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Events:
January 12 - UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
January 15 - Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to
life in prison.
January 21 - The first commercial Concorde flight took off.
February 4 - In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
February 4 - 1976 Winter Olympics open in Innsbruck, Austria.
February 11 - Clifford Alexander Jr is confirmed as 1st African-American Secretary of
US Army.
February 20 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
February 24 - Cuba's current constitution enacted.
February 27 - Western Sahara declares independence.
March 1 - Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status for those sentenced for crimes
relating to the civil violence in Northern Island.
March 3 - Fleetwood Mac records Rumours, which will be a blockbuster album in 1977.
March 9-March 11 - Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal
Co. Scotia Mine, Letcher County, Ky.
March 20 - Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco bank.
March 24 - Argentina military forces depose president Isabel Peron.
March 27 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington, DC subway system opens.
March 30 - Obadele Thompson, athlete from Barbados.
April 1 - Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
April 4 - Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under
house arrest.
April 25 - Portugal's new constitution enacted.
May 11 - President Gerald Ford signs Federal Election Campaign Act.
May 24 - Washington, DC Concorde service begins.
June 5 - Teton Dam collapses in southeast Idaho in the U.S., killing 11 people.
June 14 - the trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known
as the Black Panther.
June 16 - Soweto riots in South Africa mark the beginning of the end of apartheid.
July 2 - North Vietnam and South Vietnam united to form the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam - a Communist country.
July 3 - Supreme Court of the United States rules that death penalty is not inherently cruel
or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment.
July 4 - United States Bicentennial.
July 4 - Israeli airborne commandos attack Uganda's Entebbe Airport and free 103
hostages being held by pro-Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane; one Israeli
and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in raid.
July 10 - Explosion in Seveso, Italy, kills a large number of people.
July 17 - The 1976_Summer_Olympics opening ceremony began in Montreal.
July 19 - Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
July 20 - Viking program: The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
July 28 - Earthquake flattens Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 people, and 164,851
people are heavily injured.
July 29 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag killing one
and seriously wounding another in the first of a series of attacks that terrorized the
city for the next year.
July 31 - NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1.
August 2 - A gunman murders Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr, and injures Priscilla Davis
and Gus Gavrel in an incident at Priscilla's Mansion at Mockingbird Lane in Fort Worth,
Texas. T. Cullen Davis, Priscilla's husband and one of the richest men in Texas, was
tried and found innocent for Andrea's murder. He was later found innocent of a plot
to kill several people, including Priscilla and a judge, and a wrongful death lawsuit. Cullen
went broke afterwards.
August 7 - Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
August 18 - In North Korea at Panmunjom, two US soldiers are killed while trying to
chop down part of a tree in the DMZ which had obscured their view.
September 3 - Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars
takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.
September 4 - George W. Bush is arrested and fined for driving under the
influence of alcohol.
September 6 - Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet
fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido in Japan and requests political asylum
from the United States.
Military Junta in power in Argentina.
September 17 - Space Shuttle Enterprise rolled out.
September 21 - Seychelles joins the United Nations.
October 12 - The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the
successor to the late Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party of China.
October 22 - Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, fifth President of Ireland, resigns following
accusations by the Minister for Defence.
November 2 - U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter defeats incumbant
Gerald Ford to become first candidate from deep south to win since the Civil War.
November 15 - First Megamouth Shark is discovered off Oahu in Hawaii.
November 26 - Little known company Microsoft is officially registered with the
Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.
December 1 - Angola joins the United Nations.
December 3 - Patrick Hillery is elected unopposed as the sixth President of Ireland.
December 6 - Joao Goulart, president of Brazil (1961-March 31, 1964) (b. 1918).
December 15 - Samoa joins the United Nations.
Unknown dates:
First laser printer introduced by IBM - the IBM 3800.
Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, invented by Seymour Cray.
California's sodomy law repealed.
The term memetics first proposed by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene.
Toronto Blue Jays created.
CN Tower built in Toronto - The tallest free standing land structure.
