1976 in History (Part 4)

Events in History

Events 301 - 400 of 409

Oct 6 US President Gerald Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"

Oct 6 Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed by terrorists with connections to the CIA, explode onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados, killing all 73 people on board

Oct 7 Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Oct 10 Beijing reports arrest of Mao Zedong's widow

Oct 11 Mao Zedong's widow Jiang Qing & "Gang of Four" arrested & charged with plotting a coup

Oct 12 4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach & land test (ALT) flight
Oct 12 Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Zedong as chairman of Communist Party
Oct 13 A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
Oct 13 First electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, working at the C.D.C.
Oct 14 Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homer gives NY Yanks pennant #30

Oct 14 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to American economist Milton Friedman

Oct 14 Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6, but returns without docking
Oct 15 1st debate of major-ticket VP nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R)
Oct 16 Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
Oct 17 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
Oct 18 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to American William Lipscomb
Oct 19 US President Gerald Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
Oct 19 Battle of Aishiya, Lebanon during Lebanese Civil War.
Oct 20 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince

Oct 21 Nobel prize for literature awarded to American Saul Bellow

Oct 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.
Oct 24 1st Jewish film & TV festival
Oct 24 1st Toronto International Film Festival opens
Oct 25 5th Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight
Oct 25 Governor Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris, last known survivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 rape
Oct 26 Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa
Oct 26 Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic
Oct 28 Train collision at Goes Neth, 7 die
Oct 30 Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
Oct 30 Rev Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ
Oct 31 Javed Miandad, 206 v NZ, age 19 yrs 141 days (29 fours 1 six)
Nov 1 Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule
Nov 1 W German Generals Krupinski and Franke admit to having been Nazis

Nov 2 Democrat candidate Jimmy Carter is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford

Nov 5 Balt Jim Palmer wins AL Cy Young Award
Nov 5 New AL franchises in Seattle & Toronto fill up their rosters
Nov 5 Pirates trade Manny Sanguillen & $100,000 to A's for mgr Chuck Tanner
Nov 5 USSR performs nuclear test
Nov 6 Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP
Nov 7 "Gone With the Wind" televised
Nov 8 A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated
Nov 9 Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career
Nov 9 UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
Nov 10 Utah Supreme Court approves execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore

Nov 14 War criminal Pieter Menten captured 1 day after fleeing
Nov 15 Syrian army conquers Beirut
Nov 16 René Levesque's Parti Québécois wins elections in Quebec
Nov 17 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
Nov 18 Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship
Nov 18 Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett
Nov 19 Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
Nov 19 Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.
Nov 22 Algeria Constitution goes into effect
Nov 22 Comic strip "Cathy" by Cathy Guisewite debuts
Nov 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Nov 23 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Nov 23 Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100m undersea without breathing equipment.
Nov 24 Reds Joe Morgan wins his 2nd straight NL MVP Award
Nov 25 The Band's farewell concert at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom
Nov 25 Viking 1 radio signals from Mars help prove the general theory of relativity
Nov 25 NYPD officer Robert Torsney shoots unarmed youth Randolph Evans while answering response at youth's Brooklyn home
Nov 26 Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single

Nov 26 Former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is elected chairman of the Socialist International (1976-92)

Dec 2 Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado

Dec 3 Patrick J Hillery elected President of Ireland
Dec 6 War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich
Dec 7 UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General for second 5 year term
Dec 8 UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim Secretary-General
Dec 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Dec 10 Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
Dec 12 QB Joe Namath last game as a NY Jet
Dec 13 Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
Dec 13 Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to San Francisco 13h 14m)
Dec 14 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social dem abortion laws
Dec 15 Oil tanker Argo Merchant runs aground on the Nantucket Shoals, spilling 7.6 m million gallons of fuel oil - one of the largest oil spills at sea
Dec 15 Jamaica premier Manley wins elections
Dec 15 Samoa becomes a member of the UN
Dec 16 Andrew Young named Ambassador & Chief US Delegate to UN
Dec 16 Charlie Finley's $10 million damage suit against Bowie Kuhn begins
Dec 16 Government halts swine flu vaccination prog following reports of paralysis
Dec 16 Liberian tanker stranded at Nantucket, 180,000 barrels oil in sea
Dec 17 Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national
Dec 18 Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan

Dec 19 Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev receives his 5th Order of Lenin

Dec 20 Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns