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.

In 1977 the Torajas of the island converted to Hinduism en masse.

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.

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.

It was first put forward by Huber in 1977 and later taken up in the Dahlgren system of 1985.

Karpov was on record saying that he believed Spassky would easily beat him and win the Candidates ' cycle to face Fischer, and that he ( Karpov ) would win the following Candidates ' cycle in 1977.

Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.

In April 1977 the price was dropped to $ 475.

Although amaranth was cultivated on a large scale in ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru, nowadays it is only cultivated on a small scale there, along with India, China, Nepal, and other tropical countries ; thus, there is potential for further cultivation in those countries, as well as in the U. S. In a 1977 article in Science, amaranth was described as " the crop of the future.

In the United States the question of emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains due to use of antibiotics in livestock was raised by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 1977.

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 >

Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.

The first version of Applesoft was released in 1977 only on cassette tape and lacked proper support for high-resolution graphics.

Representative football was kept alive longer than the national club competition with the introduction of State of origin rules in 1977.

The Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz ( VwVfG ), which was enacted in 1977, regulates the main administrative procedures of the federal government.

Anaïs Nin (; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977 ) was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories.

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 ".

Though the marriage was annulled, Nin and Pole continued to live together as if they were married, up until her death in 1977.

It was adapted for film in 1977, with Harold Prince directing and Elizabeth Taylor, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg starring.

In 1977, a film version of A Little Night Music was released, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg, with Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold and Laurence Guittard reprising their Broadway roles.

His seventh wife, Nina Bushkin, whom he married on May 30, 1977, was the director of development at Mannes College of Music and the daughter of composer and musician Joey Bushkin.

In 1977, development of a significantly improved Phoenix version, the AIM-54C, was developed to better counter projected threats from tactical anti-naval aircraft and cruise missiles, and its final upgrade included a re-programmable memory capability to keep pace with emerging ECM.

A former law student and muezzin, Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Nami ( Arabic: أحمد بن عبد الله النامي, ; also transliterated as Alnami ) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 7, 1977 – September 11, 2001 )</ span > was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

The Stadium was the scene Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech in 1939, Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, Roger Maris ' record breaking 61st home run in 1961, and Reggie Jackson's 3 home runs to clinch Game 6 of the 1977 World Series.

The line entered the pop-consciousness with Game Two of the 1977 World Series, when a fire broke out near Yankee Stadium as the team was playing the Los Angeles Dodgers.