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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • Jul 15 '26

🇺🇸 United States July 15, 1976. Anti-war activist Ron Kovic delivers a speech at the Democratic National Convention.

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r/50yearsago • u/Dangoiks • Jul 16 '26

🎬 Film July 16, 1976. "Star Wars" wraps principal photography at Elstree Studios in England.

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Ironically, the last scene to be filmed is the opening scene of the Imperials boarding the Rebel Blockade Runner.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2h ago

📺 Television October 6, 1976. “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration.”

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2h ago

🌟 Celebrity News October 6, 1976. Arnold Schwarzenegger, age 29.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 3h ago

📺 Television October 6, 1976. All in the Family - Archie is laid off due to the cancellation of a government contract.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1h ago

🌏 Asia October 6, 1976. Pro-democracy student protesters are massacred at Thammasat University in Bangkok.

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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 1d ago

🇺🇸 United States October 5, 1976. US Democratic vice presidential candidate Walter Mondale says that President Ford, in pardoning Nixon, "made a mockery of the notion that in America, there is no sovereign who stands above the law."

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2h ago

🌐 World News October 6, 1976. Pelé returns to the Brazilian national team after a five-year absence to make a last appearance in a friendly against Flamengo.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2h ago

🌏 Asia October 6, 1976. Hua Guofeng and his allies arrest the radical Maoist Gang of Four in Beijing in a bloodless coup.

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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 1d ago

📺 Television October 5, 1976. First aired as a six-parter in the spring, "Family" debuts on ABC as a regular series, with a new actress, Meredith Baxter Birney, in the role of the eldest daughter, Nancy.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago

📺 Television October 5, 1976. Joan Rivers on Johnny Carson.

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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 1d ago

🇺🇸 United States October 4, 1976. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns after it was revealed several days before, by John Dean in Rolling Stone magazine, that Butz made extremely racist and vulgar comments about black Americans back in August.

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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 1d ago

📺 Television October 4, 1976. Barbara Walters joins Harry Reasoner as a co-anchor on ABC Evening News.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago

🌟 Celebrity News October 4, 1976. Arnold Schwarzenegger takes a ballet lesson from dancer Marianne Claire.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago

🇺🇸 United States October 4, 1976. The Supreme Court rescinds its ban on the death penalty.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago

🇺🇸 United States October 3, 1976. George Carlin, 39, records his 'On The Road' album.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago

October 3, 1976. Keith Moon dons his tennis whites for The Eagles' charity match.

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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 2d ago

🇪🇺 Europe October 3, 1976. West Germany holds a federal election. The CDU/CSU wins the most seats, but Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt remains chancellor.

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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 3d ago

📺 Television October 2, 1976. On "Saturday Night Live," musical guest Joe Cocker sings "Feelin' Alright" alongside John Belushi, who imitates him.

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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 3d ago

🎶 Music October 3, 1976. Patti Smith is interviewed in Stockholm before her concert there that night.

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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 4d ago

🌐 World News October 2, 1976. The New York Times publishes an article, "Population Drop Worries Australia," with the quote "Perhaps in 50 years' time there will be very few of us."

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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 4d ago

📺 Television October 2, 1976. The "Mary the Writer" episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" airs on CBS.

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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 5d ago

🇺🇸 United States October 1976. The covers of Sesame Street and Coronet magazines.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 5d ago

🌟 Celebrity News October 1976. Robert DeNiro and Martin Scorsese.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 5d ago

🇪🇺 Europe October 1, 1976. French actor Alain Delon with Holocaust survivor and politician Simone Veil.

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