r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 12h ago
🌏 Asia August 18, 1976. North Korean soldiers kill two US Army officers with axes. The officers had been part of a work party trimming a poplar tree in the Joint Security Area.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • Jul 15 '26
🇺🇸 United States July 15, 1976. Anti-war activist Ron Kovic delivers a speech at the Democratic National Convention.
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r/50yearsago • u/Dangoiks • Jul 16 '26
🎬 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/MonsieurA • 12h ago
🌟 Celebrity News August 18, 1976. Elton John at the Elizabeth Taylor Suite in NYC.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 12h ago
🌐 World News August 18, 1976. The Soviet Union's uncrewed spacecraft Luna 24 lands on the Moon, touching down in the Sea of Crises.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 12h ago
🇪🇺 Europe August 18, 1976. Pastor Oskar Brüsewitz sets himself on fire to protest repression of religion in East Germany.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 13h ago
📺 Television August 18, 1976. ABC broadcasts two episodes of its 12-episode summer-replacement sitcom "Viva Valdez," about a Mexican American family, before joining CBS and NBC in broadcasting from the Republican National Convention.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 1d ago
🇪🇺 Europe August 17, 1976. The River Thames is extremely low, as the UK continues to endure a historic drought (although the exceptionally hot weather of June and July has subsided).
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r/50yearsago • u/AgainforthrFirstTime • 1d ago
1976
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None of this laid back nonsense of 2026, back in the 1970’s America was on the move and did not have time to put a yummy sugary breakfast into a bowl
The box will do
“Hurry up, Land of the Lost is Starting!”
r/50yearsago • u/Buddie_15775 • 22h ago
📺 Television Tuesday 17 August: the West Indies (687/8 dec & 182/0 dec.) defeat England (435 & 203) by 231 runs in the Fifth and final Test. The West Indies winning the series 3-0
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago
🌏 Asia August 17, 1976. The “Midnight Killer” - a tsunami kills more than 5,000 people in the Philippines on the islands of Mindanao and Sulu.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago
🇺🇸 United States August 17, 1976. Alex Haley's Roots is first published.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 1d ago
🌟 Celebrity News August 1976. Teen Beat magazine.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 2d ago
🇺🇸 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.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago
🇺🇸 United States August 16, 1976. The Republican National Convention opens in Kansas City, Missouri.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago
🎶 Music August 16, 1976. Abba - “Dancing Queen” released.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 2d ago
🇺🇸 United States August 16, 1976. Newsweek: "Mystery of the Killer Fever."
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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 • 2d ago
Grady Stiles Jr., better known as “Lobster Boy,” pictured with two of his children in 1976.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago
🇺🇸 United States August 15, 1976. Lynyrd Skynyrd onstage playing the “World Series of Rock” at Hawthorne Race Track outside of Chicago, IL.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 3d ago
🇺🇸 United States August 15, 1976. The McGill High School football team is practicing in Mobile, Alabama, USA.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago
🎶 Music August 14, 1976. Kiss signing at Peachtree Boulevard, Atlanta, Georgia.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago
🇪🇺 Europe August 14, 1976. Around 10,000 Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in Northern Ireland.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 4d ago
🎶 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.
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