The first born-again President of the United States was Jimmy Carter in 1976.

* 1976 – Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.

* 1976 – Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4417

* 1976 — Joseph B. Platt ( President, HMC )

Among his top ten R & B hits during this latter period included " Funky President ( People It's Bad )" and " Get Up Offa That Thing ", the latter song released in 1976 and aimed at musical rivals such as Barry White, The Ohio Players and K. C.

* 1918 – João Goulart, President of Brazil ( d. 1976 )

Due to problems with local political parties in his country, President Daud Khan decided to distance himself from the Soviets in 1976.

* 1976 – In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.

After decades of “ low intensity conflict ” in Maguindanao between 1976 and 2000, President Estrada ’ s “ All Out War ” strategy declared in 2000 led to the displacement of more than 930, 000 individuals.

Governor Reagan's term ended in 1975, and he did not run for a third ; instead, he met with advisors to discuss a possible bid for the presidency in 1976, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.

* 1976 – George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.

Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar ( April 13, 1932 – September 21, 1976 ) was a Chilean economist, Socialist politician and diplomat during the presidency of Socialist President Salvador Allende.

Relations between Paraguay and the United States changed substantially after the election of President Jimmy Carter in 1976.

In particular, the fifth President, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, faced a contentious dispute with the government in 1976 over the signing of a bill declaring a state of emergency, which ended in Ó Dálaigh's resignation.

When Wilson re-entered government in 1974 Jenkins returned to the Home Office, but, increasingly disenchanted by the swing to the left of the Labour Party, he chose to leave British politics in 1976 and was appointed President of the European Commission in 1977, serving until 1981: he was the first and to date only British holder of this office.

The presence of Syrian troops in Lebanon dates to 1976, when President Hafez Al-Assad intervened in the Lebanese civil war on behalf of Maronite Christians.

* 1902 – Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian politician, 21st President of Brazil ( d. 1976 )

On 1 August 1976, the country became a republic, and the last Governor-General, Sir Ellis Clarke, became the first President.

Under the 1976 republican Constitution, the British monarch was replaced as head of state by a President chosen by an electoral college composed of the members of the bicameral Parliament, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

The first presidential aspirant to announce his selection for Vice President before the beginning of the convention was Ronald Reagan who, prior to the 1976 Republican National Convention announced that Richard Schweiker would be his running mate.

In 1976, Ronald Reagan, who was trailing President Gerald R. Ford in the presidential delegate count, announced prior to the Republican National Convention that, if nominated, he would select Senator Richard Schweiker as his running mate.

* The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

** João Goulart, President of Brazil ( d. 1976 )

The empire was formed when Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the republic, declared himself Emperor Bokassa I on 4 December 1976.

* Jean-Bédel Bokassa of the Central African Republic ( 1972 ) – became Emperor 1976, deposed 1979, died 1996.

File: Bokassa colored. png | Jean-Bédel Bokassa, President for Life of the Central African Republic ( 1972 – 1976 )

A short-lived Central African Empire was also created in 1976 when dictator Jean-Bédel Bokassa of the Central African Republic proclaimed himself " Emperor Bokassa I " and had a lavish coronation ceremony in 1977.

On 4 December 1976, the republic became a monarchy — the Central African Empire — with the promulgation of the imperial constitution and the proclamation of the president as Emperor Bokassa I.

After a meeting with Gaddafi in September 1976, Bokassa converted to Islam and changed his name to Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa, but in December 1976 he converted back to Catholicism.

In September 1976, Bokassa dissolved the government and replaced it with the Conseil de la Révolution Centrafricaine ( Central African Revolutionary Council ).

On 4 December 1976, at the MESAN congress, Bokassa instituted a new constitution and declared the republic a monarchy, the Central African Empire.

In September 1976, Bokassa dissolved the government and replaced it with the Conseil de la Révolution Centrafricaine (“ Central African Revolutionary Council ”).

On 4 December 1976, at the MESAN congress, Bokassa instituted a new constitution and declared the republic to be a monarchy: the “ Central African Empire ”.

Dacko, who belonged to the same Ngbaka ethnic group as Bokassa, was imprisoned, placed under house arrest in Lobaye, but then was released on July 16, 1969 and eventually named personal counselor of President Bokassa on September 17, 1976.

From 1976 to 1979, during the existence of the Central African Empire, an imperial standard was designed for Emperor Bokassa I's personal use.

" The 1976 Centenary Platform of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, an organization of Reform rabbis agrees that " Judaism emphasizes action rather than creed as the primary expression of a religious live.

From 1966 to 1976, Alexei Kosygin, Podgorny and Mikhail Suslov, all leading officials, attended a Central Committee meeting once ; it was in 1973 to ratify the Soviet Union's treaty with West Germany.

Over the years, membership in the Central Committee increased ; in 1934 there were 71 full members, in 1976 there were 287 full members.

Ellis Island showing Central Railroad of New Jersey yards and piers before the development of Liberty State Park, which opened in 1976

According to the latter usage, in 1978 the CPC Central Committee denounced as " ultra-left " the line of Mao Zedong from 1956 until his death in 1976.

The architect and founding father of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) from its establishment in 1949, he governed the country as Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China until his death in 1976.

* 1976 – A group of Croatian nationalists planted a bomb in a coin locker at Grand Central Terminal.

The following year, they were moved to the NFC Central, while the other 1976 expansion team, the Seattle Seahawks, switched conferences with Tampa Bay and joined the AFC West.

During most of its daytime run, NBC broadcast Hollywood Squares at 11: 30 a. m. Eastern / 10: 30 a. m. Central time ; it dominated the ratings until 1976, when it moved to the first of a succession of different time slots.

In 1970 the Penn Central Railroad had collapsed in what was then the largest bankruptcy in history, resulting in a huge taxpayer bailout in 1976.

Although a prominent member of the Central Cultural Revolution Group and a major player in Chinese politics from 1966 to 1976, she essentially remained on the sidelines.

The Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976, often called the " 4R Act ," is a United States federal law that established the basic outlines of regulatory reform in the railroad industry and provided transitional operating funds following the 1970 bankruptcy of Penn Central Transportation Company.

The team has had moderate success in its history, winning three Central Division Championships ( 1976, 2009, 2010 ), an Eastern Conference Championship in 2007, and 18 total playoff seasons.

In 1976, The Bastard Theater's second production was What Actually Happened at a new loft in Central Square, Cambridge and later at The Boston Arts Group.

I-45 and I-345 were built and opened in the 1970s, with the final section, between Lamar Street ( exit 283A ) and the Central Expressway ( exit 283B ), opening on February 25, 1976.

* 4 December 1976 – 21 September 1979: His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Central Africa

The Central Railroad of New Jersey went into bankruptcy in the early ' 70s and entered into Conrail on April 1, 1976.

The Erie Railroad and subsequently the Erie-Lackawanna Railway ran through Spencerville until abandoned in 1976 by the Conrail merger in favor of a parallel former Penn Central line running through Lima.

* Blackbourn, David G. " Class and Politics in Wilhelmine Germany: The Center Party and the Social Democrats in Wurttemberg ," Central European History Sept 1976, Vol.

The arrest of Jiang Qing and the other members of the Gang of Four in 1976, and especially the reforms initiated at the Third Plenum of the Eleventh National Party Congress Central Committee in December 1978, led writers to take up their pens again.