Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

Sir John Kerr resigned in 1977 after accepting the position of Australian Ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, a post which ultimately he did not take up.

The most recent governor-general to die was Sir Zelman Cowen ( 1977 – 1982 ), on 8 December 2011.

He was also a heavy smoker from the time he was just eight years old ; and by his own admission in a December 1977 interview with Sir Ludovic Kennedy, Burton was smoking 60 – 100 cigarettes per day.

* Lester Piggott – Never Say Die ( 1954 ), Crepello ( 1957 ), St. Paddy ( 1960 ), Sir Ivor ( 1968 ), Nijinsky ( 1970 ), Roberto ( 1972 ), Empery ( 1976 ), The Minstrel ( 1977 ), Teenoso ( 1983 )

Unsatisfied aspirations, particularly among young blacks, led to a brief civil disturbance in December 1977, following the execution of two men found guilty of the 1972 – 73 assassinations of Governor Sir Richard Sharples and four others.

Starchild ’ s nemesis is Sir Nose D ’ Voidoffunk (" Sir Nose Devoid of Funk " from Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome, 1977 ).

* Sir John Masterman ( 1891 – 1977 ), academic, sportsman, author and spymaster

Sir John Habakkuk ( principal 1967 – 84 ) and Sir Peter North ( principal 1984 – 2005 ) both served terms as Vice-Chancellor of the university, from 1973 to 1977 and from 1993 to 1997 respectively.

* Sir Nevill Mott ( Physics, 1977 )

From 1956 until their divorce in 1977, she was married to Sir Hugh Fraser ( 1918 – 1984 ), a descendant of Scottish aristocracy 14 years her senior and a Roman Catholic Conservative Unionist MP in the House of Commons ( sitting for Stafford ), who was a friend of the American Kennedy family.

However this part of the route was not constructed when Sir Horace Cutler won a Conservative majority on the GLC and the line was terminated at Charing Cross and renamed as the Jubilee Line to commemorate Queen's Silver Jubilee of 1977.

* Sir William Emrys Williams ( 1896 – 1977 ), British educationalist and editor-in-chief of Penguin Books, 1936 – 1965

" Principal guest conductors in the 1970s and 80s included Sir Charles Mackerras ( 1977 – 79 ), Michael Gielen ( 1978 – 81 ), Günter Wand, Mark Elder ( 1982 – 85 ) and Peter Eötvös ( 1985 – 88 ).

* 1977 Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass – Chicago Symphony Chorus ; Margaret Hillis, director ; Sir Georg Solti, conductor ( RCA )

* 1977 Maurice Ravel: Boléro – Kenneth Wilkinson, engineer ; Sir Georg Solti, conductor ( London )

* Sir C A ( Tony ) R Hoare, MA Oxford, FRS, MemAcEur, Dist FBCS James Martin Professor of Computing ( formerly Professor of Computation ), Oxford University since 1977 ; Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College ; Hon DSc Southern California, Warwick, Pennsylvania, Belfast, York, Essex, Bath, etc.

What a Lovely War ( 1969 ), co-starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier and directed by Richard Attenborough ; Justine ( 1969 ), directed by George Cukor ; Le Serpent ( 1973 ), co-starring Henry Fonda and Yul Brynner ; A Bridge Too Far ( 1977 ), in a controversial performance as Lieutenant General Frederick " Boy " Browning, also starring Sean Connery and an all-star cast and again directed by Richard Attenborough.

The current building was designed by architects Sir Denys Lasdun and Peter Softley and contains three stages, which opened individually between 1976 and 1977.

It was built between 1960 and 1963 and was designed by Sir Denys Lasdun, who won Royal Gold Medal in 1977 and is most well known for having designed the National Theatre in London.

* Diarmid, ( b. 1938, d. 1977 ) married Felicity, daughter of Sir Andrew Carnwath.

The Minoan Brotherhood was founded in 1977 in New York by Edmund Buczynski, an elder in the Gardnerian, WICA and New York Welsh Traditions, in order to create a Craft tradition for gay and bisexual men — one that would celebrate and explore the distinctive mysteries unique to men who love men.

* Bosworth, Clifford Edmund ( 1977 ).

Connelly earned his Bachelor's degree in 1974 from Duke University and his Master's degree from Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in 1977.

O ' Connor was founded in 1977 by mathematician Michael Greenbaum and was named for Edmund ( Ed ) and Williams ( Bill ) O ' Connor.

More recent Catholic histories of Australian include The Catholic Church and Community in Australia ( 1977 ) by Patrick O ' Farrell and Australian Catholics ( 1987 ), by Edmund Campion.

However, based on an investigation into the records of the U. S. Patent & Trademark Office, the trademark RKE was first used in commerce on October 14, 1977 by Edmund, and in an amendment to their trademark application on January 16, 1979 they indicated that RKE stands for Rank, Kaspereit, Erfle, the three designs from which the eyepiece was derived!

* VEESENMAYER, Edmund ( 1904 – 1977 ) SS Officer and figure in The Holocaust.

During his career as a Foreign Service Officer, Tarnoff served as Executive Secretary of the Department of State and Special Assistant to Secretaries of State Edmund Muskie and Cyrus Vance ( 1977 – 1981 ); Director, Office of Research and Analysis for Western Europe ( 1975 – 76 ); Special Assistant to Ambassador-at-Large Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ( 1967 ); and Nigerian Analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research ( 1966 – 67 ).

