Editing 1976 (section)

==Events==
===January===
{{Main|January 1976}}
* [[January 2]] – The [[International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights]] enters into force.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b36c0.html|title=Refworld {{pipe}} International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights|first=United Nations High Commissioner for|last=Refugees|website=Refworld|access-date=April 15, 2023}}</ref>
* [[January 5]] – The [[Pol Pot]] regime proclaims a new constitution for [[Democratic Kampuchea]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) |url=https://d.dccam.org/Archives/Documents/DK_Policy/DK_Policy_DK_Constitution.htm |access-date=2023-09-21 |website=d.dccam.org}}</ref>
* [[January 18]] – Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bangladesh - Pakistan |url=https://countrystudies.us/bangladesh/107.htm |access-date=2023-09-21 |website=Country Studies}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] 
** The United States vetoes a [[United Nations]] resolution that calls for an independent [[Palestinian state]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Palestine question/Palestine question core of conflict - Vetoed draft resolution |url=https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-189673/ |access-date=2023-09-21 |website=United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine |language=en-US}}</ref>
** The [[First Battle of Amgala (1976)|First Battle of Amgala]] breaks out between Morocco and Algeria in the Spanish Sahara.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Besenyő |first=János |date=2017 |title=Guerrilla Operations in Western Sahara: The Polisario versus Morocco and Mauritania |url=http://connections-qj.org/article/guerrilla-operations-western-sahara-polisario-versus-morocco-and-mauritania |journal=Connections: The Quarterly Journal |language=en |volume=16 |issue=3|pages=23–45 |doi=10.11610/Connections.16.3.02 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

===February===
{{Main|February 1976}}
* [[February 4]]
** The [[1976 Winter Olympics]] begin in [[Innsbruck]], Austria.
** The 7.5 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1976 Guatemala earthquake|Guatemala earthquake]] affects [[Guatemala]] and [[Honduras]] with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), leaving 23,000 dead and 76,000 injured.
* [[February 9]] – The [[Australian Defence Force]] is formed by unification of the [[Australian Army]], the [[Royal Australian Navy]] and the [[Royal Australian Air Force]].
* [[February 13]] – General [[Murtala Mohammed]] of [[Nigeria]] is assassinated in a military coup.
* [[February 24]] – [[Cuba]]'s [[constitution]] of 1976 is enacted.
* [[February 26]] – The [[Spanish Armed Forces]] withdraw from [[Western Sahara]].
* [[February 27]] – The [[Polisario Front]], [[Western Sahara]]'s national [[liberation movement]], declares independence of the territory under the name "[[Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic]]".

===March===
{{Main|March 1976}}
* [[March]] – The [[Cray-1]], the first commercially developed [[supercomputer]], is released by [[Seymour Cray]]'s [[Cray Research]], with the first purchaser being the [[Energy Research and Development Administration]] (ERDA) in [[Los Alamos, New Mexico]].<ref>"100 Million Computations Each Second", AP report in ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', September 20, 1976, p. 17</ref>
* [[March 1]] 
** U.K. Home Secretary [[Merlyn Rees]] ends [[Special Category Status]] for those sentenced for scheduled [[Terrorism|terrorist]]crimes relating to the civil violence in [[Northern Ireland]].
** [[Bradford Bishop]] allegedly murders five of his family members in Bethesda, Maryland. The crime goes undiscovered for 10 days and the suspect is never caught. From 2014 to 2018 he is on the [[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives]] list.
* [[March 4]]
** The [[Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention]] is formally dissolved in [[Northern Ireland]], resulting in [[Direct rule over Northern Ireland]] by the [[Government of the United Kingdom]] in London.
** The [[Maguire Seven]] are found guilty in London of possessing explosives for use by the Provisional Irish Republican Army and subsequently jailed for 14 years; their convictions were overturned in 1991.
* [[March 9]] – [[Cavalese cable car disaster (1976)|A cable car disaster]] occurs when a supporting cable breaks in [[Cavalese]], Italy, resulting in 43 deaths.<ref>{{cite news|title=42 Skiers Are Killed in Italy When Cable Car Falls 200 Feet|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 10, 1976}}</ref>
* [[March 9]]–[[March 11|11]] – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine, in [[Letcher County, Kentucky]].
