August 1976 calendar

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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in August 1976.
The US president was Gerald Ford (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was James Callaghan (Labour), Pope St Paul VI was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on August 1976: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of August 1976?

Events

01 Aug 1976 21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada
02 Aug 1976 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 husband and one of the richest men in Texas, is tried and found innocent for Andrea's murder, involvement in a plot to kill several people (including Priscilla and a judge), and a wrongful death lawsuit. Cullen goes broke afterwards.
05 Aug 1976 The Great Clock of Westminster (or Big Ben) suffers internal damage and stops running for over nine months.
06 Aug 1976 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
07 Aug 1976 Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open
08 Aug 1976 Chicago White Sox suit up in shorts
09 Aug 1976 Clive Lloyd scores double-ton in 120 mins, WI vs. Glamorgan
11 Aug 1976 Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses and is hospitalized in Miami
12 Aug 1976 First approach and lands test (ALT) of NASA space shuttle orbiter Enterprise.
14 Aug 1976 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast
15 Aug 1976 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
16 Aug 1976 58th PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots a 281 at Congressional, Maryland
17 Aug 1976 An earthquake and tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
18 Aug 1976 In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
19 Aug 1976 President Gerald R Ford wins Republican presidential nomination at Kansas City convention.
21 Aug 1976 Battle East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes 1st British firewoman
22 Aug 1976 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
23 Aug 1976 Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die
24 Aug 1976 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth.
25 Aug 1976 Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion
27 Aug 1976 Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open
28 Aug 1976 New York Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup.
29 Aug 1976 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
30 Aug 1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show
31 Aug 1976 George Harrison found guilty of plagurizing My Sweet Lord

Famous Birthday

Audrey Tautou
French actress who made a splash in "Amélie" in 2001.
Alexander Skarsgard
Swedish actor.
Sam Worthington
Australian actor.
Alex O'Loughlin
Australian actor.
Sarah Chalke
Canadian actress.
Sarah Chalke
Canadian actress.
Grégory Fitoussi
French actor.
Scott Caan
American actor.
JC Chasez
American singer (*NSYNC).
Rhona Mitra
English actress and singer.
Soleil Moon Frye
American actress.
Luana Piovani
Brazilian model and actress, voted in a poll of 7,000 "the sexiest woman in the world," 1998.
Jessica Capshaw
American actress.
Mikko Lindström
Finnish guitarist (HIM and WhoCares).
Anaïs Croze
Melissa George
Australian actress.
Jennifer Ringley
American businesswoman who ingenuously turned exhibitionism into profit, keying into the universal voyeur in all of us.
Nicolas Brusque
French rugby player, a member of the French rugby team 1999, playing as full back.
Mark Webber (Formula One)
Ozge Ozberk
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Famous Deaths

Alastair Sim
Scottish actor in film and on stage, making his debut on stage at the age of 30 and film at 35.
Eyvind Johnson
Swedish author and academic Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976).
Jimmy Reed
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976).
Adrian Roland Holst
Poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88.
Jose Lezama Lima
Cuban Poet / Novelist, dies at 65.
Max Vredenburg
Composer, dies at 72.
Thomas Edward Driberg
1st Baron Bradwell, journalist.
Murvyn Vye
Actor (Road to Bali, Escape to Burma), dies at 63.
Jeno Kenessey
Composer, dies at 70.
Phyllis Konstam
Actress (Murder, Skin Game), dies at 69.
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira
President of Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73.
Michael Dewar Head
Composer, dies at 76.
Cecil Weston
Actor (Dude Ranch, Huckleberry Finn), dies at 86.
Lotte Lehmann in Santa Barbara
California (born in Perleberg, Germany); German/Austrian/American opera singer.
John Roselli
hired by US Central Intelligence Agency to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, is found murdered.
Enrique Angelelli
Argentine bishop (Born 1923).
Ken Wadsworth
New Zealand cricketer (Born 1946).
Anissa Jones
American actress (Born 1958).
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (Born 1899).
Anissa Jones
Actress (Buffy-Family Affair), ODs at 18.
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