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.

The system was described in 1976 by Guy Ottewell and also by Robert J. Weber, who coined the term " approval voting.

At the time, precautions were not taken against this unintended side reaction, which caused also the Seveso disaster in Italy in 1976.

See also Ford's 1976 executive order.

The team at Dubna also studied this reaction in 1976 as part of their newly established cold fusion approach to new elements.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

He was also employed by CBS Sports as a regional CBS NFL and CBS NBA announcer from 1976 to 1979, when he moved to NBC.

Bixby also hosted Once Upon A Classic on PBS from 1976 to 1980.

* Communion, a 1976 horror film ( also called Alice, Sweet Alice ) starring Brooke Shields

He also took roles in horror films opposite the late Margaux Hemingway in the thriller Lipstick ( 1976 ) and as a demon in the shocker The Sentinel ( 1977 ).

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.

Sylvester Stallone created one of the most successful sports drama franchises with Rocky ( 1976 ) and also directed the sequel Rocky II ( 1979 ).

While the compositions and performances were credited to " Jimmy Thudpucker ", they were in fact co-written and sung by Brewer, who also co-wrote and provided the vocals for " Ginny's Song ", a 1976 single on the Warner Bros. Label, and Jimmy Thudpucker's Greatest Hits, an LP released by Windsong Records, John Denver's subsidiary of RCA Records ).

Released in late 1973, the song topped the singles chart in February 1974, and reached the lower regions of Billboard's Hot 100 ( it eventually also charted in the UK, reaching No. 7 in 1976, representing Parton's first UK success ).

To promote his autobiography, A Book, on February 21, 1976, Arnaz served as a guest host on Saturday Night Live, with his son, Desi, Jr., also appearing.

He also revived the Pertwillaby Papers in this " RBCC " fanzine a comic book style story rather than a newspaper comic strip from 1976 to 1978.

Prior to the NES version, Nintendo also made a Duck Hunt game based on Laser Clay Shooting System released in 1976.

It made the same statement with regard also to later ordinations by those bishops, saying that, " as for those who have already thus unlawfully received ordination or any who may yet accept ordination from these, whatever may be the validity of the orders ( quidquid sit de ordinum validitate ), the Church does not and will not recognise their ordination ( ipsorum ordinationem ), and will consider them, for all legal effects, as still in the state in which they were before, except that the ... penalties remain until they repent " ( Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Decree Episcopi qui alios of 17 September 1976-Acta Apostolicae Sedis 1976, page 623 ).

The film has been parodied and referenced in places such as the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again, the satirical publication The Onion, the Japanese game-show Takeshi's Castle, and the 1977 John Landis comedy anthology film Kentucky Fried Movie ( in its lengthy " A Fistful of Yen " sequence ) and also in the film Balls of Fury.

The album also shed the customary ELO logo that had appeared on every album since 1976.

At around the same time a league from Glassboro State College also formed a similar baseball league and had its first draft in 1976.

It is said to have at least two moons, one being the copper-coloured Pazithi Gallifreya ( first named in Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible ); the novel Lungbarrow also places Karn ( setting of The Brain of Morbius, 1976 ) in Gallifrey's solar system, along with a frozen gas giant named Polarfrey and an " astrological figure " of " Kasterborous the Fibster ".

The metric definition of exactly cubic decimetres ( also after the litre was redefined in 1964, ≈ ) was adopted shortly afterwards in Canada, but from 1976 the conventional value of was used in the United Kingdom until the Canadian convention was adopted in 1985.

The 8086 ( also called iAPX 86 ) is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel between early 1976 and mid-1978, when it was released.

After the death of Mary Hastings Bradley in 1976, " Tiptree " mentioned in a letter that his mother, also a writer, had died in Chicago — details that led inquiring fans to find the obituary, with its reference to Alice Sheldon ; soon all was revealed.

In 1976, the Azores became the Autonomous Region of the Azores (), one of the autonomous regions of Portugal, and the subdistricts of the Azores were eliminated.