The New Keynesian economists Stanley Fischer ( 1977 ) and Edmund Phelps and John B. Taylor ( 1977 ) assumed that workers sign nominal wage contracts that last for more than one period, making wages " sticky ".

In July 1976, Edmund Dell, the then new UK Secretary of State for Trade, renounced the original Bermuda Agreement of 1946 and initiated bilateral negotiations with his US counterparts on a new air services agreement, which resulted in the Bermuda II treaty of 1977.

Hillary Clinton wore a 4. 25 carat ( 850 mg ) yellow diamond known as The " Kahn Canary " Diamond, found at the park in 1977, to the inaugural balls in 1993 and 1997.

* Hillary Martyn, ( born 1977 ), newspaper editor

* Hillary Wolf ( born 1977 ), American child actress

The AACF was founded in 1977 by attorney Hillary Rodham as a non-partisan group, and continues to be supported by a wide variety of individuals and organizations.

In December 1977, President Jimmy Carter nominated Hillary Rodham to the board of directors of the LSC, for a term to expire in July 1980.

A successful turn-around strategy led to the recruitment of 360 new employees and, by 1977, a trading profit of £ 750, 000.

This in turn led to the refoundation of the PDPA in 1977.

Continued mismanagement of the economy, record inflation ( more than 100 % in 1977 ), and increasing corruption, notably at the highest political levels, led to growing dissatisfaction.

In the south, military exchanges between Israel and the PLO led Israel to support Saad Haddad's South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) in an effort to establish a security belt along Israel's northern border, an effort which intensified in 1977 with the election of new Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin.

In 1977, a group of physicists led by Leon Lederman announced that a particle with a mass of about 6. 0 GeV was being produced by the Fermilab particle accelerator.

Much of the economic recovery which has followed the end of the Mozambican Civil War ( 1977 – 1992 ) is being led by investors and tourists from neighbour South Africa and from East Asia.

The 1977 national elections confirmed Michael Somare as Prime Minister at the head of a coalition led by the Pangu Party.

The Red Army Faction existed from 1970 to 1998, committing numerous operations, especially in late 1977, which led to a national crisis that became known as " German Autumn ".

Poor management and marketing led to Moog's departure from his own company in 1977.

On 15 December 2011, Chirac was found guilty in two related cases, involving 19 totally or partially fake jobs created for his benefit by the RPR Party, which he led as Paris mayor from 1977 to 1995.

In 1977, a Freedom of Information Act request uncovered a cache of 20, 000 documents relating to project MKUltra, which led to Senate hearings later that same year.

Many historicists such as H. B. Nicholson ( 2001 ( 1957 )) and Nigel Davies ( 1977 ) were fully aware that the Aztec chronicles were a mixture of mythical and historical accounts, this led them to try to separate the two by applying a comparative approach to the varying Aztec narratives.

While the Constitution was still being drafted, there was a popular outcry in Andalusia for its own right to autonomy, with over a million and a half people demonstrating in the streets on 4 December 1977, which led the creation of a special quicker process for autonomy for that region, although it was not originally considered a historical nationality.

Stuart Mayper ( 1916 – 1997 ), who studied under Karl Popper, introduced Popper's principle of falsifiability into the seminar-workshops he led at the Institute starting in 1977.

Massive inflation which when combined with the GLC's £ 1. 6 billion debt led to heavy rate increases ( 200 % in total before the next election in 1977 ) and unpopular budget cuts.

In 1977 this faction was expelled and formed the Nava Sama Samaja Party, led by Vasudeva Nanayakkara.

That led to the 1977 – 78 motto of " We owe you one ", which would ultimately backfire when they lost in the playoffs that season to the Washington Bullets, who went on to win the NBA championship.

In 1977 – 78, led by, amongst others, former Real Madrid youth graduate Hipólito Rincón, Recreativo first gained promotion to the top flight.

Carlos Prío Socarrás ( July 14, 1903 – April 5, 1977 ) was the President of Cuba from 1948 until he was deposed by a military coup led by Fulgencio Batista on March 10, 1952, three months before new elections were to be held.

Iraqi archaeologists from the College of Arts at the University of Baghdad, led by Walid al-Jadir with Farouk al-Rawi, have excavated at Tell Abu Habbah from 1977 through the present in 24 seasons.

However, Sigmund Feist ( 1909 ) rejects the theory on etymological grounds, as does Albert Morley Sturtevant ( 1951 ) on the grounds of major difficulties, and their points have led Bruce Lincoln ( 1977 ) to comment that " there is no reason whatever to contend that nagl-does not have its usual meaning of " nail " and that Naglfar is anything other than the nail-ship, just as Snorri describes it.

Using Roman numerals, it was originally intended to run from I ( easiest ) to VI ( hardest ), but as with all other grading systems, improvements to climbing standards have led to the system being open-ended after the grade VII was accepted in 1977.

The national flag, adopted in 1977, was an adaptation of the flag of the Ligue Populaire Africaine pour l ' Independence ( LPAI ) that led Djibouti to independence.

However, some miners considered Benn's 1977 industry reforms to have caused problems during the strike ; firstly, that they led to huge wage differences and distrust between miners of different regions ; and secondly that the controversy over balloting miners for these reforms made it unclear as to whether a ballot was needed for a strike or whether it could be deemed as a " regional matter " in the same way that the 1977 reforms had been.