Events in History in October 1976

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 and the "Gang of Four" are arrested and charged with plotting a coup

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 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to American economist Milton Friedman

Oct 15 1st debate of major-ticket US Vice President nominees, Walter Mondale (D) vs Bob 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