1976

1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (dominical letter DC) of the Gregorian calendar, the 1976th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 976th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1970s decade.

Events

January

January – The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is released by Seymour Cray's Cray Research.

January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.

January 11 – The 1976 Philadelphia 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.

January 15 – Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to life in prison.

January 16 – The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction begins in Stuttgart, West Germany.

January 18

Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War.
The Scottish Labour Party is formed.
Super Bowl X: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys, 21–17, in Miami.

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