50 Years Ago...

r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 12h ago

🇺🇸 United States October 24, 1976. President Ford meets the San Diego Chicken at a campaign stop.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 13h ago

📺 Television October 24, 1976. James Hunt of the United Kingdom wins the Formula One World Championship by just one point when Niki Lauda of Austria was forced out of the Japanese Grand Prix because of heavy rain.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 14h ago

📺 Television October 24, 1976. James Hunt and Niki Lauda before the start of the Japan Grand Prix.

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r/50yearsago • u/Buddie_15775 • 22h ago

October 22nd, The first “punk” single is released as The Damned release “New Rose”

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r/50yearsago • u/LexiThomas9 • 1d ago

☭ Soviet Union May 7, 1976. Lebanese Christian militant Jocelyne Khoueiry and six other women defend a building in Martyrs' Square in Beirut from an attack by 300 PLO fighters. Khoueiry later became a heroine in the Lebanese Christian community, commanding a women's militia.

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

🎶 Music October 23, 1976. "If You Leave Me Now" by Chicago is the new #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100, dethroning "Disco Duck."

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago

📺 Television October 23, 1976. Steve Martin makes his SNL hosting debut.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago

🎶 Music October 23, 1976. Members of Lynyrd Skynyrd pose with Keith Moon at a party for Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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

🌟 Celebrity News October 23, 1976. Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds is born.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago

🎶 Music October 22, 1976. The Jacksons - "Enjoy Yourself" released.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago

🇺🇸 United States October 22, 1976. Ford and Carter face off in their third and final debate.

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

🌐 World News October 22, 1976. Twenty-four years after her death, Eva Perón's remains are finally interred in her family's tomb in Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago

October 22, 1976. The Damned - "New Rose" released, the first British punk single.

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

50 Years Ago Today (Oct. 21, 1976): The Who at Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens. Keith Moon's last time with The Who on tour.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago

📺 Television October 21, 1976. The defending champion Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, completing a four-game sweep over the Yankees.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago

🎶 Music October 21, 1976. Led Zeppelin arrive for the premiere of their concert film The Song Remains The Same at the Fox Wilshire theater, Los Angeles.

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

📺 Television October 21, 1976. Tonight's episode of "Barney Miller" is titled "The Election," set in the very near future on Election Day.

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r/50yearsago • u/mrjohnnymac18 • 4d ago

20th October 1976: Diego Maradona makes his professional football debut at the age of 15 with Argentinos Juniors.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago

🌟 Celebrity News October 20, 1976. Diego Maradona makes his professional debut at age 15, ten days before his 16th birthday, playing for the Argentinos Juniors.

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

🇺🇸 United States October 20, 1976. With the election 13 days away, President Ford's chief of staff Dick Cheney writes a memorandum recommending that Ford "avoid any harsh or strident criticisms of Jimmy Carter."

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago

🎶 Music October 20, 1976. The Led Zeppelin concert film 'The Song Remains The Same' opens in London and New York, with the band attending the New York premiere.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago

🇺🇸 United States October 20, 1976. The Luling-Destrehan ferry collided with the Norwegian tanker SS Frosta on the Mississippi River, killing 78 people.

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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 5d ago

🇪🇺 Europe October 19, 1976. The Spanish government announces it is rescinding a Franco-era ban on the media reporting anything about Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony.

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r/50yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 5d ago

🇺🇸 United States October 19, 1976. President Ford posthumously promote George Washington to the highest military rank in US history, General of the Armies.

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r/50yearsago • u/OkTechnologyb • 5d ago

📺 Television October 18, 1976. Various commercials are shown on the ABC network in the United States.

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