What happened in 1976, my birth year ?
In 1976, the world was a different place.
There was no Google yet Or Yahoo for this matter.
January 1976
Thursday 01:
NBC introduces its new logo: an abstract N, similar to the Nebraska Educational Television Network logo.
Monday 05:
Cambodia is renamed Democratic Kampuchea.
Monday 12:
UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestinian Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
Thursday 15:
Gerald Ford’s would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
Wednesday 21:
The first commercial service Concorde flight took off.
February 1976
Monday 02:
Groundhog Day gale of 1976 hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
Wednesday 04:
1976 Winter Olympics open in Innsbruck, Austria.
Friday 20:
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
Tuesday 24:
Cuba: national Constitution proclaimed
Friday 27:
The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
March 1976
Wednesday 03:
Fleetwood Mac records Rumours, which will be a blockbuster album in 1977.
Monday 15:
Rock group KISS releases the legendary album Destroyer.
Saturday 20:
1976 & ndash; Patty Hearst is found guilty of the armed robbery of a San Francisco, California bank.
Wednesday 24:
Argentina’s military forces depose President Isabel Perón.
Saturday 27:
The first 4.6 miles of the Washington, DC subway system is opened.
April 1976
Thursday 01:
Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The Central Railroad of New Jersey is bankrupt and Conrail takes over it’s operations.
Saturday 03:
In The Hague, Netherlands, Brotherhood of Man wins the twenty-first Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom singing “Save Your Kisses for me”.
Sunday 04:
Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
Monday 05:
In the People’s Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident.
May 1976
Tuesday 11:
The last episode of the TV medical drama Marcus Welby, M.D. is aired.
Thursday 13:
The New York Nets defeat the Denver Nuggets and win the American Basketball Association championship, 112-106, in the final ABA game ever played.
Monday 24:
London to Washington, DC Concorde service begins.
June 1976
Saturday 05:
Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
Wednesday 16:
Apartheid: A non-violent march by 15000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children.
Saturday 19:
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Sommerlath.
Tuesday 22:
Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
Tuesday 29:
The Seychelles became independent from the United Kingdom.
July 1976
Friday 02:
North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Sunday 18:
Gymnast Nadia Comaneci, aged 14, scores first ever perfect 10 at the Olympics.
Tuesday 20:
The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
Sunday 25:
The first performance of the Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach
Saturday 31:
NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1
August 1976
Monday 02:
An intruder breaks into Priscilla Davis’s mansion in Fort Worth, Texas and kills Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr.
Wednesday 18:
In 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.
Saturday 21:
Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea
Monday 23:
A major earthquake in China kills thousands of people.
Thursday 26:
Raymond Barre becomes Prime Minister of France.
September 1976
Wednesday 01:
The Meadowlands racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey opens.
Friday 03:
Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars and takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet’s surface.
Friday 17:
The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA
Sunday 19:
A Turkish Boeing 727 hits a mountain in southern Turkey killing 155
Tuesday 28:
R&B singer Stevie Wonder releases the classic double album Songs in the Key of Life.
October 1976
Wednesday 06:
Students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom are massacred by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
Wednesday 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..
Friday 22:
Red dye #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.
Saturday 23:
US president Jimmy Carter, in a Playboy magazine interview, states that “I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.”
Tuesday 26:
Transkei declares its “independence” from South Africa
November 1976
Tuesday 02:
U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent Gerald Ford to become first candidate from Deep South to win since the Civil War.
Monday 15:
René Lévesque and the Party Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
Wednesday 24:
The Band gives its last public performance; Martin Scorsese is on hand to film it (see: The Last Waltz).
December 1976
Friday 03:
Patrick Hillary becomes the sixth President of Ireland.
Wednesday 08:
The Eagles release one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, Hotel California.
Wednesday 15:
Samoa becomes a member of the UN
Sunday 26:
Foundation of the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist).
Thursday 30:
The Smothers Brothers play their last show (Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas).
