1977 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1977?
- January 3, 1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated.
- January 18, 1977 – Australia’s worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
- February 18, 1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden “flight” on top of a Boeing 747.
- March 9, 1977 – The Hanafi Muslim Siege: In a thirty-nine hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.
- March 11, 1977 – The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 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.
- April 27, 1977 – 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
- June 10, 1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
- July 5, 1977 – Military coup in Pakistan: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
- July 20, 1977 – Johnstown, Pennsylvania is hit by a flash flood that kills eighty and causes $350 million in damage.
- August 18, 1977 – Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William’s Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa’s apartheid policies.
- September 10, 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
- September 20, 1977 – The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
- September 30, 1977 – Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
- October 6, 1977 – The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
- October 21, 1977 – The European Patent Institute is founded.
- October 26, 1977 – The last natural case of smallpox is discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
- December 4, 1977 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100.
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