* 1977 I'll Find a Way-National Film Board of Canada-Beverly Shaffer, Yuki Yoshida

In 1977, Shaffer left SNL for a few months to co-star with Greg Evigan in A Year at the Top, a short-lived CBS sitcom in which Shaffer and Evigan play two musicians from Idaho who relocate to Hollywood where they are regularly tempted by a famous promoter ( who is actually the devil's son ), played by Gabriel Dell, to sell their souls in exchange for a year of stardom.

Shaffer v. Heitner, 433 U. S. 186 ( 1977 ), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States established that in order for an American state to assert personal jurisdiction, due process under the Fourteenth Amendment requires minimum contacts over and above the mere ownership of stocks in a corporation incorporated in that state.

On June 24, 1977, in the case of Shaffer v. Heitner, 433 U. S. 186, the Supreme Court decided that the requirement that the circumstances giving rise to jurisdiction comply with the notion of " fair play and substantial justice " should apply to the quasi in rem jurisdiction questions.

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.

Cuban forces played a key role in the Ogaden War 1977 / 78 between Ethiopia and Somalia and kept a substantial garrison stationed in Ethiopia.

Communists have played an active role in the organisation, and John Cox, its chairman from 1971 to 1977, was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Guest played a small role in the 1977 All In the Family episode " Mike and Gloria Meet ", where in a flashback sequence Mike and Gloria recall their first blind date, set up by Michael's college buddy Jim ( Guest ), who dated Gloria's girlfriend Debbie ( Priscilla Lopez ).

Janssen played an alcoholic in the 1977 TV movie A Sensitive, Passionate Man, which co-starred Angie Dickinson and an engineer who devises an unbeatable system for blackjack in the 1978 made-for-TV movie Nowhere to Run, co-starring Stefanie Powers and Linda Evans.

; he played just the once – a home game at Richmond Park on 2 October 1977 against Shamrock Rovers, keeping a clean sheet in a 1 – 0 win – before returning to the Strikers for the North American 1978 season.

They played the club and bar circuit, first in Groningen, In 1977 the band released their first album, Street.

And Herman's drug habit became public domain: In 1977 for instance the Wild Romance played a gig in a highschool in Almelo, the Christelijk Lyceum ; during the break Brood was caught on the toilet taking heroine or speed ( there are different reports on the type of drug, but it is a wellknown story amongst former students ), the rest of the concert was cancelled, and this also was the last time a rockconcert took place at this school for many years.

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

Botham played 4 matches, the first of which was against Northcote in a one-day game on 8 January 1977.

She also played the part of Camie in the film Star Wars ( 1977 ).

The Vikings played in Super Bowl XI, their third Super Bowl ( 4th overall ) in 4 years, against the Oakland Raiders at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on January 9, 1977.

American singer-songwriter Tom Paxton, who met Hurt and played on the same bill as him at the Gaslight in Greenwich Village around 1963, wrote and recorded a song about him in 1977 entitled " Did You Hear John Hurt?

Begin was played by David Opatoshu in the 1977 TV film Raid on Entebbe and by Barry Morse in the 1983 miniseries Sadat.

( During the Heartbreakers ' 1976 and 1977 tours of Britain, Thunders played a central role in popularizing heroin among the punk crowd there, as well.

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.

In August 1977, Asphalt Jungle played at the second Mont de Marsan punk festival.

Pente is a strategy board game created in 1977 by Gary Gabrel, based on the Japanese game ninuki-renju, a variant of renju or gomoku which is played on a Go board of 19 x 19 intersections with white and black stones.

The game was played on January 9, 1977, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

* 1977: Elizabeth Taylor, although hitherto not a singer, recorded the song for the film adaptation of A Little Night Music, in which she played Desirée.

Of the Grand Slam tournaments, the US Open and Australian Open use hard courts ( though both used grass courts in the past, and the US Open used clay courts from 1975 through 1977 ), the French Open is played on clay ( though it too was played on grass before 1928 ), and Wimbledon has always been played on grass.

This band recorded the album Rock ' N ' Roll with the Modern Lovers ( 1977 ) and toured until Keranen left to go to college and was replaced by Asa Brebner, who played on the albums Modern Lovers Live ( 1978 ) and Back in Your Life ( 1979 ).

On 4 November 2007, the band ( with Black ) played a sell-out gig at the Roundhouse in Camden, North London, marking the thirtieth anniversary of their headline run at the same venue in 1977.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

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

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.

* 1977 – The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.

Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.

The first version of Applesoft was released in 1977 only on cassette tape and lacked proper support for high-resolution graphics.

In 1973 he presented a unique 6-part documentary on BBC Radio 1, The Rolling Stones Story, and in 1977 he established a Sunday-night blues and soul show on Radio 1, Alexis Korner's Blues and Soul show, which ran until 1981.

His seventh wife, Nina Bushkin, whom he married on May 30, 1977, was the director of development at Mannes College of Music and the daughter of composer and musician Joey Bushkin.

It was only in the subsequent period, from 1977 through 1988, that the three firms began to export arms on a large scale.

In August 1977 the British Lions made a stopover in Fiji on the way home from their tour of New Zealand.

They also were beaten by Fiji on their 1977 tour to New Zealand.

Herald photographer Stanley Forman received two Pulitzer Prizes consecutively in 1976 and 1977, the first being a dramatic shot of a young child falling in mid-air from her mother's arms on the upper stories of a burning apartment building to the waiting arms of firefighters below, and the latter ( known as " The soiling of Old Glory ") being of Ted Landsmark, an African American city official, being beaten with an American flag during Boston's school busing crisis.

Plug was a comic based on the eponymous character from The Bash Street Kids that began with issue dated 24 September 1977, and is notable for being the first comic to make use of rotogravure printing.

* A 1977 song by Steely Dan on the Aja album, referring to the root beer float.

In addition to their earlier appearance together on Courtship, Benet guest-starred with him on his The Magician series in 1973, did an episode of The Love Boat with him in 1977, and guested on his The Incredible Hulk program in 1980 just before they divorced.

* Peter Gabriel ( 1977 album ), one of four albums named Peter Gabriel, often referred to as " Car " because of the photograph on the album cover

In 1977 Maore expelled peasants from Ngazidja and Nzwani who had recently settled in large numbers on the island.

Gauss ( aged about 26 ) on East German Postage stamp | stamp produced in 1977.