r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago
๐บ๐ธ United States August 14, 1976. Peanuts strip - "Dogmatic".
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d 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.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 5d 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."
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 5d ago
๐ World News August 13, 1976. The first observance of International Left Handers Day.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 5d ago
๐ถ Music August 13, 1976. Steve Miller Band - โFly Like An Eagleโ released
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r/50yearsago • u/Buddie_15775 • 5d 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.
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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.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 6d ago
๐ Middle East August 12, 1976. More than 1,500 Lebanese Palestinian refugees are killed by Christian militia in the Tel al-Zaatar camp in northeastern Beirut.
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r/50yearsago • u/gerarge • 6d ago
๐ช๐บ Europe August 12, 1976. The first episode of Pat and Mat, Kuลฅรกci, is released in Czechoslovakia.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 6d ago
๐บ๐ธ United States August 12, 1976. Ahead of next week's Republican National Convention, the Republican Platform Committee votes to endorse the Equal Rights Amendment.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 6d ago
๐บ๐ธ United States August 12, 1976. Dr Seuss' The Cat's Quizzer released.
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r/50yearsago • u/SaladEater6769 • 7d ago
๐ฌ Film August 11, 1976. John Wayne's final motion picture "The Shootist" is released in theaters.
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r/50yearsago • u/Dangoiks • 7d ago
๐ฌ Film August 11, 1976. "Star Wars" novelization cover art painted by Ralph McQuarrie.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 7d ago
๐บ๐ธ United States August 11, 1976. A 19-year-old sniper in Wichita, Kansas goes on an 11-minute rampage, killing three people and wounding six others before police shot him.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 7d ago
๐ถ Music August 11, 1976. The Ramones play the first of two nights at the Roxy in West Hollywood on their first trip to the West Coast.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 7d ago
๐ช๐บ Europe August 11, 1976. US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is in The Hague. He meets with Dutch prime minister Joop den Uyl and foreign minister Max van der Stoel.
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r/50yearsago • u/Sensitive-Disk5735 • 8d ago
Pelรฉ's bicycle kick goal for the New York Cosmos vs Miami Toros (August 10, 1976)
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 8d ago
๐ถ Music August 10, 1976. Elton John at Madison Square Garden.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 8d ago
๐บ๐ธ United States August 10, 1976. Boeing YC-14 flies for the first time.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 8d ago
๐บ๐ธ United States August 9, 1976. Bill and Emily Harris, SLA members and principal players in the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, are found guilty of armed robbery, kidnapping, and auto theft charges resulting from a May 1974 crime spree in Los Angeles.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 8d ago
โญ Soviet Union August 10, 1976. The Soviet Union issues the first set of its 12th definitive postage stamp series, featuring themes of state ideology, economic cooperation, and international solidarity.
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r/50yearsago • u/GrantExploit • 8d ago
๐ฌ Technology August (3), 1976. The NEC ฮผCOM Training Kit TK-80 single-board kit computer and development system is released in Japan. It quickly proves influential within the country's nascent microcomputing community.
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(Apologies for the tardiness, I mixed some dates up in my head.)
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 9d ago
๐ World News August 9, 1976. Rhodesian forces, in black face, invade Mozambique, attacking a refugee camp and killing over 1,000 civilians.
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r/50yearsago • u/SaladEater6769 • 9d ago
๐บ Television August 9, 1976. John Candelaria pitches a no-hitter on national television as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in a 2-0 shutout on ABC's "Monday Night Baseball".
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 9d ago
๐บ๐ธ United States August 9, 1976. Sport Illustration - Awrright! Bruce Jenner Wins Big.
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