Reply #12: 1976 - I remember bicentennial stuff everywhere & Carter being Elected [View All]

[Nicole]

As the United States of America wished itself a happy 200th birthday, raised its flags and watched hundreds of boats pour into it’s harbours, three beautiful crime-fighting ladies were busy inventing 'jiggle TV' . . . 1976 was the year that heroic male
detectives were replaced with guns, hair, make-up, Kate, Jaclyn and
Farrah.

On the big screen we were shown that endings are not always so happy: Sissy Spacek killed her classmates for making fun of her in Carrie, Rocky lost the championship against Apollo, and the Bad News Bears never won their little league victory.



July was a big news month:

JULY

02 - North and South Vietnam are reunited as one nation, the Socialist republic of Vietnam
03 - US Supreme Court rules that death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment
03 - Swedish tennis player Bjorn Borg, aged 20, wins the Wimbledon men's single tennis title
04 - US 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 visits the US
10 - The town of Seveso near Milan in northern Italy is devastated by the release of poisonous dioxin gas from a nearby pesticide plant
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