Notable Historical Events - 1976
1976 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
"Musical Jubilee" closes at St James Theater NYC after 92 performances |
Jan 1 |
Liberty Bell moves to new home behind Independence Hall |
Jan 1 |
NBC replaces the peacock logo |
Jan 1 |
Venezuela nationalizes oil fields |
Jan 1 |
After 45 years of coaching, Paul Brown announces his retirement from the National Football League |
Jan 3 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Jan 4 |
"Candide" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 740 performances |
Jan 4 |
"Home Sweet Homer" opens & closes at Palace Theater NYC |
Jan 4 |
Reavey and O'Dowd killings: the Ulster Volunteer Force shoot dead 6 Catholic civilians in 2 co-ordinated attacks in County Armagh, North Ireland |
Jan 5 |
"MacNeil-Lehrer Report" premieres on PBS |
Jan 5 |
Cambodia is renamed "Democratic Kampuchea" |
Jan 5 |
Greg Chappell scores 182* at SCG against West Indies |
Jan 5 |
Kingsmill massacre: in retaliation for the Reavey and O'Dowd killings, the South Armagh Republican Action Force shoot dead 10 Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill, County Armagh |
Jan 6 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Jan 6 |
Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million |
Jan 8 |
Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles |
Jan 9 |
Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot |
Jan 9 |
CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts |
Jan 9 |
Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK |
Jan 11 |
"Pacific Overtures" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 193 perfs |
Jan 11 |
Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consec natl figure skating champions |
Jan 11 |
Military coup in Ecuador, Pres Guillermo Lara leaves |
Jan 11 |
Stephen Sondheim's musical "Pacific Overtures," premieres in NYC |
Jan 11 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
Jan 11 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Terry Kubicka |
Jan 12 |
UN Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine Liberation Org |
Jan 13 |
Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at NY's Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata" |
Jan 14 |
"Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC) |
Jan 14 |
Ted Turner becomes CEO of Atlanta Braves |
Jan 15 |
Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot Pres Ford |
Jan 15 |
US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit |
Jan 15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jan 16 |
"Donny & Marie" [Osmond] musical variety show premieres on ABC TV |
Jan 16 |
Peter Frampton released platinum live album "Frampton Comes Alive" |
Jan 17 |
"I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow hits #1 |
Jan 17 |
Hermes rocket launched by European Space Agency |
Jan 18 |
Super Bowl X: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 21-17 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Lynn Swann, Pittsburgh, WR |
Jan 20 |
29th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-5 at Phila |
Jan 21 |
Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France |
Jan 22 |
Bank robbery in Beirut nets $20-50 million (record) |
Jan 23 |
Ian Redpath hits his only 2 sixes in Cricket Tests, v WI Adelaide |
Jan 23 |
Wash Caps end 25 game winless streak (0-22-3) beat NY Rangers 7-5 |
Jan 23 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army truce of February 1975 is officially brought to an end |
Jan 24 |
Cleveland Cavaliers biggest margin victory-43 pts (beat Milwaukee 132-89) |
Jan 24 |
George Foreman KOs Ron Lyle in 5th round of a real slugfest |
Jan 25 |
Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut Ind v NZ Auckland |
Jan 26 |
6th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 23-20 |
Jan 26 |
Belgium Catholic elite starts amnesty campaign for war criminals |
Jan 26 |
David Mamet's "American Buffalo," premieres in NYC |
Jan 26 |
Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon |
Jan 26 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 23-20 |
Jan 27 |
"Laverne & Shirley" spinoff from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV |
Jan 27 |
9th ABA All-Star Game: Denver 144 beats ABA 138 at Denver |
Jan 27 |
Morocco-Algeria battles in West Sahara |
Jan 27 |
Viv Richards scores his 1st Test century against Australia |
Jan 28 |
Erapalli Prasanna takes 8-76 to rip through NZ at Eden Park |
Jan 28 |
NBA Atlanta Hawks begin a 28 game road losing streak |
Jan 29 |
Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire |
Jan 30 |
1st-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg |
Jan 30 |
George H W Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977) |
Jan 30 |
William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA |
Jan 31 |
"Love Rollercoaster" by Ohio Players hits #1 |
Jan 31 |
Lance Gibbs becomes highest Test wicket-taker at 308 |
Jan 31 |
3rd American Music Award: Olivia Newton-John & John Denver win |
Feb 1 |
"Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV |
Feb 1 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
Feb 1 |
Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce |
Feb 1 |
East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Mich State U after he is warned not to |
Feb 2 |
"Honeymooners Second Honeymoon" airs on TV |
Feb 2 |
"Rich Little Show," debuts on NBC-TV |
Feb 2 |
Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom & ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame |
Feb 3 |
26th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-109 at Philadelphia |
Feb 4 |
12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria |
Feb 4 |
7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala & Honduras |
Feb 4 |
US Federal Judge Judge Oliver upholds Seitz's decision on Andy Messersmith free agency |
Feb 4 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 5 |
Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies |
Feb 5 |
Last day of Test Cricket for Lance Gibbs & Ian Redpath |
Feb 6 |
George Harrison releases "This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)" |
Feb 7 |
Darryl Sittler, Toronto, sets NHL record with 10 points in a game |
Feb 7 |
FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Brooklyn New York) |
Feb 7 |
Larry Groce's "Junk Food Junkie" peaks at #9 |
