June 1976 in History

Events in History

Magna Carta

Jun 3 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta

Jun 4 "The Architecture of Luis Barragán" exhibition opens at MOMA, New York bring the Mexican architect's work to international notice
Jun 5 After a suspected republican bombing kills 2 Protestant civilians in a pub, the Ulster Volunteer Force kill 5 civilians in a gun and bomb attack at the Chlorane Bar, North Ireland
Jun 5 Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die)
Jun 6 "The Omen" premieres in the UK
Jun 10 49th National Spelling Bee: Tim Kneale wins spelling narcolepsy
Jun 11 Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa
Jun 14 "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication)
Jun 16 Soweto Uprising: Over 10,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, march against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black secondary schools; clashes with police kills dozens
Jun 17 Indonesia annexes Portuguese East-Timor
Jun 17 Soweto Uprising: Government deploys armed military to quell student protests; hundreds of civilians and children killed
Jun 18 A Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for £340,000
Jun 19 US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth
Jun 20 Carol Fugate, Starkweather accomplice, is paroled
Jun 21 Italian General Election; Enrico Berlinguer's Communist party win their greatest-ever share of the vote (34.4%)
Jun 23 CN Tower, world's tallest free-standing structure (555 m/1,815.3 ft), built by Canadian National Railway, opens in downtown Toronto, Ontario (surpassed in 2007)
Jun 23 The U.S. vetoes Angola’s application for membership of the United Nations Security
Jun 24 A Principal's office in Hlengisi Primary, Nyanga, outside Cape Town, South Africa, is burnt down; part of the broader resistance against the oppressive new Bantu Education policy of Afrikaans as a teaching medium in their schools
Jun 25 Soweto Uprising: in South Africa leaves an estimated 200 to 700 blacks and 2 whites dead following 10 days of rioting
Jun 26 CN Tower opens in Toronto - at 553 metres (1,815 feet), the tallest freestanding structure in the world (surpassed by Dubai’s Burj Khalifa 2009) [1]
Jun 27 Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda; four hijackers, members of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Bader-Meinhof Gang in Germany
Jun 27 In South Africa, the National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots in Soweto have lead to a new era of political consciousness
Jun 27 Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president
Jun 28 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Jun 28 Three British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war
Jun 29 The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
Jun 30 John Walker of NZ sets record for 2000 meters, 4:51.4

Birthdays in History

Jun 2 Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
Jun 2 Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso, Queen consort of Lesotho

Alexei Navalny (47 years old)

Jun 4 Russian political activist (leader of Progress Party), born in Butyn, Soviet Union

Jun 10 Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician, parliamentarian for the Party for the Animals
Jun 10 Hadi Saei Bonehkohal, Persian taekwondoka
Jun 18 Witte Wartena, Dutch artist
Jun 24 Louisa Leaman, English author

Weddings in History

Jun 19 King Charles XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Renate Sommerlath in Stockholm Cathedral, 1st Swedish reigning monarch to marry since 1797

Deaths in History

Jun 1 Pierre Balledux, Dutch stage manager and resistance fighter, dies at 89
Jun 2 Bartoes [Albertus J Wijstma], cabaret performer, dies at 73
Jun 2 Juan José Torres, former President of Bolivia, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor
Jun 5 Walter Field, entertainer, dies at 101

J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

Jun 6 American oil magnate and billionaire (Getty Oil), dies at 83

Jun 9 Gerd Gaiser, German writer (Ship in the Mountain), dies at 67
Jun 9 James A. Farley, American politician (ran Franklin Roosevelt's presidential campaign, US Postmaster General 1932-38), dies at 88
Jun 9 Paul Rodenko, Dutch poet and writer (Never Marry a Witch), dies at 55
Jun 12 Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, Prime Minister of South Vietnam, dies at 68
Jun 13 Don Bolles, American journalist (against Arizona), dies
Jun 16 Francis E. Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped & killed at 59
Jun 21 Margaret Herrick, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director (b. 1902)
Jun 23 Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (1965 ASMP award), dies at 93
Jun 29 Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician, dies at 62