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1977
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter will be sworn in as the 39th President of the United States on January 20th
Hanns-Martin Schleyer
Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped by the RAF on September 5 and later murdered; High point of the German Autumn .
Return of the GSG 9 after the Landshut kidnapping
Return of the GSG 9 after the liberation of the Lufthansa plane
Two planes collide in Tenerife
The Tenerife air disaster was the worst air disaster in the history of civil aviation
Star Wars Logo.svg
On May 25, the first Star Wars film hit the cinemas, and it has shaped pop culture to this day
Elvis Presley 1970.jpg
Elvis Presley dies of heart failure on August 16th
1977 in other calendars
Ab urbe condita 2730
Armenian calendar 1425-1426
Ethiopian calendar 1969-1970
Badi calendar 133-134
Bengali calendar 1383-1384
Berber calendar 2927
Buddhist calendar 2521
Burmese calendar 1339
Byzantine calendar 7485-7486
Chinese calendar
 - era 4673-4674 or
4613-4614
 – 60-year cycle

Fire Dragon (丙辰, 53) -
Fire Serpent (丁巳, 54)

French
Revolutionary Calendar
CLXXXV - CLXXXVI
185-186
Hindu calendar
 – Vikram Sambat 2033-2034
 – Shaka Samvat 1899-1900
Iranian calendar 1355-1356
Islamic calendar 1397-1398
Japanese calendar
 – Nengō (era): Showa 52
 - Koki 2637
Jewish calendar 5737-5738
Coptic calendar 1693-1694
Korean calendar
 – Dangun era 4310
 – Juche era 66
Minguo calendar 66
Modern Olympics XXI
Seleucid calendar 2288-2289
Thai solar calendar 2520

In Germany in particular, 1977 was marked by the RAF terror ( German Autumn ) . This reached its peak with the kidnapping of the Landshut and the kidnapping and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer .

events

annual dedications

politics

January

February

March

Flag of Angola

April

May

  • May 1st: Attacks by Turkish counterguerrilla forces kill 37 people at the largest May Day demonstration in Turkey 's history. In Turkey and Northern Kurdistan , up to 20-25 people die every day in political conflicts between revolutionary and fascist forces at the end of the 1970s.
  • May 17: Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Kenya
  • May 23: The Assen-Groningen/Netherlands train is hijacked by South Moluccan youths. Military termination 19 days later. Two dead hostages. Six dead hostage-takers

June

European Court of Auditors

July

August

Rudolph Bahro

September

October

November

December

Jean-Bedel Bokassa

business

  • October 26: The German Federal Railroad retired its last steam locomotive . This marks the end of 143 years of German industrial history. This is followed by the heavily disputed " steam locomotive ban ".
  • December 23: The chairman of the board of the Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale, Ludwig Poullain , resigns from his position after the announcement of his consulting contract caused considerable uproar.

science and technology

The icebreaker Arktika

Culture

"Laserscape" by Horst H. Baumann

society

Sports

Entries of athletics world records see under the respective discipline under athletics .

Liverpool FC logo

disasters

Nobel prizes

Phillip Warren Anderson

music

Dire Straits

quotes

Quotes from and about 1977:

  • Ken Olsen formulates his vision for the future of computing: There is no single reason why anyone would want a computer in their home. The quote has been demonstrably taken out of context.

Born

January

David Millar
Orlando Bloom, 2010.

February

Shakira (2009)
Jessica Wahls

March

Chris Martin

April

Annett Louisan
Fredrik Magle

May

Mariano Andrés Pernia
India Morel

June

Raúl , 2009

July

Jarome Iginla

August

Kristina Schroeder
Thierry Henry

September

David Albelda
Kerstin Stegeman

October

Bode Miller
Birgit Prince

November

Brittany Murphy

December

Luke Donald
Psycho, 2013
  • December 31: Psy , South Korean singer

day unknown

Died

January

  • 0January 1: Roland Hayes , American singer (b. 1887)
  • 0January 1: Michael Mann , German musician and literary scholar, son of Thomas Mann (born 1919)
  • 0January 4: Achille Campanile , Italian journalist and playwright (born 1899)
  • 0January 5: Artur Adson , Estonian poet, novelist and theater critic (b. 1889)
  • 0January 6: Johannes Lilje , German theologian, art historian and regional bishop (b. 1899)
  • 0January 8: Horst von Mellenthin , German general of artillery (b. 1898)
  • January 11: Jean de Saussure , American-Swiss evangelical minister and university teacher (b. 1899)
  • January 12: Henri-Georges Clouzot , French director of crime films (b. 1907)
Anthony Eden , 1942
Carl Zuckmayer († January 18)

February

Oscar Klein

March

Jan Patocka

April

Sepp Herberger († April 28)

May

Ludwig Erhard († May 5)
Joan Crawford , still photograph from 1925

June

Wernher von Braun

July

Alice Paul

August

Ernst Bloch († August 4)

September

October

Bing Crosby († October 14)

November

  • 0November 5: René Goscinny , Belgian-French comics writer (b. 1926)
  • 0November 7: Hertha Spielberg , German painter (b. 1890)
  • 0November 7: Fred Oelßner , member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED (b. 1903)
Ferdinand May

December

Charles Chaplin (died December 25)

day unknown

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