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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.
- July 12 - Siad Barre invades Ethiopia, beginning the Ogadan War.
- 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.
Births
Villain births
- January 18 - Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali
- January 24 - Ray Dandridge
- February 8 - Ryan Jenkins
- March 9 - Ricky Gray
- April 3 - Zakariya Essabar
- May 29 - Bill White
- June 18 - Majed Moqed
- July 10 - Mukhtar Abu Zubair
- July 30 - Ian Watkins
- 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
Victim births
Deaths
Villain deaths
- January 17 - Gary Gilmore
- March 18 - Marien Ngouabi
- August 8 - Eduard Roschmann