It was created in 1976 when it took over responsibility for regulating telecommunication carriers.

In 1976, jurisdiction over telecommunications services, most of which were then delivered by monopoly common carriers ( for example, telephone companies ), was transferred to it from the Canadian Transport Commission although the abbreviation CRTC remained the same.

In fall 1976, however, amid the turmoil of New York City's dire fiscal crisis, the free tuition policy was discontinued under pressure from the federal government, the financial community that had a role in rescuing the city from bankruptcy, and New York State, which would take over the funding of CUNY's senior colleges.

Questions center over whether copyrights for Lovecraft's works were ever renewed under the terms of the United States Copyright Act of 1976 for works created prior to January 1, 1978.

1976 saw the end of Larry Dierker's playing career as an Astro, but before it was all over he would throw a no-hitter and win the 1, 000th game in the Astrodome.

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

In July 1976, Tureaud's platoon sergeant punished him by giving him the detail of chopping down trees during training camp at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, but did not tell him how many trees, so Tureaud single-handedly chopped down over seventy trees from 6: 30 am to 10: 00 am, until a shocked major superseded the sergeant's orders.

After the Monty Python television series ended in 1974, the Palin / Jones team worked on Ripping Yarns, an intermittent television comedy series broadcast over three years from 1976.

After Bruce McLaren died in a testing accident in 1970, Teddy Mayer took over and led the team to their first Formula One constructors ' championship in 1974, with Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt winning the drivers ' championship in 1974 and 1976 respectively.

Real GDP grew at over 8 percent a year and exceeded 10 percent from 1976 to 1981 — a faster growth rate than in any other economy in Latin America.

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.

1976: Frank McDiarmid takes over.

In 1973 Venezuela voted to nationalize its oil industry outright, effective 1 Jan. 1976, with Petróleos de Venezuela ( PDVSA ) taking over and presiding over a number of holding companies ; in subsequent years, Venezuela built a vast refining and marketing system in the US and Europe.

On February 26, 1976 Spain's formal mandate over the territory ended when it handed administrative power on to Morocco in a ceremony in Laayoune.

* January 11 – The 1976 Flyers-Red Army game results in a 4-1 victory for the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers over HC CSKA Moscow of the Soviet Union.

** Frank Sinatra brings Jerry Lewis's former partner Dean Martin onstage, unannounced, at the 1976 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in Las Vegas, Nevada, reuniting the comedy team for the first ( and only ) time in over 20 years.

In 1976 the first LPC conference took place over the ARPANET using the Network Voice Protocol, between Culler-Harrison, ISI, SRI, and LL at 3500 bit / s.

His success would encourage other Californian winemakers to follow suit and culminated in Chateau Montelena's victory over Burgundy Chardonnay in the 1976 blind tasting event conducted by French judges known as the Judgment of Paris.

However, the growth of new social history beginning in the 1960s and 1970s and excitement over the United States Bicentennial in 1976 gave living history displays new credibility and use.

In August 1976, Science published a retrospective cohort study by Educational Testing Service psychologist Herman Witkin and colleagues that screened the tallest 16 % of men ( over 184 cm ( 6 ' 0 ") in height ) born in Copenhagen from 1944 – 1947 for XXY and XYY karyotypes, and found an increased rate of minor criminal convictions for property crimes among sixteen XXY and twelve XYY men may be related to the lower intelligence of those with criminal convictions, but found no evidence that XXY or XYY men were inclined to be aggressive or violent.

In the 1976 Bogotá Declaration, eight countries located on the Earth's equator claimed sovereignty over the geostationary orbits above their territory, but the claims gained no international recognition.

* The Training Opportunities Act ( 1976 ) which, over a four-year period, helped to increase the number of vocational training places from 450, 000 to 630, 000 a year.

* The Law to Improve Occupational Old Age Pensions ( 1974 ), which extended coverage of occupational pensions whilst also “ co-ordinating them more closely with state pensions and setting minimum standards as regards benefit levels and the preservation of pension rights .” By 1976, as a result of this legislation, 65 % of private sector employees were covered by occupational schemes and over two-thirds of these workers were eligible for benefits equal to more than 15 % of their earnings at retirement.

* The Shugart SA-400 5-inch floppy disk ( 1976 ) held 109, 375 bytes unformatted, and was advertised as " 110 Kbyte ", using the 1000 convention.

" In 1972 he finished fourth, and in his third consecutive Olympic 110 m hurdles final, in 1976, he finished third to capture the bronze medal.

It opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London in June 1976, and ran for 110 performances.

Minox branched out into 110 film format and 35 mm film cameras in 1976 and 1978, respectively.

