Every so often, when I listen to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire", I stop to think about the different things that have happened during my lifetime. For the hell of it, I'm looking some of the information up. The stuff that I find interesting will be posted in a series of articles, starting with the year I was born (1976).
Let's see if any of this is even remotely interesting.
*Leap year
January
*The first commercially developed supercomputer, named the Cray-1, is released.
*1/11-The Philadelphia Flyers-Red Army game ends in a 4-1 victory in favor of the Flyers. The opposing team is HC CSKA Moscow.
*1/18-Super Bowl X: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys 21-17. The game is held in Miami.
*1/19-The Iowa Democratic Caucus is won by Jimmy Carter.
*1/21-First commercial Concorde flight.
*1/27-The IRA explodes 12 bombs in the West End of London.
February
*2/4-The 1976 Winter Olympics begin. It's held in Innsbruck, Austria.
*2/11-Clifford Alexander, Jr. becomes the first black Secretary of the United States Army.
March
*3/4-The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissoled. The British Parliament now has direct rule of Northern Ireland.
*3/26-The Toronto Blue Jays are formed.
April
*4/1-Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak form Apple Computer Company.
*4/1-The U.S. government forms Conrail in order to take control of 13 Class-1 railroads in the Northeast, who had filed for bankruptcy.
*4/5-Tiananment Incidnt
*4/13-The U.S. Treasury reintroduces the two-dollar bill.
*4/23-The Ramones release their first self-titled album.
*4/23-Jethro Tull releases Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!.
May
*5/25-Gerald Ford defeats Ronald Reagan in the Kentucky, Tennessee and Oregon primaries.
*5/30-Johnny Rutherford wins the shortest Indy 500 race. It went 102 laps, equal to 255 miles. Rain caused the race to be shortened.
June
*6/4-The Boston Celtics beat the Phoenix Suns 128-126 in triple Overtime in Game 5 of the NBA Finals, held at the Boston Garden.
*6/5-The Teton Dam collapses in Idaho. 11 people die.
*6/17-The NBA and ABA agree on a merger.
July
*7/2-The South Vietnamese Provisional Government is dissolved by North Vietnam, uniting the two countries.
*7/4-American Bicentennial
*7/15-Jimmy Carter is nominated by the DNC in NYC for the Presidency.
*7/17-The Summer Olympics starts in Montreal.
*7/20-Viking 1 successfully lands on Mars.
*7/29-The first "Son of Sam" attack in NYC.
*7/31-NASA releases the Face on Marts photo, which was taken by Viking 1.
August
*8/1-Trinidad and Tobago becomes a republic.
*8/1-The Seattle Seahawks play their first game.
*8/5-Big Ben has internal damage. It stops running for over 9 months.
*8/7-Viking 2 enters Mars' orbit.
September
*9/25-U2 is formed by Larry Mullen, Jr.
October
*10/6-President Gerald Ford sumbles during a the 2nd televised debate with Jimmy Carter. Ford claims there isn't Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.
*10/19-The Chimpanzee is placed on the endangered species list.
*10/20-The MV George Prince, a ferry on the Mississippi River, is hit by a ship while crossing to Luling, Louisiana. 78 passengers are killed.
November
*11/2-Jimmy Carter defeats Gerald Ford in the U.S. presidential election.
*11/15-First megamouth shark is discovered near Oahu, Hawaii
*11/24-Caldiran-Muradiye earthquake. 3,840 people killed. Registered 7.3 on the Richter scale.
*11/26-Microsoft is registered with the Secretary of State of New Mexico.
December
*12/3-Bob Marley and his manager are shot in an assassination attempt.
*12/8-The Eagles release "Hotel California".
*12/20-Mayor Richard J. Daley, Chicago, dies.
More to come?
January
*The first commercially developed supercomputer, named the Cray-1, is released.
*1/11-The Philadelphia Flyers-Red Army game ends in a 4-1 victory in favor of the Flyers. The opposing team is HC CSKA Moscow.
*1/18-Super Bowl X: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys 21-17. The game is held in Miami.
*1/19-The Iowa Democratic Caucus is won by Jimmy Carter.
*1/21-First commercial Concorde flight.
*1/27-The IRA explodes 12 bombs in the West End of London.
February
*2/4-The 1976 Winter Olympics begin. It's held in Innsbruck, Austria.
*2/11-Clifford Alexander, Jr. becomes the first black Secretary of the United States Army.
March
*3/4-The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissoled. The British Parliament now has direct rule of Northern Ireland.
*3/26-The Toronto Blue Jays are formed.
April
*4/1-Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak form Apple Computer Company.
*4/1-The U.S. government forms Conrail in order to take control of 13 Class-1 railroads in the Northeast, who had filed for bankruptcy.
*4/5-Tiananment Incidnt
*4/13-The U.S. Treasury reintroduces the two-dollar bill.
*4/23-The Ramones release their first self-titled album.
*4/23-Jethro Tull releases Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!.
May
*5/25-Gerald Ford defeats Ronald Reagan in the Kentucky, Tennessee and Oregon primaries.
*5/30-Johnny Rutherford wins the shortest Indy 500 race. It went 102 laps, equal to 255 miles. Rain caused the race to be shortened.
June
*6/4-The Boston Celtics beat the Phoenix Suns 128-126 in triple Overtime in Game 5 of the NBA Finals, held at the Boston Garden.
*6/5-The Teton Dam collapses in Idaho. 11 people die.
*6/17-The NBA and ABA agree on a merger.
July
*7/2-The South Vietnamese Provisional Government is dissolved by North Vietnam, uniting the two countries.
*7/4-American Bicentennial
*7/15-Jimmy Carter is nominated by the DNC in NYC for the Presidency.
*7/17-The Summer Olympics starts in Montreal.
*7/20-Viking 1 successfully lands on Mars.
*7/29-The first "Son of Sam" attack in NYC.
*7/31-NASA releases the Face on Marts photo, which was taken by Viking 1.
August
*8/1-Trinidad and Tobago becomes a republic.
*8/1-The Seattle Seahawks play their first game.
*8/5-Big Ben has internal damage. It stops running for over 9 months.
*8/7-Viking 2 enters Mars' orbit.
September
*9/25-U2 is formed by Larry Mullen, Jr.
October
*10/6-President Gerald Ford sumbles during a the 2nd televised debate with Jimmy Carter. Ford claims there isn't Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.
*10/19-The Chimpanzee is placed on the endangered species list.
*10/20-The MV George Prince, a ferry on the Mississippi River, is hit by a ship while crossing to Luling, Louisiana. 78 passengers are killed.
November
*11/2-Jimmy Carter defeats Gerald Ford in the U.S. presidential election.
*11/15-First megamouth shark is discovered near Oahu, Hawaii
*11/24-Caldiran-Muradiye earthquake. 3,840 people killed. Registered 7.3 on the Richter scale.
*11/26-Microsoft is registered with the Secretary of State of New Mexico.
December
*12/3-Bob Marley and his manager are shot in an assassination attempt.
*12/8-The Eagles release "Hotel California".
*12/20-Mayor Richard J. Daley, Chicago, dies.
More to come?
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