In 1976 the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) revised the definition of the AU for greater precision, defining it as that length for which the Gaussian gravitational constant ( k ) takes the value when the units of measurement are the astronomical units of length, mass and time.

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.

He was also employed by CBS Sports as a regional CBS NFL and CBS NBA announcer from 1976 to 1979, when he moved to NBC.

It was created in 1976 when it took over responsibility for regulating telecommunication carriers.

The revelations were earlier accepted as scripture when added to The Pearl of Great Price in April 1976.

From 1976 and on it was led by Danny Elfman, until 1995 when they suddenly retired.

This lineup of Devo lasted until 1976 when Jim left the band.

Devo gained some fame in 1976 when the short film The Truth About De-Evolution by Chuck Statler won a prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

In the 1976 article " Computer Power and Human Reason ," an excerpt of which is included in The New Media Reader edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, Weizenbaum notes how quickly and deeply people became emotionally involved with the computer program, taking offence when he asked to view the transcripts, saying it was an invasion of their privacy, even asking him to leave the room while they were working with the DOCTOR script.

One of the few highlights for Essendon supporters during this time was when Graham Moss won the 1976 Brownlow Medal ; he was the only Bomber to do so in a 40-year span from 1953 – 1993.

The diglossia problem was brought to an end in 1976 ( Law 306 / 1976 ), when Dimotikí was declared the official language of Greece and it is still in use for all official purposes and in education, having incorporated features of Katharevousa, giving birth to Standard Greek.

Except in the periods 1969 – 72 and 1976 – 82, when the Social Democratic party of Chancellor Brandt and Schmidt came in second in the elections, the Chancellor has always been the candidate of the largest party, usually supported by a coalition of two parties with a majority in the parliament.

The group broke up 1976 when Lander and McKean left to perform in the sitcom Laverne & Shirley.

The 8086 ( also called iAPX 86 ) is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel between early 1976 and mid-1978, when it was released.

He was the first free diver to descend to 100 meters ( 330 ft ) ( November 23, 1976 ), and he managed to descend to 105 meters when he was 56 years old.

* 1976 – Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15, 000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.

In 1976, he appeared for the last time in a motion picture, playing a movie crewman who is fired by a movie mogul, played by Art Carney, in Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, and he also made his final public appearance in that year when he was inducted into the Body Building Guild Hall of Fame.

The rivalry stems largely from the period between 1976 and 1980, when both teams were in top form and met four times in five years for the American League Championship Series.

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.

Six mostly secret organizations concentrating on gay or lesbian issues were founded around this time, but persecution and harassment were continuous and grew worse with the dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla in 1976, when all groups were dissolved in the Dirty War.

A number of Trailer Sailers sailed on Lake Eyre in 1975, 1976 and 1984 when the flood depth reached 3 – 6 m ( 10 – 20 ft ).

Gunsite, a US firearms training facility, decided against teaching machine pistol firing when it was founded in 1976.

After his break with Maoism in the 1976 – 1978 period, numerous Maoist parties declared themselves Hoxhaist.

In the 20th century there was also renewed interest in Machiavelli's La Mandragola ( 1518 ), which received numerous stagings, including several in New York, at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1976 and the Riverside Shakespeare Company in 1979, as a musical comedy by Peer Raben in Munich's antiteater in 1971, and at London's National Theatre in 1984.

The original configuration of The Band ended its touring career in 1976 with an elaborate live ballroom performance featuring numerous musical celebrities.

Hanford archaeologists have identified numerous Native American sites, including " pit house villages, open campsites, fishing sites, hunting / kill sites, game drive complexes, quarries, and spirit quest sites ", and two archaeological sites were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

* Over-the-horizon radar: From 1976 to 1989, the Soviet Union's Russian Woodpecker over-the-horizon radar system blotted out numerous shortwave broadcasts daily.

Switzerland has represented Israel's interests in numerous countries ( Hungary ( 1967 – 1989 ), Guinea ( 1967 – 1973 ), Ceylon / Sri Lanka ( 1970 – 1976 ), Madagascar ( 1973 – 1994 ), Liberia ( 1973 – 1983 ) and Ghana ( 1973 – 2002 )).

* Parliament-Funkadelic performed numerous sold out shows at the Garden between 1976 and 1979.

