This is a list of important events the occured during 1976. Exact dates are listed when known.

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• Soweto uprising in South Africa
  
  
• First artifical gene
  Capable of working in a living cell, it was the first living cell created entirely in a test tube without any other gene as a template.
  
  
• Apple Computer is launched
  
  
• Legionnaire's disease strikes 182, kills 29
  The first appearance of the flu like disease struck at an American Legion convention in Philadelphi
  
  
• Tall Ships celebration in New York Harbor
  To celebrate the bicentennial of the country.
  
  
• CB radio popularity peaks
  656,000 CB radio applications were filed each month 1976
  
  
• Courts allow removal of life support
  Karen Ann Quinlan had been in a coma for over a year before her parents won the right to remove the life support equipment keeping her alive. It took 9 years for her to die afterwards.
  
  
• First Cray Supercomputer
  
  
• Betamax and VHS VCRs released
  
  
• Doctors protest increase in mapractice insurance
  
  
• Mao Tse-tung died
  The communist leader of China died in 1976 after over 25 years of rule.
  
  
• Concord Supersonic Airliner
  First Concord (Supersonic Airliner) to make trans-Atlantic commercial flight.
  
  
• Entebbe Air Raid
  Israeli commandos stormed hijacked Air France plane in Uganda's Entebbe Airport, releasing 103 hostages held by a pro-Palestinian terrorist group.
  
  
• Ebola Outbreak
  First Ebola outbreak in Africa, marked beginning of an epidemic that still plagues African countries today.
  
  
• Bicenntenial
  The United States of America's 200th Birthday.
  
  
• The Viking Probe lands on Mars
  In July the Viking Probe set down safely on Mars and sent back pictures of rocky terrain.
  
  
• West Point admits women
  West Point military academy started accepting women.
  
  

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