55 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…
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.
