* 1977 – Gabriela Cano, Mexican actress

* 1977 – Ville Nieminen, Finnish hockey player

* 1977 – Andy Phillips, American baseball player

* 1977 – Teddy Sears, American actor

* 1902 – Louis Beel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – Giovanny Espinoza, Ecuadorian footballer

* 1977 – Sarah Jane Morris, American actress

* 1977 – Jason Price, Welsh footballer

* 1977 – Glenn Rogers, Scottish cricketer

* 1977 – Jordana Spiro, American actor

* 1977 – Jeannie Haddaway, American politician

* 1977 – Pell James, American actress

* 1977 – Deco, Portuguese footballer

* 1889 – George Kenney, American general ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer

* 1977 – Jennifer Lyons, American actress

* 1977 – Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer

* 1977 – Luciano Zavagno, Argentine footballer

* 1977 – Csaba Csordás, Hungarian footballer

* 1977 – Jason Frasor, American baseball player

* 1977 – Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player

* 1977 – Adewale Ogunleye, American football player

* 1977 – Mikaël Silvestre, French footballer

* 1977 – Ime Udoka, Nigerian-American basketball player

* 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.

In the 1970s he joined the Digital Equipment Corporation's Laboratory Data Processing Group and in 1977 moved to Boston, Massachusetts to run its sales training program.

The first Wang VS computer was introduced in 1977, about the same time as Digital Equipment Corporation's VAX, and continues to be in use 34 years later.

Professionally, Lamport worked as a computer scientist at Massachusetts Computer Associates from 1970 to 1977, SRI International from 1977 to 1985, and Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq from 1985 to 2001.

These names were used by Ron Rivest in the 1978 Communications of the ACM article presenting the RSA cryptosystem, and in A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems published April 4, 1977, revised September 1, 1977 as technical Memo LCS / TM82.

The New Yorker Digital Edition: Aug 22, 1977

* 26 September 1977 – Fernand Icart succeeds Fourcade as Minister of Equipment and Regional Planning.

* Heavy Equipment ( 1977 ) ( This movie was shot in 3-D )

* Louis Kruh, Cipher Equipment: Hagelin Pocket Cryptographer, Type CD-57, Cryptologia, Volume 1, 1977, pp255 – 260.

* 1977 – Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.

On June 28, 1977, in the Philadelphia Federal District Court, a lawsuit was filed by the Norlin Corporation, the parent company of Gibson Guitars against Elger / Hoshino U. S. A .' s use of the Gibson headstock design and logo.

* 1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories ( SDL ) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.

ARCNET was developed by Datapoint Corporation in 1976 and announced in 1977.

A European minivan design was conceived in the late 1970s by the Rootes Group in partnership with the French automaker Matra ( which was also affiliated with Simca, the former French subsidiary of the Chrysler Corporation, sold in 1977 to the PSA Group ).

Microware Systems Corporation existed as a separate entity from 1977 until September 2001, when it was bought by RadiSys Corp., and became a division of that company.

* 1977: Company renamed Lockheed Corporation, to reflect non-aviation activities of the company.

From 1948 to 1977, postal service in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda was provided by the East African Posts and Telecommunications Corporation.

The civic administration of the city is managed by the Mysore City Corporation, which was established as a municipality in 1888 and converted into a corporation in 1977.

Scottish Aviation merged with the British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, and Hawker Siddeley Dynamics to form British Aerospace in 1977.

ARCNET was developed by principal development engineer John Murphy at Datapoint Corporation in 1976 under Victor Poor, and announced in 1977.

Guy Lombardo died in 1977, the same year that real estate developer Frank E. Mackle III was elected president of a new venture called the Tierra Verde Company, a joint venture between Madonna Corporation ( a Murchison interest ), and Delverde ( Deltona ) Corporation.

Grosse Ile resident John Karmazin, Sr., who lived on the island from 1926 until his death in 1977, invented the automotive radiator pressure cap, obtained more than fifty automotive-related patents, and founded the Karmazin Products Corporation which produced automotive and heavy construction equipment components in the city of Wyandotte from 1946 until 2000.

In 1969, The Piper family agreed to sell Piper Aircraft to Bangor Punta Corporation, which started an eight-year court battle with the losing bidder, Chris-Craft Industries, culminating in a Supreme Court decision in 1977.

When the magazine editor said that subscribers wanted to buy the program, Bruce Artwick set to work to create it and incorporated a company called subLOGIC Corporation in 1977. subLOGIC began selling flight simulators for several computer platforms including the 8080, Altair 8800 and IMSAI 8080.

British Aerospace was formed on 29 April 1977 by the nationalisation and merger of The British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC ), the Hawker Siddeley Group and Scottish Aviation.

In 1977, Unocal acquired The Molybdenum Corporation of America ( now Molycorp ).

In 1976, Marshalls was acquired by Melville Corporation ( owner of CVS ), and experienced tremendous growth from 1977 into the 1980s.

Prior to OPIC, Connelly worked for Bechtel Corporation ; he was an executive ( 1977 ) and later a senior principal with Bechtel Investments ( 1982-1991 ) ( which later became the Fremont Group ) and the President of Bechtel Energy Resources, Inc. ( 1991-1993 ).

They had three children, Alfred, Jr., a pioneering investor, two-time winner of the Bermuda Race and head of the winning America's Cup syndicate in 1977 ; Henry, head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Farnsworth, a physician and professor at Brandeis ( Farnsworth's grandson was Reed Hastings, co-founder of Netflix ).

The magazine was sold by the original owners to Clay Felker in 1977, who sold it to the 13-30 Corporation, a Tennessee publisher, two years later.