- February 4
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [1]
- February 7
- US Federal Communications Commission raids and shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Brooklyn, New York). [1]
- February 12
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [1]
- February 14
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [1]
- February 26
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [1]
- February 27
- Final meeting between China's Mao tse Tung and US President Richard Nixon. [1]
- February 28
- 18th Grammy Awards: "Love Will Keep Us Together", Natalie Cole win. [1]
- March 2
- Walt Disney World welcomes its 50 millionth guest. [1]
- March 9
- First female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy. [1]
- March 11
- Near Newport, Rhode Island, a magnitude 3.5 earthquake occurs. [53]
- March 14
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [1]
- March 17
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [1]
- March 20
- Patty Hearst is convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to seven years in prison. [1] [129]
- March 27
- The first 4.6 miles of the Washington D.C. Metro subway system opens. [1] [5]
- March 29
- Eight Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting four Kent State students. [1]
- March 31
- New Jersey Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator. [1]
- April 1
- Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak incorporate the Apple Computer Company, on April Fool's Day. [1] [4] [5]
- April 9
- US and Russia agree on the size of nuclear tests for peaceful use. [1]
- April 13
- The US Treasury releases 225 million Series 1976 $2 Federal Reserve notes commemorating the Bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence. [1] [399.22] [404.76] [434.169] [598.42]
- April 18
- 30th Tony Awards: Travesties and Chorus Line win. [1]
- April 21
- Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing. [1]
- April 26
- Pan Am begins non-stop flights, New York - Tokyo. [1]
- May 8
- The first steel coaster with a vertical flip opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain. [5]
- May 17
- In Los Angeles, California, the 28th Annual Emmy Awards (primetime programming) are presented, hosted by Mary Tyler Moore and John Denver.
- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama or Comedy Special: Anthony Hopkins for The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
- Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series: Edward Asner for Rich Man, Poor Man
- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Peter Falk for the Columbo series
- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Jack Albertson for Chico and the Man
- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series: Hal Holbrook for Lincoln
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama or Comedy Special: Susan Clark for Babe
- Outstanding Lead Actress for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series: Kathryn Walker for episode John Adams, Lawyer of The Adams Chronicles
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Michael Learned for The Waltons
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series: Rosemary Harris for Notorious Woman
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Mary Tyler Moore for Mary Tyler Moore
- Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Anthony Zerbe for Harry O
- Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Variety or Music: Chevy Chase for Saturday Night Live
- Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Comedy or Drama Special: Ed Flanders for A Moon for the Misbegotten
- Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Ted Knight for Mary Tyler Moore
- Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Comedy or Drama Series: Gordon Jackson for episode The Beastly Hun of Upstairs, Downstairs
- Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Betty White for Mary Tyler Moore
- Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Comedy or Drama Series: Fionnula Flanagan for Rich Man, Poor Man
- Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Variety or Music: Vicki Lawrence for The Carol Burnett Show
- Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Ellen Corby for The Waltons
- Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Comedy or Drama Special: Rosemary Murphy for Eleanor and Franklin
- Outstanding Achievement in Technical Direction and Electronic Camerawork: Leonard Chumbley, Walter Edel, John Feher, and Steve Zink for The Adams Chronicles
- Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series: Gene Reynolds for episode Welcome to Korea of M*A*S*H
- Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series: David Greene for Rich Man, Poor Man
- Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction: Seiji Ozawa for Central Park in the Dark/A Hero's Life
- Outstanding Directing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series: Dave Wilson for Saturday Night Live
- Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction: Bill Klages, Lon Stucky for Mitzi and a Hundred Guys and John Freschi for Mitzi... Roarin' in the 20's
- Outstanding Directing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy: Daniel Petrie for Eleanor and Franklin
- Outstanding Directing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Special: Dwight Hemion for Steve and Eydie: Our Love Is Here to Stay
- Outstanding Writing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy - Original Teleplay: James Costigan for Eleanor and Franklin
- Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series: Anne Beatts, Chevy Chase, Al Franken, Tom Davis, Lorne Michaels, Marilyn Suzanne Miller, Michael O'Donoghue, Herbert Sargent, Tom Schiller, Rosie Shuster, and Alan Zweibel for Saturday Night Live
- Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series: Sherman Yellen for episode John Adams, Lawyer of The Adams Chronicles
- Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Special: Jane Wagner, Lorne Michaels, Ann Elder, Christopher Guest, Earl Pomerantz, Jim Rusk, Lily Tomlin, Rod Warren, and George Yanok for The Lily Tomlin Special
- Outstanding Writing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy - Adaptation: David W. Rintels for Fear on Trial
- Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series: David Lloyd for episode Chuckles Bites The Dust of Mary Tyler Moore
- Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for Entertainment Programming for a Special: Paul Lohmann, Edward R. Brown for Eleanor and Franklin
- Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for Entertainment Programming for a Series: Harry L. Wolf for episode Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow of Baretta
- Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction or Scenic Design - Single Episode of a Comedy, Drama or Limited Series: Tom H. John, John A. Wendell, and Wes Laws for Beacon Hill
- Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction or Scenic Design - Single Episode of a Comedy-Variety or Music Series or a Comedy-Variety or Music Special: Raymond Klausen, Robert Checchi for Cher
- Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design for a Drama Special: Joe I. Tompkins for Eleanor and Franklin
- Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design for Music-Variety: Bob Mackie for Mitzi... Roarin' in the 20's
- Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design for a Drama or Comedy Series: Jane Robinson and Jill Silverside for episode Recovery of Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
- Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Mixing: Don J. Bassman, Donald F. Johnson for Eleanor and Franklin
- Outstanding Achievement in Tape Sound Mixing: Dave Williams for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing for Entertainment Programming for a Series - For a Single Episode of a Comedy Series: Stanford Tischler and Fred W. Berger for episode Welcome to Korea of M*A*S*H
- Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing for Entertainment Programming for a Series - For a Single Episode of a Drama or Limited Series: Samuel E. Beetley and Ken Zemke for episode The Quality of Mercy of Medical Story
- Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing for Entertainment Programming for a Special: Michael Kahn for Eleanor and Franklin
- Outstanding Achievement in Video Tape Editing for a Series: Girish Bhargava, Manford Schorn for The Adams Chronicles
- Outstanding Achievement in Video Tape Editing for a Special: Nick Giordano for Alice Cooper: The Nightmare
- Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Editing - For a Single Episode of a Regular or Limited Series: Doug Grindstaff, Al Kajita, Marvin I. Kosberg, Hans Newman, Leon Selditz, Richard Friedman, Stan Gilbert, Hank Salerno, Larry Singer, and William Andrews for episode The Quality of Mercy of Medical Story
- Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Editing - For a Special Program: Charles L. Campbell, Lawrence E. Neiman, Colin C. Mouat, Larry Carow, Donald L. Warner Jr., John W. Singleton, Thomas McMullen, Joe Divitale, Carl Kress, John Kline, and John Hanley for The Night That Panicked America
- Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Series: Saturday Night Live
- Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Series: Alex North for Rich Man, Poor Man
- Outstanding Special - Comedy-Variety or Music: Gypsy in My Soul
- Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Musical Material: Ken Welch, Mitzie Welch, and Arthur Malvin for Cinderella Gets It On of The Carol Burnett Show
- Outstanding Classical Music Program: Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic of Great Performances
- Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Special: Jerry Goldsmith for Babe
- Outstanding Special - Drama or Comedy: Eleanor and Franklin
- Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Title Sequences: Norman Sunshine for Addie and the King of Hearts
- Outstanding Individual Achievement in Daytime Programming: Rene Lagler, Richard Harvey for Dinah!
- Outstanding Comedy Series: Mary Tyler Moore
- Outstanding Children's Special: Huckleberry Finn and You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown
- Outstanding Drama Series: Police Story
- Outstanding Achievement in Make-Up: Del Armstrong and Michael Westmore for Eleanor and Franklin
- Outstanding Limited Series: Upstairs, Downstairs
- Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement: Bicentennial Minutes, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- Outstanding Individual Achievement in Any Area of Creative Technical Crafts: Don Sahlin, Kermit Love, Caroly Wilcox, John Lovelady, and Rollin Krewson for Sesame Street and Jean Burt Reilly and Billy Laughridge for Eleanor and Franklin
- Outstanding Edited Sports Series: ABC's Wide World of Sports
- Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming: Bud Nolan and Jim Cookman for Bound for Freedom
- Outstanding Individual Achievement in Religious Programming: Joseph J.H. Vadala for A Determining Force
- Outstanding Achievement in Choreography: Tony Charmoli for Gypsy in My Soul
- Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction or Scenic Design - Dramatic Special or Feature Length Film Made for TV: Jan Scott and Antony Mondello for Eleanor and Franklin
- Special Award - Outstanding Achievement in Engineering: Eastman Kodak - For the development of Eastman Ektachrome Video News and Sony Corporation - For the U-matic video cassette concept
- Citation - Outstanding Achievement in Engineering: Tektronix - For leadership in development of of equipment verifying television transmission performance in the vertical interval.
