Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China. Date: October 6, 1976 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 6 📅 Events on this day in 1976 📅 On This Day (Today)
Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group. Date: October 6, 1976 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 6 📅 Events on this day in 1976 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: September 22, 1976 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 22 📅 Events on this day in 1976 📅 On This Day (Today)
Seychelles joins the United Nations. Date: September 21, 1976 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 21 📅 Events on this day in 1976 📅 On This Day (Today)
Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C., at the order of Augusto Pinochet. Date: September 21, 1976 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 21 📅 Events on this day in 1976 📅 On This Day (Today)
Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object. Date: September 19, 1976 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 19 📅 Events on this day in 1976 📅 On This Day (Today)
Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew. Date: September 19, 1976 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 19 📅 Events on this day in 1976 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA. Date: September 17, 1976 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 17 📅 Events on this day in 1976 📅 On This Day (Today)
Night of the Pencils: In the city of La Plata, Argentina, a group of high-school students were kidnapped and later tortured, raped and murdered during the Argentinian military dictatorship Date: September 16, 1976 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 16 📅 Events on this day in 1976 📅 On This Day…
Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir. Date: September 16, 1976 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 16 📅 Events on this day in 1976 📅 On This Day (Today)