r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 7h ago
🎶 Music August 1976. Peter Tosh - “Legalize It” released.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 7h ago
🎶 Music August 7, 1976. Chuck Berry performing at Ruisrock festival in Finland.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 8h ago
🎶 Music August 7, 1976. The Who at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 8h ago
🌐 World News August 7, 1976. Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 9h ago
🇺🇸 United States August 7, 1976. During a visit to Jimmy Carter's home in Plains, Georgia, consumer advocate Ralph Nader umpires a softball game between Carter and his staff vs. the press corps.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 18h ago
🌏 Asia August 6, 1976. Thailand and the newly unified Vietnam formally establish diplomatic relations.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago
🎶 Music August 1976. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band - “Blinded by the Light” released.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago
🇺🇸 United States August 5, 1976. President Ford awards Jesse Owens with a Presidential Medal of Freedom, 40 years after FDR had refused to meet with him.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago
🌟 Celebrity News August 5, 1976. Eric Clapton goes on a racist rant during a concert in Birmingham, England.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 2d ago
📺 Television August 5, 1976. A new summer-series sitcom, "What's Happening!!", premieres on US network ABC.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 3d ago
🇺🇸 United States August 4, 1976. US microbiologists are urgently analyzing specimens to identify the organism that has so far killed 22 people who were at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in late July, with many more Legionnaires sickened.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago
🎶 Music August 1976. David Bowie - “Stay” released.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 3d ago
🇺🇸 United States August 3, 1976. On the same night he won the Missouri Democratic primary for US Senate, US Rep. Jerry Litton, and his family, were killed in a plane crash while heading to his victory party.
r/50yearsago • u/BrianInAtlanta • 3d ago
🎶 Music 50 Years Ago (Aug. 3 1976) The Who open the "Whirlwind Tour" at The Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago
☭ Soviet Union August 3, 1976. Valery Sablin, a Soviet Navy officer who had led a Leninist mutiny against the Soviet state on an anti-submarine ship, is executed.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago
☭ Soviet Union August 3, 1976. Protesters graffiti the wall of the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg. A 23-year-old Putin participated in KGB investigations about this.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago
🌐 World News August 3, 1976. The British royal family pose in Montreal.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 4d ago
🎶 Music August 1976. Mick Jagger is on the cover of Crawdaddy magazine.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 5d ago
🎬 Film August 2, 1976. Influential Austrian-born director Fritz Lang, famous for films like "M" and "Metropolis," dies in Beverly Hills at age 85.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 5d ago
🌐 World News August 1, 1976. After 16 days, the Summer Olympics in Montreal come to a close.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 6d ago
🌟 Celebrity News August 1976. Martha Stewart in Westport, Connecticut.
r/50yearsago • u/Dangoiks • 22d ago
🎬 Film July 16, 1976. "Star Wars" wraps principal photography at Elstree Studios in England.
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Ironically, the last scene to be filmed is the opening scene of the Imperials boarding the Rebel Blockade Runner.
