3rd » Viking program: The American 'Viking 2' spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
6th » 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 » 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 » 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 » Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Yerevan reservoir.
17th » The first Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Enterprise known as Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
19th » Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.
19th » 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 » 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 » Seychelles joins the United Nations.
Famous Birthdays on September in 1976
1st » Babydaddy, American singer-songwriter and producer (Scissor Sisters)
8th » Brendan Kelly (musician) e.g Brendan Kelly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Lawrence Arms, The Broadways, and The Falcon (band) named The Falcon)
8th » Sarah Kucserka, American screenwriter and producer
8th » Sjeng Schalken, Dutch-Monacan tennis player
9th » Chace Ambrose, American actor and screenwriter
9th » Juan A. Baptista, Venezuelan model and actor
9th » Emma de Caunes, French actress
9th » Hanno Möttölä, Finnish basketball player
9th » Joey Newman, American composer and conductor
9th » Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer
9th » Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer (Ulver, Borknagar, and Head Control System)
19th » Jay Electronica, American rapper and producer
19th » Jan Hlaváč, Czech ice hockey player
19th » Isha Koppikar, Indian model and actress
19th » Alison Sweeney, American actress and director
19th » Jim Ward (musician) known as Jim Ward, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (At the Drive-In, Sparta (band) known as Sparta, and Sleepercar)