1976 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1976?
- January 18, 1976 – Lebanese Christian militias overrun Karantina, Beirut, killing at least 1,000.
- January 31, 1976 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- February 27, 1976 – The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
- March 27, 1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
- March 30, 1976 – The first Land Day protests are held in Israel/Palestine.
- April 11, 1976 – The Apple I is created.
- May 6, 1976 – An earthquake strikes Friuli, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
- May 8, 1976 – The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
- May 24, 1976 – The London to Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
- July 10, 1976 – One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
- July 20, 1976 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
- July 28, 1976 – The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People’s Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
- August 21, 1976 – Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.
- September 16, 1976 – Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
- September 21, 1976 – Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
- October 13, 1976 – The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.
- November 15, 1976 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
- December 1, 1976 – Angola joins the United Nations.
- December 15, 1976 – Samoa becomes a member of the United Nations.
- December 26, 1976 – The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.
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