Top 100 Hits of 1977/Top 100 Songs of 1977 Billboard Year-End Hot 100 chart for 1977. At the same time, the country suffered a severe drought. JUNE. 1977 Mostly Cool and Dull Summer, but a Fine Autumn In the year that Jimmy Carter replaced Gerald Ford as the president of the USA, a tragedy occurred in Tenerife when 2 Jumbo jets collided on the runway killing 583 persons, making it the worst aviation disaster in history, and the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth the Second was celebrated. More Uk destinations. Only a few places registered more than half their average summer rainfall. Important Dates in British History - a timeline. The 1976 British Isles heat wave led to the second hottest summer average temperature in the UK since records began. The summer and autumn of 1975 were very dry, and the winter of 1975–76 was exceptionally dry, as was the spring of 1976; indeed, some months during this period had no rain at all in some areas. Here are events from 1977 that have shaped Britain and its peoples and affected its history. The drought was at its most severe in August 1976 and in response parliament passed the Drought Act 1976.In Ireland the temperature reached 32.5 °C (90.5 °F) in The 1976 heatwave is understood to have been the cause of 20% 'excess deaths' and there were significantly more hospital emergency admissions from 24 June to 8 July 1976 than for the same period in 1975 or 1974.The extensive fires paradoxically helped preserve many areas of With this letter, Berkowitz revealed the name "Son of Sam" for the first time. Elsewhere in New York’s summer of 1977, a sweltering heatwave, financial downturn, rising poverty and inequality levels, paranoia about the Son of Sam murders, and the shining lights of Studio 54 took hold of the city.Check out some compelling photos from that uneasy summer in New York City: And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts:Looters young and old leave an A&P supermarket at Ogden Avenue and 166th Street in the Bronx through a broken window. It was one of the driest, sunniest and warmest summers (June/July/August) in the 20th century, although the summer of 1995 is now regarded as the driest. MORE than 40 years ago temperatures in the UK soared to 35.6C making it one of the hottest summers ever recorded.
Think we're having a heat wave right now? 1977 Mostly Cool and Dull Summer, but a Fine AutumnIn the year that Jimmy Carter replaced Gerald Ford as the president of the USA, a tragedy occurred in Tenerife when 2 Jumbo jets collided on the runway killing 583 persons, making it the worst aviation disaster in history, and the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth the Second was celebrated. If you feel we have left something out please don't hesitate to let us know. June started with cloud and some rain over the UK as fronts passed through but on the 2nd the Azores High ridged towards the UK settling the weather. New Yorkers jam the Brooklyn Bridge on their way home after the blackout shut down the subway system.In Brooklyn, pedestrians stand on a street corner in the wake of the blackout.In the midst of the blackout, a restaurant owner writes a sign to advise customers that there is no food or lights inside, but lots of liquor.Police officers and passersby stand in front of a damaged storefront, looted in the wake of the New York City blackout.Cops contain suspected looters at Grand Concourse and Fordham Road in the Bronx during blackout.