1976 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1976?
- January 3, 1976 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect.
- January 4, 1976 – The Reavey and O'Dowd killings take place (part of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)
- January 31, 1976 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 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 7, 1976 – Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
- June 16, 1976 – 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.
- July 17, 1976 – The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
- 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 25, 1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
- July 29, 1976 – In New York City, David Berkowitz (aka the “Son of Sam”) kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
- September 3, 1976 – Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
- September 6, 1976 – Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.
- September 10, 1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
- September 17, 1976 – The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
- September 19, 1976 – Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
- October 6, 1976 – 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.
- December 1, 1976 – Angola joins the United Nations.
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