Fairhaven High School Class of 1976

What Happend in July of the year we graduated - 1976

• July 1 Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of U.S. Conference of Mayors
• July 2 83rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats E Goolagong (63 46 86); Formal reunification of North and South Vietnam; Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
• July 3 90th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Ilse Nastase (64 62 97); Adolfo Suarez becomes premier of Spain; After 12 years, Brian Wilson performs with the Beach Boys; Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew and passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers
• July 4 Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt., New York; Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers; Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Bloomington Golf Classic Bicentennial
• July 6 Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station
• July 7 E. Henry Knoche, becomes deputy director of CIA; Vernon A. Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA; Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars
• July 8 Randy Jones wins NL record 16 games before All Star break; England all out for 71 vs. WI at Old Trafford, Holding 14 5-7-17-5; Houston Astro Larry Dierker no-hits Montreal Expos, 6-0; Uganda asks United Nations to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe
• July 10 105th British Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Royal Birkdale; Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud)
• July 11 1st U.S. football club in Austria forms (FAAFC-1st Austrian American); 31st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner; France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island; In pre-game promo at Atlanta County Stadium, 34 couples wed at home plate followed by Championship Wrestling "Headlocks and Wedlocks"
• July 12 Ian Dury and Kilburns disband
• July 13 47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Phila; All star MVP: George Foster (Cin Reds); Last day of Test Cricket for Brian Close, aged 45
• July 14 Jimmy Carter wins Democratic President nomination in New York City; U.S.S.R. banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands
• July 15 36-hr kidnap of 26 school children and their bus driver in California
• July 16 Rock duo Loggins and Messina break-up after 6 years
• July 17 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal; Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor
• July 18 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic; Lucien van Impe wins Tour de France; "Something's Afoot" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 61 performances Stockhausens "Sirius," premieres in New York City; Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut
• July 19 Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony; Rock group Deep Purple disbands
• July 20 Last U.S. troops leave Thailand; U.S. Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
• July 21 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Phila; "Guys and Dolls" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 239 performances
• July 22 "Let My People Come" opens at Morosco Theater New York City for 106 performances
• July 23 42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895); Baltimore Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game; France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island; U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.; Wings release "Let 'em In"
• July 24 John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes
• July 25 Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01); Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
• July 27 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese; Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested, Lockheed Affair
• July 28 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake; 8.2 and 7.4 earthquake devastate Tangsha, China (240-750,000 die); Eldon Joersz and Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph; White Sox John Odom (5 inn) and Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's
• July 29 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test
• July 30 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy; Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
• July 31 Seychelles Independence, Independence day; Waldemar Cierpinski runs Olympic marathon (2:09:55.0)

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

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