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Incumbents

Events

January – March

• 18 January – Lucien Kraus is appointed to the Council of State.^[1]

April – June

• 3 April – Luxembourg adopts Central European Summer Time regularly for the first time.
• 7 May – Representing Luxembourg, Anne-Marie Besse finishes sixteenth in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 with the song Frère Jacques.
• 3 June – The Sidor waste-to-energy incinerator at Leudelange is inaugurated.
• 12 June – The Netherlands' Bert Pronk wins the 1977 Tour de Luxembourg.
• 22 June – The government abandons plan to build a nuclear power plant at Remerschen, due to fears that the country wouldn't have enough police to protect the site from protestors.^[2]

July – September

• 29 July – Cornel Meder is appointed to the Council of State.^[1]
• 2 August – A law creating the Societé nationale de Crédit et d'Investissement is passed.^[3]
• 16 September – Marcel Mart leaves the government to join the European Court of Auditors, and is replaced by Josy Barthel.^[4]

October – December

Unknown

• At the conference of the International Telecommunication Union, in Geneva, Luxembourg is assigned five frequencies for satellite broadcasting, furthering the government's move towards making Luxembourg a leader in satellite telecommunications.^[5]
• Jeunesse Esch wins the 1976-77 National Division title.

Births

• 20 August – Stéphane Gillet, footballer
• 5 November – Christian Poos, cyclist

Deaths

• 26 July – Prince Charles of Luxembourg^[1]
• 20 October – Tun Deutsch, actor
• 13 November – Jean-Pierre Erpelding, writer

Footnotes

References

• (French) Thewes, Guy (2006) (PDF). Les gouvernements du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg depuis 1848 (2006 ed.). Luxembourg City: Service Information et Presse. ISBN 978-2-87999-156-6. http://www.gouvernement.lu/publications/gouvernement/gouvernements_depuis_1848/Les_gouv_2006.pdf. Retrieved 12 December 2009.