32 events found for 1977
Constitution for the Federation of Earth was adopted by the second session of the World Constituent Assembly, held at In
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands
The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in…
The Pakistan Armed Forces under Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq seize power in Operation Fair Play and begin 11 years of martial…
The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile organises the youth event of Acto de Chacarillas, a ritualised act reminiscent of…
Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in 1968, is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ogaden War.
Amidst a period of financial and social turmoil, New York City experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24…
The world's first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal was transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2…
The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in…
The Johnstown flood of 1977 kills 84 people and causes millions of dollars in damages.
Aeroflot Flight B-2 crashes after takeoff from Vitim Airport in the Sakha Republic, killing 39.