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By Barry Boyce,
CyclingRevealed Historian |
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| Date |
Race |
Winner |
Distance |
| March 19, 1976 |
Milan-San Remo |
Eddy Merckx (Bel) |
288 km |
| April 4, 1976 |
Tour of Flanders |
Walter Planckaert (Bel) |
261 km |
| April 11, 1976 |
Paris-Roubaix |
Marc Demeyer (Bel) |
270 km |
| April 18, 1976 |
Liege-Bastogne-Liege |
Joseph Bruyere (Bel) |
246 km |
| April 27-May 16, 1976 |
Vuelta a Espana |
Jose Pesarrodona (Spa) |
19 Stages,
3,442 km |
| May 21-June 9, 1976 |
Giro d'Italia |
Felice Gimondi (Ita) |
22 Stages
4,161 km |
| June 26-July 20, 1976 |
Tour de France |
Lucien Van Impe (Bel) |
22 Stages
4,023 km |
| September 5, 1976 |
World
Championships |
Freddy Maertens (Bel) |
Ostuni, Italy 288 km |
October 9, 1976 |
Giro
di Lombardia |
Roger de Vlaeminck (Bel) |
Milan-Como,
253 km |
• Bicentennial Celebration - on the 4th of July , the United States of America commemorated the 200th anniversary of its independence.
• Entebbe Airport, Uganda - Israeli commandos attack pro-Palestinian Air France flight hijackers and free 103 hostages. One Israeli and several Ugandan soldiers were killed in the rescue mission.
• Legionnaires Disease - August , a pneumonia like decease strikes an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. The outbreak killed 29 legionaries.
• North Korea - 2 US soldiers were killed in the de-militarized (DMZ) while chopping down a tree which obstructed their view.
• Montreal Olympic Games - 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci recorded the first perfect score of 10 in winning 3 Olympic Gold Medals.
Notable Deaths - Mao Zedong (Tse-tung), 1983-1976 , was the long time leader of the Chinese Communist Party.
Hercule Poirot, Author Agatha Christie killed off the world's favorite fictional detective in the mystery novel “Curtains.”
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