1976

Events

• March 1 - Bradford Bishop murders his wife, mother, and three sons, then goes on the run.
• March 29 - The National Reorganization Process takes power in Argentina following a successful coup. Their leader, Jorge Rafael Videla, declares himself president.
• April 2 - The Battle of the Hotels comes to an end.
• May 5 - The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are founded by Velupillai Prabhakaran.
• June 12 - Juan María Bordaberry resigns as President of Uruguay.
• July - Siad Barre dissolves the Supreme Revolutionary Council junta and establishes in its place the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party (SRSP), a one-party government based on scientific socialism and Islamic tenets.
• July 7 - Donald Neilson is found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, and one count of blackmail, and is sentenced to five concurrent life sentences.
• July 29 - David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam, commits his first confirmed murder, killing 18-year old Donna Lauria by shooting her in the head in the Pelham Bay area of The Bronx. Her friend, 19-year old Jody Valenti, was also shot, but survived.
• September 21 - Orlando Letelier, a leading opponent of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, is assassinated in a car bombing in Washington D.C. by members of DINA.
• November 1 - Michel Micombero is overthrown as dictator of Burundi by Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, who declares himself president.
• December 2 - Fidel Castro is elected President of Cuba.
• December 4 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa declares the formation of the Central African Empire, crowning himself Emperor and taking the regnal name Bokassa I.

Births

Villain births

• January 13 - Arturo Guzmán Decena
• January 20 - Josh Powell, Hendrik Mobus
• February 11 - Toni Lawrence
• March 13 - Danny Masterson
• March 19 - Derek Chauvin
• March 29 - Jennifer Capriati
• April 14 - Santiago Abascal
• April 25 - Omar Thornton
• May 16 - Shinji Aoba
• June 9 - Hope Rippey
• June 18 - Candace Muzny
• June 28 - Satam al-Suqami
• August 5 - Napoleon Beazley
• August 9 - Nawaf al-Hazmi
• September 15 - Big Lurch
• October 5 - Ramzan Kadyrov
• December 7 - Duncan Hunter

Victim births

• Unknown - Suzanne Capper

Deaths

Villain deaths

• January 8 - Zhou Enlai
• September 9 - Mao Zedong
• September 19 - Choi Yong-kun
• November 19 - Stanislav Vaupshasov
• December 15 - Grégoire Kayibanda

Victim deaths

• July 29 - Donna Lauria
• September 1 - Cary Ann Medlin
• September 21 - Orlando Letelier