WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1977
Find out what all happened July to December 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)

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

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

For the second time, Ted Bundy escapes from his cell in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. (30. December 1977)

Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down. (30. September 1977)

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

The Torrijos-Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century. (7. September 1977)

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

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)

Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.) (24. October 1977)

South Ockendon Windmill, a smock mill at South Ockendon, Essex, England collapsed. (2. November 1977)

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

Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops rash in Merca district, Somalia. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination. (26. October 1977)

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

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

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

About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon. (25. September 1977)