WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1977
Find out what all happened February to August 1977

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

Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies. (18. August 1977)

Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates. (16. June 1977)

Bülent Ecevit, of the CHP forms the new government of Turkey. (21. June 1977)

The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole. (17. August 1977)

End of a four day long Libyan–Egyptian War. (24. July 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)

The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed. (28. April 1977)

France grants independence to Djibouti. (27. June 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)

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

Alexandr Zagirnyak and Gennadi Sheludko hijack a Tupolev Tu-134 en route from Petrozavodsk to Leningrad and try to force the pilot to fly to Sweden. The plane lands in Helsinki instead. The hijackers surrender the next day and are returned to the Soviet Union. (10. July 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)

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

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

In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside. (28. May 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)

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

36 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations. (1. May 1977)