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

* 1977 – The 1977 riots in Sri Lanka, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamil people, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power.

In the United States the question of emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains due to use of antibiotics in livestock was raised by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 1977.

* 1977 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.

Anaïs Nin (; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977 ) was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories.

A former law student and muezzin, Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Nami ( Arabic: أحمد بن عبد الله النامي, ; also transliterated as Alnami ) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 7, 1977 – September 11, 2001 )</ span > was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

Congregationalist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches united in 1925 to form the United Church of Canada, and in 1977 to form the Uniting Church in Australia.

The United States established diplomatic relations in 1977 but in September 1993 closed its embassy in Moroni.

The series was later broadcast in the United States on Masterpiece Theatre in 1977.

It followed a year long campaign first initiated by students who had worked together to block the appointment of former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to an endowed chair at the university in 1977.

In 1976, after consultation with the National Security Agency ( NSA ), the NBS eventually selected a slightly modified version, which was published as an official Federal Information Processing Standard ( FIPS ) for the United States in 1977.

In April 1977, the United States established a Consulate General in Djibouti and upon independence in June 1977 raised the status of its mission to an embassy.

* 1977 – Djibouti and Vietnam join the United Nations.

* San Diego, United States ( 1977 )

* Environmental Life Force, a radical environmental group founded in the United States in 1977

Other legislation included National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ), signed into law in 1970, which established a United States Environmental Protection Agency and a Council on Environmental Quality ; the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 ; the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 1974 ), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( 1976 ), the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977, which became known as the Clean Water Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, commonly known as the Superfund Act ( 1980 ).

ELO had become successful in the United States at this point and the group was a star attraction on the stadium and arena circuit, as well as regularly appearing on The Midnight Special ( 1973, 1975, 1976 & 1977 ) more than any other band in that show's history with four appearances.

He was assistant to his ex-West Ham boss Ron Greenwood after the latter took over the England job in 1977, player-manager of Telford United and manager of Chelsea from 1979 – 81.

In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors becoming the first openly gay man in the United States elected to public office.

A proponent of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a dominant role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977.

* 1897 – Anthony Eden, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States.

* 12-Prince Sadruddhin Aga Khan, 70, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1965 – 1977.

* 1977 – The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.

UNB created its BEd program for First Nations students in 1977 in an effort to help First Nations communities take control of their own schools.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development ( IFAD ), ( Italian: Fondo Internazionale per lo Sviluppo Agricolo ), a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference.

During the 1977 – 1979 period, Uganda was a member of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

Her achievements were recognized and honored with many prizes, including the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1939 ; University of Pennsylvania Glee Club Award of Merit in 1973 ; the United Nations Peace Prize, New York City's Handel Medallion, and the Congressional Gold Medal, all in 1977 ; Kennedy Center Honors in 1978 ; the George Peabody Medal in 1981 ; the National Medal of Arts in 1986 ; and a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1991.

The weapons were Palestine Liberation Organisation arms captured by the Israelis, sold to Armscor, the South African state-owned company which, in defiance of the 1977 United Nations arms embargo, set about making South Africa self-sufficient in military hardware.

Crowley participated in the development of the early forms of EDI, working with Edward A. Guilbert, the creator of the technology, from the 1977 onwards, and assisted in the development of UN / EDIFACT, the international EDI standard developed through the United Nations.

From 1977 to 1981, he served as United Nations Commissioner for Namibia, working to secure the independence of Namibia from the Republic of South Africa.

United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim stated that he " strongly deplored " the establishment of " another so-called independent tribal homeland in pursuance of the discredited policies of apartheid ," and in resolution A / RES / 32 / 105N, passed on 14 December 1977, the United Nations General Assembly linked Bophuthatswana's " so-called ' independence '" to South Africa's " stubborn pursuit " of its policies, and called upon all governments to " deny any form of recognition to the so-called ' independent ' bantustans.

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter appointed Young to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

* 1973 – 1977 Elected by the General Assembly of the United Nations to the post of United Nations Commissioner for Namibia with rank of Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations

One year later, he was tenured at the United Nations from September 1976 to January 1977, until Nasir summoned him back at the end of the UN session.

In the West, International Women's Day was first observed as a popular event after 1977 when the United Nations General Assembly invited member states to proclaim March 8 as the UN Day for women's rights and world peace.

Kinsella's first published book was called Dance Me Outside ( 1977 ), which was a collection of seventeen short stories about the lives of people on a First Nations reserve in his native Alberta.

United States Ambassador to the United Nations 1976 to 1977.

A wooden hammer was presented to the United Nations in 1977.

From 1977 to 1980, he served as an Ambassador at Large and Special Representative of President Jimmy Carter for the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and head of the U. S. delegation to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.

* United States Tax Convention with the Kingdom of Morocco 1977

Moves towards a strict liability regime in Europe began with the Council of Europe Convention on Products Liability in regard to Personal Injury and Death ( the Strasbourg Convention ) in 1977.

There are two additional protocols to the Geneva Convention: Protocol I ( 1977 ), relating to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts and Protocol II ( 1977 ), relating to the protection of victims of non-international armed conflicts.

* Environmental Modification Convention, signed 1977, entered into force 1978

Due to the toxicity of PCBs and their classification as persistent organic pollutants, PCB production was banned by the U. S. Congress in 1977 and by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001.

Beck was guest of honor at the 1973 Comic Art Convention and the 1977 San Diego Comic Book Convention, memorabily at the latter he in the evening played guitar serenading fans and guests poolside at the El Cortez Hotel.

* " Telegram ", a song by Silver Convention, representing Germany at the 1977 Eurovision Song Contest

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He was first elected to political office as an Aberdeen District Councillor in 1974, serving as Council Leader from 1977 to 1980, and also as President of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities from 1982 to 1984.

The European Patent Organisation ( usually abbreviated EPOrg in order to distinguish it from the European Patent Office, one of the two organs of the organisation ) is a public international organisation created in 1977 by its contracting states to grant patents in Europe under the European Patent Convention ( EPC ) of 1973.

* Convention, Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1977, ISBN 0-15-122582-6, ISBN 978-0-15-122582-8

The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea were adopted as a Convention of the International Maritime Organization on 20 October 1972 and entered into force on 15 July 1977.

* Flora: Scenes from a Leadership Convention, People and Power series, 1977 ( co-executive producer with Arthur Hammond )

The government's argument ( first made by Moshe Dayan in a speech to the UN in 1977 ) is that neither the West Bank nor Gaza were the territory of a " High Contracting Power " at the time they were occupied by Israel and that therefore the Convention does not apply.

Bishop has been Guest of Honor at more than a dozen science fiction conventions including the 1977 DeepSouthCon, the 1978 Philcon, the 1992 Readercon, the 1992 World Fantasy Convention, the 1999 World Horror Convention, the 2005 Norwescon, the 2009 Science Fiction Research Association Conference, and Special Guest at the 2010 ArmadilloCon.

Silver Convention represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 with " Telegram ", finishing eighth.

He was chairman of the 1966 Constitution Convention and was American Samoa's Washington, D. C., delegate at large from 1975 to 1977.

During his life, Long received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement ( at the 1978 World Fantasy Convention ), the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement ( in 1987, from the Horror Writers Association ), and the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award ( 1977 ).

In 1977, the Government of Canada formally ratified the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ( UNCLOS III ), which mandated the creation of an Exclusive Economic Zone extending off all coasts.