WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1976
Find out what all happened January to December 1976

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi. (6. August 1976)

The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars. (20. July 1976)

The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation. (4. January 1976)

New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China. (6. October 1976)

Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal. (19. September 1976)

The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) is founded. (26. December 1976)

The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial. (28. June 1976)

A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated. (8. November 1976)

The 1976 Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people. (24. November 1976)

Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the Northeastern U.S.. (1. April 1976)

Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew. (19. September 1976)

The first Land Day protests are held in Israel/Palestine. (30. March 1976)

Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST). (4. October 1976)

Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjom, South Korea. (21. August 1976)

The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA. (17. September 1976)

The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain. (8. May 1976)

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

Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir. (16. September 1976)

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

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