WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1977
Find out what all happened January to August 1977

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed. (31. May 1977)

Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83. (18. January 1977)

The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise. (12. August 1977)

The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747. (18. February 1977)

The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government. (26. July 1977)

28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster. (27. April 1977)

German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light. (7. April 1977)

The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute. (26. June 1977)

Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. (18. January 1977)

Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (11. July 1977)

Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries. (13. August 1977)

France grants independence to Djibouti. (27. June 1977)

The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit (4. July 1977)

Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in the Bahamas. (19. January 1977)

In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year. (10. August 1977)

President of the United States Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada. (21. January 1977)

President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose"). (19. January 1977)

A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history. (4. February 1977)

Military coup in Pakistan: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown. (5. July 1977)

Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus. (10. March 1977)