Editing 1977 (section)

==Events==
===January===
{{main|January 1977}}
* [[January 8]] – [[1977 Moscow bombings|Three bombs]] explode in [[Moscow]] within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an [[Armenia]]n separatist group.<ref>{{cite book |last=Suny |first=Ronald |title=Looking toward Ararat : Armenia in modern history |publisher=Indiana University Press |location=Bloomington |year=1993 |isbn=9780253207739 |page=187}}</ref>
* [[January 10]] – [[Mount Nyiragongo]] erupts in eastern [[Zaire]] (now the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]).<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57215690 |title=Mount Nyiragongo: DR Congo plans to evacuate city as volcano erupts |work=BBC News |date=23 May 2021}}</ref>
* [[January 17]] – 49 marines from the {{USS|Trenton|LPD-14|6}} and {{USS|Guam|LPH-9|6}} are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain.<ref>{{cite book |title=Surface Warfare |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SuwaH7tmzd4C&pg=RA10-PA40 |year=1978 |publisher=Chief of Naval Operations |pages=10}}</ref>
* [[January 18]]
** Scientists identify a previously unknown [[Bacteria|bacterium]] as the cause of the mysterious [[Legionnaires' disease]].
** Australia's worst [[Granville rail disaster|railway disaster at Granville]], a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.<ref>{{cite news |title=The rail disaster that changed Australia |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38645976 |access-date=26 January 2020 |work=BBC News |date=17 January 2017}}</ref>
** [[SFR Yugoslavia]] Prime minister [[Džemal Bijedić]], his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Death of Džemal Bijedić |journal=Review of International Affairs |date=1977 |issue=642–665 |page=1 |publisher=Federation of Yugoslav Journalists}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] – An [[Ejército del Aire]] [[CASA C-207 Azor|CASA C-207C Azor]] (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near [[Chiva, Valencia|Chiva]], on approach to [[Valencia Airport]] in [[Spain]], killing all 11 people on board.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19770119-1 |title=Aviation Safety Network Accident Description |website=ASN |access-date=November 5, 2021}}</ref>
* [[January 23]] – Prime Minister [[Indira Gandhi]] of India calls for fresh elections to the [[Lok Sabha]], and releases all political prisoners.
* [[January 24]] – The [[1977 Massacre of Atocha|Massacre of Atocha]] occurs, during the [[Spanish transition to democracy]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=25 Años de la 'matanza de Atocha', el crimen que marcó la transición democrática |url=http://www.terra.es/actualidad/articulo/html/act35699.htm |date=January 24, 2002 |website=Terra |language=es |trans-title=25 years since the 'Atocha massacre', the crime that marked the democratic transition |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100129033507/http://www.terra.es/actualidad/articulo/html/act35699.htm |archive-date=January 29, 2010 |access-date=May 1, 2020}}</ref>

===February===
{{main|February 1977}}
* [[February 2]] – The Congress Party of India, led by [[Indira Gandhi]], splits with [[Jagjivan Ram]] and other senior leaders, forming [[Congress for Democracy]]. This party later merges with the [[Janata Party]].<ref>{{cite book |title=320 Million Judges |author=G. G. Mirchandani |pages=90–100 |publisher=Abhinav Publications |year=2003 |isbn=81-7017-061-3}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] – In northern [[Japan]] a blizzard piles snow on rooftops, causing many to collapse killing at least 31 people.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--No author name given.--> |date=4 February 1977 |title=Snow proves deadly in Japan |url=https://videttearchive.ilstu.edu/?a=d&d=vid19770204-01.2.10&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- |format=PDF |work=[[The Vidette]] |volume=89 |issue=109 |agency=[[United Press International|UPI]] |page=2 |access-date=2022-06-06}}</ref>
* [[February 4]] – Eleven [[Chicago Transit Authority|CTA]] commuters are killed when an [[Chicago Loop derailment|elevated train derails]] from the [[The Loop (CTA)|Loop]] in central Chicago, United States. 
