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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.
The 1976 Summer Olympics begin in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. East Timor is declared the 27th province of Indonesia. July 18 – 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci earns the first of seven perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics. July 19 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created. July 20
1976 was a mixed year for the expansion of the video game industry. While the consumer market in the United States for dedicated home consoles saw significant growth, the coin-operated video game market saw a decline despite individual hits.
12 November – Disappearance of Renee MacRae and her 3-year-old son Andrew from Inverness in Scotland; this becomes Britain's longest-running missing persons case. [37] 16 November – The seven perpetrators of an £8,000,000 van robbery at the Bank of America in Mayfair are sentenced to a total of 100 years in jail. [38]
Dragon Coins is a mobile video game developed and published by Sega for iOS and Android devices. It was released in Japan in 2012 and North America and Europe in May 2014. The game was successful in Japan, but was not as well received in Western regions, with the game shutting down in August 2015 due to financial difficulties.
July 4, 1976: Israeli commandos storm Uganda's Entebbe Airport, rescue 103 hostages, and fly them back to Israel July 21, 1976: First color photos of Mars are transmitted to Earth July 4, 1976: U.S. celebrates bicentennial of adoption of Declaration of Independence July 28, 1976: Tangshan Earthquake kills more than 650,000 people in China
(1) both the 5 oz. silver lunar coin and the 5 oz. silver panda coin were debuted, (2) the 5 oz. silver lunar coin was the first of the series to be over 99% pure silver, and (3) the 5 oz. silver coin had a face value of 50 yuan, even though it contained over 10 times as much silver as the 15 g silver coin, which had a face value of 10 yuan.
In the Year of the Dragon, 1989 album by Geri Allen, Charlie Haden & Paul Motian; Year of the Dragon (Busta Rhymes album) Year of the Dragon by Machine Head; Year of the Dragon (Modern Talking album), 2000; The Year of the Dragon, a three-movement work composed by Philip Sparke; Year of the Dragon Tour Diary: Japan, EP from Machine Head