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1976

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 - 1976 - 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981

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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.
March 3 - Fleetwood Mac records Rumours, which will be a blockbuster album in 1977
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.
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 6 - 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 - 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 20 - Viking 1 Lander lands on Mars
July 28 - Earthquake flattens Tangshan, China[?], killing 242,769 people, and 164,851 people are heavily injured
August 18 - 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 2 Lander lands on Mars
Summer Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada
Military Junta in power in Argentina.
September 17 - Space Shuttle Enterprise rolled out
September 21 - Seychelles joins the United Nations
November 2 - Jimmy Carter defeats Gerald R. Ford in the U.S. presidential election
November 26 - Little known company Microsoft is officialy registered with the Office of the Secretary[?] of the State of New Mexico.
December 1 - Angola joins the United Nations
December 15 - Samoa joins the United Nations
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
Copyright Act of 1976[?] extends copyright duration for an additional 20 years
Diffie-Hellman cryptography proposed

Art, Culture & Fashion

1976 in film
- March 25 - 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
1976 in literature
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 sports
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 national television [1 (http://www.punk77.co.uk/audio/billgrundy.wav)]
- The Olympics, broadcast from Montreal, draw an estimated 1 billion viewers worldwide.
- The Sonny and Cher Show premieres

Births

Elizabeth M.B. Davis
January 3 - Jason Marsden, actor.
January 6 - Danny Pintauro[?], actor
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 25 - Juvenile, singer
March 31 - Colin Farrell, actor
July 6 - 50 Cent, rap singer.
July 9 - Fred Savage, actor.
July 11 - Lil' Kim, rap singer
September 7 - Shannon Elizabeth, actress.
September 7 - Stevie Case (Killcreek), video geme celebrety
September 11 - Ludacris, rap singer.
October 4 - Alicia Silverstone, actress.
November 12 - Tevin Campbell[?]
December 13 - Tom Delonge, Blink-182
Blu Cantrell, rap singer
John Collura, The Ataris
Mike Davenport, The Ataris
Judit Polgar, best woman chess player in history.
Patrick Riley, The Ataris

Deaths

January 8 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China
January 8 - Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts
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 6 - Vince Guaraldi, musician
February 9 - Percy Faith[?], musician, composer
February 11 - Lee J Cobb[?], actor.
February 11 - Alice Allen[?], actress.
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
March 17 - Luchino Visconti, italian theatre and cinema director.
March 24 - Bernard Montgomery, British Field Marshal
April 1 - Max Ernst, artist
April 5 - Howard Hughes, aviation pioneer, film director, eccentric
May 26 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher
June 10 - Adolph Zukor, producer
June 25 - Johnny Mercer, songwriter
September 9 - Mao Zedong, Chinese leader
Ulrike Meinhof of the Red Army Faction commits suicide
August 4 - First outbreak of Legionnaire's disease kills 29 at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia
September 21 - Orlando Letelier assassinated in Washington, D.C. by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet
December 4 - Benjamin Britten, composer
Martin Heidegger, German philosopher
Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal
Carl Benjamin Boyer, American mathemetician and historian of mathematics

Nobel Prizes

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