* [[February 7]] – The [[Soviet Union]] launches ''[[Soyuz 24]]'' ([[Viktor Gorbatko]], [[Yury Glazkov]]) to dock with the ''[[Salyut 5]]'' space station.
* [[February 18]]
:*American [[Space Shuttle program]]: First test flight of [[Space Shuttle Enterprise|Space Shuttle ''Enterprise'']] mated to the [[Boeing 747]] [[Shuttle Carrier Aircraft]].<ref>{{cite book |author=R. Michael Gordon |title=The Space Shuttle Program: How NASA Lost Its Way |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vn8gAQAAIAAJ |date=29 July 2008 |publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers |isbn=978-0-7864-3434-3 |page=28}}</ref>
:*The [[Xinjiang 61st Regiment Farm fire]] started during Chinese New Year when a firecracker ignites wreaths to the [[Death and state funeral of Mao Zedong|late Mao Zedong]], killing 694 people, mostly children. It remains the [[list of fires in China|deadliest fire]] in China.<ref name="1995a">{{cite journal |title=694条生命化为灰烬——一场没有公开报道的特大火灾 |journal=新世纪 |date=1995 |issue=4 |last=西夫 |url=https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ozEZgbB4HAVet3z7pfvRlw |access-date=2023-01-04 |archive-date=2023-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230104195119/https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ozEZgbB4HAVet3z7pfvRlw}}</ref> 
* [[February 23]] – [[Óscar Romero]], an outspoken opponent of violence, becomes Archbishop of San Salvador, [[El Salvador]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Inter-church Committee on Human Rights in Latin America |title=Newsletter - Inter-Church Committee on Human Rights in Latin America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5QQkAQAAIAAJ |year=1977 |publisher=Inter-Church Committee on Human Rights in Latin America |page=17}}</ref>
* [[February 28]] – Queen [[Elizabeth II]] opens the [[New Zealand Parliament]] in person, after Parliament is summoned for a special short session to allow her to deliver the Speech from the Throne.<ref>{{cite web |title=Display of royal memorabilia |url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/get-involved/features-pre-2016/document/00NZPHomeNews201104261/display-of-royal-memorabilia |publisher=New Zealand Parliament |access-date=12 November 2018 |language=en-NZ |date=29 April 2011 |archive-date=November 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112021753/https://www.parliament.nz/en/get-involved/features-pre-2016/document/00NZPHomeNews201104261/display-of-royal-memorabilia |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===March===
{{main|March 1977}}
* [[March 4]] – The [[1977 Vrancea earthquake]] in the [[Vrancea Mountains]] of [[Romania]] kills over 1,500 people.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.referat.ro/referate/Cutremurul_din_1977_38471.html |title=Cutremurul din 1977 |access-date=February 11, 2024 |archive-date=December 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207005117/http://www.referat.ro/referate/Cutremurul_din_1977_38471.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[March 8]] – The [[Parliament of Australia|Australian parliament]] is opened by [[Elizabeth II]] in her capacity as Queen of Australia.
* [[March 9]] – [[1977 Washington, D.C., attack and hostage taking|Hanafi Siege]]: Approximately a dozen armed [[Nation of Islam|Hanafi Movement]] members take over 3 buildings in Washington, D.C., killing 1 person and taking 149 hostages (the hostage situation ends 2 days later).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=J.Y. |title=Prosecution Opens Trial Of Hanafis |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/06/10/prosecution-opens-trial-of-hanafis/37b5ca1f-a16a-4736-bafc-6a3ade587c0b/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |accessdate=March 14, 2017 |date=June 10, 1977 |archive-date=March 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315091124/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/06/10/prosecution-opens-trial-of-hanafis/37b5ca1f-a16a-4736-bafc-6a3ade587c0b/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 10]] – The [[rings of Uranus]] are discovered.<ref>{{cite book |last=Szebehely |first=Victor |title=Applications of Modern Dynamics to Celestial Mechanics and Astrodynamics : Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, August 2-14, 1981 |publisher=Springer Netherlands |location=Dordrecht |year=1982 |isbn=9789400977938 |page=9}}</ref>
* [[March 12]] – The [[Centenary Test]] between Australia and England begins at the [[Melbourne Cricket Ground]].
