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| 1976 |
| | | Hundreds of deaths and casualties result from police firing on a demonstration by schoolchildren in the black township of Soweto | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Mario Soares becomes Portugal's first democratically elected prime minister in half a century | |
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| 1976 |
| | | In a daring raid on Entebbe airport, Israeli troops rescue hostages hijacked on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris | |
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| 1976 |
| | | The Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins the first of five consecutive singles titles at Wimbledon | |
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| 1976 |
| | | The landing section of the US spacecraft Viking 1 detaches from the orbiter and makes a successful landing on Mars | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Liverpool football player Kevin Keegan begins six years as captain of England | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Black American author Alex Haley traces his family origins in Africa in Roots | |
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| 1976 |
| | | 333 days after leaving Earth, the landing section of the US spacecraft Viking 2 touches down on Mars and begins sending back photographs | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Mao Zedong dies in Beijing, at the age of 82, and lies in state in the Great Hall of the People | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Bulgarian-born US artist Christo (Christo Javacheff) constructs a 24-mile Running Fence in California | |
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