1976 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1976?
- January 4, 1976 – The Reavey and O'Dowd killings take place (part of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)
- January 15, 1976 – Gerald Ford’s would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
- January 18, 1976 – Lebanese Christian militias overrun Karantina, Beirut, killing at least 1,000.
- January 21, 1976 – Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
- January 31, 1976 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- February 4, 1976 – In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
- February 6, 1976 – In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
- April 11, 1976 – The Apple I is created.
- April 13, 1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson’s 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
- June 25, 1976 – Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
- June 29, 1976 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
- July 20, 1976 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
- August 18, 1976 – In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
- September 3, 1976 – Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
- September 10, 1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
- September 16, 1976 – Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
- October 4, 1976 – Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
- October 19, 1976 – Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
- October 20, 1976 – The ferry George Prince‘’is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
- December 15, 1976 – Samoa becomes a member of the United Nations.
Do you drink coffee? Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Try this! Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters REXTIIUUD? Check your answers here: Word solver REXTIIUUD. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)
Share or Link to This Page: