WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO OCTOBER 1977
Find out what all happened September to October 1977

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

The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight. (6. October 1977)

German Autumn: Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board. (17. October 1977)

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

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

German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide. (18. October 1977)

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

Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops rash in Merca district, Somalia. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination. (26. October 1977)

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

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

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)

The European Patent Institute is founded. (21. October 1977)

The Torrijos-Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century. (7. September 1977)

Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0. (25. October 1977)

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

The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution. (7. October 1977)

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations. (20. September 1977)

In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed. (6. October 1977)

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