In January 1988, he made a fighting 184 not out in the second innings of the Bicentennial Test at Sydney to extricate Australia from a potentially match-losing position.

He was dropped ostensibly for a lack of form, but it was also widely viewed that the England management did not agree with his temperament-he famously knocked his stumps out of the ground after being bowled in the 1988 Sydney Bicentennial Test.

It also appeared on the Bicentennial design of the Eisenhower dollar, superimposed against the moon.

In spite of his modest figures in the two matches against the Indians, he retained his place for the first match of the McDonald's Bicentennial Youth World Cup.

Watson was not able to take part in a special tournament to commemorate the United States Bicentennial celebrations, which would have pitched him up against the likes of Pelé and Bobby Moore, both of whom were playing in the NASL at the time.

The following compilation comes from Ellen Abrams ( 1999 ) based on information from Abram English Brown ’ s History of the Town of Bedford ( 1891 ), as well as other sources such as The Bedford Sampler Bicentennial Edition containing Daisy Pickman Oakley ’ s articles, Bedford Vital Records, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Town Directories, and other publications from the Bedford Historical Society.

The game was played at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on January 18, 1976, one of the first major national events of the United States Bicentennial year.

* On May 23, 2000 as part of the Bicentennial Local Legacies project, Renee Moore, founder of Solomon Northup Day, was honored along with other Americans at a reception in the Library of Congress's ( LOC ) Great Hall in Washington DC.

File: Pseudotsuga_menziesii_subsp_glauca_Cody_Hough. jpg | Planted at Bicentennial Trails in Michigan.

The group won the Governor's Award for Community Action, released an album of music, performed at the Sylvan Amphitheater in Washington, D. C. on July 4, 1974, made numerous television appearances, provided the soundtrack for an Ohio Department Of Natural Resources public service film titled Sweet Ohio, were designated as the official Bicentennial Touring Group for the state of Ohio, and were the subject of a documentary film during their four year run.

In 1976, the PHIA helped form a Bicentennial Committee that hosted events at the old Perry Hall School.

* Lillian E. Preiss, Sheffield, Frontier Town, published by the Sheffield Bicentennial Committee at North Adams, Massachusetts 1976

They were revived as a Bicentennial event in 1976 and continue today, and the Scots heritage is evident at Weston-McEwen High School.

The Grange, which helped sponsor 1976 Bicentennial events, was organized at the Town Hall on July 17, 1940 with 96 members.

Rizzo's view prevailed, and the bell was moved to a glass-and-steel Liberty Bell Pavilion, about from its old home at Independence Hall, as the Bicentennial year began.

His last symphony, a commission for the American Bicentennial in 1976, was mauled by the critics at its first performance.

The space race in the 1950s and 1960s led to the renaming of the museum to the National Air and Space Museum, and finally congressional passage of appropriations for the construction of the new exhibition hall, which opened July 1, 1976 at the height of the United States Bicentennial festivities under the leadership of Director Michael Collins, who had flown to the Moon on Apollo 11.

He built Cocke, Rouss, and Old Cabell halls at the University of Virginia and rebuilt The Rotunda ( University of Virginia ) in 1898 after it burned down three years earlier ( his re-creation was later reverted back to Thomas Jefferson's original design for the United States Bicentennial in 1976 ).

Another statue is located at Fall River Bicentennial Park in Massachusetts.

The town's Bicentennial fountain is located at the corner of Quality Street and Church Hill Road ( Connecticut Route 127 ), near the main branch of the library and the town hall.

In 1997 a time capsule was laid at the base of the Bicentennial Fountain with an opening date of October 12, 2097, Trumbull's tricentennial.

Day gave her final public appearance at the Eucharistic Congress held on August 6, 1976, in the City of Philadelphia to honor the Bicentennial of the United States.

Burger retired on September 26, 1986, in part to lead the campaign to mark the 1987 bicentennial of the United States Constitution, at which time he commissioned the construction of the Constitution Bicentennial Monument ( The National Monument to the U. S. Constitution ).

* 1988: International fleet of about 200 sailing, cruise and naval ships from about 20 countries calls at Hobart as part of Australian Bicentennial celebrations ; more than 150 leave on race to Sydney

In a memorable event, Revere married for the second time on the 4th of July, Bicentennial Year 1976 on stage at a Raiders show.

In 1976, the Scottish Military Tattoo, a Bicentennial gift from Britain, performed at the Filene Center for capacity audiences including Britain's Prince Philip.