* [[March 16]] – [[Harold Wilson]] resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* [[March 20]] – [[Patty Hearst]] is found guilty of armed robbery of a [[San Francisco]] bank in [[1974]].
* [[March 24]]
** [[Argentina]] military forces depose president [[Isabel Perón]].
** A [[M 24|general strike]] takes place in the [[People's Republic of the Congo]].
* [[March 26]]
** [[The Body Shop]], the retail chain for [[skin care]] products and [[cosmetics]] founded by [[Anita Roddick]], opens its first branch in [[Brighton]], [[England]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thebodyshop.com/_en/_ww/services/aboutus_history.aspx |title=Our History |publisher=[[The Body Shop]] |year=2009 |access-date=2010-07-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814132117/http://www.thebodyshop.com/_en/_ww/services/aboutus_history.aspx |archive-date=14 August 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[March 27]]
** The [[South African Defence Force]] withdraws from [[Angola]] and concludes [[Operation Savannah (Angola)|Operation Savannah]].
** The first {{convert|7.4|km|mi}} of the [[Washington Metro]] [[Subway (rail)|subway]] system opens.
* [[March 29]] – The [[military dictatorship]] of General [[Jorge Videla]] comes to power in [[Argentina]].
* [[March 31]] – The [[New Jersey]] Supreme Court rules that patient in a [[persistent vegetative state]] in the [[Karen Ann Quinlan case]] can be disconnected from her [[ventilator]]. She remains comatose and dies in [[1985]].

===April===
{{Main|April 1976}}
* [[April 1]]
** [[Apple Computer]] Company is formed by [[Steve Jobs]] and [[Steve Wozniak]] in California.
** [[Conrail]] (Consolidated Rails Corporation) is formed by the U.S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that have filed for bankruptcy protection. Conrail takes control at midnight, as a government-owned and operated railroad until [[1986]], when it is sold to the public.
** The [[Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect]] is first reported by British astronomer [[Patrick Moore]].
* [[April 2]] – [[Norodom Sihanouk]] is forced to resign as Head of State of Kampuchea by the [[Khmer Rouge]] led by [[Pol Pot]] and is placed under house arrest.
* [[April 3]] – The [[Eurovision Song Contest 1976]] is won by [[Brotherhood of Man]], representing the United Kingdom, with their song ''[[Save Your Kisses for Me]]''.
* [[April 5]]
** [[James Callaghan]] becomes [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].
** [[1976 Tiananmen Incident|Tiananmen Incident]]: Large crowds lay wreaths at Beijing's ''Monument of the Martyrs'' to commemorate the death of Premier [[Zhou Enlai]]. Poems against the [[Gang of Four]] are also displayed, provoking a police crackdown.
** [[Segovia prison break]]: in Spain's largest prison break since the [[Spanish Civil War]], 29 political prisoners escape from [[Segovia]] prison.
* [[April 13]]
** The [[Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion]] in [[Lapua]], Finland kills 40.
** The [[United States Treasury Department]] reintroduces the [[United States two-dollar bill|two-dollar bill]] as a [[Federal Reserve Note]] on [[Thomas Jefferson]]'s 233rd birthday as part of the [[United States Bicentennial]] celebration.
* [[April 16]] – As a measure to curb [[population growth]], the minimum age for marriage in India is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.
* [[April 19]] – A [[1976 Brownwood tornado|violent F5 tornado]] strikes around [[Brownwood, Texas]], injuring 11 people. Two people were thrown at least {{convert|1000|yd|m}} by the tornado and survived uninjured.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=[[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] |author2=[[National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service]] |author3=[[National Climatic Data Center]] |editor1-last=Potter |editor1-first=Thomas D. |title=Storm Data and Unusual Weather Phenomena |journal=Storm Data |date=April 1976 |volume=18 |issue=4 |page=14 |publisher=[[United States Department of Commerce]] |language=English}}</ref>
* [[April 21]] – The [[Great Bookie Robbery]] in [[Melbourne]], Australia: Bandits steal A$1.4&nbsp;million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.
* [[April 25]] – Portugal's [[1976 Constitution of Portugal|new constitution]] is enacted.
