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August 19, 1976. Transgender athlete Renée Richards meets with the press to argue why she should be allowed to play tennis with women. She had been outed by local TV anchor Richard Carlson, father of Tucker Carlson.
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August 19, 1976. Transgender athlete Renée Richards meets with the press to argue why she should be allowed to play tennis with women. She had been outed by local TV anchor Richard Carlson, father of Tucker Carlson.

u/MonsieurA — 19 hours ago
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August 19, 1976. Jeffrey Epstein, 23, becomes an associate at Bear Sterns.

u/MonsieurA — 21 hours ago
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1976

None of this laid back nonsense of 2026, back in the 1970’s America was on the move and did not have time to put a yummy sugary breakfast into a bowl

The box will do

“Hurry up, Land of the Lost is Starting!”

u/AgainforthrFirstTime — 1 day ago
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August 19, 1976. Ronald Reagan and President Gerald Ford eye each other at the RNC - Ford beat Reagan 1,187 to 1,070 in delegate votes on the first ballot.

u/MonsieurA — 21 hours ago
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August 18, 1976. North Korean soldiers kill two US Army officers with axes. The officers had been part of a work party trimming a poplar tree in the Joint Security Area.

u/MonsieurA — 2 days ago
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Grady Stiles Jr., better known as “Lobster Boy,” pictured with two of his children in 1976.

u/Aggravating_Ad4844 — 4 days ago
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August 18, 1976. ABC broadcasts two episodes of its 12-episode summer-replacement sitcom "Viva Valdez," about a Mexican American family, before joining CBS and NBC in broadcasting from the Republican National Convention.

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u/OkTechnologyb — 2 days ago
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August 18, 1976. The Soviet Union's uncrewed spacecraft Luna 24 lands on the Moon, touching down in the Sea of Crises.

u/MonsieurA — 2 days ago
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August 17, 1976. The River Thames is extremely low, as the UK continues to endure a historic drought (although the exceptionally hot weather of June and July has subsided).

u/OkTechnologyb — 3 days ago
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August 15, 1976. President Ford and his daughter, Susan, watch television in a Kansas City hotel room. The Republican National Convention starts there tomorrow.

u/OkTechnologyb — 4 days ago
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August 16, 1976. The Republican National Convention opens in Kansas City, Missouri.

u/MonsieurA — 4 days ago
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August 15, 1976. Lynyrd Skynyrd onstage playing the “World Series of Rock” at Hawthorne Race Track outside of Chicago, IL.

u/MonsieurA — 5 days ago