Easy listening icon Percy Faith, in one of his last recordings, recorded a disco version of his famous " Theme from A Summer Place " in 1976.

Nadia Comăneci received the first perfect score, at the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada.

Women's team handball was added at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

* 1976 – The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.

* 1976 – Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Maryland Historical Magazine 71 ( Summer 1976 ): 113 – 33.

Four years later at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, the Israeli team commemorated the massacre: when they entered the stadium at the Opening Ceremonies, their national flag was adorned with a black ribbon.

The street where the Olympic Stadium in Montreal is located ( which hosted the 1976 Summer Olympic Games ) was named after Pierre de Coubertin, giving the stadium the address 4549 Pierre de Coubertin Avenue.

Although rowing's roots as a sport in the modern Olympics can be traced back to the original 1896 games in Athens, it was not until the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal that women were allowed to participate — well after their fellow athletes in similar sports such as swimming, athletics, cycling, and canoeing.

** The 1976 Summer Olympics begin in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

* July 18 – Nadia Comăneci earns the first of 7 perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Kingdom of Earth ( 1967 ), In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel ( 1969 ), Small Craft Warnings ( 1973 ), The Two Character Play ( also called Out Cry, 1973 ), The Red Devil Battery Sign ( 1976 ), Vieux Carré ( 1978 ), Clothes for a Summer Hotel ( 1980 ) and others were all box office failures, and the relentlessly negative press notices wore down his spirit.

Later host nations to finish without gold medals included Canada at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and Yugoslavia at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal Pickering commentated on a race involving Cuban double-gold medallist Alberto Juantorena, whose muscular build and nine-foot stride contributed to his nickname El Caballo ( the horse ).

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1976 Summer Olympics

His new coach prepared him for the 100 metres and 200 metres events at the 1976 Summer Olympics with a strategy of only allowing him to run in a few races during the season.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1976 Summer Olympics

At the 1976 Summer Olympics, Stecher again competed in the three sprint events, winning medals in all three once again.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1976 Summer Olympics

As a 19-year-old, Ashford finished 5th in the 100 m event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, over the bids of Moscow and Los Angeles, which later hosted the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympic Games respectively.

Dick Durrance and Tim Caldwell competed for the United States in skiing in the 1936 and 1976 Winter Olympics, respectively.

The Improv Olympics were first demonstrated at Toronto's Homemade Theatre in 1976 and have been continued on as the Canadian Improv Games.

He missed the 1976 Olympics and a show down with American rival Edwin Moses due to a boycott by African nations including Uganda.

However, the ISU adopted the short track speed skating branch, with mass-start races on shorter tracks, in 1967, arranged international competitions from 1976, and brought them back to the Olympics in 1992.

Ice dance was introduced into the Winter Olympics starting with the 1976 edition, and all but two gold medals had been won by Soviet / CIS / Russian pairs.

Krienbühl's best performance was the eighth position on the 10, 000 m at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Category: Speed skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics

It is an internationally renowned winter sports centre, and hosted the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics as well as the 1984 and 1988 Winter Paralympics.

On 11 January 1946, Zog was officially deposed, and Albania was proclaimed the People's Republic of Albania ( renamed the People's Socialist Republic of Albania in 1976 ).

Known officially as the People's Republic of Albania from 1946 to 1976, and then as the People's Socialist Republic of Albania from 1976 to 1991, Albania spent much of this time under the regime of Enver Hoxha, who severely restricted citizens ' freedom and contact with the outside world.

Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, was able to fulfill her father's dream by the 42nd amendment ( 1976 ) of the Indian constitution by which India officially became " socialist " and " secular ".

Although Mao himself officially declared the Cultural Revolution to have ended in 1969, the power struggles and political instability between 1969 and the arrest of the Gang of Four in 1976 are now also widely regarded as part of the Revolution.

Prisoners convicted of scheduled offences after 1 March 1976 were housed in the eight new " H-Blocks " that had been constructed at Long Kesh, now officially HM Prison Maze.

Mao himself is officially regarded by the CPC as a " great revolutionary leader " for his role in fighting the Japanese and creating the People's Republic of China, but Maoism as implemented between 1959 and 1976 is regarded by today's CPC as an economic and political disaster.

It is now officially claimed by the Communist Party of China that Mao in his last year turned against Jiang Qing and her associates, and that after his death on 9 September 1976, they attempted to seize power ( the same allegation made against Lin Biao in 1971 ).

In April 1976, Hua was officially appointed Premier of the State Council.

The Grand Orient of Italy officially expelled Gelli and the P2 Lodge in 1976.

The kings of Porto-Novo continued to rule in the city, both officially and unofficially, until the death of the last king, Alohinto Gbeffa, in 1976.

With the setting up of the new Public Library in Floriana in 1976, the Library in Valletta was officially designated as the " National Library of Malta " and became solely a research and reference Library.

Following this, a rough Latin transliteration for Maldivian was officially approved by the Maldivian government in 1976 and was quickly implemented by the administration.

The group was dissolved in 1976 when North and South Vietnam were officially unified under a communist government.

They finished the 2007 – 08 NBA season with exactly 50 wins as well as finishing the first half of that season 25 – 16 ( 50 – 32 overall record, tied for the third-best all-time Nuggets record since the team officially joined the NBA in 1976 ), following a 120 – 111 home victory over the Memphis Grizzlies in the last game of the season.

Following the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the South Vietnam briefly came under the authority of a Provisional Revolutionary Government, a puppet state under military occupation by North Vietnam, before being officially reunified with the North under Communist rule as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on July 2, 1976.

The Queen Mine Tour was officially opened to visitors on February 1, 1976.

The town was officially incorporated in 1916 ( Sanborn 1920: Kimball 1976 ; Cheney 1984 ).

Managed and run through its Recreation Department, this hockey program started officially in 1976.

In 1976, the entire city of Cape May was officially designated a National Historic Landmark as the Cape May Historic District, making Cape May the only city in the United States wholly designated as such.

On April 1, 1976 Jaco officially joined Weather Report where he became world-famous.

It was against this backdrop that CSICOP, as it was to become known, was officially launched by philosophy professor Paul Kurtz at a specially convened conference of the American Humanist Association ( AHA ) at the Amherst campus of the State University of New York at Buffalo on April 30 and May 1, 1976.

On 31 May 1976, a ' People's Assembly ' in Dili, selected by Indonesian intelligence, unanimously endorsed an ' Act of Integration ', and on 17 July, East Timor officially became the 27th province of the Republic of Indonesia.