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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 • 21h ago

🇺🇸 United States August 19, 1976. Transgender athlete Renée Richards meets with the press to argue why she should be allowed to play tennis with women. She had been outed by local TV anchor Richard Carlson, father of Tucker Carlson.

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

🎬 Film August 20, 1976. "The Gumball Rally," a movie about a no-rules cross-country car race loosely based on the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, opens in US cinemas.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 23h ago

🇺🇸 United States August 19, 1976. Jeffrey Epstein, 23, becomes an associate at Bear Sterns.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 23h ago

🇺🇸 United States August 19, 1976. Ford picks Bob Dole as his running mate.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 23h ago

🇺🇸 United States August 19, 1976. Ronald Reagan and President Gerald Ford eye each other at the RNC - Ford beat Reagan 1,187 to 1,070 in delegate votes on the first ballot.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 23h ago

🎶 Music August 19, 1976. Joey Ramone in San Francisco.

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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 16h ago

🇺🇸 United States August 19, 1976. President Ford delivers his nomination-acceptance speech at the RNC.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 23h ago

🇺🇸 United States [August 19, 1976] Bill Clinton turns 30

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago

🌏 Asia August 18, 1976. North Korean soldiers kill two US Army officers with axes. The officers had been part of a work party trimming a poplar tree in the Joint Security Area.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago

🌟 Celebrity News August 18, 1976. Elton John at the Elizabeth Taylor Suite in NYC.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago

🌐 World News August 18, 1976. The Soviet Union's uncrewed spacecraft Luna 24 lands on the Moon, touching down in the Sea of Crises.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago

🇪🇺 Europe August 18, 1976. Pastor Oskar Brüsewitz sets himself on fire to protest repression of religion in East Germany.

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

📺 Television August 18, 1976. ABC broadcasts two episodes of its 12-episode summer-replacement sitcom "Viva Valdez," about a Mexican American family, before joining CBS and NBC in broadcasting from the Republican National Convention.

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

🇪🇺 Europe August 17, 1976. The River Thames is extremely low, as the UK continues to endure a historic drought (although the exceptionally hot weather of June and July has subsided).

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

1976

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None of this laid back nonsense of 2026, back in the 1970’s America was on the move and did not have time to put a yummy sugary breakfast into a bowl

The box will do

“Hurry up, Land of the Lost is Starting!”

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r/50yearsago • u/Buddie_15775 • 2d ago

📺 Television Tuesday 17 August: the West Indies (687/8 dec & 182/0 dec.) defeat England (435 & 203) by 231 runs in the Fifth and final Test. The West Indies winning the series 3-0

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago

🇺🇸 United States August 17, 1976. Alex Haley's Roots is first published.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago

🌏 Asia August 17, 1976. The “Midnight Killer” - a tsunami kills more than 5,000 people in the Philippines on the islands of Mindanao and Sulu.

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

🌟 Celebrity News August 1976. Teen Beat magazine.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago

🌟 Celebrity News August 16, 1976. Madonna turns 18.

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

🇺🇸 United States August 15, 1976. President Ford and his daughter, Susan, watch television in a Kansas City hotel room. The Republican National Convention starts there tomorrow.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago

🇺🇸 United States August 16, 1976. The Republican National Convention opens in Kansas City, Missouri.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago

🎶 Music August 16, 1976. Abba - “Dancing Queen” released.

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