* 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.

It was formed in 1977, by a merger of the Australia Party and the New Liberal Movement, after having secured former Liberal minister Don Chipp as a high-profile leader .< ref >

Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (, ) is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo ( Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death of Goscinny in 1977 ).

Guiler remained in New York City and was unaware of Nin's second marriage until after her death in 1977, though biographer Deirdre Bair alleges that Guiler knew what was happening while Nin was in California, but consciously " chose not to know ".

In October 1993, Comoros joined the League of Arab States, after having been rejected when it applied for membership initially in 1977.

It was also the first full coalition in Britain since 1945, having been formed 70 years virtually to the day after the establishment of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, although there had been the " Lib-Lab pact ", an agreement stopping short of a full coalition between the Labour and Liberal parties, from March 1977 until July 1978, when a series of by-election defeats had eroded Labour's majority of three seats which had been gained at the October 1974 election.

Months later on April 27, 1977, Charles Spinky Alston died after a long bout with cancer.

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.

Although careful programmers were coming to realize that use of incompatible extensions caused expensive portability problems, and were therefore using programs such as The PFORT Verifier, it was not until after the 1977 standard, when the National Bureau of Standards ( now NIST ) published FIPS PUB 69, that processors purchased by the U. S. Government were required to diagnose extensions of the standard.

( from far left ) Stanley O ' Toole, Gregory Peck and Franklin J. Schaffner outside Franklin & Marshall College after accepting an honorary degree in 1977.

Ackerman was born Forrest James Ackerman ( though he would refer to himself from the early 1930s on as " Forrest J Ackerman " with no period after the middle initial ) on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles, to Carroll Cridland ( née Wyman ; 1883 – 1977 ) and William Schilling Ackerman ( 1892 – 1951 ).

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.

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.

Production ended in 1977, after just 840 units sold.

* 1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

On 10 August 1977, after making 320 appearances and scoring 167 goals for Celtic, Dalglish was signed by Liverpool manager Bob Paisley for a British transfer fee record of £ 440, 000.

* Brian Eno sampled Schwitters ' recording of Ursonate for the " Kurt's Rejoinder " track on his 1977 album, Before and after Science.

In addition, after the independence day on June 25, 1975, the eruption of the Mozambican Civil War ( 1977 – 1992 ) destroyed the remaining wealth and left the former Portuguese Overseas Province in a state of absolute disrepair.

* 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.

During 1977, at age 65, Friedman retired from the University of Chicago after teaching there for 30 years.

Owner Calvin Griffith faced financial difficulty with the start of free agency, costing the Twins the services of Lyman Bostock and Larry Hisle, who left as free agents after the 1977 season, and Carew, who was traded after the 1978 season.

He was critical of its ties with Fine Gael and had co-founded the short lived Socialist Labour Party in 1977 after leaving the Labour Party.

The band was founded in 1977 in Montreal and would undergo numerous personnel changes through the rest of the decade with Stefan, Colin, and Arrobas as the only relative constants joining Ivan.

It has been argued that the smallness of this difference makes for a lower risk of damage if TDB is ever confused with TT, compared to the possible damage of confusing TCB and TT, which have a relative linear drift of about 0. 5 second per year, ( the difference was close to zero at the start of 1977, and is now ( 2009 ) over a quarter-minute, increasing ).

The year following the introduction of firearms licensing in Canada ( 1977 ), saw a significant decline in murder involving firearms, relative to other mechanisms.

A more powerful earthquake stuck the same city in 1977 ; however new construction codes put in effect following the 1944 incident kept damage to a relative minimum.

On this map, the position of the Sun is portrayed relative to 14 pulsars whose rotation period circa 1977 is given as a multiple of the frequency of the hydrogen spin-flip transition.

Noting that Brazil was only a " relative democracy ," Geisel attempted in April 1977 to restrain the growing strength of the opposition parties by creating an electoral college that would approve his selected replacement.

