Since the older 35 Years ago thread is buried in the archives, it's time to start a new one.

I remember what I was doing on December 31, 1974.  A fourteen year old, I had looked forward all day for the Big 89 countdown on Chicago's music radio WLS (890 AM).  I liked hearing a rewind of all the best tunes from 1974 as a countdown (this was the third countdown that I stayed up for).  I remember particularly looking forward to the '74 rewind, because there were so many favorite songs for me to look forward to.  I recall watching some retrospective news stories earlier in the day, but don't remember much about them.

Anyone else?

  I was about four years ahead of you, AmericanGirl. I was out of high school, living in a large drafty house. I had a cheap stereo and my two albums were Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", and the Who's "Quadrophenia". They played constantly, to the enjoyment or chagrin of my three roommates. Spent that new years with my then girlfriend...very enjoyable. More so maybe in retrospect.
   

  35 years ago I was 5 y/o and living in southern Oregon with my aunt and uncle.  They ran a dairy farm.  Mom sent me there after the divorce...

  Got a Beatles record for Christmas...

  That's about all I remember...

  I was about four years ahead of you, AmericanGirl. I was out of high school, living in a large drafty house. I had a cheap stereo and my two albums were Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", and the Who's "Quadrophenia". They played constantly, to the enjoyment or chagrin of my three roommates. Spent that new years with my then girlfriend...very enjoyable. More so maybe in retrospect.
   

I was 11+. I remember Goodbye Yellow brick road was such an amazing double-album that year, great songs.
New Years eve my parents had a party (as they usually did). I had a 3 friends sleepover that night, (all girls) and when chatted till 4am.

I guess when I wasn't rolling around in the snow in my snowsuit, I was playing with my new Matchbox cars and listening to my dad bitching incessantly about guys named Nixon and Kennedy.
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January 6th 1975 - "Wheel Of Fortune" debuts on NBC-TV

January 8th 1975 - Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison

January 8th 1975 - Space Mountain opens (Disneyland)

January 8th 1975--My grandpa turns 55, celebrating what would be his last birthday.
January 15th, 1975--My sister is five years away from being born.

When available, I will be posting videos here and on other "years ago threads". Today, we present an Elvis Presley April Fool Dinner set recorded in Las Vegas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0MA8I4c_1s- Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH__TcaMGU8- Part 17

There are many other parts available as well.

A look back at Miss M.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9jwFEu9mNQ

35 yrs ago I was born less 2 days.. Smack dab right in the middle of the decade, middle of the year, and in the summer :D

My dad was transferred (work) had to move from NJ to PA.
I had some good friends and didn't want to move, so
the old man got me a (shelter) DOG!!  ;D

It was the best move ever!!
I loved that dog!!  ;)

August 4th 1975 – The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish chargé d’affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.

September 5th 1975 – Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.

I was starting first grade.

September 5th 1975 – Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.

Squeaky!

Squeaky!


My dad weaved it into his rhetoric as emblematic of what a goof Gerald Ford was:

"Two broads tried to shoot him, one the gun jammed, and the other missed!"

If you don't find that funny then I guess your not as seething, cynical, and misogynistic as my dad, which might make you a remotely pleasant person.
;)

My dad weaved it into his rhetoric as emblematic of what a goof Gerald Ford was:

"Two broads tried to shoot him, one the gun jammed, and the other missed!"

If you don't find that funny then I guess your not as seething, cynical, and misogynistic as my dad, which might make you a remotely pleasant person.
;)

Didn't she have an affiliation with the Manson bunch?

Didn't she have an affiliation with the Manson bunch?


Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme is in the Manson Family.  I say is, not was, because she's still faithful to Charlie.  Manson didn't have anything to do with the incident.  Fromme was screaming something about the plight of the Redwood treas but the gun misfired.  She's still in the poky.  She's escaped from prison a couple of times and I'd still consider her dangerous even if she is 62 now!  Fromme was not present at the murders in 1969, but she was walking around crazy as a loon for five years with Charlie Manson tapes playing in her head.  She was a ticking time bomb!
:o

The other one was Sara Jane Moore, who was obsessed with the Patty Hearst kidnapping and just kind of whacko, shot at Ford and missed.  This in the fall of 1975, just a few weeks after Fromme's attempt.  Moore served her life sentence and was let out for good behavior in 2007 at the age of 77.  IMO, if you try to assassinate the President, you should never get out as long as there's a breath in your body.  I don't care if you discover the cure for cancer in the prison library!

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme is in the Manson Family.  I say is, not was, because she's still faithful to Charlie.  Manson didn't have anything to do with the incident.  Fromme was screaming something about the plight of the Redwood treas but the gun misfired.  She's still in the poky.  She's escaped from prison a couple of times and I'd still consider her dangerous even if she is 62 now!  Fromme was not present at the murders in 1969, but she was walking around crazy as a loon for five years with Charlie Manson tapes playing in her head.  She was a ticking time bomb!
:o

The other one was Sara Jane Moore, who was obsessed with the Patty Hearst kidnapping and just kind of whacko, shot at Ford and missed.  This in the fall of 1975, just a few weeks after Fromme's attempt.   Moore served her life sentence and was let out for good behavior in 2007 at the age of 77.  IMO, if you try to assassinate the President, you should never get out as long as there's a breath in your body.  I don't care if you discover the cure for cancer in the prison library!

I guess the key factor there was that she's 77 and in their view probably did no longer pose a threat. Wonder if they'll let out Mark Chapman at that age. It's been almost 30 years since Lennon's death and I think Chapman was just denied recently.

September 18th 1975 – Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.

Here are the top 50 biggest hits in the U.S. for 1975, according to Billboard magazine:

1 LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER - Captain And Tennille - no. 1
2 RHINESTONE COWBOY - Glen Campbell - no. 1
3 PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM - Elton John - no. 1
4 BEFORE THE NEXT TEARDROP FALLS - Freddy Fender - no. 1
5 MY EYES ADORED YOU - Frankie Valli - no. 1
6 SHINING STAR - Earth, Wind And Fire - no. 1
7 FAME - David Bowie - no. 1
8 LAUGHTER IN THE RAIN - Neil Sedaka - no. 1
9 ONE OF THESE NIGHTS - Eagles - no. 1
10 THANK GOD I'M A COUNTRY BOY - John Denver - no. 1

11 JIVE TALKIN' - Bee Gees - no. 1
12 BEST OF MY LOVE - Eagles - no. 1
13 LOVIN' YOU - Minnie Riperton - no. 1
14 KUNG FU FIGHTING - Carl Douglas - no. 1
15 BLACK WATER - Doobie Brothers - no. 1
16 BALLROOM BLITZ - Sweet
17 (HEY WON'T YOU PLAY) ANOTHER SOMEBODY DONE SOMEBODY WRONG SONG - B.J. Thomas - no. 1
18 HE DON'T LOVE YOU (LIKE I LOVE YOU) - Tony Orlando And Dawn - no. 1
19 AT SEVENTEEN - Janis Ian
20 PICK UP THE PIECES - Average White Band - no. 1

21 THE HUSTLE - Van McCoy And The Soul City Symphony - no. 1
22 LADY MARMALADE - Labelle - no. 1
23 WHY CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS? - War
24 LOVE WON'T LET ME WAIT - Major Harris
25 BOOGIE ON REGGAE WOMAN - Stevie Wonder
26 WASTED DAYS AND WASTED NIGHTS - Freddy Fender
27 FIGHT THE POWER (PART 1) - Isley Brothers
28 ANGIE BABY - Helen Reddy - no. 1
29 JACKIE BLUE - Ozark Mountain Daredevil
30 FIRE - Ohio Players - no. 1

31 MAGIC - Pilot
32 PLEASE MR POSTMAN - Carpenters - no. 1
33 SISTER GOLDEN HAIR - America - no. 1
34 LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS - Elton John - no. 1
35 MANDY - Barry Manilow - no. 1
36 HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW? - Olivia Newton-John - no. 1
37 COULD IT BE MAGIC? - Barry Manilow
38 CAT'S IN THE CRADLE - Harry Chapin - no. 1
39 WILDFIRE - Michael Murphy
40 I'M NOT LISA - Jessi Colter

41 LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID - Wings - no. 1
42 I'M NOT IN LOVE - 10cc
43 I CAN HELP - Billy Swan - no. 1
44 FALLIN' IN LOVE - Hamilton, Joe Frank And Reynolds - no. 1
45 FEELINGS - Morris Albert
46 CHEVY VAN - Sammy Johns
47 WHEN WILL I BE LOVED? - Linda Ronstadt
48 YOU'RE THE FIRST, THE LAST, MY EVERYTHING - Barry White
49 PLEASE MR PLEASE - Olivia Newton-John
50 YOU'RE NO GOOD - Linda Ronstadt - no. 1

And here are the top 20 biggest hits in the UK for the same year:

1 BYE BYE BABY - Bay City Rollers
2 SAILING - Rod Stewart  
3 CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING (BUT MY LOVE) - Stylistics
4 WHISPERING GRASS - Windsor Davies and Don Estelle
5 STAND BY YOUR MAN - Tammy Wynette
6 GIVE A LITTLE LOVE - Bay City Rollers
7 HOLD ME CLOSE - David Essex
8 THE LAST FAREWELL - Roger Whittaker
9 I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU - Art Garfunkel
10 TEARS ON MY PILLOW - Johnny Nash

11 I'M NOT IN LOVE - 10cc
12 BARBADOS - Typically Tropical
13 IF - Telly Savalas
14 THERE GOES MY FIRST LOVE - Drifters
15 THREE STEPS TO HEAVEN - Showaddywaddy
16 THE HUSTLE - Van McCoy
17 SPACE ODDITY - David Bowie
18 JANUARY - Pilot
19 FUNKY MOPED c/w MAGIC ROUNDABOUT - Jasper Carrott
20 MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME) - Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel

September 28th 1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.

the top tv shows of 1975......i'll put an "*" on what i watched...
All in the Family *
Rich Man, Poor Man *
Laverne & Shirley*
Maude *
The Bionic Woman *
Phyllis *
Sanford and Son *
Rhoda *
The Six Million Dollar Man *
The ABC Monday Night Movie
Happy Days *
One Day at a Time *
The ABC Sunday Night Movie
The Waltons
M*A*S*H
Starsky and Hutch *
Good Heavens
Welcome Back, Kotter *
The Mary Tyler Moore Show *
Kojak *

i remeber how tv was so important to me as a kid.....i would buy the tv guide the day it came out to plan my viewing.....today i watch no tv shows in the top 20 cause tv sucks now...
when we had 7 tv stations tv was better cause they had to put on great shows....now any shmo can get a show.

the top tv shows of 1975......i'll put an "*" on what i watched...
All in the Family *
Rich Man, Poor Man *
Laverne & Shirley*
Maude *
The Bionic Woman *
Phyllis *
Sanford and Son *
Rhoda *
The Six Million Dollar Man *
The ABC Monday Night Movie
Happy Days *
One Day at a Time *
The ABC Sunday Night Movie
The Waltons
M*A*S*H
Starsky and Hutch *
Good Heavens
Welcome Back, Kotter *
The Mary Tyler Moore Show *
Kojak *

i remeber how tv was so important to me as a kid.....i would buy the tv guide the day it came out to plan my viewing.....today i watch no tv shows in the top 20 cause tv sucks now...
when we had 7 tv stations tv was better cause they had to put on great shows....now any shmo can get a show.

I remember all of those, except Good Heavens.
Rich man poor man was a mini series.

October 1st 1975 – The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.

October 1st 1975 – Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.

My grandpa died about in the morning of October 4th, thirty five years ago today.

October 10th 1975 – Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.

October 15, 2010----I was in my mother's womb.  Yikes, I'm getting old!  :o

October 16th 1975 – The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.

October 16th  1975 – Rahima Banu, a 2-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.

October 16th 1975 – The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government's annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.

October 16th 1975 – Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.

November 6th 1975 – Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.

November 7th 1975 – In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers took part in an uprising led by Col. Abu Taher that ousted and killed Brig. Khaled Mosharraf. The uprising, hailed as National Revolution and Solidarity Day, also helped Gen. Ziaur Rahman (later President of Bangladesh) to get freed from the house arrest that was enforced by Mosharraf four days ago amid a coup d'état.

November 11th 1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.

November 11th 1975 – Independence of Angola.

November 12th  1975 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.

November 14th 1975 – Spain abandons Western Sahara.

November 20th 1975 – Francisco Franco, Caudillo of Spain, dies after 36 years in power.

