WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1977
Find out what all happened February to September 1977

London Transport's Silver Jubilee buses are launched. (11. April 1977)

Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries. (9. May 1977)

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

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

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

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

The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands. (30. June 1977)

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

The 300 metre tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed. (7. September 1977)

Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War. (16. March 1977)

Bülent Ecevit, of the CHP forms the new government of Turkey. (21. 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)

Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before. (13. June 1977)

George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City's World Trade Center. (26. May 1977)

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

Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic. (22. April 1977)

Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers. (3. August 1977)

The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec (26. August 1977)

Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power. (22. July 1977)

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