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Date	Event
January 3, 1977	Apple Computer is incorporated.
January 8, 1977	Three bombs explode in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
January 13, 1977	Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1045, a Douglas DC-8 jet, crashes onto the runway during takeoff from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, killing five.
January 15, 1977	Linjeflyg Flight 618 crashes in Kälvesta near Stockholm Bromma Airport in Stockholm, Sweden, killing 22 people.
January 17, 1977	Capital punishment in the United States resumes after a ten-year hiatus, as convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah.
January 18, 1977	Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
January 18, 1977	Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney, killing 83.
January 18, 1977	SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
January 19, 1977	President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
January 24, 1977	The Atocha massacre occurs in Madrid during the Spanish transition to democracy.
January 28, 1977	The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, which dumps 3 metres (10 ft) of snow in one day in Upstate New York. Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas are most affected.
February 4, 1977	A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
February 18, 1977	A thousand armed soldiers raid Kalakuta Republic, the commune of Nigerian singer Fela Kuti, leading to the death of Funmilayo Anikulapo Kuti.
February 18, 1977	The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
March 2, 1977	Libya becomes the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as the General People's Congress adopted the "Declaration on the Establishment of the Authority of the People".
March 4, 1977	The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in Bucharest, Romania.
March 9, 1977	The Hanafi Siege: In a 39-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings.
March 10, 1977	Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus.
March 11, 1977	The 1977 Hanafi Siege: Around 150 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
March 16, 1977	Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
March 23, 1977	The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) is videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
March 24, 1977	Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.[55]
March 27, 1977	Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the deadliest aviation accident in history.
April 4, 1977	Southern Airways Flight 242 crashes in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia, killing 72.
April 5, 1977	The US Supreme Court rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the Sioux people's reservation thereby destroyed the tribe's jurisdictional authority over the area in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip.
April 7, 1977	German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
April 11, 1977	London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.
April 21, 1977	Annie opens on Broadway.
April 22, 1977	Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
April 28, 1977	The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
May 14, 1977	A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on approach to Lusaka International Airport in Lusaka, Zambia, killing six people.
May 17, 1977	Nolan Bushnell opened the first ShowBiz Pizza Place (later renamed Chuck E. Cheese) in San Jose, California.
May 18, 1977	Likud party wins the 1977 Israeli legislative election, with Menachem Begin, its founder, as the sixth Prime Minister of Israel.
May 25, 1977	Star Wars (retroactively titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is released in theaters.
May 25, 1977	The Chinese government removes a decade-old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
May 27, 1977	A plane crash at José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, kills 67.
May 28, 1977	In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
May 31, 1977	The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
June 4, 1977	JVC introduces its VHS videotape at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. It will eventually prevail against Sony's rival Betamax system in a format war to become the predominant home video medium.
June 7, 1977	Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
June 10, 1977	James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later.
June 13, 1977	Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
June 13, 1977	The Uphaar Cinema Fire took place at Green Park, Delhi, resulting in the deaths of 59 people and seriously injured 103 others.
June 15, 1977	After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, the first democratic elections took place in Spain.
June 16, 1977	Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL), by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
June 26, 1977	Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena.
June 27, 1977	France grants independence to Djibouti.
June 30, 1977	The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
July 4, 1977	The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit.
July 5, 1977	The Pakistan Armed Forces under Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq seize power in Operation Fair Play and begin 11 years of martial law. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
July 9, 1977	The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile organises the youth event of Acto de Chacarillas,[11] a ritualised act reminiscent of Francoist Spain.
July 11, 1977	Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in 1968, is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
July 13, 1977	Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ogaden War.
July 13, 1977	New York City: Amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting.
July 19, 1977	The world's first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal was transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) and received at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 12:41 a.m. Eastern time (ET).
July 20, 1977	The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments.
July 20, 1977	The Johnstown flood of 1977 kills 84 people and causes millions of dollars in damages.
July 21, 1977	The start of the four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
July 22, 1977	Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
July 24, 1977	End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
July 26, 1977	The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
August 3, 1977	Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
August 4, 1977	U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
August 10, 1977	In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.
August 12, 1977	The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
August 12, 1977	The Sri Lanka Riots: Targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power. Over 300 Tamils are killed.
August 13, 1977	Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.
August 15, 1977	The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
August 17, 1977	The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
August 18, 1977	Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He later dies from injuries sustained during this arrest, bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.
August 20, 1977	Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
August 26, 1977	The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec.
September 4, 1977	The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco.
September 5, 1977	Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
September 7, 1977	The Torrijos–Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
September 7, 1977	The 300-metre-tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
September 10, 1977	Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
September 12, 1977	South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.
September 13, 1977	General Motors introduces Diesel engine, with Oldsmobile Diesel engine, in the Delta 88, Oldsmobile 98, and Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser models amongst others.
September 18, 1977	Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
September 20, 1977	Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
September 25, 1977	About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
September 27, 1977	Japan Airlines Flight 715 crashes on approach to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Malaysia, killing 34 of the 79 people on board.
October 6, 1977	The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
October 7, 1977	The Fourth Soviet Constitution is adopted.
October 12, 1977	Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao Zedong as paramount leader of China.
October 13, 1977	Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
October 17, 1977	The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.
October 18, 1977	German Autumn: A set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
October 20, 1977	A plane carrying the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in woodland in Mississippi, United States. Six people, including three band members, are killed.
October 26, 1977	Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops a rash in Somalia. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider this date to be the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
November 6, 1977	The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
November 8, 1977	Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
November 11, 1977	A munitions explosion at a train station in Iri, South Korea kills at least 56 people.
November 12, 1977	France conducts the Oreste nuclear test as 14th in the group of 29, 1975–78 French nuclear tests series.
November 14, 1977	During a British House of Commons debate, Labour MP Tam Dalyell poses what would become known as the West Lothian question, referring to issues related to devolution in the United Kingdom.
November 19, 1977	TAP Air Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131.
November 20, 1977	Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
November 21, 1977	Minister of Internal Affairs Allan Highet announces that the national anthems of New Zealand shall be the traditional anthem "God Save the Queen" and "God Defend New Zealand".
November 22, 1977	British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
November 25, 1977	Former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad. He is later assassinated in 1983.
November 26, 1977	An unidentified hijacker named Vrillon, claiming to be the representative of the "Ashtar Galactic Command", takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes, starting at 5:12 pm.
December 4, 1977	Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
December 4, 1977	Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100.
December 5, 1977	Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. The move is in retaliation for the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt.
December 6, 1977	South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
December 13, 1977	Air Indiana Flight 216 crashes near Evansville Regional Airport, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team, support staff, and boosters of the team.
December 18, 1977	United Airlines Flight 2860 crashes near Kaysville, Utah, killing all three crew members on board.
December 18, 1977	SA de Transport Aérien Flight 730 crashes near Madeira Airport in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, killing 36.
December 19, 1977	The Ms  5.8 Bob–Tangol earthquake strikes Kerman Province in Iran, destroying villages and killing 665 people.
December 25, 1977	Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with its president Anwar Sadat.