It wasn't until 1977 that the directors of the group decided to establish a laboratory with the mission of creating a small optical digital audio disc and a small player.

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

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.

Some disco songs incorporated sounds produced with synthesizers and drum machines, and some compositions were entirely electronic ; examples include Giorgio Moroder's late 1970s productions such as Donna Summer's hit single " I Feel Love " from 1977, Cerrone's Supernature ( 1977 ), Yellow Magic Orchestra's synth-disco-pop productions from their self-titled album ( 1978 ), Solid State Survivor ( 1979 ), and several early 1980s disco-pop productions by the Hi-NRG group Lime.

The earliest recorded LARP group is Dagorhir, which was founded in 1977 in the USA and focuses on fantasy battles.

Inspired by Adventure, a group of students at MIT wrote a game called Zork in the summer of 1977 for the PDP-10 minicomputer which became quite popular on the ARPANET.

The group was almost completely destroyed by 1977, during the Dirty War.

On 15 February 1977, army corporal Osvaldo Ramón Ríos was killed after his patrol came under fire from a group of Montoneros that had barricaded themselves inside a house in the Ezpeleta suburb of Buenos Aires.

One early recorded use of the term " nybble " was in 1977 within the consumer-banking technology group at Citibank that created a pre-ISO 8583 standard for transactional messages, between cash machines and Citibank's data centers, in which a NABBLE was the basic informational unit.

* 1977 – Members of the American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in a plane crash:

* 1977 – In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.

" Radical Feminism: New York Radical Feminists revised history overview " – a listing of the 1969 – 1977 activities and resources of the group New York Radical Feminists.

From 1975 to 1977, Skyhooks were — alongside Sherbet — the most commercially successful group in Australia, but over the next few years, Skyhooks rapidly faded from the public eye with the departure of key members, and in 1980 the band announced its break-up in controversial circumstances.

After Steve Hackett left the group in 1977, they became a crossover, arena rock band.

In October 1977, a group of prominent Nicaraguan professionals, business leaders, and clergymen allied with the Terceristas to form " El Grupo de los Doce ", ( The Group of Twelve ) in Costa Rica.

According to Yes drummer Alan White, Toledo was especially memorable for a sweltering-hot 1977 show the group did at Toledo Sports Arena.

gigs performed at The Casbah gave the Undertones increased confidence in their musical ability, and in June 1977 they performed concerts outside of Derry for the first time, supporting a Dublin punk group named The Radiators from Space.

Woodley left the group in June 1977 and was replaced by Buddy England, a former 1960s pop singer and member of the Mixtures.

Under the terms of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act BAC was officially nationalised in 1977 to become part of the British Aerospace group, which exists today in the guise of BAE Systems.

Exhausted by touring, Poly Styrene left the band in mid 1979, though she is seen performing with the band in the 1980 film, D. O. A .. She released a solo album, Translucence, before joining the Hare Krishna movement ( as did Logic, who left the band aged 16 in 1977 to form a new group called Essential Logic ).

Cox left the group with Kyoko in 1977.

After the tour concluded, Nicks left the group over a dispute with Mick Fleetwood, who would not allow her to release the 1977 track " Silver Springs " on her album Timespace – The Best of Stevie Nicks, because of his plans to release it on a forthcoming Fleetwood Mac box set.

Other long-term members of the group included Peter Baumann ( 1971 – 1977 ), who later went on to found the New Age label Private Music, to which the band was signed from 1988 to 1991 ; Johannes Schmoelling ( 1979 – 1985 ); Paul Haslinger ( 1986 – 1990 ); and, most recently Froese's son Jerome Froese ( 1990 – 2006 ).

For example in 1977 the Russian physicists G. N.

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.

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.

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.

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.