WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1977
Find out what all happened February to November 1977

The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight. (23. August 1977)

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

German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light. (7. April 1977)

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

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

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

The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations. (11. March 1977)

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

Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr., is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad. (25. November 1977)

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

The Hanafi Siege: In a thirty-nine-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage. (9. March 1977)

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

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

France grants independence to Djibouti. (27. 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)

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

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