Historical Events In 1976

Mar 02 Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest, it wasn't me

Mar 07 Morocco &Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria

Mar 20 Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery

Mar 27 Washington DC underground Metro opens

Mar 19 Princess Margaret separates from the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years

Mar 17 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried

Mar 15 Failed coup in Nigeria

Mar 30 Ottawa announces plans to immunize about 12 million Canadians against 'swine flu' in the autumn.

Mar 24 Argentine President Isabel Perón deposed by country's military

Mar 24 British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery dies. He defeated the Germans at El Alamein

Mar 29 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students

Mar 12 South African troops leave Angola

Mar 26 American League approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M

Mar 06 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by Dorothy Hamill (USA)

Mar 26 Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album

Mar 14 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race

Mar 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 03 Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia

Mar 25 Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties

Mar 30 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation

Mar 23 International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratify)

Mar 20 In California, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is convicted of taking part in a 1974 armed robbery of a San Francisco bank

Mar 01 The Alberta Government founds Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund with windfall oil royalties

Mar 06 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (Great Britain)

Mar 25 "My Fair Lady" opens at St James Theater NYC for 384 performances

Mar 08 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China

Mar 17 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 05 British £ falls below $2 for first time

Mar 06 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by Irina Rodnina &Alexandr Zaitsev (USSR)

Mar 09 The first female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy

Mar 16 British premier Harold Wilson resigns

Mar 06 World Ice Dance Championship in Gothenburg won by Liudmila Pakhomova &Alexandr Gorshkov (USSR)

Mar 31 New Jersey Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator

Aug 16 In the Mindanao area of the Philippines, a 7.9 earthquake occurred near the west coast of Mindanao, about 950 kilometers south of Manila. A tsunami was generated in the Moro Gulf causing considerable damage and loss of life. It is estimated that the earthquake and tsunami killed 5,000 to 8,0000 people

Aug 11 Keith Moon, drummer for the Who, collapses and is hospitalized in Miami

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