Editing 1977 (section)

=== 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]].