Feb 7 |
World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR) |
Feb 8 |
Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR |
Feb 8 |
Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic |
Feb 8 |
Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130) |
Feb 8 |
"Taxi Driver", starring Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster, is released |
Feb 9 |
Oscar Charleston selected to baseball's the Hall of Fame |
Feb 11 |
Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st black US Secretary of Army |
Feb 12 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 13 |
Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria |
Feb 13 |
Peter Casserly of NZ hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 hours |
Feb 14 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 15 |
12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria |
Feb 15 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
Feb 17 |
"Rockabye Hamlet" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 7 performances |
Feb 17 |
Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau) |
Feb 17 |
NZ scores their 1st innings win in Test Cricket, v India |
Feb 17 |
Richard Hadlee takes 7-23 v India, his 1st match-winning spell |
Feb 19 |
Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara |
Feb 20 |
Muhammad Ali KOs Jan Pierre Coopman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
Feb 20 |
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands. |
Feb 21 |
"Rockabye Hamlet" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 7 perfs |
Feb 21 |
Cardinal Willebrands installed as archbishop of Utrecht |
Feb 22 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
Feb 23 |
Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract |
Feb 24 |
Cuba adopts its constitution |
Feb 24 |
Jules Feiffer's "Knock Knock," premieres in NYC |
Feb 24 |
Leonid Brezhnev opens 25th congress of CPSU |
Feb 26 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 27 |
Final meeting between Mao Zedong & Richard Nixon |
Feb 28 |
18th Grammy Awards: Love Will Keep Us Together, Natalie Cole wins |
Feb 28 |
Ceuta & Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession |
Feb 28 |
Spain withdraws from Western Sahara |
Mar 2 |
"Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 766 performances |
Mar 2 |
Bob Lurie becomes CEO of SF Giants |
Mar 2 |
Holgate, Kemp & Lopez' musical premieres in NYC |
Mar 2 |
Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest |
Mar 3 |
Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia |
Mar 3 |
5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. |
Mar 4 |
John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio |
Mar 4 |
SF Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie & Bud Herseth |
Mar 4 |
2nd People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Katharine Hepburn win (Motion Picture) and Telly Savalas & Carol Burnett win (TV) |
Mar 5 |
British pound falls below $2 for 1st time |
Mar 6 |
Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS) |
Mar 6 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Gothenburg won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (URS) |
Mar 6 |
Men's Fig Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (GRB) |
Mar 6 |
Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Gothenburg won by Dorothy Hamill |
Mar 7 |
Morocco & Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria |
Mar 8 |
1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China |
Mar 9 |
1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy |
Mar 9 |
Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0 |
Mar 12 |
South African troops leave Angola |
Mar 14 |
Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race |
Mar 14 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 15 |
Failed coup in Niger |
Mar 16 |
British premier Harold Wilson resigns |
Mar 17 |
Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76) |
Mar 17 |
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried |
Mar 17 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 17 |
4 Catholic civilians (including 2 children) are killed and twelve wounded when the Ulster Volunteer Force explode a car bomb at Hillcrest Bar, Dungannon |
Mar 20 |
Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.70) |
Mar 20 |
Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery |
Mar 23 |
International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying) |
Mar 24 |
Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's military |
Mar 25 |
"My Fair Lady" opens at St James Theater NYC for 384 performances |
Mar 25 |
"Rex" opens at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC for 48 performances |
Mar 25 |
Argentine milt junta bans leftist political parties |
Mar 26 |
AL approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M |
Mar 26 |
Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album |
Mar 26 |
Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment. |
Mar 27 |
Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64, for AIWA basketball title |
Mar 27 |
Washington DC underground Metro opens |
Mar 29 |
38th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Michigan 86-68 |
Mar 29 |
8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students |
Mar 29 |
48th Academy Awards - "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", Jack Nicholson & Louise Fletcher wins |
Mar 30 |
Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation |
Mar 31 |
Cleveland Cavaliers clinch their 1st ever NBA playoff bearth |
Mar 31 |
NJ Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator |
Apr 1 |
Stephen Wozniak & steven jobs found Apple Computer |
Apr 1 |
Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the northeastern U.S.. |
Apr 1 |
Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by the astronomer Patrick Moore. |
Apr 2 |
Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds Prince Sihanouk as Premier |
Apr 2 |
Portuguese constitution assumed |
Apr 2 |
A's trade prospective free agents Reggie Jackson & Ken Holtzman, to Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez & Paul Mitchell |
Apr 3 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Apr 3 |
Phila Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game |
Apr 4 |