November 21st 1975 Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped

November 22nd 1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.

1975 – Johan Ferrier became the first President of Suriname.

1975 - Fred Lynn becomes the 1st rookie to win MVP

November 27th 1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.

1975 – East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.

1975 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes.

1975 - Test Cricket debut of Michael Anthony Holding, WI v Australia Brisbane

1975 – Lambda Theta Phi - The first Latino fraternity is established in New Jersey.

1975 - US president Gerald Ford visits China PR

1975 – Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

1975 - The Central American Mission changed its name to CAM Intentional, after expanding its missionary efforts into Latin America. (This evangelical mission group was founded in 1890 by C.I. Scofield, editor of the Scofield Bible.)

1975 Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford

1975 – John Paul Stevens is appointed a justice of The United States Supreme Court.

1975 - Ron Wood joined the Rolling Stones

1975 – The Tupolev Tu-144, the first commercial aircraft to surpass Mach 2, went into service.

1975 – A bomb explodes at La Guardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.

1976 – Cambodia is renamed the Democratic Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge.

1976 – Ten Protestant civilians are shot dead by a paramilitary group at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland (part of The Troubles).

1976 – Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.

1976 – Lebanese Christian militias overrun Karantina, Beirut, killing at least 1,000.

1976 – Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.

In 1976, I was conceived in my mother's womb.  If it wasn't for The Isley Brothers, I wouldn't be here a year later.

In 1976, I was conceived in my mother's womb.  If it wasn't for The Isley Brothers, I wouldn't be here a year later.


Cool.

Cool.

LMAO!

In 1976, I was conceived in my mother's womb.  If it wasn't for The Isley Brothers, I wouldn't be here a year later.
Was it a harvest for the world that was behind a painted smile?

Was it a harvest for the world that was behind a painted smile?


I think so.  She told me that my father put on some slow song from the Harvest For the World, and, uh, let's just say that sperm said "hello" to the egg.  ;D

I think so.  She told me that my father put on some slow song from the Harvest For the World, and, uh, let's just say that sperm meets egg.  ;D
That album deserves to be listened to today.

That album deserves to be listened to today.

Yeah, it sure does.

Yeah, it sure does.
That will be later in the afternoon for me.

That will be later in the afternoon for me.

Cool

Cool
Let Me Down Easy by The Isley Brothers is a slow number.

Let Me Down Easy by The Isley Brothers is a slow number.

It's either that or At Your Best You Are Loved.  My mom told me that everytime she played that album, she thought of me because she got pregnant with me off of that album.  This was October 1976.

It's either that or At Your Best You Are Loved.  My mom told me that everytime she played that album, she thought of me because she got pregnant with me off of that album.  This was October 1976.
It's alright your secret family story is safe with me!

It's alright your secret family story is safe with me!


;D ;D ;D ;D

;D ;D ;D ;D
Sorry, you can't repeat a karma action without waiting 24 hours.

1976 – In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.

1976 – The Australian Defence Force was formed by the unification of the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force.

1976 – Executive Order 9066 is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4417

1976 - Death of Kathryn Kuhlman, 69, popular American radio and TV evangelist. A member of the American Baptist Convention, Kuhlman's preaching emphasized the healing power of the Holy Spirit.

1976 - Muhammad Ali KOs Jan Pierre Coopman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

1976 – Cuba: national Constitution is proclaimed.

1976 – The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

1976 - Final meeting between Mao tse Tung & Richard Nixon

1976 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London via the British parliament.

1976 - British £ falls below $2 for first time

1976 – Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.

1976 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned, citing personal reasons.

1976 - Princess Margaret separates from the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years

1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.

1976 – The first Land Day protests are held in Israel/Palestine.

1976 - NJ Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator

1976 – Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

1976 – Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the Northeastern U.S..

1976 – The Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect hoax is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore.

1976 – Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.

