what kind of historical events took place in1976 in around the world or in the U.S.?

Answer 1

January


* January - The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is released by Seymour Cray's Cray Research.
* January 15 - Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to life in prison.
* January 16 - The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction begins in Stuttgart, West Germany.
* January 18 - The Scottish Labour Party is formed.
* January 19 - Jimmy Carter wins the Iowa Democratic Caucus.
* January 21 - The first commercial Concorde flight takes off.
* January 25 - Twelve PIRA bombs explode in London's East End.
* January 27 - The trial of SLA member Patty Hearst begins.
* January 30 Live from Lincoln Center debuts on PBS.

[edit] February

* February 4
o In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
o The 1976 Winter Olympics open in Innsbruck, Austria.
* February 11 - Clifford Alexander Jr. is confirmed as the first African-American Secretary of the US Army.
* February 15 - The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by national referendum.
* February 24 - Cuba's current constitution is enacted.
* February 27 - Western Sahara declares independence.
* February 28 - Spain gives up territories in Sahara but retains its enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta.

[edit] March


* March 1 - Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status for those sentenced for crimes relating to the civil violence in Northern Ireland.
* March 4
o Maguire Seven are found guilty of possessing explosives and subsequently jailed for 14 years.
o The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland, resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London via the British parliament.
* March 9-March 11 - Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine, Letcher County, KY.
* March 16 - Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* March 17 - Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried in New Jersey.
* March 20 - Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco bank.
* March 24 - Argentina military forces depose president Isabel Peron.
* March 26
o The Toronto Blue Jays are created.
o Queen Elizabeth II sends the first royal e-mail.
* March 27 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
* March 29 - The junta of general Jorge Videla comes to power in Argentina.
* March 31 - The New Jersey Supreme Court rules that coma patient Karen Ann Quinlan can be disconnected from her ventilator. She remains comatose and dies in 1985.

[edit] April

* April 1
o Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
o Conrail or Consolidated Rails Corporation is formed by the U.S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that had filed for bankruptcy protection. Conrail takes control at midnight, as a government-owned and operated railroad till 1986, when it is sold to the public.
* April 3 - The 21st Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is held in The Hague. With Corry Brokken as the presenter, the contest is won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song Save Your Kisses For Me.
* April 4 - Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
* April 5
o James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
o Large crowds lay wreaths at Beijing's Monument of the Martyrs to commemorate the death of Premier Zhou Enlai. Poems against the Gang of Four are also displayed. This is followed by a police crackdown and becomes known as the Tiananmen Incident.
* April 13 - An explosion in an ammunition factory in Lapua, Finland kills 40.
* April 16 - As a measure to curb population growth, the minimum age for marriage in India is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.
* April 21 - The Great Bookie Robbery in Melbourne: Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.
* April 23 - The Punk rock group The Ramones release their first album (which is self titled).
* April 25 - Portugal's new constitution is enacted.

[edit] May



* May 4 - The first LAGEOS (Laser Geodynamics Satellite) is launched.
* May 9 - Ulrike Meinhof of RAF is found hanging in an apparent suicide, in her cell in Stuttgart-Stannheim prison.
* May 11 - U.S. President Gerald Ford signs the Federal Election Campaign Act.
* May 24
o The Paris Wine Tasting of 1976 revolutionizes the world of wine.
o Washington, DC Concorde service begins.
* May 25 - U.S. President Gerald Ford defeats challenger Ronald Reagan in 3 Republican presidential primaries: Kentucky, Tennessee and Oregon.
* May 30 - Indianapolis 500-Mile Race: Johnny Rutherford wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or 255 miles (408 km).