* [[March 19]] – Results of elections to the [[Indian Parliament]] are declared. [[Indira Gandhi]]'s [[Congress (I)|Congress Party]] is routed by the opposition [[Janata Party|Janata alliance]].<ref>M.R. Masani, "India's Second Revolution," ''Asian Affairs'' (1977) 5#1 pp 19–38.</ref>
* [[March 21]] – Prime Minister [[Indira Gandhi]] withdraws the [[The Emergency (India)|state of emergency]] which was implemented on June 25, 1975.
* [[March 27]] – [[Tenerife airport disaster|Tenerife disaster]]: A collision between [[KLM]] and [[Pan American World Airways|Pan Am]] [[Boeing 747]]s at [[Tenerife]], [[Canary Islands]], kills 583 people. This becomes the deadliest accident in aviation history.

===April===
{{main|April 1977}}
* [[April 2]] – [[Horse racing]]: [[Red Rum]] wins a record third [[Grand National]] at [[Aintree Racecourse]] in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/2/newsid_2466000/2466403.stm |title=BBC ON THIS DAY {{pipe}} 2 {{pipe}} 1977: Hat trick for Red Rum |work=BBC News |date=April 2, 1982 |access-date=August 18, 2014}}</ref>
* [[April 4]] – [[Southern Airways Flight 242]] crashes on a highway in [[New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia|New Hope, Georgia]], United States, killing 72 people.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pauldingrotary.org/news-events/24-news-events/45-mrs-cherry-waddell-40th-anniversary-of-the-new-hope-plane-crash-disaster-of-1977 |title=Mrs. Cherry Waddell: 40th anniversary of the New Hope plane crash disaster of 1977 |publisher=Paulding County (Georgia) Rotary Club |access-date=January 2, 2018}}</ref>
* [[April 7]] – German Federal Prosecutor [[Siegfried Buback]] and his driver are shot by [[Red Army Faction]] members while waiting at a red light near his home in [[Karlsruhe]]. The "[[Ulrike Meinhof]] Commando" later claims responsibility.
[[File:Silver Routemaster SRM3.jpg|thumb|[[April 11]]: UK [[Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Silver Jubilee]] (25 red buses painted silver)]]
* [[April 9]] – [[Spain]] legalizes the [[Communist Party of Spain]], which had been outlawed since 1939.
* [[April 11]] – [[London Transport Executive (GLC)|London Transport's]] [[Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Silver Jubilee]] [[AEC Routemaster]] buses are launched.
* [[April 17]] – Belgian prime minister [[Leo Tindemans]]' Christian Social Party gains eight seats in the lower house in parliamentary elections.
* [[April 18]] – An [[Solar eclipse of April 18, 1977|annular solar eclipse]] was visible in Africa, and was the 29th solar eclipse of [[Solar Saros 138]].
* [[April 24]] – In northern [[Bangladesh]], a cyclone kills 13 people and injures about 100 others.{{cn|date=November 2022}}
* [[April 28]] – A federal court in [[Stuttgart]], West Germany, sentences [[Red Army Faction]] members [[Andreas Baader]], [[Gudrun Ensslin]], and [[Jan-Carl Raspe]] to life imprisonment.
* [[April 30]] – The [[Cold war (general term)|Cold War]] between [[Cambodia]] and [[Vietnam]] evolves into the [[Cambodian–Vietnamese War]].

===May===
{{main|May 1977}}
* [[May 1]] – The [[Taksim Square massacre]] in [[Istanbul]] results in 34 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
* [[May 12]] – Portugal and Israel establish [[Foreign relations of Israel#Portugal|diplomatic relations]].
