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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 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.
• February 5, 1976 – The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
• April 1, 1976 – Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the Northeastern U.S.
• May 8, 1976 – The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
• June 28, 1976 – The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
• July 17, 1976 – East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
• July 19, 1976 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
• September 10, 1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
• September 19, 1976 – Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.

Who Were Born On 1976?

• March 4, 1976 – Gary Shortland, English figure skater
• April 25, 1976 – Kristin Sutton, American actress
• May 5, 1976 – Jeremy Michael Ward, American singer and guitarist (The Mars Volta and De Facto) (d. 2003)
• May 28, 1976 – Liam O'Brien, American voice actor, director, and screenwriter
• May 31, 1976 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor
• June 10, 1976 – Alari Lell, Estonian footballer
• June 22, 1976 – Gordon Moakes, English bass player (Bloc Party and Young Legionnaire)
• July 20, 1976 – Debashish Mohanty, Indian cricketer and coach
• November 30, 1976 – Josh Lewsey, English rugby player
• December 26, 1976 – Simon Goodwin, Australian footballer and coach