* Animal ( 1977 film ), French film ( L ' Animal ) by Claude Zidi with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Raquel Welch

* 1977 – Members of the British National Front ( NF ) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.

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.

* 1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.

The 1977 Apple II, shown here with two Disk II floppy disk drives and a 1980s-era Apple Monitor II.

After graduating as valedictorian from Morris High School, Hill enrolled at Oklahoma State University, receiving a bachelor's degree with honors, in psychology 1977.

Between 1977 and 1987, the Australian Football Council ( AFC ) in conjunction with the VFL ran a night series, which invited clubs and representative sides from around the country to participate in the " National Football League " for the Wills Cup, however Victorian sides still dominated.

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

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.

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.

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.

* Narragansett Brewing Co. ( Providence, Rhode Island ) has been making a bock beer since the repeal of Prohibition in the 1930s, and celebrated the start of spring with annual Bock Beer festivals at the brewery until 1977.

His two Stanford teams went 9 – 3 in 1977 with a win in the Sun Bowl, and 8 – 4 in 1978 with a win in the Bluebonnet Bowl ; his notable players at Stanford included quarterbacks Guy Benjamin and Steve Dils, wide receivers James Lofton and Ken Margerum, and running back Darrin Nelson.

Herald photographer Stanley Forman received two Pulitzer Prizes consecutively in 1976 and 1977, the first being a dramatic shot of a young child falling in mid-air from her mother's arms on the upper stories of a burning apartment building to the waiting arms of firefighters below, and the latter ( known as " The soiling of Old Glory ") being of Ted Landsmark, an African American city official, being beaten with an American flag during Boston's school busing crisis.

This young foundation, along with the departures of the unhappy Jackson and Holtzman, would create the basis for 1977.

In 1977, the Bank set up a wholly owned subsidiary called Bank of England Nominees Limited ( BOEN ), a private limited company, with two of its hundred £ 1 shares issued.

Plug was a comic based on the eponymous character from The Bash Street Kids that began with issue dated 24 September 1977, and is notable for being the first comic to make use of rotogravure printing.

In 1977, Bixby appeared with Donna Mills, Richard Jaeckel, and William Shatner in the last episode, entitled " The Scarlet Ribbon ", of NBC's western series The Oregon Trail, starring Rod Taylor and Andrew Stevens.

In addition to their earlier appearance together on Courtship, Benet guest-starred with him on his The Magician series in 1973, did an episode of The Love Boat with him in 1977, and guested on his The Incredible Hulk program in 1980 just before they divorced.

The regime broke off relations with Hanoi in December 1977, protesting Vietnam's alleged attempt to create an Indochina Federation.

Two volcanoes form the island's most prominent topographic features: La Grille in the north, with an elevation of 1, 000 meters, is extinct and largely eroded ; Kartala in the south, rising to a height of 2, 361 meters, last erupted in 1977.

* 1882 – Leopold Stokowski, Polish conductor ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor ( b. 1902 )

* 1934 – Waldo de los Ríos, Argentinian composer, conductor, and arranger ( d. 1977 )

** Leopold Stokowski, English conductor ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D major – Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor ( Deutsche Grammophon )

* 1977 Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass – Chicago Symphony Chorus ; Margaret Hillis, director ; Sir Georg Solti, conductor ( RCA )

* 1977 Maurice Ravel: Boléro – Kenneth Wilkinson, engineer ; Sir Georg Solti, conductor ( London )

From 1977 until 1994, he was musical director and conductor of the U. S. National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, while still performing with some of the most famous musicians such as Martha Argerich, Sviatoslav Richter, Daniel Shidarov and Vladimir Horowitz.

Pritchard was succeeded by Charles Groves, who served as principal conductor for 14 years until he resigned in 1977.

After Groves ' fourteen years ' tenure as principal conductor, each of his three successors remained in post for much shorter periods ; Walter Weller from 1977 to 1980, David Atherton from 1980 to 1983 and Marek Janowski from 1983 to 1987.

Composer and conductor Odaline de la Martinez, who became the first woman to conduct at a BBC Proms concert, received her MMus in composition in 1977.

* February 9 – Ernst Mehlich, German-Brazilian conductor and composer ( d. 1977 )

* April 18-Leopold Stokowski, conductor ( d. 1977 )

Great and influential conductors of the middle 20th century like Leopold Stokowski ( 1882 – 1977 ), Otto Klemperer ( 1885 – 1973 ), Herbert von Karajan ( 1908 – 1989 ) and Leonard Bernstein ( 1918 – 1990 ) – incidentally, the first American conductor to attain greatness and international fame – had widely varied techniques.

A year later, he became principal guest conductor, and from 1977 to 1985 he was its music director.

From 1977 to 1993 he was music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra ( Saavedra 2001 ) and guest conductor of several famous orchestras in the U. S., Europe and Latin America.

Under the direction of Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit from 1977 to 2002, the MSO gained a truly international reputation.

A former postman, insurance salesman, miner and bus conductor, he had a long amateur career, winning the Welsh Amateur Championship in 1975 and the English Amateur Championship in 1977 and 1978 before turning professional.

* Edward Elwyn Jones ( born 1977 ), Welsh conductor and organist

* Kurt Adler ( 1907 – 1977 ), Czech-born Austrian-American conductor, Metropolitan Opera chorus master ( 1943-1973 )

* Waldo de los Ríos ( 1934 – 1977 ), Argentine composer and conductor

* Frederick in Thomas ' Mignon, with conductor Antonio de Almeida, CBS 1977.

* Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major, with conductor Claudio Abbado, Deutsche Grammophon 1977.

Rey Alejandro Conde Valdivia is a Mexican conductor who has conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa ( OSX ) since 1977.