* 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 1925, June 24 became a legal holiday in Quebec and in 1977, it became the secular National Holiday of Quebec.

Demonstrations against the Shah commenced in October 1977, developing into a campaign of civil resistance that was partly secular and partly religious, and intensified in January 1978.

Karenga called on African Americans to adopt his secular humanism and reject other practices as mythical ( Karenga 1977, pp. 14, 23, 24, 27, 44 – 5 ).

In a sense, his thought is a secular version of Fall and Redemption, adapted to an evolutionary progressivism – an " optimistic theory of original sin and its consequences ", in the words of Paul Bénichou, who has written extensively on Ballanche's historical importance in Le Sacre de l ' écrivain ( 1973 ), Le Temps des prophètes ( 1977 ) and " Le Grand Œuvre de Ballanche ", Revue d ' histoire littéraire de la France ( Sept .- Oct. 1975 ), collected in Variétés critiques ( 1996 ).

During 1977, many returned to ashram life, and there was a shift back from secular tendencies towards ritual and messianic beliefs.

The Penal Code ( 1976 ) and civil law ( 1977 ), covering the entire field of social justice, represent major attempts to cope with elements of secular law, based on, but superseded by other systems.

" This much-acclaimed effort was followed by the " Renaissance II " project, begun in 1977 and focusing more on cultural and neighborhood development than its predecessor.

The Portable Renaissance Reader ( 1977 ) excerpt and text search

* Steinberg, Ronald M., Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Florentine Art and Renaissance Historiography ( Athens, Ohio, 1977 )

** Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center, 1973 – 1977

** Renaissance Center Tower 100, 1973 – 1977

** Renaissance Center Tower 200, 1973 – 1977

** Renaissance Center Tower 300, 1973 – 1977

** Renaissance Center Tower 400, 1973 – 1977

Until 1977, the fair was known as the Oregon Renaissance Faire.

ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 23 ( 1977 ), 1 – 26 ; repr.

The building opened as the tallest hotel in the world ; in 1977, however, it was surpassed by its architectural twin, the central hotel tower of the Portman-designed Renaissance Center in Detroit.

* The Italian Renaissance in its Historical Background ( 1961, 1977 )

An image of the celestial monochord was used on the 1952 cover of Anthology of American Folk Music by Harry Everett Smith and in the 1977 book The Cosmographical Glass: Renaissance Diagrams of the Universe ( p. 133 ) by S. K.

* Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith, The New Intellectuals: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama, Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1977.

In 1977, the Kansas City Renaissance Festival was founded as a benefit for the school, which it remained until sold to a for-profit company in 1999.

In 1977, the central hotel tower of the Renaissance Center, which opened as the Western International Detroit Plaza Hotel, became the world's tallest all-hotel skyscraper, surpassing its architectural twin, the Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta ( Western International Hotels became Westin in 1980 ).

On April 15, 1977, Henry Ford II and Detroit mayor Coleman Young unveiled a plaque commemorating the private investors whose funds made the project possible and, later that evening, 650 business and society leaders attended a benefit celebrating the Renaissance Center's formal dedication.