1976 in the United States
List of events
Events from the year 1976 in the United States . Major events include Jimmy Carter defeating incumbent president Gerald Ford in the presidential election of that year, the incorporation of Apple Computer Company and Microsoft , and the New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that Karen Ann Quinlan could be disconnected from her ventilator.
Incumbents
Federal government
Events
January
February
March
March – The Cray-1 , the first commercially developed supercomputer , is released by Seymour Cray 's Cray Research , with the first purchaser being the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) in Los Alamos, New Mexico .[ 1]
March 1 – Bradford Bishop allegedly murders five of his family members in Bethesda, Maryland. The crime goes undiscovered for 10 days and the suspect is never caught. From 2014 to 2018 he is on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
March 9–11 – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine in Letcher County, Kentucky .[ 2]
March 14 – After eight years on NBC, The Wizard of Oz CBS , where it will remain until 1999, setting what is likely a record at that time for the most telecasts of a Hollywood film on a commercial television network. (That record is broken by The Ten Commandments ABC in 1973, continuing be telecast by that network as of 2020.)
March 17 – Boxer Rubin Carter is retried in New Jersey for murder; his conviction is upheld on this occasion but will be overturned in 1985.
March 20 – Patty Hearst is found guilty of the armed robbery of a San Francisco bank in 1974.
March 27 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
March 29 – The 48th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Walter Matthau , Robert Shaw , George Segal , Goldie Hawn and Gene Kelly , is held at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles , broadcast on ABC for the first time. Miloš Forman 's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Best Picture and Best Director for Forman. Isabelle Adjani becomes the youngest actress to be nominated for Best Actress until 2004, while George Burns becomes the oldest actor to win Best Supporting Actor until 2012, as well as the oldest awardee in general until 1989 and the final person born in the 19th century to win an acting award.
March 31 – The New Jersey Supreme Court rules that persistent vegetative state patient Karen Ann Quinlan can be disconnected from her ventilator . She remains comatose and dies in 1985.
April
April 1: Conrail
May
May 11
May 21
The Yuba City bus disaster , the second-worst bus crash in U.S. history, leaves 28 students and one teacher dead.
The "Famous Fire" in McKeesport, Pennsylvania , destroys seven downtown structures, damages more than 12 others, and starts fires in at least 10 homes.
May 24
Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.The Judgment of Paris pits French vs. California wines in a blind taste-test in Paris, France. California wines win the contest, surprising the wine world and opening the wine industry to newcomers in several countries.
May 25 – President Gerald Ford defeats challenger Ronald Reagan in three Republican presidential primaries: Kentucky , Tennessee and Oregon .
May 30 – Indianapolis 500 automobile race: Johnny Rutherford wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or 255 miles (408 km).
June
July
July 4: United States Bicentennial
August
August 18: Axe murder incident August 1 – The Seattle Seahawks and Tampa Bay Buccaneers play their first football games.
August 2 – A gunman murders Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr and injures Priscilla Davis and Gus Gavrel, in an incident at Priscilla's mansion in Fort Worth , Texas . T. Cullen Davis , Priscilla's estranged husband and one of the richest men in Texas, is tried and found not guilty in 1977.
August 4 – The first recognized outbreak of Legionnaires' disease kills 29 at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia .
August 7 – Viking program : Viking 2 Mars .
August 8 – As part of the American Basketball Association–National Basketball Association merger , a dispersal draft is conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which have folded.
August 10–13 – Hurricane Belle hits Long Island and southern New England . Twelve people are killed by the storm and damage is $100 million.
August 11 – A sniper rampage in Wichita, Kansas on a Holiday Inn results in 3 deaths while 7 others are wounded.[ 8]
August 18 – At Panmunjom, North Korea , two United States soldiers are killed while trying to chop down part of a tree in the Korean Demilitarized Zone which has obscured their view.
August 19 – President Gerald Ford edges out challenger Ronald Reagan to win the Republican Party presidential nomination in Kansas City .
August 28 – Actress Anissa Jones , known for playing the child Buffy Davis in the late 60s–early 70s sitcom Family Affair Oceanside, California .
September
September 3: Viking 2 lands on Mars
October
October 6 – In San Francisco , during his second televised debate with Jimmy Carter , President Gerald Ford stumbles when he declares that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" (there is at the time).
October 9 – Pittsburgh Pirates baseball pitcher Bob Moose is killed in a car crash in Ohio on his 29th birthday.
