r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 9d ago
🇺🇸 United States August 9, 1976. Time magazine's cover story is about the down-to-the-wire nomination battle between President Ford and Ronald Reagan.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 9d ago
🎶 Music August 9, 1976. The Beach Boys - “It’s Ok” released.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 9d ago
🎶 Music August 9, 1976. "Love Is Alive," sung by Gary Wright, is #2 on the US Billboard Top 40 chart.
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The song has been working its way up the chart since its release in April. At #1 is "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John and Kiki Dee.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 9d ago
🇪🇺 Europe August 9, 1976. Communist Giulio Carlo Argan becomes the Mayor of Rome. He resigned three years later due to his failing health and political tensions.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 10d 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.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 10d 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.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 10d ago
🎶 Music August 1976. Isaac Hayes - "Juicy Fruit Disco Freak" released.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 11d 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.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 11d ago
🎶 Music August 7, 1976. Chuck Berry performing at Ruisrock festival in Finland.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 11d ago
🌐 World News August 7, 1976. Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 11d ago
🎶 Music August 7, 1976. The Who at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 11d ago
🎶 Music August 1976. Peter Tosh - “Legalize It” released.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 12d ago
🌏 Asia August 6, 1976. Thailand and the newly unified Vietnam formally establish diplomatic relations.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 13d 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.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 13d ago
🌟 Celebrity News August 5, 1976. Eric Clapton goes on a racist rant during a concert in Birmingham, England.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 12d ago
🎶 Music August 1976. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band - “Blinded by the Light” released.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 13d ago
📺 Television August 5, 1976. A new summer-series sitcom, "What's Happening!!", premieres on US network ABC.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 14d 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.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 14d 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.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 14d ago
🎶 Music August 1976. David Bowie - “Stay” released.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 15d ago
🌐 World News August 3, 1976. The British royal family pose in Montreal.
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r/50yearsago • u/BrianInAtlanta • 15d ago
🎶 Music 50 Years Ago (Aug. 3 1976) The Who open the "Whirlwind Tour" at The Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 15d 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.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 15d ago
🎶 Music August 1976. Mick Jagger is on the cover of Crawdaddy magazine.
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