July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of death May 1, 1976
The temperature on May 1, 1976 was between -2.5 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 3 » The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, comes into force.
January 18 » Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.
March 24 » In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.
May 15 » Aeroflot Flight 1802 crashes in Viktorovka, Chernihiv Raion, killing all 52 people on board.
July 19 » Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
October 6 » Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.
Day of burial May 5, 1976
The temperature on May 5, 1976 was between 2.8 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 2 » The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.
January 3 » The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, comes into force.
April 9 » The EMD F40PH diesel locomotive enters revenue service with Amtrak.
April 11 » The Apple I is created.
June 28 » The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
July 2 » End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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