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1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1976th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 976th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1970s decade. Events January January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. January 18 – Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War. January 27 The United States vetoes a United Nations resolution that calls for an independent Palestinian state. The First Battle of Amgala breaks out between Morocco and Algeria in the Spanish Sahara. February February 4 The 1976 Winter Olympics begin in Innsbruck, Austria. The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake affects Guatemala and Honduras with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 23,000 dead and 76,000 injured. February 9 – The Australian Defence Force is formed by unification of the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. February 13 – General Murtala Mohammed of Nigeria is assassinated in a military coup. February 19 – Former Tower of Power vocalist Rick Stevens is arrested in the United States for murdering three men during a botched drug deal. He ultimately serves 36 years of a life sentence. February 24 – Cuba's constitution of 1976 is enacted. February 26 – The Spanish Armed Forces withdraw from Western Sahara. February 27 – The Polisario Front, Western Sahara's national liberation movement, declares independence of the territory under the name "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic". On February 28, Madagascar becomes the first country to recognise it. March March – The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is released by Seymour Cray's Cray Research, with the first purchaser being the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) in Los Alamos, New Mexico. March 1 U.K. Home Secretary Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status for those sentenced for scheduled terrorist crimes relating to the civil violence in Northern Ireland. Bradford Bishop allegedly murders five of his family members in Bethesda, Maryland. The crime goes undiscovered for 10 days and the suspect is never caught. From 2014 to 2018 he is on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. March 4 The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland, resulting in Direct rule over Northern Ireland by the Government of the United Kingdom in London. The Maguire Seven are found guilty in London of possessing explosives for use by the Provisional Irish Republican Army and subsequently jailed for 14 years; their convictions will be overturned in 1991. March 9 – A cable car disaster in Cavalese, Italy leaves 43 dead. March 9–11 – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine, in Letcher County, Kentucky. March 14 – After eight years on NBC, The Wizard of Oz returns to CBS, where it will remain until 1999, setting what is likely a record at that time for the most telecasts of a Hollywood film on a commercial television network. (That record is broken by The Ten Commandments in 1996, which began its annual network telecasts on ABC in 1973, continuing be telecast by that network as of 2020.) March 16 – Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. March 17 – American boxer Rubin Carter is retried in New Jersey for murder; his conviction is upheld on this occasion but will be overturned in 1985. March 20 – Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco bank in 1974. March 22 – Star Wars begins filming in Tunisia. March 23 – In a feud between Japanese ultranationalists, Mitsuyasu Maeno attempts to assassinate Yoshio Kodama by flying a plane into his Tokyo house. March 24 Argentina military forces depose president Isabel Perón. A general strike takes place in the People's Republic of the Congo. March 26 The Toronto Blue Jays are created as a baseball team. The Body Shop, the retail chain for skin care products and cosmetics founded by Anita Roddick, opens its first branch in Brighton, England. March 27 The South African Defence Force withdraws from Angola and concludes Operation Savannah. The first 7.4 kilometres (4.6 mi) of the Washington Metro subway system opens. March 29 – The military dictatorship of General Jorge Videla comes to power in Argentina. March 30 – Land Day: Arab citizens of Israel protest against intended appropriation of land by the government. March 31 – The New Jersey Supreme Court rules that patient in a persistent vegetative state in the Karen Ann Quinlan case can be disconnected from her ventilator. She remains comatose and dies in 1985. March late – The first truly complete recording of the opera Porgy and Bess is released in a 3-LP set, by Decca Records in England and by London Records in the U.S. It stars Willard White and Leona Mitchell. The orchestra is the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel. April April 1 Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in California. Conrail (Consolidated Rails Corporation) is formed by the U.S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that have filed for bankruptcy protection. Conrail takes control at midnight, as a government-owned and operated railroad until 1986, when it is sold to the public. The Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore. April 2 – Norodom Sihanouk is forced to resign as Head of State of Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot and is placed under house arrest. April 3 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me. April 5 James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Tiananmen Incident: Large crowds lay wreaths at Beijing's Monument of the Martyrs to commemorate the death of Premier Zhou Enlai. Poems against the Gang of Four are also displayed, provoking a police crackdown. Segovia prison break: in Spain's largest prison break since the Spanish Civil War, 29 political prisoners escape from Segovia prison. April 10 – Frampton Comes Alive!, the multi-platinum selling live album by English rock musician Peter Frampton hits #1 in the Billboard 200 and remains there for 10 weeks, becoming the best-selling album of the year. April 11 – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak launch the first Apple computer, the Apple I, for the U.S. hobbyist market. April 13 The Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion in Lapua, Finland kills 40. The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration. April 16 – As a measure to curb population gr.... Discover the Nadia Hashimi Ulrike Werner Richter popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Nadia Hashimi Ulrike Werner Richter books.