Editing 1976 (section)

===October===
{{Main|October 1976}}
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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]].