What Happend in April of the year we graduated - 1976

• October 1 1st Dutch casino opens
• October 2 "Let My People Come" closes at Morosco Theater New York City after 106 performances
• October 3 Hank Aaron singles in his last at bat and drives in his 2,297th run; Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election
• October 4 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke; Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers
• October 5 Seattle and Toronto picks 30 unprotected players on other AL rosters Ruppert Jones (Seattle) and Bob Bailor (Toronto) are picked 1st
• October 6 Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack; "Gang of Four" arrested in Beijing; John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent; President Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
• October 8 Sex Pistols sign with EMI
• October 9 Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on debut NZ vs. Pak Javed 1st wkt; "Robber Bridegroom" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 145 performances; TCricket est debut of Javed Miandad, scores 163 on 1st day; Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1
• October 10 Beijing reports arrest of Mao Tse Tung's widow;Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33; New Jersey Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
• October 11 10th Country Music Association Award: Mel Tillis wins; Mao Tse-Tung's widow Jiang Qing and "Gang of Four," arrested and charged with plotting a coup
• October 12 4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach and land test (ALT) flight; Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party
• October 14 Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homer gives New York Yanks pennant #30; Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman; Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6, but returns without docking
• October 15 1st debate of major-ticket VP nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R); Ringo releases "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll"
• October 16 Soyuz 23 returns to Earth;Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 min 54 sec
• October 17 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC; Coldest World Series game Yankees vs Cincinnati, 39 degrees F (until 1997)
• October 18 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr
• October 20 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince; New York Nets Julius "Dr. J" Erving sold to Philadelphia 76ers
• October 21 American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature;Cin Reds sweep New York Yankees, in 73rd World Series New York Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed; New York Yankee Thurman Munson ties World Series mark of 6 straight singles; Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow
• October 22 Rick Barry (SF), begins then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
• October 24 1st Jewish film and TV festival; 6th New York City Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:39:11; 7th New York City Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:10:10; Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader; Sadiq and Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings vs. NZ
• October 25 5th Enterprise, approach and lands test (ALT) flight
• October 26 Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa October 26 Trinidad and Tobago becomes a republic
• October 28 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (New York Yankees);Train collision at Goes Neth, 7 die
• October 30 "Going Up" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 49 performances; Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show ;Rev Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ
• October 31 Javed Miandad, 206 vs. NZ, age 19 years 141 days (29 fours 1 six)

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