Image: Bicentennial Park 1. JPG | Bicentennial Park at Sydney Olympic Park

In 1976 during America's Bicentennial, White's Rotunda interior was gutted and completely rebuilt, at a cost of $ 2. 4 million, to Jefferson's original design.

Rhodes sits on a peninsula between Bray Bay and Homebush Bay, on the southern bank of the Parramatta River and is located about 3 kilometres from ANZ Stadium, Olympic Park ( home of the 2000 Summer Olympics ), Sydney International Aquatic Centre, Bicentennial Park and Millennium Parklands.

Sydney City is the sister city of Guangzhou in China, and as a gift to Sydney in Australia's Bicentennial year ( 1988 ), the Chinese Garden of Friendship was constructed on the western border of Chinatown in the Darling Harbour Precinct.

The main track, in length, runs between the Obelisk in Macquarie Place in Sydney to Queens Wharf Tower in Bicentennial Park in Newcastle and is well sign-posted.

In 1992, a section of the northern part of the Municipality which included parts of Bicentennial Park and the State Sports Centre was transferred to the Auburn Council area, in order that this area ( the future Sydney Olympic Park ) could be consolidated under one local government area.

At the southern end of the building is the Bicentennial Plaza, facing the Sydney Town Hall across Druitt Street.

* 17 July – Australia thrash reigning World Champions Argentina 4-1 in the Bicentennial Gold Cup, at Sydney Football Stadium.

Late in 2010, some Congressmen ( after the four-day Bicentennial holiday was proved successful ) asked for a law that would forbid the opening of supermarkets and department stores on Sundays, however retailers claimed that Sunday shopping made about 20 % of their weekly sales, more than other day of the week, thus preventing the law from taking place.

The renamed Emsworth Recreation Ground dates from 1909 and is the current home of Emsworth Cricket Club, which was founded in 1811 and celebrated its Bicentennial in 2011.

* About 200 Years Ago: This skit which ran during 1975-76 ( to coincide with the Bicentennial Year 1976 ) was a parody of CBS ' " Bicentennial Minutes "; in it, Grandpa Jones would deliver a fractured historical " fact " about the Revolutionary era.

He was a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and served as Co-Chair of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Cabinet.

Lin was commissioned by Ohio University to design what is known as punch card park in that institution's Bicentennial Park, a landscape literally designed to resemble a punched card, supposedly based on Lin's memories of their early use in universities.

The overall theme of the Super Bowl entertainment was to celebrate the United States Bicentennial.

Bicentennial Man ( 1999 ) was the first theatrical movie adaptation of an Asimov story or novel, based on both Asimov's original short story and its novel expansion The Positronic Man.

While it was originally planned to reopen in time for the centenary on 25 May 2008, delays prevented this, and the house was finally reopened with a gala concert and 3D animations on 24 May 2010, the eve of its own 102nd birthday and the Argentina Bicentennial.

Landing on Mars was planned for July 4, 1976, the United States Bicentennial, but imaging of the primary landing site showed it was too rough for a safe landing.

Sung to the tune " Maryland, My Maryland " (" O Christmas Tree "), the song was incorporated in the Bicentennial programs of 1979.

Some of the Bicentennial music was later gathered together with other unreleased songs under the title Rough Mix 2 ", which covered material from 1972 to 1978, and which also contained " other projects which had been censored, rejected, or never heard for various other reasons ", was only released officially in April 2011.

In the 1970s the Bicentennial National Trail was plotted to run along the western side of Guy Fawkes River on what is a Travelling Stock Route.

The Bicentennial National Trail which was first used in the 1970s follows the Mummel Forest Road to the east of the park.

The Dave Evans Bicentennial Tree is situated within the park and was pegged in 1988 as part of Australia's bicentennial celebrations.

* In 1976, Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater was built as a Bicentennial project and opened to the public with the production " Unto These Hills ," which told the story of Chief William McIntosh.

* The Bicentennial book " 200 years of Lyman … Southern Maine's Country Home Town " It was produced by the Lyman Bicentennial Committee in June 1980 for the celebration of the Lyman Bicentennial 1780 – 1980

In 1973, Governor J. James Exon issued a proclamation designating Seward " Nebraska's Official 4th of July City "; in 1976, the city was chosen to host Nebraska's July 4 celebration for the United States Bicentennial ; in 1979, a resolution in the U. S. Congress named Seward " America's Official Fourth of July City — Small Town USA ".