* CNN A short article on the U. S. policy banning political assassination since 1976 from CNN. com / Law Center, November 4, 2002.

*" Ship And 37 Vanish In Bermuda Triangle On Voyage To U. S .", The New York Times, October 18, 1976.

The problem comes from the fact that before the Copyright Act of 1976 the number of years a work was copyrighted in the U. S. was based on publication rather than life of the author plus a certain number of years and that it was good for only 28 years.

* 1976 election for U. S. House of Representatives — 4th District

In 1976, Danforth was elected to the U. S. Senate, and Ashcroft was elected to replace him as State Attorney General.

* In Issue # 3 ( January 1976, shortly after Monty Python began being broadcast in the U. S .) of the comic book title Batman Family the joint exploits of Batgirl ( Barbara Gordon ) and Robin ( Dick Grayson ) the story " Isle of a Thousand Thrills " borrowed the scenario of a land where anything anybody thinks of is quickly brought to life.

* 1976 – Michael P. Murphy, U. S. Navy SEAL, first Medal of Honor recipient in the Afghanistan War

In 1976, the U. S. National Academy of Sciences ( NAS ) released a report that confirmed the scientific credibility of the ozone depletion hypothesis.

Surprise !, 1976 ( Under the name Sainte-Carmen of the Main, this play received its first U. S. run at New York City's Cubiculo Theatre in 1986 )

* 1903 – Katharine Byron, U. S. Congresswoman ( d. 1976 )

In September 1976, The Saints became the first punk rock band outside the U. S. to release a recording, the single "( I'm ) Stranded ".

Starting in the second half of the 20th century modern democracies have introduced rules for the flow of funds through party coffers, e. g. the Canada Election Act 1976, the PPRA in the U. K. or the FECA in the U. S ..

Two of the most famous U. S. parodies were the series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman ( 1976 – 77 ) and Soap ( 1977 – 81 ).

A U. S. consulate was opened in May 1976 and became an Embassy after Seychelles ' independence in June 1976.

* November 2 – U. S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent Gerald Ford, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War.

* In late March 1976, the first truly complete recording of the opera Porgy and Bess is released in a 3-LP set, by Decca Records in England and by London Records in the U. S. It stars Willard White and Leona Mitchell.

By 1976, 60 Minutes became the top-rated show on Sunday nights in the U. S. By 1979, it had achieved the number-one Nielsen rating for all television programs, unheard of before for a news broadcast in prime time.

* April 22 – Pat Tillman, American football player and U. S. Army Ranger ( b. 1976 )

Later prototype mass drivers have been built since 1976 ( Mass Driver 1 ), some constructed by the U. S. Space Studies Institute in order to prove their properties and practicality.

In 1976, Ian D. W. Wright created the sport of racketball based on U. S. racquetball.

He was appointed U. S. Senator in late 1964 as a member of the Democratic Party upon the resignation of Hubert Humphrey, and held that post until 1976.

In Florida in 1990, retired financial planner Jack Gargan funded a series of " I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore " ( a reference to a famous quotation from the 1976 political and mass media satire movie, Network ) newspaper advertisements denouncing the U. S. Congress for voting for legislative pay raises at a time when average wages nationwide were not increasing.

A 1976 U. S. Supreme Court case ruled that withholding health care from prisoners constituted " cruel and unusual punishment ".

The first was by Charlie Rich, which went to number 22 in 1976.

Rethinking the Angolan Crisis and the Portuguese Revolution, 1974 – 1976, Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, 26 / 2, 2000, pp. 22 – 44

* Since 1976, Bulgaria has an embassy in Luanda.

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 ).

The novel was not published until shortly after Christie's death in 1976, some thirty-six years after it was originally written.

* 1888 – Hans Richter, Swiss painter, filmmaker, and graphic artist ( d. 1976 )

* 1898 – Lily Pons, American soprano ( d. 1976 )

* 1911 – Mahmoud Younis, Egyptian engineer of the Suez Canal ( d. 1976 )

* 1890 – Man Ray, American photographer and artist ( d. 1976 )

* 1976 – Milano Collection A. T., Japanese wrestler

* 1976 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.

* 1893 – Wright Patman, American politician ( d. 1976 )

* 1976 – Nawaf al-Hazmi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 ( d. 2001 )

* 1976 – Mark Priestley, Australian actor ( d. 2008 )

* 1907 – Basil Spence, Scottish architect, designed the Coventry Cathedral ( d. 1976 )

* 1976 – Max Ernst, German artist ( b. 1891 )

Julius's wife, Alan's mother, was Ethel Sara ( née Stoney ; 1881 – 1976 ), daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras Railways.

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 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

* 1951 – Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Deep Purple, Zephyr, and James Gang ) ( d. 1976 )

On the 2007 deluxe edition release, it is revealed that parts of this tape were used for the 1976 Griffith Park Planetarium launch of the original album, the 1987 remix, and various radio spots, all of which were included as bonus material.

* 1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.

* 1924 – Rudy Pompilli, American musician ( Bill Haley & His Comets ) ( d. 1976 )

The original Apple Computer, also known retroactively as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a personal computer released by the Apple Computer Company ( now Apple Inc .) in 1976.

It was demonstrated in July 1976 at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California.