Keep on Truckin' in August 1976!
A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in August 1976 was 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' by Kiki Dee and Elton John.
August 1 – The Seattle Seahawks play their first football game. In this pre-season game, Seattle lost to the San Francisco 49ers 20-27.
August 2 – A gunman murders Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr and injures Priscilla Davis and Gus Gavrel, in an incident at Priscilla's mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. T. Cullen Davis, Priscilla's estranged husband and one of the richest men in Texas, is tried and found not guilty in 1977.
August 4 – The first recognized outbreak of Legionnaires' disease kills 29 at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia.
August 4 - The Return of a Man Called Horse movie premieres.
August 5 - What's Happening!! tv series debuts.
August 11 – John Wayne appears in his final film, The Shootist.
August 18 – At Panmunjom, North Korea, 2 United States soldiers are killed while trying to chop down part of a tree in the Korean Demilitarized Zone which had obscured their view.
August 19 – U.S. President Gerald Ford edges out challenger Ronald Reagan to win the Republican Party presidential nomination in Kansas City.
August 25 - Gator movie premieres.
August 30 - New Howdy Doody Show premieres in syndication.
August 31 - Alice tv series, based on the 1974 movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, premieres on CBS.
Kiss in-store appearance at Peaches Records & Tapes in Atlanta, GA.
Albums released in August (album / artist):
What a Lemon / Gasolin'
Good Singin', Good Playin' / Grand Funk Railroad
All I Can Do / Dolly Parton
My Name Is Jermaine / Jermaine Jackson
Man in the Hills / Burning Spear
Coming Out / The Manhattan Transfer
Boston / Boston
Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music / Hawkwind
No Reason to Cry / Eric Clapton
The Roaring Silence / Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Nielson top 20 shows for August 23-29:
All in the Family, Maude and MA-S-H (all CBS); Happy Days and Starsky and Hutch (both ABC); The Graduate, Phyllis and Johnny Cash (all CBS); Baretta and What's Happening (both ABC); Jigsaw John (NBC); Laverne and Shirley, Welcome Back, Kotter, Bionic Woman and Rosemary's Baby (all ABC); Joe Forrester (NBC); Kojak and Rhoda (both CBS); Six Million Dollar Man and Streets of San Francisco (both ABC)
1976 Toyota Celica:
Playboy playmate of the month, Linda Beatty, and Playgirl man for August, Greg Anderson:
Justice League comic for August:
Outdoor Life magazine for August:
Mademoiselle for August:
Movie Life magazine for August:
Six Million Dollar Man Venus Space Probe (released in 1976):
Peanuts comic strip from August 1976:
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