* [[April 29]] – [[Sino-Soviet split]]: A concealed bomb explodes at the gates of the Soviet embassy in China, killing four Chinese.<ref name="konkurent">{{cite web|url=http://old.konkurent.ru/print.php?id=3691|script-title=ru:"Красный" Китай против советских ревизионистов|author=Юрий Уфимцев|publisher=Конкурент.Ru|language=ru|access-date=July 10, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714143640/http://old.konkurent.ru/print.php?id=3691|archive-date=July 14, 2014}}</ref> The targets were embassy employees, returning from lunch, but on this day they had returned to the embassy earlier.<ref name="konkurent"/>

===May===
{{Main|May 1976}}
* [[May 1]] – [[Neville Wran]] becomes [[Premier of New South Wales]].
* [[May 4]]
** The first [[LAGEOS]] (Laser Geodynamics Satellite) is launched.
** A train crash in [[Schiedam]], the Netherlands, kills 24 people.
* [[May 6]] – An [[1976 Friuli earthquake|earthquake hits the Friuli area]] in Italy, killing more than 900 people and making another 100,000 homeless.
* [[May 9]] – [[Ulrike Meinhof]] of the [[Red Army Faction]] is found hanged in an apparent suicide in her Stuttgart-Stammheim prison cell.
* [[May 11]]
**U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]] signs the [[Federal Election Campaign Act]].
** An accident involving a tanker truck carrying [[anhydrous ammonia]] takes place in [[Houston, Texas]], resulting in the deaths of 7 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2011/05/35-years-later-houstons-deadly-ammonia-truck-disaster|title=35 years later: Houston's deadly ammonia truck disaster|access-date=2011-05-27|date=2011-05-26|work=Houston Chronicle}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=1976 ammonia truck disaster|date=2011-05-11|url=http://www.chron.com/news/photogallery/Remembering_the_1976_ammonia_truck_disaster.html|work=Houston Chronicle|access-date=2011-05-26}}</ref>
* [[May 13]] – The [[Atari Inc.|Atari]] video arcade game ''[[Breakout (video game)|Breakout]]'' is released.
* [[May 16]] – The [[Montreal Canadiens]] sweep the [[Philadelphia Flyers]] in four games to win the [[Stanley Cup]] in ice hockey. Flyers forward [[Reggie Leach]] became the only non-goaltender from a finals losing team to win the [[Conn Smythe Trophy]] as MVP of the playoffs after scoring a record 19 goals in 16 playoff games.
* [[May 21]] – The [[Yuba City bus disaster]], the second-worst bus crash in U.S. history, leaves 28 students and one teacher killed.
* [[May 24]]
** Washington, D.C. [[Concorde]] service begins.
** [[Judgment of Paris (wine)|The Judgment of Paris]] pits French vs. California wines in a blind taste-test in Paris, France. California wines win the contest, surprising the wine world and opening the wine industry to newcomers in several countries.
* [[May 25]] – U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]] defeats challenger [[Ronald Reagan]] in 3 [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] presidential primaries: [[Kentucky]], [[Tennessee]] and [[Oregon]].
* [[May 30]] – [[Indianapolis 500]] automobile race: [[Johnny Rutherford]] wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or {{convert|408|km|mi}}.
* [[May 31]] – Syria [[Lebanese Civil War#Syrian intervention|intervenes in the Lebanese Civil War]] in opposition to the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]], which it has previously supported.

===June===
{{Main|June 1976}}
* [[June 1]] – The United Kingdom and [[Iceland]] end the [[Cod Wars|Third Cod War]], with the UK accepting Iceland's extension of its territorial waters to 200 nautical miles in exchange for defined fishing rights.
* [[June 2]] 
** A car bomb fatally injures ''[[Arizona Republic]]'' reporter [[Don Bolles]].
** The [[Philippine]] government opens relations with the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[June 4]] – The [[Boston Celtics]] defeat the [[Phoenix Suns]] 128–126 in triple overtime in Game 5 of the [[1976 NBA Finals|National Basketball Association Finals]] at the [[Boston Garden]]. In 1997, the game is selected by a panel of experts as the greatest of the NBA's first 50 years.
* [[June 5]] – The [[Teton Dam]] collapses in southeast [[Idaho]] in the US, killing 11 people.
* [[June 6]] – The [[Double Six Crash]], a plane crash in [[Kota Kinabalu]], [[Malaysia]], kills everyone on board, including [[Sabah]]an [[Chief Minister of Sabah|Chief Minister]] [[Tun Fuad Stephens]].
