What Happened In August 1976 In History

Historical Events for August, 1976

• 6th » Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
• 7th » Viking program: 'Viking 2' enters orbit around Mars.
• 12th » Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinian people called Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War
• 18th » In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom, the Axe murder incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
• 21st » Axe murder incident Operation Paul Bunyan e.g Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjom, South Korea.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1976

• 1st » Søren Jochumsen, Danish footballer
• 1st » Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
• 1st » Hasan Şaş, Turkish footballer and manager
• 1st » Don Hertzfeldt, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
• 1st » David Nemirovsky, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1st » Cristian Stoica, Romanian-Italian rugby player
• 2nd » Reyes Estévez, Spanish runner
• 2nd » Jay Heaps, American soccer player and coach
• 2nd » Michael Weiss (figure skater) e.g Michael Weiss, American figure skater
• 2nd » Sam Worthington, English-Australian actor
• 2nd » Mohammad Zahid, Pakistani cricketer
• 3rd » Troy Glaus, American baseball player
• 4th » Andrew McLeod, Australian footballer
• 4th » Trevor Woodman, English rugby player
• 5th » Jeff Friesen, Canadian ice hockey player
• 5th » Marian Pahars, Latvian footballer and manager
• 5th » Kwon Sang-woo, South Korean actor
• 5th » Eugen Trică, Romanian footballer and manager
• 6th » Soleil Moon Frye, American actress
• 6th » Melissa George, Australian-American actress
• 6th » Krisztina Sereny, Hungarian bodybuilder and model
• 7th » Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer and manager
• 7th » Shane Lechler, American football player
• 8th » Tawny Cypress, American actress
• 8th » Drew Lachey, American singer and actor (98 Degrees)
• 8th » Lee Seung-Yeop, South Korean baseball player
• 8th » Jeff Simmons (racing driver) known as Jeff Simmons, American race car driver
• 9th » Nawaf al-Hazmi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 (d. 2001)
• 9th » Jessica Capshaw, American actress
• 9th » Aled Haydn Jones, Welsh radio host and producer
• 9th » Rhona Mitra, English actress and singer
• 9th » Mark Priestley, Australian actor (d. 2008)
• 9th » Audrey Tautou, French actress
• 10th » Roadkill (wrestler) named Roadkill, American wrestler
• 10th » Ian Murray (British politician) named Ian Murray, Scottish politician
• 11th » Iván Córdoba, Colombian footballer and manager
• 11th » Bubba Crosby, American baseball player
• 11th » Will Friedle, American actor
• 11th » Ben Gibbard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, and ¡All-Time Quarterback!)
• 11th » Jhong Hilario, Filipino actor and dancer
• 11th » Tõnis Kalde, Estonian footballer
• 11th » Erick Lindgren, American poker player
• 11th » Ľubomír Višňovský, Slovak ice hockey player
• 12th » Wednesday 13, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13, Murderdolls, Bourbon Crow, and Gunfire 76)
• 12th » Pedro Collins, Barbadian cricketer
• 12th » Mikko Lindström, Finnish guitarist (HIM (Finnish band) known as HIM and WhoCares)
• 12th » Brad Lukowich, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 12th » Richard McCourt, English comedian and actor
• 12th » Henry Tuilagi, Samoan rugby player
• 12th » Antoine Walker, American basketball player
• 13th » Geno Carlisle, American basketball player
• 13th » Grégory Fitoussi, French actor
• 13th » Jody Thompson, Canadian actress
• 14th » Alex Albrecht, American television host, actor, and producer
• 14th » Steve Braun, Canadian actor
• 14th » Fabrizio Donato, Italian triple jumper
• 15th » Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch footballer and manager
• 16th » Jonatan Johansson (footballer) e.g Jonatan Johansson, Swedish-Finnish footballer and manager
• 16th » Tiina Kankaanpää, Finnish discus thrower
• 17th » Eric Boulton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 17th » Scott Halberstadt, American actor
• 17th » Geertjan Lassche, Dutch journalist
• 18th » Paraskevas Antzas, Greek footballer
• 19th » Stephan Schmidt (footballer) e.g Stephan Schmidt, German footballer and manager
• 20th » Chris Drury, American ice hockey player
• 20th » Cornel Frăsineanu, Romanian footballer
• 20th » Tony Grant (Irish footballer) named Tony Grant, Irish footballer
• 20th » Randeep Hooda, Indian actor
• 20th » Gene Kingsale, Aruban-Dutch baseball player
• 20th » Kristen Miller, American actress
• 20th » Marcel Podszus, German footballer
• 20th » Fabio Ulloa, Honduran footballer
• 21st » Alex Brooks, American ice hockey player
• 21st » Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican-American soccer player
• 21st » Ramón Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 21st » Nikos Vertis, Dutch-Greek singer
• 22nd » Marius Bezykornovas, Lithuanian footballer
• 22nd » Bryn Davies (musician) or Bryn Davies, American bassist, cellist, and pianist
• 22nd » Laurent Hernu, French decathlete
• 22nd » Randy Wolf, American baseball player
• 23rd » Scott Caan, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 23rd » Pat Garrity, American basketball player
• 24th » Simon Dennis, English rower
• 24th » Nordin Wooter, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
• 25th » Jensen Atwood, American actor
• 25th » Damon Jones, American basketball player
• 25th » Javed Qadeer, Pakistani cricketer and coach
• 25th » Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish-American actor
• 26th » Zemfira, Russian singer-songwriter
• 26th » Amaia Montero, Spanish singer-songwriter (La Oreja de Van Gogh)
• 27th » Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
• 27th » Milano Collection A.T., Japanese wrestler
• 27th » Carlos Moyá, Spanish tennis player
• 27th » Mark Webber, Australian race car driver
• 28th » Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer
• 29th » Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
• 29th » Phil Harvey (manager) called Phil Harvey, English businessman
• 29th » Kevin Kaesviharn, American football player
• 29th » Georgios Kalaitzis, Greek basketball player
• 29th » Pablo Mastroeni, Argentinian-American soccer player and manager
• 29th » Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer and manager
• 31st » Vincent Delerm, French singer-songwriter and pianist
• 31st » Roque Júnior, Brazilian footballer
• 31st » Radek Martínek, Czech ice hockey player

Famous Deaths for August 1976

• 2nd » László Kalmár, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1905)
• 2nd » Fritz Lang, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1890)
• 4th » Enrique Angelelli, Argentinian bishop (b. 1923)
• 4th » Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher (b. 1894)
• 6th » Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist and educator (b. 1903)
• 10th » Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (b. 1894)
• 17th » William Redfield (actor) known as William Redfield, American actor (b. 1927)
• 19th » Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor (b. 1900)
• 19th » Ken Wadsworth, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1946)
• 22nd » Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913)
• 22nd » Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil (b. 1902)
• 25th » Eyvind Johnson, Swedish author, Nobel Prize in Literature named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 26th » Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)
• 27th » Mukesh (singer) called Mukesh, Indian singer (b. 1923)
• 28th » Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
• 29th » Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, flute player, and philosopher (b. 1899)
• 29th » Jimmy Reed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)

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