* [[May 14]] – An [[1977 Dan-Air Boeing 707 crash|IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash]] in [[Lusaka]], [[Zambia]], kills all six on board.<ref>{{cite web |date=September 1978 |title=Report on the accident to Boeing 707 321C, G-BEBP near Lusaka International Airport, Zambia, 14 May 1977 |url=https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/9-1978-boeing-707-321c-g-bebp-14-may-1977 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306162844/https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/9-1978-boeing-707-321c-g-bebp-14-may-1977 |archive-date=6 March 2016 |access-date=2020-12-28 |publisher=[[Air Accidents Investigation Branch]]}}</ref>
* [[May 16]] – A 20-passenger [[Sikorsky S-61|S-61L]] topples sideways at takeoff from the roof of the [[MetLife Building|Pan Am Building]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]]. Four passengers are killed by the turning rotors and a woman at street level is killed by a falling blade.
* [[May 17]] – The [[Likud]] Party, led by [[Menachem Begin]], wins the national elections in [[Israel]].
* [[May 23]]
** Scientists report using [[bacteria]] in a lab to make [[insulin]] via [[gene splicing]].
** [[Molucca]]n terrorists take over a school in [[Bovensmilde]], northern Netherlands (105 hostages), and a passenger train on the Bovensmilde–[[Assen]] route nearby (90 hostages) at the same time. The children are released on [[May 26]]. <ref>"All 106 Dutch Children Freed by Terrorists", ''Los Angeles Times'', May 27, 1977, p. I-1</ref> On [[June 11]], [[Dutch Royal Marines]] storm the train, and six terrorists and two hostages are killed.
* [[May 27]]
** The [[Aeroflot Flight 331|1977 Aeroflot Ilyushin 62 airplane crash]] in [[Cuba]] kills 69 people.<ref>{{cite news |title=Soviet Jet Crashes; 66 Die |agency=[[Associated Press]] |newspaper=[[Nashua Telegraph]] |location=Mexico City |date=28 May 1977 |page=1}}</ref>
** A [[1977 Angolan coup d'état attempt|demonstration and coup attempt in Angola]] takes place. Thousands are killed by the government and Cuban forces.<ref>{{cite book |title=In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre |date=2014 |isbn=978-1780769059 |author=Lara Pawson |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic}}</ref>
* [[May 28]] – The [[Beverly Hills Supper Club fire|Beverly Hills Supper Club]] in [[Southgate, Kentucky]], United States, is engulfed in fire; 165 are killed inside.
* [[May 29]] – [[1977 Indianapolis 500|Indianapolis 500]]: [[A. J. Foyt]] becomes the first driver to win the race four times.

===June===
{{main|June 1977}}
[[File:Flag of Djibouti.svg|thumb|Flag of Djibouti]]
* [[June 5]] – A bloodless [[Coup d'état|coup]] installs [[France-Albert René]] as President of the [[Seychelles]].
* [[June 15]] – Spain has [[1977 Spanish general election|its first democratic election]]s, after 41 years of [[Francoist Spain]].
* [[June 21]] – [[Bülent Ecevit]], of [[Republican People's Party|CHP]] forms the new government of [[Turkey]] (40th government since the founding of the Turkish republic, but fails to receive the vote of confidence).
* [[June 25]] – The [[1977 Rugby League World Cup]] culminates in [[Australia national rugby league team|Australia]]'s 13–12 victory over [[Great Britain national rugby league team|Great Britain]] at the [[Sydney Cricket Ground]] before about 24,450 spectators.
* [[June 27]]
** [[Djibouti]] receives its independence from France.
** [[Constitution for the Federation of Earth]] is adopted by the second session of the [[Second World Constituent Assembly|World Constituent Assembly]], held at [[Innsbruck]], [[Austria]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Preparing earth constitution {{pipe}} Global Strategies & Solutions {{pipe}} The Encyclopedia of World Problems |url=http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/strategy/193465 |access-date=2023-07-15 |website=The Encyclopedia of World Problems {{pipe}} Union of International Associations (UIA)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=PANDIT |first=M. P. |url=http://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.20553 |title=WORLD UNION (JANUARY-DECEMBER) 1981 |date=1981 |publisher=WORLD UNION INTERNATIONAL, INDIA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Amerasinghe |first=Terence P. |title=Emerging World Law, Volume 1 |publisher=Institute for Economic Democracy |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-933567-16-7 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 30]] – The [[Southeast Asia Treaty Organization]] is permanently disbanded.

