Fairhaven High School Class of 1976

What Happend in August of the year we graduated - 1976

• August 1 21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada; Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colorado on Route 34, kills 139; Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton); Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20)
• August 4 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
• August 7 Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open; Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars; U.S. Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth
• August 8 Chicago White Sox suit up in shorts
• August 9 Clive Lloyd scores double-ton in 120 mins, WI vs. Glamorgan; Pitt Pirate John Candelaria no-hits Los Angeles Dodgers, 2-0; U.S.S.R. launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth
• August 11 Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses and is hospitalized in Miami; Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die
• August 12 Christian militia conquer Palestinian camp Tell al-Za'tar, 2000 killed
• August 14 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast
• August 15 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
• August 16 58th PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots a 281 at Congressional MD; St. Louis Cardinals beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo)
• August 17 An earthquake and tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000; Big win for WI at The Oval Michael Holding 14-149 for match
• August 18 U.S.S.R.'s Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon
• August 19 President Gerald R. Ford won Republican President nomination at Kansas City convention
• August 21 Al Bumbry hits 17th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history; Battle East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes 1st British firewoman
• August 22 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
• August 24 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
• August 25 Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion; Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings
• August 27 Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in U.S. Tennis Open
• August 28 N.Y. Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup; U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
• August 29 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
• August 30 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show; Turks and Caicos Islands adopts constitution
• August 31 George Harrison found guilty of plagurizing "My Sweet Lord"; Mexican peso devalued; Trinidad and Tobago adopts constitution Waldemar Cierpinski wins 18th Olympics Marathon (2:09:55.0)

Figured we would share the above history as to jog our memories....

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