Editing 1976 (section)

===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).