===July===
{{main|July 1977}}
* [[July 1]]
** The [[East African Community]] is dissolved.<ref>{{cite book |editor=Peter N. Stearns |title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World: 1750 to the Present |publisher=OUP USA |year=2008 |page=34}}</ref>
** [[The Championships, Wimbledon]] (tennis) – [[Virginia Wade]] wins the women's singles title in the centenary year of the tournament, Wade's first and only Wimbledon title and her third and final Grand Slam title overall; she remains the last British woman to win the singles title at Wimbledon.
* [[July 5]] – General [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]] overthrows [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], the first elected Prime Minister of [[Pakistan]].
* [[July 9]] – The [[Military dictatorship of Chile (1973–1990)|Pinochet dictatorship]] in Chile organises the youth event of [[Acto de Chacarillas]],<ref name="mercurio">{{cite web |url=http://www.scribd.com/doc/20802967/Los-77-de-Chacarillas |title=La Juventud en Chacarillas |work=[[El Mercurio]] |date=July 9, 1977 |access-date=January 5, 2015}}</ref> a ritualised act reminiscent of [[Francoist Spain]].<ref name=Yanko2015>{{cite journal |last1=González |first1=Yanko |date=2015 |title=El "Golpe Generacional" y la Secretaría Nacional de la Juventud: purga, disciplinamiento y resocialización de las identidades juveniles bajo Pinochet (1973–1980) |journal=[[Atenea]] |volume=512 |issue=512 |pages=10.4067/S0718–04622015000200006 |doi=10.4067/S0718-04622015000200006 |language=es |trans-title=The "Generational Putsch" and the National youth Office: Purge, disciplining and resocialization of youth identities under Pinochet (1973–1980) |doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[July 10]] – A temperature of {{convert|48.0|C|F}}, a [[List of weather records|record]] for continental Europe, is recorded in [[Climate of Greece|Greece]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wmo.asu.edu/#global |title=Global Weather & Climate Extremes |publisher=[[World Meteorological Organization]] |access-date=2018-08-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213113854/http://wmo.asu.edu/ |archive-date=2013-12-13}}</ref>
* [[July 13]]
** [[Somalia]] declares war on Ethiopia, starting the [[Ethio-Somali War]]. 
** New York City is affected by a complete [[New York City blackout of 1977|electricity blackout]] lasting through the following day that results in citywide looting and other criminal activity, including arson.
* [[July 21]]–[[July 24|24]] – The [[Libyan–Egyptian War]], sparked by a Libyan raid on [[Sallum]], begins.
* [[July 21]] – [[Süleyman Demirel]], of [[Justice Party (Turkey)|AP]] forms the new government of [[Turkey]] (41st government a three-party coalition, so-called second national front ({{langx|tr|Milliyetçi cephe}})).
* [[July 22]] – The purged [[Chinese Communist]] leader [[Deng Xiaoping]] is restored to power nine months after the "[[Gang of Four]]" was expelled from power in a coup d'état.
* [[July 27]] – The [[Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Soviet Politburo]] orders [[Boris Yeltsin]] to demolish the [[Ipatiev House]], where Tsar [[Nicholas II of Russia]] and his family were shot in [[1918]]. Yeltsin later refers to this as a barbarian act.{{cn|date=September 2023}}
* [[July 30]] – Left-wing German terrorists [[Susanne Albrecht]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.baader-meinhof.com/who/terrorists/raf/albrechtsusanne.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051125215217/http://www.baader-meinhof.com/who/terrorists/raf/albrechtsusanne.html |url-status=dead |title=Baader-Meinhof.com |archive-date=November 25, 2005}}</ref> [[Brigitte Mohnhaupt]] and [[Christian Klar]] assassinate [[Jürgen Ponto]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dresdner-bank.com/content/03_unternehmen/05_gesellschaftliches_engagement/02_ponto_stiftung |title=Startseite Privat- und Geschäftskunden – Commerzbank |author=Commerzbank AG}}</ref> chairman of the [[Dresdner Bank]] in [[Oberursel]], West Germany.

