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| 02 - 22 die as hurricane
winds rock Britain |
| 05 - The Khmer Rouge drafts
a new constitution in Cambodia, renaming it Democratic Kampuchea |
| 05 - Former
Beatles road
manager Mal Evans is shot dead by Los Angeles police investigating a
domestic dispute |
| 06 - Following 15 sectarian
murders within a week in Northern Ireland, the British government
sends in the elite SAS (Special Air Service) |
| 08 - Chou En-Lai, prime
minister of China, dies aged 78 |
| 08 - The Indian government
postpones parliamentary elections and announces the indefinite
continuation of the state of emergency first imposed in June 1975 |
| 10 - Raucous-voiced
bluesman Howlin' Wolf dies of
cancer, aged 65 |
| 12 - British crime writer
Agatha Christie dies aged 85. There are no suspicious circumstances |
| 21 - Emma Bunton (Baby
Spice of The Spice Girls) is born |
| 22 - New Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser reinstates God Save The Queen as National
Anthem, scrapping Advance Australia Fair |
| 23 - Paul Robeson, one of
the greatest black singers and a renowned activist, dies aged 77 |
| 28 - 100 British
mercenaries fly to Angola to join the FNLA forces |
| 01 - 119 Picasso paintings
are stolen in Avignon, France |
| 02 - The National
Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham, England, is opened |
| 04 - An earthquake
devastates Guatemala, killing over 22,000 people |
| 08 - 14 British mercenaries
are executed by a firing squad in Angola |
| 12 - An IRA prisoner at
Wakefield Prison, England, dies after a 61-day hunger strike |
| 18 - Sculptor Carl Andre's
controversial pile of bricks goes on show at the Tate Gallery in
London |
| 18 - Race Relations Bill comes into force
in UK |
| 19 - Iceland breaks off
diplomatic relations with Britain over the "cod war" |
| 18 -
President Ford issues
an executive order curtailing domestic surveillance of US citizens by
the FBI and CIA |
| 22 - Original lead singer
of The Supremes, Florence Ballard, dies of a heart attack, aged 32.
At the time of her death, Ballard was living on welfare with her
three children |
| 23 - English painter L S
Lowry, renowned for painting matchstick men and women, dies |
| 16 - British PM
Harold Wilson resigns suddenly. James Callaghan takes over |
| 19 - Paul Kossoff of rock
band, Free, dies in his sleep on a flight from London to New York.
Aged 26 |
| 20 - Patty Hearst found
guilty of armed robbery |
| 21 - Rubin 'Hurricane'
Carter is released from jail |
| 24 - Supreme Court rules
that blacks and other minorities are entitled to retroactive job
seniority |
| 24 - Eva Perón thrown
out in bloodless coup in Argentina |
| 24 - Distinguished British
WWII commander Field Marshall Lord Montgomery dies |
| 01 - German-born French
artist Max Ernst dies |
| 03 - 'Rag Trade' wins
Grand National in England |
| 05 - James Callaghan
becomes new
British Prime Minister |
| 05 - US tycoon Howard
Hughes dies of a stroke while flying in his private jet |
| 25 - The British Post
Office makes its last collection on a Sunday |
| 26 - British Carry On
star and comedian, Sid James dies |
| 10 - UK Liberal Party
leader Jeremy Thorpe resigns after gay allegations |
| 13 - Fighting between
Muslim and Christian forces breaks out again in Lebanon as the civil
war ceasefire collapses |
| 14 - Former
Yardbirds
vocalist Keith Relf dies after being electrocuted while cleaning his
guitar at home |
| 28 - The US and USSR sign a
nuclear test pact limiting underground tests to a maximum of 150
kilotons. The pact also allows the US to inspect Soviet test sites |
| 01 - Britain and Iceland
agree terms to end "cod war" |
| 06 - US oil tycoon J Paul
Getty dies |
| 16 - During race riots in
South African township of Soweto, the police open fire on black
demonstrators killing six and injuring 60. By the end of June, 176
black Africans have died |
| 25 -
Idi Amin becomes
president of Uganda for life |
| 26 - London hits record
temperature of 95 degrees as Britain swelters in heat wave |
| 27 - Palestinian terrorists
hijack an Air France plane and force it to fly to Entebbe, Uganda |
| 28 - In Angola, four
British and American mercenaries are sentenced to death, and nine
others receive long terms of imprisonment |
| 29 - Communist party
leaders meet in East Berlin and endorse the independence of each
national Communist party |
| 02 - North and South
Vietnam are reunited as one nation, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam |
| 03 - US Supreme Court rules
that the death penalty is a constitutionally acceptable form of
punishment and is not inherently "cruel or unusual" |
| 03 - Swedish tennis player
Bjorn Borg, aged 20, wins the Wimbledon men's single tennis title |
| 04 - USA celebrates its
Bicentennial |
| 04 - Israeli airborne
commandos attack Uganda's Entebbe Airport and free 103 hostages held
by pro-Palestinian hijackers on an Air France plane; one Israeli and
several Ugandan soldiers killed in raid |
| 07 - Queen Elizabeth II visits
USA |
| 07 - David Steel becomes
leader of the British Liberal Party |
| 10 - The town of Seveso
near Milan in northern Italy is devastated by the release of
