59 events found for 1977
The Sri Lanka Riots: Targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils, begin, less than a month after the United National…
Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214…
The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal…
The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa.…
Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec.
The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco.
Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
The Torrijos–Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The…
The 300-metre-tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing…
The 300-metre (980 ft) tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a…
Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.
Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
Malév Flight 203 crashes near Urziceni, killing 29 people.
About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
Japan Airlines Flight 715 crashes on approach to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Malaysia, killing 34 of the…