This tension has led to numerous clashes, including the Axe Murder Incident of 1976.

Briers is also a familiar voice actor, with numerous commercials, including adverts for the Midland Bank in which he was the voice of the company's Griffin symbol, and the animated children's series Roobarb ( 1974 ), Noah and Nelly in ... SkylArk ( 1976 ) and Bob the Builder ( 2005 ) to his credit.

While working for the Warren anthologies, he received numerous Warren Awards: 1973 Best Artist / Writer and Special Award for Excellence, 1976 Best Art: Within You, Without You, Eerie # 77 and Best Cover: Eerie # 77 and 1978 Best Cover Artist.

By 1976 John “ Jay ” David ( ex Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show ) had replaced Franz on drums, and they issued a single “ Bar in my Car ”, on Buffalo Records, but the record company “ tanked as soon as the record came out .” Originally titled " I'm Gonna Put a Bar in the Back of My Car ( And Drive Myself to Drink )", the song appears on numerous internet lists of " worst country song titles " as being from their album Fear of Frying, but this is incorrect.

By 1976, this repression was softened considerably thanks to publicity and scrutiny by " numerous international organizations and foreign newspapers.

The Social Science History Association, formed in 1976, brings together scholars from numerous disciplines interested in social history and publishes Social Science History quarterly.

Roughly adhering to the original plan of 1909, numerous colleges were established: Arts & Science ( 1909 ), Agriculture now called Agriculture and Bioresource ( 1912 ), Engineering ( 1912 ), Law ( 1913 ), Pharmacy now called Pharmacy & Nutrition ( 1914 ), Commerce now the N. Murray Edwards School of Business ( 1917 ), Medicine ( 1926 ), Education ( 1927 ), Home Economics ( 1928 ), Nursing ( 1938 ), Graduate Studies and Research ( 1946 ), Physical Education now called Kinesiology ( 1958 ), Veterinary Medicine ( 1964 ), Dentistry ( 1965 ), and School of Physical Therapy ( 1976 ).

North Bethesda's Strathmore opened in 1976, and is now a home for numerous programs, including the largest of its music venues, the Music Center at Strathmore ; the Strathmore has hosted well-known musicians and composers like the cellist Steven Honigberg, pianist Christopher Taylor, jazz singers Nnenna Freelon and Luciana Souza and composers Virgil Thomson and Gunther Schuller, as well as DC-area cult acts like the founder of Go-go, Chuck Brown, and the reunited punk band The Slickee Boys.

He was principal harpsichordist of the baroque ensemble Musica Antiqua Köln from 1976 to 1983, with whom he toured worldwide under the auspices of the Goethe Institute and recorded extensively for DGG Archiv and numerous European radio stations.

Among Kennan's numerous other awards and distinctions were the Testimonial of Loyal and Meritorious Service from the Department of State ( 1953 ), Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Nation's Service ( 1976 ), the Order of the Pour le Mérite ( 1976 ), the Albert Einstein Peace Prize ( 1981 ), the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade ( 1982 ), the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal ( 1984 ), the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service ( 1985 ), the Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation Freedom from Fear Medal ( 1987 ), the Presidential Medal of Freedom ( 1989 ), the Distinguished Service Award from the Department of State ( 1994 ), and the Library of Congress Living Legend ( 2000 ).

In 1976, he was appointed Chairman of the Illinois Citizens for Reagan, in which capacity he made numerous speaking engagements throughout the midwest on behalf of the conservative California governor's unsuccessful GOP primary bid for the Presidential nomination.

Sir Basil Urwin Spence, OM, OBE, RA ( 13 August 1907 – 19 November 1976 ) was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist / Brutalist style.

She was chosen chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1976, and hosted the Movement's conference, attended by numerous heads of state.

It also led to regular series " Soviet clubs vs the NHL ", known as the Super Series, that also were held on numerous occasions after 1976, as was the Canada Cup.

As well as eruptions from the summit, there have been numerous eruptions from the flanks of the volcano, creating new smaller volcanoes that have lasted only for a short time ( e. g. Murara from late 1976 to 1977 ).

The difference found between the 1976 Geology of Singapore report include numerous formations found in literature between 1976 and 2009.