5th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Judy Rankin |
Apr 4 |
Seni Pramoj's Democratic Party wins elections in Thailand |
Apr 5 |
Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes PM of England |
Apr 5 |
Tom Stoppard's "Dirty Linen" premieres in London |
Apr 6 |
1st quadrophonic movie track: "Ladies & Gentlemen the Rolling Stones" |
Apr 7 |
Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping |
Apr 9 |
US & Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use |
Apr 10 |
Brewers' Don Money's grand slammer disallowed-Yanks win 9-7 |
Apr 10 |
Cleveland Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title |
Apr 11 |
40th Golf Masters Championship: Ray Floyd wins, shooting a 271 |
Apr 11 |
The Apple I is created. |
Apr 12 |
India set 403 to win by WI They get them, 6 wkts 7 overs spare |
Apr 13 |
$2 bill re-introduced as US currency |
Apr 13 |
1st NBA playoff game for Cleve Cavliers, they lose 100-95 to Wash |
Apr 13 |
Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes |
Apr 15 |
Yankee stadium reopens, Yanks beat Twins after trailing 4-0 |
Apr 17 |
NL greatest comeback, trailing 12-1 Phils win 18-16 in 10, Mike Schmidt hits 4 consecutive HRs |
Apr 18 |
30th Tony Awards: Travesties & Chorus Line win |
Apr 18 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Karsten- Ping Golf Open |
Apr 19 |
5th Boston Women's Marathon won by Kim Merritt of Wis in 2:47:10 |
Apr 19 |
80th Boston Marathon won by Jack Fultz of Wash, DC in 2:20:19 |
Apr 20 |
George Harrison sings lumberjack song with Monty Python |
Apr 21 |
Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing |
Apr 21 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 22 |
Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor |
Apr 22 |
Director Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden due to taxation |
Apr 25 |
Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country |
Apr 25 |
India all out for 97 v West Indies |
Apr 25 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
Apr 25 |
Portugal adopts constitution |
Apr 25 |
Cub centerfielder Rick Monday rescues US flag from 2 fans trying to set it on fire |
Apr 26 |
Pan Am begins non-stop flights NYC-Tokyo |
Apr 27 |
"So Long 174th St" opens at Harkness Theater NYC for 16 performances |
Apr 27 |
Arabic Monetary Fund established in Abu Dhabi |
Apr 29 |
Minister Irene Vorrink begins fluoridating Dutch drinking water |
Apr 30 |
Muhammad Ali beats Jimmy Young in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Apr 30 |
Royal Canadian Mint opens a branch in Winnipeg, Manitoba |
Apr 30 |
Wings release "Silly Love Songs" |
May 1 |
102nd Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Bold Forbes wins in 2:01.6 |
May 1 |
Jos Hermens, runs Dutch record for 20K (57:24.2) |
May 1 |
Empress Lilly, replica of a paddle steamer, dedicated at Disney World Florida |
May 2 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic |
May 3 |
Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26) |
May 3 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift) |
May 4 |
"1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 7 perfs |
May 5 |
Anderlecht wins 16th soccer Europe Cup II |
May 5 |
Train collision at Schiedam Neth, kills 24 |
May 6 |
An earthquake strikes Friuli in Northern Italy, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages. |
May 8 |
"1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 7 perfs |
May 8 |
The rollercoaster Revolution (roller coaster), the first steel coaster with a vertical flip, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain |
May 9 |
"So Long 174th St" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 16 perfs |
May 9 |
Sally Little wins LPGA Ladies Masters at Moss Creek Golf Tournament |
May 11 |
Emmy 3rd Daytime Award presentation |
May 11 |
Last broadcast of "Marcus Welby, MD" on ABC-TV |
May 12 |
Bayern Munich wins 21st Europe Cup 1 |
May 13 |
9th & final ABA championship: NY Nets beat Denver Nuggets, 4 games to 2 |
May 14 |
Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter |
May 14 |
Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast |
May 15 |
102nd Preakness: John Lively aboard Elocutionist wins in 1:55 |
May 15 |
Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
May 15 |
Fonz Song by Heyettes hits #91 |
May 15 |
Kentucky Moonrunner by Cledus Maggard hits #85 |
May 15 |
The Ulster Volunteer Force launch gun and bomb attacks on 2 pubs in County Armagh, killing 4 Catholic civilians and wounding many more; a British Army soldier is later convicted for taking part in the attacks |
May 15 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army kill 3 Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers in County Fermanagh and 1 in County Down |
May 16 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Phila Flyers in 4 games |
May 16 |
Sue Roberts wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic |
May 17 |
28th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson & M Learned win |
May 17 |
Earthquake in Uzbekistan: thousands killed |
May 19 |
Gold ownership legalized in Australia |
May 19 |
Liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge |
May 19 |
Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence |
May 19 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
May 20 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
May 22 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-179 |
May 22 |
St Louis Cardinal Reggie Smith hits 3 HR |
May 23 |
Amy Alcott wins '76 LPGA Golf Classic |
May 24 |
1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Wash DC) |
May 24 |
Muhammad Ali TKOs Richard Dunn in 5 for heavyweight boxing title in Munich |
May 24 |
In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rate wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world's best wines. |
May 27 |
"Something's Afoot" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 61 performances |
May 29 |
"One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash hits #29 |
May 29 |
Only HR of Joe Niekro's 22-year career, comes off brother Phil |
May 30 |
22nd LPGA Championship won by Betty Burfeindt |
May 30 |
Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds) |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Johnny Rutherford wins in 1:42:52.466 (239.350 km/h) |
May 31 |
