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Events from the year 1976 in the United States.Major events include Jimmy Carter defeating incumbent president Gerald Ford in the presidential election of that year, the incorporation of Apple Computer Company and Microsoft, and the New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that Karen Ann Quinlan could be disconnected from her ventilator.
Toggle Events subsection. 1.1 January. 1.2 February. 1.3 March. ... 1976 was a leap year ... to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that have filed ...
1972 – First African-American major league baseball player Jackie Robinson dies. 1972 – Watergate scandal: Five men arrested for the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.
22 June–16 July – 1976 British Isles heat wave reaches its peak with the temperature attaining 80 °F (26.7 °C) every day of this period. For fifteen consecutive days, 23 June–7 July inclusive, it reaches 90 °F (32.2 °C) in London ; and five consecutive days – the first being 26 June – see the temperature exceed 95 °F (35 °C).
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One sunny afternoon in July 1976, 26 children and their bus driver vanished on the ride home from school in Chowchilla, California, a close-knit farming town of 5,000 nestled in the San Joaquin ...
The year 1976 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. ... the first major theorem to be proved using a computer. [9]
For the first time in U.S. history, the two major party candidates for Vice President of the U.S. agreed to debate the national issues, as well as to have the event on live television. [101] Jimmy Carter 's running mate Walter Mondale , and Gerald Ford 's running mate Bob Dole would each be losing candidates in a U.S. presidential election (in ...