What happened that year? Who won the Super Bowl? Top book? Top movie? Man of the year? Why did a floating pig stop flights into Heathrow?

1. Cultural News of 1977
NEW YORK MINUTE

2. Cultural News of 1977
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Cost of a Superbowl ad in 1977: $125,000.
BTW— The Super Bowl XI Champions were the Oakland
Raiders over the Minnesota Vikings.

3. Cultural News of 1977
NEW YORK MINUTE
The first "High Five" that is widely acknowledged
occurred on October 2, 1977 between two members of
the Los Angeles Dodgers, Glen Burke and Dusty Baker.

4. Cultural News of 1977
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Although there is this:

5. Cultural News of 1977
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Pink Floyd tied a giant inflatable pig to a power station as
a publicity stunt. The pig broke free, and floated over
Heathrow airport, where all flights had to be grounded to
avoid collisions with the pig.
Pigs rule.

6. Cultural News of 1977
NEW YORK MINUTE
Was Nike's "Just Do It" slogan inspired by the last words
of Gary Gilmore, which he spoke just before being
executed by firing squad?

7. Cultural News of 1977
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NBC broadcast an animated musical film called The
Hobbit, which was an adaptation of the fictional novel
written by J.R.R Tolkien.

8. Cultural News of 1977
NEW YORK MINUTE
Saturday Night Live had an "Anyone Can Host" contest
and the winner was an 80-year old woman named Miskel
Spillman.

9. Cultural News of 1977
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When Australian driver Alan Jones won the 1977
Austrian Formula 1 Grand Prix, the race organizers didn't
have a copy of his national anthem to play at the podium
ceremony (unaware that it was God Save The Queen).
Instead, a drunk person played "Happy Birthday" on a
trumpet.

10. Cultural News of 1977
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Heavy Metal began publication

11. Cultural News of 1977
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Director Roman Polanski pleaded guilty of raping a 13
year old girl in 1977 but fled the U.S to avoid charges.
He’s never been back.

12. Cultural News of 1977
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The deadliest (583 casualties) crash in Aviation history
occurred not in the skies but on the runway between two
Boeing 747s on March 27, 1977. Known as the 'Tenerife
Airport Disaster'. It happened at the runway at Los
Rodeos Airport, on the Spanish island of Tenerife,
Canary Islands.

13. Cultural News of 1977
NEW YORK MINUTE
In 1962, special, hi-tech locks were added to all US
nuclear missiles that would prevent launch without a
secret, unique launch code. However, military officials
quietly circumvented this safeguard by setting every lock
to "00000000".
The codes remained unchanged until 1977.

14. Cultural News of 1977
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The US Population was officially 220,239,425 people.

15. Cultural News of 1977
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World Series Champions: New York Yankees.

16. Cultural News of 1977
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"We are two wild and crazy guys"
-Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd on Saturday Night Live

17. Cultural News of 1977
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"La-dee-da, la-dee-da."
- Diane Keaton, in Annie Hall

18. Cultural News of 1977
NEW YORK MINUTE
Anwar Sadat

19. The #1 Selling Book of
1977?
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20. The #1 TV show of
1977?
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21. SON OF SAM and
The Explosion of Tabloid
Journalism
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22. THE HIGH LINE
After 1980, the High Line was abandoned and mostly
forgotten about. Nature began to take over.
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23. #1 Album of the
Year?
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24. New York City?
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25. New York City?
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26. Cultural News of 1977
NEW YORK MINUTE
New York Minute takes place in July 1977.
This was the culture then.
Personal computers and cell phones were things of the
future.
To call someone from outside your home or office you
still had to ‘drop a dime’.
This is when I grew up in the Bronx.
More people were leaving the city than coming in.

27. New York City. 1970s.
Former Green Beret Will Kane is the lone wolf
who must take down the bad wolves preying
on the innocent.
http://bobmayer.com/fiction/

28. New York Times bestselling author, graduate of West Point, former
Green Beret, and feeder of Cool Gus. He’s had over 75 books
published, including the #1 bestselling series Green Berets, Time
Patrol, Area 51, and Atlantis. He’s sold over 5 million books. Born in
the Bronx and having traveled the world. He’s lived on an island off
the east coast, an island off the west coast, in the Rocky Mountains
and other places, including time in the Orient studying martial arts.
He now lives peacefully with his wife and dogs.
www.bobmayer.com