In Ireland, coalition governments are quite common with a single party not having ruled since 1977.

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.

In 1977, Rau became Chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia SPD, and in 1978 Minister President of the state, were he remained until 1998, with four successful elections for the SPD, which became strongest party in the Landtag each time and gained an absolute majority three times, in 1980, 1985, 1990 and finally 1995.

The party was less successful in the 1977 elections, in which it won 4, 396 votes, and in 1980 Kahane was sentenced to six months in prison for his involvement in a plan to commit an " act of provocation " on the Temple Mount.

When party leader Sun Yat-Sen died in May 1925, he was succeeded by a rightist, Chiang Kai-shek ( 1887 – 1977 ), who was opposed to Mao's involvement.

The party was even less successful in the 1977 elections, winning 4, 836 votes.

To form a sole ruling party in both parts of the union, Nyerere merged TANU with the Zanzibar ruling party, the Afro-Shirazi Party ( ASP ) of Zanzibar to form the CCM ( Chama cha Mapinduzi-CCM Revolutionary Party ), on February 5, 1977.

He also struck up a friendship with Frank Sinatra that would endure Sinatra's early 1970s conversion to the Republican party and was perhaps most on notice in the fall of 1977 when Sinatra was the star attraction and host of a tribute to a then-ailing Humphrey.

During this time, Peres continued to challenge Rabin for the chairmanship of the party, but in 1977, he again lost to Rabin in the party elections.

Peres succeeded Rabin as party leader prior to the 1977 elections when Rabin stepped down in the wake of a foreign currency scandal involving his wife.

The CDA remained the largest party, but it was forced to co-operate with the PvdA and D66 ( the PPR had left the alliance, after losing the 1977 elections ).

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.

Ratsiraka's original seven-year term as President continued after his party ( Avant-garde de la Révolution Malgache or AREMA ) became the only legal party in the 1977 elections.

Whitlam resigned as ALP leader after the party suffered its second successive electoral defeat in 1977.

The Christian Democratic Appeal (, CDA ) is a Christian-democratic political party in the Netherlands founded in 1977, which participated in all but two governments since then.

Similarly, when the outlawed Batasuna tried to use Acción Nacionalista Vasca as a proxy to re-organize its ranks, in a different case the ECHR also upheld in 2011 the previous Spanish court rulings which had outlawed ANV, noting that this party had not run by itself in elections since 1977 and that it basically conformed a " fraud " to circumvent the outlawing of Batasuna.

* Between 1967 and 1977, in the time of secularization and depillarization the party was able to appeal to younger generations, as the more leftwing confessional party.

In 1977, Karl Lagerfeld hosted the Soirée Moratoire Noire party, specifying " tragique exigée absolument noire " ( totally black tragic dress required ).

She was elected as party chair for Northern California on January 30, 1977, and for the California Democratic Party, which she held from 1981 until 1983.

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

For the Australian Senate ( where each State forms a multi-seat constituency voting by single transferable vote ), the State Parliament appoints a replacement ; in 1977 a referendum amended the Constitution to require that the person appointed must belong to the same political party ( if any ) as the Senator originally elected to that seat.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

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.

In 1977, Burroughs and Gysin published The Third Mind, a collection of cut-up writings and essays on the form.

The book publisher Berkley in 1977 issued three volumes using the earliest published form of the texts from Weird Tales, but these failed to displace the edited versions.

In a review published in 1977, Todd reports that numerous scholars report a system of social stratification in different parts of Africa that resembles some or all aspects of caste system.

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.

Despite the criticisms, DES was approved as a federal standard in November 1976, and published on 15 January 1977 as FIPS PUB 46, authorized for use on all unclassified data.

In 1977, Saratoga Springs, NY disc jockey Tom L. Lewis introduced the Disco Bible ( later renamed Disco Beats ), which published hit disco songs listed by beats per minute ( tempo ), as well as by either artist or song title.

The American Civil Liberties Union published a statement in 1977 which said:

** The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford ( published 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.

These were published by Ace Books from 1969 through 1977.

The first article about the movie's storyline was published in a 1977 issue of " Japanese Giants " ( published by Brad Boyle ) and was written by Richard H. Campbell, creator of The Godzilla Fan News Letter.

In 1977, a new version of D & D, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ( AD & D ), was first published.

In addition to his works directly addressing problem solving, Pólya wrote another short book called Mathematical Methods in Science, based on a 1963 work supported by the National Science Foundation, edited by Leon Bowden, and published by the Mathematical Association of America ( MAA ) in 1977.

Aaron was born in 1963 and died in 1977 ; the book was published in 1981.

In 1977, Harmonia Mundi also published two records of Deller singing Dowland's Lute songs ( HM 244 & 245-H244 / 246 ).< ref >

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.

* John Fisher, Burgess and Maclean, 1977, published by Robert Hale, London.

These studies performed on humans were published in 1977.

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.

During 1977, Czernilofsky published research that used affinity labeling to identify tRNA-binding sites on rat liver ribosomes.