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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....
