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| 1976 |
| | | Black American author Alex Haley traces his family origins in Africa in Roots | |
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| 1976 |
| | | 333 days after leaving Earth, the landing section of the US spacecraft Viking 2 touches down on Mars and begins sending back photographs | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Bulgarian-born US artist Christo (Christo Javacheff) constructs a 24-mile Running Fence in California | |
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| 1976 |
| | | The incumbent president Gerald Ford is defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter in the US election | |
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| 1977 |
| | | Steven Spielberg writes and directs an inflential science fiction movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind | |
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| 1977 |
| | | A treaty provides for the gradual transfer of the Canal Zone from US to Panamanian control | |
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| 1977 |
| | | George Lucas writes and directs a science fantasy, Star Wars, launching a narrative that will be expanded in a further five films | |
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| 1977 |
| | | Elvis Presley dies, aged 42, at his home in Memphis, Tennessee | |
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| 1977 |
| | | After making several films together, Woody Allen and his partner Diane Keaton have an Oscar-winning success with Annie Hall | |
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| 1978 |
| | | US author John Irving has wide success with his novel The World According to Garp | |
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