The October 24, 1976 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♏. It was the 297 day of the year. President of the United States was Gerald R. Ford.
If you were born on this day, you are 48 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, October 24, 2024, 326 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, October 24, 2025, in 38 days. You have lived for 17,858 days, or about 428,600 hours, or about 25,716,043 minutes, or about 1,542,962,580 seconds.
Date: 25 October 1976
Columbia Univ's Maria Moors Cabot Prizes will be awarded to Bernard Diederich (Time-Life News), Jorge S Remonda-Ruibal (La Voz del Interior), Robert U Brown (Editor & Publisher) and German E Ornes (El Caribe) (S)
Date: 24 October 1976
Scherer Garcia is ordered to appear before Mex City Atty Gen's office to answer charges that he embezzled $650,000 from newspaper; sources rept that Govt decision to open legal case against Scherer forms part of Govt move to discourage openly ind and critical editorial policy by Scherer's new magazine (S)
Date: 24 October 1976
By JAMES M. MARKHAM Special to The New York Times
Spanish Govt lifts 6-yr-old news blackout on its former colony of Equatorial Guinea, stirring pol controversy within Spain itself (S)
Date: 24 October 1976
NYS Thomas Jefferson Award is presented to Repr Otis G Pike for his efforts to promote press freedom and curb govt secrecy; award is announced by NYS Publishers Assn (S)
Date: 24 October 1976
By WILLIAM F. GRANIERI
William GRANIERI
William F Granieri sees victory for const traditions of Federalist papers in newsletter which he and others in his town issued in local election campaign to stir civic consciences; pors of Madison, Jay and Hamilton (S)
Date: 24 October 1976
By FRED FERRETTI
Fred FERRETTI
Article on Richard Spellman, who collects and sells antique newspapers, 70,000 of which he has stored in his Bergen, NJ, garage; illus (M)