Historical Events in 1976

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• Jan 1 "Musical Jubilee" closes at St James Theater NYC after 92 performances
• Jan 1 Liberty Bell moves to new home behind Independence Hall
• Jan 1 NBC replaces the peacock logo
• Jan 1 Venezuela nationalizes oil fields

• Jan 1 42nd Orange Bowl: #3 Oklahoma beats #5 Michigan, 14-6
• Jan 3 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Jan 4 "Candide" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 740 performances
• Jan 4 "Home Sweet Homer" opens & closes at Palace Theater NYC
• Jan 4 The Ulster Volunteer Force shoot dead 6 Catholic civilians in 2 co-ordinated attacks in County Armagh, North Ireland
• Jan 4 64th Men's Australian Open: Mark Edmondson beats John Newcombe (6-7, 6-3, 7-6, 6-1)
• Jan 4 64th Women's Australian Open: Evonne Goolagong Cawley beats Renata Tomanova (6-2, 6-2)
• Jan 4 AFC Championship Game: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Oakland Raiders 16-10
• Jan 4 NFC Championship Game: Dallas Cowboys beat Los Angeles Rams 37-7
• Jan 5 "MacNeil-Lehrer Report" premieres on PBS
• Jan 5 Cambodia is renamed "Democratic Kampuchea"
• Jan 5 Greg Chappell scores 182* at SCG against West Indies
• Jan 5 In retaliation for the Reavey and O'Dowd killings, the South Armagh Republican Action Force shoot dead 10 Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus in County Armagh
• Jan 6 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• Jan 6 Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million
• Jan 8 Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles

• Jan 9 C. W. McCall CB song "Convoy" hits #1 on the country music charts
• Jan 9 Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK
• Jan 11 "Pacific Overtures" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 193 performances
• Jan 11 Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consecutive national figure skating championship
• Jan 11 Military coup in Ecuador, Pres Guillermo Lara leaves
• Jan 11 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Pacific Overtures," premieres in NYC
• Jan 11 US male Figure Skating championship won by Terry Kubicka
• Jan 12 UN Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine Liberation Organisation
• Jan 13 Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at NYC Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata"
• Jan 14 "The Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC)
• Jan 14 Ted Turner becomes CEO of Atlanta Braves

• Jan 15 US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit
• Jan 15 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Jan 16 "Donny & Marie" [Osmond] musical variety show premieres on ABC TV
• Jan 16 Peter Frampton released platinum live album "Frampton Comes Alive"

• Jan 17 Hermes rocket launched by European Space Agency
• Jan 18 Super Bowl X: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 21-17 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Lynn Swann, Pittsburgh, WR
• Jan 20 29th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-5 at Philadelphia
• Jan 21 Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France
• Jan 22 Bank robbery in Beirut nets $20-50 million (record)
• Jan 23 Ian Redpath hits his only 2 sixes in Cricket Tests, v WI Adelaide
• Jan 23 Wash Caps end 25 game winless streak (0-22-3) beat NY Rangers 7-5
• Jan 23 The Provisional Irish Republican Army truce of February 1975 is officially brought to an end
• Jan 23 The results to U.S. advice columnist Ann Landers' question (if they could do it all over, would parents still become parents) state that 70% of 10,000 responding parents were negative about being parents
• Jan 24 Cleveland Cavaliers biggest margin victory-43 pts (beat Milwaukee 132-89)

• Jan 25 Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut Ind v NZ Auckland
• Jan 26 Belgium Catholic elite starts amnesty campaign for war criminals
• Jan 26 David Mamet's "American Buffalo" premieres in NYC
• Jan 26 Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon
• Jan 26 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 23-20
• Jan 27 "Laverne & Shirley" spinoff from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV
• Jan 27 9th ABA All-Star Game: Denver 144 beats ABA 138 at Denver
• Jan 27 Morocco-Algeria battles in West Sahara
• Jan 27 Viv Richards scores his 1st Test century against Australia
• Jan 28 Erapalli Prasanna takes 8-76 to rip through NZ at Eden Park
• Jan 28 NBA Atlanta Hawks begin a 28 game road losing streak
• Jan 29 Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire
• Jan 29 Bombs set off in London's West End by the IRA; 1 person is injured
• Jan 30 1st-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg
• Jan 30 George H. W. Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)
• Jan 30 William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA
• Jan 31 "Love Rollercoaster" by Ohio Players hits #1
• Jan 31 Lance Gibbs becomes highest Test wicket-taker at 308

• Feb 1 "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV
• Feb 1 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational

• Feb 1 East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Mich State U after he is warned not to
• Feb 1 62nd Rose Bowl: #11 UCLA beats #1 Ohio State, 23-10
• Feb 2 "Honeymooners Second Honeymoon" airs on TV
• Feb 2 "Rich Little Show" debuts on NBC-TV
• Feb 2 Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom & ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame
• Feb 3 26th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-109 at Philadelphia
• Feb 4 12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria
• Feb 4 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala & Honduras
• Feb 4 US Federal Judge Judge Oliver upholds Seitz's decision on Andy Messersmith free agency
• Feb 4 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Feb 5 Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies
• Feb 5 Last day of Test Cricket for Lance Gibbs & Ian Redpath

