September 1976 - Viking, Charlie's Angels

Being Foxy in September 1976!

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in September 1976 was 'Play that Funky Music' by Wild Cherry.  The group formed in Ohio in 1970.  This was their only number one hit.  

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September 3 – The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.

September 6 - Soviet Air Force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan, and requests political asylum from the United States.

September 6 - Frank Sinatra brings Jerry Lewis's former partner Dean Martin onstage, unannounced, at the 1976 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in Las Vegas, Nevada, reuniting the comedy team for the first (and only) time in over 20 years.

September 6 - In Search of... tv series premieres in syndication.

September 9 - Delvecchio tv series premieres on CBS.

September 9 - Mao Tse-Tung (Mao Zedong) dies.  He founded the People's Republic of China in 1949 and led the country until his death.  He advocated a Chinese version of Marxism–Leninism, referred to as Maoism.

September 10 – Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter and novelist, dies. (born 1905)

September 11 Ark II, Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle and Way Out Games tv series premiere on CBS.  Big John, Little John, The Kids From C.A.P.E.R., McDuff the Talking Dog, Monster Squad and Muggsy premiere on NBC.  Jabberjaw, The Krofft Supershow, The Mumbly Cartoon Show and The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour premiere on ABC.

September 17 – The space shuttle Enterprise is rolled out of a Palmdale, California hangar.

September 17 - Spencer's Pilots tv series premieres on CBS.

September 19 - Cos tv series premieres on ABC.

September 20 All's Fair tv series premieres on CBS.  The Muppet Show premieres in syndication.

September 21 – Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

September 21 - Rich Man, Poor Man Book II premieres on ABC.  Baa Baa Black Sheep premieres on NBC.

September 22 - The Quest and Ball Four tv series premiere on CBS.  Charlie's Angels premieres on ABC.

September 23 - The first of three debates between U.S. presidential candidates Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter air in prime time; they are the first presidential debates ever televised in color, as well as the first debates between major party nominees for U.S. president since 1960.

September 23 - The Tony Randall Show and Gemini Man tv series premiere on NBC.

September 25 - Holmes and Yo-Yo tv series premieres on ABC.

September 30 - The Nancy Walker Show premieres on ABC.

Albums released in September (album / artist):

Blackheart Man / Bunny Wailer

A New World Record / Electric Light Orchestra

Car Wash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / Rose Royce

Hard Rain / Bob Dylan

One More from the Road / Lynyrd Skynyrd

Ringo's Rotogravure / Ringo Starr

Long May You Run / The Stills-Young Band

Tales of Kidd Funkadelic / Funkadelic

Technical Ecstasy / Black Sabbath

Songs in the Key of Life / Stevie Wonder

All the World's a Stage / Rush

Nielsen's top 20 shows for the week ending Sept. 12:  Miss America Pageant NBC; Laverne and Shirley and Starsky and Hutch both ABC; All in the Family CBS; Happy Days and Baretta both ABC; Maude CBS; Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman both ABC; Perry Como Special NBC; "Sunday Movie" ABC; Delvecchio, and Phyllis both CBS; Friday Movie ABC; Kojak and Jeffersons CBS; Police Story and Van Dyke and Co. both NBC; M-A-S-H CBS; and Columbo NBC.

Great YouTube video featuring intros to the new shows of fall 1976: 
New Fall Shows of 1976

Starsky and Hutch puzzles (released in 1976):

Playboy playmate of the month, Whitney Kaine, and Playgirl man for September, Jim Lampier:

1976 Chevrolet Camaro:

Howard the Duck comic for September:

Dorothy Benham from Minnesota is crowned Miss America:

Harper's Bazaar for September:

 The New Yorker magazine for September 20th:

 Rolling Stone for September:

Peanuts comic strip from September 1976:

For detailed news/info on what happened each day in September 1976, check out this really good site:  ultimate70s.com

August 1976 - Legionnaires' Disease, Anissa Jones, Alice

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 28 - Anissa Jones, TV child actress who played 'Buffy Davis' in the late 60s-early 70s sitcom Family Affair dies. (born 1958)

August 28 - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology reports a team led by Dr. Har Gobind Khorana is the first to synthesize a complete, functioning gene.  This is a major step toward understanding how genes regulate the growth and functioning of living things.  

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:

For detailed news/info on what happened each day in August 1976, check out this really good site:  ultimate70s.com

July 1976 - Olympics, Showtime, Bicentennial

No Jive, it's July 1976!

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in July 1976 was 'Afternoon Delight' by Starland Vocal Band.  This was their only big hit.  They were signed to John Denver's label, Windsong Records.

The Olympics, broadcast from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, draw an estimated one billion viewers worldwide.

July 1 - The pay TV network Showtime makes its debut, appearing only on a Dublin, California cable system. The network would expand nationally in 1978.

July 3 – Gregg v. Georgia: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment.

July 4 - United States Bicentennial: From coast to coast, the United States celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

July 6 – The first class of women is inducted at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

July 11 - Frank Sinatra marries Barbara Marx, former wife if Zeppo Marx.  

July 12 - Family Feud game show, with host Richard Dawson, premieres on ABC.

July 15 - Jimmy Carter is nominated for U.S. President at the Democratic National Convention in New York City.

July 15 - Twenty-six Chowchilla schoolchildren and their bus driver are abducted and buried in a box truck within a quarry in Livermore, California. The captives dig themselves free after 16 hours. The quarry-owner's son and two accomplices are arrested for the crime.

July 18 - Nadia Comaneci makes history by becoming the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 for her routine on the uneven bars at the Montreal Olympics.  Here's a link to a nice highlights video on YouTube: 
Nadia Comaneci - First Perfect 10
  

July 20 - The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars, taking the first close-up color photos of the planet's surface.

July 26 – In Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan announces his choice of liberal U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice presidential running mate.

July 28 - Futureworld, a sequel to the Westworld movie, premieres.

July 29 – In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing 1 and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.

July 30 - Squirm movie premieres.  Filmed in Georgia.  Kim Basinger and Sylvester Stallone tried for parts...but were turned down!

July 31 - NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1.

July 31 - The Big Thompson River in northern Colorado floods, destroying more than 400 cars and houses.

The British royal family visit Canada for the Olympics:

Getty/Anwar Hussein Image

Albums released in July (Album / Artist):

15 Big Ones / The Beach Boys

The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein / Parliament

I've Got You / Gloria Gaynor

The Originals / Kiss

Olias of Sunhillow / Jon Anderson

The 10 top network programs for the week ending July 11, according to the A.C. Nielsen Co., were: 1 Miss Universe; 2 Starsky and Hutch; 3 M-A-S-H; 4 One Day At A Time; 5 Switch; 6 Happy Days; 7 Laverne and Shirley; 8 (tie) Bob Newhart and Barnaby Jones; 10 All In The Family.

Playboy playmate of the month, Deborah Borkman, and Playgirl man for July, Ron Yarbrough:

1976 Pontiac Firebird Trans-am:

House of Mystery comic for July:

Sew Perfect toy sewing machine (released 1976):

Time magazine for July 5, 1976:

Ladies Home Journal for July, featuring Liza Minnelli:

Peanuts comic strip from July 1976:

For detailed news/info on what happened each day in July 1976, check out this really good site:  ultimate70s.com