Editing 1976 (section)

===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.