Britain and the World 1977

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	1977
Jan3	Apple founded
Jan6	EMI sack the Sex Pistols for their outrageous behaviour
Jan21	Abortion is legalised in Italy
Jan17	Gary Gilmour a convicted double murderer was executed by firing squad at Utah State Penitentiary. He was the first person to be executed in the United States since the reintroduction of the death penalty.
Mar23	Lib-Lab pact established
Mar27	582 people were killed when a KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on the Canary Island of Tenerife.
Apr2	Red Rum ridden by Tommy Stack wins the Grand National for the third time
Apr28	Stuttgart court sentences Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carle Raspe to life imprisonment for their crimes whilst members of the Baader-Meinhof group. Baader is found dead in his cell on Oct 18
May23	Armed Moluccan refugees capture a school and train in Groningen Netherlands with nearly 200 hostages
Jun1	Road speed limits: 70mph dual roads; 60mph single
Jun4	Damage estimated at £15,000 was caused when fans dug up the Wembley pitch after Scotland beat England 2-1
Jun7	Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations in London
Jul1	Virginia Wade beats Betty Stove for Wimbledon's Women's Singles Final
Jun11	Dutch marines stormed a train at Assen in which South Moluccan terrorists had been holding more than 50 hostages for 19 days. Six terrorists and two hostages were killed.
Jul 14	A power cut in New York leads to widespread looting
Jul28	First oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reached Valdez, Alaska.
Aug12	U.S. space shuttle made its first test flight, gliding off the back of a jet and landing safely
Aug16	Elvis dies at Gracelands Memphis age 42 from heart failure
Aug19	Groucho Marx dies
Aug21	U.S. Voyager II spacecraft was launched on its mission to explore the outer planets. It passed close to Jupiter (July 1979), Saturn (August 1981), Uranus (January 1986) and Neptune (August 1989) before leaving the solar system. At the time of writing it is still transmittting radio signals from space and is used as a marker by the various agencies
Sep12	South African black civil rights leader Steven Biko died while in police custody
Sep26	Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service from Gatwick to New York
Oct1	Brazilian soccer great Pele' retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games
Oct2	Niki Lauda wins the World Motor Racing Championship
Oct8	800 corpses remain unburied in London due a strike by gravediggers
Oct18	Three Palestinian hijackers were killed when a German anti-terrorist squad stormed a Lufthansa aircraft at Mogadishu Airport. All 86 passengers who had been held hostage for five days were freed.
Oct20	Three members of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd die in charter plane crash
Oct27	Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe denies having a homosexual relationsip with former male model Norman Scott
Oct28	West Yorkshire Police appeal to the public for their help in finding the murderer of a number of women in the area. The murderer is named by the Press as "The Yorkshire Ripper"
Nov10	Artificial insemination is successful for the first time
Nov21	First flight of the Concorde (London to New York)
Dec2	A South African inquest states that no-one is to blame for the death in custody of activist Steve Biko
Dec25	Charlie Chaplin dies

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