* [[June 12]] – [[Alberto Demicheli]], a jurist, is inaugurated as a civilian [[List of Presidents of Uruguay|de facto President of Uruguay]] after [[Juan María Bordaberry]] is deposed by the military.
* [[June 13]] – Savage thunderstorms roll through the state of [[Iowa]], spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5 [[tornado]] that destroys the town of [[Jordan, Iowa|Jordan]].
* [[June 16]] – The [[Soweto uprising]] in South Africa begins.
* [[June 20]]
** Hundreds of Western tourists are moved from [[Beirut]] and taken to safety in [[Syria]] by the U.S. military, following the murder of the U.S. Ambassador.
** [[1976 Italian general election|General elections]] are held in Italy, resulting in the best result for the Communist Party (PCI) in a general election.
** [[Czechoslovakia national football team|Czechoslovakia]] beats [[Germany national football team|West Germany]] 5–3 on [[Penalty shoot-out (association football)|penalties]] to win [[UEFA Euro 1976|Euro 76]] when the game ends 2–2 after extra time.
* [[June 25]] – Strikes start in Poland ([[Ursus, Warsaw|Ursus]], [[Radom]], [[Płock]]) after communists raise [[food prices]]; they end on [[June 30]].
* [[June 26]] – The [[CN Tower]] is opened in Toronto, the tallest free-standing land structure opens to the public.
* [[June 27]]
** [[Group of Six|G-6]] is renamed "[[G7|Group of 7]]" (G-7) with the inclusion of Canada.
** Palestinian militants [[Operation Entebbe|hijack]] an [[Air France]] plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to [[Entebbe]], [[Uganda]].
* [[June 29]]
** [[Seychelles]] gains independence from the United Kingdom.
** The [[1976 Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe|Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe]] convenes in [[East Berlin]].

===July===
{{Main|July 1976}}
[[File:Amerigo vespucci 1976 nyc aufgetakelt.jpg|thumb|Italian tall ship ''[[Italian training ship Amerigo Vespucci|Amerigo Vespucci]]'' in New York Harbor during the [[United States Bicentennial]] celebration.]]
* [[July 2]] – [[North Vietnam]] dissolves the [[Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam|Provisional Government]] of [[South Vietnam]] and unites the two countries to form the [[Communism|Socialist Republic]] of [[Vietnam]].
* [[July 3]]
** ''[[Gregg v. Georgia]]'': The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] rules that the [[death penalty]] is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment overturning the ''[[Furman v. Georgia]]'' case of [[1972]].
** The [[1976 United Kingdom heat wave|great heat wave]] in the United Kingdom, which is currently suffering from drought conditions, reaches its peak.
* [[July 4]]
** The U.S. celebrates its [[United States Bicentennial|bicentennial]], in recognition of the 200th anniversary of the 1776 adoption of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] from Great Britain.
** [[Entebbe Raid]]: [[Israel]]i airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] hijackers of an [[Air France]] plane at [[Uganda]]'s [[Entebbe]] Airport; [[Yonatan Netanyahu]] and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.
* [[July 6]] – The first class of women is inducted at the [[United States Naval Academy]] in [[Annapolis, Maryland]].
* [[July 7]]
** German left-wing women terrorists Monika Berberich, Gabriella Rollnick, Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett escape from the Lehrter Straße maximum security prison in [[West Berlin]].
** [[David Steel]] becomes leader of the UK's Liberal Party in the aftermath of the scandal which forced out [[Jeremy Thorpe]].
* [[July 10]]
** Four [[mercenary|mercenaries]], three British and one American, are shot by firing squad in [[Angola]], following the [[Luanda Trial]].
** [[Seveso disaster]]: An explosion at a chemical plant in Seveso, Italy, causes extensive pollution to a large area in the neighborhood of Milan, with many evacuations and a large number of people affected by the toxic cloud.
* [[July 12]] – In the United States:
** [[California State University, Fullerton massacre]]: seven people are shot and killed, and two others are wounded in a [[mass shooting]] on campus at [[California State University, Fullerton]].
