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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
