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Events from the year 1977 in the United Kingdom.
[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Events
- 3 January - Roy Jenkins announces he is leaving the House of Commons to become President of the European Commission.[1]
- 6 January - Record company EMI sacks the controversial British punk rock group the Sex Pistols.[2]
- 4 February - Fleetwood Mac's Grammy-winning album Rumours is released, featuring songs that include "The Chain", "Don't Stop", and "Go Your Own Way".
- 10 February - Queen Elizabeth II visits American Samoa.
- 11 February - Queen Elizabeth II visits Western Samoa.
- 14 February - Queen Elizabeth II visits Tonga.
- 16 February–17 February - Queen Elizabeth II visits Fiji.
- 22 February–7 March - Queen Elizabeth II visits New Zealand.
- 28 February - State Opening of the New Zealand Parliament, by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 7 March–30 March - Queen Elizabeth II visits Australia.
- 8 March - State Opening of the Australian Parliament, Canberra by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 12 March - The Centenary Test between Australia and England begins at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 17 March–23 March - Prince Charles visits Ghana.
- 23 March - Government wins a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons after James Callaghan strikes a deal with the leader of the Liberal Party, David Steel.[3]
- 23 March–25 March - Queen Elizabeth II visits Papua New Guinea.
- 31 March - Queen Elizabeth II visits Muscat.
- 2 April - Red Rum wins Grand National for the third time.[4]
- 8 April - Punk band The Clash's debut album The Clash is released in the UK on CBS Records.
- 11 April - London Transport's Silver Jubilee buses are launched.
- 3 May - HMS Invincible is launched at Barrow-in-Furness by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 5 May - Silver Jubilee review of the Police at Hendon by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 7 May - Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Elliot Trudeau does a pirouette behind the back of Queen Elizabeth II.
- 13 May - The Silver Jubilee Air Fair is held at Biggin Hill.
- 17 May - Queen Elizabeth II commences her Jubilee tour in Glasgow.
- 18 May
- 19 May - Queen Elizabeth II visits Perth and Dundee.
- 23 May–27 May - Queen Elizabeth II visits Edinburgh.
- 27 May - Queen Elizabeth II opens the new Air Terminal Building at Edinburgh Airport.
- 28 May - Climax of Windsor celebrations: Queen Elizabeth II visits the town during her Silver Jubilee tour.
- 30 May - A gala performance for the Silver Jubilee is held at the Royal Opera House, London.
- 6 June–9 June - Jubilee celebrations are held in the United Kingdom to celebrate twenty-five years of Elizabeth II's reign.
- 20 June - Anglia Television broadcasts the fake documentary "Alternative 3". It enters into the conspiracy theory canon.
- 4 July - Manchester United manager Tommy Docherty is sensationally sacked by the club's directors due to his affair with the wife of the club's physiotherapist.[6]
- 11 July - Gay News found guilty of blasphemous libel in a case (Whitehouse v. Lemon) brought by Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association.[7]
- 10 August - the Queen visits Northern Ireland as part of her Jubilee celebrations under tight security.[8]
- September - Ford launches the second generation of its popular Granada top-of-the-range model.
- 27 October - former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe denies allegations of attempted murder of and having a relationship with male model Norman Scott.[9]
- 28 October - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols is released in the UK.
- 14 November - Firefighters go on first ever national strike.[10]
- 22 November - British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
- 10 December
- 12 December - Chrysler Europe announces its new Horizon range of five-door front-wheel drive hatchbacks, which will be built in Britain as a Chrysler and France as a Simca. It will give buyers a more modern alternative to the Avenger range of rear-wheel drive saloons and estates.
- 16 December - The Queen opens a £71million extension to the London Underground which runs to Heathrow Airport.[13]
- 27 December - The much-acclaimed Star Wars film, which has been a massive hit in America, is screened in British cinemas for the first time.[14]
[edit] Publications
[edit] Births
- 7 January - Michelle Behennah, model
- 13 January - Orlando Bloom, actor
- 5 February - Ben Ainslie, sailor
- 10 March - Colin Murray, Radio DJ
- 13 May - Samantha Morton, actress
- 30 May - Rachael Stirling actress
- 31 May
- 3 August - Angela Beesley, Internet entrepreneur
- 10 August - Danny Griffin, footballer
- 1 November - Alistair Griffin, singer/songwriter
- 4 November - Kavana, singer
- 15 November - Peter Mark Andrew Phillips, son of Anne, Princess Royal
- 22 November - Michael Preston, footballer
- 6 December - Paul McVeigh, footballer
- 23 December - Matt Baker, television presenter
[edit] Deaths
- 14 January
- 19 February - Anthony Crosland, Politician (born 1918)
- 26 March - Madeleine Dring, composer and actress (born 1923)
- 17 April - William Cardinal Conway, clergyman (born 1913)
- 2 June - Stephen Boyd, actor (born 1931)
- 3 June - Archibald Vivian Hill, physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)
- 19 June - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, Chief Girl Guide (born 1889)
- 4 August - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)
- 13 August - Henry Williamson, author (born 1895)
- 29 August - Edward Sinclair, actor (born 1914)
- 6 September - John Edensor Littlewood, mathematician (born 1885)
- 13 September - Leopold Stokowski, conductor (born 1882)
- 16 September - Marc Bolan, musician (born 1947)
- 30 November - Terence Rattigan, playwright (born 1911)
- 12 December - Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (born 1885)
- 25 December - Charlie Chaplin, comedian (born 1889)
[edit] References
- ^ "1977: Jenkins quits Commons for Brussels", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-01.
- ^ "1977: EMI fires Sex Pistols", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-01.
- ^ "1977: Government wins no confidence vote", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-01.
- ^ "1977: Hat trick for Red Rum", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-01.
- ^ (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ "1977: Manchester United sack manager", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-01.
- ^ "1977: Gay paper guilty of blasphemy", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-01.
- ^ "1977: Tight security for Queen's Irish visit", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-01.
- ^ "1977: Liberal MP denies murder plot", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-01.
- ^ "1977: Firefighters strike over pay claim", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-01.
- ^ The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1977. Retrieved on 2008-02-01.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1977. Retrieved on 2008-02-01.
- ^ "1977: Queen opens 'tube' link to Heathrow", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-01.
- ^ "1977: Star Wars fever hits Britain", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-01.
[edit] See also
1977 in the United Kingdom: 
England | 
Scotland
