WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO AUGUST 1977
Find out what all happened May to August 1977

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

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

The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale. (10. June 1977)

The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec (26. August 1977)

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

The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments. (20. July 1977)

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed. (31. May 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)

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (11. July 1977)

Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power. (22. July 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)

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)