Wikipedia: 1976

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

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century

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

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Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981

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

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*September 7 - Shannon Elizabeth, actress.
*Judit Polgar, best woman chess player in history.

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*January - [Zhou Enlai]?, prime minister of China, of cancer

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*[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

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*February 24 - Cuba's current constitution enacted.

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*April 25 - Portugal's new constitution enacted

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*August 4 - First outbreak of [Legionaire's disease]? kills 29 at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia

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* Military Junta in power in Argentina.

*Military Junta in power in Argentina.
*September 17 - Space Shuttle Enterprise rolled out
*September 21 - Seychelles joins the United Nations

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*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

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

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

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