On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 13, 1976, covering October 19, 1976.
Stevie Wonder
Boz Scaggs
Peter Frampton
The Steve Miller Band
Linda Ronstadt
Fleetwood Mac
Wild Cherry
Jefferson Starship
John Denver
Chicago
1976Bruno Dias, Portuguese politician[†]
Bruno Ramos Dias is a Portuguese politician and former member of the Assembly of the Republic, the national legislature of Portugal. A communist, he has represented Setúbal from April 2002 to March 2005, from April 2007 to October 2019 and from October 2019 to March 2024. He had also been a temporary substitute member of the Assembly from September 2001 to April 2002.
1976Omar Gooding, American actor and producer[†]
Omar Miles Gooding, also known by his stage name Big O, is an American actor and comedian.
1976Jostein Gulbrandsen, Norwegian guitarist and composer[†]
Jostein Gulbrandsen is a US-based Norwegian guitarist and composer.
1976Desmond Harrington, American actor[†]
Desmond Harrington is an American actor. He made his film debut in 1999, playing Jean d'Aulon in The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc. His later credits include Riding in Cars with Boys, The Hole, Ghost Ship, We Were Soldiers, Love Object, Wrong Turn, The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and The Neon Demon (2016).
1976Paul Hartley, Scottish footballer and manager[†]
Paul Hartley is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the manager of Scottish League One side Cove Rangers.
1976Hiroshi Sakai, Japanese footballer[†]
Hiroshi Sakai is a former Japanese football player.
1976Dan Smith, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Dan Smith is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played primarily in the American Hockey League (AHL), he also played 22 games in the National Hockey League with the Colorado Avalanche and the Edmonton Oilers between 1998 and 2005.
1976Michael Young, American baseball player[†]
Michael Brian Young is an American former professional baseball infielder who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Since 2014, Young has worked in the Rangers’ front office as a Special Assistant to the General Manager. Originally a second baseman, the versatile Young was a five-time All-Star at shortstop, once at third base, and once as a combination designated hitter / utility infielder. He was the 2005 American League (AL) batting champion.
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Carter's campaign aides, obviously concerned over his slippage in NYS, have begun linking Carter to fate of NYC and to coattails of local Dem candidates; Carter orgn is stressing Ford's earlier statement implying that people of NYC should 'drop dead,' reference to city's financial problems (L)
NYS PSC staff members recommend that all but $11.4-million of Con Ed's request for $249.8-million increase in annual revenues be denied; recommendations of staff members Ralph E Miller and Kevin M Bronner noted (M)
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 18 —Six Arab leaders signed a peace plan for Lebanon today calling for a cease‐fire this week and creation of a 30,000‐man Arab force to supervise the withdrawal of the warring factions.
S African Prime Min Vorster rules out blacks' role in S African pol life, int; discusses relations between US and S Africa, averring that he had neither demanded nor received any 'quid pro quos' from Sec Kissinger for assisting him in efforts to bring majority rule to Rhodesia and SW Africa; por (M)
The World Series, which used to be a standard feature of autumn in New York, returns to the Bronx tonight after 12 years that changed almost everything but the name of the game. The Yankees, now two games down to the Cincinnati Reds and that's halfway to extinction, are playing for the North American baseball championship for the 30th time, though not remarkably well. When they last represented the American League there were nine men on a team, 10 teams in a league and seven afternoon games in the tournament, and when they lost to the St. Louis Cardinals each Yankee received $5,309.29. Now 10‐man teams from 12‐team leagues compete at night, with the winners getting approximately $25,000 a man. Since 1964 the Yankees have changed owners, managers and playing personnel, and New York's taxpayers have spent $100 million converting old Yankee Stadium into a new park.
Profs Richter and Ting win Nobel Prize in physics for their discovery of particle variously known as 'psi' and 'J'; Richter's work was done at Stanford and Ting's at Brookhaven; Prof Goesta Ekspong comments (M)
Oct 19: Commerce Dept makes public 59 repts from cos that said they were asked to comply with Arab econ boycott of Israel; none of cos said it would refuse to comply; dept's move seen part of Adm effort to validate promise Ford made during debate with Carter; repts released by dept were all filed after Oct 6; among cos whose repts were released are Kayser-Roth, McGrow-Edison, Citibank, Bank of America, United Calif Bank, James B Beam Distilling Co, Deere & Co, Westinghouse Electric and General Electric; Arab places of destination listed on forms are Kuwait, Jordan, Iraq, Dubai, Muscat, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar and Bahrain; Otis McAllister Export Corp of New Orleans repts that it was told by Gulf Bank of Kuwait that embargo applied to S Africa and Rhodesia as well as Israel; samples of Arabs' compliance statements noted (M)
Yunich says agency is to consider raising NYC's 50c bus and subway fares by 10c or 15c because of expected loss of revenues; says withdrawal by city of $41.5-million in operating assistance and 'other contingency funds' might be denied to agency; City Hall views statement as effort to pressure city and Emergency Financial Control Bd for quick delivery of funds (M)
Mayor Beame is actively seeking replacement for Holloman but has been turned down by 3 persons approached; criticism of Holloman has increased as it has become clear that corp is operating under substantial deficit and expects larger one next yr (M)
Mex Pres Luis Echeverria Alvarez declares readiness to run against Kurt Waldheim as UN Sec Gen; por (M)
Cuban exile Hernan Ricardo Losano reptdly admits planting bomb aboard DC-8 (S)
MEXICO CITY. Oct. 18 —For four years, President Luis Echeverria Alvarez, has campaigned tirelessly for a “new world economic order,” hoping to win either the Nobel Peace Prize or the Secretary Generalship of the United Nations before his Presidential term ends Dec. 1.