** [[Price Club]], as predecessor of [[Costco]], a worldwide membership-registration-only retailer, is founded in [[California]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Magill |first1=Frank N. |title=Chronology of Twentieth-Century History: Business and Commerce: Volume II |date=23 April 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-26462-9 |page=1135 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ySJpAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1135 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 15]]
** [[Jimmy Carter]] is nominated for U.S. president at the [[Democratic National Convention]] in New York City.
** Twenty-six Chowchilla schoolchildren and their bus driver are [[1976 Chowchilla kidnapping|abducted and buried in a box truck within a quarry]] in Livermore, California. The captives dig themselves free after 16 hours. The quarry-owner's son and two accomplices are arrested for the crime.
* [[July 16]]–[[July 20|20]] – [[Albert Spaggiari]] and his gang break into the vault of the Société Generale Bank in [[Nice]], France.
* [[July 17]]
** The [[1976 Summer Olympics]] begin in [[Montreal]], Quebec, Canada.
** [[East Timor]] is declared the [[Indonesian occupation of East Timor|27th province]] of [[Indonesia]].
* [[July 18]] – 14-year-old Romanian gymnast [[Nadia Comăneci]] earns the first of seven perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
* [[July 19]] – [[Sagarmatha National Park]] in [[Nepal]] is created.
* [[July 20]] 
** [[Viking program]]: The ''[[Viking 1]]'' lander successfully lands on [[Mars]].
** American criminal [[Gary Gilmore]] is arrested for murdering two men in Utah.
* [[July 21]] – A [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] bomb kills [[Christopher Ewart-Biggs]], new British ambassador to the Irish Republic, and Judith Cooke, a Northern Ireland Office private secretary, in Dublin; two others are seriously wounded but survive. 
* [[July 26]] – In Los Angeles, [[Ronald Reagan]] announces his choice of liberal U.S. Senator [[Richard Schweiker]] as his vice presidential running mate, in an effort to woo moderate [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] delegates away from President [[Gerald Ford]].
* [[July 27]]
** The United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with its former colony [[Uganda]] in response to the hijacking of [[Air France Flight 139]].
** Delegates attending an [[American Legion]] convention at [[The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel]] in [[Philadelphia]], US, begin falling ill with a form of [[pneumonia]]: this will eventually be recognised as the first [[outbreak]] of [[Legionnaires' disease]] and will end in the deaths of 29 attendees.
* [[July 28]] – The [[1976 Tangshan earthquake|Tangshan earthquake]] flattens [[Tangshan]], China, killing 242,769 people, and injuring 164,851.
* [[July 29]] – In New York City, the "[[Son of Sam]]" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing one and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.
* [[July 30]]
** [[Bruce Jenner]] wins the gold medal in the men's [[decathlon]] at the [[1976 Summer Olympics]] in Montreal.<ref name="giardina">{{cite web |author = Tony Giardina |title = Olympic Track & Field: Decathlete Ashton Eaton Is Next American Star |url = http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1288133-olympic-track-field-decathlete-ashton-eaton-is-next-american-star |date = August 7, 2012 |website = [[Bleacher Report]] |access-date = June 6, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150712223115/http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1288133-olympic-track-field-decathlete-ashton-eaton-is-next-american-star |archive-date = July 12, 2015 |df = mdy-all}}</ref>
** In [[Santiago]], Chile, [[Cruzeiro Esporte Clube|Cruzeiro]] from Brazil beats [[Club Atlético River Plate|River Plate]] from Argentina and are the [[Copa Libertadores de América]] champions in [[Association football]].
* [[July 31]]
** [[NASA]] releases the famous [[Face on Mars]] photo, taken by ''[[Viking 1]]''.
** The [[Big Thompson River]] in northern Colorado floods, destroying more than 400 cars and houses and killing 143 people.

===August===
{{Main|August 1976}}
[[File:Lebak Tsunami.jpg|150px|left|thumbnail|Tsunami damage at [[Lebak, Sultan Kudarat|barangay Tibpuan, Lebak, Mindanao]]]]
* [[August 1]]
** The [[1976 Summer Olympics]] ends in [[Montreal]], Quebec, Canada.
** [[Trinidad and Tobago]] becomes a [[republic]], replacing [[Elizabeth II]] as its [[head of state]] with [[President of Trinidad and Tobago|President]] [[Ellis Clarke]].