October 13 – The United States Commission on Civil Rights releases the report Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future, that documents that Puerto Ricans in the United States have a poverty rate of 33 percent in 1974 (up from 29 percent in 1970), the highest of all major racial-ethnic groups in the country (not including Puerto Rico , a U.S. territory).
October 15 – The first ever vice presidential debate in the United States takes place between Bob Dole and Walter Mondale .
October 18 – Ford officially launches volume production of Fiesta car at its Valencia plant.
October 19 – The Copyright Act of 1976 extends copyright duration for an additional 20 years in the United States.
October 20 – The Mississippi River ferry MV George Prince Destrehan, Louisiana to Luling, Louisiana , killing 78 passengers and crew.
October 21 – The Cincinnati Reds sweep the New York Yankees in four games to win the 1976 World Series .
October 22 – Barbara Walters hosts the final presidential debate of the 1976 presidential election .
October 25 – Clarence Norris, the last known survivor of the Scottsboro Boys , is pardoned.
November
November 2: Jimmy Carter elected President
December
Undated
Ongoing
January
Johnny Yong Bosch Jenny Lewis Michael Peña Carrie Keranen Andy Milonakis January 1
January 2
January 3 – Angela Yee , radio personality
January 4 – Ted Lilly , baseball player
January 5
January 6
January 8
January 9 – Todd Grisham , sports broadcaster
January 10
January 11
January 13 – Michael Peña , actor and musician
January 15
January 16 – Carrie Keranen , voice actress
January 18 – Derek Richardson , actor
January 20
January 21
January 22
January 23 – Nan Whaley , politician, mayor of Dayton, Ohio (2014-2022)
January 24 – Maria Gabriela Brito , Venezuelan-born curator, art advisor, and author
January 25 – Stephanie Bellars , wrestling valet
January 27
January 28 – Rick Ross , rapper
January 29 – Chris Castle , singer/songwriter and guitarist
January 30 – Andy Milonakis , internet and television personality
January 31
February
Cam'ron Charlie Day Janet Varney Zach Johnson Rashida Jones Ali Larter Ja Rule February 2
February 3
February 4 – Cam'ron , rapper
February 5
February 6
February 9
February 10
February 11
February 12
February 14
February 15
February 16
February 17 – Scott Williamson , baseball player and coach
February 20
February 21 – Frayser Boy , rapper
February 22 – Kurt Braunohler , comedian
February 23 – Scott Elarton , baseball player and coach
February 24
February 25
February 26 – Dan Goldman , attorney and politician
February 27
February 28
February 29
March
Freddie Prinze Jr. Danny Masterson Corey Stoll Chester Bennington Rachael MacFarlane Reese Witherspoon Keri Russell Peyton Manning March 1
March 3
March 4
March 5
March 6 – Ken Anderson , wrestler
March 8 – Freddie Prinze Jr. , actor
March 9 – Jeremiah Bishop , mountain bike racer
March 10 – Christa Pike , convicted murderer and the youngest woman to be sentenced to death
March 11 – Doug Brzezinski , football player
March 12
March 13
March 14
March 15 – Katherine Brooks , writer and director
March 16
March 17 – Brittany and Cynthia Daniel , actresses and twin sisters
March 18
March 19
March 20 – Chester Bennington , singer and frontman for Linkin Park (d. 2017)
March 21
March 22
March 23
March 24
March 25
Somy Ali , Pakistani-born Bollywood actress, writer, filmmaker, model, and activistCorey Arnold , photographerTerry Babcock-Lumish , professor, entrepreneur, and policymakerJim Bianco , musician, singer/songwriter, and producerMatt Burke , football coachDomenick Lombardozzi , actor
March 26
March 27
March 29
March 30
March 31
April
Troy Baker David Oyelowo Candace Cameron Bure Lukas Haas Melissa Joan Hart Wyatt Cenac Joey Lawrence April 1
April 2
April 4 – James Roday Rodriguez , actor, director, and screenwriter
April 5
April 6
April 7
April 9
April 10
April 11 – Cory Brandan , singer and frontman for Norma Jean
April 13
April 14
April 15
April 16
April 17 – Monet Mazur , actress
April 18
April 19
April 20 – Joey Lawrence , actor, musician, and game show host
April 21
April 22 – Mark Byington , basketball player and coach
April 23 – Cesar Blanco , politician
April 24
April 25 – Tim Duncan , basketball player
April 27
April 28 – Michael Carbonaro , actor, magician, and improv artist
