October 1976 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1976 1st Dutch casino opens
• 02 Oct 1976 Let My People Come closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 106 performances
• 03 Oct 1976 Hank Aaron singles in his last at bat and drives in his 2,297th run
• 04 Oct 1976 Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers
• 05 Oct 1976 Seattle and Toronto picks 30 unprotected players on other AL rosters Ruppert Jones (Seattle) and Bob Bailor (Toronto) are picked 1st
• 06 Oct 1976 Gang of Four arrested in Beijing
• 08 Oct 1976 Sex Pistols sign with EMI
• 09 Oct 1976 Robber Bridegroom opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 145 performances
• 10 Oct 1976 New Jersey Meadowlands' (New York Giants) Stadium opens.
• 11 Oct 1976 10th Country Music Association Award: Mel Tillis wins
• 12 Oct 1976 4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach and land test (ALT) flight
• 13 Oct 1976 A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
• 14 Oct 1976 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman
• 15 Oct 1976 1st debate of major-ticket VP nominees Mondale (D) vs. Dole
• 16 Oct 1976 Toronto Maple Leafs' Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 minutes 54 seconds.
• 18 Oct 1976 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr
• 19 Oct 1976 Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
• 20 Oct 1976 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
• 21 Oct 1976 55th weaapon accord signed
• 22 Oct 1976 Rick Barry (San Francisco), begins then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
• 24 Oct 1976 7th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:10:10
• 25 Oct 1976 5th Enterprise, approach and lands test (ALT) flight
• 26 Oct 1976 Trinidad and Tobago becomes a republic.
• 28 Oct 1976 Train collision at Goes Neth, 7 die
• 30 Oct 1976 Going Up closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 49 performances
• 31 Oct 1976 Javed Miandad, 206 vs. New Zealand, age 19 yrs 141 days

Famous Birthday

• Ryan Reynolds

  Canadian-American actor, best known for his role in the television sitcom "Two Guys, A Girl, and a Pizza Place.

• Alicia Silverstone

  American actress, producer, author, and activist, a star as a teenager in the film "Clueless," 1995.

• Alessandra Sublet

  French TV host and radio presenter, daughter of Joël Sublet, soccer player at the Olympique Lyonnais, and also cousin of Willy Sagnol, who...

• Emily Deschanel

  American actress on television and film, she is the daughter of a cinematographer and an actress.

• Piper Perabo

  American actress.

• Seann William Scott

  American actor.

• Cat Deeley

  English model and television personality.

• Melody Vilbert

  French Beauty Queen, named "Miss Aquitaine," 1994 and "Miss France," for 1995, in a contest that was held on 12/27/1994.

• Carolina Tejera
• Brooke Richards
• Inna Zobova
• Lorène Cazals
• Andrew Scott (actor)
• Blu Cantrell

  Musician.

• Blu Cantrell
• Rena Inoue

  Japanese-American figure skater.

• Rachid Badouri
• Médéric Clain
• Natalia Sokolova
• Marius Colucci
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Famous Deaths

• Barbara Nichols

  Actress (Pajama Game, Loved One), dies at 46.

• Nikolai Lopatnikoff

  Composer, dies at 73.

• Connie Boswell

  Actress (Artists & Models), dies at 68.

• Richard Sturzenegger

  Composer, dies at 70.

• Raymond Queneau [M Presle]

  French writer (Last Days), dies at 73.

• Deryck Victor Cooke

  Composer, dies at 57.

• Dame Edith Evans

  English actress (Born 1888).

• Silvana Armenulic

  Yugoslavian folk singer (Born 1939).

• Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana

  Telugu writer (Born 1895).

• Walter Warlimont

  German General WWII (Born 1894).

• Edith Evans

  Actress (Tom Jones, Scrooge, Chalk Garden), dies at 88.

• Gilbert Ryle

  English philosopher author and academic (d. 1976).

• Carlo Gambino

  American organized crime figure (Born 1902).

• Alfredo Bracchi

  Italian songwriter and screenwriter (d. 1976).

• Alexander Gray

  Singer (This is Music), dies at 74.

• Linda Watkins

  Actress (From Hell it Came, Harpy), dies at 68.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
2. Walter Murphy - A Fifth Of Beethoven
3. Rick Dees - Disco Duck (Part 1)
4. Chicago - If You Leave Me Now
5. England Dan and John Ford Coley - I'd Really Love To See You Tonight

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Abba - Dancing Queen
2. Pussycat - Mississippi
3. The Real Thing - Can't Get By Without You
4. Wings - Let 'Em In
5. Demis Roussos - When Forever Has Gone