[edit] June


* June 1 - UK and Iceland end the Cod War.
* June 2 - A car bomb fatally injures Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles.
* June 5 - The Teton Dam collapses in southeast Idaho in the U.S., killing 11 people.
* June 14 - The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther.
* June 16 - The Soweto riots in South Africa mark the beginning of the end of apartheid.
* June 20
o Hundreds of Western tourists are moved from Beirut and taken to safety in Syria by the U.S. military, following the murder of the U.S. ambassador.
o General elections are held in Italy.
o Czechoslovakia beats West Germany 5-3 on penalties to win the Euro 76, after the game had ended 2-2 in overtime.
* June 25 - Strikes start in Poland (Ursus, Radom, Płock) after communists raise food prices; strikes end on June 30.
* June 26
o The CN Tower is built in Toronto; the tallest free-standing land structure opens to the public.
* June 27 - Palestinian extremists hijack an Air France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe, Uganda, where Israeli commandos storm it on July 4.

[edit] July

Italian tall ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor during the United States Bicentennial celebration.
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Italian tall ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor during the United States Bicentennial celebration.

* July 2 - North Vietnam and South Vietnam unite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam - a Communist country.
* July 3
o The Supreme Court of the United States rules, in Gregg v. Georgia, that the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment.
o The great heat wave in the United Kingdom, which is currently suffering from drought conditions, reaches its peak.
* July 4
o United States Bicentennial: From coast to coast, Americans celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
o The Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP) leads 50,000 marchers in Philadelphia to demand a "Bicentennial Without Colonies" and independence for Puerto Rico.
o In the Entebbe Raid, Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport; one Israeli 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, MD.
* July 7 - German left-wing terrorists Monika Berberich, Gabriella Rollnick, Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett escape from the Lehrter Straße maximum security prison in West Berlin.
* July 10
o Three British and 1 American mercenaries are shot by firing squad in Angola.
o An explosion in Seveso, Italy, kills a large number of people.
* July 15 - Jimmy Carter is nominated for U.S. President at the Democratic National Convention in New York City.
* July 16-July 20 - Albert Spaggiari and his gang break into the vault of the Societe Generale Bank in Nice, France.
* July 17
o The 1976 Summer Olympics begin in Montreal, Canada.
o East Timor is declared the 27th province of Indonesia.
* July 19 - Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
* July 20 - Viking program: The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
* July 21 - A bomb kills Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to the Irish Republic.
* 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 delegates away from President Gerald Ford.
* July 27 - The United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Uganda.
* July 28 - The 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 1 and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.
* July 30 - In Santiago, capital of Chile, Cruzeiro from Brazil wins River Plate from Argentina and are the Copa Libertadores de América champions.
* July 31 - NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1.

[edit] August

* August 1 - The Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago becomes a republic, replacing Queen Elizabeth II with an elected president as their Head of State.
* August 2 - A gunman murders Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr, and injures Priscilla Davis and Gus Gavrel, in an incident at Priscilla's Mansion at Mockingbird Lane 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 4 - The first outbreak of Legionnaire's disease kills 29 at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia.
* August 5
o Racing Champion Niki Lauda suffers serious burns in the German Grand Prix.
o The Great Clock of Westminster (or Big Ben) suffers internal damage and stops running for over 9 months.
* August 6 - Former UK Postmaster General John Stonehouse is sentenced to seven years' jail for fraud.
* August 7 - Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
* August 14
o Ten thousand Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in Northern Ireland.
o The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.
* August 18 - In North Korea at Panmunjom, two US soldiers are killed while trying to chop down part of a tree in the Demilitarized Zone which had obscured their view.
* August 19 - U.S. President Gerald Ford edges out challenger Ronald Reagan to win the Republican Party presidential nomination in Kansas City.
* August 24 - In Uruguay, an army captures Marcelo Gelman and his pregnant wife. Marcelo is later killed and his wife (and unborn child) disappear.
* August 26 - First known outbreak of Ebola virus in Yambuku, Zaire.

[edit] September


* September 3 - Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars, taking the first close-up color photos of the planet's surface.
* September 6
o Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaido in Japan, and requests political asylum from the United States.
o Frank Sinatra brings Jerry Lewis's former partner Dean Martin onstage, unannounced, at the 1976 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in Las Vegas, Nevada, reuniting the comedy team for the first (and what would turn out to be the only) time in over 20 years.
* September 9 - Chairman Mao Zedong, of the People's Republic of China, dies.
* September 10
o A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), killing all 176 aboard.
o Osamu Tezuka begins serialising MW, a manga inspired by the 1974 Kakuei Tanaka government scandal.
* September 16 - Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus, that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
* September 17 - The space shuttle Enterprise is rolled out of a Palmdale, California hangar.

