WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO SEPTEMBER 1977
Find out what all happened July to September 1977

The Golden Dragon Massacre took place in San Francisco, California. (4. September 1977)

Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers. (3. August 1977)

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

The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole. (17. August 1977)

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

Johnstown, Pennsylvania is hit by a flash flood that kills eighty and causes $350 million in damage. (20. July 1977)

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

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations. (20. 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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody. (12. September 1977)

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