Editing 1977 (section)

===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.