March 27 – Tenerife disaster: A collision between KLM and Pan Am Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583 people.March 21 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi withdraws the state of emergency which was implemented on June 25, 1975.Indira Gandhi's Congress Party is routed by the opposition Janata alliance. Led Zeppelin sets a new world record attendance for an indoor solo attraction at the Pontiac Silverdome when 76,229 people attend a concert here on the group's 1977 North American Tour.The Cold War between Cambodia and Vietnam evolves into the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.April 28 – A federal court in Stuttgart, West Germany, sentences Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe to life imprisonment.April 24 – In northern Bangladesh, a cyclone killed 13 people and injured about 100 others.April 22 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.April 18 - An annular solar eclipse was visible in Africa, and was the 29th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 138.April 17 – Belgian Prime Minister Leo Tindemans' Christian Social Party gains eight seats in the lower house in parliamentary elections.April 11 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.April 9 – Spain legalizes the Communist Party of Spain, which had been outlawed since 1939.This becomes the deadliest accident in aviation history.Īpril 11: UK Silver Jubilee (25 red buses painted silver). May 1 – The Taksim Square massacre in Istanbul results in 34 deaths and hundreds of injuries.For the Grateful Dead album, see May 1977 (album).
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