WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO SEPTEMBER 1977
Find out what all happened June to September 1977

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

Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered. (5. September 1977)

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

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)

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)

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)

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

Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay. (5. September 1977)

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

End of a four day long Libyan–Egyptian War. (24. July 1977)

A United States Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes into a residential neighborhood in Yokohama, Japan, killing two children on the ground and injuring seven other people. (27. September 1977)

A nuclear non-proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union. (21. September 1977)

Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together. (18. September 1977)

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

The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole. (17. 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)