Editing 1976 (section)

===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]].