Major Events
- Mar 24 Argentine President Isabel Martínez de Perón is deposed in a military coup headed by Jorge Rafael Videla
- Apr 1 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs' parents house in Cupertino, California
- Jul 20 US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
- Jul 28 Tangshan Earthquake, 8.2 in magnitude kills over 240,000 Northern China in the largest loss of life from an earthquake in the 20th century
- Sep 18 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing, China
- Dec 2 Communist revolutionary Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado
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1976 in Film & TV
- Apr 9 "All the President's Men", directed by Alan J. Pakula, based on the non-fiction book by journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward detailing their Watergate investigation, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford, is released
- Apr 22 Barbara Walters becomes the first female US nightly network news anchor (ABC News)
- Jul 12 1st "Family Feud" game show debuts on ABC hosted by Richard Dawson
- Aug 30 Tom Brokaw starts as news anchor of NBC's "The Today Show"
- Nov 21 "Rocky" directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Sylvester Stallone premieres in New York (Best Picture 1977)
1976 in Music
- Jan 13 Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at NYC Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata"
- Jan 17 "I Write the Songs" cover by Barry Manilow hits #1
- Jun 3 Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" goes gold
1976 in Sport
- Apr 17 NL greatest comeback: trailing 12-1, Philadelphia Phillies beat Chicago Cubs, 18-16 in 10 innings at Wrigley Field; Mike Schmidt hits 4 consecutive HRs
- Jul 3 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Sweden's Björn Borg beats Ilie Năstase of Romania 6-4, 6-2, 9-7 for the first of 5 straight Wimbledon titles
- Jul 17 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal: 25 African teams (later rising to 33 nations) boycott the games due to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South Africa
- Jul 18 Nadia Comăneci (14) becomes the first gymnast in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 score (doing so 7 times) at Montreal Games
- Jul 20 Hank Aaron hits 755th and last home run off Angels Dick Drago
Did You Know?
First electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, working at the C.D.C.
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Fun Fact About 1976
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Famous Weddings in 1976
- Jan 11 NBA player Pete Maravich (27) weds college sweetheart Jackie Elliser in Metairie, Louisiana, until his death in 1988
- Jan 23 Bahamian-American actor Sidney Poitier (48) weds Canadian actress Joanna Shimkus
- Feb 2 Actress Gloria Swanson (76) weds writer William Dufty (60)
Famous Divorces in 1976
- Mar 2 Second wife Carole Hoff divorces serial killer John Wayne Gacy (33) after 3 years of marriage
- Mar 19 Princess Margaret separates from the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years
- Jun 23 American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson (34) divorces 2nd wife Diane Clatworthy (28), after 6-1/2 years of marriage
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