WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JULY 1976
Find out what all happened January to July 1976

The Troubles: In response to the killing of six Catholics the night before, gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK. (5. January 1976)

The collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, in the United States. (5. June 1976)

Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira. (1. July 1976)

The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy. (10. July 1976)

Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party. (7. April 1976)

The Yuba City bus disaster occurs in Martinez, California. 29 are killed making it the deadliest road accident in U.S. history. (21. May 1976)

The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens. (27. March 1976)

Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest. (4. April 1976)

Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda. (27. June 1976)

The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851. (28. July 1976)

The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament. (4. March 1976)

Capital punishment is abolished in Canada. (14. July 1976)

One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial. (10. July 1976)

The London to Washington, D.C., Concorde service begins. (24. May 1976)

Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. (25. June 1976)

The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration. (13. April 1976)

Lebanese Christian militias overrun Karantina, Beirut, killing at least 1,000. (18. January 1976)

The Judgement of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine. (24. May 1976)

Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals. (27. July 1976)

Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics. (18. July 1976)