Loudest PA (76 KW) for Who's Quadrophenia in London |
Jun 1 |
Great Britain & Iceland end the "cod war" |
Jun 2 |
East Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation by Indonesia |
Jun 3 |
Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" goes gold |
Jun 3 |
Test Cricket debut of Mike Brearley v West Indies (0 & 17) |
Jun 3 |
US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta |
Jun 5 |
"Bigfoot" by Bro Smith hits #57 |
Jun 5 |
108th Belmont: Angel Cordero Jr riding Bold Forbes wins in 2:29 |
Jun 5 |
Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die) |
Jun 5 |
After a suspected republican bombing kills 2 Protestant civilians in a pub, the Ulster Volunteer Force kill 5 civilians in a gun and bomb attack at the Chlorane Bar, North Ireland |
Jun 6 |
30th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2 |
Jun 6 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic |
Jun 7 |
NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor & David Brinkley, premieres |
Jun 8 |
Houston Astros draft Floyd Bannister #1 |
Jun 8 |
Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks |
Jun 10 |
49th National Spelling Bee: Tim Kneale wins spelling narcolepsy |
Jun 10 |
67,000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome |
Jun 11 |
"Magnificent Marble Machine" last airs on NBC-TV |
Jun 11 |
Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa |
Jun 11 |
Australian band AC/DC begin their 1st headline tour of Britain |
Jun 11 |
Beatles "Rock & Roll Music" LP is released in USA |
Jun 12 |
"Yes, Yes, Yes" by Bill Cosby hits #46 |
Jun 13 |
4th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Donna Caponi |
Jun 13 |
Bob Marley performs in Amsterdam |
Jun 13 |
Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04) |
Jun 14 |
"Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication) |
Jun 14 |
12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4 |
Jun 15 |
Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor & Demsey to Baltimore for Holtzman, Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick & Jim Freeman |
Jun 15 |
Rain out! Astrodome cancels game heavy rains make it difficult for visiting team & umpires to get through flooded streets to the stadium |
Jun 16 |
Students in Soweto, South Africa, march against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black secondary schools. |
Jun 17 |
ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into NBA |
Jun 17 |
Indonesia annexes Portuguese East-Timor |
Jun 18 |
A Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for £340,000 |
Jun 18 |
St Louis Cards Lou Brock & Hector Cruz hit inside-the-park HRs |
Jun 18 |
Bowie Kuhn voids A's sales, totaling $35 million, of Joe Rudi & Rollie Fingers to Red Sox, & Vida Blue to Yankees |
Jun 19 |
US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth |
Jun 20 |
76th US Golf Open: Jerry Pate shoots a 277 at Atlanta AC in Duluth Ga |
Jun 20 |
Carl Fugate, Starkweather accomplice, paroled |
Jun 20 |
Czechoslovakia becomes European soccer champ |
Jun 20 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic |
Jun 20 |
River Country opens |
Jun 21 |
Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy |
Jun 22 |
"Godspell" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 527 performances |
Jun 22 |
SD Padre pitcher Randy Jones ties record of 68 innings without a walk |
Jun 23 |
CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens |
Jun 23 |
The U.S. vetoes Angola's application for membership of the United Nations Security |
Jun 24 |
1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany |
Jun 24 |
A Principal's office in Hlengisi Primary, Nyanga, outside Cape Town, South Africa, is burnt down; part of the broader resistance against the oppressive new Bantu Education policy of Afrikaans as a teaching medium in their schools |
Jun 25 |
Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader |
Jun 25 |
The Soweto Uprising in South Africa leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting |
Jun 26 |
WS shortstop Toby Harrah plays DH without touching a batted ball |
Jun 27 |
"Pacific Overtures" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 193 perfs |
Jun 27 |
Air France Airbus hijacked in Germany to Uganda |
Jun 27 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Invitational |
Jun 27 |
Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president |
Jun 27 |
In South Africa, the National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots in Soweto have lead to a new era of political consciousness |
Jun 27 |
Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda; four hijackers members Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Bader-Meinhof Gang in Germany |
Jun 28 |
1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo |
Jun 28 |
Three British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war |
Jun 29 |
The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom. |
Jun 30 |
John Walker of NZ sets record for 2000 m, 4:51.4 |
Jul 1 |
Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of US Conference of Mayors |
Jul 1 |
Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira. |
Jul 2 |
83rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats E Goolagong (63 46 86) |
Jul 2 |
Formal reunification of North & South Vietnam |
Jul 2 |
Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual |
Jul 2 |
Ramble Inn attack: the Ulster Volunteer Force killed 6 civilians (5 Protestants, 1 Catholic) in a gun attack at a pub near Antrim; the pub was targeted because it was owned by Catholics |
Jul 3 |
90th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Ilie Nastase (64 62 97) |
Jul 3 |
Adolfo Suarez becomes premier of Spain |
Jul 3 |
Brian Wilson performs with the Beach Boys after 12 years apart |
Jul 3 |
Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew & passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers |
Jul 4 |
Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt NY |
Jul 4 |
Operation Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France hostage passengers In Uganda (3 hostages die along with Ugandan soldiers and Israeli soldier) |
Jul 4 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Bloomington Golf Classic Bicentennial |
Jul 6 |
Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station |
Jul 7 |
