1976 in the United States explained
Events from the year 1976 in the United States. Major events include Jimmy Carter defeating incumbent president Gerald Ford in the presidential election of that year, the incorporation of Apple Computer Company and Microsoft, and the New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that Karen Ann Quinlan could be disconnected from her ventilator.
Incumbents
Federal government
Events
January
February
- February 5 - Nearly 2,000 students become involved in a racially charged riot at Escambia High School in Pensacola, Florida; 30 students are injured in the 4-hour fray.
- February 11 - Clifford Alexander, Jr. is confirmed as the first African-American Secretary of the United States Army.
- February 12 - Actor Sal Mineo, known for his role in the film Rebel Without a Cause, is fatally stabbed in the alley behind his apartment building in West Hollywood, California, aged 37.
- February 17 - The Eagles' Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) compilation is released. Globally, it will become probably the second best-selling album of all time, followed by the same band's Hotel California, released on December 8.
- February 19 – Former Tower of Power vocalist Rick Stevens is arrested for murdering three men during a botched drug deal. He ultimately serves 36 years of a life sentence.
March
- March - The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is released by Seymour Cray's Cray Research, with the first purchaser being the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) in Los Alamos, New Mexico.[1]
- March 1 - Bradford Bishop allegedly murders five of his family members in Bethesda, Maryland. The crime goes undiscovered for 10 days and the suspect is never caught. From 2014 to 2018 he is on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
- March 9–11 - Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine in Letcher County, Kentucky.[2]
- March 14 - After eight years on NBC, The Wizard of Oz returns to CBS, where it will remain until 1999, setting what is likely a record at that time for the most telecasts of a Hollywood film on a commercial television network. (That record is broken by The Ten Commandments in 1996, which began its annual network telecasts on ABC in 1973, continuing be telecast by that network as of 2020.)
- March 17 - Boxer Rubin Carter is retried in New Jersey for murder; his conviction is upheld on this occasion but will be overturned in 1985.
- March 20 - Patty Hearst is found guilty of the armed robbery of a San Francisco bank in 1974.
- March 27 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
- March 29 - The 48th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie Hawn and Gene Kelly, is held at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, broadcast on ABC for the first time. Miloš Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest receives nine nominations and wins five awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Forman. Isabelle Adjani becomes the youngest actress to be nominated for Best Actress until 2004, while George Burns becomes the oldest actor to win Best Supporting Actor until 2012, as well as the oldest awardee in general until 1989 and the final person born in the 19th century to win an acting award.
- March 31 - The New Jersey Supreme Court rules that persistent vegetative state patient Karen Ann Quinlan can be disconnected from her ventilator. She remains comatose and dies in 1985.
April
May
- May 11
- May 21
- The Yuba City bus disaster, the second-worst bus crash in U.S. history, leaves 28 students and one teacher dead.
- The "Famous Fire" in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, destroys seven downtown structures, damages more than 12 others, and starts fires in at least 10 homes.
- May 24
- Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
- The Judgment of Paris pits French vs. California wines in a blind taste-test in Paris, France. California wines win the contest, surprising the wine world and opening the wine industry to newcomers in several countries.
- May 25 - President Gerald Ford defeats challenger Ronald Reagan in three Republican presidential primaries: Kentucky, Tennessee and Oregon.
- May 30 - Indianapolis 500 automobile race: Johnny Rutherford wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or 255 miles (408 km).
June
July
- July 3 - Gregg v. Georgia: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment.
- July 4
From coast to coast, the United States celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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- July 6 - The first class of women at the United States Naval Academy is inducted in Annapolis, Maryland.
- July 12
seven people are shot and killed, and two others are wounded in a mass shooting on campus at California State University, Fullerton.
- Barbara Jordan is the first African-American to keynote a political convention.
- Price Club, as predecessor of Costco, a worldwide membership-registration-only retailer, is founded in California.[6]
- Family Feud debuts on ABC-TV.
- July 15
- July 18 - Nadia Comaneci, at this time a 14-year-old Romanian, makes history by becoming the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 for her routine on the uneven bars at the Montreal Olympics.
- July 20
The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars, taking the first close-up color photos of the planet's surface.
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- July 26 - In Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan announces his choice of liberal U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice presidential running mate, in an effort to woo moderate Republican delegates away from President Gerald Ford.
