237 notable events from 1977 — air crashes, murders and wars. Page 1 of 3.
- Tenerife airport disaster
Mar 27, 1977 · Spain · Aviation accident
- Wow! signal
Aug 15, 1977 · United States · Science & concept
- Kidnapping of Colleen Stan
from May 19, 1977 · United States · Kidnapping & hostage
- Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash
Oct 20, 1977 · United States · Aviation accident
- Richard Chase
Dec 29, 1977–Jan 27, 1978 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Joseph Paul Franklin
Aug 7, 1977–Aug 20, 1980 · United States · Terrorism
- Lufthansa Flight 181
Oct 13, 1977–Oct 18, 1977 · Somalia · Kidnapping & hostage
- Megumi Yokota
Nov 15, 1977 · Kidnapping & hostage
- Hillside Strangler
Oct 16, 1977–Feb 16, 1978 · United States · Attack (other)
- Kenneth Bianchi
Oct 16, 1977–Jan 11, 1979 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Oklahoma Girl Scout murders
Jun 13, 1977 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Beverly Hills Supper Club fire
May 28, 1977 · United States · Fire
- German Autumn
Apr 7, 1977–Oct 18, 1978 · Germany · Crisis
- New York City blackout of 1977
Jul 13, 1977–Jul 14, 1977 · United States · Industrial & structural disaster
- Genene Jones
Jan 1, 1977–Jan 1, 1982 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Southern Airways Flight 242
Apr 4, 1977 · United States · Aviation accident
- Angelo Buono Jr.
Oct 17, 1977–Feb 17, 1978 · United States · Attack (other)
- Operação Prato
Oct 20, 1977–Dec 5, 1977 · Brazil · Scandal & controversy
- Southern Television broadcast interruption
Nov 26, 1977 · United Kingdom · Crime & justice
- Kidnapping and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer
Sep 5, 1977–Oct 18, 1977 · Germany · Shooting
- Kampatimar Shankariya
Jan 1, 1977–Jan 1, 1978 · India · Murder & homicide
- Connellan air disaster
Jan 5, 1977 · Australia · Crime & justice
- 1977 Dutch train hijacking
Jun 11, 1977 · Netherlands · Aviation accident
- 1977 Atocha massacre
Jan 24, 1977 · Spain · Shooting
- Japan Air Lines Flight 472 (1977)
Sep 28, 1977 · Bangladesh · Aviation accident
- Death of Giorgiana Masi
May 12, 1977 · Holy See (Vatican City State) · Murder & homicide
- 1977 Dan-Air Boeing 707 crash
May 14, 1977 · Zambia · Aviation accident
- Lorenzo Gilyard
Jan 1, 1977–Jan 1, 1993 · Murder & homicide
- Cyanide cola indiscriminate murder case
Jan 4, 1977 · Japan · Crime & justice
- Jürgen Ponto
Jul 30, 1977 · Terrorism
- Malaysian Airline System Flight 653
Dec 4, 1977 · Malaysia · Aviation accident
- Roger Kibbe
Jan 1, 1977–Jan 1, 1987 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Dagmar Hagelin
Jan 27, 1977 · Argentina · Terrorism
- Agnès Le Roux affair
Oct 27, 1977 · Disappearance
- Petrozavodsk phenomenon
Sep 20, 1977 · Russian Federation · Science & concept
- 1977 Vrancea earthquake
Mar 4, 1977 · Romania · Earthquake
- World's End Murders
Oct 15, 1977 · United Kingdom · Murder & homicide
- Operation Dingo
Nov 25, 1977 · Mozambique · War & armed conflict
- Stephen Wayne Anderson
Jan 1, 1977 · United States · Murder & homicide
- William Henry Hance
Jan 1, 1977–Jan 1, 1978 · Murder & homicide
- 1977 Angolan coup attempt
May 27, 1977 · Angola · War & armed conflict
- 1977 Yokohama F-4 crash
Sep 27, 1977 · Japan · Aviation accident
- TAP Flight 425
Nov 19, 1977 · Portugal · Aviation accident
- Euromissile Crisis
1977–1987 · Poland · Crisis
- 1977 Moscow bombings
Jan 8, 1977 · Russian Federation · Terrorism
- Granville rail disaster
Jan 18, 1977 · Australia · Rail accident
- Donald Gene Miller
Jan 1, 1977–Jan 1, 1978 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Elmo Patrick Sonnier
Nov 5, 1977 · Murder & homicide
- Higashiyama case
May 8, 1977 · Japan · Riot & unrest
- John Arthur Ackroyd