Lt General Vernon A Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA; succeeded by E Henry Knoche |
Jul 7 |
Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars |
Jul 8 |
Randy Jones wins NL record 16 games before All Star break |
Jul 9 |
England all out for 71 v WI at Old Trafford, Holding 14 5-7-17-5 |
Jul 9 |
Houston Astro Larry Dierker no-hits Montreal Expos, 6-0 |
Jul 9 |
Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe |
Jul 10 |
105th British Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Royal Birkdale |
Jul 10 |
Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud) |
Jul 10 |
The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy. |
Jul 10 |
One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial. |
Jul 11 |
1st US football club in Austria forms (FAAFC-1st Austrian American) |
Jul 11 |
31st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner |
Jul 11 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Jul 11 |
In pre-game promo at Atlanta County Stadium, 34 couples wed at home plate followed by Championship Wrestling "Headlocks & Wedlocks" |
Jul 12 |
Ian Dury & Kilburns disband |
Jul 13 |
47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Phila |
Jul 13 |
All star MVP: George Foster (Cin Reds) |
Jul 13 |
Court martial begins in USSR for Valeri Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct) |
Jul 13 |
Last day of Test Cricket for Brian Close, aged 45 |
Jul 14 |
Jimmy Carter wins Democratic pres nomination in NYC |
Jul 14 |
USSR banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands |
Jul 15 |
36-hr kidnap of 26 school children & their bus driver in Calif |
Jul 16 |
Rock duo Loggins & Messina break-up after 6 years |
Jul 17 |
21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal |
Jul 17 |
Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor |
Jul 17 |
The opening of the Summer Olympics is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team. |
Jul 18 |
"Something's Afoot" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 61 performances |
Jul 18 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
Jul 18 |
Lucien van Impe wins Tour de France |
Jul 18 |
Stockhausens "Sirius" premieres in NYC |
Jul 18 |
Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut |
Jul 18 |
Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics. |
Jul 19 |
Rock group Deep Purple disbands |
Jul 19 |
Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony |
Jul 19 |
Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created. |
Jul 20 |
Hank Aaron hits 755th & last home run off Angels Dick Drago |
Jul 20 |
US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing |
Jul 20 |
Vietnam War: The US military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand. |
Jul 20 |
Rev. Samuel Mutendi, founder of the first African Independent Church, dies |
Jul 21 |
"Guys & Dolls" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 239 performances |
Jul 21 |
1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Philadelphia |
Jul 21 |
Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA. |
Jul 21 |
Christopher Ewart Biggs (the British Ambassador to Ireland) and his secretary Judith Cook are assassinated by a bomb planted in Mr Biggs' car in Dublin |
Jul 22 |
"Let My People Come" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 106 performances |
Jul 23 |
42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895) |
Jul 23 |
Balt Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game |
Jul 23 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
Jul 23 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 23 |
Wings release "Let 'em In" |
Jul 24 |
John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes |
Jul 25 |
Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01) |
Jul 25 |
Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
Jul 27 |
8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese |
Jul 27 |
Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested (Lockheed Affair) |
Jul 28 |
242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake |
Jul 28 |
8.2 & 7.4 earthquake devastate Tangsha, China (240-750,000 die) |
Jul 28 |
Eldon Joersz & Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph |
Jul 28 |
White Sox John Odom (5 inn) & Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's |
Jul 29 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
Jul 29 |
In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks. |
Jul 30 |
Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy |
Jul 30 |
Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball |
Jul 30 |
4 Protestant civilians were shot dead at a pub off Milltown Road, Belfast; the attack was claimed by the Republican Action Force |
Jul 31 |
Seychelles Independence (Independence day) |
Jul 31 |
Waldemar Cierpinski runs Olympic marathon (2:09:55.0) |
Aug 1 |
21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada |
Aug 1 |
Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colo on Route 34, kills 139 |
Aug 1 |
Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20) |
Aug 4 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Aug 6 |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi. |
Aug 7 |
Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open |
Aug 7 |
US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth |
Aug 7 |
Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars |
Aug 8 |
Chicago White Sox suit up in shorts |
Aug 9 |
Clive Lloyd scores double-ton in 120 mins, WI v Glamorgan |
Aug 9 |
Pitt Pirate John Candelaria no-hits LA Dodgers, 2-0 |
Aug 9 |
USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth |
Aug 10 |
A Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer is shot dead by the British Army as he drove along a road in Belfast; his car then went out of control and killed 3 children, sparking a series of "peace rallies" throughout the month by a group that became known as 'Peace People' |
Aug 11 |
Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses & is hospitalized in Miami |
Aug 11 |
Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die |
Aug 12 |
1st approach & lands test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise |
Aug 12 |
Christian militia conquer Palestinian camp Tell al-Za'tar, 2000 killed |
Aug 13 |
South Africa pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia |
