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| 1976 |
| | | The much-hated Gang of Four are arrested in China within weeks of Mao Zedong's death | |
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| 1976 |
| | | The incumbent president Gerald Ford is defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter in the US election | |
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| 1976 |
| | | 19-year-old Spanish golfer Severiano Ballesteros ends the year as number one in Europe | |
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| 1977 |
| | | Mengistu Haile Mariam seizes control of Ethiopia's ruling Dergue (military council) in a violent coup | |
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| c. 1977 |
| | | Royal tombs are excavated at Vergina, in Macedonia, probably including that of Philip of Macedon | |
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| 1977 |
| | | Jacques Chirac, leader of a recently formed neo-Gaullist party, is elected mayor of Paris | |
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| 1977 |
| | | Steven Spielberg writes and directs an inflential science fiction movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind | |
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| 1977 |
| | | Likud leader Menachem Begin, at the head of a coalition government, becomes Israel's first non-socialist prime minister | |
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| 1977 |
| | | A treaty provides for the gradual transfer of the Canal Zone from US to Panamanian control | |
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| 1977 |
| | | George Lucas writes and directs a science fantasy, Star Wars, launching a narrative that will be expanded in a further five films | |
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