Year 1976

1976

Richard Leakey discovers a 1.5 million year old Homo erectus skull in Kenya

1976

Viking I lands on Mars

1976

Air France and British Airways begin the first regularly scheduled commercial supersonic transport (SST) flights

2 April 1976

Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot becomes prime minister (and virtual dictator) of Cambodia after Prince Sihanouk steps down

2 November 1976

Jimmy Carter elected US President

3 July 1976

US Supreme Court rules that death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment

4 July 1976

Israeli airborne commandos attack Uganda's Entebbe Airport and free 103 hostages held by pro-Palestinian hijackers of Air France plane; one Israeli and several Ugandan soldiers killed in raid

6 May 1976

Earthquake Friuli

04 February 1976

Guatemala, Città del Guatemala 23.000 deads - magnitudo 7,5

06 May 1976

Italy, Friuli 1.000 deads, magnitudo 6.5

1976

Filippines, Mindanao - 8.000 deads - magnitudo 7,8

1976

Nuova Guinea, Irian Jaya - 443 deads - magnitudo 7,1

24 November 1976

Turkey, Van 5.000 deads, magnitudo 7.8

28 July 1976

China, Tangshan, un bilancio terrificante: 250.000 deads secondo le autorità, oltre 500.000 secondo altre fonti, a Tangshan - magnitudo 8,2

1976

Nobel Prizes Economy: Milton Friedman

1976

Nobel Prizes Peace: Mairead Corrigan, Betty Williams

1976

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Baruch S. Blumberg, D. Carleton Gajdusek

1976

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: William N. Lipscomb, per i suoi studi sulla struttura dei borani, chiarendone la natura dei legami chimici

1976

Nobel Prizes Physics: Burton Richter, Samuel C. C. Ting

1976

Nobel Prizes Literature: Saul Bellow

1976

Football XX Super Bowl: Pittsburgh Steelers d. Dallas Cowboys (21-17)

1976

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: FC Bayern Munich (West Germany)

1976

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Chris Evert d. E. Cawley (6-3 4-6 8-6)

1976

Baseball World Series: Cincinnati Reds (NL) 4-0 New York Yankees (AL)

1976

WINTER OLYMPICS, Winter Olympics XII: Innsbruck, Austria

1976

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Boston Celtics d. Phoenix (4-2)

1976

SUMMER OLYMPICS, Summer Olympics XXI: Montreal (Canada)

1976

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Bjorn Borg d. I. Nastase (6-4 6-2 9-7)

1976

1976 Playboy cover

1976 February 28

Ali Larter, actress (born at Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA) Pisces

1976 October 04

Alicia Silverstone, actress (born at San Francisco,California,USA) Libra

1976 May 23

Kelly Monaco, model (born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) Gemini

1976 May 19

Kevin Garnett, Basketball player (born at Greenville, South Carolina, USA) Taurus

1976 August 07

Megan Gale, model, actress (born at Perth, Australia) Leo

1976 March 22

Reese Witherspoon, actress (born at New Orleans, Louisiana, USA) Aries

1976 March 18

Alessandro Nesta , Soccer Player Pisces

1976 December 27

Annalisa Minetti , singer Capricorn

1976 September 22

Christian Amoroso , soccer player Virgo

1976 May 31

Colin Farrell , actor Gemini

1976 May 28

Elenoire Casalegno , actress, model (born at Italy) Gemini

1976 September 09

Emma de Caunes , actress (born at Paris,France) Virgo

1976 October 17

Fabri Fibra , singer,rapper Libra

1976 September 27

Francesco Totti , soccer player Libra

1976 March 08

Freddie Prinze jr. , actor Pisces

1976 September 09

Frida Scarpa , schermitrice (born at Genova,Italy) Virgo

1976 January 24

Giuliano Figueras , cyclist Aquarius

1976 March 23

Keri Russelll , actress Aries

1976 March 10

Lorena Forteza , actress Pisces

1976 September 22

Luiz Ronaldo , soccer player Virgo

1976 July 22

Nina Moric , model Cancer

1976 July 10

Patrick Kluivert , soccer player Cancer

1976 March 24

Peyton Manning , PROF (born at New Orleans, Louisiana, USA) Aries

1976 October 31

Piper Lisa Perabo , actor (born at Dallas) Scorpio

1976 April 04

Serena Autieri , actress Aries

1976 April 05

Simone Inzaghi , soccer player Aries

(1976)

Tomas Locatelli , soccer player (born at Bergamo,Italy)

1976 June 22

Vincenzo Sommese , soccer player (born at Nola) Cancer

1976 May 01

Violante Placido , actress Taurus

1976 November 15

Virginie Ledoyen , actress Scorpio

1976 January 12

Agatha Christie , writer (Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan) (dead at Wallingford, United Kingdom) (born 1890 September 15) Virgo

1976 May 11

Alvar Aalto , Architect (dead at Helsinki, Finnish) (born 1898 February 03) Aquarius

1976 March 24

Bernard Law Montgomery , 1st Viscount Alamein, British Field Marshal (dead at Alton, Hampshire, England)

1976 October 15

Carlo Gambino , Italian-American gangster

1976 June 06

J. Paul Getty , oil magnate,billionaire

1976 November 18

Man Ray , painter,grafo (born 1890 August 27) Virgo

1976 09

Mao Tse-tung , Politician (dead at Pechino, China) (born 1893 December 26) Capricorn

1976 09

Mao Zedong , Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1949-~1976~)

1976 April 01

Max Ernst , painter tedesco (born 1891 April 02) Aries