In history, year 1976 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1976.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 02 january | The Gale of January 1976 began, which resulted in coastalflooding around the southern North Sea coasts, leading to at least 82deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage. |
| 03 january | The multilateral International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, part of the International Bill of Human Rights, came into effect. |
| 04 january | The Troubles-Volunteers from the Ulster Volunteer Force shotdead five Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. |
| 05 january | The Troubles: In response to the killings of six Catholics the night before, the South Armagh Republican Action Force killed ten Protestants in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. |
| 21 january | The Concorde supersonic transports began scheduled commercial flights to London, Paris, Bahrain, and Rio de Janeiro. |
| 06 february | In testimony before a U.S. Senate subcommittee, Lockheedpresident Carl Kotchian admitted that the company had paid outapproximately US$3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese PrimeMinister Kakuei Tanaka. |
| 09 february | The Australian Defence Force was formed by the unification of the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. |
| 15 february | The current Constitution of Cuba, providing for a system of government and law based on those of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries, was adopted by a national referendum. |
| 27 february | The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. |
| 19 march | Commonwealth restriction on the freedom of Australian residents to own, buy and sell gold was removed on May 19, 1976. Eelier no one was authorized of the ownership and trading of the gold in Australia except Reserve Bank or a person authorized by the bank. |
| 27 march | The Washington Metro, the second-busiest rapid transit system in the US, opened to commuters. |
| 01 april | Apple Computer was originally founded to sell 'do-it-yourself' kits. |
| 04 april | Norodom Sihanouk abdicated from the role of leader of Cambodia and was arrested by the Khmer Rouge. |
| 03 may | Pan Am 747SP landed on May 3, 1976 in New York, setting a new round the world flight speed record of 46 hours, 50 seconds for its circumnavigation of the earth. On April 25 1976 Pan Am inaugurated Los Angles/ New York to Tokyo flight services. 747SP flew from New York to Tokyo via Delhi, India and returned to New York. |
| 08 may | Steel roller coaster Great American Revolution, world’s first modern roller coster with a vertical loop, was opened on May 8, 2015. It was designed by Werner Stengel and located in the Baja Ridge area of six Flags Magic Mountain. |
| 19 may | Commonwealth restriction on the freedom of Australian residents to own, buy and sell gold was removed on May 19, 1976. Eelier no one was authorized of the ownership and trading of the gold in Australia except Reserve Bank or a person authorized by the bank. |
| 24 may | Concorde service began from London to Washington DC. Concorde is a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger jet airliner that was in service from 1976 to 2003. It is one of only two supersonic transports to have entered commercial service. It featured a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04, with seating for 92 to 128 passengers. |
| 24 may | In a wine competition in Paris, French judges shocked the wine industry by rating California wines higher than French ones. |
| 05 june | The Teton Dam in eastern Idaho, US, collapsed as its reservoirwas being filled for the first time, resulting in the deaths of eleven people and 13, 000 cattle, and causing up to $2 billion in damage. |
| 29 june | The Seychelles became independent from the United Kingdom. Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The 115-island country, whose capital is Victoria, lies 1,500 kilometres (932 mi) east of mainland Southeast Africa. Other nearby island countries and territories include Zanzibar to the west and Comoros, Mayotte, Madagascar, Réunion, and Mauritius to the south. |
| 02 july | Fall of the Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declared their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The Democratic Republic of Vietnam generally known as North Vietnam, was a Marxist and Leninist government established in 1945. It was claiming all of Vietnam yet including most of North Vietnam |
| 02 july | More than a year after the end of the Vietnam War, North and South Vietnam officially united under communist rule to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. |
| 04 july | Israel Defense Forces raided Uganda's Entebbe InternationalAirport to free hostages taken by hijackers on Air France Flight 139. |
| 10 july | The Seveso disaster took place in Italy. It was an industrial disaster. It happened due to leak of 2, 3, 7, 8 - tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in residential population. More than 3000 animals were found dead and many humans suffered from skin inflammation and irritation. |
| 18 july | At the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Com?neci became thefirst person to score a perfect 10 in a modern Olympics gymnastics event. |
| 28 july | An earthquake measuring at least 8.2 on the Richter scale, oneof the deadliest in history, flattened Tangshan, China, killing at least240,000 people. |
| 18 august | North Korean soldiers killed two American soldiers in the JointSecurity Area of the Korean Demilitarized Zone, heightening tensionsover a 100-foot (30 m) poplar tree that blocked the line of sightbetween a United Nations Command checkpoint and an observation post. |
| 10 september | The collision of 2 passenger jets, British Airways Flight 476 and an Inex charter airline flight over Zagreb caused by the errors of air traffic controllers led to the death of 176 people. |
| 17 september | NASA publicly unveils its first space shuttle, called the Enterprise. |
| 17 september | Enterprise, the first Space Shuttle built for NASA, was rolledout of the manufacturing facilities in Palmdale, California. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 August | Cristian Stoica / Rugby Player / Romania |
| 02 September | Aziz Zakari / Sprinter / Ghana |
| 02 August | Reyes Estévez / Runner / Spain |
| 02 February | James Hickman / Swimmer / United Kingdom |
| 05 October | J. J. Yeley / Racing Car Driver / United States of America |
| 05 April | Simone Inzaghi / Footballer / Italy |
| 06 September | Rodrigo Amarante / Singer / Brazil |
| 07 January | Tomas Ražanauskas / Footballer / Lithuania |
| 10 July | Brendon Lade / Footballer / Australia |
| 18 July | Elsa Pataky / Actress / Spain |
| 18 March | Scott Podsednik / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 21 October | Lavinia Miloșovici / Gymnast / Romania |
| 21 January | Mike Daisey / Author / United States of America |
| 22 November | Torsten Frings / Footballer / Germany |
| 24 May | Catherine Cox / Netball Player / New Zealand |
| 25 March | Lars Figura / Sprinter / Germany |
| 26 May | Paul Collingwood / Cricketer / United Kingdom |
| 27 August | Carlos Moyá / Tennis Player / Spain |
| 28 January | Miltiadis Sapanis / Footballer / Greece |
| 31 August | Radek Martínek / Ice Hockey Player / Czech Republic |
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 27 April | Faisal Saif / Writer / India |
| 05 February | Abhishek Bacchan / Actor / India |
| 04 July | Aryan Vaidya / Actor / India |
| 10 September | Ravi Kant Anmol / Writer / India |
| 15 December | Bhaichung Bhutia / Player / India |
| 19 September | Isha Kopikar / Actress / India |
| 20 July | Debashish Mohanty / Cricketer / India |
| 29 October | Raghava Lawrence / Actor / India |
| 09 June | Amisha Patel / Actress / India |
| 20 November | Tushar Kapoor / Actor / India |
| 15 March | Abhay Deol / Actor / India |
| 23 March | Smriti Irani / Politician / India |
| 30 August | Chitrangada Singh / Actress / India |
| 11 September | Murali Kartik / Cricketer / India |
| 03 March | Rifleman Sanjay Kumar / Soldier / India |
| 15 December | Baichung Bhutia / Footballer / India |
| 04 April | Punit Vashishta / Actor / India |