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From top to bottom, left to right:Mao Zedong dies, ending a political era in China; the1976 Tangshan earthquake kills over 240,000 people; the1976 Summer Olympics inMontreal face boycotts and controversy; the1976 Argentine coup d'état topplesIsabel Perón; Israel’sEntebbe raid rescues hostages inUganda; theMV George Prince ferry disaster kills 78 people in Louisiana; the U.S. celebrates itsBicentennial; the1976 Cavalese cable car crash in Italy kills 43; and the debut ofVHS transforms home video.

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1976 in variouscalendars
Gregorian calendar	1976 MCMLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2729
Armenian calendar	1425 ԹՎ ՌՆԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	6726
Baháʼí calendar	132–133
Balinese saka calendar	1897–1898
Bengali calendar	1382–1383
Berber calendar	2926
British Regnal year	24 Eliz. 2 – 25 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2520
Burmese calendar	1338
Byzantine calendar	7484–7485
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 4673 or 4466 — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4674 or 4467
Coptic calendar	1692–1693
Discordian calendar	3142
Ethiopian calendar	1968–1969
Hebrew calendar	5736–5737
Hindu calendars
-Vikram Samvat	2032–2033
-Shaka Samvat	1897–1898
-Kali Yuga	5076–5077
Holocene calendar	11976
Igbo calendar	976–977
Iranian calendar	1354–1355
Islamic calendar	1395–1397
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 51 (昭和５１年)
Javanese calendar	1907–1908
Juche calendar	65
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4309
Minguo calendar	ROC 65 民國65年
Nanakshahi calendar	508
Thai solar calendar	2519
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Wood-Hare) 2102 or 1721 or 949 — to — མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dragon) 2103 or 1722 or 950
Unix time	189302400 – 220924799

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1976 (MCMLXXVI) was aleap year starting on Thursday of theGregorian calendar, the 1976th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 976th year of the2nd millennium, the 76th year of the20th century, and the 7th year of the1970s decade.

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January

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January 2 – TheInternational Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.^[1]
January 5 – ThePol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution forDemocratic Kampuchea.^[2]
January 16 – A locomotive crashes into the rear of a commuter train inGlenbrook,Australia, killing one person onboard and injuring ten others in the1976 Glenbrook rail accident.^[3]
January 18 – Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after theBangladesh Liberation War.^[4]
January 27
- The United States vetoes aUnited Nations resolution that calls for an independentPalestinian state.^[5]
- Western Sahara War: TheFirst Battle of Amgala breaks out between Morocco and Algeria in the Spanish Sahara.^[6]

February

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February 4
- The1976 Winter Olympics begin inInnsbruck, Austria.^[7]
- The 7.5M_w Guatemala earthquake affectsGuatemala andHonduras with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 23,000 dead and 76,000 injured.
February 9 – TheAustralian Defence Force is formed by unification of theAustralian Army, theRoyal Australian Navy and theRoyal Australian Air Force.
February 13 – GeneralMurtala Mohammed ofNigeria is assassinated in a military coup.
February 24 –Cuba'sconstitution of 1976 is enacted.^[8]
February 26 – TheSpanish Armed Forces withdraw fromWestern Sahara.
February 27 – ThePolisario Front,Western Sahara's nationalliberation movement, declares independence of the territory under the name "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic".