Copyright Act of 1976 extends copyright duration for an additional 20 years in
the United States.
Diffie-Hellman cryptography proposed.
Year in topic:
1976 in
film:
March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film. In one
of the best business decisions in film history, Lucas cuts his directing fee by
$500,000 to gain ownership of merchandising and sequel rights
Rocky.
All the President's Men.
Taxi Driver.
Carrie.
Network.
The Omen.
1976 in
music:
December 8 - The Eagles releases one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, Hotel California.
Björk's musical career begins.
The Clash form.
The Damned form.
Graffiti artist Lee Quinones begins painting large, intricate murals in New York City;
along with Quinones, hip hop artists (rappers, DJs and breakdancers)
begin to expand the boundaries of the art form.
1976 in
television:
January 17 - The Blues Brothers make their debut on NBC's Saturday Night Live.
April 24 - Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels makes on on-air offer to pay
the Beatles $3000 to reunite on the show. Lennon and McCartney were apparently
watching the show together in New York and considered walking down to the studio
to accept the check.
May 22 - Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels raises his previous offer to
The Beatles from $3000 to $3,200.
December 1 - Infamous Bill Grundy incident, wherin UK punk group the Sex
Pistols cause a storm of controversy and outrage by swearing on television.
The Olympics, broadcast from Montreal, draw an estimated 1 billion viewers worldwide.
The Sonny and Cher Show premieres.
Births:
January 3 -
Jason Marsden, actor.
January 5 -
Jeroen Steven (Jeroen) Martinetti.
January 6 -
Danny Pintauro, actor.
January 7 -
Eric Gagne, major league baseball pitcher.
January 7 -
Alfonso Soriano, baseball player.
January 21 -
Emma Bunton, Spice Girl.
January 31 -
Buddy Rice, race car driver, winner of the 2004 Indianapolis 500.
February 9 -
Vladimir Guerrero, Major League Baseball All-Star.
February 10 -
Lance Berkman, Major League Baseball All-Star.
February 11 -
Sacha Blom.
February 11 -
Brice Beckham, actor.
February 28 -
Ja Rule.
March 8 -
Freddie Prinze Jr., actor.
March 20 -
Chester Bennington, Linkin Park.
March 21 -
Justin Pierce, actor.
March 22 -
Reese Witherspoon, actress.
March 23 -
Keri Russell, actress.
March 24 -
Peyton Manning, NFL star, league co-MVP in 2003.
March 25 -
Juvenile, singer.
March 29 -
Wouterinus Pieter (Peter) van Herwijnen.
March 31 -
Josh Saviano, actor (The Wonder Years).
April 6 -
Candace Cameron, actress.
April 13 -
Jonathan Brandis, actor.
April 25 -
Tim Duncan, basketball player, two-time NBA MVP.
April 25 -
Rainer Schuettler, German tennis player.
May 3 -
Beto, football player.
May 19 -
Kevin Garnett, basketball player (2004 NBA Most Valuable Player).
May 20 -
Ramón Hernández, Major League Baseball All-Star.
May 25 -
Miguel Tejada, Major League Baseball All-Star.
May 31 -
Colin Farrell, actor.
June 5 -
Diana Adriana Tanje Kostense.
June 10 -
Freddy Garcia, Major League Baseball All-Star.
July 1 -
Patrick Kluivert, Dutch football player.
July 1 -
Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch football player.
July 3 -
Andrea Barber, actress (Full House).
July 4 -
Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer.
July 6 -
50 Cent, rapper.
July 7 -
Sandra van den Houten.
July 9 -
Fred Savage, actor (The Princess Bride, The Wonder Years).
July 11 -
Lil' Kim, rapper.
July 11 -
Eduardo Najera, Mexican-born NBA basketball player.
July 23 -
Judit Polgar, best woman chess player in history.
August 6 -
Melissa George, actress.
August 9 -
Jessica Capshaw, actress (The Practice).
August 9 -
Rhona Mitra, actress (The Practice).
August 12 -
Antoine Walker, basketball player.
August 27 -
Carlos Moya, Spanish tennis player.
