WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO NOVEMBER 1976
Find out what all happened April to November 1976

Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War (22. July 1976)

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

Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted. (6. September 1976)

In New York, New York, David Berkowitz (aka the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks. (29. July 1976)

The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C. (13. October 1976)

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

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

The Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect, soon revealed as an April Fools' Day hoax, is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore. (1. April 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 Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom. (29. June 1976)

Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet. (21. September 1976)

A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground). (13. October 1976)

History of East Timor: East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia. (17. July 1976)

An earthquake strikes the Friuli region of northeastern Italy, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages. (6. 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)

Fall of the Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. (2. July 1976)

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

Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong's successor as chairman of Communist Party of China, following the latter's death barely a month earlier. (7. October 1976)

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