Waynesville High School Class of 1976
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hank you for visiting our new homepage. I have now added what contact information I had for all students who graduated from Waynesville High in 1976 to the message boards. Please use our new free message boards to update your information for all to see. We would like all information of interest that you would be willing to share with your former classmates.
1976 Median Household Income (current dollars): $12,686
Cost of a first-class stamp in 1976: $0.13
NBC introduces its new logo: an abstract N, similar to the Nebraska Educational Television Network logo.
Cambodia is renamed Democratic Campuchea.
UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestinian Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
The first commercial service Concorde
flight took off.
Groundhog Day gale of 1976 hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
1976 Winter Olympics open in Innsbruck, Austria.
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
Cuba : national Constitution proclaimed
The formerly Spanish territory of Western
Sahara, under the auspices of the
Polisario Front declares independence as the
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
Fleetwood Mac records Rumours, which will be a blockbuster album in 1977.
42 people die in a Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
Rock group KISS releases the legendary album Destroyer.
Patty Hearst is found guilty of the armed robbery of a San Francisco, California bank.
Argentina's military forces depose
president Isabel Perón.
Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The Central Railroad of New Jersey is bankrupt and Conrail takes over it's operations.
In The Hague, Netherlands, Brotherhood of Man wins the twenty-first Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom singing "Save Your Kisses For Me".
Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
In the People's Republic of China, the
April Fifth Movement leads to the
Tiananmen incident.
The last episode of the TV medical drama Marcus Welby, M.D. is aired.
The New York Nets defeat the Denver Nuggets and win the American Basketball Association championship, 112-106, in the final ABA game ever played.
London to Washington, DC
Concorde service begins.
Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
The Gong Show debuts on NBC.
Apartheid: A non-violent march by 15000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children.
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Sommerlath.
Canadian House of Commons
abolishes capital punishment.
North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Gymnast Nadia Comaneci, aged 14, scores first ever perfect 10 at the Olympics.
Rick Lepard's current wife Mylisa celebrates her First Birthday. Just seeing if you are actually reading this.
The first performance of the Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach
The Tangshan earthquake measuring between
7.8 and 8.2 magnitude flattens
Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 and
injuring 164,851.
An intruder breaks into Priscilla Davis's mansion in Fort Worth, Texas and kills Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr.
Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.
In North Korea at Panmunjom, two US soldiers are killed while trying to chop down part of a tree in the DMZ which had obscured their view.
Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom,
Korea
The Meadowlands racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey opens.
Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars and takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.
A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia killing 176
Mao Tse Tung's funeral takes place in Beijing.
A
Turkish Boeing 727 hits a mountain in
southern Turkey killing 155
The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to the late Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party of China
The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C..
Red dye #4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
Transkei declares its "independence" from South Africa
John D. Ehrlichman, former domestic
policy adviser of President Nixon and
convicted Watergate felon, arrives at the
Swift Trail Camp minimum-security facility in
southeastern Arizona.
U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent Gerald Ford to become first candidate from deep south to win since the Civil War.
René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
The Band gives its last public
performance; Martin Scorsese is on hand
to film it (see: The Last Waltz).
Patrick Hillery becomes the sixth President of Ireland.
The Eagles release one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, Hotel California.
Samoa becomes a member of the UN
Foundation of the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist).
The Smothers Brothers play their last show (Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas).
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