===August===
{{main|August 1977}}
* [[August 4]] – U.S. president [[Jimmy Carter]] signs legislation creating the [[United States Department of Energy]].
* [[August 9]] – The military-controlled government of [[Uruguay]] announces that it will return the nation to civilian rule through general elections in [[1981]] for a president and [[General Assembly of Uruguay|Congress]].
* [[August 12]] – The [[NASA]] [[Space Shuttle]], named ''[[Space Shuttle Enterprise|Enterprise]]'', makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
* [[August 15]]
** [[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]] for a notation made by a volunteer on the project.
** Nazi war criminal [[Herbert Kappler]] escapes from the [[Caelian Hill]] military hospital in Rome.<ref>{{cite web |last=Cicchino |first=Enzo |year=2000 |title=Kappler's escape MEETING WITH Hon. Minister Vito Lattanzio |url=http://www.larchivio.com/xoom/vitolattanzio.htm |access-date=2 September 2020 |website=larchivio.com}}</ref>
* [[August 17]] – The Soviet icebreaker ''[[Arktika (1972 nuclear icebreaker)|Arktika]]'' becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.<ref>{{cite book |last=Paine |first=Lincoln P |title=Ships of the World |year=1997 |publisher=Houghton-Mifflin |isbn=0-395-71556-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/shipsofworldhist00pain/page/39 39] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/shipsofworldhist00pain/page/39}}</ref>
* [[August 20]] – [[Voyager program]]: The United States launches the [[Voyager 2]] [[spacecraft]].
* [[August 26]] – The [[National Assembly of Quebec]] passes the [[Charter of the French Language]] (Law 101, ''La charte de la langue française'') making [[French language|French]] the [[official language]] of the Canadian province of [[Quebec]].

=== September ===
{{main|September 1977}}
* [[September 4]] – The [[Golden Dragon massacre]], involving rival Chinatown gangs, takes place in [[San Francisco]], United States. Five are killed.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19770905.2.18 |title=Chinese Gang War Erupts In Shooting |agency=AP |date=September 5, 1977 |newspaper=Desert Sun |access-date=June 6, 2018}}</ref> 
* [[September 5]]
** [[Voyager program]]: ''[[Voyager 1]]'' is launched after a brief delay.
** [[German Autumn]]: Employers Association President [[Hanns Martin Schleyer]] is kidnapped in [[Cologne]], West Germany. The kidnappers kill three escorting police officers and his chauffeur. They demand the release of [[Red Army Faction]] prisoners.
* [[September 7]] – Treaties between [[Panama]] and the United States on the status of the [[Panama Canal]] are signed. The U.S. agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
* [[September 8]] – [[Interpol]] issues a resolution against the copyright infringement of video tapes and other material, which is still cited in warnings on opening pre-credits of videocassettes and DVDs.
* [[September 10]] – Murderer [[Hamida Djandoubi]] is the last person executed by [[guillotine]] in France (at [[Marseille]]) and the last legal beheading in the Western world.
* [[September 15]] – [[Optical fiber]] is first used to carry live telephone traffic, as an Italian company in [[Turin]], Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni (CSELT) begins operation of two telephone exchanges.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917171214/http://archiviostorico.telecomitalia.com/italia-al-telefono-oltre/15-settembre-1977-torino-prima-stesura-al-mondo-di-fibra-ottica-in-esercizi|title=15 settembre 1977, Torino, prima stesura al mondo di una fibra ottica in esercizio. Un record detenuto da TIM. &#124; archiviostorico.telecomitalia.com|date=September 17, 2017|website=web.archive.org}}</ref>
* [[September 18]] – ''[[Courageous (yacht)|Courageous]]'' (U.S.), skippered by [[Ted Turner]], sweeps the Australian challenger ''Australia'' in the [[1977 America's Cup|24th America's Cup]] yacht race at Newport, Rhode Island.
