* 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.

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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.

In 1977, the dressage scoring was changed, with each movement marked out of ten rather than out of six.

By around 1977, most pinball machines in production switched to using solid state electronics for both operation and scoring.

During the 1977 – 78 season, George Gervin and David Thompson of the Denver Nuggets battled all season for the NBA scoring title.

" The young girl group released their first two albums, Circle Of Love and Together in 1975 and 1977, respectively, although scoring no major hits.

In 1977 – 78 he toured Australia, scoring three consecutive Test centuries ( 113, 127, 118 ) in the second innings of the first three Tests at Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne respectively.

Westphal was 6th in the NBA in scoring average for the 1977 – 78 season at 25. 2 ppg.

In international football, he was an automatic choice when fit, being capped 37 times and scoring nine goals from 1964 to 1977, although the team's performance never allowed his talent to be displayed in the finals of a European Championship or World Cup.

Born in Wanganui, New Zealand, he made his All Black debut in 1972, and his Test debut against the British Lions in 1977 – going on to make 41 appearances and scoring 2 tries.

After two final singles for Warner Bros. records in 1977, Mark turned his attentions to film scoring and commercials.

He became the first black player to wear an England shirt at any level in England under-21s ' friendly against Scotland at Bramall Lane on 27 April 1977, scoring on his debut.

He made good on his promise, scoring a then-record 53 goals as a rookie in the 1977 – 78 season, won the Calder Trophy for rookie of the year, and was named a Second Team All-Star.

Dionne finished his junior career by shattering the OHA's career scoring record, which was not broken until Dale McCourt did so in the 1977 season.

While the 1977 – 78 season was Bossy's rookie year, the Trio Grande at one point led the NHL in scoring above the top lines of the Montreal Canadiens and Colorado Rockies.

During his first stint with Valencia, he won two consecutive Pichichis, scoring 24 and 28 goals in 1976 – 77 and 1977 – 78.

It was the first of three consecutive 40-goal seasons for McDonald, and he finished in the top ten in NHL scoring in both 1977 – 78 and 1978 – 79.

In his NHL career, McDonald led his team in goal scoring six times: 1976 – 77, 1977 – 78 and 1978 – 79 with Toronto, 1980 – 81 with Colorado, and 1981 – 82 and 1982 – 83 in Calgary.

In 1977 – 78, Sittler's 117 points ranked him third in regular season scoring behind Guy Lafleur and Bryan Trottier, and also earned him a Second Team All-Star selection.

He attempted a return in 1977, but called time on a magical career in 1979 having never recaptured the form which guided Manchester City to the 1968 League Title, 1969 FA Cup, 1970 League Cup and 1970 European Cup Winners ' Cup and a second League Cup victory in 1976, after collecting a runners up medal and scoring in the final of the same competition two years earlier.

He made 33 appearances in the 1977 – 78 season, scoring four goals, and made a further 21 appearances in his final season at the club.

He made his first team debut in a League Cup match against Rotherham United on 31 August 1977, scoring twice in a 4 – 0 win.

FC Köln, appearing 765 times between 1962 and 1977 and scoring 287 goals.

She was awarded the title after scoring two Grandmaster ' norms ' totaling 23 games, the last of which was winning Lone Pine 1977 against a field of 45 players, mostly grandmasters.

As captain between 1971 and 1982, he led Middlesex to County Championships in 1976, 1977 ( jointly with Kent ), 1980 and 1982 ; and he appeared in Free Foresters ' very last first-class fixture, in 1968, keeping wicket and scoring 91.

He was part of Villa's League Cup winning teams of 1975 and 1977, scoring two goals in the second replay victory over Everton in the latter final, as well as helping the club climb from the Third to First Division in the early part of the decade, scoring 20 league goals in the 1974-75 season when they clinched the Second Division title and promotion to the First Division.