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1976 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 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.
The Oklahoma Sooners were named as the unofficial college football national champions in the two "wire service" polls recognized by the NCAA.In the Associated Press poll of sportswriters, Oklahoma received 54½ of the 63 first-place voted the day after their 14 to 6 win in the Orange Bowl, and 21 of the 36 voted in the United Press International poll of coaches.
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1976 per Variety.The data was based on grosses from 20 to 24 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
1976 in the United States by state or territory (55 C) 1976 events in the United States by month (12 C) 1976 disestablishments in the United States (42 C, 13 P)
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 following lists events that happened during 1976 in ... to create 750 more jobs the 1976–77 financial year in an effort to relieve increasing unemployment in ...
Inflation stands at 16.5% – lower than last year's level, but still one of the highest since records began in 1750. [42] However, at one stage during this year inflation exceeded 24%. [43] Opening of Rutland Water, the largest reservoir in England by surface area (1,212 hectares (2,995 acres)). [44]