March

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March – TheCray-1, the first commercially developedsupercomputer, is released bySeymour Cray'sCray Research, with the first purchaser being theEnergy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) inLos Alamos, New Mexico.^[9]
March 1
- U.K. Home SecretaryMerlyn Rees endsSpecial Category Status for those sentenced for scheduledterrorist crimes relating to the civil violence inNorthern Ireland.
- 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 theFBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
March 4
- TheNorthern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved inNorthern Ireland, resulting inDirect rule over Northern Ireland by theGovernment of the United Kingdom in London.
- TheMaguire Seven are found guilty in London of possessing explosives for use by the Provisional Irish Republican Army and subsequently jailed for 14 years; their convictions were overturned in 1991.
March 9 –A cable car disaster occurs when a supporting cable breaks inCavalese, Italy, resulting in 43 deaths.^[10]
March 9–11 – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine, inLetcher County, Kentucky.
March 16 –Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.^[11]
March 20 –Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of aSan Francisco bank in1974.
March 24
- Argentina military forcesdepose presidentIsabel Perón.
- Ageneral strike takes place in thePeople's Republic of the Congo.
March 26
- The Body Shop, the retail chain forskin care products andcosmetics founded byAnita Roddick, opens its first branch inBrighton,England.^[12]
March 27
- TheSouth African Defence Force withdraws fromAngola and concludesOperation Savannah.
- The first 7.4 kilometres (4.6 mi) of theWashington Metro subway system opens.
March 29 – Themilitary dictatorship of GeneralJorge Videla comes to power inArgentina.
March 31 – TheNew Jersey Supreme Court rules that patient in apersistent vegetative state in theKaren Ann Quinlan case can be disconnected from herventilator. She remains comatose and dies in1985.

April

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April 1
- Apple Computer Company is formed bySteve Jobs andSteve Wozniak in California.
- Conrail (Consolidated Rails Corporation) is formed by the U.S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that have filed for bankruptcy protection. Conrail takes control at midnight, as a government-owned and operated railroad until1986, when it is sold to the public.
- TheJovian–Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by British astronomerPatrick Moore.
April 2 –Norodom Sihanouk is forced to resign as Head of State of Kampuchea by theKhmer Rouge led byPol Pot and is placed under house arrest.
April 3 – TheEurovision Song Contest 1976 is won byBrotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their songSave Your Kisses for Me.
April 5
- James Callaghan becomesPrime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- Tiananmen Incident: Large crowds lay wreaths at Beijing'sMonument of the Martyrs to commemorate the death of PremierZhou Enlai. Poems against theGang of Four are also displayed, provoking a police crackdown.
- Segovia prison break: in Spain's largest prison break since theSpanish Civil War, 29 political prisoners escape fromSegovia prison.
April 12
- The1976 West Bank local elections were held.
April 13
- TheLapua Cartridge Factory explosion inLapua, Finland kills 40.^[13]
- TheUnited States Treasury Department reintroduces thetwo-dollar bill as aFederal Reserve Note onThomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of theUnited States Bicentennial celebration.
April 16 – As a measure to curbpopulation growth, the minimum age for marriage in India is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.
April 19 – Aviolent F5 tornado strikes aroundBrownwood, Texas, injuring 11 people. Two people were thrown at least 1,000 yards (910 m) by the tornado and survived uninjured.^[14]
April 21 – TheGreat Bookie Robbery inMelbourne, Australia: Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.
April 25 – Portugal'snew constitution is enacted.
April 29 –Sino-Soviet split: A concealed bomb explodes at the gates of the Soviet embassy in China, killing four Chinese.^[15] The targets were embassy employees, returning from lunch, but on this day they had returned to the embassy earlier.^[15]

May

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May 1 –Neville Wran becomesPremier of New South Wales.
May 4
- The firstLAGEOS (Laser Geodynamics Satellite) is launched.
- A train crash inSchiedam, the Netherlands, kills 24 people.
May 6 – Anearthquake hits the Friuli area in Italy, killing more than 900 people and making another 100,000 homeless.
May 9 –Ulrike Meinhof of theRed Army Faction is found hanged in an apparent suicide in her Stuttgart-Stammheim prison cell.
May 11
- U.S. PresidentGerald Ford signs theFederal Election Campaign Act.
- An accident involving a tanker truck carryinganhydrous ammonia takes place inHouston, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 7 people.^[16]
May 13 – TheAtari video arcade gameBreakout is released.
May 16 – TheMontreal Canadiens sweep thePhiladelphia Flyers in four games to win theStanley Cup in ice hockey.
May 21 – TheYuba City bus disaster, the second-worst bus crash in U.S. history, leaves 28 students and one teacher killed.
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 – U.S. PresidentGerald Ford defeats challengerRonald Reagan in 3Republican presidential primaries:Kentucky,Tennessee andOregon.
May 30 –Indianapolis 500 automobile race:Johnny Rutherford wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or 408 kilometres (254 mi).
May 31 – Syriaintervenes in the Lebanese Civil War in opposition to thePalestine Liberation Organization, which it has previously supported.

