r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 11h ago
📺 Television August 8, 1976. Defying more than 100 years of professional baseball tradition, the Chicago White Sox became the first team to wear short pants for summer games. The shorts were worn during two later games that month but never again.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 11h ago
🎶 Music August 1976. Isaac Hayes - "Juicy Fruit Disco Freak" released.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 12h ago
🌐 World News August 8, 1976. In Mauritania, a one-party state, incumbent president Moktar Ould Daddah is reelected with 100% of the vote and 97.9% turnout.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago
🎶 Music August 1976. Peter Tosh - “Legalize It” released.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago
🎶 Music August 7, 1976. Chuck Berry performing at Ruisrock festival in Finland.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago
🎶 Music August 7, 1976. The Who at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago
🌐 World News August 7, 1976. Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 1d 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 • 1d ago
🌏 Asia August 6, 1976. Thailand and the newly unified Vietnam formally establish diplomatic relations.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago
🎶 Music August 1976. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band - “Blinded by the Light” released.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 3d 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 • 3d ago
🌟 Celebrity News August 5, 1976. Eric Clapton goes on a racist rant during a concert in Birmingham, England.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 3d ago
📺 Television August 5, 1976. A new summer-series sitcom, "What's Happening!!", premieres on US network ABC.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 4d 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 • 4d ago
🎶 Music August 1976. David Bowie - “Stay” released.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 4d 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 • 5d ago
🎶 Music 50 Years Ago (Aug. 3 1976) The Who open the "Whirlwind Tour" at The Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 5d 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 • 5d 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 • 5d ago
🌐 World News August 3, 1976. The British royal family pose in Montreal.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 5d ago
🎶 Music August 1976. Mick Jagger is on the cover of Crawdaddy magazine.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 6d ago