* [[September 19]] 
** Under pressure from the [[Carter Administration]], President of Nicaragua [[Anastasio Somoza Debayle]] lifts the [[State of emergency|state of siege]] in [[Nicaragua]].
** [[North Korea]]n agents abduct Yutaka Kume from [[Noto Peninsula]] starting the [[North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens]].
* [[September 20]] – The [[Petrozavodsk phenomenon]] is observed in the [[Soviet Union]] and some northern European countries.
* [[September 28]] – The [[Porsche 928]] debuts at the [[Geneva Motor Show]].

=== October ===
{{main|October 1977}}
* [[October 1]] – [[Energy Research and Development Administration]] combines with the [[Federal Energy Administration]] to form [[United States Department of Energy]].
* [[October 7]]
** The Soviet Union adopts its [[1977 Constitution of the Soviet Union|third Constitution]]. The [[Soviet National Anthem]]'s lyrics are returned after a 24-year period, with [[Joseph Stalin]]'s name omitted.
** [[Pelé]] plays his final professional football game, as a member of the [[New York Cosmos (1970–85)|New York Cosmos]].
* [[October 13]] – [[German Autumn]]: Four [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]]s hijack [[Lufthansa Flight 181]] to [[Somalia]] and demand the release of 11 [[Red Army Faction]] members.
* [[October 17]]–[[October 18|18]] – [[German Autumn]]: [[GSG 9]] troopers storm the hijacked [[Lufthansa]] passenger plane in [[Mogadishu]], [[Somalia]]; three of the four hijackers die.
* [[October 18]] – [[German Autumn]]: [[Red Army Faction]] members [[Andreas Baader]], [[Jan-Carl Raspe]] and [[Gudrun Ensslin]] commit suicide in Stammheim prison; [[Irmgard Möller]] fails (their supporters still claim they were murdered). They are buried on [[October 27]].
* [[October 19]] – [[German Autumn]]: Kidnapped industrialist [[Hanns Martin Schleyer]] is found murdered in [[Mulhouse]], France.
* [[October 20]] – Three members of the rock band [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] die in a charter plane crash outside [[Gillsburg, Mississippi]], three days after the release of their fifth studio album ''[[Street Survivors]]''.
* [[October 21]] – The [[European Patent Institute]] is founded.
* [[October 23]] – The [[president of Catalonia]], [[Josep Tarradellas]], returns to [[Barcelona]] from exile and the autonomous government of [[Catalonia]], the [[Generalitat de Catalunya|Generalitat]], is restored.
* [[October 26]]
** The last natural [[smallpox]] case is discovered in Merca district, [[Somalia]]. The [[WHO]] and the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|CDC]] consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, a great success of [[vaccination]] and, by extension, of modern science.
** [[Space Shuttle program]]: Last test taxi flight of [[Space Shuttle Enterprise|Space Shuttle ''Enterprise'']], over California.
* [[October 27]] – British punk band [[Sex Pistols]] release ''[[Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols]]'' on the [[Virgin Records]] label. Despite refusal by major retailers in the UK to stock it, it enters the [[UK Album Charts]] at number one the week after its release.
* [[October 28]] –  Hong Kong police attack the [[Independent Commission Against Corruption (Hong Kong)|ICAC]] headquarters.

=== November ===
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* [[November 1]] – [[2060 Chiron]], first of the outer [[Solar System]] [[asteroid]]s known as [[Centaur (minor planet)|Centaur]]s, is discovered by [[Charles T. Kowal|Charlie Kowal]].
[[File:Sadat Camp David.jpg|thumb|140px|[[November 19]]: [[Anwar Sadat]] meets [[Menachem Begin]] in Israel.]]
[[File:IP stack connections.svg|thumb|130px|[[November 22]]: [[TCP/IP]] links 3 of 111 [[ARPANET]] nodes.]]
* [[November 2]] – The worst storm in [[Athens]]' modern history causes havoc across the Greek capital and kills 38 people.
