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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 3, 1976 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect.
• 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.
• April 1, 1976 – The Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect, soon revealed as an April Fools’ Day hoax, is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore.
• April 5, 1976 – In the People’s Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.
• September 21, 1976 – Seychelles joins the United Nations.
• October 13, 1976 – The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F. A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.
• October 20, 1976 – The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.

Who Were Born On 1976?

• January 19, 1976 – Natale Gonnella, Italian footballer
• February 15, 1976 – Ronnie Vannucci, Jr., American drummer and songwriter (The Killers and Big Talk)
• March 16, 1976 – Blu Cantrell, American singer-songwriter and producer
• March 23, 1976 – Smriti Irani, Indian actress, producer, and politician, Indian Minister of Human Resource Development
• April 6, 1976 – Candace Cameron Bure, American actress and producer
• April 13, 1976 – Valentina Cervi, Italian actress
• July 24, 1976 – Rafer Alston, American basketball player
• August 13, 1976 – Nicolás Lapentti, Ecuadorian tennis player
• October 27, 1976 – Maneet Chauhan, Indian-American chef and author
• December 30, 1976 – A. J. Pierzynski, American baseball player and sportscaster