Historical Events for August 1976
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Months in 1976: January February March April May June July September October November December
Results 1 - 44 of 44
1st - 21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada
1st - Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colo on Route 34, kills 139
1st - Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton)
1st - Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20)
4th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
6th - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
7th - Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open
7th - US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth
7th - Scientists in Pasadena, Calif, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars
8th - Chic White Sox suit up in shorts
9th - Clive Lloyd scores double-ton in 120 mins, WI v Glamorgan
9th - Pitt Pirate John Candelaria no-hits LA Dodgers, 2-0
9th - USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth
11th - Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses & is hospitalized in Miami
11th - Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die
12th - 1st approach & lands test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise
12th - Christian militia conquer Palestinian camp Tell al-Za'tar, 2000 killed
14th - 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast
15th - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
16th - 58th PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots a 281 at Congressional MD
16th - St Louis Cards beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo)
17th - An earthquake & tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
17th - Big win for WI at The Oval Michael Holding 14-149 for match
18th - USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon
18th - In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
19th - Pres Gerald R Ford won Republican pres nomination at KC convention
21st - Al Bumbry hits 17th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
21st - Battle East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes 1st British firewoman
21st - Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.
22nd - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
23rd - Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die
24th - Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
25th - Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion
25th - Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings
27th - Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open
28th - NY Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup
28th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
29th - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
30th - Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show
30th - Turks & Caicos Islands adopts constitution
31st - George Harrison found guilty of plagurizing "My Sweet Lord"
31st - Mexican peso devalued
31st - Trinidad & Tobago adopts constitution
31st - Waldemar Cierpinski wins 18th Olympics Marathon (2:09:55.0)
