Today in History for October 1976

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 63 of 63

1st - 1st Dutch casino opens
2nd - "Let My People Come" closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 106 perfs
3rd - Hank Aaron singles in his last at bat & drives in his 2,297th run
3rd - Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election
4th - Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke
4th - Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers
4th - Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
5th - Seattle & Toronto picks 30 unprotected players on other AL rosters Ruppert Jones (Seattle) & Bob Bailor (Toronto) are picked 1st
6th - "Gang of Four" arrested in Beijing
6th - Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack
6th - John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent
6th - Pres Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
6th - 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.
8th - Sex Pistols sign with EMI
9th - "Robber Bridegroom" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 145 performances
9th - Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on debut NZ v Pak Javed 1st wkt
9th - Test Cricket debut of Javed Miandad (Pakistan), scores 163 on 1st day
9th - Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1
10th - Beijing reports arrest of Mao Tse Tung's widow
Baseball Player Hank Aaron 10th - NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
10th - Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33
11th - 10th Country Music Association Award: Mel Tillis wins
11th - Mao Tse-Tung's widow Jiang Qing & "Gang of Four," arrested & charged with plotting a coup
12th - 4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach & land test (ALT) flight
12th - Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party
13th - A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
13th - 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..
14th - Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homer gives NY Yanks pennant #30
14th - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman
14th - Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6, but returns without docking
15th - 1st debate of major-ticket VP nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R)
15th - Ringo releases "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll"
16th - Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
16th - Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 min 54 sec
Economist Milton Friedman 17th - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
17th - Coldest World Series game Yankees vs Cincinnati, 39 degrees F (until 1997)
18th - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr
19th - Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon. The same day, the Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is placed on the List of Endangered Species.
20th - 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
20th - NY Nets Julius "Dr J" Erving sold to Phila 76ers
21st - 55th weaapon accord signed
21st - American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
21st - Cin Reds sweep NY Yankees, in 73rd World Series
21st - NY Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed
21st - NY Yankee Thurman Munson ties World Series mark of 6 straight singles
21st - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow
22nd - Rick Barry (SF), begins then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
22nd - 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.
24th - 1st Jewish film & TV festival
24th - 6th NYC Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:39:11
24th - 7th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:10:10
24th - Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader
24th - Sadiq & Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings v NZ
25th - 5th Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight
25th - Gov Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris, last known survivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 rape
26th - Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa
26th - Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic
28th - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (NY Yankees)
28th - Train collision at Goes Neth, 7 die
30th - "Going Up" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 49 performances
30th - Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
30th - Rev Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ
31st - Javed Miandad, 206 v NZ, age 19 yrs 141 days (29 fours 1 six)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 69 of 69

1st - Kona Cormack, Honolulu HI, playmate (Feb, 1996)
1st - Antonio Roybal, American painter and sculptor
1st - Dora Venter, Hungarian pornographic film actress
2nd - Jason Dodson, American political consultant and teacher of esotericism
2nd - Mandisa, American singer
2nd - John Thornton, American Football player
2nd - Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (d. 2005)
3rd - Kirsi Haenninen, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
3rd - Nate Johnson, Seattle Wash, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
3rd - Seann William Scott, American actor
4th - Alicia Silverstone, SF California, actress (Clueless, Batman Forever)
4th - Mauro Camoranesi, Argentine-Italian footballer
4th - Cabral Ibacka, Romanian actor and television presenter
5th - Song Seung-hun, South Korean actor
5th - Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen President
5th - J. J. Yeley, American race car driver
6th - Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer
7th - Taylor Hicks, American musician
7th - Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
7th - Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer
7th - Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
7th - Charles Woodson, American football player
7th - Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer
8th - Galo Blanco, Spanish tennis player
9th - Rebecca Darrington, Gillette Wyoming, Miss America-Wyoming (1997)
9th - Nick Swardson American actor
10th - Shane Doan, Eston, NHL right wing (Winnipeg Jets)
10th - Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-born skateboarder
10th - Pat Burrell, American baseball player
11th - Emily Deschanel, American actress
11th - Brent Bennett, American mercenary
12th - Sarah Lane, American television personality
13th - Edward Ellis, tackle (New England Patriots)
14th - Nataša Kejžar, Slovenian swimmer
14th - Henry Mateo, Dominican baseball player
14th - Ben Pridmore, World Memory Champion
15th - Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress and singer
16th - Ryan Fitzgerald, Australian football (AFL) player and media personality
17th - Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer
18th - Azlea Antistia, American pornographic actress
18th - Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer
19th - Amber Hamilton, Auburn Washington, Miss America-Washington (1996)
19th - Joy Bryant, American actress
19th - Omar Gooding, American actor
19th - Desmond Harrington, American actor
19th - Michael Young, baseball player
20th - Reidel Anthony, wide receiver (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
20th - Tom Wisniewski, American guitarist (MxPx)
21st - Jeremy Miller, West Covina California, actor (Ben-Growing Pains)
21st - Nirachala Kumya, Miss Universe-Thailand (1996)
21st - Lavinia Miloşovici, Romanian gymnast
21st - Josh Ritter, American musician
21st - Mélanie Turgeon, French Canadian alpine skier
22nd - Jon Foreman, American musician (Switchfoot)
22nd - Helen Svedin, Swedish model
23rd - Julie Howard, Brantford ON, 100m/200m backstroker (Olympics-27-92, 96)
23rd - Cat Deeley, English model and television personality
23rd - Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor and comedian
24th - Yanda Nossiter, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
24th - Petar Stoychev, Bulgarian swimmer
25th - Steve Jones, Irish footballer
26th - Miikka Kiprusoff, Finnish hockey player
28th - Karl Tremblay, Canadian singer (Les Cowboys Fringants)
29th - Claudia Dopf, Miss Peru Universe (1997)
29th - Mohsen Emadi, Iranian Poet
30th - Maurice Taylor, NBA forward (LA Clippers)
30th - Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
31st - Guti, Spanish footballer
31st - Piper Perabo, American actress

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 18 of 18

4th - Alexander Gray, singer (This is Music), dies at 74
5th - Barbara Nichols, actress (Pajama Game, Loved One), dies at 46
5th - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
6th - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
7th - Nikolai Lopatnikoff, composer, dies at 73
9th - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894)
10th - Connee Boswell, singer (Pete Kelly's Blue), dies at 68
10th - Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
11th - Connie Boswell, actress (Artists & Models), dies at 68
11th - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b. 1897)
14th - Edith Evans, actress (Tom Jones, Scrooge, Chalk Garden), dies at 88
15th - Carlo Gambino, US gangster, dies at 74
18th - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (b. 1895)
23rd - Leonard Lee, US R&B-singer (Shirley & Lee-I'm Gone), dies at 40
24th - Richard Sturzenegger, composer, dies at 70
25th - Raymond Queneau, [M Presle], French writer (Last Days), dies at 73
26th - Deryck Victor Cooke, composer, dies at 57
31st - Linda Watkins, actress (From Hell it Came, Harpy), dies at 68