Editing 1977

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== Events ==
* February 3 - [[Mengistu Haile Mariam]] becomes Chairman of the [[Derg]]. Beginning of the [[Qey Shibir]].
* March 2 - [[Muammar Gaddafi]] proclaims the formation of the '''[[Libyan Arab Jamahiriya]]'''.
* April 7 - The [[Falange de las J.O.N.S]] is dissolved.
* June 13 - Three girls - Lori Lee Farmer (8), Doris Denise Milner (10), and Michele Heather Guse (9) - are found [[rape]]d and [[murder]]ed in their tent at a Girl Scout camp taking place at Camp Scott in Mayes County, Oklahoma. 
* June 21 - [[Menachem Begin]] is elected Prime Minister of Israel.
* July 5 - General [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]] overthrows [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan.
* July 12 - [[Siad Barre]] invades Ethiopia, beginning the Ogadan War.
* August 10 - [[David Berkowitz]] is captured in Yonkers, New York, after over a year of murders in New York City as the "Son of Sam".
* August 12 to 20 - A [[pogrom]] is carried out against Tamils in Sri Lanka following the 1977 general elections, where the nationalistic Tamil United Liberation Front won a plurality of minority Sri Lankan Tamil votes in which it stood for secession. Around 300 Tamils are killed in the riots.
* October 13 - Lufthansa Flight 181 is hijacked by the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] in an attempt to secure the release of imprisoned [[Red Army Faction]] leaders in German prisons. 1 crew member is killed while three others are injured.
* November 19 - The Federation of Arab Republics collapses.
* Unknown - Beginning of the Mozambican Civil War.

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* January - [[Peter Chapman]]
* January 18 - [[Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali]]
* January 24 - [[Ricky Gray and Ray Dandridge|Ray Dandridge]]
* February 8 - [[Ryan Jenkins]]
* March 9 - [[Ricky Gray and Ray Dandridge|Ricky Gray]]
* April 3 - [[Zakariya Essabar]]
* May 29 - [[Bill White]]
* June 8 - [[Kanye West]]
* June 18 - [[Majed Moqed]]
* July 10 - [[Mukhtar Abu Zubair]]
* July 23 - [[Jermaine Grant]]
* July 30 - [[Ian Watkins]]
*August - [[Shannon Richardson]]
* August 11 - [[Pablo Vasquez]]
* August 17 - [[Ahmed al-Nami]]
* August 21 - [[Coral Lytle]]
* August 23 - [[Jared Fogle]]
* August 25 - [[Ramil Safarov]]
* September 22 - [[Kyle Aaron Huff]]
* December 31 - [[Karim Cheurfi]]
* Unknown - [[Mike Enoch]]
*Unknown - [[Juan Manuel Cardenas Jr.]]
*Unknown - [[Shebule Jackson]]

=== Victim births ===
* February 11 - Chad Littlefield
* April 13 - Amy Carnevale
* May 17 - [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Welles_Crowther Welles Crowther]
*July 14 - Jacalyn Rene Calabrese
*July 28 - Travis Alexander
*November 5 - Karmein Chan
*Unknown - Janaína Santos 

== Deaths ==

=== Villain deaths ===
* February 3 - [[Tafari Benti]]
* January 17 - [[Gary Gilmore]]
* March 18 - [[Marien Ngouabi]]
* March 25 - [[Alphonse Massamba-Débat]]
* August 8 - [[Eduard Roschmann]]
* September 10 - [[Hamida Djandoubi]]
* October 28 - [[Bruno Streckenbach]]

=== Victim deaths ===
* June 13 - Doris Milner, Michele Guse, and Lori Farmer
* September 12 - Steve Biko