See Basu ( 1977 ) for some general discussion and Spall and Garner ( 1990 ) for some discussion relative to the identification of parameters in linear dynamic ( i. e., state space representation ) models.

The chamber has a very good relative time resolution, good positional accuracy, and a self-triggered operation ( Ferbel 1977 ).

The exception is produced by environments which “ place very different demands on the organization, and the duration of environmental states is short relative to the life of the organization ” ( Hannan and Freeman 1977: 958 ).

The chain-termination method developed by Frederick Sanger and coworkers in 1977 soon became the method of choice, owing to its relative ease and reliability. The chain-terminator method uses fewer toxic chemicals and lower amounts of radioactivity than the Maxam and Gilbert method.

Chemical King appears in few subsequent stories afterwards Plagued with self-doubts over the relative usefulness of his powers, he dies in Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes # 228 ( June 1977 ), when he sacrifices his life to stop Deregon, a Dark Circle agent and the governor of Australia, from starting World War VII, thus fulfilling the prophecy of his first posthumous appearance.

Other television appearances included the Countess Vronsky in Anna Karenina ( 1977, PBS ), the macabre, ancient relative in the Walter De La Mare story Seaton's Aunt ( 1983, PBS ) and the formidable matriarch in Police at the Funeral ( 1989, PBS ).

Several Soviet professionals criticized the project of the Constitution of 1977, but such critiques were not taken into account and were not published in time ; during the Brezhnev stagnation, only publications in favor were allowed.

It opened for signature on 18 May 1977 in Geneva and entered into force on 5 October 1978.

This was opened in 1977 and is inside the paid area of the Park.

Due to the threat of war, plans for a lavish museum were never implemented, but once the war was over it was possible to construct the relatively understated but well-lit modern exhibition extension, opened in 1977, that now houses much of the collection.

The West Stand was opened in 1977 and the new East Terrace was completed by March 1980.

In 1973, Mount Kilimanjaro was classified as a National Park and was opened to public access in 1977.

When Stonehenge was first opened to the public it was possible to walk amongst and even climb on the stones, but the stones were roped off in 1977 as a result of serious erosion.

In 1977, Select Model Management opened its doors as well as Why Not Models in Milan.

A second Grand Bazaar was opened in 1974 at 87 W. 87th St in Chicago and in 1977, a " Jewel Grand Bazaar " was opened at 6505 W. Diversey in the Brickyard Mall.

It is named after Georges Pompidou, the President of France from 1969 to 1974 who decided its creation, and was officially opened on 31 January 1977 by President Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing.

Georgie Pie opened in 1977, and was based around the Australian and New Zealand meat pie.

One of the latest major horse track opened in the US was the Meadowlands Racetrack opened in 1977 for Thoroughbred racing.

Upland is also very well known worldwide throughout the skateboarding culture as " Badlands " because of Upland's geographical location and mainly because it was the birthplace of Vertical Pool and Pipe Skateboarding. The city was home to The Pipeline Skate Park, which opened in 1977 by Stan and Jean Hoffman and was located on 1777 W. Arrow Highway.

In 1977 the school ’ s site was extended and a new school building was opened in September 1978.

Hayes's Beck Theatre opened in 1977, and offers a wide range of touring shows in a welcoming modern building.

* The first Claim Jumper restaurant opened in Los Alamitos in 1977.

The Linde plant was formally dedicated in 1977 and the Bethlehem Steel Credit Union building was opened.

A new library opened on April 18, 1977, and its former building has since been renovated to become a visual and performing arts center.

The city became a regional pull when Burnsville Center opened in 1977 and produced the heavily traveled retail strip on County Road 42.

Naudian Academy first opened in 1977.

The Fairport Village Landing opened in 1977 and Packett's Landing, built in the early 1980s, are two of the main shopping, dining and gathering spots in the village.

The ABK buildings included the college's memorable, futuristic bar, opened on 3 May 1977 and recently refurbished and expanded.

The Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center opened in 1977 and serves as both a museum and depository for thousands of historical documents utilized by researches nationwide.

The library opened on May 14, 1977.