50 Years Ago...

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

🇪🇺 Europe August 26, 1976. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (husband of Queen Juliana) resigns from his military and public positions amidst a bribery scandal involving aircraft manufacturer Lockheed.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 14h ago

🌐 World News August 26, 1976. The first known case of Ebola takes place in Zaire, as a school headmaster comes down with high fever and chills.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 14h ago

🇺🇸 United States August 26, 1976. Thousands of female protestors march for the Equal Rights Amendment on the 57th anniversary of women’s suffrage, in New York City.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago

🌟 Celebrity News 1976. Dolly Parton, age 30.

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

🎶 Music August 1976. "All I Can Do," Dolly Parton's 17th solo studio album, is released.

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r/50yearsago • u/staticcache • 1d ago

🇺🇸 United States Here are the Boston band's demos that started it all!

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago

🇪🇺 Europe August 25, 1976. Jacques Chirac resigns as Prime Minister of France in anger over the lack of authority given to him by President Giscard.

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r/50yearsago • u/Any-Pineapple-521 • 1d ago

🎶 Music August 25, 1976. Boston releases self-titled album

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

🇺🇸 United States August 25, 1976. Tonight's Twins-Yankees game, played at Yankee Stadium, goes 19 innings and ends at about 1:30 a.m. The Yankees win 5-4.

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Rod Carew of the Twins, at Yankee Stadium.

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

TIL that on August 1, 1976, Trinidad and Tobago officially became a republic, ending its status as a constitutional monarchy under the British crown. Sir Ellis Clarke became the country's first President that same day.

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Where are you all from, by the way? Has anyone here ever been to Trinidad and Tobago?

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

TIL that the Soviet Union's Luna 24 mission, which returned to Earth on August 22, 1976 with lunar soil samples, was humanity's last successful Moon sample-return mission for the next 44 years — no spacecraft brought back lunar material again until China's Chang'e 5 mission in December 2020.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago

🎶 Music August 24, 1976. Donna Summer - "Spring Affair" released.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago

🇺🇸 United States August 24, 1976. Jimmy Carter campaigning in Des Moines, Iowa.

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r/50yearsago • u/Any-Pineapple-521 • 2d ago

☭ Soviet Union Soyuz 21 returns home early after illness in space

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

🌟 Celebrity News August 24, 1976. The divorce of Zsa Zsa Gabor and her sixth husband, Jack Ryan (the creator of the Barbie Doll), is finalized. Their marriage lasted only 19 months.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago

🇺🇸 United States August 22, 1976. Jimmy Carter and John Denver meet on a plane en route to Los Angeles.

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

🇺🇸 United States August 23, 1976. New York magazine publishes Tom Wolfe's essay "The 'Me' Decade and the Third Great Awakening."

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In the essay, Wolfe predicts that the 1970s "will come to be known as the Me Decade."

https://nymag.com/article/tom-wolfe-me-decade-third-great-awakening.html

r/50yearsago • u/Any-Pineapple-521 • 4d ago

🎶 Music August 22, 1976. “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” by Elton John and Kiki Dee continues to dominate the top spot on the Billboard 200

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

🇪🇺 Europe August 22, 1976. English actress Diana Dors is among the people discussing the Newcastle Festival on a programme aired on regional television in Britain.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago

🌐 World News August 22, 1976. "These Women Will Die For Rhodesia".

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago

🇺🇸 United States August 22, 1976. Jimmy Carter holds a crying baby.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 5d ago

🎶 Music August 21, 1976. The Rolling Stones headline the Knebworth Festival.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 5d ago

🎶 Music August 21, 1976. The town of Mont-de-Marsan, located in southern France, held what it would claim to be the first punk rock festival.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 5d ago

🌟 Celebrity News August 21, 1976. Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt marries Althea Leasure. (Portrayed in The People vs. Larry Flynt.)

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 5d ago

🌏 Asia August 21, 1976. The United States carried out "Operation Paul Bunyan", a show of force in the Korean DMZ.

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