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The following lists events that happened during 1977 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Incumbents

Events

January – March

• 18 January – Lucien Kraus is appointed to the Council of State.

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.

July – September

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

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.
• Jeunesse Esch wins the 1976-77 National Division title.

Births

• 20 August – Stéphane Gillet, footballer
• 5 November – Christian Poos, cyclist
• 25 November - Max Jacoby, filmmaker

Deaths

• 26 July – Prince Charles of Luxembourg (1927–1977)

Footnotes

1. East, Roger; Thomas, Richard J. (3 June 2014). Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders. Routledge. p. 359. ISBN 978-1-317-63939-8.
2. ^ "Membres depuis 1857" (in French). Council of State. Archived from the original on 2009-11-03. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
3. Thewes (2006), p. 188
4. Thewes (2006), p. 190
5. Thewes (2006), p. 182
6. Thewes (2006), p. 201

References

• Thewes, Guy (2006). Les gouvernements du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg depuis 1848 (PDF) (in French) (2006 ed.). Luxembourg City: Service Information et Presse. ISBN 978-2-87999-156-6. Retrieved 12 December 2009.

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