On November 13, 1977, Capp retired with an apology to his fans for the recently declining quality of the strip, which he said had been the best he could manage due to declining health.

When the Apple II, PET 2001 and TRS-80 were all released in 1977, all three had BASIC as their primary programming language and operating environment.

At the time of the SDP's creation, Owen and Rodgers were sitting Labour Members of Parliament ( MPs ); Jenkins had left Parliament in 1977 to serve as President of the European Commission, while Williams had lost her seat in the 1979 general election.

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

Apart from this, when no party has had a majority, minority governments normally have been formed with one or more opposition parties agreeing to vote for the legislation governments need to function, as the Labour government of James Callaghan formed a coalition with the Liberals in 1977 when it lost its narrow majority gained at the October 1974 election.

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.

It followed a year long campaign first initiated by students who had worked together to block the appointment of former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to an endowed chair at the university in 1977.

By 1977, the Fairchild Channel F had sold 250, 000 units and was second-place behind the VCS.

Formed by Harry Wayne Casey (" KC ") and Richard Finch, Miami's KC and the Sunshine Band had a string of disco-definitive top-five hits between 1975 and 1977, including " Get Down Tonight ", " That's the Way ( I Like It )", "( Shake, Shake, Shake ) Shake Your Booty ", " I'm Your Boogie Man " and " Keep It Comin ' Love ".

Hassan Gouled Aptidon, a Somali politician who had campaigned for a yes vote in the referendum of 1958, eventually wound up as the nation's first president ( 1977 – 1999 ).

According to Fitzgerald ( 1977 ) " Reinforcements arrived, and within fifteen minutes these ' vicious brutes ', who for some two hours had terrorized well-armed prison staff, and effectively controlled the prison, had surrendered and been locked up again ".

The line-up was completed by Tony and Hunt Sales, whom Bowie had known since the late 1970s for their contribution, on drums and bass respectively, to Iggy Pop's 1977 album Lust For Life.

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.

They had no children, and eventually divorced in 1977.

The completion of the story seemed also to signal an end to his problems: he was no longer troubled by nightmares, divorced Germaine in 1977 ( they had separated in 1960 ), and finally married Fanny Vlamynck on 20 May of the same year.

In 1977 Baltimore tied for first for the third straight year ( in 1976 they tied with the now-New England Patriots ) with Miami, and this time advanced to the playoffs on even slimmer pretenses, with a conference record of 9 – 3 compared to Miami's 8 – 4, as they had split the season series.

Ironically, Peter Hain had served as president of the Young Liberals when they called for the impeachment of Mr. Murray in 1977.

While at Coldwater Canyon in 1977, Cagney had a minor stroke.

The revelation of her gender had less adverse impact on people's opinions of her talent than she had feared ; her final Nebula Award ( for " The Screwfly Solution ", published under her other occasional pseudonym, Raccoona Sheldon ) was awarded in 1977.

It had the first commercial installation in December 1977 at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.

* George Kollias ( 1977 -), drummer for US technical death metal band Nile.

On 1 October 1977, Naval Support Facility, Diego Garcia, was established as the senior US Navy command on the island.

During the same period, Iggy Pop, with Bowie as a co-writer and musician, completed his solo album debut, The Idiot, and its follow-up, Lust for Life, touring the UK, Europe, and the US in March and April 1977.

The band toured in support in the US only from October 1976 to April 1977 with a break in December, then an American Music Award show appearance on 31 January 1977, plus a one-off gig in San Diego in August 1977.

In the US, Flipside and Slash were important punk zines for the Los Angeles scene, both debuting in 1977.

After a few minor experiments using sailing vessels the US Navy implemented a small number of combat hydrofoils, such as the Pegasus class, from 1977 through 1993.

In November, 1977, a three-network TCP / IP test was conducted between sites in the US, the UK, and Norway.

* 1977 – Nominee, the Nobel Peace Prize, by US Representative Les Aspin.

On September 7, 1977, the Torrijos-Carter Treaties were signed by the Panamanian head of state and U. S. President Jimmy Carter for the complete transfer of the Canal and the fourteen US army bases from the US to Panama by 1999.

From 1947 until 1977, the United States supplied about US $ 750, 000 worth of military hardware each year and trained more than 2, 000 Paraguayan military officers in counter-intelligence and counterinsurgency.

Since a paper describing the algorithm had been published in August 1977, prior to the December 1977 filing date of the patent application, regulations in much of the rest of the world precluded patents elsewhere and only the US patent was granted.

As Romania's foreign debt sharply increased between 1977 and 1981 ( from 3 to 10 billion US dollars ), the influence of international financial organisations such as the IMF and the World Bank grew, conflicting with Nicolae Ceauşescu's autarchic policies.

* 1977 – Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.

