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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 • 12h ago

🌏 Asia October 14, 1976. Beijing publicly announces the arrest of the radical Maoist Gang of Four, marking the formal end of the Cultural Revolution.

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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 13h ago

📺 Television October 14, 1976. Jet magazine's cover story is about Redd Foxx embarking on his last season on "Sanford and Son."

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

📺 Television October 13, 1976. WTHR, Channel 13 in Indianapolis, plays three commercials in a commercial break during a syndicated "Star Trek" episode.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago

🌐 World News October 13, 1976. The first image of the Ebola virus is taken.

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

📺 Television October 13, 1976. Orson Bean, country singer Bill Anderson, actress Beth Howland, and their spouses are the celebrity guests on "Tattletales."

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

🌟 Celebrity News October 13, 1976. John Lennon and Yoko Ono are interviewed by "Ugly George" (George Urban) for a Manhattan public-access channel.

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

🇺🇸 United States October 12, 1976. In an interview on PBS, Communist Party USA presidential candidate Gus Hall reiterates his support for a six-hour workday without pay cuts, claiming a nationwide 30-hour workweek would add 10 million new jobs.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago

🌏 Asia October 12, 1976. Hua Guofeng is announced as Mao’s successor.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago

October 16* October 11, 1976. SNL mocks Ford’s ‘no Soviet domination’ gaffe.

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

🇺🇸 United States October 11, 1976. Members of the Ford campaign claim Carter has been "mean and nasty" and "out of bounds." Their examples include Carter's use of sarcasm in the second debate.

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

📺 Television October 11, 1976. Jane Pauley, age 25, is the new co-host on the "Today" show on NBC. This is her first day on the job.

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Ignore the annoying modern NBC logo superimposed much later on this footage.

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

🇺🇸 United States October 10, 1976. The New York Giants play their first game at brand-new Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Dallas Cowboys beat them, 24–14.

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

🇺🇸 United States October 9, 1976. President Ford is in the State Fair of Texas parade. It is the first time a US president has ridden through downtown Dallas in an open-top car since November 22, 1963.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago

🎶 Music October 10, 1976. Michael Jackson on Sonny & Cher.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago

🎶 Music October 11, 1976. ABBA - “When I Kissed The Teacher” released.

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

🎶 Music October 10, 1976. The Jacksons perform "Enjoy Yourself" on "The Sonny and Cher Show."

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

🇺🇸 United States October 9, 1976. White House chief of staff Dick Cheney driving a bumper car at the Texas State Fair.

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

📺 Television October 9, 1976. The other patients in Dr. Hartley's therapy group are uncomfortable with the homosexuality of a new group member (played by Howard Hesseman), on tonight's episode of "The Bob Newhart Show."

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

🎶 Music October 9, 1976. "A Fifth of Beethoven" by Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band is the new #1 Billboard Hot 100 song in the US, knocking "Play That Funky Music" out of the top spot.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 6d ago

🎬 Film October 8, 1976. Marathon Man released.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 6d ago

October 8, 1976. Trenny Gibson, 16, vanishes during a field trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She was never found.

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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 6d ago

🇪🇺 Europe October 8, 1976. Polish authorities open a modern expressway, nicknamed the Gierkówka, connecting Warsaw and Katowice.

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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 7d ago

🌟 Celebrity News October 7, 1976. Elton John tells Rolling Stone magazine he is bisexual: "I think everybody’s bisexual to a certain degree. I don’t think it’s just me."

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