An earthquake in Guatemala and Honduras kills more than 22000 people.
Tag: 1976
19 February 1976
The Executive Order, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford.
18 July 1976
Nadia Comaneci is the first athlete in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics.
6 October 1976
All 73 people on board are killed as Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados after two…
18 August 1976
The “axe murder incident” in the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom kills two US soldiers.