June

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June 1 – The United Kingdom andIceland end theThird Cod War, with the UK accepting Iceland's extension of its territorial waters to 200 nautical miles in exchange for defined fishing rights.
June 2
- A car bomb fatally injuresArizona Republic reporterDon Bolles.
- ThePhilippine government opens relations with theSoviet Union.
June 4 – TheBoston Celtics defeat thePhoenix Suns 128–126 in triple overtime in Game 5 of theNational Basketball Association Finals at theBoston Garden. In 1997, the game is selected by a panel of experts as the greatest of the NBA's first 50 years.
June 5 – TheTeton Dam collapses in southeastIdaho in the US, killing 11 people.
June 6 – TheDouble Six Crash, a plane crash inKota Kinabalu,Malaysia, kills everyone on board, includingSabahan Chief Minister Tun Fuad Stephens.
June 12 –Alberto Demicheli, a jurist, is inaugurated as a civiliande facto President of Uruguay afterJuan María Bordaberry is deposed by the military.
June 13 – Savage thunderstorms roll through the state ofIowa, spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5tornado that destroys the town ofJordan.
June 16 – TheSoweto uprising in South Africa begins.
June 20
- Hundreds of Western tourists are moved fromBeirut and taken to safety inSyria by the U.S. military, following the murder of the U.S. Ambassador.
- General elections are held in Italy, resulting in the best result for the Communist Party (PCI) in a general election.
- Czechoslovakia beatsWest Germany 5–3 onpenalties to winEuro 76 when the game ends 2–2 after extra time.
June 25 – Strikes start in Poland (Ursus,Radom,Płock) after communists raisefood prices; they end onJune 30.
June 26 – TheCN Tower is opened in Toronto, the tallest free-standing land structure opens to the public.
June 27
- G-6 is renamed "Group of 7" (G-7) with the inclusion of Canada.
- Palestinian militantshijack anAir France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it toEntebbe,Uganda.
June 29
- Seychelles gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- TheConference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes inEast Berlin.

July

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Italian tall shipAmerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor during theUnited States Bicentennial celebration.

