{"id":804,"date":"2022-07-25T17:23:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T17:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justonelittlehitch.com\/?page_id=804"},"modified":"2022-08-13T20:15:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T20:15:46","slug":"the-year","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/justonelittlehitch.com\/?page_id=804","title":{"rendered":"The Year: 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a most, er, unconventional<\/em> 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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January<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mal Evans, road manager and dear friend of The Beatles, is fatally shot by police during a disturbance at his Los Angeles home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rocker Peter Frampton releases his soon-to-be bestselling album, Frampton Comes Alive.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agatha Christie, one of the world’s most famous mystery playwrights and authors, dies in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, at age 85.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first commercial flights of the Concorde supersonic passenger jet depart from London and from Paris.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Frampton<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The SST Concorde launches in Paris and London.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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$15 million for one showing<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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February<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clifford Alexander, Jr., is named the first Black Secretary of the Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actor Lee J. Cobb, best known for his role in Death of a Salesman,<\/em> dies in California at age 64.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actor Sal Mineo, 37, dies after being stabbed by a mugger in West Hollywood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film The Sound of Music<\/em> (1965) is shown on television for the first time in the USA after the ABC network pays $15 million to broadcast it a single time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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March<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest<\/em> is named Best Picture at the 48th Academy Awards.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maxie Rosenbloom, former light-heavyweight boxing champion who became a comic film actor, dies at age 68.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filming of the original Star Wars <\/em>movie begins in Tunisia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Busby Berkeley, film director and choreographer, dies at age 80.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patricia Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a bank, as part of the Symbionese Liberation Army.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time in history, women are appointed to the U.S Naval Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isabel Peron, president of Argentina, is deposed in a military coup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom becomes the first world leader to send an email.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Picture: <\/em>One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Heiress Patricia Hearst is convicted of armed robbery with the Symbionese Liberation Army.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Treasury reintroduces the $2 bill\u2014a failure.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Bruce Springsteen attempts to break into the Graceland compound to meet Elvis. Security guards escort him out.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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April<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reclusive billionaire and pioneering aviator Howard Hughes, fittingly, dies in flight at age 70.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak establish Apple Computer Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. Treasury Dept. reintroduces the two-dollar bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Waverly Theatre in New York’s Greenwich Village holds the first midnight showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em>, spawning a nationwide fad that lasts years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phil Ochs, songwriter and American folk singer, dies at 35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bruce Springsteen is escorted from the grounds of Graceland after climbing a wall in an attempt to meet Elvis Presley.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earthquake near Friuli, Italy, north of Venice, leaves nearly 1,000 dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ulster Volunteer Force bombs two pubs, killing four, in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The Provisional Irish Republican Army kills four members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Clipper Liberty Bell,<\/em> a Boeing 747 operated by Pan Am Airways, flies around the world (with fueling stops) in a record time of 46 hours and 50 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singer John Denver and actress Mary Tyler Moore host the annual Emmy Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone Keith Richards is arrested for possession of illegal substances after a car crash in the U.K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Beatle Paul McCartney tours America, with his band Wings, for the first time since The Beatles’ (final) 1966 tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karen Ann Quinlan, the focus of the “Right To Die” movement, is removed from life support, but does not pass away for another nine years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Who sets a Guinness Record for “World’s Loudest Band.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. Air Force Academy admits women for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Civil War in Ireland intensifies.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Who is the loudest band on record. I said, THE WHO IS THE LOUDEST BAND ON RECORD!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Idi Amin, friendly chap.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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David Berkowitz, Son of Sam, terrorizes New York City.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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June<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Idi Amin announces that he has been named President for Life in Uganda.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A car bomb kills Arizona Republic<\/em> investigative reporter Don Bolles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American Basketball Assn. merges with the NBA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The “Son of Sam” killings begin in New York City.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An American expedition launches the most comprehensive search up to that time for the Loch Ness Monster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J. Paul Getty, one of the world’s wealthiest men, dies at age 83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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July<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