* [[November 6]] – The [[Kelly Barnes Dam]], located above [[Toccoa Falls Bible College]] near [[Toccoa, Georgia]], United States, fails, killing 39 people.
* [[November 8]]
** Greek archaeologist [[Manolis Andronikos]] discovers the tomb of [[Philip II of Macedon]] at [[Vergina]].
** [[San Francisco]] elects City Supervisor [[Harvey Milk]], the first openly gay elected official of any large city in the U.S.
* [[November 9]] – [[Hugo Banzer|Gen. Hugo Banzer]], president of the military government of [[Bolivia]], announces that the constitutional democracy will be restored in [[1978]] instead of [[1980]] as previously provided.
* [[November 19]]
** [[Egypt]]ian President [[Anwar Sadat]] becomes the first [[Arab people|Arab]] leader to make an official visit to [[Israel]], when he meets with Israeli prime minister [[Menachem Begin]], seeking a permanent peace settlement.
** [[TAP Portugal Flight 425]] crashes at [[Madeira Airport]], [[Funchal]], Portugal, killing 131 and leaving 33 survivors.
* [[November 22]]
** [[British Airways]] inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic [[Concorde]] service.
** The [[TCP/IP]] test succeeds, connecting 3 [[ARPANET]] nodes (of 111), in what eventually becomes the [[Internet]] protocol.<ref>"TCP/IP", LivingInternet, 2008, webpage: [http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_tcpip.htm LivingI-tcpip] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000823082049/http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_tcpip.htm |date=August 23, 2000 }}.</ref> See [[Packet Radio Van]]
* [[November 30]] – The [[International Fund for Agricultural Development]] (IFAD) is founded as a specialized agency of the [[United Nations]].

=== December ===
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* December – The [[Colombo Plan]] for Co-operative Economic and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific (CESDAP) is implemented.
* [[December 4]]
** [[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]], president of the [[Central African Republic]], crowns himself emperor.
** [[Malaysian Airline System Flight 653]] is hijacked and crashes in [[Tanjung Kupang]], [[Johor]], [[Malaysia]], killing all 100 passengers and crew on board.
* [[December 6]] – South Africa grants independence to [[Bophuthatswana]], although it is not recognized by any other country.
* [[December 10]] – [[1977 Australian federal election]]: [[Malcolm Fraser]]'s [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|National Country]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] [[Fraser government|government]] is re-elected with a slightly reduced majority, defeating the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]] led by former [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] [[Gough Whitlam]]. Consequently, Whitlam resigns as ALP leader after holding the job for nearly 11 years; he is [[December 1977 Australian Labor Party leadership election|replaced]] by former [[Treasurer of Australia|treasurer]] [[Bill Hayden]].
* [[December 13]] – a chartered Douglas DC-3 aircraft carrying the [[University of Evansville]] basketball team to Nashville, Tennessee, [[Air Indiana Flight 216|crashes in rain and dense fog]] about 90 seconds after takeoff from [[Evansville Regional Airport]]; 29 people die in the crash, including 14 members of the team and head coach Bob Watson.
* [[December 18]] – [[SA de Transport Aérien Flight 730]], an international charter service from Zurich to Funchal Airport (Madeira), hits the sea during a landing attempt. Many of the 36 who die drown, trapped inside the sinking aircraft. Twenty-one people survive with the help of rescuers and by swimming to the shore.
* [[December 19]] – The {{M|w}} 5.9 [[1977 Bob–Tangol earthquake|Bob–Tangol earthquake]] rocks Iran, killing at least 584 people and injuring 1,000.<ref name=ngdc>{{citation |title=Significant Earthquake Database |url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/4786 |author=National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS) |year=1972 |publisher=[[National Geophysical Data Center]], [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|NOAA]] |doi=10.7289/V5TD9V7K |type=Data Set}}</ref>
* [[December 20]] – [[Djibouti]] and [[Vietnam]] join the [[United Nations]].
* [[December 22]] – A [[grain elevator]] explodes in [[Westwego, Louisiana]], United States, killing 36 people.