Aug 14 |
10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast |
Aug 15 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic |
Aug 16 |
58th PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots a 281 at Congressional MD |
Aug 16 |
St Louis Cards beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo) |
Aug 17 |
An earthquake & tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000 |
Aug 17 |
Big win for WI at The Oval Michael Holding 14-149 for match |
Aug 18 |
USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon |
Aug 18 |
In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers. |
Aug 19 |
President Gerald R Ford wins Republican presidential nomination at KC convention |
Aug 21 |
Al Bumbry hits 17th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history |
Aug 21 |
Battle, East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes 1st British firewoman |
Aug 21 |
Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea. |
Aug 22 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
Aug 23 |
Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die |
Aug 24 |
Soyuz 21 returns to Earth |
Aug 25 |
Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion |
Aug 25 |
Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings |
Aug 27 |
Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open |
Aug 28 |
NY Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup |
Aug 28 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Aug 29 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
Aug 30 |
Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show |
Aug 30 |
Turks & Caicos Islands adopts constitution |
Aug 31 |
George Harrison found guilty of plagiarising "My Sweet Lord" |
Aug 31 |
Mexican peso devalued |
Aug 31 |
Trinidad & Tobago adopts constitution |
Aug 31 |
Waldemar Cierpinski wins 18th Olympics Marathon (2:09:55.0) |
Sep 1 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-197 |
Sep 1 |
New Jersey's Meadowlands racetrack opens |
Sep 1 |
Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray) |
Sep 3 |
Viking 2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), returns photos |
Sep 4 |
Palestinians hijack KLM DC-9 to Cyprus |
Sep 5 |
"Rex" closes at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC after 48 performances |
Sep 5 |
"Very Good Eddie" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 307 performances |
Sep 5 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic |
Sep 6 |
Jerry Lewis' 11th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, Dean Martin appears |
Sep 6 |
Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet |
Sep 7 |
US courts find George Harrison guilty of plagiarism (He's So Fine) |
Sep 8 |
Fons Rademakers' film "Max Havelaar" premieres in Amsterdam |
Sep 9 |
New Zealand government establishes the country's first centralised electronic database through the Wanganui Computer Act, raising questions about the state's ability to gather information on its citizens |
Sep 10 |
2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard |
Sep 10 |
5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, NY |
Sep 11 |
Dorothy Kathleen Benham (Minn), 20, crowned 49th Miss America 1977 |
Sep 11 |
Minnie Minoso bats for White Sox after a 12-year hiatus (hitless) |
Sep 11 |
90th US Women's Tennis: C E L Mills beats E Goolagong Cawley (63 60) Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight US Open Final (Evert wins) |
Sep 12 |
96th US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 36 76 64) |
Sep 12 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
Sep 12 |
Seattle Seahawks play 1st regular-season game (St L 30, Sea 24) |
Sep 12 |
White Sox Minnie Minoso, 53, is oldest to get a hit in majors |
Sep 13 |
2nd Enterprise, approach & lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s) |
Sep 15 |
Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who ...," premieres in NYC |
Sep 15 |
Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days |
Sep 16 |
Egypt president Sadat re-elected |
Sep 16 |
American Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop |
Sep 16 |
Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir. |
Sep 17 |
Amnesty International receives Erasmus-prize |
Sep 17 |
NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, Calif |
Sep 17 |
Ringo Starr releases "Ringo's Rotogravure" album |
Sep 18 |
Cleve manager Frank Robinson last game as a player |
Sep 18 |
Dom Mintoff's Labour Party wins Malta election |
Sep 18 |
Rev Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention |
Sep 18 |
Rock Music Award |
Sep 18 |
Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing. |
Sep 19 |
"Going Up" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 49 performances |
Sep 19 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Portland Golf Classic |
Sep 20 |
Metroliner official opens in Brussels |
Sep 20 |
Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women |
Sep 20 |
Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion |
Sep 21 |
Wings performs in Zagreb Yugoslavia |
Sep 21 |
Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet. |
Sep 22 |
"Charlie's Angels" starring Farrah Fawcett debuts |
Sep 23 |
Ford-Carter TV debate |
Sep 23 |
South Africa decides to allow multi-racial teams to represent them |
Sep 23 |
Soyuz 22 returns to Earth |
Sep 24 |
"Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 5959 performances |
Sep 24 |
Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by Pres Carter |
Sep 25 |
"Porgy & Bess" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 122 performances |
Sep 25 |
Expo's last game at Montreal's Jarry Park |
Sep 25 |
Bono, David Evans, his brother Dik and Adam Clayton respond to an advertisement on a bulletin board at Mount Temple posted by fellow student Larry Mullen Jr. to form a rock band, which would eventually become U2 |
Sep 26 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Sep 26 |
Denver's Rick Upchurch returns 2 punts for TDs against Cleveland |
Sep 26 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Carlton Golf |
Sep 26 |
Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title |
Sep 28 |
A&M sues George Harrison who fails to meet deadline for LP completion |
Sep 28 |
US Congress passes Toxic Substances Control Act |
Sep 28 |
