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.

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).

The Toronto International Film Festival, begun in 1976, is regarded North America's most major and most prestigious film festival, and the most widely attended worldwide.

* Hedberg, H. D., ( editor ), International stratigraphic guide: A guide to stratigraphic classification, terminology, and procedure, New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1976

* Hedberg, H. D., ( editor ), International stratigraphic guide: A guide to stratigraphic classification, terminology, and procedure, New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1976

Isle Royale National Park was established on April 3, 1940, was designated as a Wilderness Area in 1976, and was made an International Biosphere Reserve in 1980.

* 1976 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect.

By 1976, Zambia had a balance-of-payments crisis, and rapidly fell into debt with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ).

By 1976, Raël transformed MADECH into the International Raelian Movement.

A definition of a terrestrial time standard was adopted by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) in 1976 at its XVI General Assembly, and later named Terrestrial Dynamical Time ( TDT ).

In 1966 the General Assembly adopted the two detailed Covenants, which complete the International Bill of Human Rights ; and in 1976, after the Covenants had been ratified by a sufficient number of individual nations, the Bill took on the force of international law.

* International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1976

* International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1976

The Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations ( also known as the Fraser Committee ) was a committee of the United States House of Representatives which met in 1976 and 1977 and conducted an investigation into South Korea – United States relations.

By 1976 Zambia had a balance-of-payments crisis, and rapidly became massively indebted to the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ).

The International Maritime Satellite Organization ( INMARSAT ) was established under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization by the Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organization signed at London on 3 September 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.

* Ephemeris Time ( ET ) was from 1952 to 1976 an official time scale standard of the International Astronomical Union ; it was a dynamical time scale based on the orbital motion of the Earth around the Sun, from which the ephemeris second was derived as a defined fraction of the tropical year.

He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1976.

He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1975 and the Bruce Medal in 1976.

* G. A. Gurzadyan, Two-photon emission in planetary nebula IC 2149, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Publications, vol. 88, p. 891, 1976

TDT and TDB were defined in a series of resolutions at the same 1976 meeting of the International Astronomical Union.

In 1976, the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature ( IAU / WGPSN ) officially adopted the name Banff for a crater on Mars, after the town in Alberta.

The astronomical system of units, formally called the IAU ( 1976 ) System of Astronomical Constants, is a system of measurement developed for use in astronomy.

It was adopted by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) in 1976, and has been slightly updated since then.

* Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society ( 1976 )

From 1972 to 1976 he was director of the new South African Astronomical Observatory.

In 1976, the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) honored Ajima by identifying a crater on the moon with his name.

Category: Astronomical objects discovered in 1976

* Associate, Royal Astronomical Society ( 1976 )

Category: Astronomical objects discovered in 1976

A formal set of constants, along with recommended values, was defined by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) in 1976, and a new set of recommended values was produced in 1994.

The name, originally given by Ray Jurgens in 1970 on the urging of Tommy Gold, was approved by the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature ( IAU / WGPSN ) between 1976 and 1979.

Kraft served as director of the Lick Observatory ( 1981 – 1991 ), president of the American Astronomical Society ( 1974 – 1976 ), and president of the International Astronomical Union ( 1997 – 2000 ).

Category: Astronomical objects discovered in 1976

As the Community expanded into the Union, the centre-right in the new member states were not necessarily Christian Democrat and the EPP ( European People's Party, the transnational political party founded in 1976 which all group members are now affiliated to ) feared being sidelined.

* 1990 – Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.

In September 1976, a new political party was established, the Democratic Union of the Malian People ( UDPM ), based on the concept of democratic centralism.

Diplomatic relations between Seychelles and the Soviet Union were established on 30 June 1976, a day after the island nation gained its independence from the United Kingdom.

** The Avengers ( Radio series ), a Union of South Africa radio show ca 1976 with the same characters and similar plots as the earlier TV show appearing several times a week in serialized format.

** Ivan Yakubovsky, Marshal of Soviet Union ( d. 1976 )

* 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.

In 1967, the International Skating Union adopted short track speed skating, although it did not organize international competitions until 1976.

The last military-use space station was Salyut 5, which was used by the Almaz program of the Soviet Union in 1976 and 1977.

** Związek Młodzieży Polskiej ( Poland ), after 1956 Związek Młodzieży Socjalistycznej, after 1976 Polish Socialist Youth Union

Jorge Rafael Videla's dictatorship began in 1976 but fell into decline in 1982 after a defeat in the Falklands war (), and ended in 1983 with the democratic election of President Raúl Alfonsín of the Radical Civic Union party ( UCR ).

This form of archaeological theory was first developed in the Soviet Union in 1929, when a young archaeologist named Vladislav I. Ravdonikas ( 1894 – 1976 ) published a report entitled " For a Soviet history of material culture ".

The Luna programme ( from the Russian word Луна " Luna " meaning " Moon "), occasionally called Lunik or Lunnik, was a series of robotic spacecraft missions sent to the Moon by the Soviet Union between 1959 and 1976.

Category: 1976 in the Soviet Union

It operated from 1962 to 1976 as a branch / station of Union Lake.

* Union Carbide Corporation, New York ( 1976 )

However some traffic continued into the 1980s and beyond including over 2 million tonnes of aggregate carried on the Grand Union ( River Soar ) from 1976 to 1996, latterly using wide beam barges however, and aggregate currently carried by narrow boats ( and wide barges ) between Denham and West Drayton on the Grand Union Canal.

In 2011 the British Association of Social Workers launched a trade union arm for the second time ( it first tried this in 1976 ) called the Social Workers ' Union but this body is not recognised by the TUC or by any employers.

* Statue of Lafayette on Union Avenue & Warren Street in Havre de Grace, Maryland, 1976

In the European Union, the circulation of cosmetic products and their safety are law subjects since 1976.