July 2 –North Vietnam dissolves theProvisional Government ofSouth Vietnam and unites the two countries to form theSocialist Republic ofVietnam.
July 3
- Gregg v. Georgia: TheSupreme Court of the United States rules that thedeath penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment overturning theFurman v. Georgia case of1972.
- Thegreat heat wave in the United Kingdom, which is currently suffering from drought conditions, reaches its peak.
July 4
- The U.S. celebrates itsbicentennial, in recognition of the 200th anniversary of the 1776 adoption of theUnited States Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.
- Entebbe Raid:Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held byPalestinian hijackers of anAir France plane atUganda'sEntebbe Airport;Yonatan Netanyahu and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.
July 6 – The first class of women is inducted at theUnited States Naval Academy inAnnapolis, Maryland.
July 7
- German left-wing women terrorists Monika Berberich, Gabriella Rollnick, Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett escape from the Lehrter Straße maximum security prison inWest Berlin.
- David Steel becomes leader of the UK's Liberal Party in the aftermath ofthe scandal which forced outJeremy Thorpe.
July 10
- Fourmercenaries, three British and one American, are shot by firing squad inAngola, following theLuanda Trial.
- Seveso disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant in Seveso, Italy, causes extensive pollution to a large area in the neighborhood of Milan, with many evacuations and a large number of people affected by the toxic cloud.
July 12 – In the United States:
- California State University, Fullerton massacre: seven people are shot and killed, and two others are wounded in amass shooting on campus atCalifornia State University, Fullerton.
- Price Club, as predecessor ofCostco, a worldwide membership-registration-only retailer, is founded inCalifornia.^[17]
July 15
- Jimmy Carter is nominated for U.S. president at theDemocratic National Convention in New York City.
- Twenty-six Chowchilla schoolchildren and their bus driver areabducted and buried in a box truck within a quarry in Livermore, California. The captives dig themselves free after 16 hours. The quarry-owner's son and two accomplices are arrested for the crime.
July 16–20 –Albert Spaggiari and his gang break into the vault of the Société Generale Bank inNice, France.
July 17
- The1976 Summer Olympics begin inMontreal, Quebec, Canada.
- East Timor is declared the27th province ofIndonesia.
July 18 – 14-year-old Romanian gymnastNadia Comăneci earns the first of seven perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
July 19 –Sagarmatha National Park inNepal is created.
July 20
- Viking program: TheViking 1 lander successfully lands onMars.
- American criminalGary Gilmore is arrested for murdering two men in Utah.
July 21 – AProvisional Irish Republican Army bomb killsChristopher Ewart-Biggs, new British ambassador to the Irish Republic, and Judith Cooke, a Northern Ireland Office private secretary, in Dublin; two others are seriously wounded but survive.
July 26 – In Los Angeles,Ronald Reagan announces his choice of liberal U.S. SenatorRichard Schweiker as his vice presidential running mate, in an effort to woo moderateRepublican delegates away from PresidentGerald Ford.
July 27
- The United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with its former colonyUganda in response to the hijacking ofAir France Flight 139.
- Delegates attending anAmerican Legion convention atThe Bellevue-Stratford Hotel inPhiladelphia, US, begin falling ill with a form ofpneumonia: this will eventually be recognised as the firstoutbreak ofLegionnaires' disease and will end in the deaths of 29 attendees.
July 28 – TheTangshan earthquake flattensTangshan, China, killing 242,769 people, and injuring 164,851.
July 29 – In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing one and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.
July 30
- Bruce Jenner wins the gold medal in the men'sdecathlon at the1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.^[18]
- InSantiago, Chile,Cruzeiro from Brazil beatsRiver Plate from Argentina and are theCopa Libertadores de América champions inAssociation football.
July 31
- NASA releases the famousFace on Mars photo, taken byViking 1.
- TheBig Thompson River in northern Colorado floods, destroying more than 400 cars and houses and killing 143 people.

August

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Tsunami damage atbarangay Tibpuan, Lebak, Mindanao

