In 1976 at the IAAF Council Meeting in Puerto Rico an Athletics World Championships separate from the Olympic Games was approved.

Since 1976, the mile is the only non-metric distance recognized by the IAAF for record purposes.

He also was a founding member of the International Athletics Foundation that was created in 1988 and served as vice-president of the International Amateur Athletics Foundation ( IAAF ) 1976 – 1986.

During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

* Horn, Maurice, The World Encyclopedia of Comics ( 1976 ) Chelsea House, ( 1982 ) Avon

* Horn, Maurice, The World Encyclopedia of Comics ( 1976 ) Chelsea House, ( 1982 ) Avon

Despite the recognition and success they enjoyed in the States, they were still largely ignored in the United Kingdom until their sixth album, the platinum selling A New World Record, hit the top ten there in 1976.

The official band logo, designed in 1976 by artist Kosh, was first seen on their 1976 album A New World Record and is based on a 1946 Wurlitzer jukebox model 4008 speaker.

* A New World Record ( 1976 )

Multiple Hugo-winning fan writer and professor of literature Susan Wood and others organized the " feminist panel " at the 1976 World Science Fiction Convention against considerable resistance.

* 1976 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War

The 1976 World Series provided a head-to-head match up with the New York Yankees and their catcher, Thurman Munson.

The institutional separation of American full contact karate from kickboxing occurs with the formation of the Professional Karate Association ( PKA ) in 1974 and of the World Kickboxing Association ( WKA ) in 1976.

American kickboxing was promulgated in Germany from its inception in the 1970s by Georg F. Brückner who in 1976 was co-founder of the World Association of Kickboxing Organizations.

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.

In 1976, Moon covered the Beatles ' song " When I'm Sixty-Four " for the soundtrack of the film documentary All This and World War II.

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.

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.

# A World Out of Time ( 1976 )— Locus SF Award nominee, 1977

* 1887 – Bernard Montgomery, English World War II commander ( d. 1976 )

* 1976 – Ben Pridmore, World Memory Champion

Launched on the Nine Network in late 1976 was The Sullivans, a series chronicling the effects of World War II on a Melbourne family.

For example, the 1976 World Surrealist Exhibition included performances by David Honeyboy Edwards.

* Straight in a Gay Gay World ( 1976 )

Saudi Aramco World, September / October 1976, pp. 12 – 16.

* Cool World: 41 Essential Australian Rock Singles 1976 – 1986 Raven Records

It is often used for arcade gun games, with early examples including Sega's Sea Devil in 1972, Taito's Attack in 1976 and Cross Fire in 1977, and Nintendo's Battle Shark in 1978.

Early examples of a positional gun include Sega's Sea Devil in 1972, Taito's Attack in 1976 and Cross Fire in 1977, and Nintendo's Battle Shark in 1978.

Before 1976, part of King's Cross was an intermediate station.

Former Louisiana State Senator Mike Cross was the mayor of Baker from 1976 – 1981, having been preceded and succeeded in the latter position by Norman E. " Pete " Heine.

*" Talkin ' About Her "/" It's All With You " by Christopher Cross ( 1976 )

Scully's Cross, one of the largest and most famous high crosses here, originally constructed in 1867 to commemorate the Scully family, was destroyed in 1976 when lightning struck a metal rod that ran the length of the cross.

The Order of the Holy Cross and Order of St. Helena published A Monastic Breviary ( Wilton, Conn .: Morehouse-Barlow ) in 1976.

Then, on 12 September 1976, it became Embankment, so that the merged Strand and Trafalgar Square stations could be named Charing Cross.

Passenger trains from the Great Northern Line, via the York Road and Hotel curves at Kings Cross to the Widened Lines ran until the Great Northern Electrification of 1976 when platforms 3 & 4 were closed.

* Cross of Grunwald, 1st class ( 1976 )

From 1975 to 1976, he was the Central Montgomery County administrator for the American Red Cross.

Stardust was part of the Green Cross Code road safety campaign Children's Heroes ( 1976 ) with his famous tagline of " You must be out of your tiny minds " directing children to look both ways before they cross the road.

Defense Superior Service Medal ( 1984, 1989, 1990 ); Distinguished Flying Cross ( 1989 ); Meritorious Unit Commendation ( 1976 ); Humanitarian Service Medal ( 1979 ); Sea Service Deployment Ribbon ( 1984 ).

In 1976 Cross published Statutory Interpretation.

* Cross Shot ( 1976 )

* Michelle Goodman ( born 1976 ), RAF Officer, first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross

In 1976 the Brent Cross Shopping Centre was opened, the first stand-alone shopping centre to be built in the UK.

* The Eagles — November 24, 1976, June 23, 1980, with Christopher Cross and July 11, 2002

* Henry Williamson ; A Clear Water Stream ( 1976 ; cover and line illustrations by Cross ) ISBN 0356082024

Its name was changed to Cross River State in the 1976 state creation exercise by the then General Murtala Mohammed regime from South Eastern State.

* Boys Athletics: Utah State Champion-Wrestling 2003, 2004 Basketball Baseball 1992, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011 Golf 1997, 1999 Track & Field 1931, 1976 Cross Country Recently Boys Baseball won The Sunshine tournament and State back to back and Boys Tennis won the Duel in The Desert as well as Region.

# " You Can't Go Around the Cross " ( live ) 1976, Daniel Amos

Baker later owned Chard's Victoria Cross and Zulu War Medal from 1972 until his death in 1976.

Souther has also contributed as a singer in works written by other artists, including backing vocals with Don Henley in " The Light Is On " by Christopher Cross on his eponymous debut album ; on the songs " False Faces " and " Loose Ends " on Dan Fogelberg's 1976 LP Nether Lands ; and in the duo ( with Fogelberg ) called the Hot Damn Brothers on Fogelberg's 1975 LP Captured Angel.