Since 1968, the basis has been wins ( increased from 10 points in 1968, to 12 in 1976, to 16 in 1981, then back down to 12 in 1999, up to 14 in 2004 and currently 16 ) and " bonus points ", which are earned for scoring a certain number of runs or taking a certain number of wickets in the first 110 overs of each first innings ( the number of overs has changed at various times, but has been 110 since 2010 ).

* People of the wind ( 1976 ) ( Colour, 110 minutes ), directed by Anthony Howarth.

It performed 110 concerts in England from 1973 to 1976, opening for Genesis at the Reading Festival in England, on August 26, 1973, fronting some 30. 000 listeners.

After a string of fights against lesser opponents, he retired, having beaten the Mexican Octavio Gomez by a unanimous but controversial decision ( 120 x 110 by judge Antonio Di, 119 x 115 by judge Adriano Carollo and 117 x 116 by judge Américo Vieira ) in São Paulo on October 8 of 1976.

Anier Octavio García Ortiz ( born March 9, 1976 ) is a Cuban athlete, winner of the 110 m hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

In 1976, the development of the Model 110 Slit Lamp and the 210 / 211 Photo Slit Lamps were an innovation by which each were constructed from standard modules allowing for a wide range of different configurations.

This accident led to the development of the original low level windshear alert system by the U. S. Federal Aviation Administration in 1976 that was installed at 110 FAA towered airports between 1977 and 1987.

In 1976, two 20, 000 kilowatt Simple Cycle Gas Turbine-Generator units were added, increasing the total installed capacity of the Penal Power Station to 110 MW and providing “ Black Start Capability ” which is the ability to start up independently of the power grid.

* Datsun 620 ( 1976 – 1979, 110 hp )

Nankervis was awarded the club's Best and Fairest award, the Carji Greeves Medal on three occasions in 1972, 1976 and 1977 and captained the team from 1978 until 1982 ( 110 games ).

* Polizeiruf 110: Schwarze Ladung ( 1976 )

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

Originally published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1976, only two years after the first role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons was published, this edition is now long out of print.

The Cameroon government held two national censuses during the country's first 44 years as an independent country, in 1976 and again in 1987.

Three albums released in years 1975 and 1976 ( Caught in the Act, Movin ' On, Hot On The Tracks ) are considered the peak of their harder funk period.

So began her 40 years of research on Peirce the mathematician and scientist, culminating in Eisele ( 1976, 1979, 1985 ).

In accordance with the Statistics Act # 66 of 1976, Namibia conducts a Population and Housing Census every ten years.

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

By 1976 the cost of the cheapest 4-function pocket calculator had dropped to a few dollars, about one 20th of the cost five years earlier.

The scheme was first published by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in 1976, although it was later alleged that it had been separately invented a few years earlier within GCHQ, the British signals intelligence agency, by Malcolm J. Williamson but was kept classified.

In 1976, she signed with the Los Angeles public-relations firm Katz-Gallin-Morey, working closely with Sandy Gallin, who served as her personal manager for the next twenty-five years.

Included amongst the remastered album tracks were unreleased songs and out-takes, including 2 new singles " Surrender " which registered on the lower end of the UK Singles Chart at number 81, some 30 years after it was written in 1976.

* 1886 – Yehezkel Abramsky, Russian rabbi, head of the London Beth Din for 17 years ( d. 1976 )

Starting earlier, in 1976, Punk was published in New York and played a major part in popularizing punk rock ( a term coined a few years earlier in Creem ) as the term for the music and the bands being written about.

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

The Dragon debuted in June 1976, and Gygax commented on its success years later: " When I decided that The Strategic Review was not the right vehicle, hired Tim Kask as a magazine editor for Tactical Studies Rules, and named the new publication he was to produce The Dragon, I thought we would eventually have a great periodical to serve gaming enthusiasts worldwide ... At no time did I ever contemplate so great a success or so long a lifespan.

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.

The Copyright Act of 1976 retroactively extended this renewal period for all works to a period of 47 years and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 added another 20 years to that, for a total of 95 years from publication.

His third wife was Erica Sherover ( 1938 – 1988 ), a former graduate student and forty years his junior, whom he married in 1976.

Other well known 8-bit microprocessors that emerged during these years were Motorola 6800 ( 1974 ), General Instrument PIC16X ( 1975 ), MOS Technology 6502 ( 1975 ), Zilog Z80 ( 1976 ), and Motorola 6809 ( 1978 ).

The 8086 took a little more than two years from idea to working product, which was considered rather fast for a complex design in 1976 – 1978.