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October 5, 1976. US Democratic vice presidential candidate Walter Mondale says that President Ford, in pardoning Nixon, "made a mockery of the notion that in America, there is no sovereign who stands above the law."

u/OkTechnologyb — 10 days ago
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October 5, 1976. First aired as a six-parter in the spring, "Family" debuts on ABC as a regular series, with a new actress, Meredith Baxter Birney, in the role of the eldest daughter, Nancy.

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u/OkTechnologyb — 10 days ago
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October 4, 1976. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns after it was revealed several days before, by John Dean in Rolling Stone magazine, that Butz made extremely racist and vulgar comments about black Americans back in August.

u/OkTechnologyb — 11 days ago
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October 4, 1976. Barbara Walters joins Harry Reasoner as a co-anchor on ABC Evening News.

u/OkTechnologyb — 11 days ago
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September 30, 1976. "Blue Hills," an Australian radio serial about a country town, created and written by Gwen Meredith, goes off the air after 27 years and 5,795 episodes.

u/OkTechnologyb — 15 days ago
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September 29, 1976. On the second regular episode of the new sitcom "Alice," Alice goes on a date with a former quarterback who confides in her that he's gay.

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u/OkTechnologyb — 16 days ago
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September 22, 1976. Season 4 of "Good Times" begins with terrible news: just as the family is about to leave the projects and join patriarch James in Mississippi, they receive a telegram that James was killed in a car accident.

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u/OkTechnologyb — 23 days ago
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September 22, 1976. "All in the Family" begins its seventh season with a shocker: Archie makes out with another woman after going to her place with even more in mind, in "Archie's Brief Encounter, Part 1."

u/OkTechnologyb — 23 days ago
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September 12, 1976. The Seattle Seahawks, a new NFL expansion team, play their very first regular-season game. The St. Louis Cardinals defeat them, 30–24.

u/OkTechnologyb — 1 month ago
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September 9, 1976. On tonight's NBC Nightly News, David Brinkley says about Mao's death, "How it will go in China without him there, nobody knows."

(Of course this was broadcast in color; not sure why this copy is in black and white.)

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u/OkTechnologyb — 1 month ago