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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1976


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Birthdays


Deaths
  • January 5 - John A. Costello, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1891)
  • January 5 - Mal Evans, Beatles' "roadie" (b. 1935)
  • January 8 - Robert Forgan, British fascist (b. 1891)
  • January 10 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b. 1910)
  • January 12 - Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
  • January 13 - Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922)
  • January 23 - Paul Dupuis, French Canadian film and television actor (b. 1913)
  • January 23 - Paul Robeson, American actor
  • January 25 - Chris Kenner, American singer and songwriter (b. 1929)
  • January 31 - Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (b. 1941)
  • February 5 - Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley and His Comets) (b. 1926)
  • February 6 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician (b. 1928)
  • February 9 - Percy Faith, Canadian musician (b. 1908)
  • February 11 - Lee J Cobb, American actor (b. 1911)
  • February 11 - Frank Arnau, German writer (b. 1894)
  • February 12 - Sal Mineo, American actor (b. 1939)
  • February 13 - Lily Pons, French-born soprano (b. 1904)
  • February 20 - Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist (b. 1907)
  • February 22 - Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)
  • February 22 - Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (b. 1943)
  • March 6 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1903)
  • March 14 - Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b. 1895)
  • March 17 - Luchino Visconti, Italian director (b. 1906)
  • March 18 - Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1893)
  • March 19 - Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (b. 1889)
  • March 19 - Paul Kossoff, English guitarist (Free) (b. 1950)
  • March 26 - Lin Yutang, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
  • March 28 - Arthur Crudup, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1905)
  • March 28 - Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898)
  • April 4 - Harry Nyquist, Swedish contributor to information theory (b. 1889)
  • April 5 - Wilder Penfield, Canadian surgeon (b. 1891)
  • April 9 - Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer
  • April 9 - Phil Ochs, American singer (b. 1940)
  • April 14 - José Revueltas, Mexican writer (b. 1914)
  • April 25 - Carol Reed, British film producer and director (b. 1906)
  • April 26 - Sid James, South African-born British comedian (b. 1913)
  • May 1 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek poet who fought the military junta in Greece (b. 1939)
  • May 9 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
  • May 9 - Ulrike Meinhof, German revolutionist (b. 1934)
  • May 10 - Elias Aslaksen, Leader of Smith's Friends (b. 1888)
  • May 14 - Keith Relf, British singer and musician (The Yardbirds) (b. 1943)
  • May 20 - Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
  • May 30 - Max Carey, American baseball player (b. 1890)
  • May 31 - Jacques Monod, French biologist
  • June 5 - Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
  • June 6 - Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (b. 1891)
  • June 10 - Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born producer (b. 1873)
  • June 11 - Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (b. 1917)
  • June 20 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (b. 1918)
  • June 21 - Margaret Herrick, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director (b. 1902)
  • June 25 - Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
  • June 28 - Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer (b. 1927)
  • June 30 - Firpo Marberry, baseball player (b. 1898)
  • July 1 - Anneliese Michel, German woman said to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
  • July 4 - Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet (b. 1895)
  • July 29 - Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913)
  • August 2 - Fritz Lang, Austrian film director (b. 1890)
  • August 4 - Roy Herbert Thomson, Canadian publisher (b. 1894)
  • August 6 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903)
  • August 10 - Bert Oldfield, Former Australian cricketer (b. 1894)
  • August 19 - Alastair Sim, Scottish actor and rector of Edinburgh University (b. 1900)
  • August 19 - Ken Wadsworth, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1946)
  • August 22 - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913)
  • August 25 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer
  • August 26 - Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)
  • August 27 - Mukesh, Indian playback singer (b. 1923)
  • August 28 - Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
  • August 29 - Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (b. 1925)
  • August 29 - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet
  • September 2 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish writer (b. 1934)
  • September 10 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (b. 1905)
  • September 13 - Albert Tessier, French Canadian priest
  • September 13 - Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
  • September 29 - Wadi Ayoub, Greco-Roman professional wrestler
  • October 5 - Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1929)
  • October 10 - Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
  • October 11 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b. 1897)
  • October 14 - Dame Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888)
  • October 15 - Carlo Gambino, American gangster (b. 1902)
  • October 18 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (b. 1895)
  • October 25 - Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist (b. 1903)
  • November 12 - Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894)
  • November 15 - Jean Gabin, French actor (b. 1904)
  • November 20 - Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist (b. 1898)
  • November 23 - André Malraux, French author (b. 1901)
  • November 28 - Rosalind Russell, American actress (b. 1907)
  • December 4 - Tommy Bolin, American guitarist (b. 1951)
  • December 4 - Benjamin Britten, English composer (b. 1913)
  • December 12 - Jack Cassidy, American actor (b. 1927)
  • December 12 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (b. 1890)
  • December 28 - Freddie King, American musician (b. 1934)
  • December 29 - Ivo Van Damme, Belgian athlete (b. 1954)

