The United Nations High Commission on Refugees evacuated of 49 U.S. citizens and their dependents from Vietnam.
The 23 Americans, 14 Vietnamese spouses and 14 children had been stranded in the country after the fall of South Vietnam in 1975.
They were a mixed group. Most had remained in the country against their will, and three had been held in jail, while a few had plead to be allowed to remain in Vietnam.
Trinidad and Tobago became a republic.
The 1976 Summer Olympics ended.
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Spanish King Juan Carlos I issued a general amnesty for most of Spain's 650 political prisoners and reinstated university professors who had been dismissed for political activities.
Bruce Jenner won the gold medal in the men's decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
A great athlete, and noting that it's not popular to say it, Jenner always appeared a bit odd and at least to me, even back in the 70s and 80s he came across as a homosexual. He later took up a female persona. He was married three times prior to that.
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Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci became the first gymnast to receive a perfect score in Olympic history.
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A legendary Bandstand performance, in no small part due to the dancing by the girl in the green top.
Former US President Nixon arrived in Beijing on an invited vacation to China.
The first Winter Paralympics opened in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden.
Twelve senior London Metropolitan detectives were arrested in a raid on their London homes after being indicted on charges of accepting bribes from pornography distributors in Westminster's Soho district between 1960 and 1974.
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The 1976 Winter Olympics opened in Innsbruck.
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