1976

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 - 1976 - 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981

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Births

• February 11 - [Brice Beckham]?, actor.
• September 7 - Shannon Elizabeth, actress.
• Judit Polgar, best woman chess player in history.

Deaths

• January 30 - Mance Lipscomb, popular singer.
• January - [Zhou Enlai]?, prime minister of China, of cancer
• February 11 - [Lee J Cobb]?, actor.
• February 11 - [Alice Allen]?, actress.
• February 11 - [Charlie Naughton]?, actor.
• Mao Zedong, Chinese leader
• [Ulrike Meinhof]? of the Red Army Faction commits suicide
• August 4 - First outbreak of [Legionaire's disease]? kills 29 at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia
• September 21 - Orlando Letelier assasinated in Washington, D.C. by agents of Chilean dictator [Augusto Pinochet]?
• Werner Karl Heisenberg, physicist
• Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, writer and political and civil rights activist.
• Martin Heidegger, German philosopher
• Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal

Events

• February 11 - [Clifford Alexander Jr]? is confirmed as 1st African-American Secretary of US Army.
• February 24 - Cuba's current constitution enacted.
• April 1 - Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
• May 11 - President Gerald Ford signs [Federal Election Campaign Act]?
• April 25 - Portugal's new constitution enacted
• June 6 - Soweto riots in South Africa mark the beginning of the end of apartheid
• July 3 - United States Supreme Court rules that death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment
• July 4 - American bicentennial
• July 4 - Israeli airborne commandos attack Uganda's Entebbe? Airport and free 103 hostages being held by pro-Palestinian hijackers of an [Air France]? plane; one Israeli and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in raid
• July 20 - Viking 1 Lander lands on Mars
• September 3 - Viking 2 Lander lands on Mars
• Summer Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada
• Military Junta in power in Argentina.
• September 17 - Space Shuttle Enterprise rolled out
• September 21 - Seychelles joins the United Nations
• November 2 - Jimmy Carter elected U.S. president
• December 1 - Angola joins the United Nations
• December 15 - Samoa joins the United Nations
• First [laser printer]? introduced by IBM - the IBM 3800
• Cray-1?, the first commercially developed supercomputer?, invented by Seymour Cray
• California's sodomy law repealled.
• The term memetics first proposed by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene.
• Toronto Blue Jays created
• [Copyright Act of 1976]? extends copyright duration for an additional 20 years
• Diffie-Hellman cryptography proposed

Sport

• January 18 - Super Bowl X Pittsburgh Steelers (21) def. Dallas Cowboys (17)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Burton Richter]?, [Samuel Chao Chung Ting]?
• Chemistry - [William N Lipscomb]?
• Medicine - [Baruch S Blumberg]?, [D Carleton Gajdusek]?
• Literature - Saul Bellow
• Peace - [Betty Williams]? and [Mairead Corrigan]?
• Economics - Milton Friedman