- July 27 - Delegates attending an American Legion convention at The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia begin falling ill with a form of pneumonia: this will eventually be recognised as the first outbreak of Legionnaires' disease and will end in the deaths of 29 attendees.
- July 29 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing one and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.
- July 30 - Caitlyn Jenner (at this time, Bruce Jenner) wins the gold medal in the men's decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.[7]
- July 31
- NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1.
- The Big Thompson River in northern Colorado floods, destroying more than 400 cars and houses.
August
- August 1 - The Seattle Seahawks and Tampa Bay Buccaneers play their first football games.
- August 2 - A gunman murders Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr and injures Priscilla Davis and Gus Gavrel, in an incident at Priscilla's mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. T. Cullen Davis, Priscilla's estranged husband and one of the richest men in Texas, is tried and found not guilty in 1977.
- August 4 - The first recognized outbreak of Legionnaires' disease kills 29 at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia.
- August 7 - Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
- August 8 - As part of the American Basketball Association–National Basketball Association merger, a dispersal draft is conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which have folded.
- August 10–13 - Hurricane Belle hits Long Island and southern New England. Twelve people are killed by the storm and damage is $100 million.
- August 11 - A sniper rampage in Wichita, Kansas on a Holiday Inn results in 3 deaths while 7 others are wounded.[8]
- August 18 - At Panmunjom, North Korea, two United States soldiers are killed while trying to chop down part of a tree in the Korean Demilitarized Zone which has obscured their view.
- August 19 - President Gerald Ford edges out challenger Ronald Reagan to win the Republican Party presidential nomination in Kansas City.
- August 28 - Actress Anissa Jones, known for playing the child Buffy Davis in the late 60s–early 70s sitcom Family Affair, is found dead of an accidental overdose in Oceanside, California.
September
Soviet Air Force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan, and requests political asylum from the United States.
October
- October 6 - In San Francisco, during his second televised debate with Jimmy Carter, President Gerald Ford stumbles when he declares that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" (there is at the time).
- October 9 - Pittsburgh Pirates baseball pitcher Bob Moose is killed in a car crash in Ohio on his 29th birthday.
- October 13 - The United States Commission on Civil Rights releases the report Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future, that documents that Puerto Ricans in the United States have a poverty rate of 33 percent in 1974 (up from 29 percent in 1970), the highest of all major racial-ethnic groups in the country (not including Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory).
- October 15 - The first ever vice presidential debate in the United States takes place between Bob Dole and Walter Mondale.
- October 18 - Ford officially launches volume production of Fiesta car at its Valencia plant.
- October 19 - The Copyright Act of 1976 extends copyright duration for an additional 20 years in the United States.
- October 20 - The Mississippi River ferry MV George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing from Destrehan, Louisiana to Luling, Louisiana, killing 78 passengers and crew.
- October 21 - The Cincinnati Reds sweep the New York Yankees in four games to win the 1976 World Series.
- October 22 - Barbara Walters hosts the final presidential debate of the 1976 presidential election.
- October 25 - Clarence Norris, the last known survivor of the Scottsboro Boys, is pardoned.