** Defending F1 World Champion [[Niki Lauda]] suffers serious burns in the [[1976 German Grand Prix|German Grand Prix]] after a huge accident that nearly cost him his life.
* [[August 2]] – A gunman murders [[Andrea Wilborn]] and [[Stan Farr]] and injures [[Priscilla Davis]] and Gus Gavrel, in an incident at Priscilla's mansion in [[Fort Worth, Texas]]. [[T. Cullen Davis]], Priscilla's husband and one of the richest men in Texas, is tried and found innocent for Andrea's murder, involvement in a plot to kill several people (including Priscilla and a judge), and a wrongful death lawsuit. Cullen goes broke afterwards.
* [[August 5]] – The clock of "[[Big Ben]]" at the [[Palace of Westminster]] in London suffers internal damage and requires frequent repairs. The clock is stopped at times on 26 of the next 275 days.
* [[August 6]] – Former United Kingdom Postmaster General [[John Stonehouse]] is sentenced to 7 years' jail for fraud, theft and forgery.
* [[August 7]] – [[Viking program]]: ''[[Viking 2]]'' enters into orbit around [[Mars]].
* [[August 8]] – As part of the [[American Basketball Association–National Basketball Association merger]], [[ABA dispersal draft, 1976|a dispersal draft]] is conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which have folded.
* [[August 11]] – A sniper rampage in [[Wichita, Kansas]] on a [[Holiday Inn]] results in 3 deaths while 7 others are wounded.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/7561672.html |title=Holiday Inn Sniper Up for Parole|date=May 17, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240527195127/https://www.webcitation.org/6gfiWOqVI?url=http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/7561672.html|archive-date=May 27, 2024}}</ref>
* [[August 14]]
** Around 10,000 Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in [[Northern Ireland]].
** The [[Senegal]]ese [[political party]] ''[[African Independence Party – Renewal|PAI-Rénovation]]'' is legally recognized, becoming the third legal party in the country.
* [[August 17]] – The 8.0 {{M|w}} [[1976 Moro Gulf earthquake|Moro Gulf earthquake]] hits off the coast of [[Mindanao]], [[Philippines]], triggering a destructive tsunami, killing between 5,000 and 8,000 people and leaving more than 90,000 homeless.<ref>{{cite book|title=Catalog of Tsunamis in the Pacific 1969–1982|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=umZ--INFYEEC&pg=PA103|author=Staff of the Academy of Sciences of the USS|publisher=Diane Pub|isbn=978-0-7881393-1-4|pages=103, 104|date=1997}}</ref>
* [[August 18]] – At Panmunjom, [[North Korea]], two United States soldiers are killed while trying to [[Operation Paul Bunyan|chop down part of a tree]] in the [[Korean Demilitarized Zone]] which has obscured their view.
* [[August 19]] – U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]] edges out challenger [[Ronald Reagan]] to win the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] presidential nomination in [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]].
* [[August 24]] – In [[Uruguay]], the army captures Marcelo Gelman and his pregnant wife. Gelman is later killed and his wife disappears. 
* [[August 25]] 
** [[Jacques Chirac]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of France]]; he is succeeded by [[Raymond Barre]].
** Landslide disaster in [[Sau Mau Ping]], Hong Kong.
* [[August 26]]
** The first known outbreak of [[Ebola virus]] occurs in [[Yambuku]], [[Zaire]].
** [[Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld]], husband of Queen [[Juliana of the Netherlands]], resigns from various posts over a scandal involving alleged corruption in connection with business dealings with the [[Lockheed Corporation]].
* [[August 30]] – [[James Alexander George Smith McCartney]] is sworn in as the first [[chief minister]] of the [[Turks and Caicos Islands]].

===September===
{{Main|September 1976}}
* [[September 1]]
** Cigarette and tobacco advertising is banned on Australian television and radio.
** [[Aparicio Méndez]], a jurist, is inaugurated as a civilian ''de facto'' [[President of Uruguay]] in the framework of a dictatorship.
** The [[state of emergency]] in the [[Republic of Ireland]] legally still in force since [[1939]] is lifted.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Greene |first=Alan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PRZRDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA96 |title=Permanent States of Emergency and the Rule of Law: Constitutions in an Age of Crisis |date=2018-04-05 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-5099-0617-8 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 3]]
** [[Viking program]]: The ''[[Viking 2]]'' spacecraft lands at [[Utopia Planitia]] on [[Mars]], taking the first close-up color photographs of the planet's surface.
