In 1969, Colombia formed what is now the Andean Community along with Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru ( Venezuela joined in 1973, and Chile left in 1976 ).

By 1976, Milken's income at what was now Drexel Burnham Lambert was estimated at $ 5 million a year.

On June 4, 1976, the Sex Pistols played Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall in what came to be regarded as one of the most influential rock shows ever.

Shelley and Devoto were impressed by what they saw and arranged for the Sex Pistols to come and perform at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester, in June 1976.

In 1976, he briefly reentered the public spotlight and engendered controversy with anti-Zionist statements that called for the United States to withdraw its support for the state of Israel, citing Israel's allegedly bad treatment of Christians, as well as what Gerald Ford publicly criticized as " unsavory remarks about Jews.

* Albania became a near-autarky in 1976, when Communist Party leader Enver Hoxha instituted a policy of what he termed " self-reliance ".

In January 1976 the band took a more substantial form of what would be when Ceccagno formed Malice with Smith and Dempsey along with two other classmates from St. Wilfrid's Catholic Comprehensive School, with Ceccagno on lead, Smith on guitar, and Dempsey switching to bass.

* Crazy talk, stupid talk: how we defeat ourselves by the way we talk and what to do about it by Neil Postman, Delacorte Press, 1976.

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.

In 1976 William Howard Bennett, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, published Symbols of Our Celto-Saxon Heritage with the aim of establishing what he believed were the Israelite origind of British heraldry.

On November 11, 1976, what school board members referred to as a race-related riot occurred on campus, injuring 16 and leading to six arrests and 60 suspensions.

Under Lawrie McMenemy's management, Saints started to rebuild in Division 2, capturing players such as Peter Osgood, Jim McCalliog, Jim Steele and Peter Rodrigues ( captain ) and what many people feel was the team's greatest moment ( to date ) came in 1976, when they reached the FA Cup Final, playing Manchester United at Wembley, and surprised all observers by beating much-fancied United 1 – 0 thanks to a goal from Bobby Stokes.

B. Bosworth, an expert on Greek history, criticized what he viewed as Arrian's hagiography in ' Errors in Arrian ' ( 1976 )

1976 saw another career reinvention for Dalida ; releasing what is widely regarded as the first French disco single, " J ' attendrai ".

" CSI was founded in 1976 by Paul Kurtz to counter what he regarded as an uncritical acceptance of, and support for, paranormal claims by both the media and society in general.

Tim Pat Coogan declared what he dubbed " editorial war " on the government after a, now notorious, interview between Bernard Nossiter of the Washington Post and O ' Brien in August 1976 regarding the passage of the Emergency Powers Bill.

The year 1976 saw punk rock arrive on what some people perceived to be a stagnant music scene.

Floyd D. Rose first started working on what would later become the Floyd Rose Tremolo in 1976.

By 1976, the story had become sufficiently safe in Britain to be parodied by Morecambe and Wise ; a " play what Ernie wrote ", The Handyman and M ' Lady, was obviously based on it, with Michele Dotrice as the Lady Chatterley figure.

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 ).

The team's 1976 report, which was leaked to the press, stated that " All the evidence points to an undeviating Soviet commitment to what is euphemistically called the ' worldwide triumph of socialism ,' but in fact connotes global Soviet hegemony ," highlighting a number of key areas where they believed the government's intelligence analysts had failed.

In 1976 US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger formulated what came to be known as a six-step " Kissinger Plan " ( or " Kissinger Initiative ") with the concurrence of the British government and the participation of South Africa's Vorster.

Three days after the draw in Bucharest, Platini received his first call-up to the a national team for what was coach Michel Hidalgo's first game in charge, a friendly against Czechoslovakia in Paris ( 27 March 1976, 2 – 2 ), and scored his first international goal on one of his trademark free kicks.

In 1975 the first homes in what is now the city of Almere were built and from 1976 till 1984 the area was governed by the Landdrost as the executive of the Openbaar Lichaam Zuidelijk Flevoland ( Public Body Southern Flevoland ).

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto ( February 3 1898, Kuortane – May 11 1976, Helsinki ) was a Finnish architect and designer.

This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team ( in the four major North American professional sports leagues ) owned or controlled by Colangelo, whose basketball Suns made it to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993 but lost both times.

By the 1960s, as VFL clubs increasingly recruited the best players from other states, they began to dominate the competition and the last match was played in 1976, with North Adelaide being the last non-Victorian winner in 1972.

From 1976 to 1978, Widdecombe was a councillor for Runnymede District in Surrey.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

It is controlled by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology ( WHOCC ), and was first published in 1976.

With only minor opposition in the primary and no opposition at all in the general election, Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976.

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976 ), nicknamed " Monty " and the " Spartan General ", was a British Army officer.

As a reward, Federko was drafted 7th overall by the St. Louis Blues in the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft.

In 1976, Fuller was a key participant at UN Habitat I, the first UN forum on human settlements.

The synthesis of bohrium was first attempted in 1976 by scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna using this cold fusion reaction.

The pitching staff was phenomenal, with four pitchers winning six Cy Young Awards ( Mike Cuellar in 1969 ; Jim Palmer in 1973, 1975, and 1976 ; Mike Flanagan in 1979 ; and Steve Stone in 1980 ).

The name originated from the Basic Input Output System used in the CP / M operating system ( released in 1976 ), where the BIOS was loaded from disk, with only a small boot loader program stored in read-only memory.

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.

By 1976, the landfill was completed ; in many cases, the pre-existing piers were simply buried.

* Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, earlier ennobled by the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's notorious Lavender List ( 1976 ), was convicted of fraud ( 1980 )