List of terrorist incidents, 1977

The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 1977.

•  USSR, January 8: Three explosions in Moscow. A bomb was detonated on a Moscow Metro train as it rolled into Kurskaya station. Seven people died and 33 were seriously injured in the incident, attributed to Armenian terrorists.^[1]

•  Spain, January 27: Atocha massacre in Spain. Far-right members (of?) killed five people in a shooting.

•  United States, March 9: Three buildings in Washington, DC were seized by members of the militant African-American Muslim Hanafi sect, and over 100 hostages were taken. One bystander was shot and killed, and Washington city councilman Marion Barry was shot in the chest. After a two-day standoff, all hostages were released from the District Building (city hall), B'nai B'rith headquarters, and the Islamic Center.

•  West Germany, April 7: Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver were shot by two Red Army Faction members.

•  Netherlands, May 23: School hostage crisis in the Netherlands. RMS activists kept 105 children and five teachers hostage in a school in Smilde.

•  United Kingdom, June 2: Three members of a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Police Force mobile patrol were shot and killed by IRA snipers near Ardboe, County Tyrone. It was part of ongoing attacks against police and army.

•  Netherlands, June 11: Train hostage crisis in the Netherlands. Near Groningen, a passenger train was hijacked by members of the RMS, and 55 passengers were taken hostage. In an army rescue operation, six hijackers and two passengers were killed.

•  West Germany, July 30: Jürgen Ponto, then head of the Dresdner Bank, was shot and killed by the Red Army Faction in a failed kidnapping attempt.

•  United States, August 3: Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN in Manhattan, New York bombed the offices of Mobil Oil and a building containing US Defense Department security personnel, killing one person and injuring eight others in the Mobil offices. In addition, the group warned that bombs were located in thirteen other buildings, including the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center, resulting in the evacuation of one hundred thousand people. Five days later, a bomb attributed to the group was found in the American Express (AMEX) building.^[2]

•  West Germany, September 5: Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped by the Red Army Faction, and murdered on October 19, 1977.

•  West Germany, October 13: Lufthansa flight LH 181 was hijacked by a group of four members of PFLP and taken to Mogadishu, Somalia; it was later released after an rescue operation launched by GSG 9 commando group.

•  France, December 19: A bomb destroyed the luxury food shop Fauchon in Paris.