* 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 ).

* Economic Effects of Demographic Changes ( Joint Economic Committee, U. S. Congress, 1977 )

In 1977 the United States Congress sharply cut military assistance to Paraguay.

These three, together with the newly rehabilitated Deng Xiaoping and bodyguard coup leader Wang Dongxing were elected party Vice Chairmen at the August 1977 11th National Party Congress.

In response to an energy crisis, Congress passed the DOE Organization Act in 1977, which consolidated various energy-related agencies into a Department of Energy.

Due to the toxicity of PCBs and their classification as persistent organic pollutants, PCB production was banned by the U. S. Congress in 1977 and by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001.

In 1998, Powers of Ten ( 1977 ) was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

In 1977 Monsanto stopped producing PCBs ; the US Congress banned domestic PCB production two years later.

Beginning in the early 1970s he became a prolific illustrator for many anarchist, radical, alternative and mainstream publications, organisations, groups and individuals including Freedom Press, Undercurrents, Respect for Animals, BIT Newsletter, Arts Lab Newsletter, Idiot International, 1977 Firemans Strike, Libertarian Education, The Idler, Radical Community Medicine, Anarchy Magazine, Black Flag, Anarchy Comix, Common Ground, Industrial Worker, Aberlour Distillery, Country Life, Graphical Paper and Media Union, The Times Saturday Review, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Times Educational Supplement, London Anarchist Bookfair, Public and Commercial Services Union, The Sunday Times Magazine, Catholic Worker, Soil Association, The Bodleian Library, New Statesman, Cienfeugos Anarchist Review, Headline Books, The Financial Times, Resurgence, Scotland on Sunday, Town and Country Planning Association, Movement Against A Monarchy, Nursing Times, John Hegarty, The Listener, Zero, McCallan Whisky, Solidarity, New Society, News from Neasden, House & Garden, The Tablet, Radical Science Journal, Royal Mail, The Co-ops Fairs, Picador Books, Pluto Press, Working Press, Anarchismo, Insurrection, Our Generation, Ogilvy & Mather, Vogue, Radio Times, National Union of Teachers, Faber & Faber, Pimlico, Trades Union Congress, Transport and General Workers Union, Serpents Tale, Compendium Books, Poison Girls, Yale University Press, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Elephant Editions, Intelligent Life, Landworker, Zounds, Honey, New Musical Express, Knockabout Comics, Trickett and Webb, The Times, See Sharp Press, Countryside Commission, Industrial Common Ownership Movement, BBC Worldwide, Stop the War Coalition, The Folio Society, Unison, Anarchist Studies, Country Standard, Fitzrovia News, Anarchist Black Cross and many others.

In 1977, heeding the call of Jayaprakash Narayan for all the opposition parties to unite against the Congress, Vajpayee led the Jana Sangh to merge with the Janata Party.

* John Brademas, American politician and educator ( Congress ' majority whip from 1977 to 1981 )

The party along with many other political parties merged with the Janata Party in 1977 to present a united opposition to the Congress.

On 5 May 1976 the TUC accepted a new policy for the forthcoming year's negotiations of increases beginning 1 August between £ 2. 50 and £ 4 per week ; at the annual Congress on 8 September that year it rejected a motion which called for a return to free collective bargaining ( which meant no incomes policy at all ) once the agreement expired on 1 August 1977.

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter and the 95th Congress increased the FICA tax to fund Social Security, phased in gradually into the 1980s.

" Stevens and the younger Atwood created file cards on members of Congress based on " whether they were Rotarians or Kiwanians or Catholics or Baptists and veterans or loggers, the whole thing ," Stevens said in the 1977 interview.

For example, the energy crisis of the mid-1970s led to the creation of the National Center for Appropriate Technology ( NCAT ) in 1977 with an initial appropriation of $ 3 million from the U. S. Congress.

In 1977 Congress ordered two new evaluations of the IFV program, one by the GAO and one by the Department of the Army, under General Pat Crizer.

He decided to retire at the end of the 94th Congress in January 1977, and after leaving the House he turned the gifts over to the General Services Administration as required by law.

As a result of the Tongsun Park influence peddling scandal, House Speaker Carl Albert retired from Congress and O ' Neill was elected Speaker in 1977, the same year Carter became President.

Marcelino Camacho, a major figure of Spanish trade unionism and a PCE member, was CCOO's General Secretary from its foundation to 1985-he was elected to the Congress of Deputies in the 1977 election.

At the founding of the Continuing Anglican movement in 1977 at the Congress of St. Louis, a proposed constitution for a new Anglican Church in North America was put before the four existing dioceses for ratification.

After elections were called in 1977, the Janata Party was formed from the union of the Congress ( O ), Swatantra Party, Socialist Party of India, Bharatiya Jana Sangh and the Lok Dal.

* Meeting of the General Council of the World Jewish Congress, 30 October – 3 November 1977, Washington DC, USA ( Election of Philip Klutznick as WJC president )

When the Democrats regained control in the 84th Congress ( 1955 ), James O. Eastland of Mississippi became chairman, a position he held until the subcommittee was abolished in 1977.

In 1977, it merged with several other left-centre-right parties opposed to the dictatorial and dynastic rule of the Indian National Congress and formed the Janata Party coalition.