What Happened on September 21, 1976

Historical Events

Album Release

Asylum Records releases "Small Change", the fourth studio album by singer-songwriter Tom Waits; his best-selling album until 1999, features the songs "Tom Traubert's Blue" and "The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)"

Assassination

Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.

Wings performs in Zagreb Yugoslavia

Events in 1976

Famous Birthdays

Jana Kandarr, tennis star
Jonas Bjerre, Danish rock singer and guitarist (Mew; Apparatjik), and visual artist, born in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Poul Hübertz, Danish footballer

Born in 1976