60 events found for 1976
A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
TWA Flight 355 is hijacked by five Croatian nationalists. The hijackers surrender upon landing in Paris.
An Indian Airlines flight is hijacked by six Kashmiri separatists and diverted to Lahore International Airport, where…
A bomb planted by a Croatian terrorist, Zvonko Bušić, is found at New York's Grand Central Terminal; one NYPD officer…
Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan…
Night of the Pencils: In the city of La Plata, Argentina, a group of high-school students were kidnapped and later…
The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.
Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and…
Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object.
Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C., at the order of Augusto Pinochet.
Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the…
Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.
Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.
Dozens are killed by Thai police and right-wing paramilitaries in the Thammasat University massacre; afterwards, the…
George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies.
Indian Airlines Flight 171 crashes at Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India, killing 95.
The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F.…
A Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano Boeing 707 crashes after takeoff from El Trompillo Airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra,…
The Luling–Destrehan Ferry MV George Prince is struck by the Norwegian freighter SS Frosta while crossing the…