Jan 1, 1977–Jan 1, 1992 · Murder & homicide
- Helen Brach
Feb 17, 1977 · United States · Disappearance
- Attack on the temporary police station in front of the Shibayama-cho mayor's house
May 9, 1977 · Japan · Attack (other)
- Shaba I
May 26, 1977 · Angola · War & armed conflict
- Timothy Krajcir
Jan 1, 1977–Jan 1, 1982 · Murder & homicide
- Fire at Rossiya Hotel on February 25, 1977
Feb 25, 1977 · Russian Federation · Fire
- Bloody May Day (1977)
May 1, 1977 · Türkiye · Massacre
- Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan
Jan 1, 1977–Jan 1, 1984 · Terrorism
- Xinjiang 61st Regiment Farm fire
Feb 18, 1977 · China · Fire
- Murder of Emanuel Jaques
Jul 29, 1977 · Canada · Murder & homicide
- Golden Dragon massacre
Sep 4, 1977 · United States · Massacre
- Azucena Villaflor
Dec 10, 1977 · Terrorism
- Donald Broadnax
Jan 1, 1977–Jan 1, 1996 · Murder & homicide
- Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict
Jan 1, 1977 · Bangladesh · War & armed conflict
- Archibald Hall
Jan 1, 1977–Jan 1, 1978 · Murder & homicide
- Delta Air Lines Flight 1080
Apr 12, 1977 · United States · Aviation accident
- Disappearance of Mary Boyle
Mar 18, 1977 · Ireland · Disappearance
- Richard Grissom
Jan 27, 1977–Jun 26, 1989 · Murder & homicide
- 1977 Dutch school hostage crisis
May 23, 1977 · Netherlands · Kidnapping & hostage
- Air Indiana Flight 216
Dec 13, 1977 · United States · Aviation accident
- Hotel Polen fire
May 9, 1977 · Netherlands · Fire
- Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1045
Jan 13, 1977 · United States · Aviation accident
- Easey Street murders
Jan 10, 1977 · Australia · Murder & homicide
- 1977 Washington, D.C., attack and hostage taking
Mar 9, 1977–Mar 11, 1977 · United States · Kidnapping & hostage
- 1977 Nagasaki bus hijacking
Oct 15, 1977 · Japan · Aviation accident
- Aeroflot Flight 331
May 27, 1977 · Cuba · Aviation accident
- 1977 Encino helicopter crash
Aug 1, 1977 · United States · Aviation accident
- United Airlines Flight 2860
Dec 17, 1977 · United States · Aviation accident
- 1977 Pakistani military coup
Jul 5, 1977 · Pakistan · War & armed conflict
- Japan Air Lines Flight 715
Sep 27, 1977 · Malaysia · Aviation accident
- Edward Surratt
Jan 1, 1977–Jan 1, 1978 · United States · War & armed conflict
- Mark Hopkinson
Aug 7, 1977 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Murder of Carol Wilkinson
Oct 10, 1977 · United Kingdom · Murder & homicide
- Murder of Elizabeth Roberts
Jul 25, 1977 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Urawa vehicle arson internal conflict murder
Apr 15, 1977 · Japan · Attack (other)
- 1977 San Juan earthquake
Nov 23, 1977 · Argentina · Earthquake
- Murder of Roger Honeycutt
Sep 4, 1977 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Rena Chynoweth
May 10, 1977 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Mikhail Novosyolov
Jan 1, 1977–Jan 1, 1995 · Russian Federation · Murder & homicide
- Keidanren attack incident
Mar 3, 1977 · Japan · Kidnapping & hostage
- Pottery Cottage murders
Jan 12, 1977–Jan 14, 1977 · United Kingdom · Murder & homicide
- Jesse Bishop
Dec 20, 1977 · War & armed conflict
- Killing of José Campos Torres
May 5, 1977 · United States · Murder & homicide
- 1977 Seychelles coup d'état
Jun 4, 1977–Jun 5, 1977 · Seychelles · War & armed conflict
- Cabo Valdés case
Apr 25, 1977 · Chile · Kidnapping & hostage
- Terry Melvin Sims
Dec 29, 1977 · Murder & homicide
- 1977 anti-Tamil pogrom
Aug 28, 1977 · Sri Lanka · Genocide & ethnic violence
- SA de Transport Aérien Flight 730
Dec 18, 1977 · Portugal · Aviation accident
- Marcel Lechien affair
Jan 1, 1977 · France · Scandal & controversy
- Lorne J. Acquin
Jul 22, 1977 · Attack (other)
- 1977 Egyptian bread riots
Jan 18, 1977–Jan 19, 1977 · Egypt · Riot & unrest