Being born under the Chinese Zodiac Sign Dragon people are stubborn, energetic, healthy, short tempered and excitable. Brave and honest to the bone Dragons inspire confidence and trust in others. The most eccentric and also a little sensitive zodiac sign is that of the Dragon. Dragons have realistic views of the world and would hardly ever borrow money. Being easily excitable and energetic can sometimes give others advantage over the soft hearted Dragons.
Astrology character and traits of Dragon sign: Honorable, brave, healthy, intelligent, enthusiastic, independent, flamboyant, energetic, excitable, eccentric and short tempered.
1976 Zodiac Sign Dragon Compatibility
Chinese Zodiac Signs are based upon a twelve year lunar cycle. Your zodiac animal sign is determined by your birthday year. If you were born in 1976 then your astrological sign is Dragon. There are twelve animal signs. Each animal has it's own attributes and personality traits the Chinese believe comprise the nature of each particular animal.
Best matches for Zodiac Sign Dragon are: Rooster, Monkey, Rat, Goat, Snake
Bad matches for Zodiac Sign Dragon are: Dog
Historical Events for the Year 1976
2nd January Star Sign » The Gale of January 1976 begins, which results in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, resulting in at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.
3rd January Star Sign » The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect.
5th January Star Sign » The Khmer Rouge proclaim the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea.
12th January Star Sign » The United Nations Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
21st January Star Sign » Commercial service of 'Concorde' begins with the Concorde Scheduled flights e.g London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
2nd February Star Sign » The Groundhog Day gale of 1976 named Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
4th February Star Sign » In Guatemala and Honduras an 1976 Guatemala earthquake e.g earthquake kills more than 22,000.
6th February Star Sign » In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately Lockheed bribery scandals known as $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakue
24th February Star Sign » Cuba: Constitution of Cuba 1976 Constitution named national Constitution is proclaimed.
27th February Star Sign » The formerly Spain named Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
4th March Star Sign » The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the Parliament of the United Kingdom e.g British parliament.
9th March Star Sign » Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable car disaster (1976) e.g Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
16th March Star Sign » Prime Minister of the United Kingdom named British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
24th March Star Sign » In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the 'National Reorganization Process'. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth an
27th March Star Sign » The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway (rail) or subway system opens.
30th March Star Sign » The first Land Day protests are held in Israel/Palestine.
1st April Star Sign » Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.
1st April » Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the Northeastern U.S..
4th April Star Sign » Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
7th April Star Sign » Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) named Labour Party.
6th May Star Sign » An 1976 Friuli earthquake called earthquake strikes the Friuli region of northeastern Italy, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
8th May Star Sign » The rollercoaster Revolution (roller coaster) known as Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
21st May Star Sign » The Yuba City bus disaster occurs in Martinez, California. Twenty-nine are killed making it the deadliest road accident in U.S. history.
24th May Star Sign » The London to Washington, D.C., Concorde service begins.
24th May » The Judgement of Paris (wine) named Judgement of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.
16th June Star Sign » Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
25th June Star Sign » Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order (Mormonism) called Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of Latter Day Saint move
27th June Star Sign » Air France Operation Entebbe or Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the Palestine Liberation Organization or PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
28th June Star Sign » The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
29th June Star Sign » The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
2nd July Star Sign » Fall of the South Vietnam e.g Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
4th July Star Sign » Israel Defense Forces called Israeli commandos Operation Entebbe or raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
10th July » One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
14th July Star Sign » Capital punishment in Canada called Capital punishment is abolished in Canada.
17th July Star Sign » East Timor is annexation called annexed, and becomes the 27th Provinces of Indonesia named province of Indonesia.
17th July » The opening of the 1976 Summer Olympics or Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African people or African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
18th July Star Sign » Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
20th July Star Sign » The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
21st July Star Sign » Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the United Kingdom known as British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
25th July Star Sign » Viking program: 'Viking 1' takes the famous Cydonia (region of Mars) or Face on Mars photo.
27th July Star Sign » Former Prime Minister of Japan known as Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.
29th July Star Sign » In New York City, David Berkowitz (aka the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
6th August Star Sign » Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
12th August Star Sign » Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinian people called Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War
18th August Star Sign » In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom, the Axe murder incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
21st August Star Sign » Axe murder incident Operation Paul Bunyan e.g Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjom, South Korea.
3rd September Star Sign » Viking program: The American 'Viking 2' spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
6th September Star Sign » Cold War: Soviet Air Force pilot Lieutenant Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests refugee called political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
10th September Star Sign » A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Adria Airways Inex-Adria McDonnell Douglas DC-9 DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia, killing 176.
11th September Star Sign » A group of Croatian nationalists plant a bomb in a coin locker at Grand Central Terminal. After stating political demands, they reveal the location and provided instructions for disarming the bomb. The disarming operation are not executed properly and the
16th September Star Sign » Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Yerevan reservoir.
17th September Star Sign » The first Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Enterprise known as Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
19th September Star Sign » Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.
19th September » Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to 1976 Tehran UFO incident called investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withd
21st September Star Sign » Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
21st September » Seychelles joins the United Nations.
6th October Star Sign » Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados, after two bombs, placed on board by Luis Posada Carriles Cubana Flight 455, 1976 known as terrorists with connections to the Central Intelligence Agency
6th October » Thammasat University massacre named Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom Kittikachorn or Thanom, by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggerin
13th October Star Sign » A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
13th October » The first Electron microscope electron micrograph of an Ebola virus viral particle is obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at University of California, Davis U.C. Davis, who was then working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention C.D.C.
20th October Star Sign » The ferry MV George Prince ferry disaster e.g 'George Prince' is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan, Louisiana or Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die and only 18 people aboard the fer
22nd October Star Sign » Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
8th November Star Sign » A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
15th November Star Sign » René Lévesque and the 'Parti Québécois' Quebec general election, 1976 called take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of Quebec sovereignty movement known as independence.
23rd November Star Sign » Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
24th November Star Sign » The 1976 Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.
2nd December Star Sign » Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
3rd December Star Sign » An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but will play a Smile Jamaica Concert called concert only two days later.
10th December Star Sign » The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Environmental Modification Convention named Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.
15th December Star Sign » Samoa known as Western Samoa becomes a member of the United Nations.
15th December » The oil tanker MV known as Argo Merchant runs aground near Nantucket, Massachusetts, causing one of the worst marine oil spills in history.