1976 Calendar

January 31, 1976 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.

April 1, 1976 – Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the Northeastern U.S.

June 25, 1976 – Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

June 27, 1976 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.

July 2, 1976 – Fall of the Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

July 19, 1976 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.

July 27, 1976 – Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.

August 12, 1976 – Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War

September 19, 1976 – Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.

December 15, 1976 – Samoa becomes a member of the United Nations.

January 2, 1976 – Paz Vega, Spanish actress

January 27, 1976 – Fred Taylor, American football player

March 8, 1976 – Gaz Coombes, English singer (Supergrass)

April 22, 1976 – Dan Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player

October 30, 1976 – Stern John, Trinidadian footballer

November 1, 1976 – Logan Marshall-Green, American actor

November 4, 1976 – Daniel Bahr, German politician

November 5, 1976 – Jeff Klein, American musician

November 23, 1976 – Kohei Suwama, Japanese professional wrestler

December 12, 1976 – Lloyd Owusu, Ghanaian footballer