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- The @ symbol, as used in EMail was invented. Soon (1978)
75% of Arpanet traffic would be EMail.
- The Altair 8800 Personal Computer is released to the world, more
than a (human) generation after the launch of the UNIVAC.
- At the age of 19,
Bill Gates
founded Microsoft.
- The United States of America celebrates a bicentennial.
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- Winnipeg-based rock group Guess Who hold their final concert, in the
Montreal Forum.
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- The Rocky Horror Picture Show debuts in
theaters.
- Near Whitefish Bay, Ontario - Great Lakes ship
Edmund Fitzgerald,
a 222 m long iron ore carrier, breaks in two and sinks west of Sault Ste. Marie, after
battling 7.5 m waves and record 125 km/h winds during a November gale on Lake Superior; 29
crew members drown; disaster commemorated in 1976 hit song by
Gordon Lightfoot.
- Toronto Ontario - CN Tower reaches 555.35 metres in height,
becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure; the giant communications
mast cost $44 million, uses 145,000 tonnes of concrete and steel.
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- Gordon Lightfoot releases single, The Wreck of the Edmund
Fitzgerald, from his album Summertime Dream, about an ore carrier
which sank on Lake Superior; will reach #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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