Historical News from this day 50 years ago.
50 Years Ago Today February 9, 1976 Aeroflot Flight 3739 was a regularly scheduled Russian domestic flight from Irkutsk to Pulkovo Airport in Saint Petersburg that crashed during takeoff from Irkutsk International Airport on 9 February 1976. Twenty-four of the 114 people on board died in the accident. Source: Wikipedia – 1976 .class-1976-auto-post {background: linear-gradient(135deg, … Read more
50 Years Ago Today February 6, 1976 The United States Senate is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, and the U.S. House of Representatives is the lower house. Together, the Senate and House have the authority under Article One of the Constitution to make and pass or defeat … Read more
50 Years Ago Today February 4, 1976 Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in northern Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to … Read more
50 Years Ago Today January 21, 1976 The supersonic Concorde begins commercial passenger service, making transatlantic flight faster than ever before. Source: Aviation History .class-1976-auto-post { background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f5f7fa 0%, #e3e7ed 100%); padding: 30px; border-radius: 15px; margin: 20px 0; } .event-badge { background: linear-gradient(45deg, #d4af37, #f4d03f); color: #2c3e50; padding: 10px 25px; border-radius: 25px; font-weight: bold; … Read more
50 Years Ago Today January 18, 1976 Christianity has a long and continuous history in Lebanon. Biblical scriptures show that Peter and Paul evangelized the Phoenicians, leading to the dawn of the ancient Patriarchate of Antioch. As such, Christianity in Lebanon is as old as the Christian faith itself. Christianity spread slowly in Lebanon due … Read more
50 Years Ago Today January 15, 1976 Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977. A member of the Republican Party, Ford assumed the presidency after the resignation of Richard Nixon, under whom he had served as the 40th vice president from 1973 to 1974 following … Read more
50 Years Ago Today January 12, 1976 The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the UN system and is the primary organ charged with ensuring international peace and security. Its powers as outlined in the UN Charter include authorizing military action, establishing peacekeeping operations, recommending the admission of … Read more
50 Years Ago Today January 5, 1976 Khmer Rouge is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), and by extension to Democratic Kampuchea, which ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The name was coined in the 1960s by Norodom Sihanouk to describe his country's heterogeneous, communist-led dissidents, … Read more
50 Years Ago Today January 4, 1976 The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it began in the late 1960s and is usually deemed to have ended with the Good Friday Agreement of … Read more
50 Years Ago Today January 3, 1976 The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) is a multilateral treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (GA) on 16 December 1966 through GA. Resolution 2200A (XXI), and came into force on 3 January 1976. It commits its parties to work toward the granting … Read more