WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO AUGUST 1977
Find out what all happened June to August 1977

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

The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKUltra. (3. August 1977)

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

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

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

The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight. (23. August 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)

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

The 1977 riots in Sri Lanka, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamil people, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power. Over 300 Tamils are killed. (12. August 1977)

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

New York, New York, amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting. (13. July 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)

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

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

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

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

James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13. (10. June 1977)

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