WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO JULY 1977
Find out what all happened June to July 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)

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 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)

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

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

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

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

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

Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power. (22. July 1977)

End of a four day long Libyan–Egyptian War. (24. July 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)

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

Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before. (13. June 1977)

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

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

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

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

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