8 mei 1976 was een zaterdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♉. Het was de 128e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Gerald R. Ford.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 50 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op vrijdag 8 mei 2026, 58 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zaterdag 8 mei 2027, in 306 dagen. Je hebt 18.320 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 439.681 uur, of ongeveer 26.380.860 minuten, of ongeveer 1.582.851.600 seconden.
Date: 09 May 1976
By PETER KIHSS
Peter KIHSS
Citizens Com for Children of NY in statment denounces as 'racism' proposals to open Family Ct proceedings to expanded news coverage (S)
Date: 08 May 1976
Israeli authorities are investigating repts that Arabs in occupied West Bank of Jordan had offered to stage demonstrations in exch for payments from foreign newsmen; Foreign Press Assn spokesman says group will hold special meeting on May 9 to consider ways to counter unfounded publicity in buying of demonstrations which have recently circulated in Israeli press; mil spokesman says NBC News correspondent Avrom Zaritsky, arrested on May 7 while filming children burning tires, was held in connection with investigation but was released after few hrs; Zaritsky says no one had offered him such deal; Jerusalem Post says authorities are keeping sharper eye on foreign TV crews filming in occupied areas (M)
Date: 09 May 1976
S H Srouji, husband of Jacque Sourji, former copy editor and writer for Nashville Tennessean, says on May 8 that wife left home on May 7 with 2 of their 3 children after she recd threatening phone calls about her alleged relationship with FBI; Dominic deLorenzo, publisher of book on nuclear power Mrs Srouji is writing, says that Srouji phoned her husband and told him she wanted to remain in seclusion for some time; book contains chapter on Karen Silkwood (S)
Date: 08 May 1976
By DAVID BURNHAM Special to The New York Times
David Special
Nashville Tennessean has dismissed copy editor and writer Jacque Srouji following charge that she had been undercover agent for FBI, allegation she denied; questions about her role arose last wk before HR Small Business Com's Subcom on Energy and Environment when she testified that she had been given access to almost 1,000 pages of documents from bur's inquiry into death in automobile accident of Karen Silkwood, Okla plutonium worker; subcom chmn Repr John D Dingell says that when panel staff later questioned FBI agent about Srouji's access to papers, agent responded that he could not talk about Srouji any further because she had 'special relationship' with bur; Tennessean publisher John Seigenthaler comments; Srouji por (M)
Date: 08 May 1976
SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1976
Date: 08 May 1976
Date: 09 May 1976
NYS Sup Ct Justice Irving Kirschenbaum enjoins NYC from enforcing its fire safety regulations under Local Law 5 after ruling that Ad Hoc Com on Fire Safety is entitled to bring class-action suit against city; com chmn Larry Silverstein contends cost of compliance would result in deepening erosion of city's econ base and drive many thousands of jobs from city; Bldgs Dept has issued violations on about 3/4s of 866 bldgs affected by '73 law; real estate indus has charged that various provisions of regulations are technically unsound, too expensive and hazardous (S)
Date: 09 May 1976
rev of Cong passage of bill (M)
Date: 09 May 1976
Follow-up on June '75 3-judge Fed Ct ruling that struck down sex-based presumptions in Soc Security law that failed to give equal rights to widowers and widows with relation to benefits finds that no widower has yet collected benefits as result of ruling (S)
Date: 09 May 1976
Rene Lacoste, Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon, '27 French Davis Cup champs, are inducted into Internatl Tennis Hall of Fame, Newport, RI (S)