** A [[Lockheed C-130 Hercules]] of the [[Venezuelan Air Force]] [[1976 Venezuelan Air Force C-130 crash|crashed]] near [[Lajes Field]], [[Azores Islands]], Portugal, killing all 68 occupants on board.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Accident Lockheed C-130H Hercules 7772, Friday 3 September 1976 |url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/329328 |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=asn.flightsafety.org}}</ref>
* [[September 6]]
** [[Cold War]]: [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] Air Force pilot Lt. [[Viktor Belenko]] lands a [[MiG-25]] jet fighter at [[Hakodate]], on the island of [[Hokkaidō]] in Japan, and requests [[refugee|political asylum]] in the United States.
** [[Frank Sinatra]] brings [[Jerry Lewis]]'s former partner [[Dean Martin]] onstage, unannounced, at the 1976 [[Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon]] in [[Las Vegas]], reuniting the comedy team for the first (and only) time in over 20 years.
* [[September 9]] – [[Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party]] [[Mao Zedong]] dies in [[Beijing]] after a series of heart attacks. 
* [[September 10]] – [[1976 Zagreb mid-air collision|Zagreb mid-air collision]]: A [[British Airways]] Trident and a [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] DC-9 collide near [[Zagreb]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] (modern-day [[Zagreb, Croatia]]), killing all 176 aboard.
* [[September 15]] – [[Darryl Sittler]] scores the winning goal in the [[1976 Canada Cup]] for Canada to win over Czechoslovakia in overtime, to win the first Canada Cup in ice hockey. 
* [[September 16]]
** [[Shavarsh Karapetyan]] saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a [[Yerevan]] [[reservoir]].
** Beginning with the [[Night of the Pencils]], a series of kidnappings and [[forced disappearance]]s followed by torture, rape, and murder of students under the [[National Reorganization Process|Argentine dictatorship]] takes place.
* [[September 17]] – The space shuttle ''[[Space Shuttle Enterprise|Enterprise]]'' is rolled out of a hangar in [[Palmdale, California]], United States.
* [[September 21]]
** The [[Seychelles]] join the [[United Nations]].
** [[Orlando Letelier]] is assassinated in Washington, D.C. by agents of [[Chile]]an dictator [[Augusto Pinochet]].
* [[September 24]] – [[Patty Hearst]] is sentenced to seven years in prison for her role in the armed robbery of a [[San Francisco]] bank in [[1974]] (an executive clemency order from U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]] will set her free after only 22 months).

===October===
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[[October 4]]: The [[InterCity 125]] [[high-speed train]] is introduced in the UK; services begin two days later.]]
* [[October 4]] – The [[InterCity 125]] [[high-speed train]] is introduced in the United Kingdom.
* [[October 6]]
** [[Cubana de Aviación Flight 455]] crashes due to a bomb placed by [[Cuban dissident movement|anti-Fidel Castro terrorists]], after taking off from [[Bridgetown]], Barbados; all 73 people on board are killed.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4535661.stm|work=BBC News|title=Cuba 'plane bomber' was CIA agent|date=May 11, 2005}}</ref>
** Students gathering at [[Thammasat University]] in [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]] are [[Thammasat University massacre|massacred]], while protesting the return of ex-dictator [[Thanom Kittikachorn]] by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
** In [[San Francisco]], during his second televised debate with [[Jimmy Carter]], U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]] incorrectly declares that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" (there is at the time).
** The [[Cultural Revolution]] in China concludes upon the capture of the [[Gang of Four]].
* [[October 8]] – [[Thorbjörn Fälldin]] replaces [[Olof Palme]] as [[Prime Minister of Sweden|Prime Minister]] of [[Sweden]].
* [[October 10]] – Taiwan Governor [[Hsieh Tung-min]] is injured by a letter bomb from a pro-independence activist.
* [[October 12]] – The People's Republic of China announces that [[Hua Guofeng]] is the successor to [[Mao Zedong]] as [[Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party]] following the latter's death on September 9 from a [[heart attack]].