England reaches its hottest day on record up to then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American Bicentennial is celebrated on July 4.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Family Feud” debuts on ABC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

American tennis player Chris Evert defeats Australia’s Evonne Goolagong to win the women’s singles championship at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NASA’s Viking 1 Lander touches down on Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The British ambassador to Ireland is killed by an IRA bomb in Dublin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The “raid on Entebbe” ends successfully when Israeli commandos rescue hijacked passengers at Entebbe Airport in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beatle John Lennon becomes a permanent resident alien of the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Legionnaire’s outbreak, in Philadelphia, infects 4,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mobster Mickey Cohen dies from cancer at age 62.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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America celebrates the bicentennial of Independence, causing numerous people to ask, “On what date is the Fourth of July this year?”<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A clean-cut John Lennon becomes a resident alien of the U.S.A.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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August<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

London’s Big Ben fails to ring and its clock stops because of “metal fatigue.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex Haley publishes his novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family<\/em>, later made into a celebrated miniseries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Swine Flue inoculation project is signed into law by President Gerald Ford.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ramones debut at CBGB in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keith Moon, drummer for The Who, collapses after trashing his hotel room and is rushed to the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Internet, in a very rudimentary form, is born in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis is arrested after showing up drunk outside of Elvis Presley’s mansion, Graceland, at 3 a.m., armed with a handgun, demanding to see Elvis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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President Gerald Ford receives one of the first vaccinations against the Swine Flu.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jerry Lee Lewis, drunk and armed, is arrested trying to see Elvis Presley at Graceland.<\/em> Jerry, have you met Bruce?<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Farrah Fawcett is the pin-up girl of the year as “Charlie’s Angels” debuts on ABC.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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September<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States launches Enterprise,<\/em> the first space shuttle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin reunite, at the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, for the first time in 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Future President George W. Bush is arrested for drunk driving in Kennebunkport, Maine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mao Zedong, founder of the People’s Republic of China, dies at 82 after years of ill health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Charlie’s Angels” premieres on ABC.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disco rears its ugly head as the Bee Gees release their single “You Should Be Dancing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muhammed Ali defeats Ken Norton in a unanimous decision for the World Heavyweight Championship in their third match-up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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October<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a debate with Jimmy Carter, Democratic candidate for the Presidential election of 1976, then-President Gerald Ford, a Republican, dooms his own chances of victory when he says, “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cincinnati Reds sweep the New York Yankees in four games to win the World Series and, at the same time, introduce the National League’s first designated hitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sony unveils the videocassette recorder (VCR).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

China’s Gang of Four are arrested, effectively ending the 10-year-old Cultural Revolution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sony releases the videocassette recorder (VCR).<\/em> Senior citizens ask: “Why does the clock keep flashing 12:00?!”<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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November<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jimmy Carter is elected President in his run against sitting President Gerald Ford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian De Palma’s horror classic Carrie <\/em>premieres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original Smokey Bear, a black bear, dies at age 26 at the Washington National Zoo.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sculptor Alexander Calder, most famous for his mobiles, dies at age 78.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A million Californians give up smoking for a day, kicking off next year’s Great American Smokeout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heiress Patricia Hearst, serving time for bank robbery, is released on appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft (a portmanteau for microcomputer <\/em>and software<\/em>) officially registers its trademark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie Jackson signs with the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The real-life Smokey Bear dies in Washington National Zoo at age 26. Always remember: There is no “the” in Smokey Bear.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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God save the Sex Pistols. No one else will.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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December<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sex Pistols become infamous in England, and a punk-rock sensation, after spouting four-letter words during a Thames Television appearance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first Rocky <\/em>film is released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Eagles debut Hotel California<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women are selected as Rhodes Scholars for the first time, 75 years after the scholarship was established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spain approves the use of the Catalan language in four provinces of Catalonia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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