The conflict stemmed from a deterioration in relations that had occurred between the two states after Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had rebuffed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's entreaties to unify their countries and had pursued a peace settlement with Israel in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Soon thereafter Libya began sponsoring dissidents and assassination plots to undermine Sadat, and Egypt responded in kind to weaken Gaddafi. In early 1976 Gaddafi dispatched troops to the Egyptian frontier where they began clashing with border guards. Sadat responded by moving many troops to the area, while the Egyptian General Staff drew up plans for an invasion to depose Gaddafi.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]