Muhammad Ali beats Ken Norton in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 29 |
"Alice" debuts on CBS-TV |
Sep 29 |
2nd Chamber recognizes Dutch Liberals/social democratic abortion law |
Sep 29 |
Boy George expelled from school |
Sep 29 |
SF Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0 |
Sep 29 |
Syria drives Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon |
Sep 29 |
Tommy Lasorda replaces Walter Alston as Dodger manager |
Sep 29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 29 |
Jerry Lee Lewis, attempting to shoot soda bottles hits his bass player Norman Owens twice in the chest |
Oct 1 |
1st Dutch casino opens |
Oct 2 |
"Let My People Come" closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 106 perfs |
Oct 3 |
Hank Aaron singles in his last at bat & drives in his 2,297th run |
Oct 3 |
Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election |
Oct 4 |
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke |
Oct 4 |
Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers |
Oct 4 |
Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST). |
Oct 5 |
Seattle & Toronto picks 30 unprotected players on other AL rosters Ruppert Jones (Seattle) & Bob Bailor (Toronto) are picked 1st |
Oct 6 |
"Gang of Four" arrested in Beijing |
Oct 6 |
Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack |
Oct 6 |
John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent |
Oct 6 |
US Pres Gerald Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe" |
Oct 6 |
Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados. All 73 people on-board were killed. |
Oct 8 |
Sex Pistols sign with EMI |
Oct 9 |
"Robber Bridegroom" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 145 performances |
Oct 9 |
Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on debut NZ v Pak Javed 1st wkt |
Oct 9 |
Test Cricket debut of Javed Miandad (Pakistan), scores 163 on 1st day |
Oct 9 |
Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1 |
Oct 10 |
Beijing reports arrest of Mao Zedong's widow |
Oct 10 |
NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens |
Oct 10 |
Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33 |
Oct 11 |
10th Country Music Association Award: Mel Tillis wins |
Oct 11 |
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Oct 12 |
4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach & land test (ALT) flight |
Oct 12 |
Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Zedong as chairman of Communist Party |
Oct 13 |
A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground). |
Oct 13 |
The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.. |
Oct 14 |
Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homer gives NY Yanks pennant #30 |
Oct 14 |
Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman |
Oct 14 |
Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6, but returns without docking |
Oct 15 |
1st debate of major-ticket VP nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R) |
Oct 15 |
Ringo Starr releases "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll" |
Oct 16 |
Soyuz 23 returns to Earth |
Oct 16 |
Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 min 54 sec |
Oct 17 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Oct 17 |
Coldest World Series game Yankees vs Cincinnati, 39 degrees F (until 1997) |
Oct 18 |
Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr |
Oct 19 |
Battle of Aishiya, Lebanon during Lebanese Civil War. |
Oct 20 |
70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince |
Oct 20 |
NY Nets Julius "Dr J" Erving sold to Phila 76ers |
Oct 21 |
55th weaapon accord signed |
Oct 21 |
Cin Reds sweep NY Yankees, in 73rd World Series |
Oct 21 |
NY Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed |
Oct 21 |
NY Yankee Thurman Munson ties World Series mark of 6 straight singles |
Oct 21 |
Nobel prize for literature awarded to American Saul Bellow |
Oct 22 |
Rick Barry (SF), begins then longest NBA free throw streak of 60 |
Oct 22 |
Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada. |
Oct 24 |
1st Jewish film & TV festival |
Oct 24 |
6th NYC Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:39:11 |
Oct 24 |
7th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:10:10 |
Oct 24 |
Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader |
Oct 24 |
Sadiq & Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings v NZ |
Oct 25 |
5th Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight |
Oct 25 |
Gov Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris, last known survivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 rape |
Oct 26 |
Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa |
Oct 26 |
Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic |
Oct 28 |
Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (NY Yankees) |
Oct 28 |
Train collision at Goes Neth, 7 die |
Oct 30 |
"Going Up" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 49 performances |
Oct 30 |
Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show |
Oct 30 |
Rev Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ |
Oct 31 |
Javed Miandad, 206 v NZ, age 19 yrs 141 days (29 fours 1 six) |
Nov 1 |
"Don't Step on My Olive Branch" opens at Playhouse NYC for 16 perfs |
Nov 1 |
Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule |
Nov 1 |
W German Generals Krupinski and Franke admit to having been Nazis |
Nov 2 |
Jimmy Carter (D) defeats Gerald Ford (R) for US President |
Nov 2 |
NJ voters approve gambling for Atlantic City |
Nov 2 |
SD Padre Randy Jones wins NL Cy Young |
Nov 3 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA/Japan Mizuno Golf |
Nov 4 |
1st mass-market free-agent reentry draft, Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi, Gullett, Tenace, Fingers, Baylor, Grich & McCovey, available |
Nov 5 |
Balt Jim Palmer wins AL Cy Young Award |
Nov 5 |
New AL franchises in Seattle & Toronto fill up their rosters |
Nov 5 |
Pirates trade Manny Sanguillen & $100,000 to A's for mgr Chuck Tanner |
Nov 5 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Nov 6 |
Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP |
Nov 6 |
Former Twins relief ace Bill Campbell is 1st free-agent to sign with a new team, joining the Red Sox for $1 million over 4 years |
Nov 7 |
"Gone With the Wind" televised |
Nov 8 |
