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1976 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2032. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1976 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1976

• January 15, 1976 – Gerald Ford’s would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
• January 31, 1976 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.
• March 4, 1976 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
• April 11, 1976 – The Apple I is created.
• July 10, 1976 – One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
• July 18, 1976 – Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
• July 22, 1976 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan’s conquest of the country in the Second World War.
• 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.
• September 11, 1976 – A group of Croatian nationalists plant a bomb in a coin locker at Grand Central Terminal. After stating political demands, they reveal the location and provided instructions for disarming the bomb. The disarming operation are not executed properly and the bomb explodes, killing one NYPD bomb squad specialist.
• December 10, 1976 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.

Who Were Born On 1976?

• March 14, 1976 – Daniel Gillies, Canadian-New Zealand actor
• March 15, 1976 – Cara Pifko, Canadian actress
• March 28, 1976 – Dave Keuning, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Killers)
• April 9, 1976 – Blayne Weaver, American actor and screenwriter
• May 23, 1976 – Ricardinho, Brazilian footballer and manager
• July 24, 1976 – Laura Fraser, Scottish actress
• August 13, 1976 – Jody Thompson, Canadian actress, director, and producer
• September 3, 1976 – Valery V. Afanasyev, Russian ice hockey player and coach
• November 11, 1976 – Lisa Gleave, Australian-American model and actress
• December 15, 1976 – Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer and manager