Events
  • January 5 - Cambodia is renamed Democratic Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge.
  • January 12 - The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
  • January 15 - Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
  • January 21 - Commercial service of Concorde begins with London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
  • January 30 - George H. W. Bush becomes the 11th director of the CIA.
  • February 2 - The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
  • February 4 - In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
  • February 15 - The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by the national referendum.
  • February 20 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
  • February 24 - Cuba : national Constitution proclaimed.
  • February 27 - The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
  • March 3 - 5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
  • March 4 - The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London via the British parliament.
  • March 5 - The British pound falls below $2 USD for the first time.
  • March 9 - Forty-two people die in a Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
  • March 16 - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
  • March 24 - Argentina's military forces depose president Isabel Perón and start the National Reorganization Process.
  • March 26 - Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
  • March 27 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
  • April 1 - Apple Computer is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
  • April 1 - Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the northeastern U.S..
  • April 1 - Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by the astronomer Patrick Moore.
  • April 5 - In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident.
  • April 7 - Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
  • April 11 - The Apple I is created.
  • April 19 - Executive Order 9066 is rescinded.
  • May 6 - An earthquake strikes Friuli, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
  • May 8 - The rollercoaster Revolution (roller coaster), the first steel coaster with a vertical flip, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain
  • May 24 - The London to Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
  • May 24 - In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rate wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world's best wines.
  • June 5 - Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
  • June 14 - The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther.
  • June 16 - Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children.
  • June 22 - Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
  • June 25 - Missouri Governor Christopher S. Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused the Latter Day Saints.
  • June 26 - The CN Tower, the world's tallest free-standing structure on land, is opened to general public.
  • June 27 - Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
  • June 28 - The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
  • June 29 - The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
  • July 1 - Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
  • July 2 - North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
  • July 4 - Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
  • July 10 - The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
  • July 10 - One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
  • July 17 - History of East Timor: East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
  • July 17 - The opening of the Summer Olympics is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
  • July 18 - Nadia Comãneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
  • July 19 - Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
  • July 20 - The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
  • July 20 - Vietnam War: The U.S. military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand.
  • July 20 - Hank Aaron hits his 755th home run, breaking Babe Ruth's 41-year-old record.
  • July 21 - Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
  • July 22 - Japan completes it's last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed in Japan's imperial conquest of the country in the Second World War
  • July 27 - Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.
  • July 28 - The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude flattens Tangshan, the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
  • July 29 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
  • July 31 - Viking program: Viking 1
  • August 6 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
  • August 7 - Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
  • August 14 - The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.
  • August 18 - In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
  • August 21 - Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.
  • September 3 - Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
  • September 6 - Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaid¨­ in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.
  • September 10 - A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
  • September 16 - Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
  • September 17 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
  • September 18 - Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing.
  • September 19 - Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
  • September 21 - Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
  • October 4 - Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
  • October 6 - Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados after two bombs, placed by on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded. All 73 people on-board were killed.
  • October 6 - New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
  • October 6 - Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom, by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
  • October 11 - George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 was approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
  • October 12 - The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to the late Mao Zedong as chairman of Communist Party of China.
  • October 13 - A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
  • October 13 - The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C..
  • October 19 - Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
  • October 19 - The Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is placed on the List of Endangered Species.
  • October 20 - The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, LA. Seventy-eight passengers and crew died; only 18 people aboard the ferry survived.
  • October 22 - Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
  • November 8 - A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
  • November 15 - René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
  • November 19 - Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.
  • November 23 - Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
  • December 2 - Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
  • December 3 - An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but plays a concert two days later
  • December 5 - The United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan's resolution on security of non-Nuclear States.
  • December 15 - Samoa becomes a member of the UN.
  • December 26 - The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.


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