Enterprise rolls out of the Palmdale manufacturing facilities with Star Trek television cast members.
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Enterprise rolls out of the Palmdale manufacturing facilities with Star Trek television cast members.

* September 21
o Seychelles joins the United Nations.
o Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
* September 24 - Patricia Hearst is sentenced to 7 years in prison for her role in a 1974 bank robbery (an executive clemency order from U.S. President Jimmy Carter will set her free after only 22 months).

[edit] October


* October 6
o Cubana Flight 455 crashes due to a bomb placed by anti-Castrist militants, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados. All 73 people on board are killed.[1]
o Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
* October 7 - In San Francisco, during his second televised debate with Jimmy Carter, U.S. President Gerald Ford stumbles when he declares that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" (there was at the time).
* October 10 - Taiwan Governor Hsieh Tung-ming 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 the late Mao Tse-tung, as Chairman of the Communist Party of China.
* 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
o The Copyright Act of 1976 extends copyright duration for an additional 20 years in the United States.
o The Battle of Aishiya is fought in Lebanon.
o The Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is placed on the list of endangered species.
* October 20 - The Mississippi River ferry MV George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing from Destrehan, LA to Luling, LA, killing 78 passengers and crew.
* October 22 - Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, the fifth President of Ireland, resigns after being publicly insulted by the Minister for Defence.
* October 25 - Clarence Norris, the last known survivor of the Scottsboro Boys, is pardoned.

[edit] November


* November 2 - U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent Gerald Rudolph Ford, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War.
* November 15 - The first megamouth shark is discovered off Oahu in Hawaii.
* November 25 - In San Francisco, The Band holds its farewell concert, The Last Waltz.
* November 26 - Microsoft is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.

[edit] December

* December 1
o Angola joins the United Nations.
o The Sex Pistols achieve public notoriety as they unleash several 4-letter words live on Bill Grundy's TV show.
* December 3
o Bob Marley and his manager Don Taylor are shot in an assassination attempt, at 56 Hope Road in Kingston, Jamaica. Marley is shot twice, but Taylor takes most of the bullets; both survive.
o Patrick Hillery is elected unopposed as the sixth President of Ireland.
* December 8 - The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is established by the 5 Latinos in the United States Congress: Herman Badillo of the Bronx, E. de la Garza and Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas, Edward R. Roybal of California, and the nonvoting Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Baltasar Corrada del Rio.
* December 15 - Samoa joins the United Nations.
* December 20 - Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago for 21 years, dies.
* December 23 - A new volcano, Murara, erupts in eastern Zaire.

[edit] Unknown dates

* First laser printer introduced by IBM - the IBM 3800
* California's sodomy law repealed.
* The term memetics first proposed by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene.
* Diffie-Hellman cryptography proposed
* Plans to move the Nigerian capital from Lagos to Abuja are approved.

Answer 2

You will hear alot of the "any minute now" doctrine being spread around - its a lie. Scripture is very clear about when Christ returns. Go to Mark 13 and you will find a good chronological order of events that lead up to the return of the true Christ, and they are given by Jesus Christ Himself. Before the true Christ gathers back to us for any reason, prophecies mentioned must be fulfilled, the seal of God must be given to certain individuals, the two witnesses need to show up, oh and lets not forget that Antichrist must be sitting in Jerusalem claiming to be God. It is amazing how some Churches can give this any minute doctrine, when that would mean that most of the things that Christ himself stated MUST HAPPEN first, they just completely ignore and figure they will just jetpack outta here beforehand. Well, in Christs list of the events, there is absolutely NOTHING indicating that any portion of our population - great or small - will be disappeared, raptured, missing, or anything even remotely similar. Biblical illiteracy is at an all-time high, but thats okay because that too was prophecied to happen in the end generation. Along with the falling away, or apostasy, along with the scoffers, etc.....