in the Korean Demilitarized Zone which has obscured their view. August 19 – U.S. President Gerald Ford edges out challenger Ronald Reagan to win the Republican Party presidential nomination in Kansas City. August 21 – Disappearance of Andy Puglisi: Massachusetts child Angelo "Andy" Puglisi goes missing from a public pool near his home; the case is never solved. August 24 – In Uruguay, the army captures Marcelo Gelman and his pregnant wife. Gelman is later killed and his wife disappears. August 25 Jacques Chirac resigns as Prime Minister of France; he is succeeded by Raymond Barre. Landslide disaster in Sau Mau Ping, Hong Kong. August 26 The first known outbreak of Ebola virus occurs in Yambuku, Zaire. Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, resigns from various posts over a scandal involving alleged corruption in connection with business dealings with the Lockheed Corporation. August 28 – Actress Anissa Jones, famous for playing Buffy Davis in the television series Family Affair, is found dead of an accidental overdose in Oceanside, California. August 30 – James Alexander George Smith McCartney is sworn in as the first chief minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands. September September 1 Cigarette and tobacco advertising is banned on Australian television and radio. Aparicio Méndez, a jurist, is inaugurated as a civilian de facto President of Uruguay in the framework of a dictatorship. The state of emergency in the Republic of Ireland legally still in force since 1939 is lifted. September 3 – Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars, taking the first close-up color photographs of the planet's surface. September 4 – 1500th anniversary of the Fall of the Western Roman Empire. September 6 Cold War: Soviet Air Force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan, and requests political asylum in the United States. Frank Sinatra brings Jerry Lewis's former partner Dean Martin onstage, unannounced, at the 1976 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in Las Vegas, reuniting the comedy team for the first (and only) time in over 20 years. September 10 Zagreb mid-air collision: A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia (modern-day Zagreb, Croatia), killing all 176 aboard. September 13 – The Muppet Show is broadcast in the United Kingdom for the first time, on ITV. September 15 – Darryl Sittler