Rethinking the Angolan Crisis and the Portuguese Revolution, 1974 – 1976, Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, 26 / 2, 2000, pp. 22 – 44

* 1888 – Hans Richter, Swiss painter, filmmaker, and graphic artist ( d. 1976 )

* 1976 – Candace Cameron Bure, American actress

* 1976 – James Fox, Welsh singer-songwriter, and actor

* 1976 – Chris Hoke, American football player

* 1976 – Georg Hólm, Icelandic bassist ( Sigur Rós )

* 1976 – Markku Lappalainen, American bass player ( Hoobastank )

* 1976 – Hirotada Ototake, Japanese writer

* 1898 – Lily Pons, American soprano ( d. 1976 )

* 1911 – Mahmoud Younis, Egyptian engineer of the Suez Canal ( d. 1976 )

* 1976 – Brad Miller, American basketball player

* 1976 – Amanda Palmer, American singer-songwriter, and musician ( The Dresden Dolls and Evelyn Evelyn )

* 1890 – Man Ray, American photographer and artist ( d. 1976 )

* 1976 – Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress

* 1976 – Milano Collection A. T., Japanese wrestler

* 1976 – Carlos Moyà, Spanish tennis player

* 1976 – Mark Webber, Australian race car driver

* 1976 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.

* 1893 – Wright Patman, American politician ( d. 1976 )

* 1976 – Soleil Moon Frye, American actress

* 1976 – Melissa George, Australian actress

* 1976 – Nawaf al-Hazmi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 ( d. 2001 )

* 1976 – Jessica Capshaw, American actress

* 1976 – Aled Jones, Welsh radio host and producer

The Mapuche of Argentina do not have a word for music, but they do have words for instrumental versus improvised forms ( kantun ), European and non-Mapuche music ( kantun winka ), ceremonial songs ( öl ), and tayil ( Robertson 1976, 39 ).

* Walter Binaghi ( Argentina ) ( 1957 – 1976 )

By the time Videla's military Junta took power in March 1976, approximately five thousand prisoners were being held in various prisons around Argentina, some with connections and some just guilty by association.

According to different sources, 8, 000 to 30, 000 people, are estimated to have disappeared and died during the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

Category: History of Argentina ( 1973 – 1976 )

A State Department document made available by the National Security Archive on 10 April 2010 reveals that a démarche protesting Pinochet's Operation: Condor assassination program was proposed and sent on 23 August 1976 to US diplomatic missions in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile to be delivered to their host governments but later rescinded on 16 September 1976 by Henry Kissinger, following concerns raised by US ambassadors assigned there of both personal safety and a likely diplomatic contretemps.

Argentina maintained a naval station, Corbeta Uruguay on Thule Island in the South Sandwich Islands, from 1976 until 1982 when it was closed by the Royal Navy.

Argentina maintained a naval base ( Corbeta Uruguay ) from 1976 to 1982, in the lee ( southern east coast ) of the same island.

* 1976-Jorge Rafael Videla seizes control of Argentina in 1976 through a coup sponsored by the Argentine military, establishing himself as a dictator of a military junta government in the country.

* The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

During the period of Argentine military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, Piazzolla lived in Italy, but returned many times to Argentina, recorded there, and on at least one occasion had lunch with the dictator Jorge Rafael Videla.

* Emilio Massera ( Argentina ), a member of the military junta led by Jorge Rafael Videla in Buenos Aires from 1976 to 1978.

After trying to develop nuclear weapons during the 1976 military dictatorship, Argentina scrapped the project with the return of democratic rule in 1983, and became a strong advocate of non-proliferation efforts and the peaceful use of nuclear technologies.

After the military junta of Jorge Videla came to power in 1976, the atmosphere in Argentina grew increasingly oppressive.

* Zarate-Brazo Largo Bridges over the Paraná Guazú and Paraná de las Palmas Rivers in Argentina ( 1972 – 1976 ) are the first two road and railway long-span cable-stayed steel bridges in the world.

In 1976, Cruzeiro won its first Copa Libertadores de América, over River Plate of Argentina.

Economy Minister Antonio Cafiero was dismissed on February 4, 1976, and, within days, the head of the General Economic Council, Julio Broner, left Argentina with his family, altogether.

* National Reorganization Process in Argentina ( 1976 – 1983 )

A declassified CIA document dated June 23, 1976, and explains that " in early 1974, security officials from Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia met in Buenos Aires to prepare coordinated actions against subversive targets ".

McSherry found that "(...) a CIA document, dated June 23, 1976, found that one year before the official emergence of Operation Condor, security officials from Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia met in Buenos Aires to prepare coordinated actions against subversive targets.

Likewise, only three years later, March 24, 1976, a military junta headed by General Jorge Rafael Videla, seized power in Argentina.

He died in his sleep in Mercedes, Argentina on 6 December 1976 of an alleged heart attack.

In July 1976, two magazines in Argentina and Brazil published the names of 119 Chilean leftist opponents, claiming they had been killed in internal disputes unrelated to the Pinochet regime.