November
December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January
- January 1
- January 2
- January 3 - Angela Yee, radio personality
- January 4 - Ted Lilly, baseball player
- January 5
- January 6
- January 8
- January 9 - Todd Grisham, sports broadcaster
- January 10
- January 11
- January 13 - Michael Peña, actor and musician
- January 15
- January 16 - Carrie Keranen, voice actress
- January 18 - Derek Richardson, actor
- January 20
- January 21
- January 22
- January 23 - Nan Whaley, politician, mayor of Dayton, Ohio (2014-2022)
- January 24 - Maria Gabriela Brito, Venezuelan-born curator, art advisor, and author
- January 25 - Stephanie Bellars, wrestling valet
- January 27
- January 28 - Rick Ross, rapper
- January 29 - Chris Castle, singer/songwriter and guitarist
- January 30 - Andy Milonakis, internet and television personality
- January 31
February
- February 2
- February 3
- February 4 - Cam'ron, rapper
- February 5
- February 6
- February 9
- February 10
- February 11
- February 12
- February 14
- February 15
- February 16
- February 17 - Scott Williamson, baseball player and coach
- February 20
- February 21 - Frayser Boy, rapper
- February 22 - Kurt Braunohler, comedian
- February 23 - Scott Elarton, baseball player and coach
- February 24
- February 25
- February 26 - Dan Goldman, attorney and politician
- February 27
- February 28
- February 29
March
- March 1
- March 3
- March 4
- March 5 - 88-Keys, record producer and rapper
- March 6 - Ken Anderson, wrestler
- March 8 - Freddie Prinze Jr., actor
- March 9 - Jeremiah Bishop, mountain bike racer
- March 10 - Christa Pike, convicted murderer and the youngest woman to be sentenced to death
- March 11 - Doug Brzezinski, football player
- March 12
- March 13
- March 14
- March 15 - Katherine Brooks, writer and director
- March 16
- March 17 - Brittany and Cynthia Daniel, actresses and twin sisters
- March 18
- March 19
- March 20 - Chester Bennington, singer and frontman for Linkin Park (d. 2017)
- March 21
- March 22
- March 23
- March 24
- March 25
- Somy Ali, Pakistani-born Bollywood actress, writer, filmmaker, model, and activist
- Corey Arnold, photographer
- Terry Babcock-Lumish, professor, entrepreneur, and policymaker
- Jim Bianco, musician, singer/songwriter, and producer
- Matt Burke, football coach
- Domenick Lombardozzi, actor
- March 26
- March 27
- March 29
- March 30
- March 31
April
- April 1
- April 2
- April 4 - James Roday, actor, director, and screenwriter
- April 5
- April 6
- April 7
- April 9
- April 10
- April 11 - Cory Brandan, singer and frontman for Norma Jean
- April 13
- April 14
- April 15
- April 16
- April 17 - Monet Mazur, actress
- April 18
- April 19
- April 20 - Joey Lawrence, actor, musician, and game show host
- April 21
- April 22 - Mark Byington, basketball player and coach
- April 23 - Cesar Blanco, politician
- April 24
- April 25 - Tim Duncan, basketball player
- April 27
- April 28 - Michael Carbonaro, actor, magician, and improv artist
- April 29 - Max Abramson, politician
- April 30 - Scott Savol, singer
May
- May 1
- May 2 - Jeff Gutt, singer/songwriter and frontman for Stone Temple Pilots (2017-present)
- May 3
- May 4
- May 5 - Sage Stallone, actor, film director, producer, and distributor (d. 2012)
- May 6
- May 7
- May 8
- May 9 - Vanessa Alfano, journalist
- May 10 - Rhona Bennett, actress, singer, and model
- May 14
- May 15
- May 16 - Pat Bradley, basketball player
- May 17 - Kandi Burruss, producer, television personality, singer/songwriter, and actress
- May 18 - Lisa Byington, announcer, studio host, producer, and reporter
- May 19
- May 20 - Louis Bullock, basketball player
- May 21
- May 22 - Chris Brazzell, football player
- May 24 - Chris Bergson, guitarist and singer/songwriter
- May 25
- May 28 - Liam O'Brien, actor
- May 29
- May 30 - Brad Finstad, politician
- May 31 - Spencer Albee, singer/songwriter
June
- June 1 -
- June 2
- June 3 - Jamie McMurray, race car driver
- June 5
- June 6 - Paul Broome, soccer player
- June 7
- June 8
- June 9
- June 10 - Charles White, chef
- June 12 - Brian Anderson, skateboarder
- June 14
- June 16 - Tom Lenk, actor
- June 18
- Busbee, songwriter, record producer, publisher, record label executive, and multi-instrumentalist (d. 2019)
