* 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.

Although amaranth was cultivated on a large scale in ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru, nowadays it is only cultivated on a small scale there, along with India, China, Nepal, and other tropical countries ; thus, there is potential for further cultivation in those countries, as well as in the U. S. In a 1977 article in Science, amaranth was described as " the crop of the future.

The publication of the DES cipher by the U. S. National Bureau of Standards ( now National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST ) in 1977 was fundamental in the public understanding of modern block cipher design.

" In 1977 the Commodores scored a ballad hit with " Easy ", which became the group's biggest hit yet, reaching No. 4 in the U. S., followed by the funky favorite " Brick House ", also Top 5, both from their landmark album " The Commodores ", as was the utopian album favorite " Zoom ".

* Bella Abzug ( 1942 ), Feminist ; political activist ; U. S. Representative, 1971 – 1977

Field trials sponsored by the U. S. National Institute of Mental Health ( NIMH ) were conducted between 1977 and 1979 to test the reliability of the new diagnoses.

Although careful programmers were coming to realize that use of incompatible extensions caused expensive portability problems, and were therefore using programs such as The PFORT Verifier, it was not until after the 1977 standard, when the National Bureau of Standards ( now NIST ) published FIPS PUB 69, that processors purchased by the U. S. Government were required to diagnose extensions of the standard.

* Economic Effects of Demographic Changes ( Joint Economic Committee, U. S. Congress, 1977 )

Afterwards it became the only Godzilla film to receive a television premiere on a major U. S network, as NBC aired it on prime time television in the summer of 1977, where it was hosted by actor John Belushi dressed in a Godzilla costume.

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.

Taylor was a student at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts, U. S. A., from 1972 to 1977, earning a degree in economics.

Fraser and President of the United States | U. S President Jimmy Carter in June 1977.

* 1977 – Miles C. Allgood, U. S. Representative from Alabama ( b. 1878 )

A number of U. S. artists were retrospectively defined as post-punk ; Television's debut album Marquee Moon, released in 1977, is frequently cited as a seminal album in the field.

On September 7, 1977, the Torrijos-Carter Treaties were signed by the Panamanian head of state and U. S. President Jimmy Carter for the complete transfer of the Canal and the fourteen US army bases from the US to Panama by 1999.

The U. S. Embassy reopened in 1977 with the restoration of relations, which remained distant until the end of the socialist era.

Two of the most famous U. S. parodies were the series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman ( 1976 – 77 ) and Soap ( 1977 – 81 ).

Tanzania's founding leader Julius Nyerere with U. S. President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter in 1977.

Pavel filed a patent for his Stereobelt in Italy in 1977, followed by patent applications in the U. S., Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan by the end of 1978.

* March 4 – Kenneth O ' Donnell, aide to U. S. President John F. Kennedy ( d. 1977 )

* April 25 – St. Paul, Minnesota becomes the second U. S. city to repeal its gay rights ordinance after Anita Bryant's successful 1977 anti-gay campaign in Dade County, Florida.

Considerable controversy arose in the U. S. and Western Europe, following a June 1977 Washington Post exposé describing U. S. government plans to purchase the bomb.

Following the creation of the U. S. Department of Energy in 1977, ORNL's mission broadened to include research in energy production, transmission and consumption.

In 1977, a U. S. district court ruled that a curriculum in TM and the Science of Creative Intelligence that was being taught in some New Jersey schools was religious in nature and in violation of the First Amendment.