243 notable events from 1976. Page 1 of 3.
- 1976 Friuli earthquake
May 6, 1976 · Italy
- James Ernest Hitchcock
Jul 31, 1976 · —
- Entebbe raid
Jul 4, 1976 · Uganda
- National Reorganization Process
Mar 24, 1976–Dec 10, 1983 · Paraguay
- 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping
Jul 16, 1976 · United States
- Seveso disaster
Jul 10, 1976 · Italy
- Joe Metheny
Jan 1, 1976–Jan 1, 1996 · —
- Gary Gilmore
Jan 1, 1976 · —
- Montejurra incidents
May 9, 1976 · Spain
- Soweto uprising
Jun 16, 1976 · South Africa
- 1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak
Nov 1, 1976 · DR Congo
- Damour massacre
Jan 20, 1976 · Lebanon
- 1976 Tangshan earthquake
Jul 28, 1976 · China
- 1976 Argentine coup d'état
Mar 24, 1976 · Argentina
- Panmunjom axe murder incident
Aug 18, 1976 · North Korea
- John Roselli
Jul 28, 1976 · —
- Oakland County Child Killer
Feb 15, 1976–Mar 16, 1977 · United States
- Attempted assassination of Bob Marley
Dec 3, 1976 · Jamaica
- Tuesday arsonist case
Nov 16, 1976–Feb 1, 1977 · Japan
- Montie Rissell
Aug 4, 1976–May 1, 1977 · United States
- Keihan 100th anniversary train accident
Sep 9, 1976 · Japan
- Cubana de Aviación Flight 455
Oct 6, 1976 · Barbados
- Karantina massacre
Jan 18, 1976 · Lebanon
- 1976 Tiananmen incident
Apr 5, 1976 · China
- Defection of Viktor Belenko
Sep 6, 1976 · Japan
- Bum Farto
Feb 16, 1976 · United States
- Tamara Ivanyutina
Jan 1, 1976–Jan 1, 1987 · Russian Federation
- Yuba City bus disaster
May 21, 1976 · United States
- 6 October 1976 massacre
Oct 6, 1976 · Thailand
- Połaniec murder
Dec 24, 1976 · Poland
- Death and state funeral of Mao Zedong
Sep 9, 1976 · China
- Night of the Pencils
Sep 16, 1976 · Argentina
- 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision
Sep 10, 1976 · Croatia
- Red Terror (Ethiopia)
1976–1977 · Ethiopia
- 1976 Tehran UFO incident
Sep 19, 1976 · —
- Tel al-Zaatar massacre
Aug 12, 1976 · Lebanon
- Truro murders
Dec 23, 1976–Feb 12, 1977 · Australia
- Operation Eland
Aug 9, 1976 · Mozambique
- Gregg v. Georgia
Jul 2, 1976 · United States
- Rajan case
Mar 1, 1976 · India
- Insurgency in Aceh
Dec 4, 1976 · Indonesia
- TWA Flight 355
Sep 10, 1976 · United States
- Murder of Katsumi Shigeru's mistress
May 6, 1976 · Japan
- Kingsmill massacre
Jan 5, 1976 · United Kingdom
- 1976 Philadelphia Legionnaires' disease outbreak
from Jul 21, 1976 · United States
- 1976 Guatemala earthquake
Feb 4, 1976 · Guatemala
- Indian Airlines Flight 171
Oct 12, 1976 · India
- 1976 Schiedam train accident
May 4, 1976 · Netherlands
- Yoshio Kodama residence kamikaze attack
Mar 23, 1976 · Japan
- 1976 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing
Jan 1, 1976 · —
- 1976 Cavalese cable car crash
Mar 9, 1976 · Italy
- June 1976 in Polish protests
Jun 1976 · Poland
- Assassination of Orlando Letelier
Sep 21, 1976 · United States
- East German coffee crisis
1976–1978 · —
- Thor Christiansen
Nov 20, 1976–Apr 18, 1979 · United States
- Murder of Lori Smith
May 4, 1976 · United States
- Vitoria massacre
Mar 3, 1976 · Spain
- Jeffrey Daugherty
Mar 11, 1976 · United States
- Loyada Hostage Taking
Feb 3, 1976–Feb 4, 1976 · Djibouti
- Alcamo Marina Massacre
Jan 27, 1976 · Italy
- Seewen murder case
Jun 5, 1976 · Switzerland
- Steven David Catlin
Jan 1, 1976–Jan 1, 1984 · —
- Richard Gerald Jordan
Jan 12, 1976 · —
- Turkish Airlines Flight 452
Sep 19, 1976 · Türkiye
- Heul Girl
Oct 24, 1976 · —
- Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice
Mar 24, 1976 · Argentina
- Arthur Frederick Goode III
Mar 5, 1976 · United States
- Rondas campesinas
from 1976 · Peru
- Sewer Murders
1976–1983 · Germany
- Murders of Pamela Buckley and James Freund
Aug 9, 1976 · United States
- Ronald and James Allridge
Apr 12, 1976–Mar 25, 1985 · United States
- American Airlines Flight 625
Apr 27, 1976 · Virgin Islands
- Reavey and O'Dowd killings
Jan 4, 1976 · United Kingdom
- Imperial Iranian Air Force Flight 48
May 9, 1976 · Spain
- James Edward Wood
Jan 1, 1976–Jan 1, 1993 · —
- 1976 Hokkaido Prefectural Government office building bombing
Mar 2, 1976 · Japan
- Detainees disappeared during dictatorship in Argentina
1976–1983 · Argentina
- 1976 California State University, Fullerton massacre
Jul 12, 1976 · United States
- An-2 aircraft strike on a building in Novosibirsk
Sep 26, 1976 · Russian Federation
- Great Fire of Sakata
Oct 29, 1976 · Japan
- 1976 Moro Gulf earthquake
Aug 16, 1976 · Philippines
- Disappearance of Andy Puglisi
Aug 22, 1976 · United States
- Middle East Airlines Flight 438
Jan 1, 1976 · Saudi Arabia
- Anthony LaRette
Jan 1, 1976–Jan 1, 1980 · —
- SAETA Flight 011 (1976)
Aug 15, 1976 · Ecuador
- Flagstaff Hill incident
May 6, 1976 · United Kingdom
- Aeroflot Flight 1802
May 15, 1976 · Ukraine
- San Patricio Church massacre
Jul 4, 1976 · Argentina
- 1976 Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano Boeing 707 crash
Oct 13, 1976 · Bolivia
- Alaska Airlines Flight 60
Apr 5, 1976 · United States
- 1976 swine flu outbreak
Jan 1976–1977 · United States
- EgyptAir Flight 864
Dec 25, 1976 · Thailand
- Higashimurayama Police Station officer murder case
Oct 18, 1976 · Japan
- Samuel Christopher Hawkins
Jan 1, 1976–Jan 1, 1977 · —
- Murder of Quenette Shehane
Dec 20, 1976 · United States
- Edward Lagrone
Jan 1, 1976–Jan 1, 1991 · United States
- Schmucker trial
1976–1991 · —
- Turkman gate demolition and rioting
May 31, 1976 · India
- 1976 Anapa mid-air collision
Sep 9, 1976 · Russian Federation
- Escape of Zosimov
Sep 23, 1976 · Azerbaijan