- Alana De La Garza, actress
- Christina Pazsitzky, Canadian-born comedian, podcaster, writer, host, and television personality
- Blake Shelton, country singer
- June 19
- June 20
- June 21
- June 22 - Mike O'Brien, actor, writer, and comedian
- June 23
- June 24
- June 25
- June 26 - Dave Rubin, political commentator
- June 27
- June 28
- June 29 - Omar Doom, actor, musician, and artist
- June 30
July
- July 1
- July 2
- July 3 - Andrea Barber, actress
- July 4
- July 5
- July 7
- July 8 - Iyari Limon, Mexican-born actress
- July 9
- Krondon, rapper and actor
- Fred Savage, actor and director
- July 10
- July 12
- July 15
- July 16
- July 17 -
- July 18 - Sebastian Blanck, musician and figurative painter
- July 21 - Cori Bush, politician and Black Lives Matter activist
- July 22 - Nino Alejandro, Philippine-born singer/songwriter
- July 23
- July 24
- July 26 - Martha Roby, politician
- July 27
- July 28 - Jacoby Shaddix, singer, television personality, and frontman for Papa Roach
- July 29
- July 30 - Nigel Burton, football player, coach, and commentator
- July 31
August
- August 1
- August 3 - Scott Barry, MLB umpire
- August 4 - Paul Goldstein, tennis player
- August 5 - Napoleon Beazley, convicted murderer (d. 2002)
- August 6
- August 7
- August 8
- August 9 - Jessica Capshaw, actress
- August 10 - Zach Azzanni, football coach
- August 11
- August 12
- August 14 - Alex Albrecht, television personality
- August 16 – Terence Crutcher, African-American killed by police (d. 2016)
- August 17
- August 18
- August 19 - Michael M. Wartella, underground cartoonist
- August 21
- August 23
- August 25
- August 26 - Mike Colter, actor
- August 27 - Jeremy Bates, football player
- August 30 - Lillo Brancato, Jr., actor
- August 31 - Shar Jackson, actress and singer
September
- September 1
- September 3
- September 4 - Brian Myrow, baseball player
- September 5 - Chris Broach, guitarists/vocalists for Braid
- September 6
- September 7 - Stevie Case, video game celebrity
- September 9 - Jack Brasington, tennis player
- September 10 - Matt Morgan, wrestler and politician
- September 11
- September 12
- September 13 - Ro Khanna, politician
- September 14
- September 15
- September 16
- September 17
- September 18
- September 19
- September 20
- September 22 - David Berkeley, singer/songwriter
- September 23 - Faune A. Chambers, actress and dancer
- September 24
- Phil Bartlett, politician
- Radha Blank, actress, filmmaker, playwright, rapper, and comedian
- Ian Bohen, actor
- Ben Broussard, baseball player
- Erin Houchin, politician
- Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, wrestling promoter, daughter of Vince McMahon
- September 25
- September 28
- September 29 - Dave Aranda, football coach
- September 30 - Dusty Johnson, politician
October
- October 1
- October 2
- October 3
- October 4
- October 5 - Matt Hamill, mixed martial artist
- October 7 - Taylor Hicks, singer and American Idol winner
- October 8
- October 9
- October 10
- October 11
- October 12
- October 13
- October 14 - Scott Bradley, racing driver
- October 15
- October 19
- October 20
- October 21
- October 22
- October 23
- October 24
- October 25
- October 26 - Thurop Van Orman, animator and voice actor
- October 29
- October 31
November
- November 1
- November 5
- November 6
- Laurie Baker, ice hockey player
- Chris Bell, football player
- Jeremy Borseth, football player
- Jace Bugg, golfer (d. 2003)
- Rob Buyea, author
- Troy Hambrick, football player
- Mike Herrera, singer/songwriter, bassist, and frontman for MxPx, Tumbledown, and Goldfinger
- Pat Tillman, football player, victim of friendly fire (d. 2004)
- Sal Vulcano, actor and comedian
- Wiley Wiggins, actor
- November 7
- November 9
- November 11
- November 12
- November 14
- November 15
- November 16 - Trevor Brazile, rodeo competitor
- November 17
- November 18
- November 19
- November 20 - Dominique Dawes, Olympic gymnast
- November 21 - Yoon Ahn, fashion designer
- November 22
- November 23 - Page Kennedy, actor and rapper
- November 24
- November 25
- November 26
- November 27 - Jaleel White, actor
- November 28 - Adam Bernero, baseball player
- November 29
- November 30 - Shawn Bryson, football player
December
- December 1
- December 2 - Jamie Barnette, football player
- December 3
- December 4