• Feb 7 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Brooklyn New York)
• Feb 7 Larry Groce's "Junk Food Junkie" peaks at #9
• Feb 7 World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR)
• Feb 8 Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic
• Feb 8 Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130)

• Feb 9 Oscar Charleston selected to baseball's Hall of Fame
• Feb 11 Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st black US Secretary of Army
• Feb 11 John Curry wins the UK’s 1st Olympic gold medal in figure skating; the country's 1st medal for 12 years at the winter games
• Feb 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Feb 13 American Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold in Innsbruck, Austria
• Feb 13 Peter Casserly of NZ hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 hours
• Feb 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Feb 15 12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria
• Feb 15 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
• Feb 15 18th Daytona 500: David Pearson wins (152.181 MPH)
• Feb 17 "Rockabye Hamlet" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 7 performances
• Feb 17 Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau)
• Feb 17 NZ scores their 1st innings win in Test Cricket, v India

• Feb 19 Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara

• Feb 20 The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
• Feb 21 "Rockabye Hamlet" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 7 performances
• Feb 21 Cardinal Willebrands installed as Archbishop of Utrecht
• Feb 22 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
• Feb 23 Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract
• Feb 24 Cuba adopts its constitution
• Feb 24 Jules Feiffer's "Knock Knock" premieres in NYC

• Feb 26 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Feb 28 18th Grammy Awards: Love Will Keep Us Together, Natalie Cole wins
• Feb 28 Ceuta & Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession
• Feb 28 Spain withdraws from Western Sahara
• Feb 29 ABC-TV broadcast premiere of 1965's hit "The Sound of Music"

• Mar 2 "Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 766 performances
• Mar 2 Bob Lurie becomes CEO of SF Giants
• Mar 2 Holgate, Kemp & Lopez' musical premieres in NYC
• Mar 2 Walt Disney World logs its 50 millionth guest
• Mar 3 Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia
• Mar 3 5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
• Mar 4 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
• Mar 4 SF Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie & Bud Herseth

• Mar 5 British pound falls below $2 for 1st time
• Mar 6 Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)
• Mar 6 Ice Pairs Championship at Gothenburg won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (URS)
• Mar 6 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (GRB)
• Mar 6 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by American Dorothy Hamill
• Mar 6 23rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Virginia beats North Carolina, 67-62
• Mar 7 Morocco & Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria
• Mar 8 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China
• Mar 9 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
• Mar 9 Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0
• Mar 12 South African troops leave Angola
• Mar 14 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race
• Mar 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Mar 15 Failed coup in Niger

• Mar 17 Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76)
• Mar 17 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
• Mar 17 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Mar 17 4 Catholic civilians (including 2 children) are killed and twelve wounded when the Ulster Volunteer Force explode a car bomb at Hillcrest Bar, Dungannon
• Mar 20 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.70)
• Mar 20 Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery
• Mar 23 International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
• Mar 24 Argentine President Isabel Martínez de Perón is deposed in a military coup
• Mar 25 "My Fair Lady" opens at St James Theater NYC for 384 performances
• Mar 25 "Rex" opens at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC for 48 performances
• Mar 25 Argentine milt junta bans leftist political parties
• Mar 26 AL approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M
• Mar 26 Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album

• Mar 27 Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64, for AIWA basketball title
• Mar 27 Washington, D.C. underground Metro opens
• Mar 29 38th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Michigan 86-68
• Mar 29 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students
• Mar 29 48th Academy Awards: "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", Jack Nicholson & Louise Fletcher wins
• Mar 30 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
• Mar 31 Cleveland Cavaliers clinch their 1st ever NBA playoff bearth
• Mar 31 NJ Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator

• Apr 1 Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the northeastern U.S..
• Apr 1 Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by the astronomer Patrick Moore.

• Apr 2 Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds Prince Sihanouk as Premier
• Apr 2 Portuguese constitution assumed

• Apr 3 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
• Apr 3 Philadelphia Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game
• Apr 3 130th Grand National: John Burke aboard Rag Trade wins
• Apr 3 21st Eurovision Song Contest: Brotherhood of Man for United Kingdom wins singing "Save Your Kisses for Me" in The Hague
• Apr 4 5th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Judy Rankin
• Apr 4 Seni Pramoj's Democratic Party wins elections in Thailand

• Apr 6 1st quadrophonic movie track: "Ladies & Gentlemen the Rolling Stones"

• Apr 8 1976 NFL Draft: Lee Roy Selmon from University of Oklahoma first pick by Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• Apr 9 US & Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use
• Apr 10 Brewers' Don Money's grand slammer disallowed-Yanks win 9-7
• Apr 10 Cleveland Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title

• Apr 11 The Apple I computer, created by Steve Wozniak is released
• Apr 12 India set 403 to win by WI They get them, 6 wkts 7 overs spare

• Apr 13 $2 bill re-introduced as US currency
• Apr 13 1st NBA playoff game for Cleve Cavliers, they lose 100-95 to Wash
• Apr 13 US Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes
• Apr 15 Yankee stadium reopens, Yanks beat Twins after trailing 4-0

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