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 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 5, 1976 – The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
- March 4, 1976 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
- April 1, 1976 – Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
- 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.
- July 2, 1976 – Fall of the Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
- July 17, 1976 – History of East Timor: East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
- July 18, 1976 – Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
- July 21, 1976 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
- 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.
- September 21, 1976 – Seychelles joins the United Nations.
- 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 23, 1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
- December 1, 1976 – Angola joins the United Nations.
- December 3, 1976 – An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but plays a concert two days later.
- December 15, 1976 – Samoa becomes a member of the United Nations.
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