1976

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson.

July 4, 1976

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1976

Israeli forces mounted an attack on Entebee airport to free hostages

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1976

United States celebrated its Bicentential. In 1776 , the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.

Vicking 1 spacecraft took this now famous photograph of 'the face' on Mars. Years later the Mars Global Surveyor would photograph the same area and show no face at all.
The British and French Concorde's made their first commercial flights from London and Paris respectively to Washington Dulles International Airport in just under four hours. The worst Concorde crash in history would occur in 2000

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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
Paul Theroux (b. 1941), U.S. novelist, travel writer. Quoted in: Observer (London, 7 Oct. 1979).
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