During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

Probs., Winter 1976.

Dick Durrance and Tim Caldwell competed for the United States in skiing in the 1936 and 1976 Winter Olympics, respectively.

* 1976 – The inaugural Winter Paralympic Games opened in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden.

Pacific Overtures opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 11, 1976, and closed after 193 performances on June 27, 1976.

It opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 11, 1976, and closed after 193 performances on June 27, 1976

It was first competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, but did not become a Winter Olympic Games medal sport until 1976.

Ice dance was introduced into the Winter Olympics starting with the 1976 edition, and all but two gold medals had been won by Soviet / CIS / Russian pairs.

Krienbühl's best performance was the eighth position on the 10, 000 m at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Category: Speed skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Later host nations to finish without gold medals included Canada at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and Yugoslavia at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

It is an internationally renowned winter sports centre, and hosted the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics as well as the 1984 and 1988 Winter Paralympics.

* 1976 Winter Paralympics

The film was an adaptation of the very successful stage version of the show, which played at the Winter Gardens Theatre, Blackpool over the summer of 1976.

* Silvia Fontana ( born 1976 ), figure skater who represented Italy at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin

Mangione's composition " Chase the Clouds Away " was used at the 1976 Summer Olympics, held in Montreal, Quebec, with a later composition, " Give It All You Got ," being used as the theme to the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, held in Lake Placid, New York.

The 1976 Winter Paralympic Games were the first Winter Paralympics.

With real infrastructure in place, in 1968 GODA made another bid for the 1976 Winter Olympics, and this time the joint Vancouver / Garibaldi won the Canadian nomination.

Previously, Canada hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta.

Nadia Comăneci received the first perfect score, at the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada.

Women's team handball was added at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

The Improv Olympics were first demonstrated at Toronto's Homemade Theatre in 1976 and have been continued on as the Canadian Improv Games.

* 1976 – The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.

* 1976 – Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

He missed the 1976 Olympics and a show down with American rival Edwin Moses due to a boycott by African nations including Uganda.

Four years later at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, the Israeli team commemorated the massacre: when they entered the stadium at the Opening Ceremonies, their national flag was adorned with a black ribbon.

Although rowing's roots as a sport in the modern Olympics can be traced back to the original 1896 games in Athens, it was not until the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal that women were allowed to participate — well after their fellow athletes in similar sports such as swimming, athletics, cycling, and canoeing.

However, the ISU adopted the short track speed skating branch, with mass-start races on shorter tracks, in 1967, arranged international competitions from 1976, and brought them back to the Olympics in 1992.

** The 1976 Summer Olympics begin in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

* July 18 – Nadia Comăneci earns the first of 7 perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal Pickering commentated on a race involving Cuban double-gold medallist Alberto Juantorena, whose muscular build and nine-foot stride contributed to his nickname El Caballo ( the horse ).

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1976 Summer Olympics

His new coach prepared him for the 100 metres and 200 metres events at the 1976 Summer Olympics with a strategy of only allowing him to run in a few races during the season.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1976 Summer Olympics

In 1976 the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) revised the definition of the AU for greater precision, defining it as that length for which the Gaussian gravitational constant ( k ) takes the value when the units of measurement are the astronomical units of length, mass and time.

The longest standing group for lesbian and gay Christians in the UK, founded in 1976, is the non-denominational Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement ; specifically aimed to meet the needs of lesbian and gay evangelicals, there is the Evangelical Fellowship for Lesbian and Gay Christians ; specifically working within the Church of England is Changing Attitude, which also takes an international focus in working for gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender affirmation within the Anglican Communion.

* 1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.

* 1976 – The Judgement of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.

1976: Frank McDiarmid takes over.

** The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law.

Even after a blinded Paul walks into the desert to die, his sister Alia rules his empire and keeps the Bene Gesserit at bay until Paul's young son Leto II takes control himself in Children of Dune ( 1976 ).

Although this film was released in 1979, the ring announcers say that it takes place ten months after Rocky's first fight with Apollo Creed, putting the Rocky II fight with Apollo in November 1976.

* 1976 Summer Olympics takes place in Montreal, Canada

Although neither the first Omen movie nor its novelisation mention what year the story takes place, it can be assumed that its setting was intended to be the year the movie was released ( i. e. 1976 ).

There is an annual historical reenactment that takes place on the site of the battle, and nearby Lake City ( in Columbia County ) has hosted the yearly Olustee Battle Festival since 1976.

The Osor Musical Evenings was founded in 1976 and takes place in July and August.

In the 1976 film Sherlock Holmes in New York, Adler ( Charlotte Rampling ) helps Holmes and Watson to solve a bank robbery organised by Holmes ' nemesis, Professor Moriarty, after he takes her son hostage to prevent Holmes from investigating the case ( Holmes and Watson later rescue the boy ).

Operation Paul Bunyan, to remove a tree in front of the Bridge of No Return, takes place following the Axe Murder Incident in August 1976.

* 1976 Instituting a national expansion program, the Provincial Bank also takes over the Toronto-based Unity Bank of Canada, and in 1979 acquires Laurentide Financial Corporation Ltd. of Vancouver, a well-known Canadian finance company.

The story takes place in 1976, around the Soweto Riots, during the Apartheid system that lasted from 1948 until 1994.

A copy of The Word For World is Forest is visible at the bedside of the character Joker in a scene set in Vietnam in Stanley Kubrick's film Full Metal Jacket ( this is an anachronism as the movie takes place in and around 1968, while The Word For World is Forest was published in 1976 ).

Three of the stories featured in the collection, " Mr Potter takes a Rest Cure ", " The Rise of Minna Nordstrom " and " The Nodder ", were produced as part of the BBC's Wodehouse Playhouse series, starring John Alderton and Pauline Collins, airing in 1975 and 1976 respectively.

The record also resembles the 1976 murder mystery from which the band takes its name-a pastiche of bad deeds and of good intentions, heroism and forgiveness.

* 1976 – Official opening of the new Regional Hospital takes place and the old hospital is made into a nursing home for the elderly patients who are bed-ridden.

Tracks 1 to 8 and 11 include alternative takes from the 1976 album Diana Ross

In 1976 he is doing a training course at Bichat Hospital in Paris and in 1977 takes a specialization course on issues of endoscopy, at the Leiden University Clinic in the Netherlands.