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1977
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== Events ==

=== December ===
* December &ndash; The world's first personal all-in-one computer (keyboard/screen/tape storage), the [[Commodore PET]], is demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in [[Chicago]]
* [[December 1]] &ndash; The Australian state of Queensland abolishes the [[inheritance tax]].
* [[December 3]] &ndash; [[Apple Inc.|Apple Computer]] is incorporated.
* [[December 6]] &ndash; Record company [[EMI]] sacks the controversial United Kingdom [[punk rock]] group the [[Sex Pistols]].<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/jan/07/sex-pistols-emi-end-contract-1977</ref>
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** [[Southern Airways Flight 242]] crashes on a highway in [[New Hope, Georgia]], killing 72 people.
* [[April 7]]
** German Federal Prosecutor [[Siegfried Buback]] and his driver are shot by 2 [[Red Army Faction]] members while waiting at a red light near his home in [[Karlsruhe]]. The "[[Ulrike Meinhof]] Commando" later claims responsibility.
** The [[Toronto Blue Jays]] play their first game of [[baseball]] against the 
[[[[Chicago]] White Sox]].
** The [[Seattle Mariners]] play their first-ever game of [[baseball]] against the [[Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim|California Angels]].
[[File:Silver Routemaster SRM3.jpg|thumb|[[April 11]]: UK [[Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Silver Jubilee]] (25 red buses painted silver).]]
* [[April 8]] &ndash; The punk band [[The Clash]]'s debut album ''[[The Clash (album)|The Clash]]'' is released in the UK on [[Columbia Records|CBS Records]].
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* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Marien Ngouabi]], President of The Republic of the Congo (assassinated) (b. [[1938]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[William L. Laurence]], Jewish Lithuanian-born American journalist (b. [[1888]])
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[A. K. Gopalan]], Indian communist leader (b. [[1904]])
* [[October 25]]
** [[Nunnally Johnson]], American screenwriter and director (b. [[1897]])
** [[Joe Stydahar]], American football player ([[
[[Chicago]] Bears]]) and a member of the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1912]])
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Madeleine Dring]], British composer and actress (b. [[1923]])
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Diana Hyland]], American actress (b. [[1936]])
* [[October 28]]
** [[Andries Mac Leod]], Belgian-Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. [[1891]])
** [[Frithiof Nevanlinna]], Finnish mathematician (b. [[1894]])
** [[Marion Clyde McCarroll]], writer and journalist (b. [[1891]])
* [[October 29]] 
(contracted; show full)* [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Economics]] &ndash; [[Bertil Ohlin]], [[James Meade]]

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