After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* Truesdell, C., Bharatha, S. ( 1977 ).

Krulak's staff assignments included: operations officer, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines ( 1977 – 1978 ); chief of the Combat Arms Monitor Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ( 1978 – 1979 ); executive assistant to the Director of Personnel Management, Headquarters Marine Corps ( 1979 – 1981 ); Plans Office, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii ( 1982 – 1983 ); executive officer, 3rd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; assistant chief of staff, maritime pre-positioning ships, 1st MEB ; assistant chief of staff for operations, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; and the military assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

The 1977 edition dropped the earlier records established by Hill and Boyle, and listed a 2. 5 pint yard record by the RAF at Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire in 5. 0 seconds and a three pint yard record established at Corby Town F. C.

*< cite id = refWink1977 > G M R Winkler and T C van Flandern ( 1977 ), " Ephemeris Time, relativity, and the problem of uniform time in astronomy ", Astronomical Journal, vol. 82 ( Jan. 1977 ), pp. 84 – 92 .</ cite >

* H. C. Berg, Random Walks in Biology, Princeton ( 1977 )

From January 1976 to August 1979, Jones served in the Officer Assignments Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. During this assignment, he was promoted to major in July 1977.

In 1977 Rich Davis, a psychiatrist, test-marketed his own concoction called K. C.

* The Wimsey Family ( 1977 ) by C. W. Scott-Giles ISBN 0-06-013998-6

* Voegelin, C. F .; & Voegelin, F. M. ( 1977 ).

* 1977 – The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D. C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.

* 1977 – The Hanafi Muslim Siege: In a thirty-nine hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D. C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.

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

On 14 December 1977, he appeared with Arthur C. Clarke on Patrick Moore's BBC The Sky At Night programme.

Following the death of Arthur C. Clarke, BBC Sky At Night magazine released a copy of the 1977 archive programme on the cover of their May 2008 edition.

* 1904 – H. C. Potter, American film and theater director ( d. 1977 )

In Washington, D. C., the Controls played their first gig in spring 1977, but the city's second wave really broke the following year with acts such as Urban Verbs, Half Japanese, D ' Chumps, Rudements and Shirkers.

* C. Magazzù, ' Dieci anni di studi su Paolino di Nola ' ( 1977 – 1987 ), in Bollettino di studi latini 18 ( 1988 ), pp. 84 – 103 ;

The last railway post office operated between New York and Washington, D. C. on June 30, 1977.

* " The view from Serendip ", by Arthur C. Clarke, Random House, 1977.

* 1896 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader, founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness ( d. 1977 )

Based on the hit song by C. W. McCall, the film was an attempt to capitalize on the huge success of Smokey and the Bandit ( 1977 ).

* 1899 – Tom C. Clark, American lawyer and judge, 59th Attorney General of the United States ( d. 1977 )

Starting from Julian Date 2443144. 5 ( 1 January 1977 00: 00: 00 ), corrections were applied to the output of all participating clocks, so that TAI would correspond to proper time at mean sea level ( the geoid ).

All three of these time scales were defined to read JD 2443144. 5003725 ( 1 January 1977 00: 00: 32. 184 ) exactly at that instant.

Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1977.

It was first put forward by Huber in 1977 and later taken up in the Dahlgren system of 1985.

In September 1977, veteran actress and authoress Dulcie Gray played the Miss Marple character in a stage adaptation of A Murder Is Announced at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England that featured also Dinah Sheridan, Eleanor Summerfield, Patricia Brake and Barbara Flynn.

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

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

Karpov was on record saying that he believed Spassky would easily beat him and win the Candidates ' cycle to face Fischer, and that he ( Karpov ) would win the following Candidates ' cycle in 1977.

* 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.

* 1913 – Makarios III, Greek archbishop and politician, 1st President of Cyprus ( d. 1977 )

Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.

Largely assisted by the return of Boycott, Brearley's men won the 1977 series 3 – 0 and then completed an overwhelming 5 – 1 series win against an Australian side missing its WSC players in 1978 – 79.

* 1898 – Ernő Nagy, Hungarian fencer ( d. 1977 )

* 1907 – Eric Shipton, English mountaineer ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKUltra.

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

* 1923 – Jean Hagen, American actress ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – Makarios III, Greek archbishop and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus ( b. 1913 )