April 29 – Max Abramson , politician
April 30 – Scott Savol , singer
May
Jeff Halpern Michael P. Murphy Ryan Leaf Ethan Suplee Vincent Piazza Liam O'Brien May 1
May 2 – Jeff Gutt , singer/songwriter and frontman for Stone Temple Pilots (2017-present)
May 3
May 4
May 5 – Sage Stallone , actor, film director, producer, and distributor (d. 2012 )
May 6
May 7
May 8
May 9 – Vanessa Alfano , journalist
May 10 – Rhona Bennett , actress, singer, and model
May 14
May 15
May 16 – Pat Bradley , basketball player
May 17 – Kandi Burruss , producer, television personality, singer/songwriter, and actress
May 18 – Lisa Byington , announcer, studio host, producer, and reporter
May 19
May 20 – Louis Bullock , basketball player
May 21
May 22 – Chris Brazzell , football player
May 24 – Chris Bergson , guitarist and singer/songwriter
May 25
May 28 – Liam O'Brien , actor
May 29
May 30 – Brad Finstad , politician
May 31 – Spencer Albee , singer/songwriter
June
Jamie McMurray Aesop Rock Lindsay Davenport Tom Lenk Blake Shelton Ryan Hurst Seth Wescott June 1 –
June 2
June 3 – Jamie McMurray , race car driver
June 5
June 6 – Paul Broome , soccer player
June 7
June 8
June 9
June 10 – Charles White , chef
June 12 – Brian Anderson , skateboarder
June 14
June 16 – Tom Lenk , actor
June 18
Busbee , songwriter, record producer, publisher, record label executive, and multi-instrumentalist (d. 2019)Alana De La Garza , actressChristina Pazsitzky , Canadian-born comedian, podcaster, writer, host, and television personalityBlake Shelton , country singer
June 19
June 20
June 21
June 22 – Mike O'Brien , actor, writer, and comedian
June 23
June 24
June 25
June 26 – Dave Rubin , political commentator
June 27
June 28
June 29 – Omar Doom , actor, musician, and artist
June 30
July
Fred Savage Adrian Grenier Kyrsten Sinema Gabriel Iglesias Bobby Lashley Luke Bryan Jacoby Shaddix July 1
July 2
July 3 – Andrea Barber , actress
July 4
July 5
July 7
July 8 – Iyari Limon , Mexican-born actress
July 9
July 10
July 12
July 15
July 16
July 17 –
July 18 – Sebastian Blanck , musician and figurative painter
July 21 – Cori Bush , politician and Black Lives Matter activist
July 22 – Nino Alejandro , Philippine-born singer/songwriter
July 23
July 24
July 26 – Martha Roby , politician
July 27
July 28 – Jacoby Shaddix , singer, television personality, and frontman for Papa Roach
July 29
July 30 – Nigel Burton , football player, coach, and commentator
July 31
August
Travis Kalanick JC Chasez Will Friedle Scott Caan Mike Colter August 1
August 3 – Scott Barry , MLB umpire
August 4 – Paul Goldstein , tennis player
August 5 – Napoleon Beazley , convicted murderer (d. 2002)
August 6
August 7
August 8
August 9 – Jessica Capshaw , actress
August 10 – Zach Azzanni , football coach
August 11
August 12
August 14 – Alex Albrecht , television personality
August 16 – Terence Crutcher , African-American killed by police (d. 2016)
August 17
August 18
August 19 – Michael M. Wartella , underground cartoonist
August 21
August 23
August 25
August 26 – Mike Colter , actor
August 27 – Jeremy Bates , football player
August 30 – Lillo Brancato, Jr. , actor
August 31
September
Ro Khanna Nanette Barragán Alison Sweeney Jon Bernthal Ian Bohen Stephanie McMahon Dusty Johnson September 1
September 3
September 4 – Brian Myrow , baseball player
September 5 – Chris Broach , guitarists/vocalists for Braid
September 6
September 7 – Stevie Case , video game celebrity
September 9 – Jack Brasington , tennis player
September 10 – Matt Morgan , wrestler and politician
September 11
September 12
September 13 – Ro Khanna , politician
September 14
September 15
September 16
September 17
September 18
September 19
September 20
September 22 – David Berkeley , singer/songwriter
September 23 – Faune A. Chambers , actress and dancer
September 24
Phil Bartlett , politicianRadha Blank , actress, filmmaker, playwright, rapper, and comedianIan Bohen , actorBen Broussard , baseball playerErin Houchin , politicianStephanie McMahon-Levesque , wrestling promoter, daughter of Vince McMahon
September 25
September 28
September 29 – Dave Aranda , football coach
September 30 – Dusty Johnson , politician
October
Seann William Scott Alicia Silverstone Nick Swardson Emily Deschanel Dan Fogler Jon Foreman Ryan Reynolds Piper Perabo October 1
October 2