- December 5
- December 6 - Séverine Autesserre, French-born author and researcher
- December 7
- December 8 - Ryan Blackwell, basketball player and coach
- December 9
- December 10 - Tim Ashe, politician
- December 11 - Shareef Abdur-Rahim, basketball player and president of the NBA G League since 2019
- December 12 - Eric M. Bromwell, politician
- December 14
- December 16 - Ryan Aument, politician
- December 17
- December 19 - Beau Archibald, basketball player and coach
- December 20
- December 21
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25 - Tim James, basketball player and coach
- December 27
- December 28
- December 29
- December 31
Full date unknown
- Kulsoom Abdullah, American-born Pakistani weightlifter
- Hassan Abujihaad, U.S. Navy sailor convicted of terrorism
- John Joseph Adams, science fiction and fantasy editor, critic, and publisher
- Adunni Ade, American-born Nigerian actress and model
- Golnar Adili, artist
- Farooque Ahmed, convicted terrorist
- Marc Alessi, politician
- Kimberly Amato, actress and author
- Ana Lily Amirpour, British-born director, screenwriter, producer, and actress
- Ampichino, rapper and producer
- Ning An, Chinese-born pianist
- Angelina, singer
- Sarah Aroeste, singer and composer
- Huwaida Arraf, activist and lawyer
- Elena Bajo, Spanish-born visual artist
- Mishell Baker, writer
- Benjamin Balint, author, journalist, educator, and translator
- Simon Ball, ballet dancer
- Ali Banisadr, Iranian-born artist
- Mahmoud Reza Banki, Iranian-born scientist
- Michael Baskette, music producer
- Orca Bates, model
- Matt Bauder, jazz musician
- Naomi Beckwith, art curator
- T. James Belich, playwright and actor
- Frank Benson, artist
- Ashley Berggren, basketball player
- Mickey Bergman, Vice President and executive director of the Richardson Center for Global Engagement
- Josh Berk, author
- Leah Berman, mathematician
- Walead Beshty, British-born artist and writer
- Jamila Bey, journalist
- Jay Black, comedian
- Libby Black, artist
- Brad Boatright, musician, record producer, and mastering engineer
- Anthony Boone, basketball player
- Jeff Bourne, politician
- James Brand, musician (d. 2010)
- Jennie E. Brand, sociologist and social statistician
- Jesse Brand, songwriter, musician, and actor
- Ivan Brandon, comic book writer
- Ryan Brasseaux, folklorist
- Joey Brinson, wheelchair fencer
- Sara Bronfman, daughter of Edgar Bronfman Sr., and member of NXIVM
- Amanda Browder, installation artist
- Josh Brown, singer and frontman for Day of Fire
- John Bunn, wrongfully convicted man
- Victoria Burge, artist
- Dillon Burroughs, author
- Shaun Butler, BMX rider
- Kent Bye, podcaster and journalist
- Vasili Byros, musicologist
- Tonantzin Carmelo, actress
- Brandon DiCamillo, television personality, actor, stunt performer, filmmaker, and musician
- Loomis Fall, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician, actor, and stunt performer
- Doug Larsen, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and politician (d. 2023)
- Deron Miller, singer/songwriter, guitarist, and frontman for CKY (1998-2012)
- Sarah Schechter, producer, co-founder of Berlanti-Schechter Films
Deaths
- January 10 – Howlin' Wolf, blues musician (born 1910)
- January 15 – Jim Graner, sports anchor (born 1919)
- January 21 – John Gould Moyer, naval officer, 31st Governor of American Samoa (born 1893)
- January 23 – Paul Robeson, bass baritone (born 1898)
- January 31 – Ernesto Miranda, defendant in Miranda v. Arizona (born 1941)
- February 1
- February 6 – Vince Guaraldi, jazz pianist (born 1928)
- February 9 – Percy Faith, Canadian-American bandleader, orchestrator, composer, and conductor (born 1908)
- February 11
- February 12 – Sal Mineo, film actor (born 1939)
- February 13 – Lily Pons, operatic soprano (born 1898 in France)
- February 22 – Florence Ballard, singer (The Supremes) (born 1943)
- February 26 – Joseph Weil, con man (born 1875)
- March 14 – Busby Berkeley, film director and musical choreographer (born 1895)
- March 15 – Jo Mielziner, set and lighting designer (born 1901 in France)
- March 17 – Andrew Tombes, comedian and character actor (born 1885)
- March 25 – Josef Albers, Modernist painter (born 1888 in Germany)
- April 2 – Ray Teal, actor (born 1902)