His first American films were Mr. Billion and March or Die ( both 1977 ), after which he divided his time between Italy and the US.

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.

Gilbert has also been honored by the National Academy of Sciences ( US Steel Foundation Award, 1968 ); Massachusetts General Hospital ( Warren Triennial Prize, 1977 ); the New York Academy of Sciences ; ( Louis and Bert Freedman Foundation Award, 1977 ), the Academie des Sciences of France ( Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer Award, 1977 ).

* 1976 – 1977, one of the coldest winters in the US in decades.

The same day that Nicks ' new album was released, Fox Network broadcast the Glee episode ( Season 2, Episode 19 ) " Rumours " that featured six songs from Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album, including Nicks ' song " Dreams " ( the band's only # 1 song on the US charts ).

In 1977 they upgraded and extended their Artist range and introduced a number of other top quality original designs made to match or surpass famous American brands ; the Performer and short-lived Concert ranges which competed with the Les Paul ; through neck Musicians ; Studios in fixed and through neck construction ; the radically shaped Iceman and the Roadster which morphed into the Roadstar range, precursor to the popular superstrat era in the mid-1980s.

Lieutenant General Ali Sadikin served as Governor from the mid-60's commencement of the " New Order " through to 1977 ; he rehabilitated roads and bridges, encouraged the arts, built several hospitals, and a large number of new schools.

He served as musical producer for a number of series for the Public Broadcasting System including the award-winning series, The Adams Chronicles in 1976 and 1977.

He made his debut, wearing Keegan's number seven shirt, on 13 August 1977 in the season opener at Wembley, in the Charity Shield against Manchester United.

In February 1977, the first album by a British punk band appeared: Damned Damned Damned ( by the Damned ) reached number thirty-six on the UK chart.

A number of U. S. artists were retrospectively defined as post-punk ; Television's debut album Marquee Moon, released in 1977, is frequently cited as a seminal album in the field.

The Phillies were an early adopter of the batting practice jersey in 1977, wearing a maroon v-necked top with the " Phillies " script name across the chest, as well as the player name and number on the back and a player number on the left sleeve, all in white.

A compilation LP of Orbison's greatest hits went to number 1 in the UK in 1977.

Ronstadt herself covered " Blue Bayou " in 1977, her version reaching number 3 on the Billboard charts and remaining in the charts for 24 weeks.

From 1974 to 1977 Hercules produced a limited number of motorcycles powered by Wankel engines, its production was discontinued because of failing to attain the necessary number of motorcycles sold by month to reach profitability by 27 units.

* The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research ( NCAR ) was Cray Research's first official customer in 1977, paying US $ 8. 86 million ($ 7. 9 million plus $ 1 million for the disks ) for serial number 3.

From the 1970s the opera has had a number of revivals, both as concert performances ( including Rome 1972, Concertgebouw ( Amsterdam ) 1977 and Konzerthaus, Vienna 1998 ) as well as fully staged productions at the Teatro Regio, Turin, in 2002 and the Thessaloniki Opera 2008.

Investigations concerning the running of Paris's city hall, the number of whose municipal employees jumped by 25 % from 1977 to 1995 ( with 2, 000 out of approximately 35, 000 coming from the Corrèze region where Chirac had held his seat as deputy ), as well as a lack of financial transparency ( marchés publics ) and the communal debt, were thwarted by the legal impossibility of questioning him as president.

Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself ; The Candidate ( 1972 ),, The President's Plane Is Missing ( 1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name ), Nashville ( 1975 ), Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), the " The Odd Candidate " ( 1974 ) episode of the television series The Odd Couple ( playing himself ), the " Kill Oscar " episode ( 1977 ) of The Bionic Woman ( playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast ), and both V ( 1983 ) and the subsequent 1984 television series.

Their most successful self-composed hit was the country rock styled ballad " Baby I Know ", which reached number 10 in the UK and Germany in 1977.

After touring with various artists like Bobby Womack and Billy Preston, they were hired by Quincy Jones for a tour in Japan and produced their debut album Look Out For # 1, released in March 1976 (# 9 U. S .) Their Right On Time album was released in May 1977 and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 200.

* 1977 — Gary Steigman, David Schramm, and James Gunn examine the relation between the primordial helium abundance and number of neutrinos and claim that at most five lepton families can exist.

They have co-produced a number of series with Toei Company, including the Robot Romance Trilogy which Toei Company had Sunrise animate for them on their behalf ; Chōdenji Robo Combattler V ( 1976 ), Chōdenji Machine Voltes V ( 1977 ), Tōshō Daimos ( 1978 ), and Cyborg 009 ( 1979 ) that was a co-production with Toei's animation division Toei Animation.

In 1977, Northern Dancer won three world sires ' premiership titles being for the number of international stakes winners, international stakes wins and progeny stake earnings.