October 3
October 4
October 5 – Matt Hamill , mixed martial artist
October 7 – Taylor Hicks , singer and American Idol
October 8
October 9
October 10
October 11
October 12
October 13
October 14 – Scott Bradley , racing driver
October 15
October 19
October 20
October 21
October 22
October 23
October 24
October 25
October 26 – Thurop Van Orman , animator and voice actor
October 29
October 31
November
Chad Lindberg Sebastian Arcelus Rob Caggiano Diane Neal Jack Dorsey Jaleel White Chadwick Boseman Anna Faris November 1
Aazaar Abdul-Rahim , football player and coachAdah Almutairi , scientist and professorJohn Bevan , figure skaterThe Brothers Chaps, Matthew Alan Chapman , writer, voice actor, director, animator, producer, and composerChad Lindberg , actorSam Presti , basketball executive, general manager of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder since 2007
November 5
November 6
Laurie Baker , ice hockey playerChris Bell , football playerJeremy Borseth , football playerJace Bugg , golfer (d. 2003)Rob Buyea , authorTroy Hambrick , football playerMike Herrera , singer/songwriter, bassist, and frontman for MxPx , Tumbledown , and Goldfinger Pat Tillman , football player, victim of friendly fire (d. 2004)Sal Vulcano , actor and comedianWiley Wiggins , actor
November 7
November 9
November 11
November 12
November 14
November 15
November 16 – Trevor Brazile , rodeo competitor
November 17
November 18
November 19
November 20 – Dominique Dawes , Olympic gymnast
November 21 – Yoon Ahn , fashion designer
November 22
November 23 – Page Kennedy , actor and rapper
November 24
November 25
November 26
November 27 – Jaleel White , actor
November 28 – Adam Bernero , baseball player
November 29
November 30 – Shawn Bryson , football player
December
Amy Acker Mark Duplass Tracey Mann Takeo Spikes Joe Manganiello Danny McBride December 1
December 2 – Jamie Barnette , football player
December 3
December 4
December 5
December 6 – Séverine Autesserre , French-born author and researcher
December 7
December 8 – Ryan Blackwell , basketball player and coach
December 9
December 10 – Tim Ashe , politician
December 11 – Shareef Abdur-Rahim , basketball player and president of the NBA G League since 2019
December 12 – Eric M. Bromwell , politician
December 14
December 16 – Ryan Aument , politician
December 17
December 19 – Beau Archibald , basketball player and coach
December 20
December 21
December 23
December 24
December 25 – Tim James , basketball player and coach
December 27
December 28
December 29
December 31
Full date unknown
Ana Lily Amirpour Matt Bauder Jamila Bey Jesse Brand Sara Bronfman Brandon DiCamillo Kulsoom Abdullah , American-born Pakistani weightlifterHassan Abujihaad , U.S. Navy sailor convicted of terrorismJohn Joseph Adams , science fiction and fantasy editor, critic, and publisherAdunni Ade , American-born Nigerian actress and modelGolnar Adili , artistFarooque Ahmed , convicted terroristMarc Alessi , politicianKimberly Amato , actress and authorAna Lily Amirpour , British-born director, screenwriter, producer, and actressAmpichino , rapper and producerNing An , Chinese-born pianistAngelina , singerSarah Aroeste , singer and composerHuwaida Arraf , activist and lawyerElena Bajo , Spanish-born visual artistMishell Baker , writerBenjamin Balint , author, journalist, educator, and translatorSimon Ball , ballet dancerAli Banisadr , Iranian-born artistMahmoud Reza Banki , Iranian-born scientistMichael Baskette , music producerOrca Bates , modelMatt Bauder , jazz musicianNaomi Beckwith , art curatorT. James Belich , playwright and actorFrank Benson , artistAshley Berggren , basketball playerMickey Bergman , Vice President and executive director of the Richardson Center for Global EngagementJosh Berk , authorLeah Berman , mathematicianWalead Beshty , British-born artist and writerJamila Bey , journalistJay Black , comedianLibby Black , artistBrad Boatright , musician, record producer, and mastering engineerAnthony Boone , basketball playerJeff Bourne , politicianJames Brand , musician (d. 2010)Jennie E. Brand , sociologist and social statisticianJesse Brand , songwriter, musician, and actorIvan Brandon , comic book writerRyan Brasseaux , folkloristJoey Brinson , wheelchair fencerSara Bronfman , daughter of Edgar Bronfman Sr. , and member of NXIVM