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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 2, 1976 – The Gale of January 1976 begins, which results in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, resulting in at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.
• January 18, 1976 – Lebanese Christian militias overrun Karantina, Beirut, killing at least 1,000.
• January 31, 1976 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.
• March 9, 1976 – Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
• May 6, 1976 – An earthquake strikes the Friuli region of northeastern Italy, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
• June 28, 1976 – The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
• July 10, 1976 – One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
• July 29, 1976 – In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the “Son of Sam”) kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
• August 21, 1976 – Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjom, South Korea.
• September 21, 1976 – Seychelles joins the United Nations.

Who Were Born On 1976?

• January 2, 1976 – Paz Vega, Spanish actress and singer
• January 10, 1976 – Ian Poulter, English golfer
• January 15, 1976 – Scott Murray, Scottish rugby player
• April 18, 1976 – Kevin Rankin, American actor
• May 5, 1976 – Jeremy Michael Ward, American singer and guitarist (The Mars Volta and De Facto) (d. 2003)
• July 5, 1976 – Çiğdem Can Rasna, Turkish volleyball player
• August 20, 1976 – Tony Grant, Irish footballer
• November 1, 1976 – Sergei Artyukhin, Russian-Belarusian wrestler (d. 2012)
• November 29, 1976 – Lindsay Benko, American swimmer
• December 11, 1976 – Yujiro Shirakawa, Japanese actor