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Events from the year 1976 in the United States. Major events include Jimmy Carter defeating incumbent president Gerald Ford in the presidential election of that year, the incorporation of Apple Computer Company and Microsoft , and the New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that Karen Ann Quinlan could be disconnected from her ventilator.
November 2 – 1976 United States presidential election: Jimmy Carter narrowly defeats incumbent Gerald Ford, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War. November 12 – Disappearance of Renee MacRae and her 3-year-old son Andrew from Inverness in Scotland; this becomes Britain's longest-running missing persons ...
1971 – In New York Times Co. v. United States, the Supreme Court rules that the Pentagon Papers may be published, rejecting government injunctions as unconstitutional prior restraint. 1972 – President Richard Nixon visits Mao Zedong in China, an astonishing step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and China.
1976 in the United States by state or territory (55 C) * 1976 events in the United States by month (12 C) / 1976 disestablishments in the United States (42 C, 13 P)
January 1976 events in the United States (1 C, 5 P) February 1976 events in the United States (1 C, 4 P) March 1976 events in the United States (1 C, 3 P)
Fremlin was charged with indecent assault at age 80, and the indictment stated, “between the 1st day of July 1976 and the 31st day of August 1976, in the Town of Clinton, in the County of Huron ...
It was encircled by the inscription American Revolution Bicentennial 1776–1976 in Helvetica Regular. An early use of the logo was on a 1971 US postage stamp. The logo became a flag that flew at many government facilities throughout the United States and appeared on many other souvenirs and postage stamps issued by the Postal Service.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 2, 1976. The Democratic ticket of Jimmy Carter, the former governor of Georgia, and his runningmate Walter Mondale, the senior senator from Minnesota, narrowly defeated the Republican ticket of Gerald Ford, the incumbent president, and his runningmate Bob Dole, the junior senator from Kansas.