Editing 1977 (section)

===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.