WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO OCTOBER 1977
Find out what all happened April to October 1977

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

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

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

Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crashes. (20. October 1977)

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

Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay. (5. September 1977)

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

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

Star Wars (retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981) is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday. (25. May 1977)

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

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

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

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

Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction. (13. October 1977)

The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution. (7. October 1977)

In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed. (6. October 1977)

Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft. (20. August 1977)

Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966. (25. May 1977)

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