February 1976 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1976 Rich Man, Poor Man mini-series premieres on ABC TV
• 02 Feb 1976 Honeymooners Second Honeymoon airs on TV
• 03 Feb 1976 26th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-109 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 04 Feb 1976 12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria
• 05 Feb 1976 Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies.
• 07 Feb 1976 FCC raids and shuts down pirate radio station WCPR
• 08 Feb 1976 Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic.
• 11 Feb 1976 Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army
• 12 Feb 1976 Sal Mineo, actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at age 37.
• 13 Feb 1976 Peter Casserly of New Zealand hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes.
• 14 Feb 1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 15 Feb 1976 12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria
• 17 Feb 1976 Rockabye Hamlet opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 7 performances
• 19 Feb 1976 Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara.
• 20 Feb 1976 Muhammad Ali knocks out Jan Pierre Coopman in five rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
• 21 Feb 1976 Rockabye Hamlet closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 7 performances
• 22 Feb 1976 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic.
• 24 Feb 1976 Cuba adopts its constitution.
• 26 Feb 1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 27 Feb 1976 Final meeting between China's Mao tse Tung and US President Richard Nixon.
• 28 Feb 1976 Spain withdraws from Western Sahara

Famous Birthday

• Silvia Saint

  Czech pornographic actress.

• Abhishek Bachchan

  Indian actor.

• Brandon Boyd

  American musician (Incubus).

• Alexandra Neldel
• Isla Fisher

  Scottish-Australian actress.

• Rashida Jones

  Movie Actress.

• Ali Larter

  American actress and model.

• Ja Rule

  Musician.

• Tony Jaa

  Movie Actor.

• Kelly MacDonald
• Charlie Day

  American actor.

• Cam'ron

  American rapper.

• Abi Titmuss

  English model and actress.

• Kelly Carlson

  American actress.

• Phil Ivey

  American poker player.

• Maxime Chattam
• Feist (singer)
• Samaki Walker

  NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks).

• Laurent Lefèvre
• Frédéric Dufour
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Famous Deaths

• Werner Heisenberg

  German scientist who, as an atomic physicist, won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1932 for his creation of quantum mechanics and was...

• Sal Mineo

  American actor who had a career that began in childhood and crashed in violence before he was 40.

• Kathryn Kuhlman

  American evangelist, minister and faith-healer, considered a great mystic and clairvoyant.

• Lee J Cobb

  Actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), dies at 64.

• Florence Ballard

  rocker (Supremes), dies of a heart attack at age 32.

• Joseph Henabery

  Actor / director (Cobra), dies at 88.

• Charlie Naughton

  Actor (Frozen Limits), dies at 89.

• Johan[nes A] Card

  Actor / stage manager (My Fair Lady), dies at 78.

• Anton Betzner

  Writer, dies at 81.

• Frieda Inescort

  Scottish actress (Meet Corliss Archer), dies at 74.

• L S Lowry

  Painter.

• Charles Wilfred Orr

  Composer, dies at 82.

• H Allen Smith

  TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 69.

• Julian Rivero

  Actor (Via Pony Express), dies at 85.

• Edgar Pangborn

  Sci-fi Author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66.

• Murtala Mohammed

  Nigerian military leader (Born 1938).

• Werner C Heisenberg

  German physicist (Nobel Prize 1932, field theory), dies at age 74 in Munich.

• James Clifton Williams

  composer/band master (Sinfonians), dies at age 52.

• General Murtala Mohammed

  head of Nigeria, killed during a coup.

• Michael Polany

  Hungarians/English chemist/sociologist, dies at age 84.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster
2. Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
3. Rhythm Heritage - Theme From S.W.A.T.
4. Barry Manilow - I Write The Songs
5. Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
2. The Four Seasons - December '63
3. Sailor - Glass Of Champagne
4. Slik - Forever And Ever
5. Abba - Mamma Mia