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

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

Other groups visited the island in subsequent years, including 1977, 1980, 1981, 1988 and 1993.

The island is mentioned in the novels The Enemy by Desmond Bagley ( 1977 ), Sea of Death by Richard P. Henrick ( 1992 ), The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth ( 1994 ), Quantico by Greg Bear ( 2005 ), The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde ( 2005 ), Forbidden Island by Malcolm Rose ( 2009 ), And then you die by Iris Johansen ( 1998 ), The Island by R J Price ( better-known as the poet Richard Price ) ( 2010 ) and The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin ( 2011 ).

The island ( along with its surrounding islets ) became a separate insular council ( with the same territory as the municipality of the same name ) after 1977 ; before that, it was administered in the former insular council of Ibiza and Formentera ( covering the whole group of the Pitiusic Islands ), but in a separate comarca ( which already covered the current municipality of Formentera ).

* The superhero / trickster figure of Uncle Sam in Robert Coover's The Public Burning ( 1977, New York, Grove Books ) is described in the following terms ( p. 7 ): " American Autolycus, they called him in the Gospels, referring to his cunning powers of conjuration, transmutation, and magical consumption ( he can play the shell game, not with a mere pea, but with whole tin mines, forests, oil fields, mountain ranges, and just before Thanksgiving this past year made an entire island disappear!

In 1977, the last 18 Kakapo on a Fiordland island in New Zealand were all male, though the probability of this would only be 0. 0000076 if determined by chance ( however, females are generally more predated than males and kakapo may be subject to sex allocation ).

Grosse Ile resident John Karmazin, Sr., who lived on the island from 1926 until his death in 1977, invented the automotive radiator pressure cap, obtained more than fifty automotive-related patents, and founded the Karmazin Products Corporation which produced automotive and heavy construction equipment components in the city of Wyandotte from 1946 until 2000.

On 1 January 1977, the southwestern part of Borgund ( the entire island of Sula, along with many small islands around it ) was separated from Ålesund to become a separate municipality.

In 1977 a prefectural road was built that circles half of the island, which has led to a few Iriomote cat deaths every year caused by traffic accidents.

In 1977 the dressing rooms and stage set building on the island were demolished and the seating removed. The last concert to be held at the Open Air Theatre before it closed in 1986 was James Last and His Orchestra.

San Serriffe is a fictional island nation created for April Fools ' Day, 1977, by Britain's Guardian newspaper.

In 1977, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation installed a cedar log buffer around the island to help preserve it.

* Kramer's War ( 1977 ) is set on the island of Jersey in 1944.

The cats multiplied quickly, and by 1977 there were approximately 3, 400 cats on the island, feeding on burrowing petrels instead of mice, threatening to drive the birds to extinction on the island.

The Thousand Islands Bridge Authority acquired Heart Island and the nearby yacht house in 1977, for one dollar, under the agreement that all revenues obtained from the castle operation would be applied towards restoration, so that the island would be preserved for the enjoyment of future generations.

John Fowles has written an article about his experiences in the island of Spetses and their influence on the book, and he has also specifically acknowledged some literary works in his foreword to the 1977 revision of The Magus.

Jones was born on April 23, 1977 in the capital city of Willemstad on the Dutch-Caribbean island nation of Curaçao, off the coast of Venezuela.

As the first lifeguard at Waimea Bay on the island of Oahu, he saved many lives and became famous for surfing the big Hawaiian surf, winning several awards including the 1977 Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship.

In 1977, the island was adopted by a group called the Peace Meditation at the United Nations, employees at United Nations Headquarters and followers of the guru Sri Chinmoy, who served as the interfaith chaplain there.

He held various high political offices in the island, including President of the Puerto Rico Civil Rights Commission, Resident Commissioner ( 1977 – 1985 ), Mayor of the capital city of San Juan ( 1985 – 1989 ), Puerto Rico's 15th Secretary of State ( 1993 – 1995 ) and Associate Justice to the Supreme Court ( 1995 – 2005 ).

The first fish canning plant was established on the island of Felivaru, as a joint venture with a Japanese firm, in 1977.

Miss Universe 1977 was held in the Dominican Republic in order to promote tourism to this island.

Collins in 1977, that converted images into a 1024-point, 10-inch square tactile grid on a vest.

The civic administration of the city is managed by the Mysore City Corporation, which was established as a municipality in 1888 and converted into a corporation in 1977.

He was an evangelical Christian for one year, converted in 1977 by evangelist Ruth Carter Stapleton, the sister of President Jimmy Carter.

Starting from 1 May 1973, Peking Television began broadcasting experimentally in colour on its second channel every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday using the PAL-D system, and fully converted to colour broadcasting by 1977.

In 1977, Curry took over the Children's Hospital nursing school and converted it to a degree-granting program.

The rest of the complex was restored and converted to its present function starting in 1977.

* 1977 Tachikawa Air Force Base reverts to Japan and converted partially into a park.

All gas equipment in Great Britain ( but not Northern Ireland ) was converted ( by the fitting of different-sized burner jets to give the correct gas / air mixture ) from burning town gas to burn natural gas ( mainly methane ) over the period from 1967 to 1977 at a cost of about £ 100 million including the writing off of redundant town gas manufacturing plants.

The convertible was canceled ( although Custom Coach of Lima, Ohio took a few brand-new 1977 and 1978 Eldorados into their coachbuilder facilities and converted them into coach convertibles using salvaged parts from 1971-76 Eldorados ; Cadillac did not produce convertibles after 1976 ).

In 1977 it was converted for theatrical use.

KTVR was unique in the Pacific time zone because as a repeater of a Mountain time zone station, its " prime-time " schedule was broadcast from 6 to 9 p. m. OEPBS bought KTVR on August 31, 1976 and converted it to PBS programming on February 1, 1977.

In 1977, four years after he had converted to Christianity, Fellowship member and Watergate conspirator Charles Colson described the group as a “ veritable underground of Christ ’ s men all through the U. S. government .”

Ringwood to Bayswater was converted to automatic signalling in June 1974, as was Bayswater to Ferntree Gully in July 1977.

The wing conducted F-4E replacement training for pilots, weapon systems officers, and maintenance personnel and conducted a service test of TAC's " production oriented maintenance organization " in 1976 and converted to the POMO concept in March 1977.

In addition, the wing converted from the F-4E to F-4D between October 1977 and September 1978.

Suburban trains from Christchurch finished in 1977, and the station has since been converted at various times into a garden centre, and more latterly, a cafe.

A small fleet of fishing vessels were located at Swanbridge harbour and it is likely that the row of cottages, that were converted during 1976 and 1977 into the Captain's Wife public house, were the traditional homes of the local fishermen and their families.

The Captain's Wife public house and restaurant first opened in 1977 converted from a row of traditional cottages.

In 1977, the hospital became a clinic and the majority of the building was converted to administrative space.

Keller converted to Islam from Christianity in 1977.

The two-car units were augmented to four-car units between 1977 and 1980, with the addition of converted former locomotive-hauled coaching stock.

Between 1974 and 1977, with the discovery of natural gas in the North Sea, the boilers were converted to burn gas, with the option of oil firing if required.

Having been raised by a single mother, he migrated to the U. S. city of Minneapolis in 1971 and converted shortly thereafter, and established the Speak the Word Church International in 1977.

OEPBS ( now Oregon Public Broadcasting ) bought KTVR on August 31, 1976, and converted it to PBS programming on February 1, 1977.