* [[October 13]] – The [[United States Commission on Civil Rights]] releases the report, ''Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future,'' that documents that [[Puerto Ricans in the United States]] have a poverty rate of 33 percent in 1974 (up from 29 percent in 1970), the highest of all major racial-ethnic groups in the country (not including [[Puerto Rico]], a U.S. territory).
* [[October 19]]
** The [[Battle of Aishiya]] is fought in [[Lebanon]].
** The [[Copyright Act of 1976]] extends [[copyright]] duration for an additional 19 years in the United States.
** The [[Common chimpanzee|Chimpanzee]] (''Pan troglodytes'') is placed on the list of endangered species.
* [[October 20]] – The [[Mississippi River]] ferry [[MV George Prince ferry disaster|MV ''George Prince'']] is struck by a ship while crossing from [[Destrehan, Louisiana]] to [[Luling, Louisiana]], killing 78 passengers and crew.
* [[October 22]] – [[Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh]], the 5th [[President of Ireland]], resigns after being publicly insulted by the Minister for Defense.
* [[October 26]] – [[Transkei]] gains "independence" from [[South Africa]].

===November===
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* [[November 2]] – [[1976 United States presidential election]]: [[Jimmy Carter]] narrowly defeats incumbent [[Gerald Ford]], becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].
* [[November 12]] – [[Disappearance of Renee MacRae]] and her 3-year-old son Andrew from [[Inverness]] in Scotland; this becomes Britain's longest-running missing persons case.<ref>{{cite news |title=The bone detective |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/apr/30/women.gender |access-date=2009-05-13 |date=2008-04-30 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |first=Julie |last=Bindel |author-link=Julie Bindel}}</ref>
* [[November 15]] – The first [[megamouth shark]] is discovered off [[Oahu|O{{okina}}ahu]] in Hawai{{okina}}i.
* [[November 19]] – [[Jaime Ornelas Camacho]] takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of [[Madeira]], Portugal.
* [[November 24]] – [[1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake]]: Between 4,000 and 5,000 are killed in a 7.3 {{M|s|link=y}} earthquake at [[Van, Turkey|Van]] and [[Muradiye]] in eastern Turkey.
* [[November 26]]
** [[Microsoft]] is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of [[New Mexico]].
** The [[Warsaw Treaty Organization]] joint secretariat is established.

===December===
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* [[December 1]]
** [[Angola]] joins the [[United Nations]].
** [[José López Portillo]] takes office as [[President of Mexico]].
** Sir [[Douglas Nicholls]] is appointed the 28th [[Governor of South Australia]], the first [[Australian Aboriginal]] appointed to [[Viceroy|vice-regal office]].
* [[December 3]] – [[Patrick Hillery]] is sworn in after being elected unopposed as the 6th [[President of Ireland]].
* [[December 5]] – The [[1976 Japanese general election|Japanese general election]] takes place, and the ruling [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]] loses its majority in the 511-member [[House of Representatives (Japan)|House of Representatives]], but remains the largest party with 249 seats. 
* [[December 6]] – The [[Viet Cong]] is disbanded, and its former members become a part of the [[Vietnam People's Army]].
* [[December 8]] – The [[Congressional Hispanic Caucus]] is established by the five Latinos in the United States Congress: [[Herman Badillo]] of the Bronx, E. de la Garza and [[Henry B. Gonzalez]] of Texas, [[Edward R. Roybal]] of California, and the nonvoting Resident Commissioner of [[Puerto Rico]], [[Baltasar Corrada del Río]].
* [[December 10]] – The [[United Nations General Assembly]] adopts the [[Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques]].
* [[December 15]]
** [[Samoa]] joins the [[United Nations]].
** [[Denis Healey]] announces to the British Parliament that he has successfully negotiated a £2.3bn loan from the [[International Monetary Fund]].
* [[December 23]] – A new volcano, [[Murara]], erupts in eastern [[Zaire]].

===Date unknown===
* Random breath testing is introduced in Victoria (Australia).
* The first [[laser printer]] is introduced by [[IBM]] (the IBM 3800).
* The [[New Jersey Legislature]] passes legislation legalizing casinos in the shore town of [[Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]] commencing in [[1978]]. After signing the bill into law, [[Governor]] [[Brendan Byrne]] declares "The [[American Mafia|mob]] is not welcome in New Jersey!" referring to the Mafia's influence at casinos in [[Nevada]].