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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 4, 1976 – The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.
• January 15, 1976 – Gerald Ford’s would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
• January 21, 1976 – Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
• January 31, 1976 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.
• February 6, 1976 – In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
• 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 7, 1976 – Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
• 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.
• August 6, 1976 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
• December 2, 1976 – Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.

Who Were Born On 1976?

• January 10, 1976 – Ian Poulter, English golfer
• January 24, 1976 – Shae-Lynn Bourne, Canadian ice dancer, coach, and choreographer
• May 15, 1976 – Tyler Walker, American baseball player
• June 13, 1976 – Kym Marsh, English singer-songwriter and actress (Hear'Say)
• July 20, 1976 – Debashish Mohanty, Indian cricketer and coach
• July 24, 1976 – Rafer Alston, American basketball player
• August 1, 1976 – Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
• September 3, 1976 – Ashley Jones, American actress
• October 7, 1976 – Charles Woodson, American football player
• November 22, 1976 – Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer