January 15, 1976 Gerald Ford’s would-be assassin sentenced

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...

January 12, 1976 UN Security Council Allows P.L.O. to participate in a Security Council debate

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...

50 Years Ago: The Khmer Rouge announce that the new Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea is ratified.

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...

50 Years Ago: The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen would shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.

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...

January 3, 1976 Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, by the UN General Assembly

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...