poisonous dioxin gas from a nearby pesticide plant |
| 10 - In Angola, the four
sentenced British and American mercenaries are executed by firing
squad |
| 14 - Former Georgia
Governor James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr wins Democratic nomination |
| 15 - Senator Walter Mondale
is nominated as Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate |
| 17 - The Olympic Games open
in Montreal, Canada. Subsequently 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia
Comaneci scores the first perfect 10 ever awarded in her sport |
| 20 - Viking 1
spacecraft lands on Mars and sends back to Earth the first close-up
pictures of the planet's surface |
| 27 - Three years and four
months after he was ordered to leave the US by the Immigration
Department, John Lennon is finally granted a Green Card |
| 29 - Chinese city of
Tangshan is devastated by huge earthquake |
| 01 - Formula 1 ace Niki
Lauda critically injured and severely burnt in West German Grand Prix |
| 04 - Mysterious disease
that eventually claims 29 lives strikes American Legion convention in
Philadelphia - The advent of 'Legionnaires Disease' |
| 06 - John Stonehouse,
former Labour MP for Walsall North, is found guilty of theft and
conspiracy and sentenced to seven years imprisonment |
| 17 - A severe earthquake
and tidal waves in the Philippines results in over 3,000 dead |
| 18 - Jacques Chirac, prime
minister of France, resigns. Raymond Barre takes over. |
| 19 - The US Republican
National Convention narrowly nominates
Gerald Ford for re-election
over Ronald Reagan. Senator Robert Dole is nominated for
Vice-President |
| 30 - Blue Hills,
Australia's longest-running radio serial ends |
| 01 - All cigarette and
tobacco advertising is banned on radio and television in Australia |
| 01 - Ohio Representative
Wayne Hays resigns from the House of Representatives in the wake of a
sex scandal involving him and former secretary Elizabeth Ray |
| 03 - Earthmen get another
close look at Mars as Viking 2 lands on red planet |
| 03 - A 60 hour riot in Hull
Prison (UK) ends after £1million damage is caused |
| 09 - Chinese Communist
Party leader Chairman Mao Tse-tung dies aged 82 |
| 10 - 176 die in world's
worst mid-air collision in Yugoslavia |
| 17 - In light of recent
revelations of abuse of power by the country's intelligence agencies,
a special committee to review the assassinations of
John F Kennedy
and Martin Luther King Jr is created by the House of Representatives |
| 20 - A general election in
Sweden results in the defeat of the Social Democratic party after 44
years in power |
| 20 - The 100 Club in
London's Oxford Street is the venue for the first Punk Rock Festival
in Britain |
| 24 - Patricia Hearst is
sentenced to seven years in jail for her participation in a 1974 bank
robbery |
| 24 - Southern Rhodesia
leader Ian Smith stuns white Rhodesians as he announces a two-year
plan for transition to black majority rule |
| 27 -
Carter and
Ford face
off in a televised debate before an audience of 90 million viewers.
Although neither candidate is a clear-cut victor, Carter scores well
a week later when Ford blows the second debate by declaring "There is
no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" |
| 29 -
Jerry Lee Lewis
accidentally shoots his bass player while firing at the door the
musician is standing behind. The bass player lives to sue his boss |
| 30 - California passes the
first state "right to die" law, which grants adults the right to
authorise physicians to turn off their life-support system if death
is imminent |
| 06 - The army seizes power
in Thailand in a bloody coup |
| 21 - Cincinnati Reds beat
the New York Yankees in four games to win the World Series in the USA |
| 23 - "Gang of Four" are
arrested and imprisoned in China |
| 26 - £16 million National
Theatre opens on South Bank of the Thames in London, England |
| 02 - Democrat
Jimmy Carter
is elected 39th US President by a margin of 1.7 million votes |
| 12 - Normalisation talks
begin in Paris between the US and Vietnam, although US opposition to
Vietnam's application for UN membership is a sore point |
| 04 - Tommy Bolin, ex-Deep
Purple, dies of a heroin overdose |
| 04 - Reggae star
Bob Marley
is injured when seven gunmen burst into his house in Kingston,
Jamaica |
| 05 - Sabotage suspected in
fire which destroys Australian Naval Air Fleet at Nowra, New South
Wales |
| 17 - The longest running
play in London, The Mousetrap, reaches its 10,000th
performance |
| 24 - Takeo Fukuda becomes
prime minister of Japan |
| 28 - Winnie Mandela is
released from prison after wild rioting and 26 deaths in South Africa |
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Mar 16 - Callaghan is
new British PM
Jul 04 - USA celebrates its Bicentennial
Jul 17 - Nadia Comaneci
scores perfect 10
Sep 09 - Mao Tse-tung dies
Nov 02 - Jimmy Carter is
39th US President
 Apple Computers is founded in
the USA by Steve Jobs (below) and Stephen Wozniak
Steve Jobs
Britain
experiences worst drought in 250 years
'Van
der Hum' wins Melbourne Cup
Canada Cup 1976
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