A new constitution in January 1976 established Democratic Kampuchea as a Communist People's Republic, and a 250-member Assembly of the Representatives of the People of Kampuchea ( PRA ) was selected in March to choose the collective leadership of a State Presidium, the chairman of which became the head of state.

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.

Coronation Street's stalwart cast slotted back into the programme alongside the newcomers, examining new relationships between characters of different ages and backgrounds: Eddie Yeats became the Ogdens ' lodger, Gail Potter and Suzie Birchall moved in with Elsie, Mike Baldwin ( Johnny Briggs ) arrived in 1976 as the tough factory boss, and Annie Walker reigned at the Rovers with her trio of staff Bet Lynch, Betty Turpin and Fred Gee.

He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1976 and became a practising barrister, specialising in criminal law.

When Jenette Kahn became DC's publisher in late 1976, she commissioned graphic designer Milton Glaser to design a new logo.

In 1976 Ecuador became the first foreign country to order the Kfir, an advanced jet-fighter equipped with the General Electric J-79 engine produced in Israel under license.

Other legislation included National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ), signed into law in 1970, which established a United States Environmental Protection Agency and a Council on Environmental Quality ; the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 ; the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 1974 ), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( 1976 ), the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977, which became known as the Clean Water Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, commonly known as the Superfund Act ( 1980 ).

In the 1976 article " Computer Power and Human Reason ," an excerpt of which is included in The New Media Reader edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, Weizenbaum notes how quickly and deeply people became emotionally involved with the computer program, taking offence when he asked to view the transcripts, saying it was an invasion of their privacy, even asking him to leave the room while they were working with the DOCTOR script.

Stover's Black Oracle partner Bill George published his own short-lived zine The Late Show ( 1974 – 1976 ; with co-editor Martin Falck ), and later became editor of the Cinefantastique prozine spinoff Femme Fatales.

Hurst became manager of Telford in 1976 and after three years joined Chelsea but was sacked in August 1981.

Some of her lesser-known singles, due to lack of recurrent airplay — including " Honey Bee " ( 1974 ), " Casanova Brown " ( 1975 ), and " Let's Make A Deal " ( 1976 ) — became hits in the clubs and reached the Top 5 on Billboard's disco charts.

He served as research assistant for libertarian Republican Congressman Ron Paul in Paul's first term ( 1976 ), and he shared a small office with the staunchly Calvinistic political philosopher, John W. Robbins, who later became a noted anti-Van Til, pro-Clark presuppositional apologist, author, and publisher.

In 1976, Powers ' biography ( written with Curt Gentry ) became a television movie, Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident.

The Match Game became " Big Money " Match Game 73, which proved popular enough to prompt a spin-off, Family Feud, on ABC in 1976.

Carrie became the 9th highest-grossing film of 1976.

In 1976, over 110 years after the initial construction, the Farm House became a museum after much time and effort was put into restoring the early beauty of the modest farm home.

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

Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, was able to fulfill her father's dream by the 42nd amendment ( 1976 ) of the Indian constitution by which India officially became " socialist " and " secular ".

The new team quickly became a powerhouse, appearing in the playoffs 7 out of 10 seasons from 1976 to 1985, including one World Series championship and another pennant, led by stars such as George Brett, Frank White, Willie Wilson and Bret Saberhagen.

Manager Whitey Herzog replaced McKeon in 1975, and the Royals quickly became the dominant franchise in the American League's Western Division, winning three straight division championships from 1976 to 1978.

However, the municipal corporation remained in existence and in 1976 became a metropolitan corporation, followed by the creation of zonal municipal committees, which lasted until 1994.

Major League Baseball returned to the city in 1969 with the Royals, who have proven stable and became the first American League expansion team to reach the playoffs, in 1976, the World Series, in 1980 and to win the World Series, in 1985 against the state-rival St. Louis Cardinals in the " Show-Me Series.

In 1976, she became an Officer of the Order of Canada and was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1991.