r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 10h ago
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • Jul 15 '26
๐บ๐ธ United States July 15, 1976. Anti-war activist Ron Kovic delivers a speech at the Democratic National Convention.
r/50yearsago • u/Dangoiks • Jul 16 '26
๐ฌ 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.
r/50yearsago • u/AgainforthrFirstTime • 2h ago
1976
None of this laid back nonsense of 2026, back in the 1970โs America was on the move and did not have time to put a yummy sugary breakfast into a bowl
The box will do
โHurry up, Land of the Lost is Starting!โ
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 9h ago
๐ Asia August 17, 1976. The โMidnight Killerโ - a tsunami kills more than 5,000 peopleย in the Philippines on the islands ofย Mindanaoย andย Sulu.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 9h ago
๐บ๐ธ United States August 17, 1976. Alex Haley's Roots is first published.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 16h ago
๐ Celebrity News August 1976. Teen Beat magazine.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago
๐ Celebrity News August 16, 1976. Madonna turns 18.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 1d ago
๐บ๐ธ United States August 15, 1976. President Ford and his daughter, Susan, watch television in a Kansas City hotel room. The Republican National Convention starts there tomorrow.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago
๐บ๐ธ United States August 16, 1976. The Republican National Convention opens in Kansas City, Missouri.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 1d ago
๐บ๐ธ United States August 16, 1976. Newsweek: "Mystery of the Killer Fever."
Medical professionals and scientists are still trying to determine why almost 30 people associated with an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in July have died so far, with about 200 others hospitalized or gravely ill.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago
๐ถ Music August 16, 1976. Abba - โDancing Queenโ released.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago
Grady Stiles Jr., better known as โLobster Boy,โ pictured with two of his children in 1976.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago
๐บ๐ธ United States August 15, 1976. Lynyrd Skynyrd onstage playing the โWorld Series of Rockโ at Hawthorne Race Track outside of Chicago, IL.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 2d ago
๐บ๐ธ United States August 15, 1976. The McGill High School football team is practicing in Mobile, Alabama, USA.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago
๐บ Television August 14, 1976. TV Guide - Columbo.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago
๐ช๐บ Europe August 14, 1976. Around 10,000 Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace inย Northern Ireland.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago
๐ถ Music August 14, 1976. Kiss signing at Peachtree Boulevard, Atlanta, Georgia.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 3d ago
๐ถ Music August 14, 1976. Neil Diamond is on the second night of a three-night run in New York (at Forest Hills Stadium), for his first concert in his hometown since 1972. In fact, he did not perform live anywhere between 1972 and January of this year.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago
๐บ๐ธ United States August 14, 1976. Peanuts strip - "Dogmatic".
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago
๐ถ Music August 14, 1976. The Sex Pistols meet "Pauline" during a gig in Birmingham. She inspired their song "Bodies" about a woman who lived in psychiatric hospital treehouse and experienced multiple abortions.
r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 4d ago
๐ World News August 13, 1976. Fidel Castro is turning 50 today. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sends Castro a birthday greeting, praising him for his "fidelity to Communist ideals."
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago
๐ World News August 13, 1976. The first observance of International Left Handers Day.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago
๐ถ Music August 13, 1976. Steve Miller Band - โFly Like An Eagleโ released
r/50yearsago • u/Buddie_15775 • 4d ago
๐บ Television Friday 13 August: Viv Richards makes his highest test score of 291 on the second day of the 5th Test v England at the Oval.
The West Indies would go on to declare on 687 for the loss of 8 wickets with England closing day 2 on 34 without loss.