Amanda Browder , installation artistJosh Brown , singer and frontman for Day of Fire John Bunn , wrongfully convicted manVictoria Burge , artistDillon Burroughs , authorShaun Butler , BMX riderKent Bye , podcaster and journalistVasili Byros , musicologistTonantzin Carmelo , actressBrandon DiCamillo , television personality, actor, stunt performer, filmmaker, and musicianLoomis Fall , songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician, actor, and stunt performerDoug Larsen , U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and politician (d. 2023)Deron Miller , singer/songwriter, guitarist, and frontman for CKY (1998-2012)Dan Scavino , political adviserSarah Schechter , producer, co-founder of Berlanti-Schechter Films
Deaths
January 10 – Howlin' Wolf , blues musician (born 1910 )
January 15 – Jim Graner , sports anchor (born 1919 )
January 21 – John Gould Moyer , naval officer, 31st Governor of American Samoa (born 1893 )
January 23 – Paul Robeson , bass baritone (born 1898 )
January 31 – Ernesto Miranda , defendant in Miranda v. Arizona 1941 )
February 1
February 6 – Vince Guaraldi , jazz pianist (born 1928 )
February 9 – Percy Faith , Canadian-American bandleader, orchestrator, composer, and conductor (born 1908 )
February 11
February 12 – Sal Mineo , film actor (born 1939 )
February 13 – Lily Pons , operatic soprano (born 1898 in France )
February 22 – Florence Ballard , singer (The Supremes ) (born 1943 )
February 26 – Joseph Weil , con man (born 1875 )
March 14 – Busby Berkeley , film director and musical choreographer (born 1895 )
March 15 – Jo Mielziner , set and lighting designer (born 1901 in France )
March 17 – Andrew Tombes , comedian and character actor (born 1885 )
March 25 – Josef Albers , Modernist painter (born 1888 in Germany )
April 2 – Ray Teal , actor (born 1902 )
April 4 – Harry Nyquist , information theory pioneer (born 1889 in Sweden )
April 5 – Howard Hughes , aviation pioneer, film director and millionaire recluse (born 1905 )
April 7 – Mary Margaret McBride , writer and radio host (born 1899 )
April 9 – Phil Ochs , protest singer-songwriter (born 1940 )
April 12 – Paul Ford , actor (born 1901 )
April 14
May 22 – Oscar Bonavena , Argentine boxer (born 1942 )
May 24 – Bobby Barber , actor (born 1894 )
May 31 – Martha Mitchell , Watergate whistleblower and wife of John N. Mitchell (born 1918 )
June 6 died in UK– J. Paul Getty , industrialist (born 1892 )
June 10 – Adolph Zukor , Hungarian-American film producer (born 1873 )
June 20 – Lou Klein , baseball player and coach (born 1918 )
June 25 – Johnny Mercer , lyricist, songwriter, singer, and record label executive (born 1909 )
July 12 – Ted Mack , broadcaster, host, and musician (born 1904 )
August 2 – Fritz Lang , Austrian-American-German director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1890 )
August 17 – William Redfield , actor (born 1927 )
August 26 – Lotte Lehmann , soprano (born 1888 in Germany)
August 28 – Anissa Jones , TV actress (born 1958 )
September 10 – Dalton Trumbo , screenwriter and novelist (born 1905 )
September 27 – Marion B. Folsom , government official and businessman (born 1893 )
October 9 – Bob Moose , baseball player (born 1947 )
October 15 – Carlo Gambino , mafioso (born 1902 in Italy )
November 9 – Billy Halop , actor (born 1920 )
November 11 – Alexander Calder , sculptor (born 1898)
November 18 – Man Ray , artist (born 1890 )
November 21 – Walter Stuart Diehl , naval officer and aeronautical engineer (born 1893 )
November 28 – Rosalind Russell , film actress (born 1907 )
November 29 – Godfrey Cambridge , actor and comedian (born 1933 )
December 2 – Danny Murtaugh , baseball player and manager (born 1917 )
December 3 – Mary Nash , actress (born 1884 )
December 4 – Tommy Bolin , guitarist (born 1951 )
December 12 – Jack Cassidy , actor and singer (born 1927 )
December 13 – Geneve L. A. Shaffer , realtor, lecturer and author (born 1888 )
December 14 – Harry Snyder , Canadian-born businessman and co-founder of In-N-Out Burger (born 1913 )
December 20 – Richard J. Daley , mayor of Chicago (born 1902 )
December 25 – Frank R. Walker , admiral (born 1899 ).
December 28 – Freddie King , blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter (born 1934 )
See also
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