A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated. |
Nov 9 |
Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career |
Nov 9 |
UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa |
Nov 10 |
Utah Supreme Court approves execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore |
Nov 14 |
"Don't Step on My Olive Branch" closes at Playhouse NYC after 16 perfs |
Nov 14 |
Cleveland Browns' Jerry Sherk sets club record with 4 sacks |
Nov 14 |
War criminal Pieter Menten captured 1 day after fleeing |
Nov 15 |
Syrian army conquerors Beirut |
Nov 16 |
René Levesque's Parti Québécois wins elections in Quebec |
Nov 16 |
Rick Barry (SF), ends then longest NBA free throw streak of 60 |
Nov 17 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Nov 18 |
Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship |
Nov 18 |
Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett |
Nov 19 |
George Harrison releases "This Song" |
Nov 19 |
Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail |
Nov 19 |
Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal. |
Nov 20 |
George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live |
Nov 20 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-Hong Kong Golf Open |
Nov 22 |
Algeria Constitution goes into effect |
Nov 22 |
Comic strip "Cathy" by Cathy Guisewhite debuts |
Nov 23 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Nov 23 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Nov 23 |
Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment. |
Nov 23 |
In Kozani, Greece, 50 people arere killed when an Olympic Airways flight crashed into mountainous terrain after being diverted to Kozani due to poor weather in Larissa |
Nov 24 |
NBA Atlanta Hawks end a 28 game road losing streak |
Nov 24 |
Reds Joe Morgan wins his 2nd straight NL MVP Award |
Nov 25 |
OJ Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo vs Detroit |
Nov 25 |
The Band's farewell concert at SF's Winterland Ballroom |
Nov 25 |
Viking 1 radio signals from Mars help prove the general theory of relativity |
Nov 26 |
German DR deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship |
Nov 26 |
Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single |
Nov 26 |
Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK" |
Nov 26 |
Willy Brandt elected chairman of Social International |
Nov 27 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Colgate-Far East Golf Championship |
Nov 27 |
Miss Teenage America Pageant |
Nov 28 |
64th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 23-20 |
Nov 29 |
NY Yankees sign free agent Reggie Jackson to 5-year contract |
Nov 30 |
42nd Heisman Trophy Award: Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh (RB) |
Dec 1 |
Angola admitted to UN |
Dec 1 |
Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president |
Dec 1 |
Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks" |
Dec 2 |
Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado. |
Dec 3 |
Patrick J Hillery elected President of Ireland |
Dec 5 |
Buffalo Bill OJ Simpson rushes 203 yards |
Dec 6 |
War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich |
Dec 7 |
UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, sec-gen for 2nd 5 yr term |
Dec 8 |
UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General |
Dec 8 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Dec 10 |
Wings release triple album "Wings Over America" |
Dec 12 |
QB Joe Namath last game as a NY Jet |
Dec 13 |
Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur |
Dec 13 |
Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to SF 13h14m) |
Dec 14 |
Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social dem abortion laws |
Dec 14 |
Oil tanker Argo Merchant runs aground on the Nantucket Shoals, spilling 7.6 million US gallons (29,000 m3) of No. 6 fuel oil |
Dec 15 |
Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground |
Dec 15 |
Jamaica premier Manley wins elections |
Dec 15 |
Samoa becomes a member of the UN. |
Dec 16 |
Andrew Young named Ambassador & Chief US Delegate to UN |
Dec 16 |
Charlie Finley's $10 million damage suit against Bowie Kuhn begins |
Dec 16 |
Government halts swine flu vaccination prog following reports of paralysis |
Dec 16 |
Liberian tanker stranded at Nantucket, 180,000 barrels oil in sea |
Dec 17 |
Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national |
Dec 18 |
"A Star is Born", with Barbra Striesand, premieres |
Dec 18 |
"Wonder Woman" debuts on ABC |
Dec 18 |
Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan |
Dec 19 |
Jo Ann Washam/Chi Chi Rodriguez wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Champ |
Dec 19 |
John Lever takes 7-46 in 1st Test Cricket innings, v India Delhi |
Dec 19 |
Pres Leonid Brezhnev receives his 5th Order of Lenin |
Dec 19 |
Piper Cherokee crashes into Balt Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt |
Dec 19 |
65th Davis Cup: Italy beats Chile in Santiago (4-1) |
Dec 20 |
"Music Is" opens at St James Theater NYC for 8 performances |
Dec 20 |
Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns |
Dec 21 |
20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins |
Dec 21 |
Patricia R Harris named secretary of HUD |
Dec 21 |
UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child |
Dec 21 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Dec 22 |
"Your Arm's Too Short..." opens at Lyceum NYC for 429 perfs |
Dec 22 |
35 Unification church couples wed in NYC |
Dec 22 |
German DR banishes singer Nina Hagen |
Dec 25 |
Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea, about 100 killed |
Dec 25 |
Takeo Fukuda becomes Japanese premier |
Dec 26 |
"Music Is" closes at St James Theater NYC after 8 performances |
Dec 26 |
The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded. |
Dec 27 |
Albania constitution goes into effect |
Dec 28 |
"Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 167 perfs |
Dec 28 |
Genie Francis joind "General Hospital" as Laura Vining |
Dec 28 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Dec 28 |
Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa |
Dec 30 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Dec 31 |
TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run |
Dec 31 |
The Cars played their 1st gig |
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