Historical Events in January 1976

Jan 1 After 45 years of coaching, Paul Brown announces his retirement from the National Football League

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* for Australia 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 9 Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot

Jan 9 Ringo Starr 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, President 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 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot US President Gerald Ford

Jan 17 "I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow hits #1

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 has its 1st commercial flights
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)