August 1
- The1976 Summer Olympics ends inMontreal, Quebec, Canada.
- Trinidad and Tobago becomes arepublic, replacingElizabeth II as itshead of state withPresident Ellis Clarke.
- Defending F1 World ChampionNiki Lauda suffers serious burns in theGerman Grand Prix after a huge accident that nearly cost him his life.
August 2 – A gunman murdersAndrea Wilborn andStan Farr and injuresPriscilla Davis and Gus Gavrel, in an incident at Priscilla's mansion inFort 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.
August 5 – The clock of "Big Ben" at thePalace of Westminster in London suffers internal damage and requires frequent repairs. The clock is stopped at times on 26 of the next 275 days.
August 6 – Former United Kingdom Postmaster GeneralJohn Stonehouse is sentenced to 7 years' jail for fraud, theft and forgery.
August 7 –Viking program:Viking 2 enters into orbit aroundMars.
August 8 – As part of theAmerican 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 11 – A sniper rampage inWichita, Kansas on aHoliday Inn results in 3 deaths while 7 others are wounded.^[19]
August 14
- Around 10,000 Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace inNorthern Ireland.
- TheSenegalese political partyPAI-Rénovation is legally recognized, becoming the third legal party in the country.
August 17 – The 8.0 M_w Moro Gulf earthquake hits off the coast ofMindanao,Philippines, triggering a destructive tsunami, killing between 5,000 and 8,000 people and leaving more than 90,000 homeless.^[20]
August 18 – At Panmunjom,North Korea, two United States soldiers are killed while trying tochop down part of a tree in theKorean Demilitarized Zone which has obscured their view.
August 19 – U.S. PresidentGerald Ford edges out challengerRonald Reagan to win theRepublican Party presidential nomination inKansas City.
August 24 – InUruguay, the army captures Marcelo Gelman and his pregnant wife. Gelman is later killed and his wife disappears.
August 25
- Jacques Chirac resigns asPrime Minister of France; he is succeeded byRaymond Barre.
- Landslide disaster inSau Mau Ping, Hong Kong.
August 26
- The first known outbreak ofEbola virus occurs inYambuku,Zaire.
- Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of QueenJuliana of the Netherlands, resigns from various posts over a scandal involving alleged corruption in connection with business dealings with theLockheed Corporation.
August 30 –James Alexander George Smith McCartney is sworn in as the firstchief minister of theTurks and Caicos Islands.

September

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September 1
- Cigarette and tobacco advertising is banned on Australian television and radio.
- Aparicio Méndez, a jurist, is inaugurated as a civiliande factoPresident of Uruguay in the framework of a dictatorship.
- Thestate of emergency in theRepublic of Ireland legally still in force since1939 is lifted.^[21]
September 3
- Viking program: TheViking 2 spacecraft lands atUtopia Planitia onMars, taking the first close-up color photographs of the planet's surface.
- ALockheed C-130 Hercules of theVenezuelan Air Force crashed nearLajes Field,Azores Islands, Portugal, killing all 68 occupants on board.^[22]
September 6
- Cold War:Soviet Air Force pilot Lt.Viktor Belenko lands aMiG-25 jet fighter atHakodate, on the island ofHokkaidō in Japan, and requestspolitical asylum in the United States.
- Frank Sinatra bringsJerry Lewis's former partnerDean Martin onstage, unannounced, at the 1976Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon inLas Vegas, reuniting the comedy team for the first (and only) time in over 20 years.
September 9 –Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong dies inBeijing after a series of heart attacks.
September 10 –Zagreb mid-air collision: ABritish Airways Trident and aYugoslav DC-9 collide nearZagreb,Yugoslavia (modern-dayZagreb, Croatia), killing all 176 aboard.
September 15 –Darryl Sittler scores the winning goal in the1976 Canada Cup for Canada to win over Czechoslovakia in overtime, to win the first Canada Cup in ice hockey.
September 16
- Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into aYerevan reservoir.
- Beginning with theNight of the Pencils, a series of kidnappings andforced disappearances followed by torture, rape, and murder of students under theArgentine dictatorship takes place.
September 17 – The space shuttleEnterprise is rolled out of a hangar inPalmdale, California, United States.
September 21
- TheSeychelles join theUnited Nations.
- Orlando Letelier isassassinated in Washington, D.C. by agents ofChilean dictatorAugusto Pinochet.
September 24 –Patty Hearst is sentenced to seven years in prison for her role in the armed robbery of aSan Francisco bank in1974 (an executive clemency order from U.S. PresidentJimmy Carter will set her free after only 22 months).

October

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October 4: TheInterCity 125 high-speed train is introduced in the UK; services begin two days later.