September 7 -
Stevie Case (Killcreek), video game celebrity.
September 7 -
Shannon Elizabeth, actress.
September 10 -
Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis star.
September 11 -
Ludacris, rapper.
September 14 -
Chauncey Billups, basketball player.
September 19 -
Arjen Schelling.
September 20 -
Michael Ballack, German football player.
September 22 -
Ronaldo, Brazilian football player.
September 25 -
Chauncey Billups, basketball player.
September 29 -
Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian football player.
October 4 -
Alicia Silverstone, actress.
October 10 -
Linda van den Houten.
October 10 -
Bob Burnquist, Brazilian skateboarder.
October 19 -
Michael Young, baseball player.
November 6 -
Pat Tillman, American football player (d. 2004).
November 7 -
Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player.
November 12 -
Tevin Campbell.
November 22 -
Ken Mondschein, writer.
November 24 -
Chen Lu, figure skater.
December 13 -
Tom Delonge, Blink-182.
December 22 -
Leontine van den Houten.
Unknown dates:
Blu Cantrell, rapper.
John Collura, The Ataris.
Mike Davenport, The Ataris.
Patrick Riley, The Ataris.
Deaths:
January 1 -
Janna Adriana van den Houten.
January 5 -
Mal Evans, Beatles roadie.
January 8 -
Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China.
January 10 -
Howlin' Wolf, musician.
January 12 -
Agatha Christie, English mystery writer.
January 23 -
Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, writer and political and
civil rights activist.
January 30 -
Mance Lipscomb, popular singer.
February 1 -
Werner Heisenberg, physicist.
February 2 -
Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Bulgarian painter (b. 1903).
February 6 -
Vince Guaraldi, musician.
February 9 -
Percy Faith, musician, composer.
February 11 -
Alice Allen, actress.
February 11 -
Lee J Cobb, actor.
February 11 -
Alexander Lippisch, German aerodynamicist.
February 11 -
Charlie Naughton, actor.
February 12 -
Sal Mineo, actor.
February 13 -
Lily Pons, opera singer.
February 22 -
Florence Ballard, singer with The Supremes.
March 6 -
Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, boxer, actor.
March 14 -
Busby Berkeley, choreographer, director (b. 1895).
March 17 -
Luchino Visconti, italian theatre and cinema director.
March 24 -
Bernard Montgomery, British Field Marshal.
April 1 -
Max Ernst, artist.
April 4 -
Aaron Jacob Troast.
April 5 -
Howard Hughes, aviation pioneer, film director, eccentric.
April 20 -
Willem Kasper Roos.
April 26 -
Sid James, actor.
May 1 -
Adriaantje van den Houten.
May 9 -
Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author.
May 9 -
Ulrike Meinhof of the Red Army Faction commits suicide.
May 11 -
Alvar Aalto, architect.
May 15 -
Adriaan van den Houten.
May 26 -
Martin Heidegger, German philosopher.
June 9 -
Teunis Willem van den Houten.
June 10 -
Adolph Zukor, producer.
June 14 -
Anna van den Houten.
June 25 -
Johnny Mercer, songwriter.
July 4 -
Antoni Slonimski, Polish poet and writer (b. 1895).
August 2 -
Stan Farr, boyfriend of Priscilla Davis.
August 2 -
Andrea Wilborn, daughter of Priscilla Davis.
August 4 - First outbreak of Legionnaire's disease kills 29 at the American Legion
convention in Philadelphia.
August 6 -
Adriana Stoffelina Jonas.
August 22 -
Catharina van den Houten.
September -
Cornelis van de Luitgaren.
September 2 -
Stanislaw Grochowiak, Polish poet and dramatist (b. 1934).
September 9 -
Mao Zedong, Chinese leader.
September 21 -
Orlando Letelier assassinated in Washington, D.C. by agents of
Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
October -
Bernardus Hendrikus Jochems.
November 12 -
Walter Piston, composer.
December 4 -
Benjamin Britten, composer.
Robert W Troast.
Virgina Troast.
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