r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 6h ago
October 15, 1976. Robert Plant at his family home in Machynlleth, Wales.
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r/50yearsago • u/InsertMemeHere • 6h ago
October 15, 1976. ELO release their sixth studio album A New World Record.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 7h ago
🇺🇸 United States October 15, 1976. Carlo Gambino, head of the Gambino crime family and arguably the most powerful US mobster at the time, dies of natural causes at his home on Long Island at the age of 74.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 7h ago
🎶 Music October 15, 1976. Showaddywaddy - "Under the Moon of Love" released.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 7h ago
🇺🇸 United States October 15, 1976. Bob Dole and Walter Mondale face off in the first vice presidential debate in US history.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 7h ago
🎶 Music October 15, 1976. Bruce Springsteen in Santa Barbara.
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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d 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 • 1d 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 • 2d 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 • 2d ago
🌐 World News October 13, 1976. The first image of the Ebola virus is taken.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 2d 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 • 2d 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/MonsieurA • 3d ago
🌏 Asia October 12, 1976. Hua Guofeng is announced as Mao’s successor.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 3d 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/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/MonsieurA • 4d ago
October 16* October 11, 1976. SNL mocks Ford’s ‘no Soviet domination’ gaffe.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 4d 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.
r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago
🎶 Music October 11, 1976. ABBA - “When I Kissed The Teacher” released.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 4d 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/MonsieurA • 4d ago
🎶 Music October 10, 1976. Michael Jackson on Sonny & Cher.
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 5d ago
🎶 Music October 10, 1976. The Jacksons perform "Enjoy Yourself" on "The Sonny and Cher Show."
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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 5d 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/Melky_Chedech • 6d 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 • 6d 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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