October 4 – TheInterCity 125 high-speed train is introduced in the United Kingdom.
October 6
- Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 crashes due to a bomb placed byanti-Fidel Castro terrorists, after taking off fromBridgetown, Barbados; all 73 people on board are killed.^[23]
- Students gathering atThammasat University inBangkok,Thailand aremassacred, while protesting the return of ex-dictatorThanom Kittikachorn by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
- InSan Francisco, during his second televised debate withJimmy Carter, U.S. PresidentGerald Ford incorrectly declares that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" (there is at the time).
- TheCultural Revolution in China concludes upon the capture of theGang of Four.
October 8 –Thorbjörn Fälldin replacesOlof Palme asPrime Minister ofSweden.
October 10 – Taiwan GovernorHsieh Tung-min is injured by a letter bomb from a pro-independence activist.
October 12 – The People's Republic of China announces thatHua Guofeng is the successor toMao Zedong asChairman of the Chinese Communist Party following the latter's death on September 9 from aheart attack.
October 13 – TheUnited States Commission on Civil Rights releases the report,Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future, that documents thatPuerto 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 includingPuerto Rico, a U.S. territory).
October 19
- TheBattle of Aishiya is fought inLebanon.
- TheCopyright Act of 1976 extendscopyright duration for an additional 19 years in the United States.
- TheChimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is placed on the list of endangered species.
October 20 – TheMississippi River ferryMVGeorge Prince is struck by a ship while crossing fromDestrehan, Louisiana toLuling, Louisiana, killing 78 passengers and crew.
October 22 –Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, the 5thPresident of Ireland, resigns after being publicly insulted by the Minister for Defense.
October 26 –Transkei gains "independence" fromSouth Africa.

November

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November 2 –1976 United States presidential election:Jimmy Carter narrowly defeats incumbentGerald Ford, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since theCivil War.
November 6 -Uttawar forced sterilisations:Mass vasectomy of nearly 800 men of Uttawar village,Palwal district, Haryana during India'sEmergency imposed byIndira Gandhi.^[24]
November 12 –Disappearance of Renee MacRae and her 3-year-old son Andrew fromInverness in Scotland; this becomes Britain's longest-running missing persons case.^[25]
November 15 – The firstmegamouth shark is discovered offOʻahu in Hawaiʻi.
November 19 –Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government ofMadeira, Portugal.
November 24 –1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake: Between 4,000 and 5,000 are killed in a 7.3M_s earthquake atVan andMuradiye in eastern Turkey.
November 26
- Microsoft is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State ofNew Mexico.
- TheWarsaw Treaty Organization joint secretariat is established.

December

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December 1
- Angola joins theUnited Nations.
- José López Portillo takes office asPresident of Mexico.
- SirDouglas Nicholls is appointed the 28thGovernor of South Australia, the firstAustralian Aboriginal appointed tovice-regal office.
December 3 –Patrick Hillery is sworn in after being elected unopposed as the 6thPresident of Ireland.
December 5 – TheJapanese general election takes place, and the rulingLiberal Democratic Party loses its majority in the 511-memberHouse of Representatives, but remains the largest party with 249 seats.
December 6 – TheViet Cong is disbanded, and its former members become a part of theVietnam People's Army.
December 8 – TheCongressional Hispanic Caucus is established by the five Latinos in the United States Congress:Herman Badillo of the Bronx, E. de la Garza andHenry B. Gonzalez of Texas,Edward R. Roybal of California, and the nonvoting Resident Commissioner ofPuerto Rico,Baltasar Corrada del Río.
December 10 – TheUnited Nations General Assembly adopts theConvention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.
December 15
- Samoa joins theUnited Nations.
- Denis Healey announces to the British Parliament that he has successfully negotiated a £2.3bn loan from theInternational Monetary Fund.
December 23 – A new volcano,Murara, erupts in easternZaire.

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Random breath testing is introduced in Victoria (Australia).
The firstlaser printer is introduced byIBM (the IBM 3800).
TheNew Jersey Legislature passes legislation legalizing casinos in the shore town ofAtlantic City commencing in1978. After signing the bill into law,Governor Brendan Byrne declares "Themob is not welcome in New Jersey!" referring to the Mafia's influence at casinos inNevada.

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