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- May 19
- US Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. [1]
- May 24
- First commercial SuperSonicTransport flight to North America (Concorde to Washington DC). [1]
- June 3
- US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta. [1]
- June 5
- Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die). [1]
- June 16
- Francis E Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped and killed. [1]
- July 2
- US Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual. [1]
- July 9
- Uganda asks United Nations to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe. [1]
- July 14
- Jimmy Carter wins Democratic presidential nomination in New York. [1]
- July 20
- US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, first Martian landing. [1] [5]
- July 21
- First outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Philadelphia. [1]
- July 27
- Ray Brennan becomes first to die of "Legionnaire's Disease". [1]
- July 31
- NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo taken by Viking 1. [5]
- August 7
- Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking 1 found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars. [1]
- American Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth. [1] [5]
- August 8
- John Roselli, hired by US Central Intelligence Agency to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, is found murdered. [1]
- August 9
- Death of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff in West Berlin, Germany; Expressionist/Cubist artist of the group, Die Brücke. [37]
- August 12
- First approach and lands test (ALT) of NASA space shuttle orbiter Enterprise. [1]
- August 19
- President Gerald R Ford wins Republican presidential nomination at Kansas City convention. [1]
- September 1
- New Jersey Meadowlands racetrack opens. [1]
- Wayne L Hays, Democrat party Representative for Ohio, resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray). [1]
- September 3
- American Viking 2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), returns photos. [1] [5]
- September 17
- NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, California. [1]
- September 21
- Computer Shack is incorporated in the USA, created by William Millard. (The name is later changed to ComputerLand, due to objections from Radio Shack.) [4]
- September 24
- Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. [1]
- October 4
- US Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke. [1]
- October 6
- US President Gerald Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe". [1] [37]
- October 10
- New Jersey Meadowlands' (New York Giants) Stadium opens. [1]
- October 15
- First debate of major-ticket Vice President nominees Walter Mondale (Democrat) versus Senator Bob Dole (Republican). [1]
- October 21
- American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature. [1]
- November 2
- Former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter (Democrat) defeats incumbent Gerald R Ford (Republican) in US presidential election. [1]
- A referendum in New Jersey approves legalizing casino gaming for Atlantic City by a 3-to-2 margin. [39] [86.68,145,179]
- November 6
- Benjamin Hooks succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP. [1]
- November 10
- Utah Supreme Court authorizes execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore. [1]
- November 25
- Viking 1 radio signal from Mars helps prove general theory of relativity. [1]
- December 8
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [1]
- December 13
- Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur, California. [1]
- Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to San Francisco, 13 hours 14 minutes). [1]
- December 15
- Liberian oil tanker Argo Merchant runs aground off Massachusetts' Nantucket coast, spilling 28 million litres of crude oil, causing a 160km by 97km oil slick. [1] [522]
- December 16
- Andrew Young named Ambassador and Chief US Delegate to United Nations. [1]
- US government halts swine flu vaccination program following reports of paralysis. [1]
- December 17
- Superstation WTBS in Atlanta goes national. [1]
- December 19
- Piper Cherokee plane crashes into Baltimore Memorial Stadium upper stands, injuring the pilot and three others, 10 minutes after Baltimore Colts lose 40-14 to Pittsburgh Steelers; no one seriously hurt. [1] [56]
- December 21
- Patricia R Harris is named Secretary of HUD. [1]
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [1]
- December 28
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [1]
- Year
- Lottery ticket sales revenue in the USA: US$975.5 million. [40.152]
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