- April 4 – Harry Nyquist, information theory pioneer (born 1889 in Sweden)
- April 5 – Howard Hughes, aviation pioneer, film director and millionaire recluse (born 1905)
- April 7 – Mary Margaret McBride, writer and radio host (born 1899)
- April 9 – Phil Ochs, protest singer-songwriter (born 1940)
- April 12 – Paul Ford, actor (born 1901)
- April 14
- May 22 – Oscar Bonavena, Argentine boxer (born 1942)
- May 24 – Bobby Barber, actor (born 1894)
- May 31 – Martha Mitchell, Watergate whistleblower and wife of John N. Mitchell (born 1918)
- June 6 died in UK– J. Paul Getty, industrialist (born 1892)
- June 10 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American film producer (born 1873)
- June 20 – Lou Klein, baseball player and coach (born 1918)
- June 25 – Johnny Mercer, lyricist, songwriter, singer, and record label executive (born 1909)
- July 12 – Ted Mack, broadcaster, host, and musician (born 1904)
- August 2 – Fritz Lang, Austrian-American-German director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1890)
- August 17 – William Redfield, actor (born 1927)
- August 26 – Lotte Lehmann, soprano (born 1888 in Germany)
- August 28 – Anissa Jones, TV actress (born 1958)
- September 10 – Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter and novelist (born 1905)
- September 27 – Marion B. Folsom, government official and businessman (born 1893)
- October 9 – Bob Moose, baseball player (born 1947)
- October 15 – Carlo Gambino, mafioso (born 1902 in Italy)
- November 9 – Billy Halop, actor (born 1920)
- November 11 – Alexander Calder, sculptor (born 1898)
- November 18 – Man Ray, artist (born 1890)
- November 21 – Walter Stuart Diehl, naval officer and aeronautical engineer (born 1893)
- November 28 – Rosalind Russell, film actress (born 1907)
- November 29 – Godfrey Cambridge, actor and comedian (born 1933)
- December 2 – Danny Murtaugh, baseball player and manager (born 1917)
- December 3 – Mary Nash, actress (born 1884)
- December 4 – Tommy Bolin, guitarist (born 1951)
- December 12 – Jack Cassidy, actor and singer (born 1927)
- December 13 – Geneve L. A. Shaffer, realtor, lecturer and author (born 1888)
- December 14 – Harry Snyder, Canadian-born businessman and co-founder of In-N-Out Burger (born 1913)
- December 20 – Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (born 1902)
- December 28 – Freddie King, blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter (born 1934)
See also
External links
- Web site: . 1976 . Timeline . https://archive.today/20140606191915/http://dp.la/timeline%231976. June 6, 2014 . dead.
Notes and References
- News: 100 Million Computations Each Second. AP. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 1976-09-20. 17.
- Web site: Partridge, KY Double Mine Disaster, Mar 1976 . GenDisasters . September 14, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111002161222/http://www3.gendisasters.com/kentucky/12997/partridge-ky-double-mine-disaster-mar-1976 . October 2, 2011 . live .
- Book: Mitchell K. Hall. Historical Dictionary of the Nixon-Ford Era. 2008. . 978-0-8108-6410-8 . Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=af6xAAAAQBAJ&pg=PR13 .
- Web site: 35 years later: Houston's deadly ammonia truck disaster. 2011-05-27. 2011-05-26. Houston Chronicle.
- News: 1976 ammonia truck disaster. 2011-05-11. Houston Chronicle. 2011-05-26.
- Book: Magill . Frank N. . Chronology of Twentieth-Century History: Business and Commerce: Volume II . 23 April 2014 . Routledge . 978-1-134-26462-9 . 1135 . en.
- Web site: Tony. Giardina. Olympic Track & Field: Decathlete Ashton Eaton Is Next American Star. 2012-08-07. Bleacher Report. 2016-06-06. Olympic decathlons first rose to prominence in America when Bruce Jenner competed in the 1976 games in Montreal. He became an American hero by setting the decathlon world record and taking gold back from the Soviets.. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20150712223115/http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1288133-olympic-track-field-decathlete-ashton-eaton-is-next-american-star. 2015-07-12.
- Web site: Holiday Inn Sniper Up for Parole. May 17, 2007. dead. https://archive.today/20240527195127/https://www.webcitation.org/6gfiWOqVI?url=http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/7561672.html. May 27, 2024.