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.

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.

In 1976, she disbanded the Travlin ' Family Band, in order to form a new band, Gypsy Fever, composed of seasoned musicians who had more of a rock sensibility, in order to support her impending crossover.

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

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

She moved to Maine in 1976 after her marriage ended and as a result of the settlement, she received half of the couple's assets.

Their youngest daughter Luna — beaten to death in an apparent robbery in the store where she worked in 1976 at the age of 15 — became the first person to have her brain preserved by the Bay Area Cryonics Society.

Celebrated traditional Southern chef and author Edna Lewis wrote a series of books between 1972 and 2003, including A Taste of Country Cooking ( Alfred A. Knopf, 1976 ) where she weaves stories of her childhood in Freetown, Virginia into her recipes for " real Southern food ".

In 1976, she was elected from a caucus in her congressional district as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York City pledged to Senator Frank Church.

Working in the Parliament made Halonen even more interested in politics and she decided to take part in the municipal elections of 1976.

In 1976, Michael Landon asked Anderson if she would appear in his autobiographical film, The Loneliest Runner.

This was to be known as the " Pomperipossa effect " from a story she published in Expressen on 3 March 1976.

She appeared in the 1975 screen adaptation of the Hans Fallada novel, Every Man Dies Alone directed by Alfred Vohrer, released in English as Everyone Dies Alone in 1976 and for which she won an award for best actress at the International Film Festival in Carlsbad, then in Czechoslovakia.

Later she choreographed Push Comes To Shove ( 1976 ), which featured Mikhail Baryshnikov and is now thought to be the best example of the crossover ballet.

In 1976 she starred in The Cassandra Crossing, a classic disaster film featuring such veteran stars as Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, and Ava Gardner.

Between 1976 and 1984, she made annual summer visits to France, which were among 22 private trips to continental Europe between 1963 and 1992.

The latter was a sort of comeback for Hawn, who had been out of the spotlight for two years since the 1976 release of The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, while she was focusing on her marriage and the birth of her son.

Tharp choreographed Push Comes To Shove for ABT and Baryshnikov in 1976 ; in 1986 she created In The Upper Room for her own company.

After Gulf Winds ( 1976 ), an album of entirely self-composed songs, and From Every Stage ( 1976 ), a live album that had Baez performing songs " from every stage " of her career, Baez again parted ways with a record label when she moved to CBS Records for Blowin ' Away ( 1977 ) and Honest Lullaby ( 1979 ).

After their divorce in 1976, she organized and ran support groups for older divorced women.

By 1976 she was head of the animal-disease-control division of D. C .' s Commission on Public Health, and in 1980 was among those named as Washingtonian of the Year.

She played supporting roles in Burnt Offerings ( 1976 ) and The Disappearance of Aimee ( 1976 ), but clashed with Karen Black and Faye Dunaway, the stars of the two respective productions, because she felt that neither extended her an appropriate degree of respect, and that their behavior on the film sets was unprofessional.

She came to international prominence for her roles as Holly Sargis in Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands, and as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie ( based on the first novel by Stephen King ) for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination.

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.

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 )