Historical Events In 1976

Aug 27 British MP John Stonehouse resigns following his conviction for theft and fraud

Aug 18 USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon

Aug 09 USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth

Aug 12 First approach and landing test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise

Aug 19 Pres Gerald R Ford won Republican pres nomination at KC convention

Aug 30 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show

Aug 30 USS Oriskany, the last of the Essex-class attack carriers, was decommissioned at San Francisco and placed in the mothball fleet. Oriskany saw extensive action in the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.

Aug 01 Trinidad and Tobago independence

Aug 13 An HU-16 Albatross, the Navy's last operational seaplane made its final water landing in Pensacola Bay

Aug 07 Scientists in Pasadena, Calif, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars

Aug 24 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth

Aug 07 US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth

Sep 06 Russian pilot defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet, many smiles in the US

Sep 23 Soyuz 22 returns to Earth

Sep 16 Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop

Sep 03 The US spacecraft Viking 2 successfully lands on Mars

Sep 28 Muhammad Ali retains heavyweight boxing championship in a close 15-round decision over Ken Norton at Yankee Stadium

Sep 25 Expo's last game at Montreal's Jarry Park

Sep 15 Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days

Sep 01 Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray)

Sep 09 Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung dies in Beijing at age 82.

Sep 01 NASA launches space vehicle S-197

Sep 13 2nd Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight (5m28s)

Sep 03 The unmanned NASA spacecraft Viking Two makes a successful Mars landing to begin its mission of sending color photos back to Earth.

Sep 20 Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion

Sep 07 US courts find George Harrison guilty of plagarism (He's So Fine)

Sep 24 Rhodesia accepts an American and British plan for majority rule

Sep 10 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard

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 23 Ford-Carter TV debate

Sep 20 Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women

Feb 01 "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV

Feb 04 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala &Honduras

Feb 04 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 02 "Rich Little Show," debuts on NBC-TV

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