WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO OCTOBER 1977
Find out what all happened June to October 1977

German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide. (18. October 1977)

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

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)

German Autumn: Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board. (17. October 1977)

A nuclear non-proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union. (21. September 1977)

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

The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight. (6. October 1977)

South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody. (12. September 1977)

Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together. (18. September 1977)

U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy. (4. August 1977)

Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France. (10. September 1977)

Johnstown, Pennsylvania is hit by a flash flood that kills eighty and causes $350 million in damage. (20. July 1977)

The European Patent Institute is founded. (21. October 1977)

The start of the four day long Libyan–Egyptian War. (21. July 1977)

Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ethiopian-Somali War. (13. July 1977)

A coup takes place in Seychelles. (5. June 1977)

500 million people watched the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television. (7. June 1977)

Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered. (5. September 1977)

The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project. (15. August 1977)