1977 in the United Kingdom

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1977 in the United Kingdom:
British and Irish current events
Sport and Music
1977 British Grand Prix
1977 English cricket season
Football England \| Scotland
1977 in British music
United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977

Events from the year 1977 in the United Kingdom.

1 Events
- 1.1 Unknown dates
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 References

[edit] Events

January 3 - Roy Jenkins announces he is leaving the House of Commons to become President of the European Commission.^[1]
January 27 - Record company EMI sacks the controversial British punk rock group the Sex Pistols. ^[2]
February 4 - Fleetwood Mac's Grammy-winning album Rumours is released.
February 10 - Queen Elizabeth II visits American Samoa.
February 11 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Western Samoa.
February 14 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Tonga.
February 16 - February 17 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Fiji.
February 22 - March 7 - Queen Elizabeth II visits New Zealand.
February 28 - State Opening of the New Zealand Parliament, by Queen Elizabeth II.
March 7 - March 30 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Australia.
March 8 - State Opening of the Australian Parliament, Canberra by Queen Elizabeth II.
March 12 - The Centenary Test between Australia and England begins at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
March 17 - March 23 - Prince Charles visits Ghana.
March 23 - 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]
March 23 - March 25 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Papua New Guinea.
March 31 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Muscat.
April 2 - Red Rum wins Grand National for the third time. ^[4]
April 8 - Punk band The Clash's debut album The Clash is released in the UK on CBS Records.
April 11 - London Transport's Silver Jubilee buses are launched.
May 3 - HMS Invincible is launched at Barrow-in-Furness by Queen Elizabeth II.
May 5 - Silver Jubilee review of the Police at Hendon by Queen Elizabeth II.
May 7 - Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Elliot Trudeau does a pirouette behind the back of Queen Elizabeth II.
May 13 - The Silver Jubilee Air Fair is held at Biggin Hill.
May 17 - Queen Elizabeth II commences her Jubilee tour in Glasgow.
May 18 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Cumbernauld and Stirling.
May 19 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Perth and Dundee.
May 23 - May 27 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Edinburgh.
May 27 - Queen Elizabeth II opens the new Air Terminal Building at Edinburgh Airport.
May 28 - Climax of Windsor celebrations: Queen Elizabeth II visits the town during her Silver Jubilee tour.
May 30 - A gala performance for the Silver Jubilee is held at the Royal Opera House, London.
June 6-June 9 - Jubilee celebrations are held in the United Kingdom to celebrate twenty-five years of Elizabeth II's reign.
June 20 - Anglia Television broadcasts the fake documentary "Alternative 3". It enters into the conspiracy theory canon.
July 4 - Manchester United manager Tommy Docherty is sensationally sacked by the club's directors. ^[5]
July 11 - Gay News found guilty of blasphemous libel in a case (Whitehouse v. Lemon) brought by Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association. ^[6]
October 27 - former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe denies allegations of attempted murder of and having a relationship with male model Norman Scott. ^[7]
October 28 - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols is released in the UK.
November 14 - Firefighters go on first ever national strike. ^[8]
November 22 - British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

[edit] Unknown dates

James Meade wins the 1977 Nobel Prize in Economics jointly with the Norwegian Bertil Ohlin for their "Pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements." ^[9]
Nevill Francis Mott wins the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Philip Warren Anderson and John Hasbrouck van Vleck "for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems". ^[10]