Here are the top grossing films in the U.S. 35 years ago, in 1976:

Rank; Title; Studio; Actors; Gross
1. Rocky; United Artists; Sylvester Stallone and Talia Shire; $225,235,147
2. A Star is Born; Warner Bros.; Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson; $80,000,000
3. All the President's Men; Warner Bros.; Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman; $70,600,000
4. The Omen; Fox; Gregory Peck and Lee Remick; $60,922,980
5. King Kong; Paramount; Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange, Charles Grodin and René Auberjonois; $52,614,445
6. Silver Streak; Fox; Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh and Richard Pryor; $51,079,064
7. The Enforcer; Warner Bros.; Clint Eastwood; $46,236,000
8. Carrie; United Artists; Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, John Travolta, William Katt, Amy Irving and Nancy Allen; $32,211,330
9. Family Plot; Universal; Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black and William Devane; $23,770,000
10. Marathon Man; Paramount; Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier and Roy Scheider; $21,610,000

'Rocky' was a real 'blockbuster' movie, being way of the runner-up in terms of earnings ...

1976 – An industrial accident in a chemical manufacturing plant near Milan, Italy, resulted in the highest known exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in residential populations, which gave rise to numerous scientific studies and standardized industrial safety regulations.

1976 – One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.

Summer 1976 - an awesome summer for me!  Between my Junior and Senior year of H.S., I was enrolled in a pre-college program at an area college, a program to help potential students learn about engineering.  It was a bit like school, a bit like work, and more fun than either.  We did competitive projects, we sat in lectures (usually good, not boring), we took field trips, we even had a couple social occasions. That program solidified my career interest!  Not to mention that I made some friends there and had a good time.

There was some good music out that summer.  Stuff like Boz Scaggs' Lowdown, Bee Gees' You Should Be Dancing, Cliff Richards' Devil Woman, Jefferson Starship's With Your Love, and Heart's Magic Man, just to name a few.

Ah, sweet sixteen - a good time to be me!  :)

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

1976 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.

1976 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.

1976 – Hank Aaron hits his 755th home run, the final home run of his career.

1976 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
   

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

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.

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

1976 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.

1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.

1976 – Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War

1976 – In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.

1976 – Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.

1976 - The Bee Gee's disco classic 'You Should Be Dancing' moved to the No.1 spot on the US disco chart

1976 – Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.

1976 – Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.

1976 – The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.

1976 – Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.

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.

1976 – Chilean political figure Orlando Letelier was assassinated in Washington, D.C., by DINA agents.

1976 – Seychelles joins the United Nations.

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

1976 – Two bombs placed by CIA-linked anti-Castro Cuban exiles exploded aboard Cubana Flight 455, killing all 78 aboard.

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.

1976 – Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom, by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.

1976 – George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.

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

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.

1976 – Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.

Saturday, 23 October, 1976...

My seventh birthday. I remember getting a really big cake and blowing out the candles.

The Two Ronnies were on tv that night, and I laughed hysterically at the Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town - 'Oi! I wanna word with you!'

Saturday, 23 October, 1976...

My seventh birthday. I remember getting a really big cake and blowing out the candles.

The Two Ronnies were on tv that night, and I laughed hysterically at the Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town - 'Oi! I wanna word with you!'



I got an Action Man.

1976 – The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.

I got an Action Man.


Lucky you!  :)

1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.

1976 – A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.

1976 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.

1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.

1976 – Angola joins the United Nations.

1976 – Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.

1976 – Jamaican reggae musician Bob Marley survived an assassination attempt by unknown assailants.

1976 - In Chicago, the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC) was formally organized. The bulk of membership derived from former affiliates of the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church.

1976 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan's resolution on security of non-Nuclear States.

1976 – Samoa becomes a member of the United Nations.

1976 - "Wonder Woman" debuts on ABC

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

1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated.

1977 – The Kälvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Sweden's history.

1977 – President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.

1977 – A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.

I was pooping in my diapers.

1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.

I was just born 35 years ago.

1977 – Twelve gunmen seized three buildings in Washington, D.C., and took 149 hostages in a 39-hour standoff that ended in only two deaths.

A typical evening's worth of commercials on ABC, the #1 network in the middle of its "Fantasy Era":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSZS0guNGMA

Wow, in 1974 my mother died very suddenly. :\'(  I got my very first job.  It was in the Australian Public Service - I think youin the United States call it the civil service.  I remember listening to a lot of Led Zeppelin, Eagles, Doobie Brothers - we still had black and white television.  Carly Simon and James Taylor were big.  I still lived in country Queensland and quite near my best friend, Jackie, whom I haven't seen in a long, long time.  I wish I could remember what was on television but I seem to remember sneaking in to see The Exorcist at the local drive-in.