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Valuable collection of 19th-century French wines is found in wine cellar of Ten Broek Mansion, Albany, NY; Heublein & Co official Alexander C McNally comments; illus (M)
NYC's underwriters cancel sale of $450-million in short-term notes after Moody's Investor Service gives offering lowest possible investment-grade credit rating; Moody's cites city's fiscal position in grading securities' says city's 'overall financial position is so precarious as not to preclude possibility of bankruptcy'; Fed Govt now is expected to provide money city had hoped to find in open mkt (M)
Brown tentatively approves budget of at least $130-billion for fiscal '79, several billion dollars more than Cong and defense analysts had expected; Carter Adm sources link high figure to pressure within Pentagon and Adm to spend more money on logistics and weapons for NATO; Sen Budget Com analysts predict '79 budget will include $10- to $12-billion more for NATO than in '78 (M)
Pres Carter declines to condemn Israel, news conf; says if there are continued terrorist attacks on Israel's border villages 'some retaliation is required' (M)
Police arrest 626 blacks, including 198 schoolchildren, in house-to-house sweep through Atteridgeville-Faulsville black township near Pretoria; raid was conducted 'to combat criminal elements' in township (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 9, 1977, covering November 11, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Linda Ronstadt
Steely Dan
Foreigner
The Rolling Stones
1977Ben Hollioake, Australian-English cricketer (died 2002)[†]
Benjamin Caine Hollioake was an English cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club and the England cricket team. Born in Australia, Hollioake moved to England where he made his first-class cricketing debut for Surrey in 1996. A right-handed batsman and right-arm seam bowler, Hollioake's performances as an all-rounder saw him join his brother Adam in the 1997 England ODI team. Later that year, Adam and Ben Hollioake made their England Test debut in the same game, becoming only the third set of brothers to do so. Ben Hollioake made two Test appearances and earned 20 ODI caps before he was killed in a car crash in Australia at the age of 24.
1977Jill Vedder, American philanthropist, activist and fashion model[†]
Jill Kristin Vedder is an American philanthropist, activist, and former fashion model. She is the co-founder and vice chairman of EB Research Partnership, a non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure for the genetic skin disorder epidermolysis bullosa. She is also an ambassador for Global Citizen and the Vitalogy Foundation.
1977Maniche, Portuguese footballer and manager[†]
Nuno Ricardo de Oliveira Ribeiro, known as Maniche, is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.
1977Scoot McNairy, American actor and producer[†]
John "Scoot" McNairy is an American actor. He is known for his roles in films such as Monsters (2010), Argo, Killing Them Softly, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Speak No Evil, and Nightbitch.
1977Marsha Mehran, Iranian-American author (died 2014)[†]
Marsha Mehran was an Iranian novelist. Her works include the international bestsellers Pomegranate Soup (2005) and Rosewater and Soda Bread (2008).
1977Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist and activist (born 1950)[†]
Abraham "Ditto" Pascual Sarmiento Jr. was a Filipino student journalist who gained prominence as an early and visible critic of the martial law regime of dictator Ferdinand Marcos. As editor-in-chief of the Philippine Collegian, Ditto melded the University of the Philippines student newspaper into an independent though solitary voice against martial law rule at a time when the mass media was under the control of the Marcos government. His subsequent seven-month imprisonment by the military impaired his health and contributed to his premature death.
1977A munitions explosion at a train station in Iri, South Korea kills at least 56 people.[†]
The Iri station explosion was a disaster that occurred in Iri, North Jeolla, South Korea on November 11, 1977, at 9:15 p.m. About 40 tons of dynamite carried in a freight train Gwangju exploded at Iri station. The town and train station have both been rechristened as Iksan. At least 59 people were killed.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]